Damn! I had Quint next on my list! Good selection, Mountain Biker. Oh, and incidentally, he was played by Robert Shaw.

Leon.

Suprmallet
1. Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski, 1998)

KillerCannibal
1. R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell, The Thing, 1982)
2. Godzilla (various actors, Godzilla franchise, 1954-1995, 1999-2004)

sauce07
1. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver, Alien franchise, 1979-97)
2. Tony "Iron Man" Stark (Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man franchise, 2008-present)

Osiris3657
1. The Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood, Dollars Trilogy, 1964-66)
2. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale, American Psycho, 2000)

Tarantino
1. Batman (various actors, Batman franchise, 1966-2008)
2. Leon (Jean Reno, Leon, 1994)

Mountain Biker
1. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator franchise, 1984-2003)
2. Sam Quint (Robert Shaw, Jaws, 1975)


Fist of Doom
1. Darth Vader (David Prowse/Hayden Christensen and James Earl Jones, Star Wars franchise, 1977-2005)
2. Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York, 2002)

cardsfan111
1. Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones franchise, 1981-2008)
2. Superman (various actors, Superman franchise, 1951-2006)

cleaver
1. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando & Robert De Niro, The Godfather I & II, 1972 & 1974)
2. The Joker (Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamill, Cesar Romero, Batman franchise, 1966-2008)

wishbone
1. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, Fight Club, 1999)
2. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962)

MinLShaw
1. James Bond (various actors, James Bond franchise, 1962-present)
2. Count Dracula (various actors, various films & franchises, 1923-present)

adrenaline78
1. Hannibal Lecter (various actors, Hannibal franchise, 1986-2007)
2. Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams (Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead Franchise, 1981-1992)

orangecrush
1. John McClane (Bruce Willis, Die Hard franchise, 1988-2007)
2. Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons Movie, 2007)

RoboDad
1. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, 2003-present)
2. Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen, Toy Story franchise, 1995-2010)

Bobby Shalom
1. Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver, 1976)
2. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford, Blade Runner, 1982)

Groucho
1. Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx, Duck Soup, 1933)
2. Frau Blucher (Cloris Leachman, Young Frankenstein, 1974)

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Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale, American Psycho, 2000)

Maybe the best picture anyone has chosen to represent their character in this thread yet. Good call!

Damn, I was going to grab Patrick Bateman. Oh well.

Tony "I Am Iron Man" Stark (Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man, 2008)

Godzilla (Various actors, various films, 1954-1995, 1999-2004)

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* Please note this excludes the U.S. version since that large iguana was Godzilla in name only and true fans don't consider it canon.

Eh this is a pretty risky pick, but it's your call.

Risky, really? I've always found Godzilla to be a popular movie character. Or should we just stick to humans?

well it's not that he isn't a popular movie character, but there isn't much acting involved, it's a guy in a suit. You don't have to pick humans. For example all those who have picked animated characters have voice actors behind them, so those are perfectly fine.

Another good choice could be Gollum, since Andy Serkis did act for that character.

That's just my view, maybe the voters will overlook it.

Ok, gotcha. I didn't know we were focusing more on the acting and less on the character. I was viewing this as a popularity contest more than anything. Still, I'll stick with my choice.

Based on the voting of prior competitions, it will be a popularity contest, and most decisions will be made based on 1-2 characters instead of the full list. Additionally DVDTalk draft voters have short memories, and like characters released in recent films over anything more than five years old.

I guess this doesn't help your cause

Which Buster Keaton character are you going to choose?

And Groucho is right about 1-2 favorites over the whole list.

I understood this to be a character-based competition, not an acting performance-based competition.

The performance adds depth to the character. Like The Hulk is a great character, but he has no depth in the movies because the performance is limited because he can't talk and he's mad all the time. And Alec Baldwin is great in Glengarry Glen Ross, but his character has zero background other than his watch costs more than your car. So it's a combination IMO.

It should have been assumed that whomever you pick has a human performance behind the character. A character that has some human emotions and traits. MinLShaw if you want to draft the T-Rex from Jurassic Park or something, be my guest...you'll probably lose 1st round though.

On this forum, anybody who's list isn't stocked with Joss Whedon and/or Dark Knight characters will lose first round.

Not to be snotty, but I'm over the age of seven. I understand that an actor plays a character. I'm not likely to cast a vote for Godzilla, but that has to do with the fact I've never really watched any of those movies. I understand, though, the appeal that the character has to its audience. People have enthusiastically paid to see Godzilla movies...to see Godzilla, the character. The appeal there has always been Godzilla. Why should the character Godzilla be frowned upon for not being a demonstration of memorable acting?

I'm being glib but one thing you need to realize Osiris3657 is that everybody will be voting on their own criteria. Like I said earlier, most will look for their favorite one or two characters, and favor the lists that have those. Others will look for well-rounded lists. Some may look for characters that had the best performances. Etc.

Long story short: Godzilla is as good of a pick as any made thus far, IMHO. However, I will not be voting for KillerCannibal's list since he didn't use the name "Gojira".

I was more surprised by the R.J. MacReady pick than Godzilla.
And Joss Whedon wrote Toy Story - who knew?

I know! That really took me by surprise when we watched the Blu-ray. I never paid any attention in the previous times I watched it.

Mac and 'zilla are great picks, IMO.

I'd have a hard time voting against them if we had to vote now

No umlaut, no vote Herr Groucho.