Your greatest on screen hero & why?

lorcan69

Hi all.
Just thinkin that this is most likely already done but who is your favourite on screen hero and why?

Up until a couple of months ago mine was Batman until Rob D Jr came along and blew me away with his outstanding performance as ironman. I think he's the best because well who else has a suit for every occasion and a mini arc reactor core in his chest to prevent him from dying??

I wanna hear your opinions on who you think is the best!!

Otis Driftwood

Jules Winfield (Sam Jackson Pulp Fiction) Cos he is just so fcuking cool,the hair,the suit,the "biblical" quote.Everything melds together.

Takuma Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba in the Street Fighter) He is the ultimate movie badass/anti hero. He would batter a woman if he thought she was asking for it,was a mercenery for hire and is just an asskicking machine.

Eric Draven (Brandon Lee in the Crow) What can I say that hasnt been already said?An extremely dark revenge/romance movie,iconic make up,a star making performance from Lee (ye can stick Heath Ledgers Joker)and of course Lee's last on screen performance.Near flawless IMO.

Samurai

buffy - she's a ride

Lamper.sffc

Leon in LEON.

"This is from Matilda"

"Sh*t"

BOOM

Absolute classic ending

calahans

The man with no name from Clint Eastwood cowboy movies. He couldn't be cooler...

I'd go with Ripley from Alien movies for female hero

Birneybau

Ash from the Evil Dead tilogy.

What a man!!

Groovy!

ziedth

Very Very good question,

General Maximus In Gladiator would have to be my number one.
Followed closely by Leonidios ( excuse spelling) from 300

sutty

Birneybau wrote: »

Ash from the Evil Dead tilogy.

What a man!!

Groovy!

Seconded

Hail to the King Babeh!

padz

Birneybau wrote: »

Ash from the Evil Dead tilogy.

What a man!!

Groovy!

love ash and also ripley from aliens 'get away from her you bi*ch

...i guess my own faves would have to be one of my fave films, 'midnight cowboy ,....dustin hoffman as rattso rizzo is superb 'hey im walkin here, im walkin here..' and jon voight (angelinas dad) as the hunky joe buck,...'yeehaw' is iconic aswell as the theme song :pac:'everybodys talkin at me'

Pigman II

Hitler in Downfall. Loving your work baby.

I also liked Ed Norton in American History 10. The way he protects his property by smashing that guys face into the sidewalk. Brought a tear to my eye.

ziedth

Pigman II wrote: »

Hitler in Downfall. Loving your work baby.

I also liked Ed Norton in American History 10. The way he protects his property by smashing that guys face into the sidewalk. Brought a tear to my eye.

I'm starting to see some sort of shape taking here Pigman, Will I hazzard a guess that you're biggest Villan is oscar schindler

Birneybau

sutty wrote: »

Seconded

Hail to the King Babeh!

THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK !!

HalloweenJack

Michael Caine in Get Carter. It's such a classy, powerful and real performance and he's the perfect anti-hero.

Popeye Doyle in the French Connection. Hilarious, edgy, determined. He's great.

ronnie3585

AC Slater.

Nuff said.

whaaames

paul newman as 'fast' eddie felson in the hustler...

amazingly cool man who made 9 ball pool, and drinking jts brown bourbon seem as cool as anything

tony1kenobi

Han Solo=Punch it Chewy.

or


Tyler Durden= I make and I sell soap.

Self explainatory I think.

The Don

Birneybau wrote: »

Ash from the Evil Dead tilogy.

What a man!!

Groovy!

Love Ash. Everything goes wrong for him except when he's fighting. Also Eric Draven and Leon.



My favourite would have to be Bruce Lee. Because everything he could do on screen, he could do off screen. Legend.

Black Swan

Dr John Nash (played by Russell Crowe) in "A Beautiful Mind." A brilliant intellect, who challenged the economic theory of his time (winning the Nobel Prize), while struggling and eventually learning to live with his mental illness.

LowOdour

Has to be Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China. No magical powers, no martial arts, a knife as a weapon. The man just got in there, no fear and fooked them baddies up....legend!

Tabnabs

Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke. What a guy!

Dragline: Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?
Luke: I thought it was a nice round number.

tonc76

Harry Callaghan of Dirty Harry fame

Callaghan learns he is being transferred to Personnel
Harry Callahan: Personnel? That's for assholes!
Capt McKay: I was in Personnel for ten years.
Harry Callahan: Yeah.

Callaghan hands in his badge
Harry Callahan: Here's a seven-point suppository, Captain.
Capt McKay: What did you say?
Harry Callahan: I said stick it in your ass.

JP Liz

Mal Reynolds and Jayne Cobb from Serenity

Snake Plissken from Escape from New York

lostexpectation

how old are you people?

eagle eye

Christopher Lambert as the Connor McLeod The Higlander.

jetfire

Ash from evil dead - "Shop smart. Shop S-Mart."

