Greatest Action Star Ever

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Who you got?

Bruce Willis? Charles Bronson? Arnold? Stallone?

I'm going to say Arnold for sheer popularity and success of films. I personally liked Bruce Willi better though.
 
Predator and Terminator were my favorite movies growing up and still are among my favorites so i gotta go with AHNOLD.
 
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None of his successors can touch Connery as Bond. I had read all the books when the Bond movies started coming out, and he was exactly what I had imagined Bond to be while reading the books. Even the hair was perfect (of course, it was a wig)
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Are we talking true action packed hero? or are we talking overall film badass?

For pure action, I have to vote Jacki Chan. What is he, like 60 now, and he's still doing his own stunts after what, about 100 flicks; falling, jumping, flipping, and climbing like a monkey. For modern action star Tony Jaa is pretty incredible but it remains to be seen if he's going to have a lasting future outside made for Thai audience films.

For overall film badass, it's a tough choice. Clint has a mystique that is hard to replicate, Bruce Li was an actual badass that could literally kick the **** out of, well, anyone, and Arnold's films have some serious action and an extreme box office record.
 
I would go with Clint. Josey Wales, Dirty Harry, Man with No Name and Filo Beddoe are pretty action intensive just not of the big budget special effect sort.
 
Mel Gibson

The road warrior
Lethal weapon
The Patriot
BraveHeart
Directed Apocolypto
Ransom
Payback

Arnold and Sly are my favorites


one of my new favorites is Jason Statham (transporter)
I had an ex, everytime we would see one of his flicks she would give me some ***. Thanks dude. :)
 
Harrison Ford wins. Easily. Look at the list of movies.

Think about the first time you watched Raiders of the Lost Ark on the big screen.
 
I never see Harrison Ford as all that believable, but he does make entertaining action movies.
There are different genres, and different types of stars, gotta love Sean Connery as James Bond-he's the perfect Bond.
Predator is great with Arnold taking a mud bath and fighting mano a mano, but there's only one who clearly stands above the rest-Bruce Lee. Incredible martial arts fighter, and he killed Chuck Norris after yanking half his chest hair out and tap dancing on his face.
 
My "populist" choice is Arnold.

As a dark horse, I submit Chow Yun Fat for the films The Killer and Hard Boiled. Too bad his later films don't hold up to that standard.
 
Arnold is great in the big budget stuff. In a down and dirty street fight I'll take Charles Bronson. His work as Paul Kersey was near perfect.

Don't forget the ladies. How about Sigourney Weaver in the Alien series?
 
Jason Statham kicks ***. Gotta go with Chuck for all time bad *** though...he can lick the back of his own head.
 
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