Heartthrobs You Don't Get

[pepper67]

Jude Law and Ewan McGregor. I have never understood the appeal of either. Especially Jude Law. I think he looks odd.

Even in his Top Gun days (which are long, long gone) I never got Tom Cruise's appeal. Fortunately, as Kafka said, no one (sane) thinks he's gorgeous now. Totally raving bonkers, yes. Gorgeous, no.

Also Russell Crowe - Gladiator days or not, I think he's ugly. He looks like a pig. A pig who's aware he looks like a pig.

And (don't hate me) Dougray Scott. Sorry, just no. I thought he looked awkward as the prince in Ever After and no film I've seen him in since has convinced me that he's even remotely sexy.

[marywebgirl]

I know this is practically a banning offense around here, but Jake Gyllenhaal. It's something about the eyes and the patchy facial hair.

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I have the serious hots for Jake Gyllenhaal but even I can get how a lot of other people really wouldn't get it or see him as attractive. He isn't conventionally great looking in a "movie stah hearthrob" kind of way.

Another one that at least would have been a banning offense at The Old Place if not here too is Michael Vartan. Dude's cheeks are so sunken and hollow. Am I the only one who thinks he really looks like a manorexic sometimes? And even without that he's just not my cup of tea. There is something slighty "ew" about him to me.

[hliz]

When I was a kid, everyone drooled over NSYNC and the Backstreet boys, especially Justin Timberlake and Nick Carter. I never got the attraction. Nick looked like a girl. Hell, he was wearing lipstick on the cover of one of BSB's albums. Justin had that awful, bleached, crazy curly hair. It looked dirty, and my 12 year old self wanted to smack him and tell him to bathe.

Brad Pitt just looks blah to me. He's like some computer's rendering of what women are attracted to: I know I should probably find him pretty, as he has all the right features to be considered pretty, but he's just not that hot.

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Rest assured, I have no hard feelings against ANYONE who doesn't get Ewan. Different strokes for different folks and all. It just means more Ewan for ME!

I agree with Usher. Ugh, he looks like a fetal turtle. I think it's because he seems to be in good shape. But he's so fucking FUG! I remember when BET pronounced him sexiest man of color, or something like that. I was so pissed, considering Jesse L. Martin wasn't even ON the list, and this turdburglar got to be number one.



Some more mentioned:

Wentworth Miller
Cillian Murphy (to me, he looks like a poor man's Jon Rhys-Meyers, sorry.)

Even before the crazy, I NEVER understood the appeal of Tom Cruise. Especially the underwear dance in Risky Business-he looked like an over grown twelve year old. Tube socks? Ew.

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I understood the idea of Orlando Bloom (the whole non-threatening pretty boy diCaprio thing) but I couldn't understand how people who were old enough to know better could prefer his pretty boy looks to Viggo or Sean Bean and their all-consuming hotness in the LOTR films.

I must confess that I once thought that Ben Affleck was quite the heartthrob. He was pretty hot there for a while (really post Good Will Hunting up to when he became part of Bennifer part I, he was pretty hot in a meathead-who-is-talented-but-not-as-talented-as-his-best-friend sort of way).

ETA: Patrick Wilson. I don't understand his appeal. He is decent looking and can sing... Is that all it takes? He does nothing for me yet I hear his name bandied about as someone who is "soooo hot". Hmm.....

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I hate to say it, because I've seen his thread, but... Alan Rickman. I think he's awesome, yes. But sexy? I just can't see it.

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I think Rickman is sexy, but I'm not attracted to him, if that makes sense. But I thought he was dreamy in Sense and Sensibility. (Although that was because I LOVE Colonel Brandon).

I think Orlando Bloom is good looking, but he's no one I'm crushing on. Leonardo DiCaprio-I liked him when I was thirteen, but he hasn't aged. He still looks like he's fourteen. Fantastic actor, though.

I used to like Brad Pitt, after Legends of the Fall and I remember thinking he was HOT in Cool World. But now? Meh. He's good looking, but boring.

(Oh, and my mother and my sister do NOT like Ewan at all. So I don't mind people saying they don't get him-I'm used to it.)

[india7]

dasaky said:

Jude Law. I just do not get it.

Oh, am I ever with you on that one. The guy is good looking, but not in anything more than a conventional and ordinary way. If he were an ordinary guy who I passed on the street, I'd register that he was cute, but I don't think his face would stick with me two minutes later. I mean, if I had to pick him out of a lineup, he absolutely wouldn't stand out. He's not ugly, he's just dull.

Also Russell Crowe - Gladiator days or not, I think he's ugly. He looks like a pig.

I know! Now HIM, I completely do NOT get! He is the most hideous beast I've ever seen!

Edited because making sentences readable is a good thing.

[Casino Bride]

Let’s see…

Any member of a boy band
Any hit TV show star these days (except Hugh Laurie and Kiefer Sutherland)
Jude Law… ewwwww… so sleazy
Leo DiCaprio – I kept going “WTF?” during the Titanic hysteria
Orlando Bloom and Tom Welling – girlie boys
Russell Crowe, post-The Quick And The Dead
Ethan Hawke and Colin Farrell – gross! Take a bloody shower already!

And my “favorite”, of course: Brat Pig. Zzzzzzz. “Sexiest Man Alive” my arse.