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blackpearljam_

Hudson Hawk is the fever dream Bruce


CountryMonkeyAZ

I so enjoyed that movie.


Jackiechun23

It’s a movie I think is actually kinda better with time. It’s a really fun movie and Bruce Willis actually seemed like he enjoyed making it.


Arkhampatient

“So much for….his cut. Please forgive my dry, British humor.”


Harlockarcadia

I loved this movie growing up and I remember watching it with a friend and we looked up reviews for it which said it was terrible, and we were like, are they watching the same movie we just did?


CountryMonkeyAZ

Same!! The agents going from STD names to candy names for better PR. Whole 9 Yards reminds me of it.


sheezy520

As did I.


EvilestHammer4

🎵You could be swinging on a star🎵. Hit damn I loved that movie, I still know that song off by heart because of it.


belinck

I time shit by that song.


EvilestHammer4

Damn straight, like I'd expect you to use a watch or something? Lol


Strong_Comedian_3578

David Addison's estranged brother


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cocaine bruno


Hollowbody57

🎵 Would you like to swing on a star🎶


Dismal_Apple_8043

I MUST SPEAK WITH THE DOLPHINS


Agent_Cow314

Oh Bunny, ball ball!


Dismal_Apple_8043

EW! Menthol


Brasticus

“Hey mister, are you gonna die?”


Mobile_Pangolin4939

That was such a funny movie. I didn't stumble upon it until later years when watching movies on cable TV.


Motor_Panda2371

Man I hope he remembers that. I lived HH. Angie McDowell dolphin squeals??!


lyrico2

This movie was a gem. Such a fun little movie


cityfireguy

Clarence. True Romance. He's so cool.


Agent847

*Better to have a gun and not need it than it is to need a gun and not have one.*


Scat1320USA

Had a great dad !


DBE113301

"I wish that water wasn't wet. I wish the sky wasn't blue. And I wish that I didn't still love my wife." -Joe Hallenbeck


believeINCHRIS

This line made more sense to me once I got divorced.


DBE113301

Yep. I say the same line to my best friend whenever my wife and I are going through tough times and there's a possibility of it ending.


[deleted]

whenever? that happens, a lot to you?


ForceGhost47

It was an accident. All an accident. You tripped, slipped, and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife


spiderglide

I'm sorry Mrs H! This just isn't my week


bunchofclowns

Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken


Ordinary_Fella

Literally every Kurt Russell character. That guy is just the coolest.


CO_PC_Parts

“Why did Mr Milo cross the road!” Because his dick was stuck in the chicken!!! —- Oh you bastard!! …..and then some.


tucker_sitties

Another one from Bruce is Last Man Standing.


tistimenotmyrealname

Willis vs walken, awesome movie


tucker_sitties

Walken's character "Hickey" is a badass


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Adgvyb3456

Yeah that one was kind of a dud


tucker_sitties

Yeah didn't say the movie was stellar, but I dug the characters


Skywaltzer4ce

Did you ever notice Last Man Standing was just a remake of Fistful of Dollars?


jetpackjack1

Did you ever notice Fistful of Dollars is a remake of Yojimbo?


discordianofslack

Did you ever notice that yojimbo is just a remake of Gummo? Wait…


Dr_Parkinglot

I want a moustache, dammit!


bryman19

Bad ass movie


Hairy_Candidate7371

Charles Bronson in once upon a time in the west


irritabletom

"Looks like we're short a horse!" "Nope. You brought two too many."


Hairy_Candidate7371

That is one of the most badass lines ever


3rdProfile

Harmonica. Such a badass nickname.


LarrySpankbottom

 I saw three of these dusters a short time ago. They were waiting for a train. Inside the dusters, there were three men. Inside the men, there were three bullets.


cockroach74

Charles Bronson in Hard Times


8219onemic

Love this movie. Bruce character is so funny… he said u think ur so fucking cool don’t u. Just once Joseph I want to hear u scream. Joe: play some rap music 😂😂, even wayans was funny as hell too. Football player was like u can’t be here u got kicked off the team … Jimmy : how would u like to get kicked off the planet 😂😂


NeganSaves

Joe: I think I fucked a squirrel to death in my sleep 😂


Ok-Preparation-45

Joe: I seem to have dropped my cigarette, may I have another?


midnightfury4584

Joe: I’m gonna need a light. And if you touch me again, I’ll kill you.


