The Prince of Bel Air?  You're just messing with me now, aren't you?

His best acting was in The Big Chill (he played the dead guy, and his scenes were cut) and No Way Out.  Bull Durham is one of my favorite sports movies despite him.

Untouchables, OK. 

 Bull Durham, OK

Field of Dreams Nope

Dances with Wolves  Nope

The Bodyguard OK

Wyatt Earp  OK

Tin Cup OK

Open Range OK

You know what?  I guess you're right.  Having a hard time putting him on the list, for some reason, must be that Dances With Wolves movie.  I'm going to need some more votes from other members here to put him on.

You didn't catch Denzel as a psycho cop in Training Day?  Nothing pretty about that level of evil.  American Gangster?  The Hurricane (story of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter)?  Malcolm X? 

Hell, Paul Newman didn't make your list, and he should be at or near the top.

If  Walken isn't a man's man, I don't even want to see any more of this list. No one is.  Chicks dig his swag.  They like that he can let go and make a caricature of himself.  Any of these other goobers any good at that?

Denzel - Ladies man. Pretty boy.  Sorry, not tough enough for me.

Sam Jackson - tough guy, chicks don't dig him that much

Statham - tough guy only, not man's man because chick's don't dig him that much

Walken - Chick's don't dig him, wouldn't really call him a tough guy.  He's more in the Tommy Lee Jones, De Niro, Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton category.  Very macho, very cool, but  don't knock the ladies off their feet.

Sorry, you got to be an ultra babe magnet to make my man's man list.

Jason Statham (The Transporter)?

My man Christopher Walken should be on any Man's Man list.  Any man who can hoof through Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" and then wear the outrageous costume and makeup of "Balls of Fury" is a man's man.

Then the filmography:  "The Deer Hunter," "The Anderson Tapes," "The Dogs of War," and too many others to list here.  He has a standing invite to host SNL.

SL

James Brown - best rusher in NFL history who had a role in one of my ATF movies, The Dirty Dozen.

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone AND Serpico.

Stratham's strictly a tough guy IMHO.

I've never found Steven Seagal to be anything more than a martial arts guy who can NOT act, much like Jean-Claude Van Damm.

Liam Neeson fits the Man's Man role for me.  Sean Connery needs lessons in enunciation.  Every line sounds like he has marbles in his mouth.   I'll pass on any Tom Cruise movie.

Robert Duval is also a Man's Man  to me.  Here's one for consideration-  Robert Downey Jr. in the latest incarnation of Sherlock Holmes?   It works for me.

A very interesting topic.

SL

Sorry, but I don't think women were into Shatner at the level of the other guys on my list.

Kerry Fisher for her role in Star Wars planted many seeds in young boys heads in the Jabba The Hut scene wearing that metal bikini and she was tough cookie.

Now that I think of it, William Shatner for his roles as Capt Kirk in Star Trek has a lot of man's man qualities. That is all I got.

Forgot to mention that for the Daytona 500 driver to driver communication has been banned. It will be through the spotters only once again. Dangerous in my opinion but it's part of their attempt at killing the 2 car tandem draft. 

I'm interested in seeing how the radio communications changes alter the strategies.

Please check out Miatay's new post on YouGab!

And you are dead on - 50 is an age where you either take stock and turn it around or give into the inevitabilty.

Being a Western fan, I got sucked into Cowboys and Aliens.  Don't pay money to see it.

One of my first few posts on SN was about that race, and how Martin got jobbed.  Am I wrong in my assumption of the caution/frozen field issue?  I mean, it has been 5 years.  

Refresh a middle-aged man's memory please.  Good job, by the way.

SL

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PS I am Harvey Dakota on YouGab

It's easy to imagine McQueen in Butch Cassidy, but I am glad it worked out the way it did.  He would have made it a different movie, and I love it the way it is.

Nice work here, NP.

Ark, don't get me started.  I am a paleo-diet  nut.  I only eat grass fed meat that I buy from local farmers.  I don't eat sugar or grains i.e. wheat.  I think most of  the diseases of civilization (cancer, heart disease, alzheimers etc.) are caused by modern diets.  Not lung cancer though.  That's from smoking.  McQueen did two packs a day his whole adult life.   

I don't know how much of the story to believe, but I put it out there. I can see McQueen not wanting to give up steak and tasty foods.

Pablo, where's that edit button?  JK

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He lied about his age to get INTO WWII, quit school in the 3rd grade to pick cotton, and worked his a$$ off for the erst of his life.  I still miss him.

Your Dad, like mine, was a good man.  I can tell that by the way you write about him.  We will always have the memories, and God willing, we'll see them again someday.

You're a good son, Tageryche.

SL

It's early, probably way too early for this, but it's fun to think about.  Nice job.

SL

Feel free to relate more of your LA experiences anytime.

The Sand Pebbles is a very interesting movie and he got a worthy nomination. Lots of atypical elements to the film.

I have the Great Escape on DVD and will show it to my boys at some point.

Ali McGraw was willing to be a traditional mom to Steve when they were married. There was another thing he threw away. Man, Ali McGraw was "dreamy" when I was adolescent. Loved the Getaway.

The other side of that coins though is the "Kid Stays in the Picture". I HIGHLY recommend this film. It changed how I view Jack Nicholson as a person among other things.

To those of you who had great dads, ones you miss, ones from whom you learned something consider yourselves blessed. Not every father is a good father and many shouldn't even be fathers. However, now that I'm a father I'm learning lots of things I never knew. For example, the other day Jason showed me how to hot wire a car. We, of course, used my car. PJ

It would seem McQueen was just so bent on touching and having everything he didn't have time to franchise his Bullit character. That's really spooky about how he missed his appointment with the Manson clan. Gives me shivers. He was talented and extremely good looking. Too bad he left us so soon.

I guess I got my wires crossed... Monday Night Raw is in Portland next week. The show in which we are attending is a house show. I'm excited anyway. It should be a lot of fun... They are promoting an eight man battle royal with the winner meeting Jack Swagger for the US title... CM Punk vs Kane... Miz vs. R-Truth... and somebody call my Mamma... Brodus Clay is scheduled to appear...

dvt

(The Sharon Tate murder shows how close a community a place can be. For example, I, and hundreds of other men, went to Jay Sebring's to have our hair cut. I can still see the interior of the place on North Fairfax. To go there was to be hip, cool, none of which I was but I was foreign and had worked at Paramount and had gone to USC. That confused them to the point that I was accepted.) PJ

He was a pilot too.  At his estate auction, they sold off 100 cars, two hundred motorcycles and five planes for $2 million.

Still haven't seen "The Hunter" and now that I think about it, I can't remember seeing "Sand Pebbles" either.  One movie I did see recently for the first time was "Junior Bonner" an excellent movie by him and Peckinpah.  Not an action flick, but a very successful character study/mood piece.

I never saw "The Hunter", Steve's last movie, and I vowed to buy it on line but never done so. Did you see The Hunter NP?

I loved the tough guys during that era, , Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Jack Palance, Gene Hackman to name of few. Lee Marvin is close second in my book to McQueen as tough guys. Thanks for posting this blog NP, I like the guy to the point I use his pic as my avatar from the movie 'LeMans". Great piece of work here NP

considering his childhood, it's amazing McQueen did anything. Granted he pissed away some great opportunities, but he did make some great ones: "The Sandpebbles", "Jr Bonner", "The  Thomas Crowne Affair", "Nevada Smith", "Papillon" He was a great talent that was underused.

Thanks for another fun post.