Soldier

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 4, 2002, 10:39 am

Anyone know if there was a sequel to this movie(1998 - Kurt Russel)?

Someone told me there was one, but I don't think so. Didn't see any references to one in a short search.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 11:06 am

I did a lil searching and can't find anything on a sequel. Not sure but isn't Kurt getting a bit old for action flicks now? At least where he is the star. I think a lot of the guys we liked about 10-20 years ago are getting a bit old for leading roles in action films.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » October 4, 2002, 12:39 pm

From my point of view (RL female) there are three actors who will never be too old to be in an action flick as the lead (and walk around without a shirt on

)

Sean Connery
Kurt Russell
Harrison Ford

noel · Post by **noel** » October 4, 2002, 1:13 pm

I like those three actors, but seriously...

When was the last time you saw Sean Connery walking around with his shirt off? /shudder

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » October 4, 2002, 1:24 pm

When was the last time you saw Sean Connery walking around with his shirt off? /shudder

He never wore a shirt in Dragonheart!

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 4, 2002, 1:34 pm

Russel is one of the few actors that I've liked every movie I've seen him in. Ford and Connery are on that list too, along with John Cleese

He fit the bill for an old soldier pretty well in that flick, he was in his late 40s when he did it.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 1:41 pm

I can see your point. I'd like to add to that list.
Tom Selleck
Robert Redford
Mel Gibson
Gene Hackman

They are solid actors who are very worthy of note.

Who are the new younger Action heroes these days?
Brad Pitt?
Matt Damon?
Ed Norton?

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » October 4, 2002, 1:48 pm

I try to avoid movies with Brad Pitt or Matt Damon. You can add Tom Cruise to that list to. I like real men!

I think the best younger action hero now is Vin Diesel!

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 1:54 pm

*whaps self upside the head*

How could I forget Vin!?

Knockaround Guys comes out next weekend!

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » October 4, 2002, 2:12 pm

What about Clint?

noel · Post by **noel** » October 4, 2002, 2:22 pm

Fredonia Coldheart wrote:I try to avoid movies with Brad Pitt or Matt Damon. You can add Tom Cruise to that list to. I like real men!

I think the best younger action hero now is Vin Diesel!

You are fucking clueless. CLUELESS!

Don't EVER badmouth Brad Pitt! Go watch Snatc--- err nevermind. You wouldn't be able to wrap your pea-sized brain around the plot for that movie.

Matt Damon, and Edward Norton are probably two of the most gifted young Actors currently in film.

HOW DARE YOU badmouth Brad Pitt, and say Vin Diesle is a good actor/action hero in the same sentence! Next you're going to tell me that Ben Affleck/Keanu Reeves can act.

Go bury your head in your ass light a match and pray for an explosion.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 4, 2002, 2:30 pm

Hackman I can agree with. Most of the others while great actors, have been is some real losers for various reasons.

Pitt and Damon are two I don't care for, but haven't made my "don't see the movie due to their presence" list (yet). Ben Affleck and Keanu Reeves are on the list. Tom Cruise sucks, he can contaminate any movie with his mere appearance. His high point was Legend, it's been downhill since then.

Vin can't act anymore than Arnold could when he started IMO. Arnold has improved over the years though.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » October 4, 2002, 2:36 pm

even if you dont like Brad Pitt, he's been in some really good movies.

River Runs Through It
Snatch
Fight Club
Legends of the Fall was pretty OK

Vin Diesel? both movies he has been in have sucked. if you think XXX was a good movie you have intelligence issues.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » October 4, 2002, 2:37 pm

Yea! What Aranuil said! Well, minus the flame.

Totally agree with his opinion on all actors mentioned in his post though!

However, I also agree with Fredonia a little. Actors like Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Mel Gibson, Robert Redford, etc., despite their age, are still sexy somehow. Or maybe I'm just weird!!

If Kurt Russell made a Soldier sequel, I'd go see it.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 2:45 pm

Which two Vin movies are you referring to? I thought he did a great job in Pitch Black. His bit part in Saving Ryan's Privates was alright.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » October 4, 2002, 2:52 pm

Wow - my first flame!

