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Title: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 05, 2007, 10:28:37 PM
IGY has talked a lot about Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday and every time he does it reminds me of my favorite movie characters.

So, inspired by this post (and others), who are your favorite characters in movie history?

To use Star Wars as an example, I'm looking the Bobba Fetts and Han Solos of cinema, not the Darth Vaders and Luke Skywalkers...

Quote from: ice grillin you on August 05, 2007, 10:10:28 PM
ive mentioned this on the 'movie thread lately' before but val kilmer doc holiday is on the shot list of best movie roles ever

along with

bud white la confidential

and

mouse alexander devil with a blue dress

(I'll add my list soon but thought I'd start this shtein now while I was thinking about it...)
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 05, 2007, 10:31:30 PM
good thread

this list begins and ends with mickey rourke johnny angel in angel heart
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 05, 2007, 10:33:51 PM
my urge to mock you is conflicted with my urge to actually think about this
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 05, 2007, 10:38:42 PM
for just a minute try to be a straight male

and dont answer this thread with the fag from 300
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 05, 2007, 10:39:32 PM
the dood who drinks umbrella drinks at tailgates is telling me to act straight
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Rome on August 05, 2007, 10:39:40 PM
There are tons, obviously but the first one that springs to mind is Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) in Reservoir Dogs.

The scene where he cuts the cop's ear off is hilarious, nauseating and terrifying all at once.  Great scene and a great character from one of the best movies ever.

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 05, 2007, 10:41:35 PM
Great topic.

Sly Stallone in Rocky
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 05, 2007, 10:42:46 PM
mr blonde was a gay

cuttin a doods ear off while hes tied up = bitch

mario cobretti on the other hand = pimp
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 05, 2007, 10:49:35 PM
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti in True Romance
Joe Pesci - in any of Scorsese movie
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Rome on August 05, 2007, 10:54:22 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 05, 2007, 10:42:46 PM
mr blonde was a gay


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Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 05, 2007, 11:03:31 PM
I'm half in the bag, and will have to think about this one more, but one of the first that popped in my head was Matt Modine in Full Metal Jacket.

(http://norbizness.com/archives/modine.JPG)

I have to agree with Igy on the Val Kilmer/Doc Holliday tip. Dude was ice cold.

Staying with Westerns, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven was a bad shutyomouth. Hackman was pretty good too.
Edited with the actual quotes:

QuoteLittle Bill Daggett: Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!
Will Munny: Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.

QuoteLittle Bill Daggett: You'd be William Munny out of Missouri. Killer of women and children.
Will Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

QuoteWill Munny: All right, I'm coming out. Any man I see out there, I'm gonna shoot him. Any sumbitch takes a shot at me, I'm not only gonna kill him, but I'm gonna kill his wife, all his friends, and burn his damn house down.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Phanatic on August 05, 2007, 11:35:09 PM
I'd have to think a while to see what comes to me as far as favorite charecters go but because Full Metal Jacket was already mentioned the drill sargent makes that freaking movie. The first half of that movie is gold.

I think one of the best charecters to carry a franchise has to be Indiana Jones. I hope the new one they're making doesn't suck.

I like a crazy Jack Nicholsen charecter like his role in the Shining or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Andy from Shawshank Redemption. Or maybe it's just a great movie I'm attached too.

Of course Sherrif Buford T. Justice is crazy funny from Smokey and the Bandit but that's a guilty pleasure of mine.

Scarface. Say Hello to my Little Friend is crazily over quoted.

Adam West as Batman.... Awesome!

That's all I can think of right now...

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Geowhizzer on August 05, 2007, 11:55:32 PM
The one the first comes to mind to me is James Bond - particularly Sean Connery's portrayal (though I really enjoyed Daniel Craig's first run).

