Tough Guys

Created on 6/15/2007, last active awhile ago.

"The coolest characters on film"

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This group is all about who are the baddest, coolest, toughest characters ever put on film.

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walktheearth
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6/15/2007 12:25 AM
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Welcome to Tough Guys

Hello and welcome to Tough Guys @ Spout. This is a group dedicated to people who have strong opinions on who are the coolest characters in movie history. This is my first attempt at creating a group so bear with me as this gets going. As you can see the photo for Tough Guys is a character so cool that they had to put the work "Cool" in the title of the film. Paul Newman as Cool Hand" Luke Jackson. I have hundreds others. But I want to hear your thoughts. Thanks for checking us out.

Walk The Earth

joem18b
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6/15/2007 1:02 PM
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Three tough-guy scenes I liked:

David Caruso in Mad Dog and Glory. Another cop is mistreating a woman in a bar and Caruso straightens him out. That crazy Irish anger thing.

Robert Loggia in Lost Highway. Somebody makes him mad out on the road and he jumps out of his car and deals with the situation. That crazy Italian mobster thing.

Mickey Spillane in The Girl Hunters. As Mike Hammer, Spillane makes a tough guy eat a bullet in a bar. (Did Bronson do this once, too?)

walktheearth
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6/17/2007 11:40 AM
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Great picks. Lost Highway creaps me out. One of my all time favorite movie moments (and the one I consider to be the most violent scene ever) is where Ray Liotta pistol whips his girlfriends neighbor in his driveway.

joem18b
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6/17/2007 12:14 PM
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Can't remember that scene. I'll have to go back and check it out.

Speaking of Ray Liotta, does Anthony Hopkins count as a tough guy for eating Ray's brain? If not tough, at least very rude.

Another tough moment l liked:

Young Guns - Lou Diamond Phillips gets stabbed. No change of expression as he pulls the blade out.

joem18b
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6/17/2007 12:26 PM
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The Newman picture reminded me of Hombre (1967). Newman, tough, raised by indians. "We all gotta die; it's only a matter of when."

But then I thought, the bad guy in Hombre was Richard Boone. Paladin. Now there was a tough dude.

walktheearth
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6/17/2007 9:50 PM
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I wouldn't feel right about calling a cannibal tough or "cool". However he was so good in that role I got no issue putting that character on the list. Andy Garcia's best role was Stone in The Untouchables. When he slid under that baby stroler, caught the gun, and put the book keeper in his sights was total badass.

joem18b
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6/18/2007 1:40 AM
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Andy Garcia in Godfather III when he catches those two guys sent to kill him. I still think about that one.

Thinking about Hopkins, not as a cannibal but driving that Indian motorcycle. That 's one way to be tough.

joem18b
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6/20/2007 2:25 AM
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A few tough-guy moments:

1. Red Heat - Arnold squeezes a red hot coal and then punches a guy with it.

2. Boondock Saints - The brothers cauterize each other's wounds with a steam iron.

3. A Man Called Horse - Richard Harris hoisted up by his pecs.

4. Two Mules for Sister Sara, Streets of Laredo, Seraphim Falls - Treatment of arrow and gunshot wounds out by the old campfire.

5. Saw - Ouch.

But how come the good guys get credit for little problems like these, whereas the bad guys get shot, stabbed, clobbered, skewered, and brained at the end of the movie and keep coming back for more... and more... (e.g., Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man) and can't get no respect?