Why is this guy supposed to be a sex symbol? I don’t think he’s attractive at all, and I LOVE good-looking men. I’ve seen a lot of squeeing over his “hawtness” in fandom circles, but Murphy leaves me utterly cold. His lips look weird. His hairline looks weird. He has a creepy dead-eyed stare.
He also ruined Scarecrow in that Batman movie he did. Scarecrow is one of my favorite DC villains, and Murphy was wrong wrong wong for him. Instead of being off-kilter, pencil-thin Dr. Jonathan Crane, Murphy just seems to sleepwalk through all his scenes, as though he was only shoehorned in for the fangirl contingent, and never does anything impressive against Batman. What a sorry showing for one of Batman’s great rogues.
I’m sure Murphy is a nice person in real life, I just don’t get his appeal at all, and would rather not see him touted as “omg so hawt” in everything he’s in.
I can certainly see why many women consider him attractive. He has symmetrical features, great bone structure, striking eyes, and soft full lips. Classic pretty-boy. He also has a nice Irish accent - girls dig that.
He doesn’t do much for me when it comes to famous guys, but I’d take him over 99% of the general male population.
Never heard of him as a sex symbol. The first I ever saw him was as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins. I thought he was great. One of the best parts of the movie. Much, much more ominous than Liam Neeson’s character.
I didn’t know he was supposed to be a sex symbol either. I just like him as an actor. My favorite movie of his is Breakfast On Pluto, where he plays a trans-gender named Kitten. I think it’s such a wonderful movie, and he’s absolutely gorgeous!
I think he’s gorgeous and I am mostly attracted to women. He has piercing eyes and strong yet delicate features that can look gaunt from certain angles but can be tingly from most others.
Also, as Equipoise has pointed out, he looks pretty hot in drag as well.
I do NOT get it. I like a lot of off-kilter/not-traditionally-handsome/pretty-boy types, but Cillian Murphy does nothing for me. His lips and his face… yuck. And he’s cast in these roles and done up in such a way that we’re obviously supposed to find him gorgeous, and I’m just… :eek:
I didn’t know he was supposed to be a sex symbol. He has obviously attractive features, though - beautiful blue eyes, great cheekbones, nice hair, slim frame. He’s not my type, but I get it.
I thought he did very well as the Scarecrow. I found the subdued, creepy take on the character interesting, and fitting of the atmosphere of Nolan’s Batman. I also thought he did a great job in 28 Days Later, which I think is the only other thing I’ve seen him in.
In the picture I found online, it looks like the top half of his face does not belong to the bottom half of his face, he used to be a she, or there has been a hell of a lot of corrective surgery.
[the top face looks like it needs a smaller lower half of a face, and either way it is overly feminine.]
I hated him in Batman. Hack Christopher Nolan is destroying Batman with his shitty films, and he has proven the depth of what a hack he is with the ridiculous Inception, a movie specifically manufactured to make dumb people feel smart for “figuring it out.” He has pissed all over the Caped Crusader and generations of Batman fans with his “take” on the series.
Burton owns Nolan.
Scarecrow was one of the stupidest Batman film villains I have ever seen, and Murphy was half the reason why.
It’s hard to think of anything in Nolan’s Batman films that’s half as destructive to the overall mythos as the idea that the Joker killed Thomas Wayne. There’s plenty to criticize about Nolan’s Batman films, but at least he appears to have actually read some of the comics.
