Your favorite Paul Newman movies . . .

[bigred760]

There are three movies that IMMEDIATELY come to mind when I think of Paul Newman:

Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Another favorite of his is Nobody's Fool, an underrated movie of his.

[NuclearMisfit]

Cool Hand Luke - probably my favorite. Ive been out to many a place and quoted Cool Hand Luke and people immediately know where its from just a great movie from start to finish and you cant beat Lucille.

[Joe_99]

Probably Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or something stupid like Slapshot. I'm also a big fan of The Sting and Road to Perdition

[Cosimo]

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[JJFlamingo]

In terms of raw comedy, Slap Shot

In terms of acting, Color Of Money

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[Lazy Boy]

Favorite performance AND film: The Hustler

And, while I don't think Road to Perdition is a great film, Newman gave one of the most chilling and haunting lines of any film to come out in this century, perfectly and beautifully delivered:

"There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven."

[poopontheshoes7]

Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Verdict
Slap Shot
The Color of Money

[Zizou]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Hustler
The Towering Inferno

[Powerslave]

It's a tie between Cool Hand Luke and the Hustler. Both great movies, great performances. Slap Shot is great too. I haven't seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in forever though. And I've never seen Hud or The Verdict.

[Hannibal21]

BEST FILMS:
1. The Hustler
2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Hud
4. The Verdict
5. The Hudsucker Proxy
6. Cool Hand Luke
7. The Color of Money
8. Nobody's Fool
9. The Sting
10. The Towering Inferno

BEST PERFORMANCES:
1. Eddie Felson - The Hustler
2. Hud Bannon - Hud
3. Frank Galvin - The Verdict
4. Luke Jackson - Cool Hand Luke
5. Brick Pollitt - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
6. Fast Eddie Felson - The Color of Money
7. Henry Gondorff - The Sting
8. Sully Sullivan - Nobody's Fool
9. Butch Cassidy - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
10. Sidney J. Mussburger - The Hudsucker Proxy

Have yet to see The Long Hot Summer, Exodus, Slap Shot, and Sweet Bird of Youth.

[JJFlamingo]

Have yet to see The Long Hot Summer, Exodus, Slap Shot, and Sweet Bird of Youth.

Get Slap Shot NOW. Steal it if you have to...:D

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[athf1980]

my fav-cool hand luke, Towering Inferno, Butch Cassidy, & Cars

[sarah1980]

Favourite Film

The Hustler

Favourite Performance

Cool Hand Luke

[QUENTIN]

Movies:

1.) Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
2.) Hud
3.) The Hustler
4.) The Sting
5.) Cool Hand Luke
6.) The Verdict
7.) Nobody's Fool
8.) Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
9.) The Color of Money
10.) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean


Performances:

1.) Hud Bannon -Hud
2.) Fast Eddie Felson -The Hustler
3.) Frank Galvin -The Verdict
4.) Sully Sullivan -Nobody's Fool
5.) Luke -Cool Hand Luke
6.) Butch Cassidy -Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
7.) Fast Eddie Felson -The Color of Money
8.) Brick Pollitt -Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
9.) Rocky -Somebody Up There Likes Me
10.) Henry Gondorff -The Sting


One of the five best actors ever and the best movie star. An incredible loss.

[Mr. Creasy]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Road To Perdition

[Le_Big_Mac]

Although I think Paul Newman is a fantastic actor, I haven't been particularly impressed by any of the movies he was in (yet). So, rather than say Cars, I'll just go with The Hustler, which is also his best performance.

[EvilHenchman]

I've gotta go with The Hustler. But there's also The Verdict, The Color of Money, Slap Shot, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...

Paul was even great in Empire Falls.

[eljefe15]

I love all of them but if I had to choose, I'd have to say The Verdict.

[ilovemovies]

I really need to see more of his movies. I've seen very few. But of all the movies of his that I have seen Road to Perdition is my favorite.

RIP :(

[Terror Australis]

Cool Hand Luke is both his best film and best performance.

[Potzer! 37]

as I blogged about here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=64485021

Cool Hand Luke, from that freeze frame smile is just simply movie gold...

It was great to watch it again and think about what Paul's meant to the acting/movie world...one of the last great movie stars has left us.

