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Yeah, Bale for me. He's actually a great actor, in addition to to kicking arse. Saying that, he hasn't got MUCH of an 'action' track record yet - I voted for him purely on the basis of 'American Psycho'. Bateman is my hero.
Honourable mention should also go to Daniel Craig and Tom Hardy, for similar reasons.
No Kirk Douglas? No Burt Lancaster or Steve mcQueen? Sucker please.
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Frazzled wrote:No Kirk Douglas? No Burt Lancaster or Steve mcQueen? Sucker please.
No Bogart or Cagney either...kids these days.
African Queen is just epic.
"Is this the end for Caesar." Go Cagney.
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Frazzled wrote:No Kirk Douglas? No Burt Lancaster or Steve mcQueen? Sucker please.
No Bogart or Cagney either...kids these days.
African Queen is just epic.
"Is this the end for Caesar." Go Cagney.
" Top of the world MA!!!"....man, now that was great cinema, I'll take Cagney over any of these " action stars" any day...
And Bogart...Class ...pure class.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Clint Eastwood or John Wayne. In terms of sheer production John Wayne probably made more movies than all the rest of them put together.
No joke I think he made like 250 movies. You don't feth with Hondo!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Frazzled wrote:No Kirk Douglas? No Burt Lancaster or Steve mcQueen? Sucker please.
No Bogart or Cagney either...kids these days.
African Queen is just epic.
"Is this the end for Caesar." Go Cagney.
There's 22 options was that not good enough?
...Not if Cagney isn't one of the options...no. ...Given the list you have though I'd take Eastwood and Samuel L Jackson.
While action has been a component in film for a long time the actual action genre developed in the 70's. Although there's popular precursors such as 50's westerns, 60's espionage movies, 20's/30's
swashbucklers, war movies, etc. Plus the film industry is over a 100 years old I'm bound to miss a few classics just the way it is when you're dealing with such an old medium.
Okay Tooth Fairy was a blip, but Faster, and Fast Five, plus his brilliant 10mins in the Other Guys with Jackson have put him back on form.
As to my vote,
Jackie Chan, he's had ups and downs in cinema, but he's had enough great movies to overide the bad ones. Plus is pretty much bat gak insane when it comes to doing his own stunts, to the point folks have to stop him doing stuff, a lesser man would quit the set for.
Ill say give Dwayne Johnson a few more action rolls, and he'd be worthy of being in a poll. I agree, hes a VERY convincing action guy, and when he plays the "Im a bad ass, get out of my way or Im smashing you" you does a really good job. Faster was the first movie he was in that made me think " Damn....now this guy is getting there" The first 10 minutes of that movie was just pure awesome.
Automatically Appended Next Post: BTW I voted Arnold as well. I simply love the guy
Is it just me or would you love to see Arnold come back in action movies, I know he's well past his prime but we have Sylvester Stallone still doing action flicks and he's 65.
No way dude, no way. Have you ever LOVED a movie or show as a child, and later in life, watched it to get that old feeling back, just to find out that it was the gayest, lamest, dumbest thing youve seen in your entire adult life? Thats what would happen if he came back in anything more then a walk on roll. Seriously no. I think Sly is doing it mainly for money. Gotta keep those mansions up and running ya know
Okay Tooth Fairy was a blip, but Faster, and Fast Five, plus his brilliant 10mins in the Other Guys with Jackson have put him back on form.
As to my vote,
Jackie Chan, he's had ups and downs in cinema, but he's had enough great movies to overide the bad ones. Plus is pretty much bat gak insane when it comes to doing his own stunts, to the point folks have to stop him doing stuff, a lesser man would quit the set for.
Ill say give Dwayne Johnson a few more action rolls, and he'd be worthy of being in a poll. I agree, hes a VERY convincing action guy, and when he plays the "Im a bad ass, get out of my way or Im smashing you" you does a really good job. Faster was the first movie he was in that made me think " Damn....now this guy is getting there" The first 10 minutes of that movie was just pure awesome.
Automatically Appended Next Post: BTW I voted Arnold as well. I simply love the guy
Is it just me or would you love to see Arnold come back in action movies, I know he's well past his prime but we have Sylvester Stallone still doing action flicks and he's 65.
