HuskerThor Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Top Five Rappers (In no particular order): The Gza, The Rza, Dr. Dre, Method Man and Big Boi +1 for Keith Moon. That took WAY too long for his name to come around Ice T. Colors is an awesome song. Eminem/Bruno Mars Lighters is a pretty cool song. I have recently, because of my granddaughter, become a huge Bruno Mars fan. Quote Link to comment
wiuhusker Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Best Western Villian: That's a good one, although in the OP I already answered that in a roundabout way. This is pure semantics, but I consider (for whatever stupid reason) Munny to represent kind of a niche role that is relatively rare: The anti-hero. So, by that sleight of hand nonsense, I am free to answer. I'd consider Johnny Ringo pretty strongly. (Tombstone.) He's a dangerous sociopath...his ease and skill for menacing violence is kind of the key element that make the Cowboys as feared as they are. Minus Ringo, they're still a dangerous group but perhaps not quite as formidible and untouchable. For fans of The Wire, think of Marlo without Chris or Avon without Wee-Bey. Still people to be taken very seriously, but the intimidation factor is significantly lessened. He doesn't miss by much. Coy Lahood from Pale Rider is a pretty solid villain. Good character, but doesn't quite match Ringo imo. Jack Wilson from Shane (played by Jack Palance) is a great villain. He even has the black garb to go with his dark intentions. I'd definitely put him over LaHood, but he gives Ringo a run for his money. Palance gives the best performance of the movie, I always thought. (Side note - At the end, do you think Shane is dead? I say yes.) Gene Hackman actually gives us a pretty good villain from a pretty average movie: The Quick and the Dead, John Herod. (True story: I've had three nightmares involving Gene Hackman where I owe him money for a large amount of drugs that I have lost or had stolen or something...really, really weird. Haven't had that one for at least 7 years, but it was bizarre.) But I knew pretty much right away who I'd go with: Angel Eyes, played by Lee Van Cleef. First of all, it's an all time movie, regardless of genre: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Angel Eyes is literally "The Bad." And there is something about the way he projects a genuine sense of pleasure in the suffering of others that gets him my vote. Ringo jars even his own criminal comrades when he cooly murders that Priest early in Tombstone, but he's indifferent. And not indifferent in the normal sense, but indifferent the way a sociopath is completely unaffected by the feeling's of others. Angel Eyes is sadistic. He enjoys making people suffer. **How about Best Shoot-Out Scene? I'm fighting to find something other than the Heat heist. But I'm also hearing, "You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all," in the back of my mind. I'll have to think on that one. One that immediately came to my mind was the scene out of Boondock Saints with the shootout at the house. I'm sure there are better ones though. Quote Link to comment
Nebula Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 YEah, I think there are, but that is a quality shoot-out scene, no question! Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 SCode I get it you like Clapton. He is a great guitarist. I just feel his best most creative work was done with Cream. You know it is not him playing that slide guitar in Lala. That's the late great Duane Alman. Everyone is entitled to his opinion. Quote Link to comment
HuskerThor Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 SCode I get it you like Clapton. He is a great guitarist. I just feel his best most creative work was done with Cream. You know it is not him playing that slide guitar in Lala. That's the late great Duane Alman. Everyone is entitled to his opinion. Clapton was ok, but SRV was much much better. Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 SCode I get it you like Clapton. He is a great guitarist. I just feel his best most creative work was done with Cream. You know it is not him playing that slide guitar in Lala. That's the late great Duane Alman. Everyone is entitled to his opinion. Clapton was ok, but SRV was much much better. I love SRV cover of Little Wing. It was a very sad day when that man died. Quote Link to comment
SCode Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 First off, I like SRV as well, his studio version of VooDoo Child is one of the best songs EVER. However there are opinions and there are facts, and the fact is you guys are wrong. Clapton is it. Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 First off, I like SRV as well, his studio version of VooDoo Child is one of the best songs EVER. However there are opinions and there are facts, and the fact is you guys are wrong. Clapton is it. No such thing as facts when it comes to music only opinions. Quote Link to comment
SCode Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 First off, I like SRV as well, his studio version of VooDoo Child is one of the best songs EVER. However there are opinions and there are facts, and the fact is you guys are wrong. Clapton is it. No such thing as facts when it comes to music only opinions. Have to agree there. Quote Link to comment
QMany Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I'm young and don't listen to "music." Can we talk about about Top-5 rappers of all-time? I"ll go top overrated rappers, it's easy Jay Z Notorious BIG Tupac Lil Wayne Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 First off, I like SRV as well, his studio version of VooDoo Child is one of the best songs EVER. However there are opinions and there are facts, and the fact is you guys are wrong. Clapton is it. Hendrix killed god... now my friend, "THAT", is it... Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Best villain- that is a tough one, there have been so many good ones. I'll go with Heath Ledger as the Joker. Best gangster character- Have to go with Joe Pesci in Casino followed closely by Tony Montana. Best sports character- Easy, Herb Brooks in Miracle. Again. Best character in a western. Another category chock full of good choices but my favorite main character is the man with no name, Clint Eastwood, in the greatest western of all time, High Plains Drifter. The midget Mortichie (sp) was also a great secondary character. But absolutely nothing wrong with William Munny or Josey Wales. Honorable mention for Bridges as Rooster Cogburn in the True Grit remake. Best shootout- I'm partial to Open Range. When Costner pops the hired gunhand in the forehead at point blank range- now that's good cinema. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Guess I better weigh in on the music category. Drummer- No contest, Neil Perth. If that isn't your number one pick, you might very well be really wrong. Guitarist is open a bit more to opinion. Clapton is great but I'm in the SRV camp. He could make his soul ooze out of every chord. Texas Flood, Voodoo Chile, Sky Is Cryin, come on now. And howabout a shoutout for BB King. Ain't nobody ever duplicated the sound he got out of six strings. Quote Link to comment
SCode Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Add some more to the list after EC: Eric Johnson David Gilmour Jeff Beck Yngwie Neil Schon Kenny Wayne Sheppard Anybody that has ever played with Lynyrd Skynyrd Another drummer: Stewart Copeland(sp?) Quote Link to comment
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