The Greatest Cinematic Hero

Playboy · 17-04-2005 3:26pm #1

Who in your opinion is your no.1 hero from the movies. I dont just mean comic book heros ... I want to hear everyone from Tony Montana to Rocky Bilbao.

Mickeroo · 17-04-2005 5:09pm

Ash from evil dead! Groovy!

Kevin_rc_ie · 17-04-2005 5:15pm

Hey great thread.

Maximus from Gladiator (Russel Crowe).

Yoda from Star Wars.

Cameron Poe from Con Air

Ah there's loads to choose from.

p~b · 17-04-2005 6:54pm

indiana jones

quarryman · 17-04-2005 6:57pm

The Californian Governer.

steveland? · 17-04-2005 7:30pm

Mickeroo wrote:

Ash from evil dead! Groovy!

Agreed. "Gimme some sugar baby"

acri · 17-04-2005 7:38pm

agreed, Ash rules. what about John McClain? crap movies i know, but you still love to watch em.

steveland? · 17-04-2005 7:54pm

acri wrote:

what about John McClain?

Never EVER describe Die Hard as a crap movie....

acri · 17-04-2005 8:01pm

steveland? wrote:

Never EVER describe Die Hard as a crap movie....

i just meant that, as far as film-making goes, they aint the greatest. dont get me wrong, ive watched Die Hard with a Vengence till my eyes bled and i love it to death, but man, what no-brainers. poifect popcorn movies.

Rhyme · 17-04-2005 8:55pm

Ernest

Karl Hungus · 17-04-2005 9:34pm

Takeshi Kitano, because he absolutely drips cool no matter what his role.

Gotta love Ash though.

Pigman II · 17-04-2005 11:10pm

acri wrote:

Die Hard with a Vengence ....what no-brainers.

What are you talking about! Die Hard 3 has the 'water jug puzzle' in it! Somehow I couldn't see set-piece popping up in a Steven Seagal gurn-fest anytime soon. Simple enough to solve tbh, but I liked that they got it in there all the same.

Greatest hero = Indiana Jones (or John Cusack in any film he's got a screenplay credit for)

KdjaCL · 17-04-2005 11:42pm

Napoelan Dynamite.

A hero for all.

kdjac

18-04-2005 12:09am

Oldboy
Dae-Su is a fantastic hero....

Mac from The Thing.
Preston from Equilibrium (****s all over Neo imho)
Popeye Doyle from the French Connection (based on a real person)

Two that stand out in mind...

Charles Bronson as the "Harmonica man" in Once upon a time in the west...If you havent seen the film, I dont want to ruin it, lets just say the plot builds right up for a meeting with two men (no cliches here), only one will live... and such is the story and acting that you dont really know until its all over in a flash

My alltime fave is "Blondie" or "The man with no name" from The Good, the bad & the ugly.... although the film doesnt protray a hero in a sense of full and decent morality.. the ending shows how "good" Eastwoods character is..

These picks are complete biased due to my love of westerns and subsequently Leone's works... If we grew playing cowboys and indians, cops & robbers... then these are the hero's that we have idoliolised (sp?) from our childhood years...

As for all the pressure, angst & horror that happens in our teenage years... Napoelan Dynamite is truely a hero for all

Chad ghostal · 18-04-2005 12:19am

Chow yun fat -
Or
Steve mcqueen

maaayyybe john mclaine or indy if the other two were somehow outed as trainspotters or something..

eyefordamnation · 18-04-2005 6:15pm

Scarface! Dont tell me you weren't rooting for Al too!?

Playboy · 18-04-2005 7:46pm

Teddy in A.I.

Shrimp · 18-04-2005 7:57pm

Gandalf.. that scene in the two towers when he said to Aragorn, Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East. And then when all the orcs are like breaking into helms deep.. the it's just DIN DINA DAAAAAAAAA GANDALF... oh he kick ass... besides from that..

TYLER DURDEN is a bit of a slickster in fight club..

em there are loads more..