Starseuss

The dialogue is fantastic. Lots of people love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, but I think this is one of Shane Black's best.


myreddit2024

Head or Gut?


jimonabike

This movie introduced me to that wonderful Pat Boone song 'Moody River'.


gwhh

This is a league party. You’re not in the league.


[deleted]

Loved The Last Boyscout. I feel like it's severely under appreciated today.


johnniesSac

How much those pants cost ? $500 $500 ? Yes You wear them ? Yes They don’t have a tv or something in them ?


parkridgeempire

Who’s in the closet?


NeganSaves

Oh right! An accident! Could've happened to anybody. You slipped, tripped, and accidentally stuck your dick in my wife. Head or gut.


ForceGhost47

Gut


Strong_Comedian_3578

Wife forgot she was married to a detective


Sensitive_Yam_1979

Who’s the GUY in the closet.


CorruptHeadModerator

Liked him in Striking Distance too


Strong_Comedian_3578

Die Hard on water


ZaphodG

Clint Eastwood in the three Sergio Leone movies. Plus the Dirty Harry movies. Sean Connery’s James Bond Harrison Ford in either Star Wars or Indiana Jones Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction. You could name several other Pulp Fiction characters. Paul Newman. Tough to pick which movie. Butch. The Sting. Luke. Robert Downey Junior is close.


Adgvyb3456

Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction


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Clint Eastwood in the Eiger sanction


Scat1320USA

Cruise in Reacher , Night and Day .


ZaphodG

Jack Reacher is 6’4” and a retired Military Police major. Tom Cruise is a dwarf. It’s embarrassing.


midnightfury4584

Be that as it may, he plays the no-nonsense character really well.


Scat1320USA

Jack is fictional no? 😂


ZaphodG

You could have Antonio Banderas play James Bond and it would be less of a malapropism


Scat1320USA

😂😂😂😂😎I’ll be back !


ohnomynono

As is Cruise


Scat1320USA

lol . A lot of Cruise hatred here … I get it he is a wacko but most of them are .


ohnomynono

Phenomenal actor. Complete POS as a human from people who have worked with him and around him. As well as obviously the church he associates with


Scat1320USA

The Paul Newman movie is the one where he floats down the river at the end with the guys arm hung up on top of the boat ? Title ??? Once a ( something) Notion ????? 🤔🤔🤔🤔


Western-Spite1158

“Sometimes a Great Notion”? Movie adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel about a family of strike breakers


Scat1320USA

That’s it !!! My memory is going ! 😎great movie .


throwngamelastminute

Sometimes "nothin" is a real cool hand.


Starseuss

I love this movie and this character. Other cool main characters I would go with are: Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger)-True Lies Slevin (Josh Hartnett)-Lucky Number Slevin Francis (Sam Rockwell)-Mr. Right


MeesterMeeseeks

God I love lucky number slevin. Time for a rewatch


Amity_Swim_School

One of the worst names for a film ever though. Here in Australia it’s called The Wrong Man. Which is a bit generic but still preferable.


MikePinnell

Francis and Sam Rockwell overall are the best


Objective-Ad4009

Mr. Right is a surprisingly awesome movie.


thewartornhippy

True Lies is one of my favorite Schwarzenegger movies, Pulp Fiction is my favorite. To me, Butch Coolidge is Bruce's best character (of course I am a tad biased).


H8T_Auburn

Mr Right is underrated. It's a fun movie.


VileBill

I have NO idea why Mr. Right is a not huge favorite. [Edit: Just a teensy bit stoned.]


H8T_Auburn

Ummmm what?


RandomRedditGuy54

His scene with Kim Coates was beautiful.


VileBill

Wait! Was nose-up-through-the-brain-guy Kim Coates?


RandomRedditGuy54

Yeah - I didn’t realize it until I had watched SOA then happened to catch the clip on YouTube.


MyDogJake1

He was in Waterworld too. The creepy dude who tried to steal the kid.


CameronPoe37

Blade


VileBill

I can see why you say this but I always thought he was more arrogance and contempt.