But I'm a James Bond nerd like SD is with Star Wars.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 06, 2007, 12:22:07 AM
Mickey Rourke as Marv from Sin City
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 06, 2007, 12:48:26 AM
Adam West as Batman.... Awesome



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Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Munson on August 06, 2007, 01:12:38 AM
(http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper932/stills/3d93a2d1e9d7a-71-1.jpg)
(http://www.geocities.com/stuartfernie/nest3.JPG)
(http://rezerwowe_psy_clan.webpark.pl/4_ryan.jpg)

First three off the top of my head. I'll think of more.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on August 06, 2007, 02:10:33 AM
Sam Elliot as SGM Plumley in We Were Soldiers.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 06, 2007, 02:15:02 AM
Quote from: Drunkmasterflex on August 06, 2007, 02:10:33 AM
Sam Elliot in Roadhouse.

fixed
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: MDS on August 06, 2007, 03:12:04 AM
Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights. Funniest movie evar!1!!11!!22!232
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: hbionic on August 06, 2007, 04:41:56 AM
Jesus. In any movie.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Diomedes on August 06, 2007, 06:53:17 AM
Quote from: SunMo on August 05, 2007, 10:49:35 PMChristopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti in True Romance

Oh, agreed. 

Dustin Hoffman as Ratso in Midnight Cowboy.


Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 06:58:57 AM
I'm going to be recycling some but here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head...

- Kilmer as Holiday. If this isn't my favorite, it's definitely top 5.
- Mickey Rourke as Marv in Sin City also gets a vote from me (getting the recycled ones out of the way early).
- John Goodman as Walter in The Big Lebowski. John Turturo as The Jesus would also be further down my list.
- Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley in True Romance. Again, there are several characters here that I would consider. Slater, Arquette and Walken all are outstanding but Hopper steals the entire movie.
- Sonny Landham as Billy in Predator.
- Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien and Aliens. In fact, I think she might be #1 on my list.
- Peter Stormare as Satan in Constantine. This isn't a great movie, but Stormare plays such a great Satan that it's worth watching just for the 5 or 6 minutes that he's in it. Stormare also gets props for playing Karl Hungus, Nihilist/Porn Star, in The Big Lebowski.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Diomedes on August 06, 2007, 07:04:42 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 06:58:57 AM
- Dennis Hopper as Clifford Worley in True Romance. Again, there are several characters here that I would consider. Slater, Arquette and Walken all are outstanding but Hopper steals the entire movie.

Don't leave Gary Oldman off that list..his short turn at the beginning of the movie is magnificent.

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 07:17:18 AM
Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on August 06, 2007, 07:20:59 AM
I think we all can agree that Val Kilmer in Tombstone is one of the all time best movie performances. 

Also Daniel Day-Lewis as William Cutting in Gangs of New York.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Susquehanna Birder on August 06, 2007, 07:24:49 AM
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty.

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Rome on August 06, 2007, 07:31:42 AM
Robert Shaw as Quint in "Jaws".
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: DutchBird on August 06, 2007, 07:39:16 AM
Tommy Lee Jones - As Marshal Samuel Gerard (The Fugitive) and warden Dwight McClusky (Natural Born Killers)

Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Jon Voight - all in "Heat"

Ed Harris - Seth Frank (Absolute power)

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber (Die Hard with a vengeance)

Woody Harrelson - Mickey Knox (Natural born killers)
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Feva on August 06, 2007, 07:47:09 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 07:17:18 AM
Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.

-- When I saw this thread title... that's one of the 1st I thought about.  He was great in that role.

-- I also gotta back IGY again with Don Cheadle as Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress.

-- Sam Jackson as Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction.  Special shoutout to Harvey Keitel as The Wolf as well.

-- rjs tapped Billy in Predator... but I've got to give the nod to Jesse Ventura as Blaine.  "I ain't got time to bleed" may be the best line ever.

-- Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die-Hard.  Maybe the best villan ever in an action movie.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: DutchBird on August 06, 2007, 08:01:38 AM
Quote from: EagleFeva on August 06, 2007, 07:47:09 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 07:17:18 AM
Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.

-- When I saw this thread title... that's one of the 1st I thought about.  He was great in that role.


Oldman was good in that movie (known in most of the rest of the world as 'Leon', its original title), but I have to say I liked Portman and Reno better.

I guess "Rome" would qualify as a series.... but still:

James Purefoy (Marc Anthony), Simon Woods (Octavian/Augustus), Kerry Condon (Octavia) were good as well.... despite the liberties that the wroters have taken, they might be quite close in character to what the historical persons might have been....
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 08:17:01 AM
Quote from: Jerome99RIP on August 06, 2007, 07:31:42 AM
Robert Shaw as Quint in "Jaws".