[Potzer! 37]

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"I'm trying to listen to the fucking song!"
"Old time hockey coach?"

Genius.

[chasingbanky]

Slap Shot- Best Sports film ever...

Cool Hand Luke - Best chain gang film ever... (?)

The Hustler - Best pool hustling film ever...

The Color of Money - Second best pool hustling film ever.

[MightyCelestial]

I just posted this at another site,
but here are my top 5 fave:


5. The Sting - I always felt that scripting a movie that focuses on a successful elaborate con-job really requires an exercizing of creativity from the writer. Bringing in all the elements of the characters & acts to pull off a scheme that is both credible in it's enactment & at the same time fascinating in it's grand unfolding is a balancing act on a extremely narrow margin.
This was one of the 1st. ones I watched as a kid. The chemistry between Newman & Robert Redford was evident even to me, as young as I was. They acted cool, they looked cool & particpated in a scheme that, in my mind, was cool. This was the movie that began my affection for quality heist/confidence movies.

4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - The first example of the lightning captured in a bottle that is the Newman & Redford combo. I like Newman's character more though in this movie than in the Sting. We get to see more of him as Butch Cassidy & the relationship with his fellow bank robber, Harry Longabaugh. A really unique western that is both lotsa of fun & tragic at the same time.

3. Cool Hand Luke - How cool is Cool Hand Luke?
He's so cool that he's willing to eat 50 hardboiled eggs within an hour just to win a bet. This, in a prison where he has to share his immediate space with a
bunch of hardcore criminal chain-gang types, who are well within his ratio of flatulenciated influence. And if you can't understand that,
well then,
what we've got here
is a failure to communicate.

2. Nobody's Fool - Definitely, one of my top favorite holiday movies. Along with Paul's seasoned acting abilities, there are a bunch of reasons why I like this movie so much. However, I'll concentrate on the one scene that sold me over to this story of a father-son-grandson relationship. When Newman's character, a broken down old small-towner who still needs to grow up, attempts to make some amends for his neglective years as a father, by giving to his grandson a stopwatch, which, he claims will help in aiding to delay his fears for a full 60 seconds, every time the kid needs to enter a situation that requires him to be brave.

1. The Verdict - Probably my favorite court drama of all time. With almost a seasoned ease, Paul portrays a disheveled, aging, never-has-been, malpractice lawyer who finds within himself the humanity which never really had a chance to surface due to the layered weight of his chronic alcoholism. The movie & Newman's performance sets up very well the desolation & loneliness that the main character moves his life thru as he goes up against the legal system that giganticly favors the "big guys" over the "little guys". One can really get the sense that Newman knows that he stands no chance of winning the case, but continues moving on forward because he is, for the 1st. time in his barely neglible career, fueled by the honesty & goodness of what is right. A feeling that is so new to this character, that, combined with the realizaton that a human life is totally dependent him for justice, it becomes emotionally exhilirating enough to keep an almost broken old man to keep fighting on, no matter how high the price.
One of those rare times when the performance comes thru real enough to make us ( oh, what am I'm talkin' about this "us" bullsh#t? What I really mean is "me" ) almost believe that even under the most insurmountable odds, there is always some kind of hope.



R.I.P.

[ivana]

The Sting
Cool Hand Luke
Nobody's Fool

[Antonio141]

BEST MOVIES
1. SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
2. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
3. THE HUSTLER
4. HUD
5. BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
6. THE STING
7. THE VERDICT
8. NOBODY'S FOOL
9. COOL HAND LUKE
10. ABSENCE OF MALICE

BEST PERFORMANCES:
1. Fast Eddie Felson in THE HUSTLER and THE COLOR OF MONEY
2. Frank Galvin in THE VERDICT
3. Hud Bannon in HUD
4. Brick Pollitt in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
5. Chance Wayne in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
6. Donald Sullivan in NOBODY'S FOOL
7. Luke in COOL HAND LUKE
8. Butch Cassidy in BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID
9. Michael Gallagher in ABSENCE OF MALICE
10. Henry Gondorff in THE STING

R.I.P. Paul, you truly were one of the greats!