Boardsies Greatest Movie Star of the 90s - Live Thread

Omackeral

Bruce Willis - Great anti-hero

Samuel L Jackson - More bad ass.

PsychoPete

Anthony Hopkins
Samuel L Jackson

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Bruce Willis ; will stick with my nomination here... Yipee-Ki-Ay Motherf**ker!

Will Smith ; love both, but will give Smith a vote for Enemy of the State and also because I nominated him

Zaph

Bruce Willis
Samuel L Jackson

Kolido

Bruce Willis 6 Vs 4 Anthony Hopkins
Will Smith 1 Vs 6 Samuel L Jackson

Hopefully wrap this up tomorrow, thanks everyone.

Sawduck

Bruce Willis
Samuel L Jackson

Kolido

Semi Finals - First to 7 votes or winning actors at 12pm

Staring...

Tom Hanks
Jim Carrey
Bruce Willis
Samuel L Jackson

Kolido

Semi Final 1



Samuel L. Jackson - Movie highlights

Pulp Fiction: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_142
Die Hard with a Vengeance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112864/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_137
Jackie Brown: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119396/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_127


Bruce Willis - Movie highlights

Die Hard 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099423/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_114
The Fifth Element: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_93
Armageddon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_88

Samuel L. Jackson Vs Bruce Willis

Kolido

Semi Final 2



Jim Carrey - Movie highlights

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_46
Dumb and Dumber: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_44
The Truman Show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_36


Tom Hanks - Movie highlights

Sleepless in Seattle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_67
Forrest Gump: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_63
Saving Private Ryan: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_58


Jim Carrey Vs Tom Hanks

PsychoPete

Two tough choices, I'll have to go with Samuel L Jackson and Jim Carrey

Girly Gal

Bruce Willis ( extremely tight call with Samuel L Jackson)
Tom Hanks he was in so many brilliant wide ranging films and always gave a great performance

Necro

Bruce Willis

Dammit I was hoping these guys would avoid each other. Both my noms. Just prefer Bruce's output a little more, Armageddon being the tipping point as they both appeared in Pulp Fiction and Die Hard 3 (which wasn't great admittedly)


Tom Hanks

Again, my nomination and it's a 90s Oscar Winner up against a goofball actor. Not to take away from Carrey as you don't win Oscars playing roles like his but that being said he essentially played the same lunatic across a couple of different movies.

Hanks is miles the better actor here, his performance in Philadelphia is often very much forgotten ahead of the more mainstream Forrest Gump.

Ficheall

Samuel L. Jackson
I like both. Both play essentially the same character all the time, but they do it really well.

I just think SLJ is a little bit cooler.



Tom Hanks
Has some variety to his roles. Aside from the Truman Show, Jim Carrey doesn't show much range.

Bruce - As Necro says, I just prefer his output more.

Tom Hanks - Total mismatch.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Bruce Willis ; love both, but just think Willis was in more '90s classics and '90s was his peak, whereas Jackson's career is still going strong and some of his best work has been in the 21st Century.

Tom Hanks ; again, love both, but Hanks dominated the '90s, is one of the greatest actors of all-time, and would love to see him win the tournament.

Omackeral

Bruce Willis. There’s a bit more of a authenticity to his characters, even the 5th Element one. He’s quite human. Jackson gets to ham it up a lot but I’m very aware he’s playing these OTT roles.

Tom Hanks. He makes what should be mundane characters and makes them interesting. It’s a gift for sure.

Samuel - if I don’t vote for him he will strike me down with great vengeance.

Tom Hanks - that man could run.

Reberetta

Samuel L. Jackson
Better actor.

Tom Hanks
More versatile.

Kolido

Samuel L Jackson 4 Vs 5 Bruce Willis
Jim Carrey 1 Vs 7 Tom Hanks

the purple tin

SLJ _ He never stops working, and his appearance in a film instantly makes it better. Also he was probably the only actor who could have played John Shaft in the remake.


Tom Hanks - Carrey was the better comedy actor, although Otm had some great comic roles in the 80s, but Otm has it for his 90s drama.

Dagnabbit! I keep missing the boat by mere seconds.

Kolido

Welcome to the Final

Please PM me your vote, line closes at 8pm

Please continue to discuss the finalists here but please don't state who you voted for.

Best of luck to both

Kolido

Final



Bruce Willis

Route to final...

R1 6-0 Ed Harris
R2 6-1 Matt Damon
R3 6-1 Harvey Keitel
R4 6-4 Brad Pitt
QF 6-4 Anthony Hopkins
SF 5-4 Samuel L Jackson

Tom Hanks

Route to final...

R1 6-1 Tim Roth
R2 6-2 Colm Meaney
R3 6-0 Kevin Costner
R4 6-3 Morgan Freeman
QF 6-2 Julia Roberts
SF 7-1 Jim Carrey


Bruce Willis Vs Tom Hanks

the purple tin

We are talking about the 90s output, but one of these two actors has started releasing films with his name in front of them ie: 'Joe Soap's, Terminal Disaster' or 'Joe Soap's, Hell in a Handbasket'.
It is never a good sign, people who have done it previously include such screen luminaries as Jean Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal

Girly Gal

Both worthy finalists and in my opinion it's very close, their films are completely different, but, between them their films defined the nineties. Don't really mind which one wins as either would be worthy winners. Bruce was more than just an action star, but, my vote goes to Tom Hanks who just about edges it due to his range of films being more varied and his performances were always first class.

Reberetta

You're supposed to send a private message to Kolido.

JP Liz V1

Bruce Willis - I still cry at Armageddon, 90s was his time to shine

Tom Hanks - the comedy man went out all serious, damn impressive

Irish Aris

I just checked and realised that I nominated both of the finalists.
Both of them had a great decade.
It's interesting that they started the decade starring together in DePalma's The Bonfire of the Vanities - which I thought was decent enough despite it being a critical and commercial flop.

Tom Hanks 90s films I liked:
Pretty much everything he did in the 90s:
Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Saving Private Ryan
The Green Mile
and the 2 Toy Stories

Bruce Willis 90s films I liked:
Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance
Death Becomes Her
12 Monkeys
The Fifth Element (I think I have the DVD somewhere, long overdue for a rewatch)
Armageddon (mostly for its entertainment value)
The Sixth Sense
Not a fan of Pulp Fiction. Also at the time of release I thought The Siege was really really bad, but when I saw it years later I found it just meh. . .

Either of them would be a worthy winner, although I know who I would like to see lifting it

A sh*te, missed the PM to Kolido part.

Let me be a lesson to the rest of ye.

Apologies, Kolido.

JP Liz V1

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A sh*te, missed the PM to Kolido part.

Let me be a lesson to the rest of ye.

Apologies, Kolido.

8pm closing so still time

Kolido

The votes are in and counted.

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