5 photos in galleryI — along with some of our Twitter followers — was wondering the other day if it irritates Blake Lively that of all the faces on the Savages poster, hers is the one completely obscured by a crazy mask. Although, Taylor Kitsch is virtually unrecognizable on it also, which seems like a bad move, unless they’re worried people will have flashbacks to John Carter and run in the other direction. But, it’s insane to flee Tim Riggins. He’s an athlete. He’ll catch you. Unless that’s the point.
Anyway, let’s take a look at how Blake seems to me making up for being beside the point on the poster. Pretty well, I’d say.
[Photos: WENN, Pacific Coast News]
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There’s actually an alternate poster where it’s her actual face, but she’s lying down and both the angle and the photoshopping combine to make her completely unrecognizable. Or perhaps it was the same person who ‘shopped Riggins — my boyfriend and I were standing right in front of the poster at a subway station and he REFUSED to believe that Riggins was in the movie. Even though he was one of the 5 people who liked John Carter.
Love that yellow dress, though.
Make that six people. I liked John Carter.
7… I actually liked it too…
its not that people didn’t LIKE it so much… it’s that you 7 are the only ones who saw it.
It’s ok Tim Riggins, Canada still loves you!
I liked John Carter also. It was a perfectly good Sci Fi movie.
That yellow dress is absolutely gorgeous on her. Way to wear a difficult color, Boobs!
In other news, still wishing pointy shoes would go away already. A nice round toe is so much more feminine.
and young! i feel like the under-60 crowd always looks better in a round toe.
The yellow dress is to die for! Yellow can be hard color, especially for a blonde, but this is perfect. And pairing turqoiuse earrings with it? WIN. The red suit is pretty great too. Meh on the other 2 outfits.
Her posing really makes me nuts. She really should stop trying so hard.
I love the yellow and the red. Neither outfit is a groundbreaking design but the colors are great. And, the looks seem somewhat simple. In other words, Blake didn’t pile on whatever was on the counter she passed on the way in.
I LOVE that yellow dress. So pretty.
Dress #4 could be pretty, but it’s too long on her frame. It needs hemmed an inch or so and the sleeves could use less volume. As is, Charlize Theron would knock it out of the park.
I can’t believe she’s looked this good consistently! Cramazing near-nude outfit is next, I am sure, but meanwhile – I am savoring these pics. The yellow dress was made for her, and she for it.
The best thing about her signature pose is that it is neither:
a) sticking one leg out to two feet to display a slit (it used to be only one foot until Angelina Jolie showed people they could get more publicity by exposing more leg) or;
b) crossing her legs as if she really has to go to the bathroom but can’t until the photographers are finished.
I’ve seen far to many of both those poses on red carpets.
And kudos on the yellow dress, Blake. You look simply gorgeous in it.
I really like the yellow dress, but what little I can see of the hair in that picture isn’t doing it for me. At first I thought it was just lose, which would have been pretty, but then I looked harder and it appears to be in a rather sloppy braid. When you’re wearing a ballgown, your hair shouldn’t look like it just got back from the gym.
It looks like a fish bone braid, which according to my Spidey senses and Pinterest, is apparently all the rage right now.
That’s what it looks like to me too, but think it looks a little to casual for such a dressy dress. I’d have preferred something more sleek. But she didn’t solicit my opinion. Oh well!
I’ve now seen pictures of this from the back and it is indeed a fish bone braid. A HUGE fish bone braid, which is totally crazeballs and nearly ruins the look. I have no idea what she was thinking when she let someone do that to her head.
Dear BL,
May I please have that yellow dress when you’re done with it? It’s very, very pretty.
Thanks,
Julia
How many Letterman appearances did she make this week? Did she just keep changing clothes and going back out the stage door to get her photo snapped? Does she trust that more than a mirror?
Love the red suit. The cage shoes actually work with it, who knew?
That first pic in the yellow dress where she looks huge, is the photographer crouching down or something? I don’t know, the proportions look so off, even when comparing her to the car in the background.
Anyway, if I could wear yellow I’d petition for that dress. Gorgeous.
Em, you are right. She looks a foot taller than the man walking towards her. The proportions are so out of whack that she looks like she is on stilts. Lovely dress and color, though.
My hypothesis about the Savages poster was they did it on purpose, put her in a mask, because they wanted to distance the movie and the character from the sunny, all-American beauty Blake Lively/Serena.
The red and white outfits leave me cold but the buttery yellow dress is gorgeous, it even makes her tan look good.
I always get her confused with one or more of those bubbleheads that was on Laguna Beach/The Hills. She looks gorgeous in that yellow dress, though.
