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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 1, 2012 10:34:34 GMT -5
Snake Plissken or John McClane?
You have the regular hero versus the anti-hero. Who's your pick?
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Post by hannahrose on Apr 1, 2012 11:00:35 GMT -5
John McClane.
Blondie, can I just say, I love you for so many reasons, but one of the big ones is that for some reason I associate you with early-90's Michael Madsen (I wonder why, hehe!). Every time I see one of your posts I'm grinning like mad. ;D
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 1, 2012 11:08:50 GMT -5
I can't possibly imagine why... Lol.
And, I do what I can... which isn't very much. =)
EDIT: Which reminds me. Snake Plissken. I mean, he "shut down the Earth". Does one get more badass than that? You know, then there's the small thing about his hair and the eye patch and that awesome black coat... =)
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Post by hannahrose on Apr 1, 2012 11:16:59 GMT -5
I don't actually know Snake well enough, so maybe my response to your original question is a little biased (even though I usually prefer anti-heroes). The thing is, for me, saving the world, is all about attitude. Now, Snake can save the world every day of the week and twice on a Sunday, but someone who says "yippie-kay-yay, motherfucker" just wins me over.
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Post by tailbest on Apr 1, 2012 12:07:30 GMT -5
Tough call to be honest. Both characters symbolize awesome and uber-bad ass. I might have to go with Snake. For one reason, none of Snake's movies (granted there are only 2 of them) are both R-rated. Neither of Snake's films change his personality too much. After Die Hard with a Vengeance, he was turned into a PG-13 hero who didn't swear near as much and became too much of a superhero. In Escape from L.A., Snake takes a moment after getting his ass handed to him and just sits.
Snake gets my vote, but barely.
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Post by tailbest on Apr 1, 2012 12:07:47 GMT -5
Hannah, love your picture also!
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Post by hannahrose on Apr 1, 2012 14:04:52 GMT -5
Cheers, bud. I felt that I needed to keep up with all of the avatar awesomeness on this board.
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 1, 2012 16:40:30 GMT -5
If I ever decide to change my avatar, I'm going to change it to that guy on World's Wildest Police Videos who used a traffic cone to swear at cops and claimed (probably truthful) that he only finished ninth grade. His nickname, appropriately, will forever be "Coney". =)
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 1, 2012 17:23:46 GMT -5
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Post by tailbest on Apr 1, 2012 21:08:07 GMT -5
Nothing but the truth from you
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 2, 2012 5:04:42 GMT -5
And, it's so, so true.
However, an interesting side note is that we've never seen Snake get shot. You may be saying he's so awesome that they can't shoot him. But if they could, I wonder if he would react like something similar to Tailbest's avatar...
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 2, 2012 5:39:56 GMT -5
If shot, he would look at the wound slowly, a wry smile would appear on his face, he would plan the time he had before the blood loss became fatal, and set off again unfazed.
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Apr 2, 2012 5:53:19 GMT -5
And then you'd find out at the end that he wasn't really shot? That he'd been injected with something that made him believe he had?
Flashes, you sneaky monkey, you read my mind. =)
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Post by tailbest on Apr 2, 2012 11:10:15 GMT -5
The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Post by onamirrorsedge on Apr 2, 2012 12:40:05 GMT -5
Are you quoting Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr? Or possible Francis Burney, which is where I know it from.
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