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[Keylime]

I submit to you: Death Becomes Her Bruce Willis

Just look at him choke the shit out of Meryl Streep for calling him a limp-dicked loser!

 

[Nokterian]

Fifth Element,Die Hard 1 to 3 (3 is my favorite next 1 ). Hudson Hawk,Last Boy Scout. Bruce has some amazing characters.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

Sorry, but Moonlighting Bruce Willis was the best Bruce Willis.

No doubt. It's not even a contest.

Yep.

Gentlemen of refined taste

 

[The Cowboy]

Negotiable. It certainly isn't the best in the "Best Villain" department.

I beg to differ.

Zorg is fantastic.

 

[Shadybiz]

No love for Hudson Hawk Bruce Willis? Guys? ...guys?

...oh.

I actually thought Hudson Hawk was hilarious. Just wacky fun.

It's a real tossup between Die Hard 1&3 Bruce vs Fifth Element Bruce. In the end, I would probably have to go with Die Hard. He really is awesome in just about everything, though.

 

[Metalmurphy]

Die Hard 3 Willis is best Willis. It's a fact sir!

I'm gonna go with this one, even though Die Hard 1 is the better movie.

 

[FillerB]

I beg to differ.

Zorg is fantastic.

Yeah Zorg is great but, while he is a great villain, he is still just the whipping boy of the big bad evil planetoid-thing which made no fucking sense at all.

 

[coldflame23]

I agree with OP.
But....

 

[Dick Justice]

Yeah Zorg is great but, while he is a great villain, he is still just the whipping boy of the big bad evil planetoid-thing which made no fucking sense at all.

I loved how he and Dallas don't even meet in the movie. They just about miss each other towards the end.

 

[Rockandrollclown]

People saying The Last Boy Scout are correct. Its everything great about Bruce Willis turned up to 11.

 

[TheClimaxan]

Co-signed.

Multipass.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Luc Besson was on fire in the early-mid 1990s man.

 

[HisshouBuraiKen]

People saying The Last Boy Scout are correct. Its everything great about Bruce Willis turned up to 11.

It's like a parody of Bruce Willis movies while simultaneously being the best Bruce Willis movie.

"I'm just trying to break the ice."
"I like ice, leave it the fuck alone."

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Fifth Element Bruce is Die Hard Bruce but IN SPACE which makes everything better.

Not much to discuss, OP is correct.

EDIT: I note a distinct lack of Bonfire of the Vanities Bruce, which is good.

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

Man. Fifth Element anything is the best everything. People look at me weird when I try to tell them it's legitimately the best movie. Don't even care.

Yep. Almost everyone I've ever met has loved this movie. It's such good "Fuck it let's just have fun!" that people can't resist it.

And Milla, they really made her... perfect, I know.

 

[k_trout]

It's like a parody of Bruce Willis movies while simultaneously being the best Bruce Willis movie.

"I'm just trying to break the ice."
"I like ice, leave it the fuck alone."

the dialogue with him and damon is still unsurpassed in an action movie imo

my favourite tony scot movie

 

[Dyno]

Hartigan!

Sin City bitches.

It's also the movie where you find the best of all possible Jennifer Albas.

Actually every girl in Sin City never looked better.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Just found out that next month in Tulsa there will be a screening of a print of LAST BOY SCOUT.

 

[TwoDurans]

That is not Bruce Willis, that is a Meat Popsicle.

 

[The Bookerman]

Die Hard 3 Willis is best Willis. It's a fact sir!

Die Hard 3 is my favorite... but John McClane in the first die hard was probably the best I've seen out of Bruce Willis, before he became superman in Die Hard 4 and 5.

 

[DieH@rd]

I approve this thread.

 

[pr0cs]

I don't know, I really liked him in Looper

 

[Masterphoenix]

Die Hard Bruce Willis is best Bruce Willis. I also enjoyed Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction and Sin City. Best quote "I took his weapon. Both of them."

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The Twelve Monkeys performance got some love in this thread, but not enough. He was REALLY goddamned good in that movie. He somehow managed to fuse a manic, sympathetic, angry, scared, funny, and sensitive character together without dropping the ball.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

The Twelve Monkeys performance got some love in this thread, but not enough. He was REALLY goddamned good in that movie. He somehow managed to fuse a manic, sympathetic, angry, scared, funny, and sensitive character together without dropping the ball.

He was really great in that part, and it's one of his best acting jobs, but it's not BEST BRUCE WILLIS*


* an ambiguous term which means, coolest, most fun to watch, most Willisish.

 

[Carnby]

No love for Hudson Hawk Bruce Willis? Guys? ...guys?

...oh.

Look's like he'll be missing the Hat Convention in July.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

He was really great in that part, and it's one of his best acting jobs, but it's not BEST BRUCE WILLIS*


* an ambiguous term which means, coolest, most fun to watch, most Willisish.

Yeah.

I'm still sticking with McClane from 1 & 3 in that case. Fifth Element Willis is like McClane with one of those ridiculous cigarette filters on him from the movie. You get the general flavor, I guess, but it's not the real hit.

 

[SketchTheArtist]

No love for Hudson Hawk Bruce Willis? Guys? ...guys?

...oh.

Fuck I love that movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX_jCwNTKHU

 

[TheJollyCorner]

thank god Bruce wasn't available to do The Fifth Element back when Luc Besson wanted to make it in the early 90's.


