johnnyb1610 wrote:
John Wayne first, Clint Eastwood second
Miller: John Wayne was a fag.
All: The hell he was.
Miller: He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress.
johnnyb1610 wrote:
John Wayne first, Clint Eastwood second
Miller: John Wayne was a fag.
All: The hell he was.
Miller: He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress.
agreed on Vinnie if the question is who is the toughest in real life. no one else metioned could match up against the guy in a no holds barred bar fight
WELSH DUDE!! wrote:
Vinnie Jones - living Legend - all hail bullet tooth tony
haha
wineturtle wrote:
Yakima Canutt
Wow, *great* choice. His stunt work was fantastic--that bit in "Stagecoach" is timeless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_Canutthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMfFzKt0oIMy pick was gonna be the great film-noir star Robert Mitchum, but Yakima may have him beat...
Hollywood is basically a collection of the theater geeks from HS. None of them are tough and most of them are gay.
Randy Coture acted in scorpian 2....Tito and Chuck acted in the Jet Li/DMX movie...So I say Randy is the toughest
A more understated and melancholy, but still cold-blooded action hero everyman would be Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine, Fireworks, etc.)
If we look at just one film rather than a whole career, I'll go with Min-sik Choi in OldBoy. Great action film that flips the "revenge of the wronged hero" genre on its head.
John Wayne????? You've got to be kidding. I know it's sacriledge, but I can't sit through an entire John Wayne movie. it makes me physically sick.
Surprised nobody threw Casavetes or Edgar G. Robinson out there. Might be typecasting and or stereotyping but did Seseu Hyakawa (sp?) ever play anything but a bad ass Japanese general or admiral????
Charles Bronson, no questions asked.
Even if he did try to convince a girl about Santa Claus, he probably still looked pissed and about ready to kill her while doing it!
schwarzenegger, duh. have you ever seen commando?
The only thing I remember about Commando is seem to recall a scene where there is a wrecked Porsche. In one shot the Porsche is all wrecked on its side and Arnold flips it back over and then the camera cuts away. When it cuts back, the dents are no longer there when they drive it away.
Of course, I remember the scene at the end where he drives the pipe through the guy and into a boiler and the steam comes out through the pipe that is in the guy. That was pretty coldblooded, but the rest of the movie was a dog. I bet the writer of the film built the whole movie around an excuse to do that scene.
I just saw The Last Boyscout on tv last night. Great movie. Bruce Willis is pretty tough in that one. Also, I think if we are looking at a whole career what should count is how many tough roles the actor had, not if they did a couple of light hearted movies.
Tom Cruise as Les Grossman
Steve McQueen was my favorite actor, but many times he didn't have to talk tough due to his smarts and determination (Papillon, The Great Escape, The Getaway).
Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones come to mind.
At least that Mongol bastard Charles Bronson got a purple heart in the Pacific. Steve McQueen was in the Marines. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Tom Selleck, never served in the military.
sjc wrote:
schwarzenegger, duh. have you ever seen commando?
Arnold is phony tough. Twins and Kindergaten cop both take him out of the running anyway.
Steven Segal
End thread.
Mickey Rourke
Seagal is an anti-war draft dodger.
Robert Mitchum is a great choice... so is Clint Eastwood. I agree that John Wayne movies tend to be horrible, but I've seen a couple of good ones. There are the 80's action guys like Schwarzenegger and Stallone, but that stuff is so cheesy.
Mitchum was a tough guy in real life. Clint is pretty bad ass as well (in a well-rounded way - he plays piano quite well and he was elected mayor of his small town). When you consider all of Clint's amazing westerns, spanning from the 60's to the early 90's (Unforgiven is one of the greatest ever), plus all of the Dirty Harry films, it's hard to argue against him.
ChiTown Hustler wrote:
Steven Segal
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thank you! i couldn't believe it took us this long to get to steven.