Who Wore It Best? 80s Adventure Hunks Edition
Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 12:30PM Dancin' Dan here with a little bit of Actor Month fun. Witness has already hit us with its best shots, but I'm not quite ready to let Harrison Ford go just yet. Watching Witness for the first time can make you yearn for younger Ford, because.... MAN was he so perfectly, ruggedly handsome in the 80s (and throughout most of the 90s). None of his roles captured that ruggedly handsome side of him quite so much as Indiana Jones, who is one of the best movie characters of all time.
But I'm unfairly stuffing the ballot box before the question. Who wore the "80s Adventurer Look" best? Tell us in the comments!
Harrison Ford's brilliant almost fearless (why did it have to be snakes?) archelogist/adventurer Indiana Jones is a prime hunk of man, but not exactly alone in the world of ruggedly handsome 80s franchise adventurers... There is also Michael Douglas's Jack T. Colton from Romancing the Stone.
There is also Michael Douglas's Jack T. Colton from Romancing the Stone / The Jewel of the Nile. A bit wilder than Indy, to be sure, but the loose canon aspect can be a turn-on, and he doesn't have a professorial day job to keep him buttoned-up at any point.
Reader Comments (11)
No contest. Ford.
I'd let 80s Ford strike me with Indy's whip.
Well, definitely Ford, but if you'd asked me when I was 13 (And I'd had the courage to answer) it would have been a close call. It's just hard to answer because Ford aged so much better, and though Romancing The Stone is one of my favorite movies, so is Wonder Boys, and I can't help seeing the old Douglas in the young.
Douglas got to do sexier stuff on screen plus he was matched with Turner which upped the sexy. Still Ford though. No contest.
It would have to be Harrison Ford. He has an innate swagger that Michael Douglas doesn't possess but I hate to make that sound like a knock on Douglas who is very entertaining in his film.
The character of Indiana Jones is better known but I'm a contrarian on this one - I say Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. He had done Coma, The China Syndrome, before Romancing the Stone and was hot and intelligent.
Plus his chemistry with Kathleen Turner was off the charts. Indiana Jones and women don't mix.
Jack T. Colton deserves a little more appreciation.
Indy!
Michael Douglas is NOT even remotely sexy. Harrison Ford by a country mile.
Ford! Douglas is so unappealing.
Steph Bello: Eh, they both have their own different kind of appeal. For example? It's unlikely either of them could make, to toss out one gross moment, the idea of "eating a donut during sex" (something Harrison Ford actually did in Hollywood Homicide) appealing, but Douglas would have had a better shot at that, due to having more sleaze in his persona than Ford.
Harrison Ford was sex on several sticks, circa Raiders of the Lost Ark. (To be fair, Michael Douglas *did* have more believable, intriguing chemistry with his co-star though.)