Outstanding addition.

Quote from: EagleFeva on August 06, 2007, 07:47:09 AM
-- Sam Jackson as Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction.  Special shoutout to Harvey Keitel as The Wolf as well.

-- rjs tapped Billy in Predator... but I've got to give the nod to Jesse Ventura as Blaine.  "I ain't got time to bleed" may be the best line ever.

-- Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die-Hard.  Maybe the best villan ever in an action movie.

- I laid off of Samuel L because it seemed too obvious, but he deserves mention.

- Billy edged out Blaine for me because he's less clownish, but yeah Ventura rules in Predator.

- Good call on Rickman.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Rome on August 06, 2007, 08:21:44 AM
Quote from: EagleFeva on August 06, 2007, 07:47:09 AM
-- Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die-Hard.  Maybe the best villan ever in an action movie.

HANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNS!   :-D  He was great.


I also liked Rutger Hauer as Wolfgar in "Nighthawks."
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 06, 2007, 08:53:13 AM
Quote from: Drunkmasterflex on August 06, 2007, 07:20:59 AM
I think we all can agree that Val Kilmer in Tombstone is one of the all time best movie performances. 

Also Daniel Day-Lewis as William Cutting in Gangs of New York.

Agreed on both  :yay
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Zanshin on August 06, 2007, 09:40:03 AM
Jack "Big Trouble in Little China" Burton.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Zanshin on August 06, 2007, 09:49:24 AM
A couple more:

Lloyd Dobbler (John Cusack)
Sam (Natalie Portman in Garden State)
Keiser Sose (Spacey in Usual Suspects)
Jeff Spicoli (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Carl (Buschemi in Fargo)
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: phattymatty on August 06, 2007, 10:35:02 AM
chunk from the goonies
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 06, 2007, 11:08:40 AM
One word:

Ash.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 11:17:24 AM
Ash goes without saying.
Irwin M. Fletcher also is an automatic.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Sgt PSN on August 06, 2007, 11:25:04 AM
Matthew McConahey (sp?) as Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. 
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 06, 2007, 11:28:46 AM
William H. Macy as Bernie Lootz (The Cooler)

James Woods as Lester Diamond (Casino)

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on August 06, 2007, 11:40:21 AM
Ed Norton - Skinhead in American History X
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Yeti on August 06, 2007, 11:42:31 AM
(http://img.tesco.com/pi/entertainment/DVD/LF/689042_DV_L_F.jpg)

Keven Peter Hall as "Harry"
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 06, 2007, 12:13:20 PM
In no particular order:

DeNiro is Raging Bull

Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man

Joaquin Phoenix in Walk The Line

Kevin Costner in Wyatt Earp

Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting

Denzel Washington in Malcom X

Matthew Broderick in Glory

Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange

Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski

Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter

Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs

Paul Newman in The Hustler

Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein

Ben Kingsley in Schindler's List

Adrian Brody in The Pianist

Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Susquehanna Birder on August 06, 2007, 12:25:07 PM
Quite a list.

BTW...this is about favorite characters, right?
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 06, 2007, 12:25:22 PM
Brick Top - Snatch

Tyler Durden - Brad Pitt - Fight Club
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Wingspan on August 06, 2007, 12:34:03 PM
Ed, from Shaun of the Dead
Multiple Miggs, Silence of the Lambs
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 12:37:26 PM
Ah yes, Mickey the Piker from Snatch would probably be on my list as well as Rory Breaker from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Butchers Bill on August 06, 2007, 12:38:07 PM
Cal from The 40 Year Old Virgin

Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski

Ernie McCracken from Kingpin
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Rome on August 06, 2007, 12:38:47 PM
Nick Nolte as Phil Elliott in North Dallas Forty.  He basically spent the entire movie drunk and high while at the same time giving the owner and coaches of the "Cowboys" the finger not to mention he farged the girlfriend of the owner's brother too.

Awesome.

