Handsome Men Thread - Men Female Kiwis (and gays) think are handsome

[DwayneTheSockJohnson]

Ștefan Sileanu (romanian actor) in Vlad Țepes 1979

Jon Finch in Macbeth 1971

 

[batteredpancakes]

but that sort of Japanese phenotype that’s almost European looking (what is that?) can be attractive as well.

Late but you're thinking of the original Jomon Japanese. The others are called Yayoi and they are actually Koreans that immigrated a long time ago.

 

[Elderly beef taco]

Give me a time machine because man, Roger Daltery was something special in the 70s.

Also, Robert Englund was a cutey back in the day. Shame he's not better known for his looks (also, he has damn pretty eyes).

 

[ratduckowlgymnastics]

I see your Keanu Reeveses and Mads Mikkelsens and raise you Peter Capaldi in Lair of the White Worm:

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That's Cool Adam

 

[Otterly]

Tony Curran. I remember him most from Underworld: Evolution as Marcus Corvinus. He was robbed in that movie.
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This is him from 2013:
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Good actor. Not my type (I do like genuine redheads though) but he’s really good. It wasn’t this thread we were talking about ‘people who look like the platonic ideal of their country of origin’ but this is another real Scots phenotype . He looks like a Glaswegian.

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Peter Magyar

A part of me wonders if the real reason behind the scale of Péter Magyar's landslide was that the Hungarian people were so desperate for a visual palate cleanser after having to look at Viktor Orbán's face for 16 years.

 

[PandaChai]

the 70s

It really must have been easier to keep fit before the 2000s. Was watching this video and not a single person of size to be seen, and just some guy in the background is fitter than 90% of the modern British population.

 

[Elderly beef taco]

It really must have been easier to keep fit before the 2000s. Was watching this video and not a single person of size to be seen, and just some guy in the background is fitter than 90% of the modern British population.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=kB94zxxAtuE

I can actually answer that to am extent!
A lot less fast, processed foods, at least compared to today. And a lot less time spent indoors sitting around watching TV.

 

[Plantation Barbie]

Rudolph Valentino Hollywood's OG sex symbol.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

The Chin himself, BC.

 

[Otterly]

It really must have been easier to keep fit before the 2000s. Was watching this video and not a single person of size to be seen

It’s multiple things.

The food was cleaner.
Processed food existed but it wasn’t ubiquitous like it is now. Whole categories of ingredients didn’t really exist. We were cooked for at home and had sweets once a week. There was zero junk in the house, not for any kind of philosophical reason just it was expensive
Being fat was actively shamed
Smoking was more common
TV barely existed. We had a few channels and there wasn’t really this thing of having it on in the background
We walked everywhere
Far fewer people on multiple pharmaceuticals
It was a different world

 

[Lt Saavik]

Young Christopher Walken.

 

[Plantation Barbie]

Dale Earnhardt in his 20's.

 

[DeeNaMeeTay]

Young Christopher Walken.

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It looks like they used his DNA to clone Bill Skarsgard in the first photo and Scarjo in the second!

 

[Lt Saavik]

It looks like they used his DNA to clone Bill Skarsgard in the first photo and Scarjo in the second!

With echoes of David Bowie.

 

[Milkweed]

Gerard Butler in Phantom of the Opera. Only in that movie do I really find him super hot. I promise I’m not a weirdo for characters. He did his own singing for the part too and he has a sexy voice

 

[General Patton]

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The Chin himself, BC.

His awesome sense of humor adds to his attractiveness. Bruce is hilarious and has a cool and chill personality.

Also, Robert Englund was a cutey back in the day. Shame he's not better known for his looks (also, he has damn pretty eyes).

He's another guy who has an awesome personality that adds to his attractiveness. A sense of humor really does drive up hotness.


For a while, I had a thing for young Malcolm McDowell.

 

[Token Faggot]

Men are so hot and gorgeous to look at. How can anyone be attracted to women when men exist? That's gay as hell.

Yeah, I dunno if I'd go quite that far. I am gay as hell tho.

Thread tax Rick Springfield, my first crush and gay awakening.

 

[ButtStinky]

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The Chin himself, BC.

I had the opportunity to meet him a couple of years ago, and even though he's getting up there in age, he was still incredibly handsome. Wicked sense of humor as well

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

It’s multiple things.

The food was cleaner.
Processed food existed but it wasn’t ubiquitous like it is now. Whole categories of ingredients didn’t really exist. We were cooked for at home and had sweets once a week. There was zero junk in the house, not for any kind of philosophical reason just it was expensive
Being fat was actively shamed
Smoking was more common
TV barely existed. We had a few channels and there wasn’t really this thing of having it on in the background
We walked everywhere
Far fewer people on multiple pharmaceuticals
It was a different world

That's a bit of a halcyon portrait of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Not untrue, just exaggerated. The 70s and 80s were when prepackaged slop became common, including frozen TV dinners (actually started in the 1950s), which apparently some people unironically took on standing trays set up in front of the TV. We never had either in my house, but they existed long before I did.

Flashback: Here's a 1978 TV dinner commercial (lol at the rawr, pussycat at the end, and no I don't think these were meant to be gay men as that was not the market for these, but 50 years later a "Hungryman" ad with two dudes chatting the kitchen about each others' food preferences as they pull from a shared fridge will be seen in no other way, at least here).

What was different was base-level activity, especially by kids. And fewer people outsourcing house and lawn care. More movement, less sitting in place for hours at a time daily. And to see a show on one of the 4 channels you had to be there at the time it was aired, no on-demand 24/7 binge watching. (Even in the 80s, when channels exploded* (for a fee), you had to check the schedule.

*hence Bruce Springsteen singing about "57 channels and nothing on" in 1992 (how quaint).

But "couch potato" was coined in 1976.

And TV trays became de rigeur back in the 60s, have ng started in the early 50s as well. US and UK, both, though I expect moreso in the US, though maybe in the UK more for tea or a light supper by singles or couples while watching a programme than as a family habit for a meal.

^ these people aren't even watching TV!

Thread tax, probably some if not all repeats:

Cary Grant:

Gary Cooper:


Young Anthony Kiedis:


John Taylor:

Heck, (almost) the whole band:


Bryan Ferry: