I’m a straight male, but I am still curious what the ladies and other guys think on this topic.
I often have a very hard time determining what makes one guy particularly attractive over another, especially to women. Mel Gibson just looks like a regular dude to me, even when he was younger. Anyway, I’m curious what you think. You can discount all bias against them for any personal problems or weird views if you like(Tom Cruise…Mel Gibson) Just purely on looks. Who is the most handsome man to appear on screen?
I kind of assumed/guessed Christopher Reeve was a good answer. As a kid, he was Superman to me, but even looking back, that guy is…striking. Very few people are born looking as striking as him. It is memorable.
That’s all I’ve got. Mickey Rourke was gorgeous before he went the plastic surgery route. Tom Berenger too. Come to think of it, stars who didn’t screw with their appearance as they aged remain gorgeous. Stars who did, didn’t. As a gereral rule.
I’m going with Monty Cliff before the accident. That’s actually a benchmark phrase I use to establish my scale of attractive men, (For example, “I suppose that guy’s handsome enough, but he’s no Monty Cliff before the accident.”)
I remember seeing an episode of an old television series circa 1960, young Richard Chamberlain in jeans and a white T-shirt, breathtakingly gorgeous. Like many stars, men and women, it’s a pity that he tried to keep it up with bad plastic surgery and got weird looking.
It’s a hard question, though, because some people like pretty-boy handsome (I’d put young Redford and Reeve in that category) and some people like rugged handsome (Kirk Douglas.) Not that I’m a good judge of stuff like this.
But the first two names that came to me were Burt Lancaster and Charleton Heston. Oddly enough, when you look at stills of them, they don’t look that good. But put them on screen and they positively smoke.