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: phattymatty on August 06, 2007, 12:45:56 PM
i love characters lol
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Eagles_Legendz on August 06, 2007, 02:11:58 PM
Nick Naylor--- Aaron Eckhart in Thank you for Smoking
Inigo Montoya --- Mandy Patinkin from The Princess Bride
Mr. XXX --- Daniel Craig in Layer Cake
Fenster--- Benicio Del Toro in The Usual Suspects
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Phanatic on August 06, 2007, 02:38:20 PM
Sheriff Bart - Blazing Saddles

"They said you was hung!" 


"They was right!"
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 06, 2007, 02:38:51 PM
Quote from: Eagles_Legendz on August 06, 2007, 02:11:58 PM
Nick Naylor--- Aaron Eckhart in Thank you for Smoking
Inigo Montoya --- Mandy Patinkin from The Princess Bride
Mr. XXX --- Daniel Craig in Layer Cake
Fenster--- Benicio Del Toro in The Usual Suspects

This is a particularly excellent list.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: phattymatty on August 06, 2007, 03:10:50 PM
i like the giant penguin from billy madison a lot.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: NGM on August 06, 2007, 05:12:00 PM
Ed Harris - Blair Sullivan - "Just Cause"
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: MadMarchHare on August 06, 2007, 06:57:59 PM
Claude Raines as Inspector Renault in Casablanca.  Some of the greatest dialogue ever written.

If we're talking Jack Nicholson, I always thought his best role was the devil in The Witches of Eastwick.  The movie sucked dead mule dick, but that soliloquy in the church at the end was a farging riot.

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross.  "You see this watch?  This watch costs more than your car."  Come to think of it, everyone in that movie was awesome.

EDIT:  Almost forgot one.  Kathy Bates in Misery.  When she got brained at the end, the entire theater I was in, and I mean to a person, jumped up and cheered.  I saw her on Arsenio Hall about a month after I watched the movie, and got angry seeing her walk out.  Now THAT'S a performance. 
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on August 06, 2007, 07:20:19 PM
Quint - Jaws famous scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnM-ee06pg)
Master Chief Billy Sunday (Dinero) Men of Honor
Colonel Jesep - (Nicholson) A Few Good Men
Chris Knight - (Kilmer) Real Genius
Gaylord Focker - (Stiller) Meet the Parents
Trent - (Vaughn) Swingers
Frank the Tank - (Ferrell) Old School
Rod Tidwell - (Gooding Jr.) Jerry Maguire
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 06, 2007, 07:39:41 PM
Damian Lewis aka: Maj. Richard D. Winters of Band of Brothers
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 07:41:39 PM
Quote from: SD_Eagle on August 06, 2007, 07:20:19 PM
Chris Knight - (Kilmer) Real Genius
Trent - (Vaughn) Swingers

Awesome.

QuoteMmm, Hoyda! - (Stiller) Meet the Parents

Awful.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: NGM on August 06, 2007, 07:42:49 PM
Brandt - Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Big Lebowski"

Everytime I hear him say: "This is our concern dude" I damn near piss myself. 
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Diomedes on August 06, 2007, 07:46:32 PM
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Zanshin on August 06, 2007, 07:48:55 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on August 06, 2007, 07:46:32 PM
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice

Hated that movie with a passion.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: NGM on August 06, 2007, 07:51:42 PM
I forgot Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack in "Airplane!".
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 06, 2007, 08:37:37 PM
Quote from: NGM on August 06, 2007, 07:51:42 PM
I forgot Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack in "Airplane!".

ha!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UobjppRIHFk
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 08:48:39 PM
I have to admit that I was hoping for some more obscure references.

"I really liked Darth Vader because he was the scariest!"

Oh well, I backed Jules Winfield and Ripley so I'm just as much to blame as the rest of you unoriginal jackoffs.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 06, 2007, 08:56:13 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 08:48:39 PM
I have to admit that I was hoping for some more obscure references.

"I really liked Darth Vader because he was the scariest!"

Oh well, I backed Jules Winfield and Ripley so I'm just as much to blame as the rest of you unoriginal jackoffs.

you expected more...jokes on you
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 09:23:32 PM
Someday I'll learn.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 06, 2007, 09:28:28 PM
highly doubtful
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: The BIGSTUD on August 06, 2007, 09:31:39 PM
Quote from: DutchBird on August 06, 2007, 08:01:38 AM
Quote from: EagleFeva on August 06, 2007, 07:47:09 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 07:17:18 AM
Ah! farg you're right. Gary Oldman as Drexl was amazing. In fact, Oldman is one of my favorite actors and I'd add at least one other of his characters to my list. Stansfeld in The Professional.