No way dude, no way. Have you ever LOVED a movie or show as a child, and later in life, watched it to get that old feeling back, just to find out that it was the gayest, lamest, dumbest thing youve seen in your entire adult life? Thats what would happen if he came back in anything more then a walk on roll. Seriously no. I think Sly is doing it mainly for money. Gotta keep those mansions up and running ya know
Yeah, I suppose I guess I'm being blinded by nostalgia here.
Okay Tooth Fairy was a blip, but Faster, and Fast Five, plus his brilliant 10mins in the Other Guys with Jackson have put him back on form.
As to my vote,
Jackie Chan, he's had ups and downs in cinema, but he's had enough great movies to overide the bad ones. Plus is pretty much bat gak insane when it comes to doing his own stunts, to the point folks have to stop him doing stuff, a lesser man would quit the set for.
Ill say give Dwayne Johnson a few more action rolls, and he'd be worthy of being in a poll. I agree, hes a VERY convincing action guy, and when he plays the "Im a bad ass, get out of my way or Im smashing you" you does a really good job. Faster was the first movie he was in that made me think " Damn....now this guy is getting there" The first 10 minutes of that movie was just pure awesome.
Automatically Appended Next Post: BTW I voted Arnold as well. I simply love the guy
Is it just me or would you love to see Arnold come back in action movies, I know he's well past his prime but we have Sylvester Stallone still doing action flicks and he's 65.
No way dude, no way. Have you ever LOVED a movie or show as a child, and later in life, watched it to get that old feeling back, just to find out that it was the gayest, lamest, dumbest thing youve seen in your entire adult life? Thats what would happen if he came back in anything more then a walk on roll. Seriously no. I think Sly is doing it mainly for money. Gotta keep those mansions up and running ya know
I think Stallone just has nothing better to do. Hes been acting in movies like his entire life, and now hes even got director status...
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Man, no votes for Sigourney Weaver her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series was pretty revolutionary for the time, I would have thought she would have scored at least one vote.
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Cheesecat wrote:Man, no votes for Sigourney Weaver her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series was pretty revolutionary for the time, I would have thought she would have scored at least one vote.
Yea but by the time she FINALLY stopped doing those movies, it felt very tired, and I was a bit sick of seeing her kicking asses across the galaxy. Arnie how ever.....shoot man, you just never got tired of seeing him level buildings and tossing out 1 liners
Cheesecat wrote:Man, no votes for Sigourney Weaver her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series was pretty revolutionary for the time, I would have thought she would have scored at least one vote.
Yea but by the time she FINALLY stopped doing those movies, it felt very tired, and I was a bit sick of seeing her kicking asses across the galaxy. Arnie how ever.....shoot man, you just never got tired of seeing him level buildings and tossing out 1 liners
Unlike Arnie her portrayal of the action hero was a lot more realistic and more in the realm of actual human ability, not saying that makes her better I mean sometimes you just want a ridiculous and over the top
action hero and who better to deliver that performance than Arnie himself.
Jason Stathem is funny, I don't see him as a serious action star at all. He is best when he's funny, but not funny in the typical sense, but something like in Snatch, where everything he says and does is serious but a lot of it is still funny...
WHERE IN GOD'S NAME IS ROGER MOORE? You left him out! Scandal!
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Voted for Arnold, due to a distinct lack of Dolph Lundgren. He's fought Keanu, Stallone, Van Damme, and who knows how many others. Manly enough to be the villain or the hero, and still steal the show with his mighty jawline! Seriously, only Bruce Campbell could give him a run for chin power.
To any child of the 80s, action heroes should be more tank than man.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
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Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:WHERE IN GOD'S NAME IS ROGER MOORE? You left him out! Scandal!
To me Sean Connery will always be Bond, while I enjoyed some of Moore's Bond flicks his movies were just too over the top for me (Moonraker for example).
Cheese, who said anything about James Bond? I was thinking more of the saint!
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Special mention should also go to Tony leung, Danny Glover, George Seagal, et al. These kids have no concept of the past greats.
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deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:Cheese, who said anything about James Bond? I was thinking more of the saint!
Almost forget this guy: Chow Yun Fat. Yeah!! Hard Boiled makes die hard look like friday night at a GW store! Check this out.
Special mention should also go to Tony leung, Danny Glover, George Seagal, et al. These kids have no concept of the past greats.
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I think I mentioned this before but the movie industry is over 100 years old and I tried to get as many iconic action stars as possible, but I am aware that I probably missed a few plus I don't want people to
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