Top 5 favorite movie characters of all-time?

[DaBossIsBack]

This is way too difficult for me. Some off the top of my head.



Bodhi- Point Break
Mickey O'Neil- Snatch
Bill the Butcher- Gangs of New York
Tyler Durden- Fight Club
(T) Alfred Borden- The Prestige, Nathan Algren- The Last Samurai

Honorable mention:
Dirk Diggler- Boogie Nights
Doc Holiday- Tombstone
Russell- Almost Famous
Joker- Nolan's Batman

Dirk, Bill the butcher, Mickey, Doc Holiday are all great. All those great Bogart and Brando characters. It really is too difficult to narrow it down to five. It would be a lot easier to narrow it down using directors. Top 5 Cohen bros characters, Scorsese, Kubrick, Tarantino, PTA, etc.

As posted earlier, it's HARD to see a character in a book you've read perfectly executed on the screen. Javier Bardem did just that with Anton Chigurh.

Same here. Also just his command of the scene. When it's his time to talk no one else in the frame exists. No Country is my favorite Coen Bros film.

 

[uk_bill]

without looking at anyone elses....

Keyser Soze
Sho Nuff
Doc Holiday
Donkey (Shrek)
Wooderson

 

[-LEK-]

Antwon Chigurh (No Country)

Angel Eyes (Good Bad Ugly)

Baron Harkonnen (Dune)

Burt Gorden (the Hustler)

Lone Wolf (Shogun Assassin)

 

[Mime-Is-Money]

Haven't looked through yet, my top 5 first :

Bob - What About Bob
Nurse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lisa - The Room
Cyrus - The Warriors
H.I. - Raising Arizona

 

[larry the cable guy]

Indiana Jones
Jason Bourne
John McClain
Harry Callahan
Clark Griswold

 

[thecatsareback#8]

Vader
John McClane
Axel Foley
Rocky Balboa
Doc Holliday (Tombstone edition)

IM IN MY PRIME

 

[Big_Blue79]

Lisa - The Room

I cannot more highly recommend seeing "The Room" in a theater where drunks are doing the interactive stuff. Hearing someone yell "Cause you're a woman!" every time Lisa appears on screen is delightful.

 

[DaBossIsBack]

Haven't looked through yet, my top 5 first :

Bob - What About Bob
Nurse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lisa - The Room
Cyrus - The Warriors
H.I. - Raising Arizona

I almost put Nurse Ratched. I hate her so much that I love her. She is my number one movie villain of all time and it's not even close.

 

[DaBossIsBack]

Antwon Chigurh (No Country)

Angel Eyes (Good Bad Ugly)

Baron Harkonnen (Dune)

Burt Gorden (the Hustler)

Lone Wolf (Shogun Assassin)

Didn't think I would see a Dune reference on here. Nice.

 

[thecatsareback#8]

 

[VT/UK Rondo]

<-------This guy (Captain Spaulding).

 

[UKserialkiller]

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

 

[TortElvisII]

I thought yo head would be bigger.

 

[liveblue92]

Doyle Hargraves
Cousin Eddie
Coach Eric Taylor
Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer)
Ricky Vaughn

HM: Tim Riggins

 

[liveblue92]

HM: LT. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt in IB) just for the scene when they are discussing who speaks the most Italian.

 

[BigBlueFan1963]

1. George Bailey
2. Harry Callahan
3. McClintock
4. Rick Blaine
5. Benjamin Martin

 

[kyboy1998_rivals34276]

1. George Bailey
2. Harry Callahan
3. McClintock
4. Rick Blaine
5. Benjamin Martin

McClintock? Isn't that the dude who starred in "Breakin Ankles" a few years back? The white boy rafters was freaking over?

 

[Teachable Moe]

Richard Hannay - The 39 Steps
Oscar Jaffe - Twentieth Century
Betty Lou - The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Debbie - American Graffiti
Flora Post - Cold Comfort Farm
Nick Charles - The Thin Man
Robert - Rogue Male
Javier Bardem's cop in The Dancer Upstairs

 

[elwood_blue]

Doyle Hargraves
Doc Holiday
Lou Brown
Eric "Otter" Stratton
Patrick Bateman

This should have been top 10. Here are 5 more after some thinking:

Furious Styles (Boys in the Hood)
Uncle Red (Silver Bullet)
Horowitz (Bad Boys)
Count De Monet (History of the World Part 1)
Judge Smails (Caddyshack)

 

[Get Buckets]

This should have been top 10. Here are 5 more after some thinking:

Furious Styles (Boys in the Hood)
Uncle Red (Silver Bullet)
Horowitz (Bad Boys)
Count De Monet (History of the World Part 1)
Judge Smails (Caddyshack)

5 was a good number for you.

