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Worst movie star shirt/tie combo in history?

posted 16 years ago by tricksoftrade02
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Great movie, 70's movies are a little more real than todays movies. Look at the actors in this movie, not one pretty boy among the lot, the look like they all work at the transit authority! Authenticity was more important than the movie star good looks. The people in charge were actually old enough ( Hey not one among them was under 40!) I'm sure the remake will be full of attractive people who do not look the part.

But just one thing, that 70's ugly plad shirt and yellow tie combo that Matheau had has to be the WORST look a leading man ever had. But hey it was authenitc!

[–] megaskunk 13 years ago

So the remake has been released a while now.

What today ugly actor's would anyone suggest for another fictional remake?

Just one suggestion (no, he isn't ugly but that would've been very interesting and sure better than Indiana Jones 4)
-Harrison Ford (any character)
-danny trejo

[–] franzkabuki 13 years ago

Connery´s pink tie on white shirt in Diamonds Are Forever looked pretty cool, too.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] JimD1701 13 years ago

Well, at least Garber's plaid shirt had a little yellow in it to match the tie.

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[–] orangysky 13 years ago

I just watched it last night on TCM and actually liked the look of it for some reason.

[–] princesstinymeat 12 years ago

I like it, too.

[–] KatrinaW 11 years ago

Authenticity was more important than the movie star good looks. The people in charge were actually old enough ( Hey not one among them was under 40!) I'm sure the remake will be full of attractive people who do not look the part.

Yes to this, a thousand times! Nothing takes me out of a movie faster than a cast full of pretty, young people wearing designer clothes! Unless the script somehow calls for it, but I tend to not like that type of movie anymore.

I fondly remembered this movie from my early teens, and just caught it last night on TCM. It was as funny, suspenseful, and refreshingly real as I remember it. And boy, wasn't NYC dirty and run down back then!

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

Just goes to show that he wasn't cast in The Odd Couple for nothing.

BTW, somehow I always see WM eschewing the label of movie "star".

[–] bpollen 10 years ago

Well, he wasn't a pretty boy, but when I saw the movie last night on tv, I was struck by how handsome Robert Shaw was back then. A muscle-y, hard drinkin', blue-eyed, bad boy Brit, he was. He was the rough boat captain in Jaws years later. As well as the target in the movie Sting. A handsome man, for sure. But you're right....he was in his 40s at the time. No young pretty boy.

[–] whosit 9 years ago

Hey, I had a nearly identical shirt around that time. But being a sophomore in HS I didn't sport a tie. In my sartorial defense, I have never worn bell bottoms nor a white belt.

[–] Redsfan001 (6145) 4 years ago

I can't think of another.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

His wife didn't catch him before he walked out the door that morning.