Favorite Male Leading Man of the 90s?

[ToiletBug]

I didnt include Jack, De Niro, or Pacino simply because they are more like acting legends then leading men. And they arent exactly box office GIANTS either. Even though Jacks movies do gross well.


Anyways mine is Bruce Willis. IMO he is the John Wayne, Steve McQueen of our time. He just flat out kicks fucking ass.

[ilovemovies]

Tom Hanks

Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, That Thing You Do, Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Sleepless in Seattle and the Toy Story moviies.

Oh, yeah. Hanks ruled the 90's.

[LordSimen]

Bruce Willis

The Siege, The Fifth Elements, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, Armageddon, Die Hard: With A Vengeance, The Last Boy Scout, Twelve Monkeys, etc...

And a close second place would have to be:

Mel Gibson

Braveheart, Hamlet, Ransom, Conspiracy Theory, Payback, Lethal Weapon 4, Lethal Weapon 3, Maverick, The Man Without A Face, etc...

[ToiletBug]

Gibson and Washington are 2 and 3 for me. Love them.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Bruce Willis

[Danger^Cart]

Kurt Russel.

[JackassFan]

Bruce takes it.

[Cronos]

Tom Hanks

[QUENTIN]

Denzel

He not only gave the best performance of the 90's in Malcolm X, he also starred in He Got Game, Crimson Tide, Philadelphia, Devil in A Blue Dress, The Hurricane, Courage Under Fire, Mississippi Masala, The Siege, Mo' Better Blues, and the underrated Fallen. His only real misfires were Ricochet and The Bone Collector, which gives him a better track record overall than any of these other guys.

Runner up from the list would be Nic Cage.

I think the actor with the best movies and performances overall in the 90's was Samuel L. Jackson (the hardest working man in Hollywood, he averaged 5 movies a year for 10 years), but I suppose it's debatable whether he was a leading man or not, a status he didn't really achieve until about '97.

[Kikabi]

Hard choices here! Went with Denzel Washington for being an all-aroung great and versitile actor, which his films of the 90's clearly prove.

2nd - Bruce Willis - not as good an actor as Washington, but his charisma and instincts more than make up for that, and I love his sense of humor. The nineties was a great decade for him, too.

3rd - Antonio Banderas - Zorro, El Mariachi, Miquel Bain of Assassins, sweet Nester of The Mambo Kings, Armand - the sexiest vampire in Interview with the Vampire, the gangster of Four Room Grrrrrooowwllll

I'll stop swooning over my favorite hootie to point out, my dear ToiletBug, your polls tend to be male-oriented. No insult intended, but consider your fellow schomoes of the better sex when thinking these things up. You're asking about Leading Men material but you put several action-oriented guys in the poll who don't or can't do much more than that. I mean, Arnie as a true "Leading Man?" Although, he did look good in a tux in True Lies. There are several actual Leading Actor types that could easily take his and Stallone's place. Not that those guys are getting any votes and for good reason! They're more like filler than serious contenders.

Otherwise, Great Poll!

[athf1980]

I vote for Tom Hanks. He has made many of fav. movies out of 90's that include Gump, SPR, Toy story movies, green mile, and others

[Pulp_Joker]

Denzel because I am not huge fans of the rest of the actors on the list.

[bigred760]

Went with Mel Gibson.

[notchreturns]

Denzel, yeah.

Probably would say Anthony Hopkins after that.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

I went with Denzel. It's kinda unfair that, before Training Day, he was always ridiculed for only playing good guys, even though many of our greatest actors were/are the same way.

[krazy drako]

Great thread. Such a hard choice. Went with Mel Gibson. Not really sure why though.:D

[Jerk Shapiro]

Tom Hanks. He could've not done another role except Saving Private Ryan and I still might have picked him. Simply fucking amazing.

[resdawg]

stallone and arnold, in the 90's all i watched was sly and arn.

[SpikeDurden]

I had to choose between Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Ultimately I went with Washington because I think he has a better overall oeuvre.