Kurt Russell

Oh shit, there was already a poll. Incomplete though. Didn't even have Used Cars!

Plissken v. Burton. Burton.

I voted Jack Burton last time but have switched to Snake Plissken (New York edition) this time.

Plissken Mark II never happened. Just forget it. Snake don't surf.

Macready. Best horror film of the 80s

I'd leave off 'of the 80s'

Such an underrated actor. Either Breakdown or Silkwood (rowr).

all due respect to carpenter but USED CARS

Close call between MacReady and Plissken, but The Thing beats EFNY so MacR for the win. Plus, better beard and hat.

Elvis and Charles Whitman are feeling dissed here...

nb - I never actually saw either of those.

The Thing is a better film, but come on, it's SNAKE.

I wonder if Kurt kept some of his Used Cars wardrobe to use in Miracle.

Kurt Russell is better than a lot of his material.

CAPTAIN RON

Plissken v. Burton. Burton.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, May 21, 2009

QFT

love this dude

Porkchop Express.

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hate this dude

I think you'd like Used Cars, Abbie Mack

are you sure its not Val Kilmer you hate, abbott?

I HAVE NO WAY TO KNOW

I COULD NOT TELL THEM APART IF THEY WERE LABELED

of what I've seen, Silkwood over Tombstone

(then Swing Shift, Used Cars)

Snake.

But almost voted for Sky High, cuz it's pretty great too and prolly won't get much love.

Wait, there are people who hate Kurt Russell? That's horrible.

MacReady btw.

the barefoot executive is pretty cute; i voted for it because i know no one else will.

Forrest Gump voice of Elvis uncredited

Wtf?!

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He had already, rather famously in fact, played Elvis in a made for TV bioflick, Tuomas.

MacReady was robbed.

lolz

ok I don't hate Kurt Russell so much as I hate Plissken, a lot.

Also I can't seriously tell him apart from that fucking guy Viceroy mentioned (Val Kilmer), tho I know ONE was in 'Real Genius' and the OTHER was in 'The Thing.'

you are making me sad Abbott

ok I voted for Silkwood and it didnt register

FIX FIX FIX

ie aside from Tombstone nuthin but moronic shit got votes

He was tremendous fun in Death Proof. Movie wouldn't have been half as good without him.

dark blue's pretty underrated and he gives a killer performance in it

why has kurt russell never been in a baseball movie?

From http://movies.about.com/cs/miracle/a/mrclkr012604_3.htm (talking about Miracle)

The problem I've generally found with the writing in most sports movies, and it's why I haven't done them, for the great and most part, they are written from the fan's point of view and not written from the player/coach point of view. This is what Ron Shelton and I talked about when we were talking about getting together to do a baseball movie, which he ended up doing called “Bull Durham.” The great thing about baseball, I said to him, is baseball is the only sport played by men for women. All other sports are played by men for men, that I know of. Because with baseball players, we'd just as soon have 50,000 women in the stands. We couldn't care less if there was a guy there. But football is a gladiator game, they want men chanting in the stands. Baseball players like to look good in their uniforms and run around the bases and say, “How's it going?” They want to be cool. That's what they're about. And Ron wrote it from, which in that regard was the point of view that you really need to understand baseball, the point of view of the woman who is with the ballplayer. That's the point of view to write a baseball story, which is why “Bull Durham,” I think, is one of the best made.

I don't read them often and I don't like doing them often because I know it's #1) written from a fan's point of view, #2) directed from a fan's point of view, and #3) and the most disgusting of all, played from the fan's point of view. What's good about this movie is that you've got a guy who's directing it, who's a really good football player and is not a fan of hockey. He has a player's understanding. You've got a coach who has a player’s understanding, who played baseball professionally, who's not going to look at it as a fan. And you have the guys playing the parts who are not actors that want to be hockey players. They're hockey players that were cast in a role that the director believed he could work with them as actors. So that's why the movie looks credible.

