Tough Guys

I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another.

We looking for western characters.  Feel free to list as many as you want, but give me your top 3!  Your Good, your Bad, and your Ugly.

Here's mine:

Good - Val Kilmer, Tombstone

Bad - John Wayne, Searchers

Ugly - William Holden, The Wild Bunch

Other Favorites - Eastwood (everything), Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy adn the Sundance Kid, James Colburn - The Magnificent 7, Alan Ladd - Shane

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Val Kilmer in Tombstone is one of my all-time favorites, but I don't think I'd call him "good."  How about "ornery"?

Likewise, I wouldn't call Wayne "bad" in the Searchers. More like "has a screw loose."

I'd go with Newman in Hombre or Hud (if you count that) over Butch Cassidy. For some reason I didn't like that movie. Maybe because of the ending.

Anyway,  my  three good:

Charles Bronson - Once Upon a Time in the West

Burt Lancaster - Valdez is Coming

John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan  - Rio Bravo (can't split them up)


My three bad:

Robert J. Wilke - High Noon and lots of others. You know his face if not his name.

Claude Akins - Rio Bravo. Another perennial bad guy.  

Jack Palance - Shane. Even badder than Alan Ladd was good.


My three ugly:

Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou

Humprhey Bogart - Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Gabby Hayes - Anything

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Lee Marvin is a bad man as Liberty Valance as well.

Klaus Kinski is pretty frightening in The Great Silence.

I remember there being some pretty ruthless characters in The Proposition, even though I don't think it's that great.

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I also want to recognize the Mexican bad guy who shows up so often - big sombrero, big grin with gold teeth, heavyset. Like in the Professionals and Sierra Madre. Unfortunately, he usually gets gunned down pretty quick.

I haven't heard of The Great Silence. Any good? ... aha. I see that HairyLime reviewed it.

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I agree 100% about The Proposition.  I found it to be incredibly mediocre.  I listen to Filmspotting every week, and I have heard them rave about this film.  I just don’t get it.

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GREAT LIST!  I defense of my pic, Val Kilmer as Doc Hollidy is one of my favortie characters of all time.  Especially  in westerns, the line between good and bad is skewed.  Butch and Sundance were basically thieves and murders.  But they did it with pizzazz and that made them the good guys.  On the other hand, in a movie like Shane the good guy is almost saint like. 

The villians in The Magnificent Seven (if placed in the proper context) could be the anti-hero / good guy in a different western.  So basied on morals, or lack of them, Doc Holiday was not a good guy.  But Val Kilmers repersentation of him, his manorisms, his personality, made him a great character and a good guy to me.

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Five very cool dudes:

Val Kilmer - Tombstone
Tom Selleck - Quiqley Down Under
Richard Boone - Have Gun, Will Travel (TV)
Robert Duvall - Lonesome Dove
Tommy Lee Jones - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
 

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joem18b:

I also want to recognize the Mexican bad guy who shows up so often - big sombrero, big grin with gold teeth, heavyset. Like in the Professionals and Sierra Madre. Unfortunately, he usually gets gunned down pretty quick.

I haven't heard of The Great Silence. Any good? ... aha. I see that HairyLime reviewed it.

Yeah The Great Silence is pretty good.

Another movie directed by Sergio Corbucci, Django, has the big bad mexican guy.

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joem18b:

I also want to recognize the Mexican bad guy who shows up so often - big sombrero, big grin with gold teeth, heavyset. Like in the Professionals and Sierra Madre. Unfortunately, he usually gets gunned down pretty quick.

I haven't heard of The Great Silence. Any good? ... aha. I see that HairyLime reviewed it.

Yeah The Great Silence is pretty good.

Another movie directed by Sergio Corbucci, Django, has the big bad mexican guy.