Gene Hackman is the best.

Hackman playing the Eddie Egan role (Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle) in The French Connection.

His Harold in Young Frankenstein was a hoot!

The Conversatios role, DK the character name, was a solid performance too.

My question has always been "Would he have out done Boyle in Joe?".

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Just watched Royal Tenenbaums after not having watched it in at least a year. Classic Hackman: "There are no sides." Hackman is awesome in every role he has ever played. Agree/disagree?

Any great Hackman quotes/performances of note?

I was drawn to watch the Royals again after hearing of Owen's recent trauma which seemed to parallel a the famed presupposer Eli Cash.

Agreed, he's great. Norman Dale ("Hoosiers") is probably my favorite role of his.

Also fantastic was his performance opposite Eastwood in Unforgiven.

When he put an ass whuppin on English Bob, that was cool. However Dirty Harry done him in, in the end. He was great in Unforgiven but I will never forgive him for that sorry excuse of a western he did with Sharon Stone. Stupid movie.

The OP is so right. Gene Hackman is just awesome. Every movie of his I've ever seen has been great. He seems like the nicest guy too. Like if you bumped into him somewhere he would talk with you for like 10 minutes.

He is great as Royal, Popeye, Lex Luther, Normal Dale, etc. etc.

He can be the good guy, the bad guy, the flawed guy, straight man, funny guy.

He's great at any kind of acting. I can't think of a movie he was in that I did not like.

Even "Welcome to Mooseport" was good mostly because Hackman was in it.

I thought the Quick and the Dead was a pretty good movie again mostly because Hackman was in it. I don't like Sharon Stone at all and for him to overcome a not great story line and Stone is pretty impressive. It's like every movie he's in he brings up to a new level.

i too thought Quick and the Dead was average, but found it watchable due to Hackman's presence. and i think that goes for a few other films he has worked in.

i did hear a while back that he had some health issues and from what i can remember Mooseport was his last film. hopefully he has more in him...

There was this college coach in Oklahoma who looked JUST LIKE Gene Hackman. Anyone know who I'm talking about?

I am a bit fan of Hackman's...almost no one has such range, including comedy. But "Royal Tennenbaums" is a truly awful movie

all aboard say rocket wrote:

Hackman is awesome in every role he has ever played.

I guess you somehow managed to miss "The Replacements." ("Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves star, and this is not a distinguished entry in their filmographies." -Roger Ebert)

Hackman has been one of the best American actors since Bonnie and Clyde and the French Connection (1971) in which he got his first Oscar.

wineturtle wrote: The Conversation role, DK the character name, was a solid performance too.

Harry Caul. Outstanding film, which best I can tell doesn't seem to get its due.

My question has always been "Would he have out done Boyle in Joe?".

Outdone? It would've been a different film - and no doubt great, but it seemed just right the way it was too.

The Royal Tenenbaums is an awesome movie and Hackman won an AFI award for his portayal of Royal. I have heard of people disliking the film...I have heard these are the same people who insist it is normal to procreate with siblings.

Superman, The Firm, Mississippi Burning. Hackman is the man

I loved "Rushmore," Wes Anderson's previous film. "Royal Tennenbauns" was terrible.

He played opposite Denzel Washington in "Crimson Tide"

"She smokes."

Royal Tenembaums is one of my all-time favourites.

"This is my adopted daughter..."

"Your mother was a terribly attractive woman."

OK, I'll be the voice of moderation and say RT was neither brilliant nor horrible. Pretty good, especially by standards of what comes out of Hollywood these days, but by no means a future classic.

You guys need to see a lot more films. Here you go:

http://www.netflix.com

Thought he was great in Mississippi Burning with Willem Dafoe. The scene where he literally takes the KKK intimidation by the balls is classic.

Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?