-- When I saw this thread title... that's one of the 1st I thought about.  He was great in that role.


Oldman was good in that movie (known in most of the rest of the world as 'Leon', its original title), but I have to say I liked Portman and Reno better.

I guess "Rome" would qualify as a series.... but still:

James Purefoy (Marc Anthony), Simon Woods (Octavian/Augustus), Kerry Condon (Octavia) were good as well.... despite the liberties that the wroters have taken, they might be quite close in character to what the historical persons might have been....


Great call on Rome. I loved Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson in that too. Terrific roles. Purefoy was great also.


Badass roles:

Denzel in Man on Fire as Creasy
Tom Cruise as Vincent in Collateral
Jason Statham as Frank from the Transporter
Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai

Drama roles:

Morgan Freeman as Red in The Shawshank Redemption
Ed Norton as Derrick in American History X
Bill Murray as Bob Harris in Lost in Translation
Kevin Spacey in American Beauty
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Munson on August 06, 2007, 10:07:20 PM
I forgot one of my all time favorites.

(http://www.splicedonline.com/96reviews/connery.jpg)

John Patrick Mason, General Sir.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Rome on August 06, 2007, 10:50:15 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 09:23:32 PM
Someday I'll learn.

Right - and some day Andy Reid will morph into Woody Hayes.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: MadMarchHare on August 06, 2007, 11:00:43 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 06, 2007, 09:23:32 PM
Someday I'll learn.

Dude, Claude Raines isn't obscure enough?  For you under 30's?  Really?
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on August 07, 2007, 06:38:41 AM
John Bender - (Judd Nelson) The Breakfast Club
Hanibal Lecter - (Hopkins) Silence of the Lambs
Blondie (Eastwood), Angel Eyes (Van Clef), Tuko (Wallach) - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Man with no name (Eastwood) High Plains Drifter
Carl Speckler (Murray) - Caddyshack
Denzel as the dirty cop in Training Day
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Quasimoto on August 07, 2007, 07:27:02 AM
Patrick Bateman from American Psycho
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 08:32:42 AM
Quote from: SD_Eagle on August 07, 2007, 06:38:41 AM
Tuko (Wallach) - The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Man with no name (Eastwood) High Plains Drifter


i was going to do these two this morning...especially Tuco.  he really makes what i think is the best of that trilogy.  you love him, hate him, root for him and against him all at different times during that movie.  he's both funny and scary.  one of the best characters in a movie ever.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Feva on August 07, 2007, 09:34:23 AM
Tackleberry in the Police Academy movies.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 07, 2007, 09:38:02 AM
Larenz Tate as O-Dogg in Menace II Society
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on August 07, 2007, 09:57:19 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 07, 2007, 09:38:02 AM
Larenz Tate as O-Dogg in Menace II Society
Great character.  :yay

2 characters from "King of NewYork" 
Christopher Walken= Frank White

Lawrence Fishburne= Jimmy Jump

Honorable mention  David Caruso= Dennis Gilley (I really enjoyed him getting killed)

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Wingspan on August 07, 2007, 10:51:32 AM
Darth Vader in Star Wars
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 10:53:25 AM
lol...you did what you weren't supposed to, that's hilarious!
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Phanatic on August 07, 2007, 10:57:58 AM
Denzel as Malcolm X – One of his best roles.

Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy - His best role.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Wingspan on August 07, 2007, 11:02:44 AM
Darth Vader in Empire Strikes Back?
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 07, 2007, 11:45:56 AM
Martin Blank (John Cusack) in Grosse Pointe Blank
Verbal Kint / Keyser Soze (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects
James 'Droz' Andrews (Jeremy Piven) and Gutter (Jon Favreau) in PCU
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) in Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on August 07, 2007, 11:52:21 AM
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 07, 2007, 11:45:56 AM
Martin Blank (John Cusack) in Grosse Pointe Blank
Verbal Kint / Keyser Soze (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects
James 'Droz' Andrews (Jeremy Piven) and Gutter (Jon Favreau) in PCU
Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) in Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
I had no idea Gutter was Farveau until 3 years ago when i upgraded from VHS to DVD.  Pigman was money too
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 07, 2007, 11:56:22 AM
im finding this hard to believe it wasn't mentioned before, maybe i missed it

Samuael L Jackson - Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on August 07, 2007, 12:02:14 PM
It is also hard to believe that someone missed Randy Quaid as Cousin Eddie. 
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 07, 2007, 12:03:37 PM
Quote from: Seabiscuit36 link=topic=19772.msg538304#msg538304Pigman was money too

Good call.

