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lgarthy said:
Ummmm

the Original Blade Runner was with Harrison Ford and was FAR SUPERIOR (in all of it's re-releases and edits) than RG's piece of crap.

Lee Majors walked the walk and talked the talk. He blurred the lines between actor and reality. He was bigger than life in age when a screen was 10 inches by diameter.

Super easy to be a big shot movie star today and be a pansy in real life. Ironically, the only person in this era that you can compare him to is Tom Cruise (and there really is only a 22-year age gap between them). But Tom Cruise is such a bizarre dude that you actually can't compare them at all...

Lee dated the hottest women in the world, did his own stunts (for a while), hung out with his fans. He was the equivalent of a Stephen Segal/Chuck Norris but on a real world/suburban/not make-believe scale.
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maybe Hugh Jackman is a decent "macho" guy still around, but he's not a young guy either.
 
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lgarthy said:
Ummmm

the Original Blade Runner was with Harrison Ford and was FAR SUPERIOR (in all of it's re-releases and edits) than RG's piece of crap.

Lee Majors walked the walk and talked the talk. He blurred the lines between actor and reality. He was bigger than life in age when a screen was 10 inches by diameter.

Super easy to be a big shot movie star today and be a pansy in real life. Ironically, the only person in this era that you can compare him to is Tom Cruise (and there really is only a 22-year age gap between them). But Tom Cruise is such a bizarre dude that you actually can't compare them at all...

Lee dated the hottest women in the world, did his own stunts (for a while), hung out with his fans. He was the equivalent of a Stephen Segal/Chuck Norris but on a real world/suburban/not make-believe scale.
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Most of that is just your feels and none of it matters to what lives on in the collective memory. Blade Runner 2049 is sitting at 8.0 on IMDB with 600K+ votes and Blade Runner (1982) is at a whole 8.1 with 800k+ votes. In contrast the Six Million Dollar Man has a rating of 7.1 with 12k+ votes and Fall Guy has a 7.1 rating with 8.5k votes.

It's not even close. Hell, might as well stick a fork in the memory of Lee Majors today, let alone "in decades!"

P.S. I'm not arguing who is a cooler cat or who I would rather have dinner with, only that Gossling will last longer in the collective memory of the US/world.
 
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Lee's biggest success was in TV that doesn't get any airplay anymore. A movie actor with prominent critical and financial successes that has been Oscar nominated twice and may very well win one before he's done is going to have way more lasting cultural awareness, especially when you factor in the 30 to 40 year difference between their peak periods.
 
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lgarthy

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Burns said:
Most of that is just your feels and none of it matters to what lives on in the collective memory. Blade Runner 2049 is sitting at 8.0 on IMDB with 600K+ votes and Blade Runner (1982) is at a whole 8.1 with 800k+ votes. In contrast the Six Million Dollar Man has a rating of 7.1 with 12k+ votes and Fall Guy has a 7.1 rating with 8.5k votes.

It's not even close. Hell, might as well stick a fork in the memory of Lee Majors today, let alone "in decades!"

P.S. I'm not arguing who is a cooler cat or who I would rather have dinner with, only that Gossling will last longer in the collective memory of the US/world.
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I guess I have to yield to evidence.

But I completely get your point... and I think I would rather hang out with Lee Majors or Scott Bakula than Gossling. But it's all fantasyland with no basis in reality (for me). Who knows?
 
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lgarthy said:
Lee dated the hottest women in the world, did his own stunts (for a while), hung out with his fans. He was the equivalent of a Stephen Segal/Chuck Norris but on a real world/suburban/not make-believe scale.
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Seems like he's trying to be consistent on that front.
 
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lgarthy said:
the Original Blade Runner was with Harrison Ford and was FAR SUPERIOR (in all of it's re-releases and edits) than RG's piece of crap.
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I love the original Blade Runner but 2049 was a "piece of crap"? Dull that edge a bit.
 
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Not unpleasant but not great. Does not have much in common with the original show. Comedy is mildly amusing but you will not find yourself rolling on the floor. It is supposed to be an ode of sorts to stuntmen, but that aspect takes second fiddle to the mystery. On that topic I would recommend instead the 2014 Japanese film Unsung Hero (aka In The Hero), about an aging stuntman who plays the "in costume" version of some TV super hero (a tokusatsu they call those, like Power Rangers or Bioman).
 
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DickTrickle said:
Lee's biggest success was in TV that doesn't get any airplay anymore. A movie actor with prominent critical and financial successes that has been Oscar nominated twice and may very well win one before he's done is going to have way more lasting cultural awareness, especially when you factor in the 30 to 40 year difference between their peak periods.
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Three times nominated for Academy Award, but who's counting...
 
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DickTrickle said:
Lee's biggest success was in TV that doesn't get any airplay anymore. A movie actor with prominent critical and financial successes that has been Oscar nominated twice and may very well win one before he's done is going to have way more lasting cultural awareness, especially when you factor in the 30 to 40 year difference between their peak periods.
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Araysar said:
Three times nominated for Academy Award, but who's counting...
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Where do you two nerds find the academy award nominations? Can't find any of those here:
www.imdb.com

Lee Majors - Awards - IMDb

Lee Majors - Awards - IMDb - Awards, nominations, and wins
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Sterling

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People just showing their age with the Majors vs Gosling thing. I enjoyed Six Million Dollar Man and Fall Guy as a kid just fine, but that's just a stupid take.
 
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This was a fun movie we saw over the weekend. It is silly and absurd with some good stunts thrown in. I believe they broke 3 records in total (barrel roll, car jump, and fall). The unicorn and bullhorn bits got me pretty good. Both Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are likable, have good timing, and easy on the eyes. All in all it was a nice matinee and goes pretty quick.
 
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The Last Race is probably Lee Major's best film, but it was not his biggest commercial success. Similarly, Gossling's best films are The Nice Guys and probably BR2049. Both were not financially successful, but I bet more people will be watching those movies again down the road than shit like "Barbie" or "SM Far From Home". But he might be the other bookend of the era of the Hollywood action star with blue collar appeal (Majors was the man who made the mold, Gossling is kind of the one of the last of that kind).

But Majors was so cool he sang his own fucking theme song.
 
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Phazael said:
The Last Race is probably Lee Major's best film, but it was not his biggest commercial success. Similarly, Gossling's best films are The Nice Guys and probably BR2049. Both were not financially successful, but I bet more people will be watching those movies again down the road than shit like "Barbie" or "SM Far From Home". But he might be the other bookend of the era of the Hollywood action star with blue collar appeal (Majors was the man who made the mold, Gossling is kind of the one of the last of that kind).

But Majors was so cool he sang his own fucking theme song.
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Gosling wasnt in Spider-man
 
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