Heh - actually I'm not clueless, just have a wierd taste in men. I hate the short, skinny, pretty boy look - especially in an action flick which is what this thread was talking about. I like my men "scruffy looking".

Intellectual actors is a whole 'nother ball game ...

Oh, and add Bruce Willis to the /sigh list.

Vaemas · Post by **Vaemas** » October 4, 2002, 2:56 pm

Just ignore Aranuil Fre...he's mostly harmless. And for the ladies in the thread...what about Sam Elliott?

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » October 4, 2002, 3:00 pm

Vae! Have missed you the last few weeks! Where have you been?

And how could I have forgotten about Sam Elliot /drool

Hammerstalker PE · Post by **Hammerstalker PE** » October 4, 2002, 3:03 pm

Gene Hackman is probably one of the most overlooked actors when people talk about legends. This guy can take even a shitty script and make it work.

Brad Pitt is a great actor.
Vin is good.

I agree with Sean Connery and Kurt Russell as well.

I really like Bill Paxton

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » October 4, 2002, 3:03 pm

Vin Diesel was in Boiler Room too. Not a half bad movie. His voice is what gets him noticed and makes him stand out in movies.

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Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » October 4, 2002, 3:08 pm

One of my dream movies:

Tombstone
Kurt Russell
Sam Elliot
Val Kilmer
Bill Paxton

It didn't matter what the plot was - with these four there was no way it could be bad.

Katria · Post by **Katria** » October 4, 2002, 3:09 pm

I'd love to see Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes in a movie together.. some action flick. That'd rock.

Anthony Hopkins and Sean Connery would be a great mix too. Hackman and anyone is a great mix..

Hammerstalker PE · Post by **Hammerstalker PE** » October 4, 2002, 3:11 pm

I totally agree and Tombstone is one of my favorite movies!

The writer should have received an Oscar for having some of the best lines ever in a movie.

One of my favorites was Val Kilmer talking to Michael Beihn...

"Why Ringo, you look like someone just walked on your grave."

"I'm your Huckleberry!"

or after the gunfight near the river when Kurt walked out in the open and gunned down all the bad guys. Then somone asked "Where is Wyatt?"

and Val responded "Over yonder walking on the water."

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 3:17 pm

I have been a Bill Paxton fan ever since Weird Science. Here is a name we forgot too, Tommy Lee Jones. Not a Studdly guy so much as he has a Presence about him, as does Charlton Heston.

Fredonia Coldheart · Post by **Fredonia Coldheart** » October 4, 2002, 3:26 pm

See, this is where my wierd taste in men comes in. I think Tommy Lee Jones is very studly!

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » October 4, 2002, 3:43 pm

Hmm, one thing I have noticed is that women have a lot more varied view on which men are hot. Now, you show a man a picture of a hot woman and most all of them will agree to hotness of it. Do the same thing to a group of women and you will get a ton of varied responses. Kinda interesting in how that works.
I guess that explains some of the men you are putting on this list. Now I dont usually judge my fellow men because I don't swing that way but it seems there is a varied list of men so far mentioned and several of them would be ones I wouldnt considered that "studly".

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » October 4, 2002, 3:48 pm

There are a few actors that just never let you down.

-Denzel Washington
-Anthony Hopkins (except the Hannibal movies, what a pile of shit)
-Tommy Lee Jones (ok, he plays the same character all the time, but he does it well)
-Gene Hackman (The Package was a great flick.)
-Sean Connery (Mr Smooth)
-Bruce Willis
-Mel Gibson(Mr Insanity. Even when he plays it staight his eyes are still out there)

And a few others. The only actors I actiuvely avoid are The Olson Twins (who my daughters have an unhealthy obsession for) and that dark-haired lil jerk doing all the teenybopper movies now. Oh, and anyone who has ever had a number one hit album.

Adelrune Argenti · Post by **Adelrune Argenti** » October 4, 2002, 4:14 pm

Fallanthas, you forgot to mention The Package had Tommy Lee Jones in it as well. That film owns.