Both of the aforementioned are must-mentions also.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:09:50 PM
wow didnt take long for this thread to turn into a train wreck

lets just name every middle of the road performance in every movie weve ever liked
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 12:12:54 PM
you didn't see that coming?
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:17:12 PM
no...i often make the mistake that everyone is gonna be as on point as i am...and unfortunately the human race always lets me down
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Phanatic on August 07, 2007, 12:18:25 PM
Time to seperate the movie snobs/nerds from the masses...
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 12:21:31 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:17:12 PM
no...i often make the mistake that everyone is gonna be as on point as i am...and unfortunately the human race always lets me down

i keep waiting for you to throw out Bernie Bernbaum because that's your movie...but yet you disappoint me
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on August 07, 2007, 12:24:55 PM
Anyone from "Millers Crossing"  :P
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:29:43 PM
millers crossing is an all around ensemble domination...i can put the movie up there with the best ever but not any one performance...or i could and be as weak as the rest of you
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 12:33:01 PM
no way...Tuturro stands out amongst the rest

Marcia Gay = good
Finney = good
Byrne = very good
Turturro = GREAT
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:39:46 PM
NO

and you didnt even mention eddie dane who is as good as anyone
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on August 07, 2007, 12:42:47 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:17:12 PM
no...i often make the mistake that everyone is gonna be as on point as i am...and unfortunately the human race always lets me down

Last time I checked this thread was "Favorite Movie Characters" not best acting performances.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 07, 2007, 01:20:27 PM
Quote from: Drunkmasterflex on August 07, 2007, 12:42:47 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 12:17:12 PM
no...i often make the mistake that everyone is gonna be as on point as i am...and unfortunately the human race always lets me down

Last time I checked this thread was "Favorite Movie Characters" not best acting performances.

exactly
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 07, 2007, 01:21:24 PM
Agreed on Turturro.  Easily the standout of "Millers".
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 07, 2007, 01:44:13 PM
Kevin Bacon in Tremors.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 07, 2007, 01:45:04 PM
Bill Murray as Mr. Bloom in Rushmore.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 01:50:52 PM
Last time I checked this thread was "Favorite Movie Characters" not best acting performances.


then that makes most of you gay as opposed to clueless
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on August 07, 2007, 02:07:12 PM
Quote from: PPinDC on August 07, 2007, 01:44:13 PM
Kevin Bacon in Tremors.
I seriously was just going to type that
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 07, 2007, 02:30:31 PM
Johnny Depp, Fear and Loathing
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 07, 2007, 02:38:20 PM
Quote from: PPinDC on August 07, 2007, 02:30:31 PM
Johnny Depp, Fear and Loathing

Someone went to IMDB.com's home page today, huh?


Johnny Depp's best character is probably Jack Sparrow... but I think his most underrated performance is as Mort Rainey.  Note that John Turturro is a key factor in that as well.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 02:44:53 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 01:50:52 PM
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 07, 2007, 02:38:20 PM
Johnny Depp's best character is probably Jack Sparrow
then that makes most of you gay
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 07, 2007, 02:46:05 PM
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 07, 2007, 02:38:20 PM
Quote from: PPinDC on August 07, 2007, 02:30:31 PM
Johnny Depp, Fear and Loathing

Someone went to IMDB.com's home page today, huh?


Johnny Depp's best character is probably Jack Sparrow... but I think his most underrated performance is as Mort Rainey.  Note that John Turturro is a key factor in that as well.

okay enough with the fargin performance comments...its favorite characters. jack freakin sparrow??? what are you a 16 yr old girl>?

