re: If you can only watch movies from one actor, past or present, who ya got?

Posted by iwyLSUiwy

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 6:41 pm to lsufan9193969700

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1. Harrison Ford: SW trilogy, Indy trilogy, The Fugitive, Air Force One...

An most importantly Blade Runner.

Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 7:08 pm to Sublime

Christopher Walken and those movies-great choice.

My pick is Denzel

Man on Fire
Deja Vu
Inside Job
He got Game
The Hurricane
Remember the Titans
Antwone Fisher
Malcolm X
Training Day
Out of Time
American Gangster
The Book of Eli
Glory
The Pelican Brief
The Mighty Quinn
Crimson Tide
Philadelphia
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Manchurian Candidate
A Soldier's Story
St. Elsewhere

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Posted by iwyLSUiwy

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 7:11 pm to Byron Bojangles III

LEGIT

Posted by Tigris

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 7:13 pm to iwyLSUiwy

Probably Robert Duvall who has been very versatile.

Jack Reacher all the way back to To Kill a Mockingbird. Notable others in backwards chronology:

Crazy Heart
The Road
Thank You For Smoking
Secondhand Lions
Open Range
Gods and Generals
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Deep Impact
The Apostle
Sling Blade
Falling Down
The Handmaid's Tale
Colors
Belizaire the Cajun
The Natural
The Great Santini
Apocalypse Now
The Eagle Has Landed
Network
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Godfather II
The Conversation
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The Godfather
MASH
True Grit
Bullitt

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 7:24 pm to Tigris

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 9:17 pm to iwyLSUiwy

Mel Gibson. Cant believe he hasnt been mentioned.

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 9:22 pm to Breesus

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Dustin Hoffman.

Watching the Kennedy Center Honors, I just kept saying, "Jesus Christ, Dustin Hoffman's been in a lot of good movies."

Posted by tigerman03

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 9:28 pm to iwyLSUiwy

How about Kevin Bacon

Animal House
Friday the 13th
Diner
Footloose
White Water Summer
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Tremors
Flatliners
JFK
A Few Good Men
The River Wild
Murder in the First
Apollo 13
Sleepers
Wild Things
Mystic River
Frost/Nixon
X-men First Class

Pretty solid IMO.

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 9:42 pm to iwyLSUiwy

John Charles Carter: AKA Charlton Heston.

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 9:44 pm to iwyLSUiwy

Harrison Ford

Star Wars + Indiana Jones + everything else

ETA: and Blade Runner of course

I see someone beat me to it

This post was edited on 1/2/13 at 9:47 pm

Posted by iwyLSUiwy

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 9:54 pm to tigerman03

I'm not gonna lie to you, I did not see kevin bacon being mentioned in this thread.

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 11:40 pm to iwyLSUiwy

You can approach this three ways:

1) who is in lots of movies as to not get bored?
2) who is the most frequently occurring actor in movies I like?
3) what actor will I not get bored of.

The answer to all of those is Bruce Willis.

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Posted by iwyLSUiwy

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 11:48 pm to Pectus

quote:
2) who is the most frequently occurring actor in movies I like?

Probably what I based mine off of the most. That and does he cover multiple genres. 100 dramas would get old.

quote:
The answer to all of those is Bruce Willis

I wouldn't go that far. Mainly because I'm not crazy about the Die Hard movies. But Sin City would be huge for me. Fifth Element would be huge for you

Matt Damon deserves consideration

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Posted on 1/2/13 at 11:50 pm to Pectus

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Posted on 1/3/13 at 12:07 am to iwyLSUiwy

quote:
Fifth Element would be huge for you

This is what I was thinking about.

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Posted on 1/3/13 at 12:10 am to iwyLSUiwy

Tom Hanks or Bruce Willis

Posted by Mr. Pink

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Posted on 1/3/13 at 12:18 am to iwyLSUiwy

Billy Bob Thornton

Posted by Alan Garner

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Posted on 1/3/13 at 12:28 am to Pectus

denzel, walken, jimmy stewart, damon, duvall, hoffman

cant really go wrong with any of those

it would probably be hanks or damon personally (perhaps its re-watch-ability)

bachelors party
man with one red shoe
volunteers
money pit
dragnet
big
the burbs
joe vs. the volcano
league of their own
sleepless in seattle
philly
forrest gump
apollo 13
toy story (2, 3)
that thing you do
saving private ryan
green mile
cast away
road to perdition
catch me if you can
the terminal

field of dreams (supposedly)
courage under fire
chasing amy
good will hunting
saving private ryan
rounders
dogma
the talented mr ripley
the legend of bagger vance
finding forrester
oceans eleven (twelve, thirteen)
the majestic
confessions of a dangerous mind
bourne identity (supremacy, ultimatum)
eurotrip
syriana
the departed
ponyo
invictus
green zone
true grit
the adjustment bureau

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