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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jun 27, 2009 10:33:43 GMT -5
Well, there go three of my votes. Can't say I'm surprised that they didn't make it far up the list, though.
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Post by bob on Jun 27, 2009 12:01:21 GMT -5
NOW LET'S GET STARTED!!!! a 4-way tie for 32nd place Nausicaa (From Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind) - Warrior princess who believed in peace over battle ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Nausicaa2cover.jpg) Although a skillful fighter, Miyazaki's Nausicaä is humane and peace-loving. She has an unusual gift for communicating with the giant insects, and is noted for her empathy toward animals, humans, and other beings. An intelligent girl, Nausicaä frequently explores the toxic wasteland which surrounds the kingdoms, and conducts scientific experiments in an attempt to define the true nature and origins of the toxic world in which she lives. Her explorations are facilitated by her skill at "windriding;" flying with an advanced glider-like craft with a jet assist called a mehve. Nausicaä is described as being a "strong young female lead drawn strongly from the shoujo tradition",[7] who "takes charge" of her own life, with a "brave and wholesome" mind,and as "one of the best examples of a truly "empowered" female." Early in the story, she kills the warriors that killed her father, which Susan J. Napier described as, "genuinely shocking,"and Kaori Yoshida points to as evidence of Nausicaä representing "traditional masculinity rather than femininity".Although Nausicaä is a warrior, Nausicaä does "reassuringly cute" actions such as taming Teto and calling things "pretty", which contrasts her with San of Princess Mononoke. Opinion is divided as to whether Nausicaä is sexualised or not - Napier notes that Nausicaä's relationship with Asbel is "potentially erotic", but Kaori Yoshida says that Nausicaä's body "is not the typical kind designed to stimulate" the male gaze, and Yoshida presents Hiromi Murase's theory that Nausicaä represents a post-oedipal mother figure.[11] Susan J. Napier and Patrick Drazen note a parallel between the character of Kushana, the rival warrior princess, and that of Nausicaä - Napier describes Kushana as Nausicaä's "shadow", noting that Kushana is not shown with any "alleviating, "feminine" virtues" as Nausicaä is, but that they share the same tactical brilliance. Drazen describes this as a "feminine duality".Miyazaki has described the two characters as being "two sides of the same coin", but Kushana has "deep, physical wounds". Nausicaä is presented as a messiah, and also acts on an ideology of how to interact with the natural world. Her powers are presented as proof of the ""rightness" of her mode of thought". Unlike other characters, who avoid or try to ignore the forest, Nausicaä is scientifically and beatifically interested in the forest. When the god soldier is activated, he chooses Nausicaä to be his "mother" and asks her who she wants him to kill. Marc Hairston considers this to be a recurring theme throughout the manga, that Nausicaä is given power and that she is told to make difficult decisions. In 2000, Nausicaä placed eleventh in an Animax poll of favourite anime characters. The first daughter of Jean Giraud is named after the character.The character Nakiami from Xam'd: Lost Memories has been noted to bear many similarities to Nausicaä Harry Tasker - True Lies Imagine James Bond...married and in the real world using realistic objects. That is Harry Tasker, super-spy and family man ready with one-liners. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/True_lies_poster.jpg) Harry Tasker leads a double life, performing dangerous covert missions for Omega Sector with his support team of Albert "Gib" Gibson and Faisil while hiding this work from his wife Helen and daughter Dana under the guise of corporate travel. Harry, however, is unaware that Helen is feeling unappreciated from him and his daughter doesn't respect him. During a mission in Switzerland, Harry encounters and becomes suspicious of antiques dealer Juno Skinner. His suspicions are correct, as Juno is helping to smuggle nuclear warheads into the United States for a Palestinian terrorist faction, Crimson Jihad, led by Aziz. However, while tailing Aziz through the Georgetown Park shopping mall and the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Harry is late for his own birthday party, angering Helen. The next day, Harry tries to surprise Helen at work during lunch but overhears her talking with a co-worker about a man named Simon. Harry is later heartbroken, believing his wife is having an affair with another man. Enraged, Harry uses Omega Sector's resources to track down Simon, and comes to realize that he is just a used-car salesman trying to seduce Helen by telling her he's a spy. In order to win Helen back and retaliating Simon's attempt of breaking his marriage, Harry arranges for a SWAT team to capture Helen and Simon while they are meeting. He interrogates her through a one-way mirror and voice distortion to learn that Helen never had an affair with Simon but was only craving adventure, something that Harry never provided her. Harry arranges a fake mission for Helen to undertake as an operative, and tells her to pose as a prostitute in order to plant a tracking bug on an arms dealer staying in a nearby hotel. Later, Harry and Gib briefly terrorize Simon before letting him go. Harry assumes the role of the dealer, using the darkened room to hide his face, and planning to reveal himself to her to reaffirm his love. As Helen strip-teases for Harry, Aziz's men burst into the room, and both Harry and Helen are taken prisoner. The terrorists take them to their hideout on an island in the Florida Keys, and Aziz reveals they plan to detonate one of four nuclear warheads to cover their tracks while they flee with the other three and make their demands to United States government. Harry frees himself and Helen, and they attempt to escape, but Harry appears to be caught in a large refueling truck explosion, while Helen is taken hostage by Juno. The two join the terrorist convoy as they flee the island before the first warhead explodes. Gib, in a helicopter, finds Harry using the tracking bug he had planted in Helen's purse at Harry's request, and together, they coordinate an attack with two Marine AV-8B Harrier jets on the convoy as they cross the Overseas Highway to the mainland. Helen is able to escape through the roof window of Juno's limousine during the attack, and is pulled to safety by Harry before the limousine falls over a damaged section of the bridge into the ocean. The forces regroup on the mainland in time to avoid being struck by the nuclear blast, during which Harry and Helen kiss, reaffirming their love for each other. The forces shortly receive news that Aziz and his remaining allies have taken refuge in a Miami office skyscraper, with Aziz holding Harry's daughter Dana hostage, and demanding a television crew so that he can make demands to the government. Harry borrows one of the Harrier jets to get to the building. Faisil poses as part of the requested television crew, and is able to kill a number of the terrorists; in the confusion, Dana steals the launch key for the warheads and escapes to the roof, chased by Aziz. Harry arrives and kills the remaining terrorists in the building with the jet's guns, and then helps to save Dana while killing Aziz by launching him on an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile towards a helicopter with the last of Aziz's forces. In the following year, the Tasker family's bonds have strengthened after the event from Florida. The family are now aware of each other's secrets and Helen becomes Harry's partner in Omega Sector, and the couple are able to balance their professional and personal lives. Yoda- Star Wars ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Yoda-ep2.jpg) Yoda is a character in the Star Wars fictional universe, appearing in the three prequel trilogy films as well as the second and third original films. Yoda dies in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, when he is around 900 years old. He is widely considered to be the greatest Jedi of all time and trained many Jedi. Yoda was also responsible for much of Luke Skywalker's training in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Yoda is portrayed as a powerful Jedi Master in the Star Wars universe. Series creator George Lucas originally wished Yoda to follow his other characters in having a full name: Minch Yoda, but instead opted to have many details of the character's life history remain unknown. Yoda's race has never been stated in any media, canonical or otherwise, and he is merely stated to be of a "species unknown" by the Star Wars Databank. Yoda often speaks in Object Subject Verb word order. Early in the development of Episode IV, Lucas included a species called the Whills, a mysterious, omnipresent race who were to take the story-teller perspective. It has been postulated by fans that Yoda, and characters Yaddle and Vandar Tokare are Whills; recently, there has been passing reference to a Shaman of the Order of the Whills in the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, confirming their continued canonical existence in the Star Wars universe. However, Lucas has firmly denied that Yoda's species is in fact that of the Whills. In fact, very little is reported of Yoda's life before the events of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The films and Expanded Universe reveal that he had trained several Jedi, including Count Dooku, who is identified in Star Wars Episode II as Yoda's old Padawan Learner; Mace Windu; Obi-Wan Kenobi (partially, before Qui-Gon Jinn takes over as Obi-Wan's master); Ki-Adi-Mundi, Kit Fisto and eventually Luke Skywalker. (During the animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars, set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, he mentions that he trained another one of the leaders on the Jedi Council, Master Oppo Rancisis.) In the Star Wars prequel, it is shown that he instructs all younglings in the Jedi Temple before they are assigned to a master. This was displayed in a scene in Attack Of the Clones. And he had a song named after him. Enjoy! and finally....... 5 Bruce Banner/Hulk (Hulk movies) Why? I like the Hulk's basic theme of being a massively powerful character that just wants to be alone. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/Incredible-hulk-20060221015639117.jpg) David Duchovny was a front-runner for the film before Norton's casting. Gale Anne Hurd recalled Norton's portrayals of duality in Primal Fear and Fight Club, while Norton reminded Kevin Feige of Bill Bixby, who played Banner in the TV series.Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk with Bixby, remarked Norton "has a similar physique [and a] similar personality". Norton was a Hulk fan, citing the first comic appearances, the Bixby TV show, and Bruce Jones' run on the comic, as his favorite depictions of the character. He had expressed interest in the role for the first film. He initially turned down the part for this film, recalling "there [was] the wince factor or the defensive part of you that recoils at what the bad version of what that would be", as he felt the previous film "strayed far afield from a story that was familiar to people, [...] which is a fugitive story". When he met Leterrier and Marvel, however, he liked their vision, and believed they were looking to him to guide the project. Thus, Norton rewrote the script. "Norton's script has given Bruce's story real gravitas," Letterier said. "Admittedly I'm not the most adult director, but just because we're making a superhero movie it doesn't have to just appeal to 13-year old boys. Ed and I both see superheroes as the new Greek gods."
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Post by The Raven on Jun 27, 2009 12:07:20 GMT -5
10. 9. Patrick Bateman- American Psycho 8. The Man with No Name- The Dollar Trilogy 7. Ian Malcolm- Jurassic Park 6. Yoda- Star Wars 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. ![](http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b329/MasterShake5009/MV5BMTQ3MTM3NjI1N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTY.jpg) Picture of Ian Malcolm for future reference. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by bob on Jun 27, 2009 13:47:55 GMT -5
5-way tie at number 28 Sam Witwicky (Live Action Transformer movies) Why? Something about the character just clicks with me, and I really liked his attitude towards the end of ROTF ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Csspike.jpg) In the 2007 Transformers live-action film, the main character, portrayed by Shia LaBeouf, is named "Sam" rather than "Spike".. In early versions of the script, Sam had the nickname "Spike". It has been referred that Sam fictionally has English and Dutch colonial ancestry. This idea was later scrapped because, according to writer Roberto Orci, these nicknames were appropriate for a mechanic and an oil rig worker in the animated series, occupations in which the characters did not work in the film. However, he has stated that these nicknames may possibly be earned in any sequels.[7] He fights alongside the Autobots in the Battle of Mission City, and ultimately defeats Megatron at the end of the movie. According to Roberto Orci, the character of Sam was written as a "2007 version of Marty McFly".[8] LaBeouf has signed for three films, and has indicated that, if the film series continues, Sam will be reused in future installments. In the movie series, Sam is a social outcast who bought unintentionally buys Bumblebee as his first car. For awhile Sam is unaware of Bumblebee being a Transformer, though was responsible for Same getting to know the girl he likes, Mikaela Banes. But when Bumblebee starts leaving the house at night, Sam followed and was horrified to find his car became a robot. After being saved from The Decepticon Barricade by Bumblebee, Sam learns the full story as he helps the Autobots by keeping the AllSpark away from the Decepticons until he uses it to kill Megatron. In the 2009 sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Sam is going to college and is trying to have a normal life and get away from the world savior status. But while getting ready, Sam finds a sliver of the Allspark on his jacket which give him visions similar to his great grandfather, causing him to suffer a mental breakdown as a result. Sam is then later aducted by Decepticons to acquire the information in Sam's mind before Megatron can vent out his aggression on the boy. But after being saved by Optimus, who is killed during the fight, Sam ends up leading Mikaela, Bumblebee, his roommate Leo, the Twins Skids and Mudflap and Simmons in a quest to find the Matrix and use it to revive Optimus. But during the final battle, Sam is near death until he was revived by the Dynasty of Primes so he can resurrects Optimus, allowing him to kill The Fallen and save the Earth. Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street Series): The original wise-cracking, quipping, supernatural serial killer. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Freddy_Krueger.JPG) Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films. He first appears in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as a disfigured, dream stalker who uses a glove armed with razors to kill children and teenagers in their dreams, which ultimately results in their death in the real world. He was created by Wes Craven, and has been portrayed by Robert Englund in all of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as well as the television series. Krueger is undead, and can attack his victims from within their own dreams. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, red and dark green striped sweater, brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove. Wizard magazine rated him the 14th greatest villain, the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th, and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains" list James Bond- James Bond movies ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Bonds-6.jpg) That picture is epic. Here's every Bond film ever: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace The James Bond film series are British spy films inspired by Ian Fleming's novels about the fictional MI6 agent James Bond (codename 007). The franchise remains as one of the longest continually running film series in history, having been in ongoing production from 1962 to 2009 with a six-year hiatus between 1989 and 1995. In that time EON Productions has produced 22 films, at an average of about one every two years. In addition, there are two independent productions and an American television adaptation of the first novel. Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman co-produced the EON films until 1975, when Broccoli became the sole producer. Since 1995, Broccoli's daughter Barbara and stepson Michael G. Wilson have co-produced them. Six actors have portrayed 007 in the official EON series so far (not counting stunt doubles, authorized video game voiceovers, etc.) Broccoli's (and until 1975, Saltzman's) family company, Danjaq, has held ownership of the James Bond film series through Eon, and maintained co-ownership with United Artists since the mid-1970s. From the release of Dr. No (1962) up to For Your Eyes Only (1981), the films were distributed solely by UA. When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought UA in 1981, MGM/UA Entertainment Co. was formed and distributed the films until 1995. MGM solely distributed three films from 1997 to 2002 after UA retired as a mainstream studio. From 2006 to present MGM and Columbia Pictures co-distributed the franchise, as Columbia's parent company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, (in a consortium including Sony, Comcast, TPG Capital, L.P. and Providence Equity Partners) bought MGM in 2005. The twenty-two Bond films have grossed nearly $10 billion in the worldwide box office, being the most profitable film series ever.[1] 6 The T-800 - all the Terminator movies "I'll be back" and with that sentence a legend was born. For he is the ultimate in determination. He will not stop, not feel pity or remorse until whatever he's chasing has been terminated ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Terminator-2-judgement-day.jpg) The Terminator is a fictional character portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger – a cyborg,[1] initially portrayed as a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit. "The Terminator" character first appeared in the 1984 movie of the same name, directed and co-written by James Cameron, and its sequels. The first film in the series features only one cyborg: the one portrayed by Schwarzenegger, although a second Terminator played by Franco Columbu is shown in a future flashback scene. In two sequels, Schwarzenegger's Terminator is pitted against other Terminators, and appears briefly in the fourth. In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twist: Schwarzenegger is the hero instead of the villain playing a different but visually identical cyborg in each of the three films. Within the Terminator universe created by Cameron, Terminators of the same "model" share identical characteristics. In the production of the films, this has allowed multiple Terminators to be portrayed by Schwarzenegger. In the context of the stories, this plot device provides a certain continuity for the human characters, by exploiting their emotional familiarity with a particular "human" visage. "The Terminator" is the name of Schwarzenegger's character in the credits of the three Terminator movies. At different times, the character is given more specific designations such as model and series numbers, in efforts to distinguish Schwarzenegger's character from other Terminators. However, this is done with several inconsistencies. No definitive canonical explanation is present in any of the films which clarifies what exactly the differing numbers ascribed to the character represent. The Terminator appears in Terminator Salvation. Schwarzenegger reprises the role via facial CGI, while the character itself is physically portrayed by Roland Kickinger. In the fictional Terminator universe, the Terminator is a formidable robotic assassin and soldier, designed by the military supercomputer Skynet for infiltration and combat duty, towards the ultimate goal of exterminating the human resistance. It can speak naturally, copy the voices of others, read human handwriting, and even genuinely sweat, smell, and bleed. To detect the Terminators, who are otherwise indistinguishable from humans, the human resistance uses dogs to alert humans to their presence. The most notable science fiction characteristics are that of an expert system featuring strong AI functionality combined with machine learning, and the system can interpret arbitrary non-formalized tasks. The other notable science fiction component is that of a power source which can last 120 years. A trait persistent throughout the series is the faint red glow of the "eyes" when online, which dim to nothing when a Terminator shuts down. In all four movies, the lack of the glow has been used to show when one is out of action. The trait is so characteristic that light-up eyes are often found on Terminator merchandise,[3] with some even replicating the dimming/reillumination effect that occurs during shut down or start up.[4] Pedro Cerrano from the Major League films He practices voodoo to try to help him hit curveballs in the first film. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Major_league_ii.jpg) The voodoo practicing slugger from the first film has found peace within himself and the world thanks to his conversion to Buddhism and refuses to get angry at others for whatever mistakes they may make. This is shown at the beginning of the film when Rube Baker squirts shaving cream on Cerrano's shoe and Cerrano replies with a smile, pat, and "I love you man, I love you all!" When Isuro Tanaka is introduced to the team he helps spark Cerrano by constantly taunting him. He later finds a happy medium, wherein he introduces his Buddha and Jobu icons to each other, finishing with "Now I don't want trouble out of you two!"