 

[elwood_blue]

5 was a good number for you.

Opinions....

 

[TortElvisII]

Opinions....

Did you get me my cheez whiz boy?

 

[elwood_blue]

Did you get me my cheez whiz boy?

 

[Oldblueone]

Carl
Colonel Enis
Ernest T Bass
Doc Holiday
HeMan

 

[Tinker Dan]

Doc Holiday
Cousin Eddie
Hub - Robert Duvall - Second Hand Lions
Rufus Clemens - Strother Martin - Hannie Caulder

SCULLY !!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit to add - my all time favorite. Remo Williams. Not so much from the movie, but Fred Ward did a good job.

There are 150+ books in the series and I have read the majority of them. Light hearted reading but fun. That is who is in my avatar.
and

Rufus Clements: I stole a Bible, Em. Do you want to read over Frank?
Emmett Clements: You know damn right well I can't read! The hell with him anyway!
Rufus Clements: You shouldn't have done that, Em. You're gonna get God mad at us and he's liable to...
Emmett Clements: Shut your damn mouth!
Rufus Clements: Well, I want to say something over Frank!
Emmett Clements: Well, say it and get it the hell over with!
Rufus Clements: All right... Frank... you're dead! God... damn if I don't miss you already, you miserable bastard!

 

[GhostVol]

without looking at anyone elses....

Keyser Soze
Sho Nuff
Doc Holiday
Donkey (Shrek)
Wooderson

Repped for Sho Nuff. Would have been somewhere in my Top 10

 

[-BBH-]

Dr. Sam Loomis (1978)
Han Solo
Rocky Balboa
Boba Fett
Andy Dufresne

Honorable mention: Dale Doback and Brennan Huff

 

[Supreme Lord Z]

Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant
Al Pacino in Scarface
Brandon Lee in The Crow
Val Kilmer in Tombstone
James Caan in The Thief

 

[TortElvisII]

Z is a Jedi. If you strike him down he comes back more powerful than ever.

Obi Wan Zenobi



Blast Hardcheese is not taken.

 

[Free_Salato_Blue]

Ash - Evil Dead, Army of Darkness
Oddball - Kelly's Heroes
Captain John Miller - Saving Private Ryan
Josie Wales
William Wallace - Braveheart

 

[rabidcatfan]

Wow...I had to really think about this one beyond number one...

1. Indiana Jones (this isn't even close)
2. Darth Vader
3. Yoda
4. Rocky Balboa
5. Freddy Kreuger

Honorable mentions - Norman Bates (Psycho), Chewbacca, Jack Torrance (The Shining), Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Marty McFly & Doc Brown (Back to the Future trilogy), Ellen Ripley (Alien films), The T-800 (Terminator), Robocop, E.T., Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption), The Predator, Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China), Doc Holiday (Tombstone), Michael Corleone (The Godfather), Vincent & Jules (Pulp Fiction), Apollo Creed (Rocky films), Clubber Lang (Rocky III), R. J. MacReady (The Thing), Frankenstein, Clark W. Griswold Jr. (Vacation films), John Rambo, The Wolf Man, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Rooster Cogburn (True Grit), Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), and Conan the Barbarian.

 

[allabouttheUK]

Doc Holiday
Aaron - Primal Fear
Howard Hughes
Ron Woodroof
The Joker - Heath Ledger

Could add many more, but those are my top five off the top of my head.

 

[djshanks]

Irwin Fletcher
Joe Dirt
Rocky Balboa
Maverick (Top Gun)
Darth Vader
Pee Wee Morris

 

[-LEK-]

Opinions....

That's what people with bad taste tell themselves.

 

[elwood_blue]

That's what people with bad taste tell themselves.

Touche'. I've never been accused of having good taste, that's for sure. By the way, nice avatar.

 

[catsfanbgky]

Buffert T. Justice
Dr. Lecter
Fletch
Aaron Stampler (Primal Fear)
Cousin Eddie

 

[Free_Salato_Blue]

Hollis Wood


Pvt. Will Stockdale. HOWDY!
No Time for Sergeant.

 

[TheShowKiller]

Lt. Aldo Raine
The Dude
Roy Mcavoy
Heath Ledger's Joker
Capt. Miller "Saving Private Ryan"

 

[catfan in loserville]

I'll just do top 5 actors, since they are good in multiple roles.

Brad Pitt
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jack Nicholson
Mark Wahlberg
Robert Downey Jr

HM - De Niro, Pacino, Pesci

 

[JohnnyGentle]

royal tenenbaum
kikuchiyo (seven samurai)
young sonny carson (mostly from ghostface sampling his dialogue; fairly incoherent movie)
sam spade
sefton (stalag 17)