AskMen.com's Top 99 Women 2008 Edition: One of my favorite all-time list features, EVER.

AskMen.com just posted its Top 99 Women 2008 edition, which is without a doubt my favorite feature that they do every year. Not only does the feature have tons of pictures, but it has boatloads of awesome editorial content, relevant links, comparisons to the 2007 list, quotations, and fun ways that you can compare your rankings of the women with those of other AskMen users, even without registering!

Needless to say, it's awesome. AskMen.com, this list is one of my favorite all-time features, even if it refreshes the whole page instead of just flipping the picture like I wish it did. I gave AskMen about 200 page views in less than 10 minutes because of the feature and chances are I'll be back doing it again before the end of the week. Definitely check it out!

AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women is an annual list compiled by AskMen.com readers and staff, ranking the famous females deemed to be the year's most alluring. In casting their votes, readers are asked to look beyond sex appeal and beauty to pick women who have the characteristics they value in a potential companion, like intelligence, humor, charisma, and ambition. The result is an annual list that acts as the definitive gauge for identifying what modern men desire most in their female companions.

This year, over 5 million votes were cast as AskMen.com readers identified the females from the worlds of music, fashion, sports, and entertainment who they felt best represented their ideal woman. So who has joined the likes of Jessica Alba, Beyonce and Adriana Lima in being named 2008's No. 1? Find out by making your way up through the list.




AskMen also used one of the quotations I gathered for them at a roundtable interview with Eva Longoria, which I thought was pretty cool, on her profile page!

Notables who I thought should be higher (my own personal biases aside, as they'd all be in my personal top 10):
#43: Katharine McPhee (Should be Top 15)
#23: Carrie Underwood (Should be Top 10)
#37: Rachel McAdams (Should be Top 25)
#98: Jenna Fischer (Should be Top 50)


#88: Jessica Chobot (Should be Top 30, though she'd be in my personal Top 5)

I heart Chobot

Rachel McAdams is My Favorite Actress

Taken from my Rotten Tomatoes blog - A 20-Something Guy with the Movie Taste of a 14 Year Old Girl

To be honest, I had a bit of an emotionally and physically draining day yesterday. But as an eternal optimist, I always love to pretend that everything is ok, so it is. If I believe it and act it, my very soft and pliable brain (which is as smooth as a dolphin's ass) is convinced that "it" is indeed "it."

While superlatives increasingly become things of the past as we get older and are things that we rarely ever say with any kind of relative sincerity ("Best. Movie. Evarrrrr." vs. "This is my best best friend in the whole worlddddd!!!" years ago) after we've received our high school yearbooks (once upon a time, I was "Best Personality" of my 2002 high school graduating class), I thought I would take a trip back into a time when it was cool to say what were your favorite things in the world.

My favorite actress: Rachel McAdams

A perennial mainstay on my list of hottest celebrities, Rachel McAdams (and her flawless skin and shiny hair) pretty much manages to play a dreamboat in every movie that she's in, whether she's supposed to or not. I don't think the girl can help it. When people hear that R-Mac is my favorite, they tell me that it makes sense because I seem to love happy girls with "cute personalities," and brown hair, which is more rare than you'd expect.

In Wedding Crashers (Certified Fresh @ 75%), she plays Claire, the perfect woman.

Dreamboat as a brunette... Oh to be a glass on that table...

And yes, I am creepy...

In Mean Girls (Certified Fresh @ 85%), even as the "Queen Bee" Regina George, McAdams is so likable in her over-the-top bougie meanness that she is completely irresistible as an antagonist turned glorious teen queen by the movie's conclusion. LiLo, who?

I just want to lose 5 pounds...

(a little less dreamy as a blonde)

While most love story loving women would say it's her best role, R-Mac played Allie, a girl who just LOVES to make out all the time, in girl-favorite flick The Notebook (51%), a movie with no balls at all. Somehow, because of McAdams, I still own it (as I do every movie on this list other than Wedding Crashers, which I'll probably get this weekend now that I have realized this).

Dude, we effing got it. Stop.

Even in Red Eye (Certified Fresh @ 79%), a movie that I don't think that many people saw (yet, I still bought on DVD without seeing it because she was in it), McAdams plays a amazingly cool under pressure hotel concierge-ish manager / supervisor / something / hospitality goddess.

Haha, oh you're so funnyyyy... YOU PSYCHO KILLER!!

Even as she's running for her life, it turns out that R-Mac was once a (hot) field hockey player! Not only is she a girly girl who likes to make out, she's athletic too! What made McAdams so great in Red Eye is that it showed that she can play "the smart" just as well as she can play "the spoiled, bratty ditz." And clearly, by the bevy of Certified Fresh medallions that are dangling from her talented neck, at least she's in good movies!

So yes, my favorite actress is Rachel McAdams - a dreamboat by any name.