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Post by bob on Jun 27, 2009 15:07:56 GMT -5
another 5-way tie at number 23 Indiana Jones- Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Indiana_Jones_in_Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark.jpg) ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Indiana_Jones_by_Harrison_Ford.jpg) Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr.is a fictional adventurer, soldier, professor of archaeology, and the main protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials. The character first appeared in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, to be followed by Temple of Doom in 1984, The Last Crusade in 1989, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1996, and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. As well as film and television appearances, the character has been featured in novels, comics, video games, and other media. Jones is also featured in the theme park attraction Indiana Jones Adventure, which exists in similar forms at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. Jones is most famously played by Harrison Ford; he has also been portrayed by River Phoenix (as the young Jones in The Last Crusade), and in the television seriesThe Young Indiana Jones Chronicles by Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flanery, and George Hall. Doug Lee has supplied Jones's voice to two LucasArts video games, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, while David Esch supplied his voice to Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. Peter Parker/Spider-Man from all the Spider-Man films ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Spiderman_movie.jpg) Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The first installment in the Spider-Man series, the film, directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp, stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, and Willem Dafoe. The film begins with Peter Parker, a high school student, being bitten by a genetically altered spider. After misusing his newly-given abilities, which indirectly causes the death of his Uncle Ben, he becomes the heroic Spider-Man. Peter hopes to win the heart of Mary Jane Watson, the girl he has loved since he was a boy, and battles the villainous Green Goblin, who is the father of Peter's best friend, Harry Osborn. After being stuck in development hell for nearly 25 years, the film was released on May 3, 2002 by Columbia Pictures. The film received multiple good reviews, went on to break box office records, and become the third highest grossing film of 2002 worldwide, making $822 million worldwide. Spider-Man became the most successful film based on a comic book and is the 18th most successful film of all time. The success of the film led to two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, the latter of which surpassed the first film's record. Dr. Emmett Brown from all the Back to the Future series ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Doc_Brown.JPG) Doctor Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph.D. is a fictional scientist and one of the lead characters in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy. He is played in all three movies by actor Christopher Lloyd, as well as in the live action sequences of the animated series. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta in the animated series. The character's appearance and mannerisms are loosely inspired by Leopold Stokowski and Albert Einstein. In the Back to the Future universe, he is the inventor of the first time machine, which he builds out of a DeLorean sports car. His earlier inventions met with limited success, but he was able to build a large refrigerator and steam locomotive time machine in 1885. "Doc", as he is referred to by his best friend, Marty McFly, was born in the early 1920s—the novelization says he was 65 (implying 1920), while The Animated Series gives 1922—in Hill Valley, California. A scientist by trade, Doc is a "student of all sciences" and spends much of his time inventing. He usually has a pet dog; in 1955, his dog was named Copernicus, and by 1985, he had a dog named Einstein. Doc's role models are scientists, as evidenced by the names of his dogs and the portraits of Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein found in his laboratory (which were on a wall in his home in 1955). Doc can be absent-minded at times, and despite getting around town due to his repair business (see below) he is regarded by many of Hill Valley's townsfolk as strange, eccentric, or crazy (see mad scientist). As such, he has few friends (the only friends of his we meet through the trilogy are his dogs, Marty, and Marty's girlfriend, Jennifer Parker). Because of this, Doc is often seen as a loner even though he cares about the people he is close to. However, it is not known when he would have originally met Marty. The first film does not specify their original first meeting; when Marty goes back in time to 1955, the first meeting is pushed back prior to Marty's birth. Later, after Marty was born and they met again, Doc presumably remembered, but kept this memory secret from the "new" Marty of the positively altered timeline until the "original" Marty returned to the altered 1985. Doc does not believe in "love at first sight" until he ends up meeting his future wife Clara Clayton in 1885, since he does not see scientifically how such a feeling works. Doc often works through the night on his inventions and can become obsessed with little things. He will always try to use a big word rather than a small one if one is available – for example, he refers to a dance as a "rhythmic ceremonial ritual". He often tends to enunciate his words with wide-eyed facial expressions and broad gestures. He is also known for his expression of the catch phrase "Great Scott!" He also likes jazz music, (a saxophone can be seen at Doc's house in 1955) Jules Verne and Westerns. Although he may like to gamble, he would never use time travel to gain an gambling advantage. Doc does not usually drink alcoholic beverages, since he has a tendency to pass out after just one drink. As stated in the original film, he is allergic to all synthetic fabrics. Doc has been involved in illegal and criminal enterprises within the scope of the films, although only in so much as he needed to obtain items he could not purchase legally. He cheated Libyan terrorists out of an unspecified amount of stolen plutonium he tricked them into stealing for him ("They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I gave them a shiny bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts!"), and would have died as a result had Marty not intervened. Another character from the Star Wars franchise makes an appearance. Obi Wan Kenobi - All of the Stars Wars movie All of the Stars Wars movie...but mostly Episode IV Come on...jedi ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Ben_Kenobi.jpg) ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Obiwan1.jpg) Obi-Wan 'Ben' Kenobi is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He is one of the protagonists in the Star Wars series; along with Anakin Skywalker, R2-D2, and C-3PO, he is one of the few major characters to appear in each of the six Star Wars films. He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Sir Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor. Obi-Wan first appeared in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, seemingly a mysterious hermit known as Ben Kenobi. He is soon revealed to be an exiled Jedi Master, who then tutors Luke Skywalker to use the Force. In the prequel films, he appears as a young Jedi, progressing from apprentice, to knight, to master on the Jedi High Council. Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), played by Sir Alec Guinness. He is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) from a group of Tusken Raiders, who ambush him during a search for a missing droid, R2-D2 (Kenny Baker). Obi-Wan reveals that he knew Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, and served with him in the Clone Wars as a Jedi Knight. He gives Luke Anakin's lightsaber, and tells him that "a young Jedi named Darth Vader... betrayed and murdered your father." Obi-Wan offers to instruct Luke in the ways of The Force, but Luke initially refuses. He changes his mind after his aunt and uncle are murdered, however, and Obi-Wan takes him along to rescue Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), who has been captured by the Empire. Obi-Wan and Luke buy passage to Alderaan on the Millennium Falcon, a spaceship owned by Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his first mate, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). However, before they can reach Alderaan, it is destroyed by the Death Star on the orders of Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing). The Millennium Falcon is captured by the enormous space station's tractor beam. After their capture, Obi-Wan sneaks into the core of the Death Star and disables the tractor beam so that the Falcon can escape. Obi-Wan then confronts Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel, eventually sacrificing himself so that Luke and the others can escape. His body disappears once struck by Vader's blade, having become a spirit in the Force. He speaks to Luke via the Force in the film's climatic battle scene, telling him to use the Force to destroy the Death Star. Luke turns off his X-Wing fighter's targeting computer, and, trusting in the Force, he fires his proton torpedoes and destroys the battle station. Luke then hears Obi-Wan's voice telling him, "The Force will be with you, always." In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), set three years after A New Hope, Obi-Wan appears as a Force ghost and instructs Luke to go to the Dagobah system for further training with Jedi Master Yoda (Frank Oz), who was forced into hiding in the swamp planet when the republic collapsed. After Luke has been further trained in the teachings of the Jedi, Obi-Wan once again appears in the Dagobah swamp to try and dissuade him from going to Cloud City, where Vader holds Han and Leia hostage. After Luke insists on facing Vader, Obi-Wan warns Luke that he would not be able to interfere, and Luke would have to face him alone. In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), set one year after The Empire Strikes Back, a dying Yoda whispers in his dying breath that "there is another Skywalker". At the time, Luke believes that this is just a confirmation that Vader is his father, but as it later turned out that Leia is his sister, the message remains ambiguous. After Yoda's death, Obi-Wan appears as a Force Ghost to explain to a heartbroken Luke why he did not tell him the truth about his father, and to confess that Leia is his sister. Obi-Wan admits that his own pride had been partly to blame for Anakin Skywalker's fall from grace: "I thought I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong." He then tries to explain to Luke that killing Vader is the only way to destroy the Empire and save the galaxy. At the end of the film, Obi-Wan's ghost appears alongside the ghosts of Yoda and a redeemed Anakin Skywalker on the forest moon of Endor, watching over Luke and his comrades as they celebrate the destruction of the second Death Star. In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), set 32 years before A New Hope, Obi-Wan, now played by Ewan McGregor, is seen as a young Jedi Padawan[1]. At the start of the film, Obi-Wan accompanies his master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) on a mission to Naboo to discuss negotiations with the Trade Federation, who are blockading Naboo, ruled by Queen Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). However, upon their arrival on the Federation flagship, they are attacked by battle droids and are forced to retreat down to the planet. In the swampy forests of Naboo, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan meet a clumsy Gungan named Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best), who assists the Jedi in reaching the Queen. After making an unscheduled landing on Tatooine, Qui-Gon meets Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), a young slave who shows such tremendous potential in the Force that Qui-Gon believes him to be the "Chosen One" of Jedi prophecy, destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith. Obi-Wan initially believes the boy is too old and has too many emotional attachments to become a Jedi. The Jedi Council agrees with Obi-Wan, and forbids Anakin's training, sensing that the boy's future is clouded by the fear he exhibits. During the film's climactic battle scene, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan battle the Sith Lord Darth Maul (Ray Park). After Maul fatally wounds Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan attempts to vanquish Maul by himself. After being disarmed and nearly falling to his death, Obi-Wan uses the Force to pull his Master's abandoned lightsaber into his hand and cuts Maul in half. Obi-Wan then runs to his Master's side, and the dying Qui-Gon pleads with him to train Anakin in the ways of the Jedi. Obi-Wan promises that he will. For his heroics in defeating a Sith (making him the first Jedi in 1,000 years to do so), Yoda personally bestows to him the rank of Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan then states that he will train Anakin with or without the Council's permission. Yoda reluctantly agrees, but warns Obi-Wan to be careful with the troubled boy In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), set 10 years after The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan has become an experienced Jedi Knight. However, his relationship with his Padawan, Anakin (now played by Hayden Christensen) is strained; the Chosen One has grown powerful but arrogant, and believes that Obi-Wan is trying to hold him back. He and Anakin are tasked with protecting Padmé, now a Senator, after an attempt is made on her life. Obi-Wan tracks the mysterious assassin to the planet Kamino, and learns about a massive clone army that the planet's inhabitants are building for the Galactic Republic. He then meets with the bounty hunter Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison), the template for the clones, and figures out that he is the one responsible for the assassination attempts on Padmé. Obi-Wan attempts to apprehend Fett, who escapes to Geonosis with his unaltered clone Boba (Daniel Logan). Obi-Wan follows them by placing a homing beacon on Fett's ship, Slave I. On Geonosis, Obi-Wan learns of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, also known as the Separatists, a conspiracy of star systems that wants to secede from the Republic. The renegades are led by former Jedi Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), who was once Qui-Gon's master. Obi-Wan is captured shortly after sending a message to Anakin. While Obi-Wan is in captivity, Dooku reveals that the Galactic Senate is under the control of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. Later, Anakin and Padmé arrive on Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan. They are themselves captured, however, and all three are sentenced to death by the Geonosians. The executions are prevented by the timely arrival of Jedi and clone reinforcements, led by Jedi Masters Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) and Yoda. Obi-Wan and Anakin confront Dooku and they engage in a lightsaber duel. Dooku strikes Anakin with Force lightning, then turns the deadly barrage onto Obi-Wan, who blocks the attack with his lightsaber. The two duel and Dooku outmanoeuvres Obi-Wan, wounding him on both his left arm and leg. Dooku is about to deliver a killing blow when Anakin recovers from the lightning and blocks Dooku's attack. Obi-Wan gives Anakin his lightsaber to help him in the duel. Dooku and Anakin fight a short duel, and Dooku cuts off Anakin's right lower arm (which is later replaced by a robotic prosthetic). Yoda arrives and fights Dooku as well, but the Sith Lord puts Anakin and Obi-Wan in mortal danger in order to create a distraction, and escapes. In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), set three years after Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan is now a Jedi Master on the High Jedi Council and a general in the Army of the Republic. Anakin Skywalker, now a full-fledged Jedi Knight, remains his partner, and the two have become war heroes and best friends. Obi-Wan and Anakin are sent on a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who has been kidnapped by Dooku and Separatist leader General Grievous (Matthew Wood). When they find the captive Palpatine, Count Dooku engages them both in a duel. Obi-Wan is rendered unconscious by Dooku, but Anakin defeats the Sith Lord by slicing off both his hands. At Palpatine's urging, Anakin kills the defenseless Count in cold blood, a violation of the Jedi Code. Soon after returning to Coruscant, Obi-Wan is called away to Utapau to confront General Grievous. Meanwhile, Anakin is angry at the Jedi Council for not granting him the rank of Master, and is also troubled by visions of Padmé, whom he married in the previous film, dying in childbirth. With Obi-Wan on the opposite end of the galaxy, Palpatine — who is in reality Darth Sidious — eventually corrupts Anakin to the dark side and takes him as his Sith apprentice, Darth Vader. After finding the Separatist encampment, Obi-Wan engages Grievous in combat and engages him in battle, eventually killing him with a blaster. At the same time, Palpatine issues Order 66, directing clone troopers to turn on their Jedi generals. Obi-Wan survives the attempt on his life and escapes by stealing Grievous' star fighter and rendezvousing with Senator Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) and Yoda aboard Organa's ship, the Tantive IV. Along with Yoda and Organa, Obi-Wan returns to Coruscant, where he and Yoda discover that every Jedi in the Jedi Temple has been murdered, even the younglings. Obi-Wan sends a beacon to all surviving Jedi, instructing them to scatter across the galaxy and remain in hiding. A heartbroken Obi-Wan then watches a security video revealing Anakin as the assassin. Subsequently, Obi-Wan and Yoda split up to confront the two Sith Lords: Obi-Wan to fight Darth Vader and Yoda to battle Darth Sidious. Obi-Wan wishes to fight Sidious to avoid having to kill his best friend, but Yoda insists that Obi-Wan is not strong enough to fight Sidious, and would have to accept that Anakin had been "consumed by Darth Vader." Unaware of his former Padawan's location, Obi-Wan visits Padmé and explains to her what Anakin has done. Padmé refuses to believe him, and will not reveal Anakin's whereabouts, knowing that Obi-Wan will attempt to kill him. Before departing, Obi-Wan tells Padmé that he knows Anakin is the father of her unborn child. Padmé sets out to the Mustafar system to confront Anakin herself, and Obi-Wan secretly stows away in her ship. Arriving on Mustafar, Padmé confronts Anakin and realizes with horror that Obi-Wan had been telling the truth. When Obi-Wan emerges from Padmé's ship, an enraged Vader immediately suspects that Padmé has betrayed him and uses the dark side to choke her into unconsciousness. Obi-Wan and Vader then fight a furious lightsaber duel, which ends with Obi-Wan severing Vader's legs and left arm midair. Obi-Wan then retrieves Anakin's lightsaber and returns to the shuttle. Vader, meanwhile, slides down the volcanic ash and comes too close to the lava and ignites and practically burns to death, but he lingers on long enough to be rescued by Palpatine, who rebuilds him as the black armor-clad cyborg first seen in the original trilogy. Obi-Wan watches helplessly as Padmé dies after bearing twins. Luke is put on Tatooine with Owen Lars (Joel Edgerton) and Obi-Wan agrees to look after him in secret; Luke's twin sister Leia, meanwhile, is adopted by Bail Organa of Alderaan. Yoda, unsuccessful in his confrontation with Sidious, then tells Obi-Wan that he has more training for him: Qui-Gon's spirit would teach him how to retain his identity through the Force and commune with the living after death. The film ends as Obi-Wan gives the infant Luke to Lars and his wife Beru (Bonnie Piesse), and disappears into the distance. Rounding out number 23 is another legendary character..... 7 Dante Hicks – Clerks, Clerks 2 I can relate more to Dante and just how put upon he feels when dealing with customers ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/DanteHicks.jpg) In Clerks., Dante is 22, works at the Quick Stop Market in Leonardo, New Jersey, and still lives with his parents. He feels that because he runs the store, he is independent and in control of his life, and yet, he is a push-over who often agrees to work when he doesn't have to (hence his catch phrase, "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"). He frequently gets into debates ranging from philosophy to Star Wars with his best friend, fellow clerk Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson), who works at the adjacent RST Video Store. The film centers on the chaotic events of a day at the Quick Stop that Dante must deal with. Among other problems, Dante becomes the target of an anti-smoking mob who pelt him with cigarettes, and he is issued a summons and fined for selling cigarettes to a four-year-old, a crime Randal had in fact unknowingly committed. In addition, he is continually harassed by Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith), two drug dealers who loiter in front of the store all day and often like to go inside and steal. The film also deals with Dante's problematic romantic relationships. He has difficulty dealing with his girlfriend Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti), especially her extensive history of performing fellatio (on 37 different men, including him) — even though she seems to genuinely care for him, going so far as to bring him lasagna at work and help him fix a tire. At the same time, Dante is infatuated with ex-girlfriend Caitlin Bree (Lisa Spoonhauer) and seems intent on rekindling that relationship. In the end, Dante ends up with neither woman; Randal ends the relationship by telling Veronica that Dante never got over Caitlin, and Caitlin is hospitalized after accidentally having sex in a dark bathroom with a corpse, whom she had believed to be Dante. After an argument with Veronica, Dante gets into a big fight with Randal, and he laments his lot in life over the loss of his girlfriend and Caitlin, as well as his overall life. He is left speechless when Randal explodes at him, accusing him of blaming everyone else for his lack of initiative. The two reconcile and clean up the Quick Stop. In the final scene, he tells Randal that he is going to try and work things out with Veronica. It is implied that he will try to find direction in his life. In the beginning of Clerks II, Dante is now 33. Despite the epiphany at the end the first film, Dante still works at the Quick Stop, until Randal accidentally burns it down by forgetting to turn off a coffeepot. The two then get jobs at Mooby's, a fast food joint. Clerks II follows Dante during his last day at work at Mooby's. Dante is engaged to Emma (Jennifer Schwalbach Smith), a domineering woman who makes all his decisions for him. They are set to leave New Jersey the next day and move to Florida, where Dante has been offered a job running one of his future father in law's carwashes and to move into a house purchased by Emma's father. As his last day at work unfolds, it is revealed that he had a drunken one night stand with his boss Becky (Rosario Dawson), who claims not to believe in romantic love. As the day progresses, he comes to the realization that he is in love with Becky and, in an unguarded moment, confesses his feelings to her. In turn, she reveals to him that that she got pregnant as a result of their fling. After Dante confides in Randal about his problem, Randal predictably confronts Becky about the situation, causing her to storm off in her car. Randal encourages Dante to try and find her, but to come back an hour later to help him close up the place. While driving around alone, Dante has time to think and decides that he wants a family with Becky. As he comes back to work, Dante sees smoke coming from inside the Mooby's and dials 9-1-1 for help. Inside, instead of a fire, he finds his friends waiting for him for a surprise farewell party, as Randal had secretly booked Kinky Kelly and the Sexy Stud, a donkey show, as Dante's going away surprise. During the party, Becky returns and admits to Dante that she loves him. They start kissing passionately, only to be surprised by Emma, who proceeds to throws the cake she had prepared for him in his face (at Jay's suggestion) and leaves. Immediately following this, the police and fire department show up to respond to the phone call Dante made but never cancelled, and the entire group, save Becky who escapes out the back door, is taken to the police station's drunk tank for the night. Dante begins to fight Randal for getting him in trouble, but he is told by the Sexy Stud they will get released, since there is no crime for watching an interspecies sex act. Dante says he wants to go back to Emma and move to Florida as planned. He then blames Randal for his predicament, and angrily renounces their friendship. Randal however, provides a rebuttal by pointing out the obvious fact that Dante is only conforming to what he thinks everyone believes he should do, instead of doing what he wants. He also points out their short lived attendance as criminal justice majors at the local community college was just "killing time with those classes". In a rare moment of vulnerability, Randal tearfully tells his best friend that he loves him ("in a completely heterosexual way"), and convinces him to stay in New Jersey, buy the Quick Stop and re-open it. After his release, Dante pulls up to the drive through window where Becky works and offers her an engagement ring. She enthusiastically accepts. He and Randal buy the building where the Quick Stop and RST Video store used to be (with financial assistance from Jay and Silent Bob), restore and re-open them. In the film's final moment at the Quick Stop counter, Dante says to Randal "Today is the first day of the rest of our lives." In the original ending of Clerks., Dante is shot and killed by an armed robber after Randal leaves. Smith admits he was going to use this ending because he "didn't know how to end a film." The scene was cut to a man walking in after Randal leaves and Dante looks up and says "Sorry were closed" ,before the film screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, but it appears on the Clerks special edition DVD.
