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Old 04-30-03, 06:12 AM
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Name your top 5 favorite "action" movie heroes of all times....

The topic is simple, choose your favorite "action" movie hero. As you can probably already tell, I am a huge fan of the action movie genre. If you take a look at my collection, you would see that my dvd collection holds mostly "action" films.

Here are my top 5 favorite action heroes in no order:

Sylvester Stallone
(I can go on and on of why I like Sly so much but I'm too lazy to now, maybe later)

Arnold Schwarzeneger
(Another one of my favorites, now that you think about it, Arnold's career started going downhill since "End of Days", now let's hope T-3 will do well)

Jean Claudde Van Damme
(I don't see why everyone hates him so much either, he isn't that bad, he had made many cool action flicks like "Bloodsport", "Time Cop", "Replicant", "Universal Soldier", "The Quest", "Nowhere To Run", etc. Oh, by the way, Jean Claude is now working on a new movie called "Hell" which is currently in production)

Bruce Lee
(This man was amazing and an "action" movie legend, I love Bruce Lee movies)

Bo Svenson
(In the "Walking Tall" trilogy I consider this man an action movie hero, other than this trilogy, he's made some cool action flicks in the old days too, I like him much more than Joe Don Baker from the first "Walking Tall" movie)

I do like a lot of other action movie heros but those 5 I listed above is who I like the most.

Name yours.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mark Dacascos

Brandon Lee

Christian Bale

Keanu Reeves

I love kung-fu, what can I say?
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Even if they're supposed to be 'crap', I'll usually watch an action flick with:

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sylvester Stallone
Bruce Willis
Wesley Snipes
Jet Li
Old 04-30-03, 09:40 AM
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1. John Wayne
2. Harrison Ford
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Sean Connery
5. Errol Flynn
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In no particular order:

Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis
Mel Gibson
Sylvester Stallone
Sean Connery
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Im totally biased here but...


1. Arnold- No one delievers neck snappings a plenty with classic one-liners like em!

"Don't bug my friend, he's dead tired" - Commando

"Stick Around!" - Predator

"See you at the Pahty Richter!" - The Running Man

"Crom, if you do not help me, then to HELL with you!" - Conan


King Conan will ride again 2004! Thaw Mako out! The chronicler of Conan's adventures is needed!

CROM!


oh yeah moving on .....


2. The Master Bruce Lee - my god imagine the movies he would have made.

3. Harrison Ford - Han Solo, Deckard, and Indiana Jones - nuff said

4. Bruce Willis - John Mclane, and one of my favourite roles Corben Dallas!

5. Sven Ole Thorsen - the king of evil thug roles, enemy of Conan, the nemesis of Maximus, Jack Ryan's most recent bain, and countless other Mafia, Columbian Cartel, Street Thug, Barbarian roles.

Even in COKE commercials he plays a thug!

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Clint Eastwood
John Wayne
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis
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Arnold
Chow Yun Fat
Nicholas Cage (Sorry, but Face/Off and The Rock were excellent)
Jet Li
Keanu Reeves
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Sean Connery- #1 of course
Harison Ford- just for Indiana Jones
Bruce Willis- just for Die Hard
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Jackie Chan
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1. Clint Eastwood
2. Chow Yun Fat
3. Arnold (although his last few have not been good)
4. Keanu (I hate having him on here, but I like all his action movies)
5. Sigourney Weaver (only in a few, but great even in the bad ones)
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-Bruce Willis-John McClane.
-Harrison Ford-Indiana Jones.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger-The Terminator.
-Sigourney Weaver-Lt. Ellen Ripley
-Mel Gibson-Martin Riggs.
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Jackie Chan - his stunts make him #1 (action-wise)

Arnold Schwarzenegger - too many great action films to ignore (Predator, Terminator, Running Man, Total Recall, True Lies, Conan)

Harrison Ford - for Indiana and Star Wars alone (The Fugitive was pretty darn good too)

Sean Connery - by far the best 007 in my eyes

Bruce Willis - for Die Hard mostly
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Whats with all the guys? What about Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Lucy Liu? Also, Chow Yun Fat and Jet Li
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For female action movie heroes I would pick:

-Angelina Jolie for "Tomb Raider"
-Sigourney Weaver for "Alien"
-Michelle Yeoh (in anything she does)
-Pam Grier (in anything she does)
-Zhang Ziyi for "Crouching Tiger"
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The top one for me has to be Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
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Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis
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Chow Yun Fat - Amazing

Bruce Willis - Die Hard...'nuff said.

Steven Seagal - Loved his early stuff, how could you not?

Jet Li - No one is faster.

Keanu Reeves - Matrix, Speed...man...
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Harrison Ford & Bruce Willis would be my two favorites, I guess.
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Jet Li

Chow Yun Fat

Bruce Willis

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michelle Yeoh
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Scharwzenegger
Gibson
Willis
Yun-Fat
Cage
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Bruce Lee
Clint Eastwood
Jackie Chan
Chow Yun-Fat
Kurt Russell
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Bruce Willis
Arnold
Chow Yun Fat
Jackie Chan
Clint Eastwood

Also Keanu isnt exactly what I'd call an action star since Speed is more of a thriller than an action flick and Matrix was not really what Id call an action movie either.
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Arnold - Predator, Conan!

Sly Stallone - Rocky, Rocky 4, Rambo.

Mel Gibson - Mad Max, RoadWarrior, Braveheart

Bruce Willis - Die Hard, Armaggeddon, The Fifth Element

Bruce Lee - Enter The Muthafawking Dragon!
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1. Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry, Man with No Name westerns

2. Harrison Ford
Indiana Jones is THE action hero

3. Bruce Willis

4. Bruce Lee
- the dude was just plain and simple bad-ass

5. Mel Gibson
- Lethal Weapon, Mad Max

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