The world has been blessed with not one, but TWO Ryans (Gosling and Reynolds, to be specific—all other Ryans can step to the left) and the time has come to rank their films on a scale of hotness. Please be advised that what you’re about to witness may cause profuse sweating (in a sexy way!), a general feeling of nausea (also in a sexy way!), and the impulse to break up with whoever you’re dating due to the fact that they are neither of these men.
14. RYAN REYNOLDS – GREEN LANTERN
I am of the opinion that there is almost nothing sexy about Green Lantern, and am only begrudgingly including it on this list out of a sense of obligation. First of all, Green Lantern is literally named after an old-fashioned lighting device commonly found on the prairie. It’s like naming a superhero Green Butterchurner.
Second of all, this is possibly the least arousing outfit change I’ve ever seen:
13. RYAN GOSLING – LA LA LAND
Wow, how insulting to La La Land right? WRONG. There is nothing sexy about Ryan Gosling in this movie, as he essentially plays a stubborn sulky white dude who thinks he’s the only person on earth who truly understands jazz and spends much of the movie mansplaining it to Emma Stone. Next! Bye!
12. RYAN REYNOLDS – SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but Ryan Reynolds played Melissa Joan Hart’s love interest in Sabrina the Teenage Witch (the T.V. movie version), and they almost dated in real life. I mean, understandable—how could anyone see a hair flop this profound and not immediately fall in love with its middle-parted undulating waves?
Also, on a scale of 1-10, how aroused are you by this still of Ryan Reynolds putting a party hat on this girl from behind?
11. RYAN GOSLING – YOUNG HERCULES
Speaking of middle parts, one time Ryan Gosling was in a TV series called Young Hercules.
And yes, I know this is a list of movies, but it seemed journalistically irresponsible to not include Young Hercules when Ryan spent his time looking like this:
(Those biceps!)
Don’t even try to deny that these photos are, on some admittedly disturbing level, very hot.
10. RYAN REYNOLDS – BUYING THE COW
Hello, once upon a time Ryan Reynolds was in a movie iconically titled Buying the Cow,which, if you read the plot on Wikipedia (that is as much effort as I’m willing to make when it comes to this movie), sounds pretty problematic. That said, this happened, and we shall present it without comment:
9. RYAN GOSLING – DRIVE
Honestly, find me any other human who can make the sentence “I drive” sexy. I’ll wait:
8. RYAN REYNOLDS – THE AMITYVILLE HORROR
This one is complicated because on the one hand Ryan Reynolds spends the movie wandering around with a very ill-advised goatee but on the other hand, he spends the movie wandering around with a very well-advised six pack:
7. RYAN GOSLING – CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE
No words, only Gif:
(And, yes, I know what you’re thinking: How are there six Ryan movies with more hotness than that?! How?! These men are just. that. hot. Keep scrolling.)
6. RYAN REYNOLDS- DEADPOOL
Ryan Reynolds spends the entirety of Deadpool being the physical embodiment of a literal SNACK, and does it while wearing a mask—proving that Ryan-related hotness comes from the inside just as much as the outside. Also, here’s another Gif for you to enjoy, no need to thank me!
5. RYAN REYNOLDS – X-MENS ORIGINS: WOLVERINE
Even hotter than Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool is Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool pre-transformation) in X-Men Origins. LOOK. AT. HIS. CURLY. HAIR. AND. TANK. TOP. Look with your eyes!
4. RYAN GOSLING – STAY
If you prefer your Ryans more emo, welcome to Ryan Gosling in Stay. His hair tells you everything you need to know.
^ “Hi, I’m Ryan Gosling and my interests include Bright Eyes, Converse, and being extremely self-righteously straight-edge. Also, it’s 2003!”
3. RYAN REYNOLDS – THE PROPOSAL
Why, you ask? Because this, I answer:
2. RYAN GOSLING – THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
The tank top, the blonde hair, the tattoos. These are all merely good. What’s GREAT is this scene of Ryan dancing with a puppy:
1. RYAN GOSLING – THE NOTEBOOK
As expected, The Notebook is coming in at number one for extremely obvious reasons related to Ryan Gosling’s sheer perfection as Noah, and the fact that he single-handedly won a wet t-shirt competition that only he was participating in.
If you’re a bird, I’m a bird.
This article originally appeared on Marie Claire US.
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