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Post by The Raven on Jun 27, 2009 22:01:35 GMT -5
Can't believe I left Obi Wan off my list.
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Post by bob on Jun 27, 2009 22:54:49 GMT -5
her's who I got so far, but I can't remember the order I had them in Pedro Cerrano, Dante Hicks, & Jigsaw
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 0:02:07 GMT -5
3-way tie at number 18 Randell Graves – Clerks, Clerks 2 He gets away with saying and doing things to customers that we only wish we could say and do. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2b/RandalGraves.jpg) Randal is a clerk at RST Video, located next door to the Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey. In the first film and the cartoon, Randal is a prime example of the typical slacker: He works in a dead-end job, has no respect for customers, and arrives at work late every day. He periodically closes the store (during work hours) to chat with his best friend Dante Hicks, a Quick Stop clerk. Whereas Dante believes that title dictates behavior, Randal does whatever he pleases. He has been known to order porn movies for RST Video in front of children, spit water in customers' faces, and intrude on private conversations about sex. One of Randal's ancestors, who was Scots-Irish, immigrated to New Jersey in the 17th century. Randal's behavior at times appears contradictory; for example, he says that he hates people but loves social gatherings, and says, "This job would be great if it weren't for the smorking customers." Such behavior spills into his relationship with Dante, whom he often coerces into highly unlikely, theoretical situations by manipulating him into feeling guilty. Randal goes off on an analytical theory of something outlandish, before going to the complete opposite. He might also perhaps be the worst confidant of all time, frequently causing an uproar in Dante's personal life by spilling secrets to those he shouldn't. His life centers on movies, video games and pornography. He often quotes dialogue and discusses films, goes to other video stores to rent porn, and is often depicted in Clerks: The Animated Series with a porn magazine. His love life is nonexistent (at least in a romantic sense). The few relationships he had never lasted because of his nonchalant attitude; his ex-girlfriends were subsequently so fed up with men that they became lesbians. In contrast, it is implied he has a budding sex life, despite his overall pathetic existence; he has girls over when his mother isn't home and when she is, he brings them over to the Quick Stop. In Clerks II, it is stated that many of his sexual exploits are with "barely legal pussy" (eighteen-year-old girls), thanks in no small part to their willingness to take part in taboo sexual acts (such as what he and others refer to bluntly as ass-to-mouth). Randal is also frequently the cause of the problems that he and Dante get into much to Dante's constant chagrin. The Animated Series shows this at least once per episode and it was mentioned in the 2nd film that Randal was responsible for several of Dante's ruined relationships. This trait reaches its apex in the third episode of the Animated Series where he almost gets Leonardo destroyed by the U.S. Air Force after he mistakens an illness that he villain Leonardo Leonardo possesses to be the deadly motaba virus despite the fact it's really caused by rancied burritos Randal fed to him. It's also revealed here that he got his and Dante's jobs throughout the films and show because when Dante is chastising Randal for always being wrong Randal retorts, "What about that time I told you about those two open jobs down the street? You know we'd stay there for a while, earn some money then move on with our lives." He then realizes that they've spent practically a decade at their jobs and yells, "Oh my God, you're right!" Dante and Randal are the main characters of the 2006 film Clerks II, set approximately 10 years after the first film, with Randal now in his early 30s. In the beginning of the film, he and Dante get jobs at Mooby's, a new low-rent fast food restaurant, after the Quick Stop burned down. As in his previous job, Randal goofs off while he is supposed to be working; he spends his day flirting with teenaged customers, berating the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and venting his depression at aging by attempting to relive favorite pastimes. The main plot of the film revolves around Dante's decision to move to Florida with his soon-to-be wife, which leaves Randal feeling rejected. Randal arranges a donkey show for Dante's going-away party, but Jay (Jason Mewes), another character in the movie, congratulates Dante's fiance on being pregnant, unknowing that the store manager Becky was pregnant with Dante's child, a personal detail she thought he did not know. The donkey show goes on as intended, but Randal finds out too late that a man, not a woman, "performs" with the animal. Everyone in the restaurant, except Becky, is taken to jail, where an infuriated Dante renounces their friendship, leaving Randal devastated and angry. He tearfully tells his best friend that he loves him ("in a totally heterosexual way") and says the two of them should reopen the Quick Stop and run it themselves. Dante finally realizes what he really wants to do with his life, and agrees. The two go into business together. And IMO he is completely right about Lord of Rings. Tony Stark/Iron Man (Iron Man) Why? A cool, complex character who I think evolved pretty well over the course of the movie. Plus, I really liked the armor ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Ironmanposter.JPG) Robert Downey Jr. as Anthony "Tony" Stark / Iron Man: a billionaire industrialist, genius inventor, and consummate playboy, he is CEO of Stark Industries, a chief weapons manufacturer for the U.S. military. The son of a Manhattan Project engineer, Howard Stark, he is an engineering prodigy, having built a circuit board at four years old and an engine at six, as well as graduating from MIT summa cum laude at the age of 17. He takes charge of Stark Industries at the age of 21 from Stane, who had been in control of the company since Howard's death. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gambles at a Las Vegas casino, leaving his deceased father's friend and business partner, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), to accept a prestigious award for him. As Stark leaves the casino with his entourage, he is approached by reporter Christine Everhart (Leslie Bibb), whom he charms into a one-night stand at his Malibu house. When she awakens the next morning, Stark is gone and she is coldly greeted and helped on the way by Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), his personal assistant. Stark flies off to war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and company military liaison, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes (Terrence Howard), for a demonstration of Stark Industries' new weapon, the "Jericho" cluster missile. On the way back, however, his military convoy is attacked. In the firefight, his escort is wiped out and Stark himself is knocked unconscious by one of his own company's bombs. Waking up in an Afghan cave, he discovers an electromagnet embedded in his chest, placed there by fellow captive Dr. Yinsen (Shaun Toub). Powered by a car battery, it keeps shrapnel from working its way to his heart and killing him. Stark has been captured by a terrorist group known as the Ten Rings, whose leader, Raza (Faran Tahir), orders Stark to build a Jericho missile for him. Instead, during his three months of captivity, he and Yinsen begin secretly building a crude suit of armor, powered by a miniature "arc reactor" invented by Stark's father. Finally, the terrorists grow impatient and give Stark 24 hours to finish. Unfortunately, the terrorists become suspicious of their activities before the suit is fully activated, so Yinsen makes a suicidal attack in a desperate bid to buy time. Once the armor is ready, Stark charges through the caves. Near the entrance, a dying Yinsen tells him not to waste his life. Forever grateful to Yinsen, Stark burns all the munitions the terrorists have accumulated and then flies away, only to crash in the desert. Stark survives, but his suit is in pieces. After being rescued by Rhodes, Stark announces at a press conference that his company will no longer manufacture weapons. Stane tells him shortly thereafter that his decision is being blocked by the board of directors of Stark Industries. Stark focuses his energies on building a better version of his power suit, while making an improved arc reactor for his chest. Potts gives Stark a gift: his first miniature reactor encased in glass and bearing the inscription, "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart". During Stark's first public appearance since his return, he spots Potts wearing a sexy dress and realizes that he has romantic feelings for his assistant. As they are about to share a kiss, Potts interrupts by asking for a martini. While ordering the drinks, Stark is accosted by Everhart, who shows him pictures of Stark Industries weapons, including Jericho missiles, recently delivered to insurgents. He realizes that Stane has been supplying both the Americans and their enemies, and attempting to remove Stark from power. Enraged, Stark dons the power suit, flies to Afghanistan and rescues Gulmira, Yinsen's village, from the Ten Rings. While leaving, Stark attracts the attention of the United States Air Force, which dispatches two F-22 Raptors to try to identify the mysterious flying object. Rhodes is consulted about the nature of the object, but cannot offer help, and the fighters are ordered to destroy the target. During the resulting dogfight, Stark has time to reveal to Rhodes that he is the unidentified target. One of the planes is accidentally destroyed when it collides with Stark. The pilot ejects, but his parachute does not deploy, so Stark rescues him before escaping. Stark sends Potts to hack into the company computer system. She discovers that Stane hired the Ten Rings to kill Stark. The group reneged on the deal upon discovering who the target was, which ultimately seals their fate when Stane has them eliminated later. She also learns Stane has recovered the pieces of the original power suit and reverse-engineered his own version, one much larger and more powerful than Stark's, but his engineers are unable to construct a small enough arc reactor to power the suit. As she leaves Stane's office, she meets Agent Fullbright of S.H.I.E.L.D., a newly-established counter-terrorism government agency, who has been accosting her and Stark about an interview concerning Stark's escape from the Ten Rings, and takes him along immediately to apprehend Stane. After she leaves, Stane discovers what she has done. He ambushes Stark in his house, using a Stark Industries device to temporarily paralyze him. While revealing his plan to take over Stark Industries, Stane removes the arc reactor from Stark's chest and leaves him to die. However, Stark gets to Potts' gift and re-installs his original reactor. Although his original reactor is underpowered for his latest armor, Stark races to rescue Potts, and a battle erupts between him and Stane. Finding himself outmatched, Stark lures Stane atop the Stark Industries building. With no power left, Stark instructs Potts to overload the full-sized reactor in the building. This unleashes a massive electrical surge that knocks Stane unconscious and sends him falling through the ceiling into the reactor itself, incinerating him. The next day, it is revealed that the press has dubbed Stark's alter ego "Iron Man". Rhodes gives reporters a false explanation of what happened. Before speaking, Stark briefly makes an attempt to establish a romantic relationship with Potts, but is put on hold. During the press conference, Stark starts to tell the cover story given to him by S.H.I.E.L.D., but then instead announces openly that he is Iron Man. In a post-credits scene, Stark is visited by S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) who notes that Stark is not "the only superhero in the world" and states he wants to discuss the "Avenger Initiative". Rorschach from Watchmen - Insane, yet in some ways, the sanest one out of his group ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Rorschach.png) Rorschach/Walter Kovacs: A vigilante who wears a white mask that contains a symmetrical but constantly shifting ink blot pattern (made up by a heat sensitive changing ink, sandwiched between two layers of translucent latex), he continues to fight crime in spite of his outlaw status. Moore said he was trying to "come up with this quintessential Steve Ditko character - someone who's got a funny name, whose surname begins with a 'K,' who's got an oddly designed mask". Moore based Rorschach on Ditko's creation Mr. A; Ditko's Charlton character The Question also served as a template for creating Rorschach.Comics historian Bradford W. Wright described the character's world view "a set of black-and-white values that take many shapes but never mix into shades of gray, similar to the ink blot tests of his namesake". Rorschach sees existence as random and, according to Wright, this viewpoint leaves the character "free to 'scrawl [his] own design' on a 'morally blank world'". Moore said he did not foresee the death of Rorschach until the fourth issue when he realized that his refusal to compromise would result in him not surviving the story.
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 0:08:15 GMT -5
this will continue tomorrow as I'm super tired....and I've got an idea for next week which I expect that nearly everyone at this forum will particpate in
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 7:16:15 GMT -5
5-way tie at the next spot John Rambo - The Vietnam Vet who was in the right in the first movie Rambo series ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/First_blood_poster.jpg) The fictional character of John Rambo was born on July 6, 1947 in Bowie, Arizona to a Native American Navajo father (R. Rambo according to the last film) and a mother (Marie Dragoo of Italian descent. However, in Rambo: First Blood Part II, Marshall Murdock states that Rambo is of Indian/German descent.) Rambo graduated from Rangeford High School, and then was drafted into the United States Army at the age of 17 on June 8, 1964. He was deployed to South Vietnam in September 1966. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 and began training in the Special Forces (Green Berets) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In late 1969, Rambo was re-deployed to Vietnam. In November 1971, he was captured by North Vietnamese forces near the Chinese-Vietnamese border and held at a POW camp, where he and other American POWs were repeatedly tortured. Rambo escaped captivity in May 1972, but was then re-deployed. Upon his return to the U.S., Rambo discovered that many American civilians hated the returning soldiers, and he himself was subject to humiliation and embarrassment by having anti-war "hippies" throw garbage at him and calling him "baby killer". His experiences in Vietnam and back home resulted in an extreme case of post-traumatic stress disorder. At the same time, inner questions of self identity and reflectiveness cause Rambo to lash out at society rather than handling difficult situations in a "civilized" manner. This is where First Blood picks up from. First Blood (also known as Rambo: First Blood or Rambo outside the US), is a 1982 action/adventure film directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled and misunderstood Vietnam War veteran, with Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy) as his nemesis, and Colonel Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) as his former commander and only ally. It was released on October 22, 1982. Based loosely on David Morrell's 1972 novel of the same name, it was the first of the four-film Rambo series. Since its release, First Blood has been a critical and commercial success, and has had a lasting influence on the genre. It has also spurred countless parodies. The film is also notable for its psychological portrayal of the aftereffects of the Vietnam War, particularly the challenges faced by American veterans attempting to re-integrate into society. 9 Al Czervic Caddyshack Rodney Dangerfield is the man! ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Caddyshack_poster.jpg) The film's story centers on Danny Noonan (O'Keefe), one of many children in a working class Irish Catholic family. Danny aspires to attend college in Nebraska, but his parents can't afford it and his grades are unremarkable, making obtaining a scholarship difficult. Danny works as a caddy at the upscale Bushwood Country Club, where he earns tips to add to his meager college fund. Bushwood's membership includes: Judge Smails (Knight), a stodgy WASP jurist and the country club's co-founder; Doctor Beeper, an inattentive physician more concerned about his golf game than his patients; Bishop Pickering, a Lutheran minister; and Ty Webb (Chase), the son of Bushwood's other co-founder and a free-spirited playboy, very unlike the other members. Danny often caddies for Ty, who teaches Danny about the finer points in life, usually while showing off random trick shots. Judge Smails notices the handiwork of a gopher on his way to the course. Smails confronts Bushwood's greenskeeper Sandy McFiddish (Thomas A. Carlin), who then entrusts the task of removing the gopher to Carl Spackler (Murray), his unkempt, unhinged assistant, whose attempts to rid the course of the gopher become a running sub-plot of the main story. Later that day, the flamboyant nouveau riche real estate tycoon Al Czervik (Dangerfield) arrives, along with his Asian business partner Mr. Wang, as a guest of another member. Al first meets Judge Smails in the pro shop as Czervik comments on a hat he sees for sale, which he discovers is also being worn by Smails. Although obnoxious and somewhat immature, Czervik is friendly and affable, and easily endears himself to the caddies and other club members. Danny's boss Lou (Brian Doyle-Murray) informs the caddies that the country club's caddy scholarship has become available after its previous winner, Carl Lippbaum, died of an anxiety attack while at school. Danny then decides to caddy for Judge Smails in hopes of earning his favor when Smails awards the next scholarship. Judge Smails' foursome, which includes Dr. Beeper, Bishop Pickering and Smails' grandson, Spaulding, begins their round, and is joined by Smails' voluptuous niece, Lacey Underall. While he waits to start his game, Czervik wastes no time in needling Smails as he tees off, which causes Smails to slice his ball into the rough. Czervik's group continues its rowdy behavior, which is of no help to Danny, as he is trying to butter up the increasingly agitated members of Smails' foursome. On one of Czervik's strokes, Czervik's ball accidentally hits Judge Smails in the testicles. Danny is granted a brief respite when the party completes the front nine of the course, and he enjoys lunch with his girlfriend, Maggie, who is working the snack bar. Danny finally enters Judge Smails' good graces when Smails attempts to putt on the final hole. Al loudly wagers $1,000 that Smails will miss his relatively short putt, which draws a crowd of onlookers. Smails does miss the putt, causing him to fling his putter into the air in a blind rage. The putter crashes onto a deck at the clubhouse, striking a woman. Seizing the opportunity, Danny takes responsibility for the incident, claiming the grips on the club were worn and Smails was not responsible, putting him in good standing with the judge. That evening, the country club hosts a Fourth of July banquet. Danny and Maggie