It might pay to be Matthew McConaughey's costar. Unfortunately.

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Jennifer Garner

burbanked.com - 9/20/2007

It might pay to be Matthew McConaughey's costar. Unfortunately.

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I find it very difficult to get through most of Matthew McConaughey’s movies. Sure, there’s a Lone Star in there, a Dazed and Confused, but in general I find his delivery, his smug persona and his general smarminess to be real cinematic turn-offs. So it’s with an exuberant sense of “bleh” that I read a piece [...]

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McConaughey rom-com chart
Hollywood Elsewhere — ... in New Line's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past , a Christmas Carol -ish romantic comedy about "a bachelor visited by ghosts of past and future girlfriends who endeavor to connect him with his true love." My reaction, naturally, was one of instant nausea. But it was heartening to learn soon after that at least one other McConaughey hater felt the same way. The combination of McConaughey, Garner and the insipid-sounding plotline inspired Burbanked.com's Alan Lopuszynski to construct a McConaughey rom-com chart indicating that MM's actress costars tend to wind up with poorly-written ...