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I watched two movies adapted from the same book, Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Payback with Mel Gibson. When I watched Gibson kill a half dozen or so people in the the street, I said, OK. But when I watched Marvin beat up that guy behind the stage in the night club, I flinched. I have to go with Lee Marvin.

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Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man.

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One scene in The Searchers. John Wayne, hoping to find Lucy, sees two imbelic girls who had been captured by Comanches. I believe he says, "They ain't white" as the camera zooms in to capture his expression. Absolutely chilling--every time.

Richard Widmark beating up the woman in Pickup on South Street.

Ellen Burstyn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Of course, none of these compare to some I've met in real life.

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Charles Bronson and it isn't close.

The way he posthumously 86's Jan Michael Vincent in The Mechanic is classic.

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Is it safe?

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Gene Hackman in Unforgiven.

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

Dennis Farina in Get Shorty.

Robert Shaw in Jaws.

Humphrey Bogart in anything.

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He was great in Once Upon a Time in America as the good guy. But still a tough guy.

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hackman whines about it not being fair when he dies...

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Clint Eastwood in all the "Spagetti Westerns". He wasn't too shabby in the Dirty Harry movies either.

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clint eastwood in anything

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Bridges of Madison County

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Dennis Farina in Get Shorty.

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This is one of those things that made Get Shorty such a surprising, excellent movie. It's very much a comedy, at least through most of it, but Farina's character stands out as really nasty. When he hits Fae in the face, out of nowhere... He's an idiot. But he's a very nasty idiot.

ElSapo

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It's a toss up between Jean Claude Van Damme in Kickboxer and Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport.

-AA

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Brian Keith in "Death Before Dishonor"

Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson in Death Hunt (one of my all time favorite movies).

Entire cast (esp. Nolte) in Extreme Prejudice

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Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear.

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Ray Springfield

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The dude who purposely broke and chopped off his own arm with a dull knife when it was wedged between two rocks in a mountain climbing accident. It's not close.

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Mel Gibson in Patriot when he goes to town with the Cherokee axe...owns...

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It's a toss up between Jean Claude Van Damme in Kickboxer and Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport.

-AA

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What about the two Van Damme's in Double Impact?

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Bridges of Madison County

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ouch. ok ok anything before he turned 90 [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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The one was a pansy ass sissy boy who wore a pink polo shirt.

Plus, Julie Strain was in that movie and she is tougher than either Van Damme.

-AA

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Ellen Burstyn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Excellent pick. I'd much rather have to deal with John Wayne than Nurse Ratchett.

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The one was a pansy ass sissy boy who wore a pink polo shirt.

Plus, Julie Strain was in that movie and she is tougher than either Van Damme.

-AA

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Hmmm, forgot about that. I only seem to remember there was nudity in that movie.

Also, wasn't Clint Eastwood in The Horse Whisperer?

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Nope Robert redford

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"I'll see you in hell!"

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"Don't you puke on my shoes."

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Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

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One of my favorite movies. Can't see it enough. He kept calling Eastwood blonde? Loved that.

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Kurt Russell in Tombstone was pretty good (I'm thinking of the scene where he stares down Billy Bob Thornton)

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill (I know, not a guy but still)

Bruce Lee in anything

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Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

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Hey - - Blondie!


One of the few movie characters to, at least symbolically, bust Eastwood's ass on flim.

-Zeno

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One of my all-time favorites too. One of my favorite lines was when Angel Eye (Van Cleef) says to Tuco (Wallach) that he see he using a different name now. Tuco says, "One name is good as any other, no?"

"When you want to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

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When Eastwood was on the set one day, he says he knew Wallach was going to upstage him. Wallach says he got the idea for wearing both a belt and suspenders from Sergio Leone, who did it.

The final 3-way shootout, with the music blaring, is spectacular.

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Oh man, you're making me chuckle. That was a great scene when he was in the bathtub and he had him dead to rights but had to make the little speech.

Did you know all those movies were low budget and shot on location somewhere in Italy. That's why they call them spaghetti westerns.

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Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke
Val Kilmer - Doc Holliday in Tombstone
Joe Pesci in any Scorsese movie
R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket

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van cleef was better in "for a few dollars more". i also like that the best of the trilogy.

Toughest by far
 

Frank Vincent, Tonry Sirco - Paulie from the saproans, and the Mexican Character actor from heat and con air. They are all or were at least sudo bad guys prior to the acting careers.
Dave

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Daniel Day Lewis...Gangs of New York

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Almost forgot Jack Palance in Shane (or Jack Palance in Contempt). There's a great shot in Shane where Palance seems to move from one side of the barroom to the other without moving (it's done with a dissolve) almost like the devil in motion.

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absolutely excellent choice. i would have loved the movie if "the job was finished" at the annual celebration ~1h30m in. happy to discuss further with warning of spoilers.