Quote:
Originally Posted by Wes  Dr. Kyojō Niide (Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard)
Trapper John McIntyre (Elliot Gould, MASH)
Yang Hui-zhen (Hsu Feng, A Touch of Zen), pictured below
Elizabeth Báthory (Delphine Seyrig, Daughters of Darkness)
Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid)
Kowalski (Barry Newman, Vanishing Point)
Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider, Sorcerer)
Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen, Apocalypse Now)
John Ryder (Rutger Hauer, The Hitcher)
Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro, Heat)  |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wes Susan's point is well made. I caught a chunk of Olympus Has Fallen on TV recently and the gun play in the film was totally gratuitous to the point where I was cringing. Okay, hardly a film of quality like Hardboiled, but I couldn't help thinking this was the last thing a trigger happy society needed. For years I thought James Cameron's pacifist Terminator in Judgement Day was ridiculous but 26 years later, I can better appreciate his decision... |
Having said that you clearly find it acceptable to murder a young woman and bathe in her blood, string someone up between two vehicles and tear them in two, drive at ridiculous speed causing numerous accidents, oh and not forgetting to rob a bank in downtown LA and have a huge shoot out in the street.
Sorry Wes, your argument doesn't really hold up.