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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2012, 06:27:51 AM

Poll
Question: Which one is cooler?
Option 1: Lance Henriksen votes: 10
Option 2: Michael Fucking Ironside votes: 19
Title: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2012, 06:27:51 AM
Inspired by some recent movie watching, and my "Who's Cooler: Ian Holm/Brian Cox" thread ages ago.

Lance Henriksen was Bishop.  He's got Terminator under his belt.  The Millennium TV series.  He was Frank fucking Black, was in The X Files, has done a ton of Sci-Fi B movies.  He's got a shitload of video game voice work on his CV:  Mass Effect, AvP, Call of Duty, Chronicles of Riddick.

edit:  Lance was also in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, if you remember.

Michael Fucking Ironside.  Starship Troopers. Total RecallScanners.  Goes back to the original V TV series. Col Archwood on Community.  Was on ER for a time in cool recurring role. Has done his share of video game voice work: Splinter Cell, Red Faction.  Was in the pretty intense nobody-saw-it-but-it-was-cool-as-shit film with Christian Bale in The Machinist.


As badass as Lance Henriksen is--and I think he's more of a total actor overall--my vote goes to Michael Fucking Ironside.  Dude, he was Jester.

Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Martinus on July 10, 2012, 06:35:01 AM
Never heard of either of them. Useless without pics.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2012, 06:37:17 AM
Sigh.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 10, 2012, 06:50:25 AM
Michael Ironside is much better as a bad guy.


Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Brazen on July 10, 2012, 06:53:42 AM
Lance. He does pottery.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Grey Fox on July 10, 2012, 06:55:56 AM
Michael Fucking Ironside
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2012, 07:00:17 AM
Quote from: Brazen on July 10, 2012, 06:53:42 AM
Lance. He does pottery.

You didn't vote, little lady.  :mad:
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 10, 2012, 07:03:24 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2012, 06:37:17 AM
Sigh.

Well, in this case it might jog the memory, though I'm not sure that's what Marty had in mind.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: FunkMonk on July 10, 2012, 07:41:45 AM
I saw The Machinist. I'm still confused by it.

My vote goes to Ironside.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: grumbler on July 10, 2012, 07:42:21 AM
Lance Henrikson, though it's close.  Millennium pushes him ahead by a hair.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Barrister on July 10, 2012, 09:40:41 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 10, 2012, 06:55:56 AM
Michael Fucking Ironside

:punk:
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: merithyn on July 10, 2012, 09:46:14 AM
Quote from: Brazen on July 10, 2012, 06:53:42 AM
Lance. He does pottery.

Don't know either of them, and this is as good a reason as any other to throw my vote one way or another.

So, Lance. :)
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Razgovory on July 10, 2012, 09:58:12 AM
Raz will have to think on this.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Syt on July 10, 2012, 12:03:34 PM
Tough question. Michael Ironsde is pretty typecast in his roles - see Starship Troopers, Total Recall, V. Love him in his roles, but he's mostly playing the same character (for which we all love him).

Henriksen is much more versatile, and his roles are, on the whole, more memorable to me (I especially liked him in Jum Jarmusch's Dead Man). So he gets my vote by a very slim margin.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: katmai on July 10, 2012, 12:19:37 PM
Only one of them was in the Right Stuff.
Of course the other one was in Scanners. 
Tough choice.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2012, 01:54:06 PM
Quote from: katmai on July 10, 2012, 12:19:37 PM
Only one of them was in the Right Stuff.
Of course the other one was in Scanners. 
Tough choice.

:lol: Shit, I totally forgot about The Right Stuff.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: dps on July 10, 2012, 04:27:50 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 10, 2012, 12:03:34 PM
Tough question. Michael Ironsde is pretty typecast in his roles - see Starship Troopers, Total Recall, V. Love him in his roles, but he's mostly playing the same character (for which we all love him).

Henriksen is much more versatile, and his roles are, on the whole, more memorable to me (I especially liked him in Jum Jarmusch's Dead Man). So he gets my vote by a very slim margin.

Yeah, I gotta agree.  Ironside is more intense, and probably more badass, but Henriksen is a better actor, and far more versatile.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: derspiess on July 10, 2012, 08:21:56 PM
Tough choice, but I gotta go with Ironside due to the fact that he was in V.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 10, 2012, 08:56:09 PM
Michael Fucking Ironside clearly has the cooler name.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Pedrito on July 11, 2012, 01:56:13 AM
Michael Fucking Ironside was in the cinematics of Command and Conquer 3, too.

But it's really a tough question.

I say more badass, Michael Fucking Ironside; cooler, Lance Henriksen.

L.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: MadBurgerMaker on July 11, 2012, 03:36:33 AM
Voted Ironside.   Bishop was a pussy.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Ed Anger on July 11, 2012, 06:42:11 AM
Michael Ironside. TOTAL RECALL BITCHES.

The old one. The new one looks like ass. Fuck all Timmay driven reboots.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Grey Fox on July 11, 2012, 07:03:55 AM
They have nothing to do with Timmayism, they are all driven by post-economic crash fear.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Ed Anger on July 11, 2012, 07:07:56 AM
Timmay tards with short attention spans are a bane upon mankind.
Title: Re: Who's the cooler actor? A CdM spur of the moment poll
Post by: Siege on July 11, 2012, 11:06:32 PM
I don't know who they are without pictures, but I do want to see the new V series with that chick from Firefly.