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Christian Bale broke out his one suit for the SAGs last night where he won for Best Supporting Actor.  At least this time he gussied it up with a tie.  And a hair cut.

I love Christian Bale.  I don’t care how many times he yells at a stage hand or how silly his Batman voice is.  I love him.  Forever and ever.  I am rooting for him for the Oscars.

Tanya: I also love Christian Bale and would be super happy for him to win the Oscar as well. I hear his performance in The Fighter is super awesome and that he totally deserves it.

Stacey commented a few weeks ago how Christian Bale only has one outfit but I’d like to point out that it simply isn’t true. He has two. He has the cargo pants & t-shirt for casual days, and then the black suit for any formal events. I’m pretty sure this is the same suit he’s worn to all his premiers and award shows in the last 3 years.

I will give him credit though if it really is the same suit – at least he’s not being wasteful.

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Ok.  Apparently this is the only outfit that Christian Bale owns because it is the only thing we have seen him in over the last couple of months.  I am concerned about him like I was concerned about Shia LaBeouf and his one pair of pants.

Is he poor?  Does he not have any clean laundry?  Does he think he looks good?   Surely he has something, anything else to wear.  Maybe it is just me but I am starting to think that he probably smells.  Like someone who hasn’t showered in a few days and who smokes a lot of weed.

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Seriously.  What is happening here?

First David Beckham and now Christian Bale?  Have all the hot men in the world suddenly lost their hot?

I am not sure if this new look is for a movie or what but I am not sure how much longer I can take this.

Guys, if you care at all about us girls out her, please get a hair cut, take a shower, put on some nice clothes and take a nice picture for us.  Its the right thing to do.

Tanya: Do you think this might be an “entering mid-age” crisis? David Beckham is 35 and Christian Bale is 36 – maybe they’re in that “I can still look hot with long hair like I did in my 20′s” denial phase that some guys go through. Perhaps they noticed that their hair was thinning so they wanted to grow it out to cling to what they have left. Whatever is going on I really hope it’s a short-term thing because these looks are not good.

As true evidence of having a daughter, when asked to sing a song in an interview the first thing that comes to Christian Bales’ mind was the Powerpuff Girls song:

What’s up with Bale’s accent? Has he become a New Zealander? (Update: thanks to Megan for pointing out that Christian Bale was born and raised in Wales and that is probably his normal accent. I totally just thought he was American. Whoops!)

Here’s Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg at the premier of The Fighter and both these men look a little off. Christian Bale looks like he is now a pirate that cleaned himself up for the event (unlike Johnny Depp who looks like he made himself extra pirate-y for the premier of The Tourist) and Mark Wahlberg looks like he can smell Bale’s armpit.

I had a dream about Mark Wahlberg last night. I crawled up into his lap like a kid and we watched TV. Weird, hey?

Stacey: Why do you think that Johnny pirated himself up for the The Tourist premier?  Isn’t it possible that he really is that eccentric?   Its like Helena Boham Carter.  I believe she really is that weird.  And Christian.  Well, if he wants to be a pirate, let him be a pirate.   I just wish he would have worn something besides a track suit jacket. 

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I love Christan Bale.

A snippet from an interview in the December issue of Esquire:

ESQUIRE: So you want to be perceived accurately, but you also don’t want to give any details. You realize that those two things contradict each other.

BALE: No, it’s simpler than that. I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don’t have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, “I’m never doing another interview in my life!” So I tip my hat and go, “Okay mister! All right mister! I’ll go do the salesman job!”

ESQUIRE: And you don’t want to talk about your personal life or family background either.

BALE:Look, I’ve got incredible pride for my family. I’ve absolutely fallen into that cliché of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly. But it’s not what I’m about in terms of being an actor. I don’t want people to know about that.

ESQUIRE: Why not?

BALE: I don’t want people to know me.

ESQUIRE: Why not?

BALE: Because that buggers up my job.

ESQUIRE: How does it do that?

BALE: Because if you know something about somebody, it gets in the way of just watching the guy as the character.

