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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 20, 2019 16:02:33 GMT
I only picked 15 at first but added a couple at the bottom I couldn't bear to leave off but feel free to write in some more or elaborate. Cops are ok, but no private eyes because they are d*cks (bad pun) and Tommy Lee Jones who is getting screwed here because he's a US Marshall in The Fugitive.
Some guys get 2 picks and could have gotten more - it could have been an Eastwood list but tried to spread it around.
2 picks only - go ahead make my day.......
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Post by Viced on Jun 20, 2019 16:07:26 GMT
1. Harvey Keitel, Bad Lieutenant
2. George C. Scott, The New Centurions
3. Robert Ryan, On Dangerous Ground
4. James Woods, Cop
5. Mickey Rourke, Year of the Dragon
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Post by wallsofjericho on Jun 20, 2019 16:08:21 GMT
I would go with Pearce in LA Confidential. Good list though. Eastwood would be a close second.
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Post by stephen on Jun 20, 2019 16:09:11 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 20, 2019 17:00:28 GMT
Pearce and Pacino (Serpico) are my picks from that list. I think Pearce is seriously underrated in LA Confidential. It's a strong cast but he comfortably topped them all.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 20, 2019 17:10:52 GMT
Many great performances there.
I choose Serpico and Marge Gunderson .
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 20, 2019 17:42:19 GMT
1. Harvey Keitel, Bad LieutenantYeah that performance is male American best of the decade level overall - certainly on the shortlist with Denzel in Malcolm X and a couple others at most and he's probably American actor of the decade or again on a very shortlist. A couple others not on the list that really get into the psychology of cops and work well together in different degrees: Pacino in Cruising/Insomnia, Eastwood in the underrated Tightrope and the performance of Richard Gere's life in Internal Affairs - as a completely amoral cop whose job removes him from his humanity entirely. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Jun 20, 2019 17:44:19 GMT
Deserves a mention...  |
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Post by stephen on Jun 20, 2019 17:45:57 GMT
Keitel's great and all, but in terms of bad lieutenants, Cage reigns supreme.
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Post by Viced on Jun 20, 2019 18:06:06 GMT
Can't believe I didn't mention Ray Liotta in Narc.  I mean, Liotta is probably the best cop actor of all time. Cop Land, The Place Beyond the Pines, Observe and Report (which he had no business being so good in)... and the list goes on and on after those. |
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Post by Viced on Jun 20, 2019 18:07:26 GMT
bitch, please...  |
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Post by stephen on Jun 20, 2019 18:08:27 GMT
bitch, please... Worthy silver-medallists (and Goggins is super-close at that). Shit, I could throw Clarke Peters in here from The Wire. Natural po-leece. |
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Post by cherry68 on Jun 20, 2019 18:45:14 GMT
Enrico Lo Verso, Il ladro di bambini.
I didn't like him in other movies, but here he's so perfect and human.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2019 19:40:54 GMT
Marge and Popeye.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 20, 2019 20:09:00 GMT
Shit, I could throw Clarke Peters in here from The Wire. Natural po-leece.  |
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 21, 2019 20:37:32 GMT
John McClane for me, with Serpico as my other choice. HUGE HM to Marge and Somerset
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 22, 2019 6:16:52 GMT
Gian Maria Volonte - Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 22, 2019 6:49:04 GMT
aren't we forgetting someone?!?  |
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Post by mhynson27 on Jun 22, 2019 8:29:35 GMT
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Post by Archie on Jun 22, 2019 8:38:25 GMT
Tim Robbins in Short Cuts deserves a mention.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 24, 2019 17:30:59 GMT
Not mentioned yet.... John C Reilly in Magnolia, his innocuous by-the-books cop, a little inept, ashamed, candid, which he doesn't entirely untie from while courting his new unlikely love...
Jim Kurring: A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour... job's over. Something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don't see... is just how hard it is to do the right thing. People think if I make a judgment call... that's a judgment on them, but that is not what I do. And that's not what should be done. I have to take everything... and play it as it lays. Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail. And that is a very tricky thing on my part... making that call. I mean, the law is the law. And heck if I'm gonna break it. You can forgive someone. Well, that's the tough part. What can we forgive? Tough part of the job. Tough part of walking down the street.
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