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: ice grillin you on August 07, 2007, 02:53:53 PM
jack freakin sparrow??? what are you a 16 yr old girl>?

lol

POTW
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 07, 2007, 02:55:38 PM
Quote from: FastFreddie on August 07, 2007, 02:38:20 PM
Quote from: PPinDC on August 07, 2007, 02:30:31 PM
Johnny Depp, Fear and Loathing
Someone went to IMDB.com's home page today, huh?

i r ownt.


Regardless, the dude was excellent in that role.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Phanatic on August 07, 2007, 02:59:08 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 07, 2007, 01:45:04 PM
Bill Murray as Mr. Bloom in Rushmore.

If I pick my favorite Bill Murray it's Stripes.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 07, 2007, 03:05:20 PM
Since we're doing Favortie Move Characters and not Best Performances, I'll throw in:

Yahoo Serious in Young Einstein.

(http://www.uni-koblenz.de/anglistik/subjects/as/aus/heroes/pic/young-bg.gif)

Respek.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 03:09:26 PM
and i think that's about it for this thread.

hit the lights on the way out.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Wingspan on August 07, 2007, 03:41:53 PM
Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 07, 2007, 04:01:00 PM
Bruce Willis - John Smith - Last Man Standing
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on August 07, 2007, 04:46:46 PM
Quote from: SunMo on August 07, 2007, 03:09:26 PM
and i think that's about it for this thread.

hit the lights on the way out.

you shut your mouth
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: The BIGSTUD on August 07, 2007, 05:15:41 PM
R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket

Stephen Root as Milton in Office Space

Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: General_Failure on August 07, 2007, 05:57:20 PM
Bill Murray's best role was The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Feva on August 08, 2007, 07:50:49 AM
Lemme try to bring this thread back with a couple solid ones:


1. Sensei John Kreese from The Karate Kid.

2. Dutch from the same movie.

(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f143/sourforce/dutch2.jpg)

"Points or no points... you're dead meat!"  :yay


3. John Goodman and William Forsythe in Raising Arizona.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: phattymatty on August 08, 2007, 09:41:18 AM
hooch from turner and hooch
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on August 08, 2007, 10:00:05 AM
Quote from: phattymatty on August 08, 2007, 09:41:18 AM
hooch from turner and hooch
That dawg could drink his ass off
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Wingspan on August 08, 2007, 10:04:48 AM
Darth Vader from Revenge of the Sith
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 08, 2007, 10:24:37 AM
Mister funny man.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: SunMo on August 08, 2007, 10:25:14 AM
he's trying anyway
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: rjs246 on August 08, 2007, 10:29:23 AM
I chortled at the first three.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 08, 2007, 04:33:38 PM
Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) from Spaceballs
Barney Coopersmith (Rick Moranis) from My Blue Heaven

Basically, anything with Rick Moranis RULES.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: mussa on August 08, 2007, 04:38:24 PM
Oh my I dn't think this was mentioned!

Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski

John Goodman - Walter Sobchak - The Big Lebowski
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on August 08, 2007, 04:51:30 PM
Speaking of The Big Lebowski, I'm going to nominate rouhgly 85% of Steve Buscemi performances for this list.  He basically always plays Steve Buscemi, yes, but he rocks at it.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: PhillyPhanInDC on August 08, 2007, 04:57:44 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on August 08, 2007, 10:24:37 AM
Mister funny man.

Forgot that one.


Eddie Murphy in Raw.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Phanatic on August 08, 2007, 04:59:31 PM
Fletch
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: phattymatty on August 08, 2007, 05:51:19 PM
screech in saved by the smell
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: General_Failure on August 08, 2007, 05:54:26 PM
The chick from Saved By the Bell who did Showgirls.
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: Munson on August 08, 2007, 06:11:41 PM
(http://www.friendsofjane.com/images/MovieStills/WeddingCrashers/VinceVaughn_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Movie Characters
Post by: MadMarchHare on August 08, 2007, 06:50:10 PM
Quote from: mussa on August 07, 2007, 04:01:00 PM
Bruce Willis - John Smith - Last Man Standing

AAAHH!   An absolutely forgettable attempt to remake A Fistful of Dollars.  With horrible results.  Jesus.