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[film buffs] what is Bruce Willis greatest movie performance?

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  1. VanityHalfBlack

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    Butch from pulp fiction, all timer for me.

     
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    i feel like die hard is his singular most iconic role. its bruce willis at his most bruce willisist.

    its also the movie that broke him into superstardom.
     
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    What is the "least bruce willisist" big movie he's done?

    Like a lot of star level movie guys, he always seems he always plays himself, and that seems kind of like what people want from their tentpole actors.
     
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    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Probably the Sixth Sense. I really like his performances in Sin City, Unbreakable, The Siege, and The Jackal too though. Die Hard, The Fifth Element, and Pulp Fiction are great movies with Bruce Willis in them, but I wouldn't call them his best performances.
     
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    The truly bad Bonfire of the Vanities
     
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    Like a lot of star level movie guys, he always seems he always plays himself, and that seems kind of like what people want from their tentpole actors.[/QUOTE]

    The Kid was a very different movie than his normal.
     
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    Hudson Hawk


     
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    There is this unusual movie called 4 Rooms. It is 4 stories all from the same hotel. Bruce Willis is in the last story. Different kind of movie.
     
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    As good as he was in The Sixth Sense and The Die Hard movies, I think he was even better in Unbreakable.

    To be honest, about half his movies were **** (none worse than the one he did with Tracy Morgan). But when they were good they were really good.
     
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    best performance, one that catapaulted Bruce into stardom.


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    Unbreakable
     
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    He was great in Planet Terror
     
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    I liked him in the Last Boy Scout, Unbreakable, and the original Die Hard. Looper, also.
     
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    The Jackal


    Hands down


    Cue red tape by agent provocateur playing and the whole house getting shot up by him
     
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    he was great in looper.

    how he managed to play himself and a younger self was amazing
     
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    I liked him in The Tomorrow War
     
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    You obviously never saw Blind Date.
     
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    Die Hard
    Pulp Fiction
    12 Monkeys
    Sin City
    Fifth Element
    Sixth Sense/Unbreakable/the other one
    Last Boy Scout
    Moonrise Kingdom
    Other Stuff
     
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    he was great in terminator 2
     
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    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Loved him in Unbreakable.
     
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