Fav. T-Men Actors & Movies

[quote]knewsom wrote:
Shit, I’ll second Chow Yun Fat… badass who can act - rare.

Dolph Lungren? Westley Snipes? sure they’re huge, but come ON. The indigent bum who lives in my alley can act better.[/quote]

Who said anything about acting? My left ass cheek can act better than Dolph Lundgren, but that wasn’t the criteria.

In my post I was referring to actors who I deem “T-mannish”, and these two things are definitely testosterone-laden:

Killing somebody with a punch

Killing vampires with a bladed boomerang, sword, spikes, or anything else that can puncture flesh

Tom selleck in Magnum PI

Sly in Rocky

Vin Diesel in Pitch Black

Tom Cruise in Collateral


Showing my age here but John Wayne for me with Clint Eastwood a close second.
Wayne was awesome in The Quiet Man, McLintock, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Chisum, True Grit etc etc. He defined being a “mans’ man”.

There is an mp3 of him doing the rounds in the internet where he is pissed giving some University graduate speech - funny, but also stirring stuff. He really believed in America and being an American. In fact when he died (or just before) the US commissioned a gold medal with “John Wayne - American” written on it. I am not American, but I think any country would benefit from more people like him.

Bud Spencer - the big guy from the trinity brothers is also a favourite (was also an olympic swimmer too - apparently). The overhand punch to the head was a special.

[quote]jdrannin1 wrote:

Tom Cruise in Collateral
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did you really say tom cruise? please tell me it was a joke! anything… but him

[quote]stumpy wrote:
jdrannin1 wrote:

Tom Cruise in Collateral

did you really say tom cruise? please tell me it was a joke! anything… but him [/quote]

Dude, he WAS badass in Collateral. And even MORE so in Last Samurai.

oh, and speaking of which, let me add one more to the list of T-Men. Ken Watanabe.

The Rock in “The Rundown” and “Walking Tall”.
I really hope this guy can take over where Arnie left off. Well maybe not where Arnie left off…maybe take from Arnie after “True Lies”, before his stuff started going downhill.

[quote]knewsom wrote:
stumpy wrote:
jdrannin1 wrote:

Tom Cruise in Collateral

did you really say tom cruise? please tell me it was a joke! anything… but him

Dude, he WAS badass in Collateral. And even MORE so in Last Samurai.

oh, and speaking of which, let me add one more to the list of T-Men. Ken Watanabe.[/quote]

Yeh and did you see him on Oprah - rolls eyes…

[quote]swerven wrote:
knewsom wrote:
stumpy wrote:
jdrannin1 wrote:

Tom Cruise in Collateral

did you really say tom cruise? please tell me it was a joke! anything… but him

Dude, he WAS badass in Collateral. And even MORE so in Last Samurai.

oh, and speaking of which, let me add one more to the list of T-Men. Ken Watanabe.

Yeh and did you see him on Oprah - rolls eyes…

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lol - you watch “Oprah”? uhh, nah, bro, I didn’t see him on uh… Oprah…

ROTF

new favorite T-Man… OPRAH!

I’d second John Wayne. He’s the man. Clint Eastwood also. I think Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is the shit!

[quote]knewsom wrote:
swerven wrote:
knewsom wrote:
stumpy wrote:
jdrannin1 wrote:

Tom Cruise in Collateral

did you really say tom cruise? please tell me it was a joke! anything… but him

Dude, he WAS badass in Collateral. And even MORE so in Last Samurai.

oh, and speaking of which, let me add one more to the list of T-Men. Ken Watanabe.

Yeh and did you see him on Oprah - rolls eyes…

lol - you watch “Oprah”? uhh, nah, bro, I didn’t see him on uh… Oprah…

ROTF

new favorite T-Man… OPRAH![/quote]

Haha - you got me! But just to be clear I dont watch Oprah - ever.

Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, James Coburn all were great T-Men in the Magnificent Seven.

I’m gonna have to say Russell Crowe in Gladiator. Even though I don’t like the guy in real life, I think he had a hell of a performance in that movie. It’s one of the only movies that I can watch over and over again and still be amazed.

Jim Brown. Oh yeah.

Tommy Lee Jones in the Fugitive is my favourite movie character. He is just so cool. I first saw that movie when I was 11 and I think that was my first movie star crush.

Oh, Toshiro Mifune too, definitely. In fact, my all time fave.

I am also hoping for this.

[quote]Nards wrote:
The Rock in “The Rundown” and “Walking Tall”.
I really hope this guy can take over where Arnie left off. Well maybe not where Arnie left off…maybe take from Arnie after “True Lies”, before his stuff started going downhill.[/quote]

[quote]K-Narf wrote:
I’d second John Wayne. He’s the man. Clint Eastwood also. I think Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is the shit![/quote]

Fuck Hugh Jackman, too tall and too skinny to be Logan. We all know Glenn Danzig should have been Wolverine - too bad ol’ Glenn can’t get Satan to give him some acting skills… LOL

Anyway, here’s my list

Lee Marvin

Steve McQueen

The whole cast of “The Wild Bunch” - who the hell wouldn’t want to go out like Ernest Borgnine in that movie ?

The japanese actor in the “Shogun Assasins” series - beyond hardcore.

Sonny Chiba - just watch the first two ‘Street Fighters’ and you’ll see. Cross Bruce Lee with Charles Bronson and you’ll have an idea.

Gary Cooper

Sean Connery

Eastwood

young Pacino

Alain Delon in “Le Samourai” (that movie is PIMP)

Chow Yun-Fat (the Killer, Hard Boiled)

Arnold (before 1990)

Harrison Ford (as Han Solo and Indy)

Billy Dee Williams (the man)

Jim Brown (fuck, the whole cast of the Dirty Dozen, scholar, activist, multisport star, banged Raquel Welch, and he was the dopest running back in the history of the NFL - a true multidimensional athlete - I figure the true T-Nation ideal in terms of athletic attributes.)

Telly Savalas (Kojak, and The Maggot in the Dirty Dozen)

Ricardo Montalban (only a true T-man can pull off the white suit complete with the dwarf sidekick - he rocked in Fantasy Island and not look like a complete dickhead!! In his younger days, he scored with half of the women in Hollywood - the epitome of the latin lover. )

a personal favorite: Christopher Lee - old school British actor, very cool, very elegant - (you may know him as Saruman from LOTR, Dooku, from the Star Wars prequels, tons of old school horror films and as Scaramanga - the three nippled Cuban assasin from the Bond flick ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’).

the style icon: Cary Grant - all T-men should aspire to his level of fashion savvy - the man knew how to wear a suit.

[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, James Coburn all were great T-Men in the Magnificent Seven.[/quote]

damn, forgot Yul Brenner - he was even more off the hook in “Westworld” as the killer cyborg gunslinger!!

yep, steve mcqueen.

honorable mention goes to gene hackman. his role in mississippi burning is one of my favorites.

Old School:
Clint Eastwood
Steve McQueen
Ed Harris

New School:
Tom Jane
Johnny Messner
Jason Statham
Clive Owen