he would be so great in a baseball film

we need to start a petition

he was so good in Miracle

Watched Tequila Sunrise for the first time since it came out. Love triangle, but so lopsided! I was surprised by how good Mel Gibson is and--I've almost always liked him in everything--by how bad Russell is. Or at least how badly the character is written--all smarm and knowing ripostes. And his look...someone should have taken Kurt aside and said, "This moment will pass; one day, people won't remember Miami Vice, and the way you've got your hair will look thoroughly silly. Here's a comb--go fix that."

looks potentially good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZbwtHi-KSE

I would never have voted for it, but I gotta say his lovable overacting is the main redeeming quality of Tango and Cash - someone more leadenly playing out the slob-cop type would have combined with Stallone to make the most generic boring movie ever. Russell seems to be over in the part of the movie that has daring leaps from rooftops onto power lines and a super cop tank battling construction equipment in a demolition derby, while Stallone belongs to the script draft with the totally assembly-line Chuck Norris final showdown. Unfortunately Russell also gets all the "he's a cop who tortures suspects and GETS RESULTS - what a mischievous scamp he is!" material and ....yeah. Ugh.

xpost What with all the zombie love it was only a matter of time before the cannibal film made a comeback. At least in theory.

he shd play himself in a movie where he investigates what the deal is w walter Disney writing his name as the last thing he did before he died

It writes itself. He goes deep into his investigation, then at the end he discovers that ... he killed Disney! Who was in debt to the Devil. It'd be like "Angel Heart" or something.

Stargate is a ridiculous and not all that fun movie, and Kurt Russell doesn't even really get to do much in it, but "GIVE MY REGARDS TA KING TUT, ASSHOLE!" is just about almost worth it.

i pretend that movie's about david foster wallace

Really good weary performance as a sheriff in quite a pickle in Bone Tomahawk. "You're pretty angry for a guy named Buddy."

wow captain ron is just death on the screen

Arrow are doing a SE of Dark Blue:

https://www.arrowfilms.com/product-detail/dark-blue-blu-ray/FCD1755

WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA?!?!?!?!?!?!? pic.twitter.com/br7eUsqCYL

— Keith Uhlich (@keithuhlich) October 10, 2018

the fuck

the Elvis-Santa spectrum

tbh he looks p good as Santa

What, it isn't a Kenny Rogers biopic?

Big Trouble in Little North Pole

"Santa's back, and he's pissed."

“Like old Santa Claus says....”

(also i will def watch this)

Pair him with Stallone as a stuffy Krampus he's forced to partner with and I'm there.

he knows when you've been holding 'em
he knows when you've been folding 'em

She Believes In Me - stealth christmas song

this is the most haunting thing I've ever read pic.twitter.com/DullZJ9FIi

— Big Time NIT Fan (@dylmdav) March 18, 2019

“Like old Santa Claus says....”

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:16 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(also i will def watch this)

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:22 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pair him with Stallone as a stuffy Krampus he's forced to partner with and I'm there.

― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:33 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he knows when you've been holding 'em
he knows when you've been folding 'em

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 18:41 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sign me up for this project yes

Only just realizing that the second Guardians of the Galaxy film was a missed opportunity for a Tango & Cash reunion. Devastated, also heartbroken.

Kind of occurred to me what an interesting late career resurgence Kurt has had. Obviously he's kept busy, but Death Proof sort of put him back on the map, or at least reintroduced him not as Kurt Russell, movie star, but as Kurt Russell, icon, where just seeing his face elicits good vibes. But yeah, Death Proof, Hateful Eight (he's not what's wrong with it), Bone Tomahawk, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and apparently he's in a couple of those Fast and Furious movies?

think his role in vanilla sky is v much a respectful nod type of a casting decision too

Maybe, I've never seen it. "Miracle" (a couple of years after Vanilla Sky) was arguably his last successful Movie Star role, don't you think? I don't even remember the nu-Poseidon movie.

Kurt reportedly excellent in Bone Tomahawk. Not a huge fan of the Western genre (hell, I think it's contributed to present social ills), but I could get behind cowboys vs. cannibals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNYF6XmsRJM

Great movie

I liked it a lot, but I thought the writer-director has been given the scarlet R by wokesters

Love Bone Tomahawk, director seems ... complicated. He's definitely a provocateur. But hell, Kurt Russell is a gun-loving libertarian, so ...