Eye candy for ladies

Often men are criticised for being shallow and getting visual satisfaction of the pretty girls on film. However, based on my experience I suppose men and women are the same in this: both love to watch beautiful people, and get good vibrations of the opposite sex specimens on film they personally consider sexy and attractive.

I do like to watch beautiful women like Angelina Jolie and Keira Knightley, but as a heterosexual female, it's the men that make my heart beat a few times more with their muscular upper body, piercing dark eyes, hairy face and deep voice... Think about Australia - without bearded Hugh Jackman and his shirtless appearance the movie would have been much boring (eye candy-wise)!

I have noticed that a good looking man can make otherwise miserably bad movie watchable, and sometimes I even choose to see a movie just because some of my favourite sex symbols is in it.

Only very few remain as the favourites for many years, but there are a few. I do have a soft spot for tall, dark and handsome men. Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves have been my guilty pleasures for about 20 years now, and I still melt in front of those beautiful eyes.

Few years ago Colin Farrell made his way to my top of sexiest men. And I just utterly adore his freshly rebel and still somehow shy performances on screen. Being a good looking man, and a great actor is a fantastic combination, and Farrell, Depp, George Clooney with his now already aging charisma and the Mexican heart-melter Gael Garcia Bernal are examples of this.

No matter how much Reeves's acting skills are being criticised, he still draws my attention to his movies. They may not be masterpieces (except for the first Matrix), but they are pleasing to watch because of the chocolate eyed heartthrob.

Sometimes it is not just the looks that count. My heart can beat a few more times also when I hear a sexy voice. This is what happened with Vin Diesel. In my books he was not that great looking, but when I heard him speak for the first time (it was actually in xXx), I changed my mind - his voice made also his looks so damn sexy it took me some time to recover.

It's not always even the voice, but the way of talking. Farrell is a perfect example of this: when he opens his mouth and starts talking, I'm done for. And a brilliant young Scottish actor James McAvoy - I just love to listen to his native accent!

I am aging along with my beautiful stars, and my taste in men has also grown up. I don't think the gray hairs in Clooney's head are at all less sexy. He still has that boyish look in his eyes. 20 years ago I couldn't have thought a gray haired man was sexy!

Even though the men of (around) my own age have appealed to me, I have found it is very cute to see some new rising star, a new young face that has enormous potential on becoming the new "George Clooney".

I did not like the movie Narnia 2 (nor did I like the first one, though), but there was something that caught my eye. A young, fresh and extremely beautiful face of Ben Barnes, whose career I'm definitely going to follow more closely from now on.

Although the dark haired, dark eyed men are the ones that on screen make this blonde drool, I'm not excluding the blondes totally. Brad Pitt was definitely eye candy when I was young (and he was young), but nowadays, oh how masculine that once baby-faced actor now is, when over 40!

And last but not least, the late Heath Ledger... RIP. The brilliant actor just died too young.