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Your favorite military roles
Posted on 4/7/13 at 11:11 am
Posted on 4/7/13 at 11:11 am
List your favorite characters from military movies.
My top two:
Nick Nolte as Lt. Col. Gordon Tall in The Thin Red Line
Sam Elliott as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley in We Were Soldiers
My top two:
Nick Nolte as Lt. Col. Gordon Tall in The Thin Red Line
Sam Elliott as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley in We Were Soldiers
Posted on 4/7/13 at 11:17 am to Escobar600
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favorite
quote:
The Thin Red Line
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Posted on 4/7/13 at 11:26 am to Escobar600
quote:
Sam Elliott as Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley in We Were Soldiers
What are you, a God damn weatherman?
2nd place:
Posted on 4/7/13 at 11:30 am to Escobar600
George C. Scott - Patton (the feature film, not that crap they put on television years later)
Jack Nicholson - COL Nathan Jessup - A Few Good Men
Clint Eastwood - Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway - Heartbreak Ridge
Eric Bana - Hoot - Blackhawk Down
Lee Ermey - every film, television show or other media in which he has appeared, chiefly Full Metal Jacket
Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother - Full Metal Jacket
James Whitmore, Jr. - Lieutenant Archer - The Boys in Company C
Dean Jagger - MAJ/LTC Stovall - Twelve O'Clock High
John Wayne - virtually every military role he played, particularly SGT Stryker - Sands of Iwo Jima
Anthony Hopkins - COL John Frost - A Bridge Too Far
Sean Connery - Major General Roy Urquhart - A Bridge Too Far
James Caan - SSG Eddie Dohun - A Bridge Too Far
Donald Sutherland - Oddball - Kelly's Heroes
Don Rickles - Crapgame - Kelly's Heroes
Telly Savalas - Big Joe - Kelly's Heroes
That's a start. Give me some time and I could probably come up with about 50 more.
Jack Nicholson - COL Nathan Jessup - A Few Good Men
Clint Eastwood - Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway - Heartbreak Ridge
Eric Bana - Hoot - Blackhawk Down
Lee Ermey - every film, television show or other media in which he has appeared, chiefly Full Metal Jacket
Adam Baldwin - Animal Mother - Full Metal Jacket
James Whitmore, Jr. - Lieutenant Archer - The Boys in Company C
Dean Jagger - MAJ/LTC Stovall - Twelve O'Clock High
John Wayne - virtually every military role he played, particularly SGT Stryker - Sands of Iwo Jima
Anthony Hopkins - COL John Frost - A Bridge Too Far
Sean Connery - Major General Roy Urquhart - A Bridge Too Far
James Caan - SSG Eddie Dohun - A Bridge Too Far
Donald Sutherland - Oddball - Kelly's Heroes
Don Rickles - Crapgame - Kelly's Heroes
Telly Savalas - Big Joe - Kelly's Heroes
That's a start. Give me some time and I could probably come up with about 50 more.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:01 pm to Ace Midnight
Sutherland in "Kelly's Heroes" is just pure genius.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:19 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:
That's a start. Give me some time and I could probably come up with about 50 more.
Typically favorite doesn't mean all the ones you can come up with.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:24 pm to jacks40
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Typically favorite doesn't mean all the ones you can come up with.
Uh - those are my favorites - off the top of my head. I could have done 40 or 50 from Blackhawk Down and A Bridge Too Far, alone, if I was naming "all I can come up with".
This post was edited on 4/7/13 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:39 pm to Escobar600
Richard "Dick" Winters, Band of Brothers
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:47 pm to Escobar600
The Rock as Roadblock- G.I. Joe
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:48 pm to Escobar600
Kirk Douglas as Col. Dax in Paths of Glory. Smart and tortured with incredible integrity.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 12:51 pm to Peazey
quote:
Paths of Glory
Kubrick
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Posted on 4/7/13 at 1:39 pm to Ace Midnight
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George C. Scott - Patton (the feature film, not that crap they put on television years later)
Jack Nicholson - COL Nathan Jessup - A Few Good Men
Clint Eastwood - Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway - Heartbreak Ridge
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Posted on 4/7/13 at 1:40 pm to Peazey
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Kirk Douglas as Col. Dax in Paths of Glory.
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Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall) - Apocalypse Now
General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) were both FANTASTIC in their comedic roles in Dr. Strangelove.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 2:04 pm to Escobar600
James Ransone as Cpl Josh Ray Person in Generation Kill.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 2:12 pm to Escobar600
Just kidding.
Still kidding
Genius!
Why you no be serious?
shot down... over the Sea of Japan. It spun in ... there were no survivors.
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Hogan!
Surprise surprise suprise.
All kidding aside, the TV winner.
Posted on 4/7/13 at 2:34 pm to Escobar600
Anything by Jack Hawkins
General Allenby (Lawrence of Arabia)
Quintus Arrius (Ben_Hur)
Major Warden (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Pharaoh Khufu (Land of the Pharaohs)
Captain Marlow (Lord Jim)
General Allenby (Lawrence of Arabia)
Quintus Arrius (Ben_Hur)
Major Warden (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Pharaoh Khufu (Land of the Pharaohs)
Captain Marlow (Lord Jim)
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