Community Sound-Off: Movie Hotties

[varana]

Is it movies only, or may we bring in hot stuff from telly as well? Because if we are allowed to bring up TV hotties, James Marsters as Spike on Buffy the vampire slayer was just amazingly hot.

[Razzberryfinn]

The only Tom Cruise movie I have ever seen : Far and Away. He and his then-wife Nicole Kidman co-starred. Funnily enough, I never thought he was very photogenic. In pics he never looked that cute, but in movies...whoa. Not to mention he was younger and had an Irish accent.

[aargmematey]

I should introduce you to my wife. You'd get along spectacularly based on just that one piece of information.

I'd dare any woman to resist an attractive, romantic man who could create such wonderful things as "Romeo and Ethel the Pirates Daughter."

[sarahbot]

staropal said:

Another example would be John Hannah (a very not handsome actor) in Sliding Doors. He's just nice, funny, gets extra points for being able to do Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch. I know I could fall for a guy like that.

Ditto. I clearly remember turning to my mom and saying, "THIS was the wacky brother in the Mummy movies?"

Count me in as another vote for Daniel Craig as Bond. The shaken/stirred moment, the whole swagger, the shower scene in particular (whether or not the trivia surrounding it is real, I still adore it).

Mal from Firefly/Serenity. The whole tortured romantic hero is pretty damn tedious to me by this point, but the turning point for me was his relationship with Kaylee. I love the way they act around each other - it's most obvious tone is parental but I also find their absolute trust in one another most refreshing. (See also Simon & River's relationship, but that doesn't actually count in this discussion.)

I wrote and deleted about five different versions of my "sarahbot <3's shakespeare" actor nomination, but I CAN'T CHOOSE. I seriously cannot. The list is really, really, embarassingly long. Really, I have a crush on Benedick and Hamlet and Iago (f'reals) and WOW Henry V is genius. And I can't in my heart choose Joseph Fiennes, because of Lilly from The Princess Diaries suggesting the fact that it is highly unlikely to expect Shakespeare to have had all his teeth and a sixpack.
Were it not for the movie limitation, I would cite Alan Rickman as my Shakespeare adoration. I have a disc of Shakespeare's sonnets read by famous actors, a fundraiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts a while back. It features Alan Rickman reciting "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun". Need I say more? But it's not a movie.
(also, my blog url - shaxophile - means lover of Shakespeare. The word was invented on an old forum I used to frequent. Pass it along!)

Christian Bale, in Batman Begins, in the boardroom, wearing a navy blue suit. That suit gets me every. damn. time.

Jack Davenport as Norrington in Pirates 2. Definitely a case of not so much into the actor as the role. Mmmm, scruffy. OK, not so much when he's vomiting, but definitely during the sword fight. He's all powerful and scruffy and is it hot in here?

Finally, I'm going to try to end on a less-sleazy note and suggest Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird, as if I need to explain myself. My favourite actual Gregory Peck movie is Roman Holiday, but Atticus is king.

Wow. . . apparently I have a thing for guys with power. This is a new piece of information.

[sarahbot]

Aaaaaand . . . I forgot Han Solo.

[blinkfan]

Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.

[blinkfan]

Oh and Vera Farmiga in Running Scared, she was SMOKIN' hot in that movie.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Kate Winslet in...well, practically every movie she's ever been in. But I'll use Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as a specific example, cause she looks GREAT with blue hair!

[SpankyLoo]

Jake Gyllenhaal in everything but especially Donnie Darko. I want to have Donnie's babies. Genius, crazy, schizophrenic (or are they?), dead sexy babies. I've seen the movie a hundred times and I still get weak in the knees (among other places) at his every dark, brooding look.

Ashley T.

[ironica728]

Although I am female, I must say, Rachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers is adorable, and every guy I know is in love with her.

