Top Ten Tuesdays

[Prince_Vajda]

Coolest Film Characters

In no particular order.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix in Commando (1985)
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Robert de Niro as Sam in Ronin (1998)
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Clint Eastwood as The Stranger in High Plains Drifter (1973)
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Milla Jovovich as Project Alice in Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
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Ryan O'Neal as The Driver in The Driver (1978)
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Jane Russell as Calamity Jane in The Paleface (1948)
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Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo in Rambo (2008)
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Jason Statham as Chev Chelios in Crank: High Voltage (2009)
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Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct (1992)
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Donald Sutherland as Oddball in Kelly's Heroes (1970)
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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Wes

Dr. Kyojō Niide (Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard)
Trapper John McIntyre (Elliot Gould, MASH)
Yang Hui-zhen (Hsu Feng, A Touch of Zen), pictured below
Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig, Daughters of Darkness)
Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid)
Kowalski (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point)
Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider, Sorcerer)
Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen, Apocalypse Now)
John Ryder (Rutger Hauer, The Hitcher)
Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro, Heat)

Originally Posted by Wes

Susan's point is well made. I caught a chunk of Olympus Has Fallen on TV recently and the gun play in the film was totally gratuitous to the point where I was cringing. Okay, hardly a film of quality like Hardboiled, but I couldn't help thinking this was the last thing a trigger happy society needed. For years I thought James Cameron's pacifist Terminator in Judgement Day was ridiculous but 26 years later, I can better appreciate his decision...

Having said that you clearly find it acceptable to murder a young woman and bathe in her blood, string someone up between two vehicles and tear them in two, drive at ridiculous speed causing numerous accidents, oh and not forgetting to rob a bank in downtown LA and have a huge shoot out in the street.

Sorry Wes, your argument doesn't really hold up.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Having said that you clearly find it acceptable to murder a young woman and bathe in her blood, string someone up between two vehicles and tear them in two, drive at ridiculous speed causing numerous accidents, oh and not forgetting to rob a bank in downtown LA and have a huge shoot out in the street.

Sorry Wes, your argument doesn't really hold up.

Good point, well made.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Top 10 Coolest Movie Characters

James Bond - James Bond series (1962–)
Harry Callaghan - Dirty Harry series (1971-1988)
Rick Blaine - Casablanca (1942)
Nick Charles - The Thin Man series (1934-47)
Indiana Jones - Indiana Jones adventures (1981-2008)
Catwoman - Batman Returns (1992)
Wolverine - X-Men series (2000 -)
Han Solo - Star Wars series (1977–2015)
Lt. Morris Schaffer - Where Eagles Dare (1968)*
Philip Marlowe - The Big Sleep (1946)

Listed on any other day -

Inigo Montoya - The Princess Bride (1987)
Walker - Point Blank (1967)
Withnail - Withnail & I (1987)
The Man With No Name - The Dollars series.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Top 10 Coolest Movie Characters

Nick Charles - The Thin Man series (1934-47)

Ooh, I feel an amendment to my list may be needed.

I just realised I also missed Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Ooh, I feel an amendment to my list may be needed.

I just realised I also missed Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon.

Yeah...Marlowe or Spade i couldn't decide either.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Yeah...Marlowe or Spade i couldn't decide either.

It's probably possible to do a top 10 from films noir and neo-noir – I should really have put Rick Deckard in my list.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Having said that you clearly find it acceptable to murder a young woman and bathe in her blood, string someone up between two vehicles and tear them in two, drive at ridiculous speed causing numerous accidents, oh and not forgetting to rob a bank in downtown LA and have a huge shoot out in the street.

Sorry Wes, your argument doesn't really hold up.

Well, you've handed me my ass fair and square...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Wes

Well, you've handed me my ass fair and square...

What a line!

Proper made me laugh there. Wes.

[bleakshaun]

Tequila - Hardboiled
Herbert West - Re-animator
Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Mr Blonde - Reservoir Dogs
Johnny - The Room
Edward Lionheart - Theatre of Blood
Imperiator Furiosa - Mad Max
Jack Burton - Big Trouble in Little China
Tony Montana - Scarface
Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction

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