Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Best all-time movie badass?

Think hard about the "coolest" and "badest" movie actor of all-time. Who do you say?

A few that come to mind for me.

Steve McQueen
Charles Bronson
Lee Van Cleef
Steven Segal (ok....stop laughing)


My vote:

Clint Eastwood.....one bad mofo....in westerns and cop movies.

Toshiro Mifune, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood

Seagal sucks, imho

David Prowse

Seagal sucks, imho
He was only there as an example of what I was thinking of. Personally, I think the guy's the worse actor since William Shatner.

Bruce Campbell

this.... is my BOOM stick!

Clint Eastwood.....Sylvester Stallone maybe?

Toshiro Mifune
Lee Marvin
Clint Eastwood
Steve McQueen
Charles Bronson
Lee Van Cleef

The discussion ended at Lee Van Cleef, What are you all still hanging around for? :D

Samuel L Jackson.

Christopher Walken (King of NY and At Close Range)

Vigo Mortensen was great in A History of Violence and Eric Bana should win for his bad-ass performance in Munich.

Godzilla

Christopher Walken (King of NY and At Close Range)
Aaaaah....good answer. One of those you may not immediately think of, but he has definitely had some great badass roles (and carried them off quite nicely).

Vigo Mortensen was great in A History of Violence and Eric Bana should win for his bad-ass performance in Munich.

What about 'Black Hawk Down' or 'Chopper'

Clit Eastwood & Samuel L.

YEAH!!!

Cagney

Bruce Lee... he was small, but fierce. My all time favorite.

Others:

Clint Eastwood
Chuck Norris
"Arnold"
Vin Diesel
Sylvester Stallone
Russel Crowe in "Gladiator"
Samuel L. Jackson

Another guy who is bad-@ss for an older dude is Gene Hackman.

da turminator!!! ya!!!

Eastwood! He's is the man.

Jack Palance.

Bruce Lee of course!

Jack Palance.

I thought of Jack Palance as well. He really started the whole bad men wear black in his ground-breaking role in Shane

Lee Van cleef. His headstone is inscribed: "The Best of The Bad". I agree. One scary looking mofo.


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Let's not forget Jean Reno for his roles in Nikita and Leon.

Lee Marvin.

Also Michael Caine in Get Carter.

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Behold, the wisdom and power of the Chuck Norris...

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

When Chuck Norris has sex with a man, it is not because he is gay, but because he has run out of women.

MacGyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but Chuck Norris can kill him and take it.

Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till.
" After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

Chuck Norris only masturbates to pictures of Chuck Norris.

Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

Chuck Norris appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick.
When
asked about this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."

Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.

Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse kick related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.

Filming on location for Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a stillborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub. Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking its neck, to remind the crew once more that Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away.

Chuck Norris's girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then shouted, "HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!" and ripped out her throat. Holding his girlfriend's bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, "Don't !&$% with Chuck!" Two years and five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of "beard". Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day.
The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus' obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.

To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and acquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.

There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris does not have AIDS but he gives it to people anyway.

Chuck Norris uses ribbed condoms inside out, so he gets the pleasure.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard. There is only another fist.

Chuck Norris once lined up to kick the winning field goal of a high school football game. When the football went flat, he persuaded the referees to let him kick the field goal with a 3 month old child.
Chuck roundhouse kicked the baby 60 yards through the uprights and then proceeded to bang every girl in the stadium.

The original theme song to the Transformers was actually "Chuck Norris--more than meets the eye, Chuck Norris--robot in disguise," and starred Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger who defended the earth from drug-dealing Decepticons and could turn into a pick-up. This was far too much awesome for a single show, however, so it was divided.

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axels, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.

It was once believed that Chuck Norris actually lost a fight to a pirate, but that is a lie, created by Chuck Norris himself to lure more pirates to him. Pirates never were very smart.

Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage. We know this beverage as Red Bull

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "booya".

Chuck Norris can mathematically make two wrongs equal a right.

When Chuck Norris's wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, "Don't worry about it honey," and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, "Never question Chuck Norris."

The quickest way to a man's heart is with Chuck Norris's fist.

Chuck Norris died ten years ago, but the Grim Reaper can't get up the courage to tell him.

Chuck Norris won 'Jumanji' without ever saying the word. He simply beat the living **** out of everything that was thrown at him, and the game forfeited.

Chuck Norris frequently signs up for beginner karate classes, just so he can "accidentally" beat the **** out of little kids.

Jesus' Birthday isn't December 25 but Chuck Norris once sent him a birthday card for that day, Jesus was too scared to tell Chuck the truth.
That's why we celebrate Christmas.

After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more "humane".

Similar to a Russian Nesting Doll, if you were to break Chuck Norris open you would find another Chuck Norris inside, only smaller and angrier.

Chuck Norris once went to a frat party, and proceeded to roundhouse every popped collar in sight. He then drank three kegs and **** on their floor, just because he's Chuck Norris.

Bruce Lee... he was small, but fierce. My all time favorite.
I almost put Bruce Lee....he is definitely my favorite all-time butt kicker. But I decided not to include him because he didn't play the "badass" role. He was always the good guy who didn't want to fight until forced, but when he was forced he was the badest mofo around!!

I would say Ricardo Montalban in The Wrath of Khan, but Chuck Norris might give me a roundhouse kick. So I'll say Willy Wonka...

Bill Paxton as Corporal Hicks in Aliens.

What about Harrison Ford? Jack Ryan aside, he was Han Solo and Indiana jones!

Roseanne has a really bad ass....................

Roseanne has a really bad ass....................

Yes, but does she do movies? :eek:

Denzel Washington.... now before you say "what the **** are you talkin' about?" let me tell you about Man on Fire. In this movie he taped a bad guy's hands to the steering wheel of a car and started asking him questions about a kidnapping. If the guy didn't answer his question he cut off one of the guys fingers then cuterized the stub with the cigar lighter from the car. After cutting off two of the guys fingers he shot him and pushed the car over a cliff.

That was nothing compared to putting C4 up another bad guy's butt and blowing him up. And Denzel was the good guy!

James Coburn as Derek Flint

um, Bruce Willis as John McClane? Come on people!

Jet Li

Mifune fo sho

Okay, how about...

Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin (they nuked an entire planet, eh?)
Jason Voorhees (how many coeds did he cut up?)
Michael Myers (ditto on the coeds)
The title character in Jaws

Beat Takeshi (Takeshi Kitano) in Brother and Zatoichi

Upon the advise of a friend, Columbo.

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

Bruce Lee and Steve McQueen as the coolest. Bruce Lee actually could beat your a$$ and Steve McQueen did all his own riding in the Great Escape. And c'mon, the car chase sequence in Bullitt is effin' awesome. Popeye Doyle's driving in the French Connection is a close second.

Badasses? James Cagney over everyone. "I'm on top of the world Ma!"