Great curmudgeon's in movies

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06-26-16, 07:53 PM

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Great curmudgeon's in movies

Walter Matthau in The Bad News Bears, Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets come to mind... others?

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06-26-16, 08:04 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

That kiddo in Dutch (1991).

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06-26-16, 08:10 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Jack in About Schmidt.

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06-26-16, 08:54 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
Bruce Dern in Nebraska

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06-26-16, 09:17 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Richard Dreyfuss in What About Bob?

James Cann in Elf

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06-26-16, 10:50 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

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Bruce Dern in Nebraska

How about Bruce Dern in The Burbs. That was some curmudgeonly comedic gold!

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06-27-16, 12:19 AM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

I'll be "that guy" and ask why put an apostrophe in the thread title.

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06-27-16, 12:45 AM

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06-27-16, 02:16 AM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

I guess Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys qualifies.

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06-27-16, 04:55 AM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

What, do you guys never see black-and-white movies?

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06-27-16, 05:29 AM

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I'll be "that guy" and ask why put an apostrophe in the thread title.

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06-27-16, 01:21 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Carl in UP.

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06-27-16, 01:29 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Dr. McCoy - Old and New Star Trek films.

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06-27-16, 01:30 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Burgess Meredith in Rocky

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06-27-16, 03:01 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo

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06-27-16, 05:08 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

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Walter Brennan in Rio Bravo

Dagnab it, I was a GOIN' to say that, if'n you'd just give me a CHANCE once in a while to get two words out!

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06-27-16, 05:41 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

The old master who did eyebrow magic in the original Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain.

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06-28-16, 10:47 AM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Robert Duvall in Open Range, Lonesome Dove, etc. and Duvall and Michael Caine in Secondhand Lions.

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06-28-16, 11:46 AM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

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Robert Duvall in Open Range, Lonesome Dove, etc. and Duvall and Michael Caine in Secondhand Lions.

Duvall is often a curmudgeon (one of the best actually), but I wouldn't consider him one in Lonesome Dove.

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Bill Murray, in that movie with Bill Murray.

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06-29-16, 01:14 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Walter Brennan in Red River
Walter Huston in Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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06-29-16, 01:42 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

Tommy Lee Jones in "The Thing Called Life"

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06-29-16, 07:32 PM

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Re: Great curmudgeon's in movies

I happened to channel surf and come upon TCM today and there in the same scene were Lionel Barrymore and Edward Arnold yelling at each other, with Gabby Hayes looking on. But then Nelson Eddy came in and ruined it. The film was LET FREEDOM RING (1939).

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