are working as servers when Danny becomes enamored of Lacey. Maggie attempts to dissuade Danny by informing him of Lacey's promiscuous reputation. Al Czervik, dining with his friends, begins to create his unique form of fun-loving chaos during the otherwise stodgy party by tipping all of the staff, making insulting comments about Smails and his family, and paying the band playing at the party to play more upbeat dance music. Later Ty Webb arrives, and he manages to catch the eye of Lacey, who attempts to seduce him outside. Danny all but seals the deal on the scholarship by winning the Caddy Day golf tournament, sinking a clutch putt and earning the praise of the Judge, along with an invitation to mow his lawn and drop by a party at the Judge's yacht club that Sunday. Danny and Maggie enjoy a romantic interlude before going to the country club pool. Lacey makes another appearance, this time getting a massage from Danny's chief rival, Tony D'Annunzio. That evening, Lacey visits Ty Webb at his home, where the two enjoy tequila shots and a naked moonlight swim. At the yacht club, Danny again encounters Lacey, who suggests that she and Danny slip away for some private time at the Judge's house. Once again, Al Czervik crashes the party, destroying Smails' tiny wooden sloop with his enormous yacht by dropping the anchor into the cargo hold. The judge and his wife return home and discover Lacey and Danny naked in his bed. Danny grabs his clothes and flees, steps ahead of a club-wielding Judge. Danny spends the night in the caddyshack, where he is awakened by a scared Maggie, who informs him she may be pregnant. Danny proposes marriage, but is turned down. Making matters worse, he is called into the Judge's office. Danny believes that he's blown his chances at the scholarship at best and expects to be fired at worst. However, the Judge surprises him by offering him the scholarship in gratitude after Danny promises never to mention the embarrassing incident with his niece to anybody. That evening, Maggie reveals that she isn't pregnant and apologizes to Danny. Elsewhere, Smails and Czervik encounter each other in the club's private bar one last time, where the enemies agree on a winner-take-all $20,000 golf match pitting Smails and Dr. Beeper against Al and Ty Webb. Later that evening, Ty is practicing for the match and hits an errant ball into Carl's ramshackle home. Carl and Ty discuss their respective problems (Ty's match against Smails and Carl's credit trouble). Ty's visit ends with sharing a very large joint made of grass (said to be a hybrid of "Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bent, and northern California sinsemilla"), which Carl has invented that also doubles as golf turf. The match begins, with Judge Smails selecting Danny to be his caddy. As the foursome plays, word spreads of the stakes involved, and other course employees start placing side-bets on the event. At the end of the first nine holes, Smails' team is winning. He taunts Czervik, who then doubles the stakes to $40,000, which the Judge gleefully accepts. Later, Al is hit by a ricocheting ball and pretends to be hurt, hoping to have the contest declared a draw. The match umpire says Al would forfeit, unless they were to choose a substitute. The Judge picks Spaulding, but Ty insists that they should name their own substitute, choosing Danny instead. The Judge threatens to revoke Danny's scholarship if he plays. Danny smirks and takes Al's place (after Al offers to make it "worth his while"). While the match is underway, Carl has moved into the endgame of his battle with the course's gopher. He has been dropping decoy animals sculpted from plastic explosives into every gopher hole he finds, tying all of the detonators to a single master switch. By the final hole, the score is tied and a large crowd has gathered to watch. Dr. Beeper and Ty both 2-putt. On this hole, Judge Smails pulls out a putter from his bag while telling Spaulding it's time for "the old Billy Baroo" and he makes his putt, putting the Smails-Beeper team ahead by one shot. Danny is last to putt and must sink his shot to force a tie. However, Czervik raises the stakes to a whopping $80,000 on Danny making the putt, which Smails accepts. Danny's putt reaches the edge of the cup, meaning that Smails would win the hole and the match. At that moment, Carl detonates the explosives, rocking the course. The force of the explosions is enough to cause the ball to drop, thereby winning the $80,000 bet for the Ty-Czervik team. Judge Smails attempts to renege on his end of the bet but Al's thugs are summoned to convince him otherwise. While Smails is busy with Al's goons, Czervik turns to the people at the house and proclaims "Hey, everybody! We're all gonna get laid!" ("We're all gonna take a shower!" in edited-for-TV versions), earning him cheers from all of the people. The movie concludes with the gopher emerging, largely unharmed despite the explosives, from his hole, and dancing to Kenny Loggins' "I'm All Right" playing during the end credits. 9 Optimus Prime Animated Transformer movieWhy? His death scene was done really well. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Transformers-movieposter-west.jpg) Unicron, a space-roaming artificial planet, destroys and eats robot planet Lithone, along with its population. A few of the inhabitants attempt to flee the planet in spaceships but only one gets away. It is revealed that the evil Decepticons have gained control of the Transformers' homeworld, Cybertron at some point in the intervening twenty years since the beginning of the struggle between the robotic warriors on Earth (The exact means by which this victory was attained was never revealed). The heroic Autobots are readying themselves on two of Cybertron's moons for a strike against the Decepticons, preparing a supply shuttle for launch to Autobot City on Earth. Their transmission is intercepted by the Decepticons, who ambush the shuttle and kill its crew, consisting of Ironhide, Ratchet, Prowl, and Brawn. The Decepticons then attempt to use the ship to infiltrate Autobot City on Earth without being detected. Meanwhile, on Earth, Daniel Witwicky and Hot Rod fish in a lake nearby Autobot City, discussing Daniel's loneliness, as his father Spike is on one of the Autobot moon bases. They pick up the shuttle's signature, and race up to Lookout Mountain to see it land, irritating the old Autobot Kup in the process. They notice its damaged exterior and spot Decepticons, upon which Hot Rod fires at the stowaways. After a brief battle pitting Hot Rod and Kup against the Decepticons Blitzwing and Shrapnel, the Decepticons begin their attack on Autobot City. The outnumbered Autobots, including Autobot City Commander Ultra Magnus, Blurr, Springer, Perceptor, and female Autobot Arcee, transform Autobot City into a battle fortress and both sides settle down for a long siege that lasts the rest of the day and all of the following night. Early in the battle, Ultra Magnus sends orders to alert Blaster to radio for assistance from their commander Optimus Prime. An attempt to thwart the transmission by Soundwave and his cassette Decepticons fails, and the next morning Optimus and the Dinobots arrive to successfully repel the Decepticon invaders, including the here far more competent Devastator, who is displayed as being far more effective and brutal when compared to his depictions in the Television series prior to the release of the film. Upon arriving, Optimus almost single-handedly takes down many Decepticons before confronting his arch-enemy Megatron. Optimus and Megatron engage in a memorable final battle that leaves Optimus mortally wounded, due to the untimely, though well-intentioned, intervention of Hot Rod. Optimus manages to turn the tide of battle however and defeats Megatron. Starscream takes command of the Decepticons and orders a retreat with their fallen leader and other war-wounded loaded aboard Astrotrain for transport back to Cybertron. Inside Autobot City's walls, Perceptor alerts the other Autobots that the wounds that Optimus has suffered during his battle with Megatron are fatal. The dying Optimus calls on Ultra Magnus to assume command of the Autobots and bestows him with the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which Optimus extracts from his chest. Optimus asserts that the Matrix one day will light the Autobots' darkest hour, right before he dies. Back in space, Astrotrain's shortage of fuel prompts the Decepticons to eject the dead weight of their injured — including the protesting Megatron. This leaves the remaining Decepticons lieutenants, including Starscream, Soundwave, and the Constructicons, to bicker among themselves for leadership. Han Solo- Star Wars[/img] The bad ass mercenary and smuggler with a heart of gold ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/HanSolo.jpg) Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, is a smuggler and "reckless mercenary"[1] in the Star Wars fictional universe. Introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Solo and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), become involved in the Rebel Alliance against the evil Galactic Empire. Over the course of the Star Wars franchise, Solo becomes a chief figure in the Alliance and succeeding galactic governments. Star Wars creator George Lucas described Solo as "a loner who realizes the importance of being part of a group and helping for the common good."The American Film Institute ranked Solo as the 14th greatest film hero. At the beginning of A New Hope, Solo and Chewbacca are desperate to pay off a debt to Jabba the Hutt. Solo accepts a charter to transport Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) to Alderaan; when they arrive, they find Alderaan has been destroyed by the Death Star, and the Falcon is captured. Enticed by the likelihood of a substantial reward, Solo and Chewbacca help Skywalker rescue Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), held captive aboard the station. After escaping and delivering Skywalker, Leia and the droids to the Rebels, Solo and Chewbacca receive payment for their services and depart; Solo believes the Rebels' plan to attack the Death Star is "suicide". However, Solo has a change of heart and returns to aid in the attack, ultimately allowing Skywalker to fire the shot that destroys the Death Star. When the Empire attacks the Rebels' base on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back, Solo transports Chewbacca, Leia, and C-3PO to Cloud City for safety and repairs to the Falcon. The bounty hunter Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch) tracks the Falcon to Cloud City, and Darth Vader (David Prowse/James Earl Jones) forces Cloud City's administrator, Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), to help capture Solo. Leia confesses her love of Solo shortly before he is frozen in carbonite for delivery to Jabba the Hutt. Although Calrissian helps free Vader's other captives, they do not succeed in releasing Solo. However, Leia infiltrates Jabba's palace at the beginning of Return of the Jedi and frees Solo. Reunited with the Rebels, Solo formally joins the Alliance and is commissioned as a general. Along with Leia and Chewbacca, he leads a team in deactivating the shields protecting the Empire's second Death Star. Aided by the indigenous Ewoks, Solo and the Rebels succeed in overcoming the Imperial garrison, allowing the Rebels' space forces to destroy the Empire's battlestation. Solo is a reckless smuggler with a sarcastic wit;[4] he is "a very practical guy" and considers himself "a materialist".[9] However, the adventures in the first Star Wars movie evoke his compassion, a trait "he didn't know he possessed."[9] Michael Corleone The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, The Godfather Part 3 just an amazing transformation from how he goes from an army hero to the Godfather until his death ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Michaelcoreleone.jpg) Corleone, as portrayed by Pacino, was ranked as the eighth greatest movie character of all time by Total Film Magazine, and was recognized as the 11th most iconic villain in film history by the American Film Institute. Michael initially wants nothing to do with the "family business", and is enrolled at Dartmouth College in search of a more Americanized life. After the United States' entry into World War II, he enlists in the Marines against his father's wishes and fights in the Pacific Theatre. For his bravery, Michael is featured in Life magazine in 1944, having been awarded the Silver Star. The claim will be contradicted in the movie The Godfather Part II when Michael says he was awarded a Navy Cross for his service. Michael is discharged as a Captain to recover from wounds in 1945. He later re-enters Dartmouth, where he meets his future wife, Kay Adams (Diane Keaton). When his father is nearly assassinated in 1945, he volunteers to murder the man responsible, Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo (Al Lettieri). He also proposes to kill Captain McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), a police captain who removed his father's bodyguards from the hospital, presumably to set up his father to be killed. Although it is normally a hard-and-fast rule in the Mafia that law enforcement officials are not to be harmed, Michael successfully convinces his elder brother Sonny (James Caan) that since McCluskey is serving as Sollozzo's bodyguard, he has crossed into their world and is fair game. After committing the murders, Michael flees to Sicily under the protection of Don Tommasino, a longtime friend of his father's, and stays in exile for two years. While in Sicily, he marries a young woman named Apollonia (Simonetta Stefanelli), but she is killed by a car bomb intended for Michael. Fabrizio, one of his bodyguards, was paid by a rival family to plant the bomb. While in Sicily, he learns that Sonny had been murdered, and he returns to New York in 1950. There, he reluctantly becomes involved in his family's criminal enterprises, taking over for his deceased brother as operating head of the family under Vito's supervision. The family's consigliere, Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), and one of the caporegimes, Peter Clemenza (Richard S. Castellano), are somewhat skeptical of his ability, but the other capo, Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda), thinks somewhat more of him. He marries Kay a year later, promising to make the family legitimate within five years. Michael tries to buy a casino from Moe Greene (Alex Rocco) — the casino is partly owned "off the record" by the Corleone family. He intends to move his family to Nevada. After his father's death in 1955, he becomes official Don of the Corleone crime family. Before his death, Vito had warned Michael that after he was gone, the head of the rival Barzini family would make an attempt on his life under the pretense of organizing a meeting in order to make peace. After Tessio inadvertently reveals that he had conspired with Emilio Barzini (Richard Conte) against him, Michael arranges the murders of Barzini and Philip Tattaglia. In the film, he also kills the other two Mafia chiefs, Carmine Cuneo, and Victor Stracci. Also targeted are Greene, Tessio, Fabrizio and Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo), his brother-in-law, who plotted with Barzini to have Sonny killed. With this mass slaughter, Michael cements his reputation and restores the Corleone family as the most powerful crime family in the nation. He also gains a reputation for being even more ruthless than his father, despite his long-term goal of legitimacy. When his sister Connie (Talia Shire) finds out that Michael had Carlo killed while he stood godfather to their baby, she flies into a rage. Michael dismisses it as hysteria, and when pressed by Kay, denies any involvement in the murder. Just minutes later, however, he meets with his capos, and Clemenza greets him as "Don Michael." In the film, Clemenza greets Michael as 'Don Corleone' and kisses his hand. Unbeknownst to Michael, Kay is watching this meeting. She realizes that Connie was telling the truth after all — and that her husband has become the new Don Corleone. By the time of The Godfather Part II (1958 to 1963), Michael has moved to shake off his family's Mafia roots. Frank Pentangeli, a longtime associate of his father's, has taken over the family's operations in New York. His efforts at going legitimate prove unsuccessful, however, as his enemies keep him involved in the underworld. He begins to work out a deal with business partner and rival Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) over control of casino operations, but Roth manipulates Michael's brother Fredo (John Cazale) into unwittingly providing him with information used to arrange an attempt on Michael's life. Michael and Roth travel to Cuba to forge a partnership with Fulgencio Batista's regime, allowing them to conduct their operations freely. In the midst of the revolution of 1959, Michael discovers that Fredo had helped Roth, and disowns him. Meanwhile, Pentangeli turns informer after nearly being killed by a rival gang. He tells investigators about Michael's role in the murders of Sollozzo and McCluskey, and is prepared to testify to this before Congress as well. Rather than have Pentangeli killed, Michael flies his brother, Vincenzo, to attend the Congressional hearing. Vincenzo's gaze is enough to make Frank recant his previous statements. While in Washington, Kay, feeling that Michael will never break away from the underworld, decides to leave him and take Anthony and Mary with her. In the ensuing argument, Kay tells Michael that she aborted their child because she does not want to bring another son of his into the world. An enraged Michael hits Kay in the face and and severs ties with her. Following the death of their mother, Michael orders Fredo's murder, an act that would haunt him for the rest of his life. By the time of The Godfather Part III (1979 to 1980) Michael has taken great steps to legitimize the family; he is preparing to hand over his interests in gambling to the other Mafia families, setting up a charitable foundation, and is even being recognized by the Vatican for his good works. This new connection to the Church gives Michael the opportunity to purchase a controlling stake in the large property conglomerate, Immobiliare. He also begins to rekindle his relationship with Kay, as well as taking Sonny's illegitimate son, Vincent Mancini (Andy Garcia), under his wing. He finds himself pulled back into the underworld, however, when almost the entire Mafia Commission is wiped out by an assassin as Michael prepares to hand over his criminal interests. Vincent responds to this new threat against the Family with brutal violence, publicly gunning down Michael's rival, Joey Zasa (Joe Mantegna), who was thought to have ordered the hit on Michael. Vincent also begins a relationship with Michael's daughter, Mary (Sofia Coppola), a romance Michael strongly disapproves of. At the end of the film, weary of the bloody, lonely life of a Don, he retires and makes his nephew the new head of the family, on condition that he end the relationship with Mary. Realizing that powerful interests in Italian politics and business were working to prevent the family's takeover of Immobiliare, Michael, with Vincent's assistance, once again prepares to move against his enemies. This wave of murders takes place as Michael watches his son Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio) perform in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana. That same night, however, Mary is inadvertently killed in an assassination attempt on Michael himself. A broken man, Michael retires to Sicily, where he dies years later of old age, sitting alone in a lawn chair in the courtyard where he married Apollonia.