-It would have probably looked worse.
-We wouldn't have gotten Milla's breakthrough performance.
-We wouldn't have gotten Chris Tucker (this could be good or bad, depending on where you stand on that particular issue).
-Probably wouldn't have gotten Oldman as Zorg.
-Eric Serra's soundtrack would probably still be in that bizarre 80s-to-90s transition period.
-We might have never gotten Luc's best film due to the delay: LEON.

^ all of this goodness is because of Bruce's scheduling conflicts.

 

[sixteen-bit]

thank god Bruce wasn't available to do The Fifth Element back when Luc Besson wanted to make it in the early 90's.


-It would have probably looked worse.
-We wouldn't have gotten Milla's breakthrough performance.
-We wouldn't have gotten Chris Tucker (this could be good or bad, depending on where you stand on that particular issue).
-Probably wouldn't have gotten Oldman as Zorg.
-Eric Serra's soundtrack would probably still be in that bizarre 80s-to-90s transition period.
-We might have never gotten Luc's best film due to the delay: LEON.

^ all of this goodness is because of Bruce's scheduling conflicts.

also, no rando-ass Luke Perry cameo lol

 

[TheJollyCorner]

also, no rando-ass Luke Perry cameo lol

hahaha I remember saying "what the fuck" under my breath in the theater when I saw him.
Turned into a pretty good little part, though.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Bruce Willis should be commended for doing a lot of different/eccentric roles despite how easy it would have been for him to just Clooney out the same performance over and over again.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Bruce Willis should be commended for doing a lot of different/eccentric roles despite how easy it would have been for him to just Clooney out the same performance over and over again.

Yes. I've been saying this for years.
For a guy that could have easily been some kind of action meat-head post DieHard, he's picked some fantastic roles through his career.

Sure, he's doing some head-scratching shit these days, but he really has an interesting filmography.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Bruce Willis should be commended for doing a lot of different/eccentric roles despite how easy it would have been for him to just Clooney out the same performance over and over again.

This is a strange choice of comparison because Clooney doesn't just "Clooney" out the same performance, either.

O Brother
Three Kings
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Burn After Reading
Solaris
Out of Sight

 

[MYE]

Fifth Element is awesome but I think I will have to stick with Twelve Monkeys Bruce.

Last time I saw him give a shit about his own performance in a movie

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

This is a strange choice of comparison because Clooney doesn't just "Clooney" out the same performance, either.

O Brother
Three Kings
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Burn After Reading
Solaris
Out of Sight

Intolerable Cruelty (a self-parody of a role)

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The Coens are really good to that guy.

In fact, I believe it was on "O Brother" where they got him to drop that "head-shake" tic that he head for almost all of his early career.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Last time I saw him give a shit about his own performance in a movie

I want Terry Gilliam to get another production like this.

Watching the 'Making Of' and seeing all of the crazy bullshit that went down makes me wonder how Gilliam still has the drive to continue making films.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Gilliam feeds off conflict. At this point I think he makes movies solely to find new people to fight with

 

[Giant Robot]

I fucking love this so much.

Dub Harder

and Fifth Element is an awful movie.

 

[Nokterian]

People saying The Last Boy Scout are correct. Its everything great about Bruce Willis turned up to 11.

"Hit me again,i'll kill ya"

So damn awesome movie.

Dat milla gif by the way <3

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Gilliam feeds off conflict. At this point I think he makes movies solely to find new people to fight with

You know, you're probably right.

It's a shame. He's definitely one of my favorite 'visionary' filmmakers.
I wonder how many unique projects he's either let slip through his fingers or was just completely passed over due to his reputation?

I mean, just look at the payoff with, like, 12 Monkeys. Production hell forwards and backwards, but the end result is brilliant, IMO.

 

[SpyGuy239]

Co-signed.

Multipass.

came here for this thank you!!

also have to agree with you oP. I love the Fifth Element!

 

[captive]

whole nine yards bruce is pretty willish. Loved him in those.

and last man standing, die hard 3, fifth element.

 

[BIGWORM]

thank god Bruce wasn't available to do The Fifth Element back when Luc Besson wanted to make it in the early 90's.


-It would have probably looked worse.
-We wouldn't have gotten Milla's breakthrough performance.
-We wouldn't have gotten Chris Tucker (this could be good or bad, depending on where you stand on that particular issue).
-Probably wouldn't have gotten Oldman as Zorg.
-Eric Serra's soundtrack would probably still be in that bizarre 80s-to-90s transition period.
-We might have never gotten Luc's best film due to the delay: LEON.

^ all of this goodness is because of Bruce's scheduling conflicts.

It would've been bad, all bad.

 

[jmdajr]

I don't know which is the best but...

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I will say The Fifth Element is like the best French sci-fi comic book film adaptation I've ever seen(based on a comic that doesn't exist, that is). So many fun details brought to life. I don't know what came over the guy who gave Luc Besson enough money to do a live-action Moebius comic, but God bless 'em.

 

[strafer]

I love Bruce. Such a cool motherfucker.

 

[SketchTheArtist]

I will say The Fifth Element is like the best French sci-fi comic book film adaptation I've ever seen(based on a comic that doesn't exist, that is). So many fun details brought to life. I don't know what came over the guy who gave Luc Besson enough money to do a live-action Moebius comic, but God bless 'em.

Wasn't it made outside of the studio system in secret though?

 

[Rentahamster]

Co-signed.

Multipass.

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