Now as for my males:
I always had a thing for Jeff Anderson in Clerks. He's the biggest jerk, but there's something just so attractive about that. Hmm. Kinda trying to figure out this attraction.

Mads Mikkelsen as Tristan "The Birdman" in King Arthur. Not a great movie, but Mads made it a whole lot better; he's that mysterious, badass, weapon specialist kind of guy. Especially when he's describing killing: "Well, you should try it sometime, you might get a taste for it."

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. Also totally badass: The guy lives for poker, booze, women and gunslinging, and doesn't give a damn about anything else.

Apart from my lust for badasses, there is also my lust for bad guys. There's the number one bad guy:
Sean Bean in Goldeneye, because he's just so evil-sexy. Well... Sean Bean in everything is pretty hot. He reeks of it. I request that MRFH gives him an award soon; I think I posted that up after I voted in this years awards. Yeah, just by looking at him... He's hot. And evil.

Speaking of bad guys, Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone just gets me everytime. Still trying to figure that one out as well.

[StarOpal]

ironica728 said:

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. Also totally badass: The guy lives for poker, booze, women and gunslinging, and doesn't give a damn about anything else.

Oh yeah. Totally.

Plus there's a slight romantically tragic feel to him. Even if you don't know your history: Coughing in a movie = Death.

And he gets all the best lines. Hands down, no question.

[DarthShady]

I love characters like Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Brad Pitt's Achilles (rough on the outside, fluff on the inside,) but I really fall for geeky guys, like Topher Grace in just about anything. Sweet, sense of humor, not bad looking, and I'm a sucker for Topher's buggy eyes. Don't ask why.

But my absolute movie fantasy is Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson in "Dazed and Confused!!!!!!!!" My all-time favorite movie to just chill out and watch, and Wooderson's kinda really creepy and stuff, yeah. Well, really creepy. But damn is he handsome, he drives a Chevelle, he's got great taste in music, and he's such a chill guy that I imagine would be a fun, easy-going date.

And he goes for the intellectual red-head. I'm an intellectual red-head!!!!!!!!

[immortalwog]

Two biggest hotties on my list: Angelina Jolie in Hackers (back when she was unknown and not crazy) and Michelle Rodriguez in....well...everything. But S.W.A.T. for starters, and Lost for enders.

[Ms. Jellybean]

Wow... seems like I'm not the only one who has a deep appreciation for Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone." Of course, I bet no one will admit to an attraction to Val Kilmer as Chris Knight in "Real Genius." Yeah, that's right. I remember being in, oh, about ninth grade and seeing this movie for the first time. First I was enamored with the fact that it was a movie portraying what I would classify as "my kind of people" (read: GEEKS!), but then seeing Kilmer play a character with such careless abandon... and yet... such high intelligence... For some reason I have an attraction to guys who are gifted but act like they don't care or just use it as an excuse to be flippant and do whatever they please.

Which would explain my attraction to Tom Hulce in "Amadeus." I know, I know, weird. In that film, Mozart was an arrogant, whiny, odd-noise-making little SOB, but something in him consistently drew me like a moth to a bug zapper. I think it was seeing his silly nature (like when he proposed to Constanze) and his intense dedication to his craft (when he was obsessively writing the requiem) that did me in.

Final movie hottie I've got to list is Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Just this past year I watched the movie for the first time in years. There's that one scene, where Sundance and Etta are in Etta's house and (first time you see it) you're made to think that Sundance has broken in and has all sorts of ill intent... See, just the way Robert Redford executed that whole scene made me all kinds of crazy. Plus, Robert Redford has it totally going for him in the looks department. His features are simply perfect. And I use present tense because the man has aged gracefully. (I know, an 18-year-old girl talking about a 70-year-old actor. Get over it.)

So there you have my movie hotties. I specifically avoided mentioning Johnny Depp... that would result in a pages-long discourse.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Darryl Hannah in Kill Bill; especially during the scene when she's reading to Budd about Black Mambas. Mmmmm...attitude.