This is unabashedly reptilian.
She looks like a very posh disaster movie, like parts of The Amazing Spider-Man cross-pollinated with an issue of Vogue. Actually, it really reminds me of this HEINOUS(ly hilarious) old sci-fi horror flick called — wait for it — Sssssss, starring Dirk Benedict and the girl who played Louisa in The Sound of Music, focusing on a guy who works as a research assistant for a famed old crackpot and realizes ONLY TOO LATE that said crackpot is experimenting on HIM by slowly turning him into a serpent. I’m sorry if I ruined your life just now by spoiling that movie, but really, I didn’t, because there is never any doubt that this is the plot. I won’t share the ending, except to say that it is obviously MAGNIFICENT. I wish they’d cross-pollinate THAT with Orphan so that we could just flat-out call it What’sssssss The Matter With Esssssssther? Anyone up for a sequel?
Oh, right, Kate’s dress. Having said all that above, is it wrong that I might love it? The damn thing is so groovy.
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It looks like Godzilla wrapped around the Empire State building with Kate B in his hand!
Is she supposed to be shedding the green layer of “skin”? Weird. Cool, interesting… but weird.
Looks like a dress for the Slytherin Sadie Hawkins formal.
I like it-a lot-on Kate Beckinsale. On most other people, probably not.
I know that movie!!! Riki Tiki Tavi was never the same afterwards!!
To carry the B horror movie even further, Kate plays the part of the monster whilst Biel plays the part of the naive young cheerleader who got lost on the way to homecoming.
The contrast between the outfits in photos of them together is amazing.
At least Kate embraces her niche casting as the hot action star. (I like that’s she’s also shying away from her usual “Prom Night Barbie” look.) Biel keeps styling herself like she’s going to tea with the Royals, which is great in theory, but awful in execution for a girl as fit as she is.
Agree 100%. I think Kate’s dress is appropriate for the premiere of of an action movie.
She looks fantastic, but I suspect that’s despite the dress, not because of it.
The dress is great, but her shiny neutral face doesn’t work with it.
The hair is atrocious and she needs some pressed powder STAT (and perhaps some more defined make-up overall?), but the dress is strange to the point of being pretty cool (especially given that she is promoting an action/sci-fi movie). She is working it, although other mere mortals probably would not even come close to pulling it off (and should not try).
First off – oh dear god, Sssssss! My BFF and I came across that movie late at night many years ago and could not look away. It truly is magnificent, yes (every time they went to commercial break, we got hysterical: “We’ll return to ssssssss after these messages!”). As for the dress – I kind of love it. She looks like a fabulous alien queen.
I love that movie! It’s horrible, in a really hilarious way.
And the dress is awesome, I think. Very different and cool.
It’s horrid, like really bed, such a pretty girl being strangled by such an ugly dress… why Kate, why? You can do so very much better.
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Sssssssssave me, Ssssssssseymore, sssssssave me!
I thought maybe I was the only human to ever watch SSSSSSS! I was depressed after a breakup and watched a double-feature of Doppelganger (starring Drew Barrymore … and Drew Barrymore!) and SSSSSS! This made my friends deeply concerned.
I saw “Doppleganger” and deeply regreted it!
In looks like she’s molting… in a good way. If such a thing is possible. Of course, if you are a snake, I assume your scales look their best just after you have shed. So, from a Ssssss standpoint, I guess this makes sense?
Only on her, but I wish it were shorter.
WAS shorter. I didn’t have any coffee this morning…I’m so confused.
“Were shorter”. You were right the first time.
I just watched SSSSSSSSSSSSS on Netflix last weekend (don’t judge me, I was on meds for a sinus infection). It’s so cheesy and utterly predictable, you have to love it. The only cliche they missed was having the GF pregnant with his serpent spawn.
Like the dress on Kate Beckinsale better than I liked scales on Dirk Benedict.
I actually like the dress. I would really love to see it on someone like Zoe Saldena or Charlize Theron. On Kate it starts to edge into “being worn by the dress” territory, I think there are other ladies who could have pulled it off a little better.
I love this dress, just…not on her. She’s a beautiful woman, no doubt, but this is just not her dress, I think. She should send it to Posh. Mrs. Beckham would OWN this look.
Too late, Kate. It is pointless to show up as an overdressed Slytherin, you won’t get a part in the HP movies, unless JK Rowling thinks the dress deserves to be in a sequel about Voldemort’s fianssssssee.
I like how it sort of fits within the world of the movie she’s promoting, but whatever because the Lady. Is. Working. It.
I looooove this dress on her! She looks fabulous and like she is getting a kick out of wearing something so hammy and unexpected.
Meh, it’s a costume.
A costume! Exactly. I was looking for that word in my head!
As a costume, it’s quite pretty really. But something I would rather see in a film than promoting one.
What a precious dress! I love it, you really do look like a fairy.
She needed a darker lip shade on her face, but otherwise I love this. It’s so different from what she usually goes for. And look at that happy face! She’s usually a little more reserved in public, so it’s good to see that beautiful smile out and about.
“Having said all that above, is it wrong that I might love it?” Yes, it is morally wrong. Dress is hideous.
Yuck.
I guess she looks fine, but I honestly hope that no snakes were harmed in the making of this dress because that would make it applallingly wrong! But, I’m tired of the same hairdo & the same makeup… Can’t she do something different sometimes & spice it up a little! She bores me!
She looks like the “half-snake” woman in the cage who I paid a quarter to see at the state fair.
I hate hate hate her hair, like a playboy bunny from 1972. The dress is ridiculous and is wearing, if not eating, her. Maybe if it was reversed, a Nagili themed bodice with a simple parachute silk black overall.
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It looks…slimy.
And cheap.