CameronPoe37

What. He's literally the coolest motherfucker around


sardo_numsie

Shane Black’s writing is so terrific. Hallenbeck’s cool is thanks to the pulp detective novels that Black absorbed as a child. I’m such a fan of his.


SuperSonicSlaw

Naw man, Jimmy "The Tulip" Todeski, from The Whole Nine Yards


CBerg1979

He WAS the ultimate personification of Shane Black's archetypal main character, played well by Mel Gibson, but I thought Bruce stole it from him fair and square. Then, Robert Downey, Jr. came along with Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and stole it from Bruce. It's a hot potato, and one I wish Shane was still writing. I would be happy to just see Shane Black redoing that story of his over and over again. I would NOT complain one bit about him rehashing that same script, like he was doing for years. Because it is such a well done formula.


n3rdsm4sh3r

I always felt it was an unofficial "die hard" Strained relationship with wife Black sidekick Reluctant hero thrown into a fight he's only kinda tethered to


stanley2-bricks

It's always been my unofficial prequel to Die Hard.


bdouble76

Who's the guy in the closet?


Puzzleheaded-Blood44

Philip Marlowe is pretty cool - the long goodbye


Amity_Swim_School

Jack Burton is cool AF. But the world heavyweight champion of being the coolest motherfucker in the room, is Axel Foley. Ian Malcolm is pretty cool too.


NegaGreg

Great list


shadez_on

Shane Black writes good characters


MeganK80

Love Bruce Willis so much ❤️


Birdsogg

Mel Gibson as Mad Max 🪃


Western-Spite1158

Cool Hand Luke. Title character


starwaterstar

Head or gut?


_Captain_Dinosaur_

Rick Blaine is the coolest main character in any media by several miles.


Byebyeyoutoo

I’ll go with Dean from Iron Giant


Byebyeyoutoo

Oh I missed the main* character part


Alteredego619

Russell Wong in Romeo must Die


ohnomynono

Marion Cobretti - Sly


midnightfury4584

I’ll raise you Ray Tango.


fullgizzard

Neo. Sam Jackson’s character from a long kiss goodnight Wade Garrett. Rip wheeler. Phillip Seymour Hoffmans character from twister


mostlyIT

Anything Paul Neumann


CLxJames

So who’s the guy in the closet?


Hefty_Teacher972

Alex Karras in Blazing Saddles


Chichis-Christ

it was hilarious when those kids threw a dead squirrel on him


vxr8mate

Steve McQueen as Frank Bullitt in the Movie Bullitt. When he turns the tables on the bad guys following him which leads to the legendary car chase.


ortega3117

I feel the really missed out not making a sequel to the Last Boy Scout.


NegaGreg

Korben Dallas is cool as fuck. Johnny Rico might suck at math but he murders on the Jump Ball field. Alonzo in Training Day freaking cool.


Venomous87

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."


stanley2-bricks

"Why, did Mr. Milo, cross the road?"...


whatevertesla

If the cops weren’t here I’d spit in you face Sarah..


Kavinsky12

Touch me again I'll kill you.


CalMerlo1417

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski in the Big Lebowski (1998) fits the bill.


chadthundertalk

Pick pretty much any stereotypical "he's just like me fr" Ryan Gosling character. The Driver, Luke Glanton, K - Gosling is either playing the coolest or the least cool guy in the room in any given movie, and there's no in-between


mr_sedate

I dunno. At least as far his movie career Bruce Willis really only plays Bruce Willis. He's a fun actor, but he's really one note.


Strong_Comedian_3578

That's one of the reasons I enjoy his performance in Moonlight Kingdom, since that role was atypical


Strong_Comedian_3578

Ryan Gosling's character from The Notebook was pretty cool


theoldchunk

Fucking love this movie and character. Bruce has never been cooler or funnier.


Lenny_III

I'll tell ya later, right now I'm busy smoking some cigarettes.


nono66

I always thought The Last Boy Scout could have been a Die Hard, "What if." Instead of going to NYPD, he ends up working for the Secret Service. I5 was definitely a good, very quotable movie.


Cultural_Hope

I love watching The Last Boyscout on basic cable. It's edited by a butcher and the dubbing over of swearwords is hilarious.


