The Week In Ugly: Week of July 24 - July 31, 2011

We're gonna start this week's Ugly with another guessing game! 
(See The Week In Ugly: Week of July 10 - July 17, 2011 to play s'more)

Guess which Disney Channel star was caught smoking this week?

And the answer is......

It’s Vanessa Hudgens!

When will these old hags learn that smoking is ugly?
V.Hudge is starting to become somewhat of a regular feature in The Week in Ugly. 

Good for you, Vaness!

Now, guess the Celebrity Grandma Boobs Bikini Bod

(well, more of a Swimsuit Bod, really):

Ready for the answer?

.....

It's Maggie Gyllenhaal!

Grandma Mags hit the beach with her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oahu for their father's wedding. 

...and in other Saggy Celebrity Boob News:
Lady Gaga

Ding! Ding! Turkey’s done.
It’s a good thing GagMe’s wearing nipple armor to protect those saggy boobs from her adoring fans.


Ok, moving on from Celebrity Boobs...for now, at least.

Elle Fanning

Remember when Mischa Barton wore a similar pair of hideous Where's Waldo-esque spectacles?

Janice Dickinson

What an attractive lady.

Olivia Wilde

Thank god Olivia is only wearing this hideous ensemble for her upcoming movie "Free Hugs"

Princess Beatrice, at yet another Royal Wedding
(Zara Phillips' married England Rugby centre, Mike Tindall on July 30, 2011)

Love, love, LOVE the matchy-matchy floral look!

(Although, this could be considered an improvement from Princess Beatrice’s last stint as a Royal Wedding guest.)

Ugins

ug-ins [ugg-inz]
-noun
1. ugly twins
2. either of two persons or things closely resembling each other in a manner that is very unattractive, unpleasant to look at, or displeasing in appearance.
See also: uglets

Lady GaGa & Bamm-Bamm Rubble

And last, but not least:

Scott Disick & Rob Kardashian

Scott Disick Rob Kardashian was spotted lookin' exceptionally douchey at a cake tasting for Kim Kardashian's upcoming wedding

See you next week, you ugly little s#!ts

*As always, click on the pictures to see even more ugly detail.

The Week In Ugly: Week of June 12 - June 19, 2011

Oh my, my, my. When it rains, it pours; and this week's ugly cup runneth over.

All of the regular offenders have come out to play, and even some of my absolute favorites have come out of hiding! (Taylor Momsen, holla atcha gurl!)

Adding to this week's wondrous display of ugly, was Royal Ascot, the "centerpiece of the British Social calendar," when the Royal Family, along with some lowly commoners, come out to play, busting out their best and brightest attire. 

First up, we have Lady GagMe, gallivanting the streets of gay Paree:

Lady GaGa

GaGa missed her true calling, as the county fair's best freak show.
Spoiler Alert: GagMe is also featured in this week's "Ugins". You will be terrified.

Princess Beatrice

It looks like Princess Beatrice decided to tone down her cray-cray headpiece a bit, since the last time we saw her in "The Week In Ugly". But make no mistake, she still looks positively dreadful.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

J.Love was spotted outside The Pleasure Chest in LA, gettin' her sexy on.

Hilary Duff

This level of ugly is out of character for the Duffster.

But, on the bright side, Hil, you look aight from the waist down!

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

Kittylicious 

Elle Fanning

Ghastly

Dakota Fanning is absolutely wretched and annoying, but somehow, her younger sister, Elle, manages to out-awful her, in every aspect.

Christina Hendricks

That Pilgrim fashion is totally in right now!

Taylor Momsen

Tay-Tay is sad, because she's so freakin' ugly :'(

Ugins

ug-ins [ugg-inz]
-noun
1. ugly twins
2. either of two persons or things closely resembling each other in a manner that is very unattractive, unpleasant to look at, or displeasing in appearance.
See also: uglets

The Black Swan and, umm, The Black Swan

Oh, how i love the Brits, and their crazy hats.

And now for the pièce de résistance. 
If there are any small children around, you may want to usher those little s#!ts out of the general vicinity.

Scary Clown & Lady GaGa

Lady GagMe is the scariest clown to ever haunt our good earth.

See you next week, you ugly little s#!ts

*As always, click on the pictures to see even more ugly detail.

Review - Super 8

Super 8. A title that is quite misleading, unless you’ve watched the movie and know what the title was referring to. If not, then you would get the impression that this movie is about 8 superheroes or something, especially this summer where we get comic/superhero overload.

This is what my friends were thinking. And I have a sneaking suspicion that this was why they felt the movie was not enjoyable. At least a part of the reason why they did not enjoy it. Yes, 7 out of the 10 people watching it did not like it. Me? I loved it.

Super 8 is about a bunch of kids who were filming a zombie movie in the summer of 1979. While they were filming at a train station, they witnessed a train crash and after that, mysterious things started happening at their town, such as being overrun by the military, dogs disappearing, power failures and such.

But for them, none of those things matter. The only thing that matters was the movie they were making. And for one of them, the movie was really important because it gave him the chance to get close to a girl he was crushing on.

Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse when the object transported on the train turns out to be a huge alien and it started rampaging in town.

This movie was written and directed by JJ Abrams, the writer/creator/producer/director behind TV’s Felicity, Alias and Lost as well as movies such as Mission Impossible, Star Trek and Cloverfield.

Speaking of Cloverfield… if you enjoyed that movie (which Abrams produced), then you’d enjoy Super 8. Cloverfield was a film about New York under sieged by a gargantuan creature but it was told from a small group of people’s point of view. The fact that they were living their lives and trying to survive was the main focus of the movie instead of showing the monster on a rampage was a pretty good angle in my opinion. You can relate to them better, which is always a good thing because once they perish, you feel something… or you’d get worried about their safety.

Super 8 is the same way. It focuses on the teenage children as they live their lives and try to make their movie, at the same time, facing a extraterrestrial attack. And here is another reason why some of my friends might have gotten turned off by the movie. A normal monster movie would have you seeing the monster rampaging from beginning to end. Super 8 did not really show the alien until after more than half of the movie.

For me, this is the better way of storytelling. It is far scarier when you do not see the scary thing like what The Blair Witch Project had done… than showing the monster every other frame like what Karak: Laluan Puaka had done…

Anyway, the cast of this movie are young and relatively unknown, except for the supporting cast. But then again, the most prominent actor in the supporting cast is Kyle Chandler of TV’s Early Edition and Friday Nights Lights. He plays the main character’s almost absentee father.

Joel Courtney has the burden of playing the main character and this is his debut in a feature film or any sort of acting actually. He did a really good job of making you feel for him and his pain, sorrow, joy and happiness.

Helping him with a solid acting is Elle Fanning, playing Alice Dainard, the object of his crush. Yes, Fanning. Dakota’s younger sister. Guess acting runs in the family, but Fanning, the elder Fanning, needs to be careful coz she is starting to get stoic as she matures… she was a fantastic young actress and I do hope Elle doesn’t go Dakota’s route. Not that Dakota is really bad though. There’s still hope…

Anyway, in case you did not know, this movie was produced by Steven Spielberg. So flashes of The Goonies and ET was evident in this movie. Guess you can say Super 8 is like The Goonies meets ET meets Cloverfield. For the three of us, this was an enjoyable movie anchored by strong performances by the two leads.

Stick around for after the ending because they actually show the zombie movie that the kids were making, using 8mm cameras and entering it in a movie festival. It’s really hilarious! Yup, that was what the title was referring to. The film that was used to make the zombie movie.