Best tough guy actor (old school edition)

[ultimatebob]

Why isn't Sylvester Stallone on this list?

 

[purbeast0]

Clint Eastwood is a bad actor and an even worse director/movie maker.

Yup I said it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Clint Eastwood is a bad actor and an even worse director/movie maker.

Yup I said it.

Don't be so proud, anyone can say stupid things.

Eastwood wasn't really an "actor", he was more of a "presence". He was very good at what he did if allowed to do his thing. It was when he tried to act that things went wrong.

But he can be an excellent director. That is without question.

 

[purbeast0]

Eastwood wasn't really an "actor", he was more of a "presence".

If that makes you sleep better at night.... ok.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

If that makes you sleep better at night.... ok.

I sleep fine. It comes from not being unbelievably stupid, you should try it some time. There's a difference between "actor" and "movie star". Olivier is one, Eastwood is the other and if you can't distinguish between the two that goes right back to the "unbelievably stupid" thing. Eastwood wasn't an actor, Eastwood didn't try to be an actor. That's why he did the same role in almost every movie. Actors like to do different things, movie stars stick with what people want to see. John Wayne is the same, he didn't act, he just played the John Wayne stereotype and became a movie star by not acting. Eastwood didn't act, Eastwood just did the Eastwood persona. The closer he stuck to that the better his movies were.

 

[eng2d2]

Clint one of the biggest joke

 

[purbeast0]

I sleep fine. It comes from not being unbelievably stupid, you should try it some time. There's a difference between "actor" and "movie star". Olivier is one, Eastwood is the other and if you can't distinguish between the two that goes right back to the "unbelievably stupid" thing. Eastwood wasn't an actor, Eastwood didn't try to be an actor. That's why he did the same role in almost every movie. Actors like to do different things, movie stars stick with what people want to see. John Wayne is the same, he didn't act, he just played the John Wayne stereotype and became a movie star by not acting. Eastwood didn't act, Eastwood just did the Eastwood persona. The closer he stuck to that the better his movies were.

If that makes you sleep better at night.... ok.

 

[madoka]

Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Campbell, and Steven Seagal all were more 80s tough guys, because that's when they became super popular. I was trying to keep it to the elite of the older actors, since the 80s would bring in like 10 other nominees.

 

[Kaido]

Danny Trejo.

 

[Iron Woode]

perhaps James Arness?

 

[zinfamous]

Clint Eastwood is a bad actor and an even worse director/movie maker.

Yup I said it.

I think he's a fine director, but he's pretty much been making the same movie for the last 10 years or so. It gets tiresome.

 

[zinfamous]

 

[zinfamous]

Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Campbell, and Steven Seagal all were more 80s tough guys, because that's when they became super popular. I was trying to keep it to the elite of the older actors, since the 80s would bring in like 10 other nominees.

This is what happens when people don't read thread titles and fail to see the similarity/comparison in the provided list.

 

[Loop2kil]

My vote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA8f1oKz4L4

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Humphrey Bogart.