Following on from the Segull thread this is my top five hard men

1) Arnie – esp for predator, commando, terminator & Conan, the only guy who has knocked out a camel on film.

2) Bruce Lee – he is double hard

3) Rambo aka Sylvester Stallone

4) Chuck Norris – top of his list has to be The Delta Force

5) Bruce Willis – got to be… Die Hard…

Segal, Mel Gibson, John Woo and the muscles from Brussels make it into the top 10.

Charles Bronson – truely hard. Sold by his parents at the age of 12 to a potato farmer.

while Bronson is proper hard, he had his story made into a movie… he isnt a proper movie hard man.

Jet Li

Liam Neeson, for Taken.

Piers Brosnan for Seraphim Falls.

Russell Crowe, for Gladiator and Proof of Life.

And my favourite Conan the Barbarian moment is when he bites the vulture. 🙂

Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues
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Jason Statham – Brit Hollywood hard man and fellow hair loser…!

Michael Caine for Harry Brown.

Liam Neeson, for Taken.

It's an OK film, but for me it relied too much on technology that I sincerely doubt was available in the mid 80s.

I think I prefer my hardmen to be a little more psychotic…

It's an OK film, but for me it relied too much on technology that I sincerely doubt was available in the mid 80s.

like mobile phones ?

[edit] film was 2008 and I took it to be contemporary…

No this time Gal…. NO!

like mobile phones ?

[edit] film was 2008 and I took it to be contemporary…

Come on… When was the last time 2 teenage girls went round Europe following U2?

😆

Ben Kingsley.
Christ, I backed away from the telly when I first saw him in Sexy Beast!

Proper actor – Same bloke is Ghandi one day and that thing the next.

Ben Kingsley.

or Bendy Ghandi as he's known in my household 🙂

Don Logan….say no more 😕

+1 for Clint

no one mentioned the Duke yet?

Kingsley in Sexy Beast is quite the turn

Being a movie "hard man" has nothing to do with a peacock physique.
The gym monkies mentioned by the OP don't come across as hard – they come across as cartoonish.

+1 for Eastwood and Bronson

Hard to me is all about attitude, not size. You need a pyschotic little nutter to make a convincing hard man. (for some reason Robert Carlyle comes to mind…)

You need a pyschotic little nutter to make a convincing hard man.

Guy Pearce in "The Proposition"

Richard Harris "A man called Horse"

Sean Pertwee "Dog Soldiers" ok it's a comedy, but having your intestines shoved back in and glued and still shooting werewolves?!! FFS!! 😛

John Wayne " The Shootist" the best organised suicide ever.

Not hard as in tough but in spirit.(do you know what i'm trying to say?)

"You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself!"

Guy Pearce in "The Proposition"

I still have nightmares about that film. 😯 🙂

in the all time top 5 of the movie's hardest men, Chuck Norris fills position 1 – 5

rkk01 – Member
The gym monkies don't come across as hard – they come across as cartoonish.

that is the whole point – movie ie action 'hard man' take arnie, hard man playing fictional characters in story book like adventures fighting mythical creatures and aliens…

BUT… I totally agree – real hard men / people you really wouldn’t want to cross are totally different…

On that note… Clint and Tony Montana / Michael Corleone AKA Pacino get my vote.

mr. blonde

begby

considine – dead man's shoes

any joe pesci gangster role

early grace – kalifornia