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Favorite Tough-guy/Crime Films
The crime film/tough-guy film genre may not be horror, but it is as similarly linked to the genre as the Spaghetti Western. These films often feature bleak situations, nihilistic behavior, shocking violence and (when we're really lucky) some really great gore.
My wriring partner have dipped our toes into these waters recently and the reaction has been quite positive (more news on that when it is prudent to divulge) and we will be making quite a few more of these films in the future. Not easily classified, these films vassilate between thriller, drama, caper and revenge flicks, but the tough-guy and crime element always shine through. Personally I'm quite fond of: The Getaway Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Straw Dogs Mean Streets The Long Good Friday Resevior Dogs Eastern Promises A History of Violence Taken Death Wish Le Cercle Rouge Youth of the Beast The Wages of Fear The Killing Hard Boiled The Departed (I actually liked it better than Infernal Affairs) What are your favorites? |
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i also really like Scorcerer (friedkin's wages of fear remake) Thief the amateur To Live and Die in LA |
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Great film. Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, and a very young Pierce Brosnan |
Does Alex De Large of Clockwork Orange count?
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Well, the classics for me- anything with Cagney, like White Heat
Treasure of Sierra Madre Dead End Goodfellas? Dog Day Afternoon |
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sexy Beast any of the Dirty Harry movies Rambo Oldboy |
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I especially love Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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Ditto Pusher (danish movie) Oldboy The long kiss goodnight (Gina Davis got balls :D) Die Hard Last Boyscout |
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I love The Las Boy Scout and Die Hard, but feel they fall too squarely into the huge, action/comedy vein and are a bit too over-the-top to be considered true "tough-guy" films |
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I thought the suggestions just had to have serious tough guys in em. My bad. I'm sure i'll come up with more soon. |
Oh yea, got it.
Dog bite dog |
Rolling Thunder
Billy Jack Hell Ride |
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@ Angra Dog Bite Dog? I don't know that one but I loved Man Bites Dog |
Walking Tall
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It's asian... |
taxi driver is kind of an art house version of a tough guy flick
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It's by many people been considered the best movie to come out of Denmark ever. |
Point Blank (first tough-guy flick I ever saw)
The Maltese Falcon Fight Club Leon The Professional Scarface Mad Max The Road Warrior The Killer The Wild Bunch Bullitt The French Connection Commando (among all the Arnie flicks, this is probably the best tough-guy movie) |
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really? Who was the tough guy? |
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http://www.johnbarber.com/The%2080%2...lee-marvin.jpg |
Speaking of Lee Marvin :
Prime Cut |
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Sorry, i was mistaking it for "Point break". :o |
Some of my favorites:
The Searchers The French Connection Bullitt The Wild Bunch Vanishing Point Die Hard Easy Rider Yojimbo/Sanjuro Definitely Point Blank, too. |
good thread.
Commando is the ultimate one man army tough guy movie imo. a couple of my favorites: Wake Of Death Cobra Raw Deal Payback Deathwish (1 & 2 in specific.) Heat Taken |
Get Carter (1971) is a favorite of mine. Good to see Point Blank and Thief get a mention great flicks.
Blastfighter deserves to be on a list of top notch tuff guy flicks. http://www.critcononline.com/images/...s%20front3.jpg The cover alone could kick your ass :D |
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you seem to have a pretty good knowledge of these type of movies. |
Get Carter (Michael Cane is amazing)
Cape Fear Villian Point Blank The 2 Sweeney Films Performance Newer stuff: Sexy Beast Love Honour and Obey |
Dirty Harry
LA Takedown Goodfellas Oldboy American History X Serpico Carlito's Way to name but a few |
Hands Of Steel
http://www.critcononline.com/images/...hs%20front.jpg Its a decent Terminator knockoff which co-stars John Saxon. |
Chuck Norris should get a mention:
http://marcusthoughts.files.wordpres...of_silence.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g9...ilent_rage.jpg and say what you will about Seagal this flick is fuckin' badass: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71AVEGK3Q4L.gif |
Agreed - William Forsythe is amazing and the scene in the bar is bad ass..
Did you know the Stick fighter (cues) in that scene is Bruce Lee student Dan Inosanto? |
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Definitely... William Forsythe is great. So over the top and violent. I love that scene where he drags that women out of the car at the intersection :D He was pretty cool in Stone Cold aswell. |
looks like my tough-guy film is going to get made:D
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Solid! Whats it called? Any idea who will be directing? Fred Olen Ray? :)
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Desperado
Crying Freeman Army of One aka Joshua Tree Hard Target Gladiator and Peter Jackson's King Kong:D |
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The song didn't make the American cut of the fim, but I still get royalties off the song from Japan and Sweeden so it's in some version of the film somewhere |
Truth or Consequences, NM
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I'm a sucker for the "Hawksian" hero, the Bogart or Wayne characters of Howard Hawks' noirs and westerns, like:
The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo Of course I'd mention The French Connection, which is actually an unrelenting dissection and destruction of the tough guy- Gene Hackman won the Academy Award for good reason. I quite like Scorsese's representation of "tough guys", usually becoming catch-22s and redefining themselves constantly. Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, etc. A lesser known tough guy film which I absolutely adore is Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival). Wilder has never been tougher or meaner, and his use of Kirk Douglas as a womanizing, rough-skinned, canon of a man is extraordinary- maybe the actor's finest role. Lastly, I have to mention some of Godards criticisms on the tough guy, mainly his protagonist in Breathless who literally molds himself after Bogart. His stubborn masculinity eventually gets him killed, but even in his last dying seconds he keeps his persona. |
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