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With a total of 10 votes the following characters are tied Danny Ocean Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12, and Ocean’s 13![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Ocean%2C_Danny.jpg) Danny Ocean has a cool, friendly and charismatic personality. He is imaginative, personable and highly organized, and a very experienced gambler, con artist, and thief. A true career criminal, Danny is often on the lookout for potential targets, even unintentionally. He is experienced in various confidence schemes, fraudulent business scams and swindles. Danny is effectively both the leader and project manager of the Eleven, knowing the skills of his teammates and who to rotate inside a job to handle contingencies. He also knows who to recruit from the outside for specific parts in a heist. His ability to rapidly acquire talent throughout the series reveal how extremely well connected he is with the most skilled characters in the professional criminal world. Despite being a thief, Danny adheres to the codes and unwritten understandings of criminal professionals, giving him a universal reputation of reliability, competency and nobility. He lives by three rules: 1. Don't hurt anybody, 2. Don't steal from anyone who doesn't deserve it, 3. Play the game like you have nothing to lose. Danny's appearance is impeccable and fashionable, but more sedate than his associates. Danny is a skilled communicator. He knows how to persuade using reverse psychology or offering recruits exactly what they want directly using as few words as possible. Danny's closest friend in the series is Rusty Ryan, and the two complement each other. The two know each other well enough that they will take non-verbal cues from one another, not even needing to finish their own sentences. Danny and Rusty often confide in each other about personal issues. Before the series begins, it is established Danny was married to Tess Ocean for at least three years. He has fond memories of Reuben Tishkoff and has known Rusty for many years, having established a good friendship with him and many other people. Rusty mentions that Danny had stolen Incan matrimonial headmasks before his capture. He was paroled after serving 2 years of a 5 year sentence for felony fraud conviction. The parole selection staff say he has been implicated in 14 separate counts of conspiracy to commit fraud, but has never been charged in those crimes. At the start of Ocean's Eleven, Danny gets paroled from prison and after less than a day, he breaks his parole by going to another state to find Rusty. After meeting up with his friend, he reveals his plan to rob the vault of Benedict's casino. When asked why he wants to do this, Danny just says that the house always wins in Vegas, but when you get the best hand you can get like he has now, you go all in and destroy it. They recruit eight other members for the robbery, and taking a hint from Rusty's silence, Danny elects to get one more, Linus Caldwell. The Eleven begin preparations and Rusty finds out the real reason for Danny wanting to rob Benedict. Terry Benedict, who owns the casinos, is now with Danny's ex-wife, Tess. Despite arguments with Rusty, Danny says his intention is to rob the casinos and Tess will be a side effect. Despite his attempts to get Tess back, they fail and he is blacklisted from the hotel. Since his past history with Tess and criminal record is knowledge to Benedict, Rusty decides that Danny will have to back out of the heist, and the group goes ahead without him. Linus is given Danny's role in the caper. Danny arrives on the night of the heist and says goodbye to Tess. However, while doing so, he secretly passes her a mobile phone to keep the con going. He allows himself to be taken to an empty room where a man arrives to beat him up. However after the door is closed, it becomes apparent the man is on his side. He uses the opportunity to enter the air-ducts and meet up with Linus where he says this was just a test for Linus and it was all an act. After infiltrating the vault and after several series of bluffs and cons, the group succeeds in stealing $160 million. He also tricks Benedict into revealing in front of Tess that he'd rather have the money than her. He is sent back to jail for six months for violating his parole. When he comes out, Tess and Rusty are waiting for him, and they drive off into the sunset, closely followed by two of Benedict's lackeys. Some three years after Ocean's Eleven, Danny is celebrating his second 3rd anniversary with Tess. He is buying her flowers and jewelry after checking a bank for a possible robbery. However, after doing the previous job, Francois "The Night Fox" Toulour is angered by the possibility of a better thief than him. He reveals the location of the Eleven to Benedict and they are found and given two weeks to pay back the money or they will be executed by Benedict. Danny is short on funds as are the rest, except Reuben. They go to Europe to get the money. However, Toulour interferes with their plans and reveals his own. Toulour offers to pay the debt of the Eleven if they can prove themselves better thieves. Through consultation with Toulour's mentor, LeMarque, the group comes out ahead with the object of the theft, a golden egg originally stolen by LeMarque but put back after his wife made him return it. Toulour explains to Danny how he stole what he believed to be the egg. When Danny reveals in reality it was a replica, Toulour concedes and pays off the debt. Sometime after Ocean's Twelve, Reuben is partnered with ruthless Las Vegas businessman Willy Bank. The two intend to build a new, multi-billion-dollar hotel/casino. However, Bank strongarms Reuben into signing his share of the deal over to Bank, leaving Rueben with a single poker chip worth $10,000. The shock of the swindle gives Reuben a heart attack. Danny calls in the rest of the Eleven to get revenge. However, he leaves Tess behind, saying "it's not her fight." Despite the group wanting to kill Banks, and Danny being saddened by Reuben's heart attack, Danny and Rusty persuade the team that Danny should first talk to Bank to give Reuben back his share. When Bank refuses, the group prepares to rob him. With the help of Roman Nagel (the engineer who created the holographic egg in Ocean's Twelve) and a seemingly placated Benedict, the group manages to plant a magnetron on Bank, so that when he enters the security sector of his casino, it locks down from the magnetron's interference. With the security shut down for three and a half minutes, the group uses the pre-rigged games to break the house, causing Bank over $500,000,000 in losses. As the security comes back online, the group simulates an earthquake and gets the entire casino to evacuate before the patrons can start losing again. Danny then faces off against Bank. After Bank threatens Danny with all the friends he knows who'll hurt him, Danny is calm and confident, claiming every guy Bank knows likes Danny better. At that point, to add insult to injury, Basher and Linus airlift Bank's collection of prized diamond necklaces, worth an additional $250,000,000. Afterward, Danny and the group, including the recovered Reuben, celebrate their victory. As they leave, in the airport, Rusty tells him to lose weight and Danny tells him to settle down and have a couple of kids. A running joke in the movie is that there is a code between people who "shook Sinatra's hand." Frank Sinatra played the character of Danny Ocean in the 1960s version of the film. 10 Unicron Animated TransformersWhy? He was just a cool villain with a great voice. He was a giant f***ing planet that would eat you. Badass. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/TFTM-UnicronsBreakfast.jpg) Unicron, a space-roaming artificial planet, destroys and eats robot planet Lithone, along with its population. A few of the inhabitants attempt to flee the planet in spaceships but only one gets away. It is revealed that the evil Decepticons have gained control of the Transformers' homeworld, Cybertron at some point in the intervening twenty years since the beginning of the struggle between the robotic warriors on Earth (The exact means by which this victory was attained was never revealed). The heroic Autobots are readying themselves on two of Cybertron's moons for a strike against the Decepticons, preparing a supply shuttle for launch to Autobot City on Earth. Their transmission is intercepted by the Decepticons, who ambush the shuttle and kill its crew, consisting of Ironhide, Ratchet, Prowl, and Brawn. The Decepticons then attempt to use the ship to infiltrate Autobot City on Earth without being detected. Meanwhile, on Earth, Daniel Witwicky and Hot Rod fish in a lake nearby Autobot City, discussing Daniel's loneliness, as his father Spike is on one of the Autobot moon bases. They pick up the shuttle's signature, and race up to Lookout Mountain to see it land, irritating the old Autobot Kup in the process. They notice its damaged exterior and spot Decepticons, upon which Hot Rod fires at the stowaways. After a brief battle pitting Hot Rod and Kup against the Decepticons Blitzwing and Shrapnel, the Decepticons begin their attack on Autobot City. The outnumbered Autobots, including Autobot City Commander Ultra Magnus, Blurr, Springer, Perceptor, and female Autobot Arcee, transform Autobot City into a battle fortress and both sides settle down for a long siege that lasts the rest of the day and all of the following night. Early in the battle, Ultra Magnus sends orders to alert Blaster to radio for assistance from their commander Optimus Prime. An attempt to thwart the transmission by Soundwave and his cassette Decepticons fails, and the next morning Optimus and the Dinobots arrive to successfully repel the Decepticon invaders, including the here far more competent Devastator, who is displayed as being far more effective and brutal when compared to his depictions in the Television series prior to the release of the film. Upon arriving, Optimus almost single-handedly takes down many Decepticons before confronting his arch-enemy Megatron. Optimus and Megatron engage in a memorable final battle that leaves Optimus mortally wounded, due to the untimely, though well-intentioned, intervention of Hot Rod. Optimus manages to turn the tide of battle however and defeats Megatron. Starscream takes command of the Decepticons and orders a retreat with their fallen leader and other war-wounded loaded aboard Astrotrain for transport back to Cybertron. Inside Autobot City's walls, Perceptor alerts the other Autobots that the wounds that Optimus has suffered during his battle with Megatron are fatal. The dying Optimus calls on Ultra Magnus to assume command of the Autobots and bestows him with the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which Optimus extracts from his chest. Optimus asserts that the Matrix one day will light the Autobots' darkest hour, right before he dies. Back in space, Astrotrain's shortage of fuel prompts the Decepticons to eject the dead weight of their injured — including the protesting Megatron. This leaves the remaining Decepticons lieutenants, including Starscream, Soundwave, and the Constructicons, to bicker among themselves for leadership. Drifting aimlessly, the Decepticon castoffs encounter Unicron, who offers to give Megatron and the others new bodies on the condition that they destroy the Autobot Matrix, which, Unicron says, is the only thing that can stand in his way. Megatron reluctantly agrees, and Unicron uses his power to convert Megatron into a new form: the powerful Decepticon warrior christened "Galvatron". His damaged underlings were also reformatted into Cyclonus, Scourge, and the Sweeps. Unicron provides them with a craft on which they travel to Cybertron, where Galvatron confronts and obliterates the treacherous Starscream and takes command of the Decepticons, as his alter-ego Megatron did before him. Back on Earth, the Autobots are alerted as Unicron consumes Cybertron's two moons, along with Autobots Jazz, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Daniel's father Spike (who are ultimately rescued). Galvatron leads the Decepticons in another assault on Autobot City. The Autobots board a pair of shuttles and flee toward their threatened planet of Cybertron. Hot Rod, Kup and the Dinobots are shot down over the planet Quintessa, while Ultra Magnus and company evade their pursuers and set down on the planet Junk for repairs. Captured by Quintessa guardsmen, Hot Rod and Kup witness the sentencing and execution of Arbulus, a native of Lithone, and are then subjected to a mock trial by Quintesson executioners. Before the trial, they see Kranix, now Lithone's last survivor, who then tells them about Unicron, before he's taken away by the Quintessa guardsmen to also be fed to the Sharkticons. At the trial, Hot Rod and Kup battle the Sharkticons with determination, but luckily they are rescued by the arrival of the Dinobots. Dinobot Grimlock intimidates the Sharkticons to rebel against the Quintessons with ease, while the Autobots escape. With help from the Dinobots' new ally, Wheelie, the group locate a ship and depart for the planet to join the other Autobots. Meanwhile, Galvatron finds and hunts down the Autobots on Junk. Ultra Magnus tries but fails to awaken the Matrix's powers, and then is destroyed by the Sweeps. Galvatron, no longer willing to serve Unicron due to being put through a form of psionic torture by Unicron on two occasions already, steals the Matrix, stating that he intends to use it to make Unicron his slave. The remaining Autobots are harassed by hostile Junkion natives, led by Wreck-Gar, until Hot Rod's party touches down to befriend them. The Junkion allies repair Ultra Magnus and volunteer a vessel to help the Autobots fight against Unicron. Back in space, Galvatron attempts to subjugate Unicron using the Matrix but is unable to unleash its power. Unicron, saying that Galvatron underestimates him, transforms into a huge planet-sized robot and attacks Cybertron. As protest against this, Galvatron opens fire on Unicron, but Unicron simply swallows him up. Decepticon defenders scramble to counter Unicron's attack, to no avail. When the Autobots reach the scene, Hot Rod crashes their ship through one of the giant's eyes and then they find themselves separated within Unicron's body. Meanwhile, Wreck-Gar and his Junkions fight back against Unicron, but Unicron crushes their ship. However they survive. The Dinobots also attack Unicron from behind, but to no avail. Inside, Hot Rod fights the recently consumed Galvatron. Hot Rod secures his grip on the Matrix, and the power of The Matrix is unleashed, transforming him into Rodimus Prime. Rodimus unleashes its power to destroy Unicron from within, but not before he throws Galvatron deep into space. Rodimus leads the other Autobots out of Unicron's body before it explodes, sprawling parts of the giant across the galaxy. The Autobots, triumphant and now seeming to outnumber the Decepticons in the aftermath of Unicron's assault on the planet, reclaim Cybertron. The final scene depicts Unicron's heavily damaged head floating through space in orbit around Cybertron as a new satellite. Dr. Frank N. Furter Rocky Horror Picture Show He's played by Tim Curry. And he's a Sweet Transvestite, dammit! ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Rocky_Horror_2.JPG) Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter: A scientist. Frank is a devious and flamboyant, hedonist transvestite, pansexual scientist. The story, narrated by a criminologist, is that of a newly engaged young couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy night. Seeking a phone with which to call for help, the two knock on the door of a nearby castle, which they find is inhabited by strange and outlandish people who are holding an Annual Transylvanian Convention. They watch, still wet from the rain, as the Transylvanians dance the Time Warp, the film's signature song. They are soon swept into the world of Dr. Frank N. Furter, a bizarre and self-proclaimed "sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" and his servants, brother and sister Riff-Raff and Magenta, as well as a groupie Columbia and an ensemble of convention attendees. Frank claims to have discovered the "secret to life itself" and in a scene inspired by the classic Frankenstein movies, his creation Rocky Horror is brought to life. The ensuing celebration is interrupted by Eddie, an ex-delivery boy, who rides out of a deep freeze on a motorcycle and performs a rock-and-roll number. In a jealous rage, Frank corners and slaughters him with an ice axe. Brad and Janet are shown to separate bedrooms, where each is visited and seduced in turn by Frank, posing as the opposite. Janet, upset and emotional, wanders off to look for Brad. She discovers Rocky, cowering in his birth tank, hiding from Riff-Raff who has been tormenting him. While aiding Rocky Horror, Janet decides to seduce him whilst Magenta and Columbia view from their monitor. After discovering his creature is missing, Frank, Brad and Riff-Raff return to the lab, where Frank learns that an intruder has entered the building. Dr. Everett Scott, Brad and Janet's old high school science teacher, has come looking for his nephew, Eddie. Frank suspects Dr. Scott of working for the government investigating UFOs. Rocky and the guests are served dinner, which they soon realize has been prepared from Eddie's remains. Janet runs screaming into Rocky's arms, and is chased through the halls of the castle by Frank and the rest following behind. Janet, Brad, Dr. Scott, Rocky, and Columbia all meet in Frank's lab, where Frank captures them with the Medusa Transducer, a machine which transforms them into living statues, and then forces them to perform in a cabaret-style floor show. The performance is interrupted by the appearance of Riff-Raff and Magenta, who stage a coup and announce their plan to return to the planet Transsexual. After explaining to Frank that he is not going back with them, they use a laser to kill him, and in the process also kill Columbia and Rocky. They release the remaining earthlings — Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott — warning them to get off the property; after they do so, the entire castle takes off into space to return to the planet of Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania.
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 9:29:19 GMT -5
for the first time in this countdown we have a sole character and he calls here at number 12 he is a legendary character who's story has inspired many people at number 12 Rocky Balboa – every Rocky movie - The million to one underdog that's one in a million ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Scaled_rbmp.jpg) Robert Balboa was born in 1945 as the only child to a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. Up to 1975, Balboa was living in the slums of Philadelphia's Kensington section working as an enforcer for a local loan shark while at the same time fighting the local club circuit, including the Cambria Fight Club, nicknamed "The Bucket of Blood". By this time, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44 (38 knockouts) and losing 20 (as directly mentioned in Rocky). His previous fight was a second round knockout over local fighter Spider Rico. Balboa got his big break when the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed decided that he wanted to give an unknown fighter a chance to fight for the title after his intended challenger, Mac Lee Green, broke his hand while training. After getting picked by Apollo, Rocky reunites with his estranged trainer, grizzled former boxer Mickey Goldmill, who convinces Rocky that he can help get him prepared for this fight. At the same time Rocky begins dating shy pet-shop worker Adrian Peninno (Talia Shire), younger sister of his friend Paulie (Burt Young). On January 1, 1976 at the Philadelphia Spectrum, Balboa went the distance with Creed. Creed, who didn't take the fight seriously during training, soon realized that while Rocky didn't have his skill, he had a punch like a cement block and was determined not to quit even when Mickey told him to. Although Creed won the fight by a split decision, it was the first time an opponent had lasted the full 15 rounds against Creed, and both men, battered beyond belief, agreed that there would be no rematch. After the first match, Creed changed his mind and wanted a re-match under the stress of being humiliated by the press for failing to beat Balboa convincingly, as well as his own knowledge that he didn't give his best in the fight. Creed demanded a rematch with Balboa, stating that he would fight him any place, anywhere, to prove to the world that Balboa's feat was purely a fluke. At first, Rocky refused. He and Adrian got married, and at his wife's urging, Rocky tried living outside boxing. However, Rocky, a grade-school drop-out, soon realized he had no skills beyond fighting, and in fact could barely read. The money he made in the first fight was soon frittered away, and despite Adrian's objections, when Apollo called him out on national television, Rocky agreed to the rematch. Without Adrian's support, however, Rocky's heart wasn't in the training and he was close to quitting until the pregnant Adrian went into premature labor and slipped into a coma after giving birth to Rocky Jr. When Adrian came out of the coma, she gave her full support to Rocky. Together, Mickey and Rocky trained hard, focusing on Rocky's speed and improving his right-handed punching (Rocky being a southpaw). At the same time, the angry Apollo also focused fully on his training, taking this match seriously. The re-match was set for Thanksgiving '76. The grueling battle was another 15-round war with both Balboa and Creed falling to the canvas after Balboa landed a succession of left hands. Referee Lou Fillipo exercised his 10-count and as both Creed and Balboa struggled to make it to their feet, Creed crumbled back down in exhaustion. Only Rocky was able to get up, getting the better of Creed this time and beating the 10-count, winning the rematch by knockout, thus becoming heavyweight champion of the world. Over the next few years, Balboa successfully defended his title in 10 consecutive defenses against various contenders. In addition, Balboa also fought an exhibition bout against the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan). However, in 1981, Balboa was challenged by intense and hungry newcomer James "Clubber" Lang (Mr. T). Balboa had some issues with his trainer Mickey Goldmill due to his revelation of having faced "hand-picked" challengers that were "good fighters, but not 'killers'" which Lang was; Mickey insisted that he would quit as Balboa's manager if he chose to fight Lang, but Balboa convinced him to train him for one last match. However, like Creed in the first movie, Rocky didn't put his heart into the training. Lang shoved Goldmill out of the way before the match, sending the elderly trainer into cardiac arrest, which threw Balboa, already undertrained, completely off his game. He was then knocked out in the second round, losing his title; adding to his defeat, Goldmill died of a heart attack after the match, devastating Balboa. Despairing, Balboa was met by Apollo Creed, who told Rocky that when they fought Rocky won because Rocky was hungry, he had the 'fire' Apollo no longer had, and convinced Rocky that he needed to get his fire ("the eye of the tiger") back. Along with his old trainer Tony "Duke" Evers (Tony Burton), Apollo offered to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang, taking Rocky home to his old gym where he first trained. After awhile Rocky managed to purge his doubts and get his fire back. Fighting a style very reminiscent of Creed's own boxing technique mixed with his own In Your Face Don't Quit style, Rocky won the second match with Lang by KO, taking Lang's best blows and still standing, regaining his world heavyweight title. After the fight Rocky and Apollo were last seen alone in Mickey's Gym, Apollo taking his 'payment' for his training services: one last rematch, just the two of them, no spectators. But this fight was only a sparring session between two new friends. A couple of years after the events from Rocky III, Apollo Creed came out of retirement and agreed to fight a Soviet World Amateur Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist-turned-professional fighter Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in Las Vegas with Rocky Balboa and Tony "Duke" Evers in his corner. Creed, past his prime and again not taking his opponent seriously, was brutally beaten by massive Drago in the first round but begged Rocky not to stop the fight. In the second round, Creed continued to be beaten by Drago, and fell limp in the ring and died from the injuries. Feeling responsible for not stopping the fight, Balboa set up a match with Drago, which was held on Christmas Day in Moscow. Rocky had to surrender his World Heavyweight Championship crown to accept the bout. With "Duke" assuming the role as his new trainer, Balboa trained hard using all-natural methods within the mountainous terrain of Krasnoyarsk Siberia, while Drago was shown being trained with state-of-the-art equipment and steroid enhancement. Finally it became time for the fight. Drago dominated the early moments of the match, but in the second round Balboa caught Drago with a haymaker to the eye and cut him. The fight continued in a bloody back-and-forth battle, with the Soviet crowd who had originally rooted for Drago began cheering for Balboa while Drago's handler became increasingly upset over his inability to finish the American. In the end Rocky's superior stamina and will to win persevered and he defeated the Russian in the fifteenth round. After the fight Rocky gave an impassioned thank you speech to the crowd which received a standing ovation both from the crowd and the politicals in attendance. After the fight with Drago, Balboa’s doctor discovered that he had suffered significant brain damage, caused by repeated blows to the head, forcing him to retire. He then lost his fortune after his brother-in-law Paulie granted power of attorney to their accountant, with only Mickey's Gym which had been officially closed for some years and willed by Mickey to Rocky Jr, still in his possession. He was then forced to return to the Philadelphia slums from where he was raised. Though retired from boxing himself, Balboa started training an up-and-coming fighter, Tommy Gunn (Tommy Morrison). Gunn slowly became an excellent fighter, but suffered some being constantly put in Rocky's shadow (called Rocky's Robot by the media) and wooed by seedy promotor George Washington Duke ended leaving Rocky after an argument about whether Balboa was holding him back. At the same time Rocky Jr. also had problems adjusting to the less-than-lavish lifestyle he was born into and by his father's distance. After a while Rocky realized the damage he was doing with his son's relationship and made amends. Gunn won the World Heavyweight title from Union Cane. However, he was ridiculed in the press -- since he had never fought a "real contender", he was not regarded as a real champion or heir to the belt. This motivated Gunn, with prodding from Duke to publicly challenge Rocky to a fight. Balboa initially declined, but when the hot-tempered Gunn punched Paulie Rocky accepted, telling Gunn his ring was in the alley right outside. The two engaged in a street brawl which quickly got the attention of the locals, the police (who weren't interested in breaking it up) and the media. In the end Rocky defeated his protege then punched Duke (who had obnoxiously threated to sue if Rocky touched him), telling him "Sue me for what?". After the events of Rocky V, Rocky opened a neighborhood restaurant which he named "Adrian's" dedicated to his wife who died from ovarian cancer prior to the events of “Rocky Balboa." ESPN’s program “Then And Now” featured a computer animation about a simulated fight between Rocky (in his prime), and the current champion, Mason "The Line" Dixon. The fight simulated Rocky winning by knockout in the 13th round, which stirred up a great deal of discussion about the result if such a fight ever occurred. Inspired by the simulation and feeling he still has some issues to deal with ("stuff in the basement"), Rocky decides to return to the ring. Rocky applies for a boxing license and though passing the physical with flying colors (the brain damage suffered in Rocky V was ignored) the Licensing Committee denies his license, however they change their minds and give him his license after Rocky makes an impassioned speech to them. Rocky's intentions were originally just to compete in small, local fights for fun. However with the publicity of Rocky's return Mason Dixons promoters convince Rocky to face The Champ in an exhibition bout in Las Vegas. Despite being champ, Dixon is haunted by criticism claiming that he has never had a truly great opponent or memorable match. Originally against fighting an aged-Balboa, Dixon recognized the opportunity to fight a legend and hoping to end all prognosticating about who would win and agreed to the fight In the press, commentators dismiss Rocky's chances, assuming that the fight will be one-sided due to his age. Rocky Jr is also against the fight, believing himself held down due to his father's shadow, though after a confrontation with Rocky Sr he realizes that the only one holding him back is himself. Rocky, reunited with his old trainer Duke, works hard on his one major remaining weapon: power. The fight initially seems lop-sided with Dixon's speed allowing him to dish out all of the damage. However Dixon soon realizes Rocky isn't going down and that the old man "has bricks in his gloves." The tide turns when Mason injures his hand while punching Rocky. This evens the playing field and allows Rocky to mount an offense. In the end, the two fighters go the distance with Dixon winning by split decision. Dixon is finally recognized as being a warrior for fighting through the broken hand and Rocky proves to the world that he is no joke, mirroring the ending of the first Rocky film.