I totally agree with what Christian is saying here.  I have a hard time separating what I know about an actor personally and what I see on screen.  Take Tom Cruise for example.  He is a great actor.  But I can’t get past the interviews and the Scientology and the creepy eyes and all the crazy whispering about him.  Its a shame because I am sure he has done a lot of great movies, but I can’t get past it.

The rest of this interview is here.  Its actually quite good.  And just adds to my fantasy about Bale.  Deep, challenging, handsome, tortured, a little pretentious, a hint of self loathing, quirky and so so lovely.  *Swoon*

I Life-timer for sure.

Tanya: Totally agree with that. I can’t watch a movie with Jennifer Lopez without imagining her being a diva for the shooting of every scene. I watched Precious just the other day and every time Mariah Carey was on all I could think about was her interviews about how hard it was for her to sit there and let people make her “ugly”. I can’t watch John Travolta or Tom Cruise without imposing their craziness onto the roles. I could go on but I don’t think I need to. That’s the best thing about when a new actor takes a role: you can accept them as the character and not think about all the other characters they’ve played or what they do in their life.

One more: When I watch Terminator Salvation I can’t help but hear Christian Bale’s “serious” voice and think of his “Batman” voice. I’m sorry Bale, but that voice is too much to begin with and then to use it again in a different role? It kinda ruined it for me.

Oh, and just one other thing: Christian Bale totally reminds me of Gary Oldman on the cover. Love!

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There are few movies for which I will pre-buy tickets and wait in line for the midnight showing for, but Batman is one of them*. I LOVED the last 2 Batman flicks with Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale so I’m super excited that they’ve announced that the 3rd one will be released July 20, 2012. There is no script/plot info, filming schedule, or cast information yet. The only things we know is that Christopher Nolan is directing and Christian Bale will be back as Batman. Yay! 

*Harry Potter is the other one.

Stacey: I will be waiting in line with you, Tanya!  I L-O-V-E these movies.  I love everything Batman.  I remember sitting in the theatres watching the last one, waiting for the movie to start, literally vibrating from excitement.  I can’t wait to find out which villian they will be going with.  Personally, I would love to see Poison Ivy again.

Alright, I know we don’t post the Kardashian’s very much here but this is important.

See this guy above?

Christian Bale 2.0.

Not Christian Bale the actor that we love, but the douchy characters he’s played over the years rolled into one.

American Psycho + the “racist killer” from Shaft = this guy.

Stacey: Totally!  Actually, I see Christian Bale + Zach Efron here.  But at least Christian Bale in American Phsyco is hot.  This guy is so not.

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# 14 Christian Bale
Style/Wardrobe: 7.25
Body: 7
Face: 7.5
Charisma: 9
Sleaze Factor: 5
Lust Factor: 7
Hot Score:  32.75

Maybe it’s because he’s Bruce Wayne, maybe it’s because he’s really serious about his acting, maybe it’s that he’s an incredibly devoted husband and father, or maybe it’s just that smile. Whatever it is, Stacey and I agree on it. Christian Bale is the kinda guy I would never have on my Freebie 5 list because he’s a lifer. He comes across as being so deep and complex you’d want to have more time to figure him out. And I think he’d be hurt if you left after one night, and I just couldn’t do that to him.

Because he keeps his private life private, we don’t have much smut on Christian so his sleaze factor isn’t too high. He does get points for his now infamous rant (and the remix) and for being charged with assault by his mother.

Stacey: Christian is one of those men that I just swoon for.  But not in a dreamy, super hero way; in a “what is going on behind those dark, mysterious eyes” kind of way.  He has been one of my longest standing Hollywood crushes.  All the way back to when he was in Little Women.  His talent, though, is part of what makes him so hot.  American Psycho, 3:10 to Yuma, Rescue Dawn, The Machinist.  The list goes on and on.  And let’s not forget he is Batman, people.  Batman!  So hot.  But, alas, a Freebie Fiver he is not.  And that’s ok.  I would much rather fantasize about long, deep conversations and a meaningful relationship than one good roll in the hay.  I think Tanya and I are both comfortable where he sits.  May not be #1, but he holds a special place in our hearts.

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