Love her in that yellow! The rest are all good as well. I think probably the white is as well if she weren’t caught by photogs mid-twist. If she were standing straight, I’m betting it wouldn’t bunch over the tummy, because what woman, but especially what actress would wear something purposely that makes her tummy look big/er?
I love that yellow dress. It’s perfect for summer. I also like the second white dress, I just wish it fit better.
I HATE the way she always poses so much I’m using caps. It makes her look dumb, and while I don’t think she’s a MENSA candidate I also don’t think she’s dumb. Also, close your dang mouth!
I love the yellow dress on her and the turquoise earrings were a great choice. I don’t love the red suit, though. Doesn’t do anything for me.
she is so jessica alba to me – good looking (even though i don’t find her THAT good looking), seems like nice enough person, but she bores me to death with everything she does…
For me the loose herringbone braid works, but not the tacky excessive tan and fakey-fake nails. Cheap!
That said, the yellow dress is not only classically classy, but also absolutely ravishing on her. And, as simple as it is, I don’t think everyone could wear it. I think this is Blake Lively‘s yellow dress.
I agree with other notes that the earrings are perfection with it. They look rather heavy, but hey, what price beauty?
The other looks are okay. None of them is bothering me. But the yellow is a knock-out.
She is at the height of glamor and beauty – ravishing.
That dress is yellow confection. Positively sweet.
The yellow is going to be the dress that spawned 1000 prom dresses. That said, it is REALLY REALLY Great.
So are BL’s boobs. Money well spent.
I think Boob’s boobs are real!
Her nose isn’t.
Put me in the “yay yellow” group! She looks fabulous. The 2nd white one is not good…. but it’s not horrid either. Props to her stylist, there’s been a great improvement.
To the powers that be at Letterman/Leno/Fallon or whichever talk show – can’t you just shove that nasty dumpster out of the way of the Guest’s entrance? I’ve lost track of how many photos it is in. Maybe we should make a drinking game out of it.
And Blake is stunning in the yellow. Very movie-star!
Love all outfits, even the strangely fitting white one with flutter sleeve. Because a. it could be her posture and b. it looks very Baroness Schrader.
That yellow dress with the turquoise earrings is beautiful. I actually like all these outfits, and I’m pleasantly surprised with how non-cracky she looks in this entire post. The only thing I didn’t like was that awful braid she wore with the yellow dress. I mean, sorry to be gross, but it looks like a furry turd. It’s TERRIBLE. But I guess if that’s all there is to complain about, it’s still a pretty big win.
Maybe I’m watching too much Wimbledon but in the picture with the red suit she looks a little like Maria Sharapova.
To the left, to the left!
Every pose she strikes is with her head to the left!
It’s like she’s got reverse Zoolander syndrome.
Yellow= perfection. #3 of 5 is too ice-skaty, #4 of 5 is too sausage casing. The red menswear would look better if she changed the shoes (awesome as they are) to nice menswear oxfords.
I just love that she has the same glittery heals in two of the pictures. I don’t really like the heals themselves, but I do like that she’s recycling. The black strappy heals, however, I would wear every day for the rest of my life. Even in PJ’s. Just sayin’.
Boobs is rockin’ it.
Love the yellow dress. Hate the chokey dress in the third picture – it makes her look like she is approaching 45 albeit with lovely skin. Meh to the dress with the capey sleeves – it’s fine.
I have never coveted anything she has ever worn so hard as I am right now with that yellow dress. NEED. WANT. ETC.
I would say pretty fab all around. I don’t get the two outfits for one Letterman show thing, and it’s especially perplexing when the outfits are really similar. I actually like the flutter-sleeve dress more than the chokehold dress on her, but it did look like she needed a tad more room across the hips in the flutter sleeve. I really liked the chokehold dress on the runway — it looked very Wallis Simpson. Ms. Lively has great boobs and hair, but her boobs pop open the dress and her hair covers the top of the dress — both of which I think ruin the beautiful draping. I think this dress is more successful on someone more flat chested and with their hair not fighting the dress.
Yellow dress….divine.
I just read something on People where they mentioned her “favorite pose.” If I bet on their time stamp, they totally took their lead from the fug queens!
The yellow dress is spectacular; everything else is pretty good. I think she’s going for “Serious Actress” now rather than “Piece of Ass,” thank heavens. The braid is particularly terrible, but this woman looks SO much better with her hair down than pulled back – the severe tight ponytail or updo is very harsh on her.
WANT THE YELLOW DRESS!!!
Sick of the pose. Doesn’t do anything for her except maybe give her a crick in the neck.