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 10:34:28 GMT -5
There's a tie at the 5th spot between 2 of the most memorable characters in film. One appeared in a movie last year where as the other is from a film franchise. Coming in at number 5 The Joker from The Dark Knight ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/HeathJoker.png) 60's Joker was nothing more than a dandy. The Jack Nicholson Joker was great but a bit too comical. This one, played by Heath Ledger is a complete psychopath...and it's awesome damn right Heath Ledger as The Joker. Before Ledger was confirmed to play the Joker in July 2006, Paul Bettany,[15] Lachy Hulme,[16] Adrien Brody,[17] Steve Carell,[18] and Robin Williams[19] publicly expressed interest in the role. Yet Nolan had wanted to work with Ledger on a number of projects in the past (though he had been unable to do so), and was agreeable to Ledger's anarchic interpretation of the character.[20] When Ledger saw Batman Begins, he had realized a way to make the character work consistent with the film's tone:[21] he described his Joker as a "psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy". To prepare for the role, Ledger lived alone in a hotel room for a month, formulating the character's posture, voice, and personality, and kept a diary, in which he recorded the Joker's thoughts and feelings.[14][23] While he initially found it difficult, Ledger eventually generated a voice unlike Jack Nicholson's character in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film.[22][23] He was also given Batman: The Killing Joke and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, which he "really tried to read and put it down".[21] Ledger also cited A Clockwork Orange and Sid Vicious as "a very early starting point for Christian [Bale] and I. But we kind of flew far away from that pretty quickly and into another world altogether."[24][25] "There’s a bit of everything in him. There’s nothing that consistent," Ledger said, and added, "There are a few more surprises to him."[24] Ledger was allowed to shoot and mostly direct the videos the Joker sends out as warnings. Each take Ledger made was different from the last. Nolan was impressed enough with the first video shoot that he chose to not be present when Ledger shot the video with a kidnapped reporter (Anthony Michael Hall).[26] On January 22, 2008, after he had completed filming The Dark Knight, Ledger died of an accidental prescription drug overdose, leading to intense press attention and memorial tributes. "It was tremendously emotional, right when he passed, having to go back in and look at him every day [during editing]," Nolan recalled. "But the truth is, I feel very lucky to have something productive to do, to have a performance that he was very, very proud of, and that he had entrusted to me to finish."[25] All of Ledger's scenes appear as he completed them in the filming; in editing the film, Nolan added no "digital effects" to alter Ledger's actual performance posthumously.[27] Nolan has dedicated the film in part to Ledger's memory.[28][29] In Gotham City, the Joker robs a mob bank with his accomplices, whom he tricks into killing one another, ultimately killing the last one himself. That night, Batman and Lieutenant James Gordon contemplate including new district attorney Harvey Dent in their plan to eradicate the mob. However, Batman wonders if Dent can be trusted. Bruce runs into Rachel Dawes and Dent, who are dating, and after talking to Dent, he realizes Dent's sincerity and decides to host a fundraiser for him. Mob bosses Sal Maroni, Gambol, and the Chechen meet with other underworld gangsters to discuss both Batman and Dent, who have been cracking down on the mobster's operations. Lau, a Chinese mafia accountant, informs them that he has hidden their money and fled to Hong Kong in an attempt to preempt Gordon's plan to seize the mobsters' funds and hide from Dent's jurisdiction. The Joker appears and offers to kill Batman for half of the mafia's money, but they flatly refuse and Gambol places a bounty on the Joker's head. Not long after, the Joker kills Gambol and takes control of his men. In Hong Kong, Batman captures Lau and delivers him to the Gotham City police, where Lau agrees to testify against the mob. In retaliation, the mobsters hire the Joker to kill Batman and Lau. The Joker issues an ultimatum to Gotham: people will die each day until Batman reveals his identity. When Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb and Judge Surillo are murdered by corrupt police, the public readily blames Batman, prompting Bruce to decide to reveal his identity. Before Bruce can turn himself in, Dent holds a press conference to try and persuade the public not to sell Batman out just because of one terrorist, but the public, though grateful for everything Batman has done for the city, insists that things have now reached a point where Batman must make the sacrifice, so Dent announces that he himself is Batman and is arrested as part of a plan to draw the Joker out of hiding. The Joker attempts to ambush the police convoy carrying Dent, but Batman and Gordon intervene and capture him. In recognition of his actions, Gordon is appointed the new police commissioner. Later that night, Dent and Dawes disappear. At the police station, Batman interrogates the Joker, who reveals that Dent and Dawes' police escorts were on Maroni's payroll and have placed them in warehouses rigged with explosives on opposite sides of the city — far enough apart so that Batman cannot save them both. Batman leaves to save Dawes, while Gordon and the police head after Dent. With the aid of a smuggled bomb, the Joker escapes police custody with Lau. Batman arrives, but finds Dent instead of Dawes. Batman successfully saves Dent, but the ensuing explosion disfigures Dent's face. Gordon arrives at Dawes' location too late, and she perishes when the bomb detonates. Unable to cope with this new level of chaos, Maroni goes to Gordon and offers him the Joker's location. Aboard a cargo ship, the Joker burns Lau to death atop a pile of the mob's money, and has the Chechen killed before taking control of his men. Meanwhile, an accountant at Wayne Enterprises, Coleman Reese, finds out Batman's identity and after failing to blackmail the company, decides to go public. However, realizing that he does what he does only because of Batman, The Joker changes his mind about revealing Batman's identity and issues a public ultimatum: either Reese is killed, or the hospital Dent is at will be destroyed. When the police refuse to carry out his demands, The Joker goes to the evacuated hospital, disguised as a nurse, and frees Dent from his restraints, convincing him to exact revenge on the people responsible for Dawes' death, as well as Batman and Gordon for not saving her. Dent begins by flipping for the Joker's life, and spares him. The Joker destroys the hospital on his way out, and then escapes with a hijacked bus full of hospital patients. Out of the hospital, Dent goes on a personal vendetta, confronting Maroni and the corrupt cops one by one. Now with complete control over the Gotham mob, the Joker announces to the public that anyone left in Gotham at nightfall will be subject to his rule. With the bridges and tunnels out of the city closed due to a bomb threat by the Joker, authorities begin evacuating people by ferry. The Joker has explosives placed on two of the ferries—one ferry with convicts, who were evacuated in an effort to keep the Joker from freeing them, and the other with civilians—telling the passengers the only way to save themselves is to trigger the explosives on the other ferry; otherwise, he will destroy both at midnight. Batman locates the Joker and the hostages he has taken. Realizing the Joker has disguised the hostages as his own men, Batman is forced to attack both Gordon's SWAT team and the Joker's henchmen in order to save the real hostages. The Joker's plan to destroy the ferries fails after the passengers on both decide not to destroy each other. Batman finds the Joker, and after a brief fight, is able to subdue him, preventing him from destroying both ferries. When Batman refuses to kill the Joker, the Joker acknowledges that Batman is truly incorruptible, but that Dent was not, and that he has unleashed Dent upon the city. Leaving the Joker for the SWAT team, Batman searches for Dent. At the remains of the building where Dawes died, Batman finds Dent holding Gordon and his family at gunpoint. Dent judges the innocence of Batman, himself, and Gordon's son through three coin tosses. As the result of the first two flips, he shoots Batman in the abdomen and spares himself. Before Dent can determine the boy's fate, Batman, who was wearing body armor, tackles him over the side of the building. Gordon's son is saved, but Dent and Batman fall to the ground below resulting in Dent's death. Knowing that the citizens of Gotham will lose hope and all morale if Dent's rampage becomes public news, Batman convinces Gordon to hold him responsible for the murders. Images are shown of Gordon delivering the eulogy at Dent's funeral and smashing the Bat-Signal. Police swarm the building, and Batman flees as Gordon and his son watch. Also coming in at number 5 13 Lt. John McClaine Die Hard series It's safe to say that wherever John McClane goes...terrorists follow him. Then they do some terrorist-like stuff and McClane has to kill them in awesome ways. From a building to an airport to NYC to the US Eastern Coast, McClane is always there to save its ass. Yippiekayyay mothersmorker or as it's said on free tv, which is hilarious, "Yippiekayyay Captain Falcon!" ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Die_hard.jpg) On Christmas Eve 1988, John McClane, a detective with the New York City Police Department, arrives in Los Angeles to try to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly Gennero. McClane is driven to the Nakatomi Plaza building at Holly's company's expense by a limo driver named Argyle. McClane is welcomed to their Christmas party and takes a moment to refresh himself from the flight in a bathroom. The party is disrupted by the arrival of a dozen terrorists led by Hans Gruber, a former German terrorist, who quickly secure the party goers as hostages. McClane quietly slips into the main stairwell of the building before he is discovered trying to learn more. He discovers that Gruber is simply trying to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from the Nakatomi vault. When the Nakatomi president Joseph Takagi refuses to reveal the passcodes to the vault, Gruber shoots and kills him, and then orders Theo, his technical man, to begin breaking through all but the final electromagnetic lock on the vault, promising that he will handle the last lock. McClane quietly moves through the building, killing terrorists that he encounters, and learns more of their motives while acquiring a two-way radio, C4 explosives and detonators off the body of one terrorist he kills. McClane manages to use the radio to attract the attention of LAPD Sergeant Al Powell and uses a terrorist corpse dropped onto his patrol car to convince him that something is amiss. McClane uses the pseudonym "Roy Rogers" to avoid revealing his identity to the terrorists while explaining the situation to Powell as the police and SWAT team arrive. McClane and Powell are unable to prevent the SWAT team from entering an ambush set by the terrorists, but McClane manages to minimize the damage by sending some C4 explosive down the elevator shaft to wipe out the terrorists firing on the SWAT team. McClane refuses to reveal himself when Gruber threatens and proceeds to kill Harry Ellis, one of Holly's coworkers who tried to negotiate a deal for his release by selling out McClane's identity to Gruber. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrive, and order power to the Plaza shut down. When the emergency lighting turns on, Gruber reveals this was his plan all along as the final electromagnetic lock on the vault is disengaged, and Theo begins to collect the bonds. Gruber aims to lure the FBI into another trap by giving them a list of demands including a helicopter to transport his men and the hostages from the roof of the Plaza to Los Angeles International Airport. McClane investigates the roof and finds it rigged with C4, but also encounters Gruber. McClane is forced to drop the detonators, and makes his way to warn off the FBI approaching in a helicopter. As Gruber orders the hostages to the roof, he learns from a television report by Richard Thornburg of Holly Gennero's relationship with John McClane, and personally takes her hostage. McClane is unable to wave off the FBI but manages to kill the terrorists forcing the hostages to the roof, and tells the hostages to flee inside just before the roof is detonated, destroying the FBI helicopter. McClane meets Gruber, still holding Holly close, and his last terrorist, and manages to shoot both. The other terrorist is killed but Gruber, injured, stumbled backwards through a pane of glass and nearly drags Holly with him. McClane grabs Holly and holds her as her watchband breaks, causing Gruber to fall to his death. Meanwhile, as Theo attempts to flee the scene, Argyle rams his car and knocks Theo out. McClane and Holly are escorted out of the building and meet Powell in person. Karl, a major terrorist who seeks revenge on McClane for killing his brother earlier, approaches them and is about to kill McClane before Powell shoots him, which is the first time he'd drawn his gun since a traumatic child shooting incident several years ago. When Thornburg and his crew arrive to get the exclusive story, Holly punches him in the face for endangering her and her children. McClane and Holly are then driven off by Argyle. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Die_Hard_2.jpg) John McClane, while waiting on Christmas Eve at Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly to arrive from Los Angeles, spots two men dressed in army fatigues and passing a package between them. Following them into the baggage area, McClane ends up in a fight, killing one of them, but the other escapes. McClane believes that something is about to happen and discovers that one of the two men is a mercenary who was thought to be killed. Meanwhile, former U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Stuart and other former members of his unit, operating out of a small church near the airport, set up their operations. They take control of the air traffic and state that they want to rescue Ramon Esperanza, a drug lord and dictator of a South American country named Val Verde, who is flying in for a trial. They demand a Boeing 747 so they can escape to another country and warn the Dulles controllers not to try to restore their systems. Despite warnings, the Dulles controllers and communications director Leslie Barnes head out to the unfinished Annex Skywalk with the airport police SWAT team to try to establish communication with the planes. However, Stuart already has men there waiting for them, who kill the SWAT team and are about to kill Barnes when McClane bursts in and kills Stuart's men. In response, Stuart crashes a plane into the ground, killing all on board. A two-way radio dropped by one of Stuart's men tips McClane off that Esperanza is landing. He gets there before Stuart's men, but Stuart traps him in the cabin and throws grenades into the cockpit. McClane escapes through the ejection seat. McClane comes back to the airport to find an Army Special Forces team, led by a Major Grant, have arrived. Barnes and McClane discover where the mercenaries are operating and radio in to tell Grant and his team to raid it. However, the mercenaries escape on snowmobiles. McClane pursues them, but finds that the gun he picked up doesn't work. He realizes that both the mercenaries and Special Forces were using blank ammunition in their guns and that they were working together. McClane gets the airport police to send out officers to intercept the plane. However, the people at Dulles are panicked and officers cannot reach the plane in time. McClane hitches a ride on a news-copter, which drops him off on the wing of the plane. Grant comes out to fight, but is sucked into the engine. Stuart kicks McClane off the plane, but not before McClane manages to open the fuel hatch. He then takes a cigar lighter and lights the trail of fuel, blowing the plane up. The other planes, circing in the air, use the lighted trail to land. Holly and McClane are joyfully reunited in the final scene of the movie. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Die_Hard_With_A_Vengance.jpg) After a bomb explodes in the early morning at the Bonwit Teller department store in New York City, a man calling himself "Simon" (Jeremy Irons) telephones the police claiming responsibility, and demands that they play a game of "Simon Says" to prevent any more explosions. Simon orders suspended NYPD Lt. John McClane walk through Harlem wearing a sandwich board displaying racist slurs. Before McClane can be beaten to death by a group of outraged residents, Harlem shopkeeper Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) steps in to rescue McClane, and together they return to the precinct. There, Simon calls the precinct and takes credit for an Astrolite-like bi-component explosive discovered in a major park. Further investigation reveals that several thousand pounds of it were stolen the night before - Simon has enough explosives to level a city block. Simon demands that Carver join McClane for the remainder of his "game", directing them to a payphone at the 72nd Street subway station. Simon reveals that a bomb is on the # 3 subway train that is just leaving the station, and tasks the two to reach the Wall Street subway station 90 blocks away in 30 minutes to prevent its detonation. McClane and Carver commandeer a taxi and cut through Central Park to avoid traffic; McClane instructs Carver to continue on surface roads while he gets on the subway car to search for the bomb. Carver arrives at the Wall Street platform at 10:20am, but Simon specifically wanted both Carver and McClane at the station by the deadline, for which then he disappointingly replies on the payphone "I'm afraid this is non-compliance. Goodbye". McClane finds the bomb, now armed, and attempts to throw it off the subway. As the train enters the station, it trips over the detonator, causing the subway car to derail and tear through the station, causing the second terrorist attack in New York City since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. As the Wall Street area is cleared and McClane and Carver recover, they learn from the police and FBI that Simon is a former East German special forces officer who led a Special Forces unit trained for sabotage. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Simon is believed to have gone to work for the Iranian Government. They are also told Simon's full name is Simon Peter Gruber and he is the brother of Hans Gruber, whom McClane dropped off the Nakatomi Plaza building in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, 1988 (during the events of the first film). Therefore, the FBI believes the bombings are linked to Simon's desire to avenge Hans' death. Simon calls again, telling the police that the remaining explosives have been hidden in one of the public schools in New York, and that police-band radio transmissions could set them off. McClane and Carver have less than five hours to complete Simon's game to prevent the bomb from detonating, and depart while the police organize a massive search of every school, leaving the Wall Street area unsecured. Without their radios, they must coordinate through the city phone switchboards. Simon, along with employer Mathias Targo and numerous henchmen, use the opportunity created by the chaos between the destruction of the subway station and the sparseness of the police force to seize and secure the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to steal all $140 Billion USD of the gold bullion in its vaults. McClane and Carver, initially hostile towards each other, become friends and work together to solve Simon's riddles; McClane deduces that the various distractions are part of Simon's plan. McClane instructs Carver to continue following Simon's game, and returns back to the city to discover the gold has already been stolen by Simon using a number of dump trucks. McClane attempts to follow them through an aqueduct, but Simon's men flood it. Realizing that their goals have been exposed, Simon calls Z-100 & its DJ Elvis Duran and tells the entire city that a school has a bomb in it - overloading the switchboards when every parent in the city calls 911, cutting off all police communications. Though McClane is able to join Carver and they discover that the dumptrucks have unloaded onto a tanker, they must act alone. McClane and Carver sneak aboard the tanker but discover that the containers aboard it hold only scrap metal, and are quickly captured by Simon, who reveals that there is no bomb in any school, instead that the bulk of the explosive is aboard the tanker. Although the original plan was to blow up the gold in New York harbor and destabilize the world's economy, Simon has murdered Targo and smuggled the gold off the ship to keep it for himself and his men. McClane and Carver are chained to the explosives as Simon escapes; McClane and Carver are able to escape just seconds before the bomb destroys the tanker. McClane and Carver are treated for injuries and debriefed, while Carver insists that McClane should call Holly, his estranged wife. Just as he makes the call, however, McClane realizes that an aspirin bottle given to him by Simon comes from a border town in Quebec. Meanwhile, Simon boasts to his men, declaring that, because of the stupidity of the NYPD, they have gone from an army without a country to one which must decide which country to buy. However, McClane and Zeus arrive with a massive force of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and taunt Simon from the safety of a police helicopter. Seething with hatred, Simon tells his men, "I have something personal to finish." Entering an attack helicopter piloted by his mistress, he attempts to kill McClane and Zeus with a machine gun. Forced into making a crash landing, McClane and Carver are seemingly at Simon's mercy. Meanwhile, the other copter hovers beneath some nearby power lines, as Simon looks his mortal enemy right in the eyes. However, McClane shoots out the power line with his last two bullets, which causes the copter to explode in a massive fireball, killing Simon and his mistress. McClane finally speaks his signature phrase "Yippie ki-yay, mothersmorker" to the now dead Simon. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/LFoDHPoster.jpg) Thomas Gabriel is a talented computer hacker who was once a top expert for the National Security Agency, but was fired and his reputation smeared for trying to warn his superiors about the country's vulnerability to cyber attack. He has contacted a number of hackers across the United States, paying them handsomely to write code. However, after they have delivered their code, they are killed by a team of assassins sent by Mai, Gabriel's girlfriend. Gabriel's plot starts to unfold, sabotaging the transportation grid and stock market. The Federal Bureau of Investigation responds by initiating a nationwide roundup of all known top hackers. New York City police officer John McClane is assigned to bring in Matthew Farrell from Camden, New Jersey. As McClane collects Farrell, who has just transferred his code to Gabriel, the two are attacked by Mai's assassins, but McClane is able to extract Farrell and kill most of their attackers. McClane drives Farrell down to the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. Farrell is questioned, but the FBI is uninterested in his insights. Farrell believes that Gabriel is trying to create a "fire sale" (in which everything must go) to demonstrate the vulnerability of computer-controlled systems, by shutting down vital systems, one by one. McClane and Farrell are driven in a convoy to a secure building, but Gabriel is able to locate Farrell and send gunmen in a helicopter to kill them before they get there. McClane manages to send a police car airborne over a tollbooth to destroy the helicopter. As McClane and Farrell recover, Gabriel nationally televises a fake video of the United States Capitol exploding, setting off a public panic. Farrell believes that the power grid will be the next target, and directs McClane to the power superstation in West Virginia, where they find Mai and her henchmen. McClane is able to kill all of them, including Mai. Gabriel tries to contact Mai, but reaches McClane instead, who gives him the news about his dead girlfriend. Gabriel redirects all the natural gas in nearby pipelines to the station, but McClane and Farrell escape just before it explodes and causes a power outage over most of the East Coast. Farrell suggests that they go get help from Warlock, a hacker friend. Warlock, who has power generators in case of an outage, investigates the code Farrell created for Gabriel and finds a connection to a Social Security Administration building at Woodlawn, Maryland, an unlikely target. They discover that it is actually a front for a highly secure government facility. In case of a total computer systems failure (such as the one Gabriel manufactured), every critical personal and financial record across the country is sent to servers there to create a backup. Gabriel's men infiltrate the facility and begin downloading a copy for his personal profit. Gabriel detects Warlock's hack and speaks with him, McClane, and Farrell. He tells McClane that he has his daughter Lucy as a hostage. McClane and Farrell drive to Woodlawn. As McClane deals with Gabriel's forces, Farrell manages to encrypt the downloaded data to block access to it, but Gabriel captures Farrell. Gabriel and his men leave the facility before the FBI can arrive, but McClane hijacks Gabriel's semi and pursues. Gabriel hacks into the military's computers to deceive a F-35B Lightning II pilot into believing that McClane is a terrorist, and he disables the truck. McClane manages to escape and track Gabriel to a nearby warehouse. McClane dispatches all but one of Gabriel's men, but Gabriel holds Lucy and Farrell hostage. McClane is wounded after Gabriel shoots him in the shoulder. He forces McClane to watch as he prepares to kill Lucy and Farrell. However, when Gabriel grinds his gun into McClane's wound, McClane fires it through his shoulder, killing Gabriel. The last henchman is shot by Farrell. Afterwards, to McClane's chagrin, Lucy and Farrell show interest in each other.
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Post by The Raven on Jun 28, 2009 15:50:56 GMT -5
I think my number one might BE number one, or close to it....
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 16:26:38 GMT -5
I'll continue this after I finish something for a my job....maybe an hour at the most
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 18:27:06 GMT -5
The man who got the 3rd place was quite eccentric. Additionally, the actor playing the character is an icon who played several memorable roles over the years. Coming it at number 3.................. Peter Vankman Ghostbusters 1 & 2 Do I really need to say more? The best Ghostbuster, IMO ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Peter_GB1.jpg) Born in Brooklyn, New York, Peter is one of three doctors of parapsychology on the team, though he also holds a PhD in psychology. In the movies, he is characterized by his flippant persona, his lackadaisical approach to his profession, and his womanizing demeanor; of the three doctors in the Ghostbusters, he is the least committed to the academic and scientific side of their profession, and tends to regard his field, in the words of Dean Yeager, his employer at "the University" in the first film, as "a dodge or hustle". However, he created from time to time inventions that help save the Ghostbusters but end up destroyed at the end, and he possesses more savvy and street-smarts than either Ray Stantz or Egon Spengler. Venkman tended to serve as the front man for the group, and despite being less scientifically oriented, he made up for this with a greater degree of social ability than the more academically inclined Ray and Egon. He thus served as a link between the group and more normal reality. [/img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Ghostbusterspeople.jpg[/img] After losing their jobs at Columbia University, despite having obtained concrete evidence of paranormal activity and even seeing a ghost at the New York Public Library, a trio of misfit parapsychologists—Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler—decide to establish their own paranormal exterminator service, "Ghostbusters." The fledgling business gets off to a slow start, but just when they run out of funds, the Ghostbusters are contacted by a hotel to investigate a haunting where they successfully (albeit chaotically) capture their first ghost. Business skyrockets for the Ghostbusters, eventually leading to them hiring a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore. Throughout these events, the Ghostbusters investigate a case for a woman named Dana Barrett, whose apartment is haunted by a demonic spirit called Zuul, a demigod worshiped in 6000 BC as a servant to Gozer, a Sumerian shapeshifting destruction god.[4] Venkman particularly takes the case in an attempt to woo her rather than out of concern for the paranormal. As they look into the matter, Dana is possessed by Zuul, followed by her neighbor Louis Tully, who is possessed by a similar demon called Vinz Clortho. The Ghostbusters learn that should the "Gatekeeper" Zuul/Barret and the "Keymaster" Vinz/Louis embrace, they will summon Gozer and bring about the end of the world. While they attempt to keep the two apart, their ghost containment grid, where they store all their captured ghosts, is shut down by the EPA, unleashing a flurry of ghosts onto New York City, and allowing the possessed Dana and Louis to meet during the chaos. Dispatched by the mayor to end the catastrophe, the Ghostbusters track Zuul/Dana and Vinz/Louis at Gozer's shrine atop their high-rise apartment, but are unable to stop them from summoning Gozer. Briefly subdued by the team, Gozer assumes the form of the giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (based on Ray's unintentional thoughts of the mascot) and begins laying waste to the city. To defeat Gozer, the team decides to merge the energy streams of their proton packs and aim it at the dimensional portal Gozer came through, at the risk of their own lives. They ultimately follow through with this plan and destroy Gozer, who is turned into torrents of melted marshmallow. The Ghostbusters survive, and Dana and Louis return to normal. As they exit the building, the Ghostbusters are met with applause from a cheering crowd, and Peter and Dana kiss while they drive off. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Ghostbusters_ii_poster.jpg) Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters are undeservingly out of business after being sued by the city for property damage incurred during the battle against Gozer, and have incurred a restraining order preventing them from investigating the supernatural. Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore have become entertainers at children's parties, Egon Spengler works in a laboratory conducting various experiments, Peter Venkman hosts a pseudo-psychic television show, and Dana Barrett is working at a New York art museum restoring paintings and raising her infant son Oscar at a new apartment, having broken up with Peter under acrimonious circumstances, but strongly hinted to be from Peter's fear of commitment. After a supernatural incident in which Oscar’s baby carriage is controlled by an unseen supernatural force, Dana turns to the Ghostbusters for help, prompting an awkward reunion between herself and Peter. Meanwhile, Dr. Janosz Poha -- Dana’s boss at the art gallery -- is possessed by the spirit of Vigo the Carpathian, a seventeenth century tyrant trapped within a painting in the gallery. Vigo orders Janosz to locate a child that Vigo can transfer his consciousness into, thus gaining physical form upon the approaching New Year. The Ghostbusters’ investigation leads them to conclude that the supernatural presence originates from under the city streets, prompting them to illegally excavate the street. Lowered down on a wire, Ray discovers a river of pink slime filling an abandoned subway line. Attacked by the slime after obtaining a sample, Ray accidentally knocks out the city’s electrical grid, and the Ghostbusters are arrested. At their trial, they are found guilty but the judge’s extremely volatile emotional outbursts prompt a reaction from the slime sample presented as evidence; after a final tirade, the slime explodes, releasing the ghosts of two murderers the judge had previously sentenced to death. The Ghostbusters agree to trap the ghosts in exchange for the dismissal of all charges and the rescinding of the restraining order; after doing so, they re-open their business and commence investigating the supernatural once more. After the slime invades Dana’s apartment, seemingly attempting to abduct Oscar, she seeks refuge with Peter; the two begin to renew their relationship. Investigating the slime and the history of the painting of Vigo, the Ghostbusters discover that the slime reacts both to positive and negative emotions, but suspect that it has been generated by the immense amount of negativity reflected in the attitudes of New Yorkers; exploring the river of slime, Egon, Ray and Winston discover that the river leads back directly to the museum. The Ghostbusters go to the mayor with their suspicions, but are dismissed by the skeptical politician; his scheming assistant attempts to defuse them as a potential problem by having them committed to a psychiatric institution. As they do so, a spirit resembling Janosz kidnaps Oscar, prompting Dana to break into the museum by herself; after she does, the museum is caked in a wall of impenetrable slime. New Year’s Eve sees a sudden outburst of increased supernatural activity as the slime rises through the ground and onto the surface of the city, including a demon invading Washington Square Park and the arrival of a spectral version of the Titanic and its long-deceased passengers and crew into the harbor. The NYPD's emergency lines are flooded with calls from panic-stricken New Yorkers, and an ominous mass of psychokinetic energy blocks out the sun and shrouds the city in darkness. Realizing the truth of the situation, the mayor fires his assistant and has the Ghostbusters released, whereupon they make their way to the museum. Their initial attempt to break through the museum's slime barrier are unsuccessful, the wave of negativity that has generated it proving too powerful to break through. Determining that they need a symbol of equally-powerful positivity to break through the slime, the Ghostbusters use positively-charged mood slime and Jackie Wilson’s “Higher and Higher” to animate the Statue of Liberty and pilot it through the streets of New York, using her torch to break through the museum's ceiling to do battle with Vigo and Janosz. While Janosz is easily dispensed with, Vigo proves to be a difficult adversary; immensely powerful with both the negative vibes of the city and with midnight and the New Year rapidly approaching, he manages to paralyze the Ghostbusters and attempt a transfer into Oscar’s body, but a chorus of “Auld Lang Syne” from outside the building manages to weaken him sufficiently to allow the Ghostbusters to break free and return him to the painting. Although Vigo momentarily possesses Ray, the other three Ghostbusters manage to trap Vigo within the painting, destroying him and transforming the painting to a likeness of the four Ghostbusters surrounding baby Oscar protectively. The movie ends with the Ghostbusters receiving a standing ovation from the crowd and, at a later ceremony to restore the Statue, receiving the key to the city from the mayor.