Han solo - "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side,kid."

Snake plissken - "Welcome to the human race."

killbillvol2

Lester Burnham.

ThOnda

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty.

Nevyn

Ripley.

Nolanger

Gandhi.

omahaid

Gene Hunt, life on mars, for the simple reason that if he was in charge, we would have no crime

bnt

Howard Roark in The Fountainhead. Someone who steadfastly refuses to compromise his vision, no matter what it costs him. You dare to alter the building I designed? Where did I put that dynamite..? :mad:

Pigman II

jetfire wrote: »

Han solo - "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side,kid."

Thing I like about that line is that in the next movie Empire Strikes Back Vader is able to just pull the blaster out of Hans hand.

cjmcork

The Gene Genie - cos he takes no sh1te

Ripley - cos she was the original female action hero

Jason Bourne - cos he'd kick nine kinds of sh1te out of James Bond without a single gadget

House - cos he doesn't care

Arnie in t2

DCI Jane Tennison - brilliant

President Bartlet...............what's next?

DazMarz

Popeye Doyle from The French Connection: "You ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?!"

and following closely behind is Oscar Madison from The Odd Couple.

"Hello; divorced, broke and sloppy...":D (replace divorced with single and that's me!)

Lundegaard

Arnie as John Matrix in Commando!

Doesn't take sh*t from nobody and is very funny also.

That movie always makes me smile

deathstarkiller

Even though Kurt Russel himself has said before in interviews one performance was a John Wayne impression and the other was Clint Eastwood my favourites would be Jack Burton and Snake Plissken.

I love both Escape movies. The first is a masterpiece, the second is a trashy sort of remake of the first but it has a certain charm and Snake makes the movie. It also has a fantastic ending. The trailer to it is still to this day one of my favourite movie trailers of all time. Still remember seeing it for the first time at the cinema and I had no idea there even was a new Snake movie. Ah the good old days, when you could actually be surprised by a trailer. Now we know everything that's coming thanks to the net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drOdRwD1JF0

Here's the New York trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mc0uD6_gUY

Here's good ole Jack's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOzFwd5DNA

Ruu_Old

Often overlooked, Donald Sutherland as Oddball in Kellys Heroes. Unpredictable character, well played.

left_behind

Arnies "Dutch" from Predator. It was like the magnificent seven with big ass guns. I loved it
Then they brought out "old painless"

Jarrath

Too many to choose from but here's some I can think of..

Jake and Elwood Blues - The Blues Brothers
Great music and these too really act like brothers...

Frank Drebbin - Naked Gun
Leslie Nielsen's best outing... I defy you not to laugh at this film..

The Dude and Walter - The Big Lebowski
John Goodmans best ever performance.. Jeff Bridges aint half bad either, just makes lazyness look cool...

Podge2k7

Fox Mulder
John McClain
Axel Foley

SlickRic

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because he lives in a pineapple under the sea.

what other reason would I need?

brennaldo

the zohan, you dont mess with him... lol

weemcd

leonardo di caprio - danny archer - blood diamond

cool motha

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Got to be Randal P. McMurphy.

me_right_one

lostexpectation wrote: »

how old are you people?

How old are you?

Indie18

I always like the Kyle Reese character from Terminator.

Liam O

Mark Wahlberg The Departed

'I'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy'

'Maybe, maybe not,maybe go **** yourself'

probably the best performance of the past few years, well imo anyway

Boo-yah

Liam O wrote: »

Mark Wahlberg The Departed

'I'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy'

'Maybe, maybe not,maybe go **** yourself'

probably the best performance of the past few years, well imo anyway

I thought it was a good performance but the best performance of the past few years? Hardly a stretch for Wahlberg to play a loudmouth Bostonian

Liam O

yeah I suppose it's just been a fair while since a gangster flick with memorable lines and he was killing line after line.

I should've said best supporting performances but then I suppose the Heath Ledger mob would complain

Sanjuro

The one... the only...



Except for that last POS film.

Bounty Hunter

One man deserves a mention

he 1. saved The President from being assassinated, stopped a nuclear bomb from going off, stopped a virus from infecting the world, stopped all US nuclear power plants blowing from up, discovered that the president was aiding terrorism and stoped him, stoped another 3 nuclear bombs from going off

That man of course is the person who has replaced Chuck Norris as the greatest on screen character (see thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054879929&page=3). I give you Jack Bauer


He also gave the world this

a true hero.

If you send someone to kill Jack Bauer, the only thing you've accomplished is supplying him a fresh set of weapons to kill you with.

When you open a can of whoop-ass, Jack Bauer jumps out.

Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.

You should drop Jack Bauer on the Island from lost, hed get all the answers you want and have it done in 24 hours.