Who is your ultimate tough guy?

Joe Pesci in Goodfellas

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I think the ultimate tough guy is AL PACINO!

Tyler Durden is bad ass!!

My favorites:

1. Terry Malloy- On the Waterfront.
2. John Mclane- Die Hard (part 1 only)

Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
Joe Pesci - Casino
Clive Owen - Sin City
Brad Pitt - Fight Club
Bruce Willis - Die Hard
James Caan - The Godfather
Al Pacino - The Godfather Pt II
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction
Robert De Niro - Heat

I'll think of more later.

Ones already mentioned who are my favorites:

Big Chris from Lock Stock
Viggo Mortensen in A History Of Violence
Frank in They Live
Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale
John McLane in Die Hard
Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness in Untouchables
Burt Reynolds as Lewis Medlock in Deliverance
John Rambo from Rambo
Rocky from the Rocky films
Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies
Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan in The Departed )
Joe Pesci as Tommy in GoodFellas (who in real life was over 6 feet tall and supposedly a handsome guy)
Jason Statham from the movie Crank
Nick Cage in Con Air
Mel Gibson as Porter in Payback
Samuel L. Jackson - Pulp Fiction

Others of mine:

King Leonidas in 300


Jett Li in Kiss of the Dragon


And of course my man Michael Myers from Halloween.

No other than Brad Pitt he is my ultimate tough guy...

Steve McQueen
Charles Bronson

still living tough guys, Sam Elliot(Road House), Russel Crowe (real life tough guy!) Mel Gibson (Road Warrior)

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Sorry, but how can Joe Pesci's character in Goodfellas be consiered a tough guy? I guess we all have definitions on such a phrase.

For example, when I think of a tough guy, I think heroes or anti-heroes who can more than handle themselves in physical or mental menace.

Joe Pesci's character was pyschotic and unpredictable, but the guy was clearly insecure and suffered from that "small man mentallity". If anything, he was a bully and nothing more.

Charles Bronson was awesome in the Death Wish series....

Need I say more?

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I'll go you one better, Sedai--Elisha Cook Jr. as Harry Jones ("Little
Jonesy") who knowingly takes and drinks the poison given to him by Canino (also a tough character as played by former cowboy star Bob Steele) rather than give Canino info leading to his girlfriend in The Big Sleep. Takes a tough man to willingly drink down a bellyful of fire to protect some "broad."

Cook's diminitive characters were always tougher than they looked: As the homosexual gunsel Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon, he guns down off-screen a bigger tough guy who was first protecting the girl; he kicks a drugged Bogart in the head; he escapes from Spade, Gutman, and the rest in Spade's apartment, gets a gun and then shoots Gutman and maybe Peter Lorre's character as the cops close in on him. (In the book he gets both of those characters).

And in Shane, as Stonewall Torrey, he not only confronts but talks back to the hired killer Wilson (Jack Palance) and when the killer outdraws him, he doesn't run, crawl, or beg--just stands there and take a bullet in the gut. Tough!

No wonder Cook was known as Hollywood's lightest heavy!

They say this cat Shaft was a baaad mutha...

right on!!

I'm at a loss for new actors to include, unless...
Jesse Ventura in Predator - "I ain't got time to bleed"

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Sam (Robert De Niro) in Ronin comes to mind. I like my tough guys to be smart.



That's also why I think Bogie's Sam Spade takes the cake.

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Yep.
Charles Bronson for me too.

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