I think he’s pretty hot sans creepy hairdo. Plus he can do that sort of intimidating scary persona well (as we saw in No Country) so he’s got that going for him…
I can’t believe anyone would judge his hotness based on the character of Anton. He’s an ACTOR. It’s his JOB to look different in every movie! (psst, King Kong was only 3’6")
In my books, he’s a solid “meh”.
He definitely doesn’t qualify for Hot Villain in No Country, not by a mile. If anything, my panties got dryer while watching his performance.
Don’t get me wrong… it’s a fantastic performance, but it’s just the furthest thing from hot that you could possibly imagine (well, that and the fug hairdo doesn’t do a thing for his man hotness).
The title of Hottest Villain still belongs to Christian Bale in American Psycho. Swoon.
After looking at the much wider range of photos that Equipoise posted, I want to change my answer. Bardem seems to suffer from Raul Julia Angular Dependency Syndrome. In other words, much like Raul Julia, his hotness seems to change in direct proportion to what angle he’s photographed from. In some of those pictures he’s so hot that if I had a vagina I’d need to change my underwear. In others, he’s kind of meh. And in one or two, he looks like someone’s sixty-year-old dad who almost kind of looks like that one 70s cop movie heavy…
Incidentally, I would like to know where to send my CV for consideration for a summer fellowship with the Fat Gail Center for Hot Boy Studies. I would consider an opportunity to participate in further Hot Boy Studies, preferably with direct contact with the hot boys being studied, a great honor and a small way for me to give back to the hot boy community for all the joy it’s given me through the years.
As a heterosexual male, I’m limited in judging hotness in guys. From the pictures posted, I’d have to say he MAY be hot if you like that type.
I first saw him in Boca a Boca and he was smokin’ hot–I can’t find any stills from the movie other than the goofy ass cover shot, which sux… He’s a little Neanderthal looking, but then again so’s Clive Owen–it’s not my most preferred look, but I can’t deny teh hawtness when it smacks me in the face. He does have that “rode hard & put away wet” rough look to him but I think it works.
The pageboy hairdo is appalling, though, and would make anyone look weird.
I vote hot.
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Does anybody else differentiate between handsome and hot? Like, I would call myself pretty, but not hot. Hotness implies a sort of cheap sexiness to me, that doesn’t stick around for very long, whereas being handsome or beautiful is a quality that lasts longer. For example, Britney Spears was once upon a time HOT, but now is not. Kate Winslet is beautiful.
I would say that Sr. Bardem is handsome, but not hot. But oh! The handsomeness of him! Standing next to him would definitely induce a quiver somewhere.
The breath doesn’t matter from that angle.
His face is too big. Not hot in my books.
(I worked with a guy who looks a bit like Javier. All the girlies there were swooning over this guy, and I thought he just looked like an ape-man. Eh.)
Benicio del Toro looks like he needs a thorough hosing off and scrubbing down, complete with teethbrushing, shave, and change of clothes. He’s just yicky.
I just don’t know. I’ve been puzzling over this, and I can’t answer.
He’s a spitting image of Chris Chelios
It’s almost creepy.
…and (as ShelliBean mentioned above) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (from Grey’s/Weeds/Supernatural/etc.)
Thank you! You nailed* exactly* why I felt attracted to him (and couldn’t exactly place why).
(The voice is kinda hot, though.)
I vote no. He looks like he was rode hard and put away wet.
I’ve got a lot to say this morning. Chris Chelios seems to me to suffer from ‘face crevices’ that go beyond ‘life lines’ into ‘molded pancake makeup’, but he plays HOCKEY, so you know he’s got legs and ass of STEEL. STEEL. I’d do him.
equipose offered some good examples of the hotness, but some of them still are fence sitters. Long hair flowing in the wind? Bad. I don’t like long hair. No. Short, spiky hair, short messy hair, no hair. Those are the choices.
The Raul Julia Critical Angle Syndrome can be applied to a lot of people, but I agree with jayjay…Javier is devoted to it.
Christian Bale is so hot as to frighten me awake in the middle of the night, shaking my husband from a sound sleep, whispering “IS HE REAL?”
For those who are on the fence about the hotness of Jeffrey Dean Morgan please go see P.S I Love You. The hotness knows no bounds!
I think that Javier looks much like him in an older, spent a lot of time tanning in his youth sort of way. I would do him as long as I also get to do Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
He’s quite hot, I think.
Of course, after No Country, I don’t think I could ever even stand to be in the same room as him, let alone think of him in a sexual way.
Is he the heart transplant guy on Grey’s Anatomy? He is a fence sittah for me as well.
Here at the FatGail Center For Hot Boy Studies we don’t fool around with the obvious, we find the stragglers on the fringes, a Nick Chinlund, and decide if they make the list.