Also, although the Hannibal movies might not be to your taste, The Silence of the Lambs was an incredibly done movie. I am going to see Red Dragon this weekend as well. Something about delving into the mind of a serial killer gives me the creeps but it is an extremely well done voyage.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 4:20 pm

How could we forget Kevin Bacon!? The man that has been a bazillion movies.

Zygar_ Cthulhukin · Post by **Zygar_ Cthulhukin** » October 4, 2002, 4:30 pm

I met Kevin Bacon when he was filming "End of the Line" back in the mid eighties in my liddle ole hometown in Arkansas. He was nice, Wilford Brimley was kewl too but Mary Steenburgen was a grade A Biotch.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 4:33 pm

Would you guys consider Wil Smith as a new action film guy?

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 4, 2002, 4:35 pm

I like Smith, but he hasn't done anything particularly compelling IMO.

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » October 4, 2002, 5:06 pm

Will Smith can do a decent job. Conspiracy Theory was good.

Unfortunately, he either has poor management that isn't actively looking for good pieces or doesn't want to commit a lot of time to the profession, because he hasn't done much else that excited me.

Hayley · Post by **Hayley** » October 4, 2002, 5:19 pm

I'm gonna have to add Nicolas Cage to the list here from a female perspective. I loved him in the very first film I saw him in... Valley Girl. The movie is classic 80s, not to mention the music is all that represents the 80s. At any rate, it's been nice to see him evolve into such a fine specimen. Have The Rock on DVD and I can never get enough of him and Sean Connery. ^^

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 5:19 pm

Conspiracy Theory was Gibson.
I think you are thinking about the one with Hackman and Smith.
Enemy of the State

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » October 4, 2002, 5:31 pm

I met Kurt Russel the other day. His kid plays on the same hockey team as my best friend's little brother, and he goes to see almost all his games.

Vin Diesel is a pretty good actor. TripleX was kind of lame though.

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » October 4, 2002, 5:40 pm

Righto Grizz, thanks for the correction.

And the dark haired pinhead I was thinking of earlier is Freddie Prinz, or some such thing. What a waste of celluloid.

Nicholas Cage is one hell of an actor. Too bad he is such a goober in real life. I have a hard time taking him seriously. Alec Baldwin falls into the same category. Good actor, waste of oxygen as a person.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » October 4, 2002, 6:32 pm

I hated Cage for a long long time until he finally came out with something cool like The Rock and Face Off, and Con Air. I think I saw Snake Eyes and hated that one. I have no clue how Gone in 60 Seconds was. Did you know he was going to play Superman in the remake?

Saw Freddie Prince jr. in Wing Commander. Not a great flick but he did alright. Rather see him in action films instead of chick flicks.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » October 5, 2002, 1:16 am

Freddie Prinze Jr. is a fucking retarded actor.

Vin Diesel was good in Pitch Black but then went on to make suck-ass teen movies with lots-o-explosions and sooped up cars. Of which there will be sequels of everyone of his movies. (How you can make a sequel to Fast and the Furious, AND throw in some more fucking rappers riddles me)

Brad Pitt is one of the best actors period.

Laliana · Post by **Laliana** » October 5, 2002, 3:05 am

Tommy Lee Jones
Anthony Hopkins
Nicolas Cage
and several others already mentioned...all great actors

But for super dreamy, who cares if he can act....Antonio Banderas

Hayley · Post by **Hayley** » October 5, 2002, 4:09 am

How could I forget Antonio?! Andy Garcia too...mmmm. He was bootyliscious in "When a Man Loves a Woman." ^^

Laliana · Post by **Laliana** » October 5, 2002, 4:27 am

Oh yeah, him too!

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » October 5, 2002, 4:47 am

I think Colin Farrel has really good potential. Would add him to the good young actors and agree completely with Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, and Ed Norton. Hmm also Ewin McGregor(he still young? heh damn obe won, seems old) and Ethan Hawk.

Id recommend Tigerland(colin farrel) if you havent seen it.