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4/19/2004

You killed my father…

In response to this mockery, I post Steelbuddha’s 100 Best Movie Characters From Movies (Mostly Geeky Ones) I’ve Seen Subject To Change As I Remember Others Or Am Reminded By Comments And/or Angry Emails And Most Importantly In No Particular Order.

Also, I’m a totally uninteresting person with nothing better to post than the fact that I had haggis this weekend at a Tartan Day party and didn’t see what people get so disgusted over. It tasted like pork liver hash to me.

P.S. I’m still behind on my classic films; I may change a lot of these once I’ve actually seen things like To Kill a Mockingbird, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and *gasp* The Godfather.

100. Inigo Montoya – The Princess Bride
99. Travis Bickle – Taxi Driver
98. Tyler Durden – Fight Club
97. Eleanor of Aquitaine – The Lion in Winter
96. Vicomte de Valmont – Dangerous Liaisons

95. Marquise de Merteuil – Dangerous Liaisons
94. James Bond – Sean Connery as…
93. Indiana Jones
92. Ellen Ripley – any Alien movie
91. Hannibal Lecter – Silence of the Lambs (though I’d like to see Manhunter)

90. Phil Conners – Groundhog Day
89. Captain Quint – Jaws
88. Willy Wonka
87. John McClane – Die Hard
86. Forrest Gump – Even though I lost Tom Hanks there for a while

85. Mrs. Robinson – The Graduate
84. The Dude – The Big Lebowski
83. Col. Kurtz – Apocalypse Now
82. Rocky Balboa
81. Edward Scissorhands

80. Navin Johnson – The Jerk
79. Inspector Clouseau – The Pink Panther
78. Ferris Bueller
77. Dr. Strangelove
76. Jack Torrance – The Shining

75. Darth Vader (post Episode III, pre-jub jub)
74. Captain Jack Sparrow
73. Raymond Babbitt – Rain Man
72. Roger “Verbal” Kint – The Usual Suspects
71. Zorro – Tony B. and Tony H. in the modern remake of “The Mask of Zorro”

70. D’artagnan – Gabriel Byrne in the modern remake of “The Man in the Iron Mask”
69. Porthos – Gerard Depardieu, same
68. Spider-man/Peter Parker – Tobey Maguire
67. Batman/Bruce Wayne – Michael Keaton
66. Fezzik – The Princess Bride

65. Harvey Pekar – American Splendor
64. The main crew from Star Trek (Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, Uhura, Scotty)
63. Sweeney Todd
62. Hans Gruber – Die Hard
61. God – Dogma (Alanis struck me as the perfect God…sorry)

60. Morpheus – The Matrix (Not the Trilogy)
59. The Oracle – The Matrix Trilogy
58. Agent Smith – The Matrix (Not the Trilogy)
57. Doc Holliday – Tombstone
56. Chris Knight – Real Genius

55. Dr. Frankenstein – Young Frankenstein
54. Toddy – Victor Victoria
53. Maverick – Mel Gibson OR James Garner
52. Leeloo Dallas – The Fifth Element
51. Sam Gamgee – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

50. Aragorn – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
49. Thomas Nash – A Beautiful Mind
48. Katsumoto – The Last Samurai
47. The Joker – Jack Nicholson (though Mark Hamill does a ultra-fine job on the voice)
46. Jareth, the Goblin King – Labyrinth

>>cop-outs with sincerity ahead<< 45. Any muppet from any muppet movie. 44. Ghostbusters (any) 43. Jack Nicholson (in anything) - as requested by CG. 42. John Malkovich (in anything) - as discussed with CG. 41. Christopher Walken (in anything) - as approved by CG. >> Hey, I could have listed all that shit out separately.<< 40. Gny. Sgt. Hartman - Full Metal Jacket 39. Darkness - Tim Curry in Legend 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 32. 31. 30. 29. 28. 27. 26. 25. 24. 23. 22. 21. >>Can I just say here that Young Sherlock Holmes was a highly overlooked and underestimated movie?<< 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

3 Comments

  1. To that, I’d add:

    Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner.

    And there’s a part of me that wants to add Fox Harris as J. Frank Parnell in Repo Man and Jack Nicholson as Jack Nicholson in anything he’s ever done.

    More when I can think of them.

    Comment by Czeltic Girl — 4/19/2004 @ 1:45 pm

  2. …You’re not my Father!…

    Comment by Tazja — 4/19/2004 @ 6:46 pm

  3. Actually, the correct answer was “Prepare to die.” But thanks for playing our game. We have the home edition and a metirc ton of some powdered food for you.

    Comment by steelbuddha — 4/27/2004 @ 8:38 am

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