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 19:35:21 GMT -5
At last, the final 2. One is a legendary character and has appeared in several films, the other has not. I'm quite surprised at not so much who got the top spot, but rather by who finished second, but you the people voted this way. So, the second most interesting movie character of all time is...... ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/DVader.jpeg) ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Anakin-Jedi.jpg) Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader from the 6 Star Wars films Darth Vader/Anncan Skywalker - best villain ever Let us trace the history of this character starting with......one of the worst movies I've ever seen ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Star_Wars_Phantom_Menace_poster.jpg) In the chronology of Star Wars universe, Anakin first appears in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as a selfless nine-year-old boy. Anakin and his mother, Shmi (Pernilla August), are slaves in the service of Watto, a junk dealer. As an engineering prodigy, Anakin can build or repair nearly anything, evidenced by the creation of his own protocol droid, C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), and podracer, both from salvaged parts. He is also a remarkable pilot who, according to Qui-Gon Jinn, can "see things before they happen". Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) finds Anakin on the planet Tatooine. Qui-Gon is convinced that Skywalker is the "Chosen One", foretold by a Jedi prophecy to bring balance to the Force. Shmi reveals that there was no father. Over the course of the narrative, Qui-Gon goes on to discover that Anakin has the highest known number of midi-chlorians, a measure of a being's potential as a Force-adept. While on Tatooine, Anakin forms a strong bond with Queen Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), whom Qui-Gon and his Padawan apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), are guarding. Qui-Gon bets Watto that the boy will win the upcoming podrace. When Anakin pulls off an amazing victory, Watto reluctantly gives over the boy. After winning Anakin's freedom, Qui-Gon is attacked by Sith apprentice Darth Maul (Ray Park) outside of their ship. After a short duel, they escape to Coruscant. However, upon Qui-Gon's arrival, the Jedi Council denies Qui-Gon's request to train Anakin as a Jedi, saying the boy's future is clouded by the fear he exhibits. Ultimately, Anakin helps win the final battle against the corrupt Trade Federation at the film's climax by destroying the Droid Control Ship from within. A dying Qui-Gon, slain by Maul, urges Obi-Wan to train Anakin. Obi-Wan says to Yoda that he must fulfill his master's dying wish to train Anakin, with or without the council's approval. Yoda agrees, not only because it was Qui-Gon's last wish but also because with the apparent re-emergence of the Sith, the council's hunch is that if Anakin is indeed the Chosen One he will destroy the Sith, fulfilling the prophecy. Palpatine, newly elected as the Republic's Chancellor, befriends the boy, promising to watch his career "with great interest." Here's a picture of what the biggest problem with this awful films is ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Anakinyoung.jpg) I hated that kid from the beginning of the movie...oh and here's another thing I hated from Phantom Menace ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Jjportrait.jpg) damn you Jar-Jar Binks..... moving on ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Aotc.jpg) In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, set 10 years later, Anakin according to the novelization is 19 years old and Obi-Wan's Padawan learner. He has become an arrogant loner over the years, and has begun to chafe against Kenobi's authority. Frustrated by the slow pace of his training, he turns to another mentor: Palpatine, who feeds the young man's ego and desire for power. Anakin's first official assignment is to go with Padmé to Naboo and protect her from assassins who tried to kill her. Anakin has been in love with her since their first meeting, even though such attachments are forbidden to Jedi. Padmé also develops a strong attraction to Anakin, even though she believes that the relationship cannot work because of their respective duties to the Republic. While on Naboo, Anakin confesses his love for her. She responds that they cannot act on their desires because they would be forced to keep the relationship a secret. While guarding Padmé, Anakin has a vision that his mother is in danger and needs his help. Upon returning to his home planet, he finds that his mother has been kidnapped by Tusken Raiders, but arrives too late: she has been tortured and beaten beyond help, and she dies in his arms. Seized by a violent rage, he slaughters the entire tribe, including the women and children. He returns with his mother's body and tearfully confesses to Padmé, who forgives and comforts him. Anakin and Padmé then learn that the Confederacy of Independent Systems — a faction trying to secede from the Republic — has taken Obi-Wan prisoner. The two rush to the planet Geonosis to rescue him, but they are also captured. Faced with their impending demise in a gladiatoral arena, they confess their love for each other. Escaping the fray with the help of a cadre of Jedi and the clone army, Anakin and Obi-Wan engage Separatist leader, former Jedi turned Sith Lord Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), in a lightsaber battle. Dooku severs Anakin's right arm, but it is replaced with a mechanical prosthetic. In the film's final scene, he marries Padmé in a secret ceremony, with C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) as their witnesses. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/EP3_Poster.jpg) In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, set three years later, Anakin is 22 years old and has become a full-fledged Jedi Knight and war hero. While rescuing Palpatine from the Separatist leader, General Grievous (Matthew Wood), he and Obi-Wan encounter Dooku. When Anakin warns him that his "powers have doubled since the last time we met", Dooku sees it as a case of "Twice the pride, double the fall." A battle ensues in which Dooku knocks Obi-Wan unconscious; once again, Anakin duels the Count alone. Anakin overpowers Dooku and cuts off his hands. He then beheads the helpless Count in cold blood, at Palpatine's urging. He is initially remorseful, but Palpatine reassures him that Dooku was "too dangerous to be alive." Upon returning to Coruscant, Padmé tells Anakin that she is pregnant. Shortly afterward, he has a vision of Padmé dying in childbirth. He fears that this vision will come true, as it is similar to the one he had of his mother just before she died. Anakin becomes increasingly disenchanted with the Jedi. Fearing for Padmé's life, he consults Yoda, whose best advice is to "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose", i.e. abandon Padmé and their child. Later, Palpatine makes Anakin his representative on the Jedi Council — the youngest person to serve on that body. The suspicious Council accepts Anakin, but denies him the rank of Master, a title that usually comes with the position. Anakin is frustrated by this but it is followed by yet another blow. Obi-Wan tells him that the Council fears that Palpatine, who has by now become a virtual dictator, wants to control the Jedi and asks Anakin to spy on him. This comes as a shock to Anakin, who considers Palpatine a great man, a mentor and a friend. Ultimately, Palpatine reveals to Anakin that he is the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, and that the dark side holds the power to prevent Padmé's death. Distraught and confused, Anakin reports Palpatine to Jedi Master Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson). Despite his orders to remain behind, he soon follows Windu to the chancellor's office to make sure Palpatine is taken alive. Anakin then finds Windu holding his lightsaber on a disarmed Palpatine about to kill him. Windu declares the Sith Lord is too dangerous to be left alive, but Palpatine unleashes a torrent of Force lightning. The Jedi Master deflects the lightning with his lightsaber back at Palpatine, hideously scarring the Chancellor's face. The attack continues until Palpatine seemingly tires, giving Windu a chance to strike a deathblow. Anakin pleads with Windu to spare Palpatine's life — he needs him to save Padmé — but Windu refuses, insisting again that Palpatine is too dangerous to be kept alive. As Windu raises his lightsaber to deliver the final blow, Anakin severs Windu's right hand. Palpatine springs to life (likely he had been faking defeat all along), bombarding Windu with Force lightning and hurling him out the window. Anakin, confused of himself and wracked with guilt collapses on to a chair in Palpatine's office. Anakin then pledges himself to the Sith, and Palpatine names him as Darth Vader. Darth Vader's first task is to kill everyone inside the Jedi Temple. He himself massacres the Padawans and younglings hiding in the council chamber. Vader returns to Padmé's apartment and tells her that everything is all right. Vader then travels to Mustafar to assassinate the Separatist leaders. Back at Padmé's apartment Obi-Wan talks with Padmé and discovers that Anakin is the father of her soon-to-be-born children. He also tells her that he saw Anakin lead an assault on the Temple on a security archive. After Vader completes the task of murdering the Separatists, he is met by Padmé who, afraid of what he has become, pleads with him to flee Palpatine's grasp with her. He refuses, saying that the two of them can overthrow Sidious and rule the galaxy together. As a horrified Padmé draws back, Obi-Wan, who had stowed away on Padmé's ship, emerges. Vader accuses Padmé of conspiring against him, and uses the Force to choke her into unconsciousness. Obi-Wan and Vader then engage in a fierce lightsaber duel over a raging volcano. At the end of the duel, Obi-Wan severs Vader's left arm and both of his legs. As Vader comes into contact with the molten rock, he catches fire and is nearly burned to death. Obi-Wan leaves him to die, taking Vader's lightsaber and Padmé for medical attention. Palpatine arrives to rescue Vader, who is smoldering from his near-fatal burns. Palpatine reconstructs his apprentice's ruined body with the cybernetic limbs and a suit of black armor first seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). Once Vader regains consciousness, Palpatine tells him that Padmé died as a result of Vader's anger. (She had in fact died in childbirth after delivering Luke and Leia because she had lost the will to live). This revelation breaks what remains of Anakin's spirit, and he screams in torment, destroying several objects in the operating room. He is last seen at Palpatine's side during the construction of the first Death Star. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/StarWarsMoviePoster1977.jpg) The galaxy is in a state of civil war. Spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star: a space station capable of annihilating a planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia is in possession of the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of Darth Vader. Before she is captured, Leia hides the plans in a droid named R2-D2, along with a holographic recording. The small droid escapes to the surface of the desert planet Tatooine with fellow droid C-3PO. The two droids are quickly captured by Jawa traders, who sell the pair to moisture farmer Owen Lars and his nephew, Luke Skywalker. While Luke is cleaning R2-D2, he accidentally triggers part of Leia's holographic message, in which she requests help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. The only "Kenobi" Luke knows of is an old hermit named Ben Kenobi who lives in the nearby hills; Owen, however, dismisses any connection, suggesting that Obi-Wan is dead. During dinner, R2-D2 escapes to seek Obi-Wan. Luke and C-3PO go out after him and are met by Ben Kenobi, who reveals himself to be Obi-Wan and takes Luke and the droids back to his hut. He tells Luke of his days as a Jedi Knight and explains to Luke about a mysterious energy field called the Force. He also tells Luke about his association with Luke's father, also a Jedi, whom he claims to have been betrayed and murdered by Darth Vader, Obi-Wan's former pupil who turned to the Sith. Obi-Wan then views Leia's message, in which she begs him to take R2-D2 and the Death Star plans to her home planet of Alderaan, where her father will be able to retrieve and analyze them. Obi-Wan asks Luke to accompany him to Alderaan and to learn the ways of the Force. After initially refusing, Luke discovers that his home has been destroyed and his aunt and uncle killed by Imperial stormtroopers in search of the droids. Luke agrees to go with Obi-Wan to Alderaan, and the two hire smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca to transport them on their ship, the Millennium Falcon. Meanwhile, Leia has been imprisoned on the Death Star and has resisted giving the location of the secret Rebel base. Grand Moff Tarkin, the Death Star's commanding officer and Vader's superior, tries to coax information out of her by threatening to destroy Alderaan and proceeds to do so even after she appears to cooperate as a means of demonstrating the power of the Empire's new weapon. When the Falcon arrives at Alderaan's coordinates, they find themselves in a field of rubble. They follow a TIE fighter towards the Death Star and are captured by the station's tractor beam and brought into its hangar bay. The group takes refuge in a command room on the station while Obi-Wan goes off by himself to disable the tractor beam. While they are waiting, they discover that Princess Leia is onboard and is scheduled to be executed. Han, Luke, and Chewbacca stage a rescue and free the princess. Making their way back to the Millennium Falcon, their path is cleared by the spectacle of a lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. Obi-Wan allows himself to be struck down as the others race onto the ship and escape. The Falcon journeys to the Rebel base at Yavin IV where the Death Star plans are analyzed by the Rebels and a potential weakness is found. The weakness will require the use of one-man fighters to slip past the Death Star's formidable defenses and attack a vulnerable exhaust port. Luke joins the assault team while Han collects his reward for the rescue and leaves, despite Luke's request for him to stay. The attack proceeds when the Death Star arrives in the system, with Darth Vader having placed a homing device on the Falcon. The Rebel fighters suffer heavy losses and, after several failed attack runs, Luke remains as one of the few surviving pilots. Vader appears with his own group of fighters and begins attacking the Rebel ships. Luke begins his attack run with Vader in pursuit as the Death Star approaches firing range of Yavin IV. As Vader is about to fire at Luke's ship, Han arrives in the Millennium Falcon and attacks Vader and his wingmen, sending Vader's ship careening off into space. Guided by Obi-Wan's voice telling him to use the Force, Luke fires a successful shot which destroys the Death Star seconds before it fires on the Rebel base. Later, at a grand ceremony, Princess Leia awards medals to Luke and Han for their heroism in the battle. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/SW_-_Empire_Strikes_Back.jpg) Despite their victory over the Galactic Empire with the destruction of the Death Star, the Rebel Alliance was driven out of their base and forced to establish a new base on the remote ice planet Hoth. Darth Vader, having become obsessed with finding Luke Skywalker, now a commanding officer within the Rebellion, has multiple probe droids dispatched throughout the galaxy, one of which lands on Hoth. While patrolling near the base, Luke is attacked and knocked unconscious by an indigenous predator, called a Wampa. Back at the base, Han Solo announces his intentions to leave the Rebellion to pay off a debt to Jabba the Hutt (much to Princess Leia's displeasure), but stalls to search for Luke when he doesn't return. Escaping from the creature's lair, Luke nearly succumbs to the cold and has a vision of his late mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who instructs him to go to the planet Dagobah to train under Jedi Master Yoda. Han finds Luke and provides shelter before they are rescued the following morning. Meanwhile, the Imperial probe droid locates the Rebel base on Hoth, and Vader orders an attack while the Rebels prepare to evacuate and disperse. The Imperial forces eventually overpower the Rebels and capture the base. Han and Leia escape on the Millennium Falcon with C-3PO and Chewbacca, but are unable to enter hyperspace due to technical difficulties and evade pursuit in an asteroid field, where Han and Leia begin to grow closer to each other. Vader turns to several notorious bounty hunters, including Boba Fett, to assist in locating the Falcon. Meanwhile, Luke escapes from Hoth with R2-D2 and crash lands on Dagobah, where he meets a wizened little green creature who reveals himself to be Yoda. While undergoing intensive training, Luke has a premonition of Han and Leia in danger and, against Yoda's wishes, leaves to save his friends, promising to return to complete his training. With Imperial forces off their trail, Han's party set a course for Cloud City, a floating gas mining colony in the skies of the planet Bespin run by Han's old friend, Lando Calrissian, unaware that they have been tracked by Fett. Shortly after they arrive in Cloud City, Lando turns them over to Vader to be used as bait in a trap for Luke, insisting that he was forced to do so to prevent occupation of his city by the Empire. Vader intends to hold Luke in suspended animation via carbon freezing, selecting Han as a test subject for the process. Before Han is frozen in carbonite, he and Leia profess their love for each other. Han's frozen form is given to Fett, who plans to present him to Jabba the Hutt. Lando later repents and helps Leia and the others escape, insisting that there is still a chance to save Han. Unfortunately, Fett makes off with his quarry before they get a chance to confront him, forcing them to make an escape on the Millennium Falcon. Meanwhile, Luke arrives in Cloud City and falls right into Vader's trap. He and Vader engage in a lightsaber duel within the carbon-freezing facilities, eventually bringing them to the city’s central air shaft. Gaining an advantage, Vader cuts off Luke's dueling hand along with his lightsaber. With Luke cornered and defenseless, Vader goads Luke to rule the galaxy alongside him, making the horrifying revelation that he is Luke's father. Unwilling to join Vader, Luke casts himself into the air shaft and finds himself hanging on an antenna on the underbelly of the city. He makes a desperate call to Leia, who senses Luke's distress aboard the Millennium Falcon and manages to get him to safety. Its hyperdrive finally functional (thanks to timely repairs by R2-D2), the Falcon escapes. Aboard a Rebel medical frigate, Luke is fitted with an artificial hand while Lando and Chewie set out on the Falcon to locate Han. ![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/ReturnOfTheJediPoster1983.jpg) Luke Skywalker, having fashioned himself as a Jedi Knight, initiates a plan to rescue the frozen Han Solo from the vile crime lord Jabba the Hutt with the help of Princess Leia, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2. Leia infiltrates Jabba's palace on Tatooine disguised as a bounty hunter and releases Han from his carbonite prison, but is caught and forced to serve as Jabba's slave girl. Luke arrives the next morning and allows himself to be captured. Jabba sentences Luke and Han to be fed to the monstrous Sarlacc. As he is about to be put to death, Luke breaks free and a large battle erupts; in the ensuing chaos, Leia strangles Jabba to death with her slave chains, Han inadvertently knocks Boba Fett, the bounty hunter who captured him, into the gaping maw of the Sarlacc, and Luke, escaping with his allies, destroys Jabba's sail barge. As Han and Leia rendezvous with the other Rebels, Luke returns to Dagobah where he finds that Yoda is dying. With his last breaths, Yoda confirms that the evil Darth Vader is Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, and that Luke must confront him again to become a true Jedi Knight. He and the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi also reveal that Luke has a twin sister, whom Luke deduces to be Leia. The Rebel Alliance learn that the Empire has been constructing a new Death Star, larger and more powerful than the first. In a plan to destroy the new weapon, Han is elected to lead a strike team to destroy the battle station's shield generator on the forest moon of Endor, allowing a squadron of starfighters to enter the incomplete infrastructure and destroy the station from within. Returning from Dagobah, Luke joins the strike team along with Leia and the others, but soon fears that, sensing Darth Vader's presence, he may be endangering the mission. On Endor, Luke and his companions encounter a primitive yet intelligent tribe of Ewoks and form an alliance with them. Later, Luke confesses to Leia everything he knows about his relationship to Vader and to her, and that he is leaving to confront Vader one more time, believing that there is still good in him. Luke and Vader board the Death Star and meet the evil Emperor, who reveals that Luke's allies are walking into a trap. Back on Endor, the Rebels are captured by Imperial forces, but a surprise counterattack by the Ewoks allows the Rebels to fight back. During the strike team's assault, Lando leads the Rebel fleet in the Millennium Falcon to the Death Star, only to find the station's shield is still up. As a dogfight ensues, the Emperor tempts Luke to give in to his anger and join the dark side of the Force. A lightsaber duel between Luke and Vader erupts, during which Vader searches Luke's thoughts and learns that Luke has a sister. When Vader suggests she would turn to the dark side instead, Luke cannot contain his anger and viciously attacks his father, slicing off his hand. However, he comes to his senses and, despite the Emperor's goading, spares his father and declares himself a Jedi. Enraged, the Emperor begins to slowly kill Luke with Force lightning. His son's agonized pleas for help causes Vader to repent, becoming Anakin Skywalker once more. He turns on the Emperor and casts him down a reactor shaft to his death, but is mortally wounded by the Emperor's lightning. At his request, Luke removes Anakin's mask to look into the eyes of the pale, withered man that is his father. Having seen his son with his own eyes for the first, last and only time, Anakin dies, finally at peace. Back on Endor, the strike team finally destroys the shield generator, allowing the Rebel fleet to launch a final assault on the Death Star. Lando leads the remaining ships deep into the station's core and fires at the main reactor, causing it to collapse. Luke escapes on an Imperial shuttle with his father's body before the Death Star explodes, and Lando escapes in the Millennium Falcon. On Endor, Leia reveals to Han that Luke is her brother, and they share a kiss. That evening, Luke returns to Endor and cremates his father's armor on a funeral pyre. The entire galaxy celebrates the fall of the Empire. During the Rebels' own celebration on Endor, Luke catches sight of the spiritual figures of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and his redeemed father, who watch over them with pride.
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Post by bob on Jun 28, 2009 20:34:45 GMT -5
Well, I'm not sure how to do a big lead in for the winner because I've never seen the movie the character appears in so I'll build suspence by doing this..... KEEP SCROLLING the number 1 most interesting film character of all time is..... Tyler Durden from Fight Club![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Fight_Club_poster.jpg) The modern day messiah, if you seen this you know this. If you haven't...then watch him. Perhaps I will one day.... The narrator (Edward Norton) is an automobile company employee who travels to accident sites to perform product recall cost appraisals. His doctor refuses to write a prescription for his insomnia and instead suggests that he visit a support group for testicular cancer victims to appreciate real suffering. When he attends the group, the narrator allows himself to weep as a form of emotional release. He is then able to sleep soundly and subsequently fakes more illnesses so he can attend other support groups to get out his pent up emotions through crying. The narrator's routine is disrupted when he begins to notice another impostor, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), at the same meetings and his insomnia returns. During a flight for a business trip, the narrator meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), who makes and sells soap. The narrator arrives home to find his apartment has been destroyed by an explosion. He calls Tyler and meets him at a bar. Tyler agrees to let the narrator stay at his home on the condition that the narrator hits him. The narrator complies and the two end up enjoying a fist fight outside the bar. The narrator moves into Tyler's dilapidated house and the two return to the bar, where they have another fight in the parking lot. After attracting a crowd, they establish a 'fight club' in the bar's basement. When Marla overdoses on Xanax, she is rescued by Tyler and the two embark upon a sexual relationship. Tyler tells the narrator never to talk about him to Marla. Under Tyler's leadership, the fight club becomes "Project Mayhem," which commits increasingly destructive acts of anti-materialist vandalism in the city. The fight clubs become a network for Project Mayhem, and the narrator is left out of Tyler's activities with the project. After an argument, Tyler disappears from the narrator's life and when a member of Project Mayhem dies on a mission, the narrator attempts to shut down the project. Tracing Tyler's steps, he travels around the country to find that fight clubs have been started in every major city, where one of the participants identifies him as Tyler Durden. A phone call to Marla confirms his identity and he realizes that Tyler is an alter ego of his own split personality. Tyler appears before him and explains that he controls the narrator's body whenever he is asleep. The narrator faints and awakes to find Tyler has made several phone calls during his blackout and traces his plans to the downtown headquarters of several major credit card companies, which Tyler intends to destroy in order to cripple the financial networks. Failing to find help with the police, many of whom are members of Project Mayhem, the narrator attempts to disarm the explosives in the basement of one of the buildings. He is confronted by Tyler, knocked unconscious, and taken to the upper floor of another building to witness the impending destruction. The narrator, held by Tyler at gunpoint, realizes that in sharing the same body with Tyler, he is the one who is actually holding the gun. He fires it into his mouth, shooting through the cheek without killing himself. The illusion of Tyler collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head. Shortly after, members of Project Mayhem bring a kidnapped Marla to the narrator and leave them alone. The bombs detonate and, holding hands, the two witness the destruction of the entire financial city block through the windows.
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jun 28, 2009 20:50:31 GMT -5
Where's the Live-Action version of Optimus Prime that I voted for? ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png)
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Post by The Raven on Jun 28, 2009 20:52:49 GMT -5
YES
My number one WAS number one, excellent.
Yeah Tyler is something else. There was no limit to his deepness in Fight Club. With me, it was like everything he said absolutely blew my mind. No movie character has ever come close to matching him.
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