Dale Robinette

Butler is always given an easy target to chase. Trying to win Jennifer Aniston or Katherine Heigl might be intimidating at your local bar. But in a movie like the “The Bounty Hunter,” with Aniston, or “The Ugly Truth,” with Heigl, the outcome has been preordained. They’re obligated to go home with him. He’s not like a Denzel Washington or a Russell Crowe or even a Ryan Gosling — there’s no mystery to keep him sexy, nothing for a woman to discover or unpack or be surprised by. Gerard Butler is what happens after you marry one of those guys — or James Bond. He’s the end of the honeymoon.