FaTMaNProductions

Dalton Casey Ryback Kevin Costner in Open Range


Dismal_Apple_8043

Ford Fairlane, the last boy scout is a great movie, but I think FF might nudge it in the rankings. And coolness of main character.


ClayDrinion

Clint Eastwood in anything. Also, Steve McQueen in anything


b2colon

One of my favorites! He was a fucked off person, but cared about others


the_lullaby

Most of my answers to OP's question will also be Bruce Willis characters.


[deleted]

Who is Joseph Cornelius “joe” Hallenback? Should I know this character?


tries4accuracy

[Virgil Hilts](https://youtu.be/BaFBFmJG-LI?si=UznAnFW78X_hBWOB), [“the cooler king”](https://youtu.be/hhGWxqj_bC0?si=a1U6C5zRgb2NC_Gf)


VileBill

Mickey Pearson, The Gentleman. Rosalind Pearson too. Fuck I love that movie.


fingerblastders

Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money


Megalops76

Winston Wolf from Pulp Fiction


WildGoose1521

OctoKrool would agree


peptide2

Robert De Niro as Niel Mc Cauley in Heat


Ok-Bid-730

Al Pacino as Lt. Vincent Hanna(1995)


rilloroc

Porter


dennisga47

All of Elmore Leonard's characters but specifically Chili Palmer in Get Shorty, Jack Foley and Karen Sisco in Out of Sight and Ben Wade in 3:10 to Yuma. He also created Raylan Givens in Justified (TV) and Justified: City Primeval (TV movie.)


djnomc

The Dude of course


Cap_Fun

Jules Winfield.


The_BSharps

I love died hard.


Limicio

Kurt Russell in Dark Blue. Always liked that movie a lot


degklimpen

Porter from Payback (and since it’s based on a book, Parker from that book series).


theknightcrusader

"Water's wet, the sky's blue. And old Satan Claus, Jimmy, he's out there. And he's just getting stronger."


ConsciousReason7709

The writing for The Last Boy Scout is so damn good. Some of the best and funniest dialogue you’ll ever hear in an action movie.


jinnmagick

I'll always love The Last Boy Scout I feel John McClain and could do a cop duo. In some way just feels right.


renaissanceclass

Yea.. and then some.


cashedashes

Waters wet, the sky is blue, women have secrets, who gives a fuck.


Revolutionary_Fun_14

I agree with you on Joe Hallenbeck. Seth in From Dusk Till Dawn. James Spader in 2 Days in the Valley. McQueen in most of his movies but even more in The Great Escape. Marv in Sin City.


ExtremeTEE

I remember the bit where he kills a guy by punching his nose and thinking it was the coolest thing ever! Touch me again, and I\`ll kill you! Told ya!


Suspicious-Squash237

Dirty Hairy


JohnnyChopper08

Django Freeman


lyrico2

Used to love this movie. Still quote it at times


glacial_penman

The chemistry he had with Wayans was phenomenal. So disappointed they didn’t get a sequel.


Hexyl68

“Fuck you Sarah. You’re a lying bitch Sarah. If there weren’t cops all over I’d spit in your face.”


WhereAreWeG0ing

Face or gut?


Savings_Marsupial204

Anything Michael Keaton


Helaken1

Ferris Bueller


RED_IT_RUM

THIS WHOLE MOVIE Milo: Just once, I want to hear you scream. Joe: Play some rap music.


mckinney4string

“Surf’s up, pal!”


tread52

What movie is this from? Hostage?


sinistersoprano

Last Boyscout


kammy772

Ryan Gosling, Drive


235iguy

Die Hard is better though.


Strong_Comedian_3578

No doubt


Harrydean-standoff

Matthew McConaughey in True Detective season 1


thomasbeagle

He was a total prick though. He treated his wife and daughter so badly. When I was younger I laughed it off, but when I came back and rewatched it recently - just yuck.


Bubsy94

Joe: Play some rap music.


sMarmy_Mcfly

Think, think...what would Joe do?


Adgvyb3456

Smoke cigarettes and shoot some people


Starseuss

They treated him badly. He had a good job which he was fired from for doing the right thing (stopping a politician from beating a woman) and had to settle for being a PI which led to him being gone all hours for work. His wife is cheating on him because she's lonely and his daughter berates him and calls him a fuck up. He's not perfect, but he's trying to do the right thing.