Favorite Kurt Russell performance?
Added 2025-01-04 22:00:11 +0000 UTCHey everyone! Since we’re covering so many movies on the next couple of episodes, I won’t be reading out individual comments on the show. However, I’d love to highlight more Kurt Russell performances that are worth checking out. Let us know what your favorite film role is of him and why!
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Over. Board. Was a childhood favorite that played in heavy rotation on VHS.
Jamie Williams
2025-01-06 21:04:40 +0000 UTCI have just realized I have only watched like 3 Kurt movies (Probably more but I'm not counting Sky High because I was like 6) probably Rudy from Used Cars, my enjoyment of Breakdown is not fully tied to him and in Overboard he reminded me too much of shitty Step dads I had, while Rudy, much like everyone in that movie just the right kind of piece of shit
JokersJuicyAss
2025-01-06 07:51:05 +0000 UTCTombstone. Hateful 8 is overrated
Pablo Pappano
2025-01-06 03:37:10 +0000 UTCMight be an odd choice but I always liked 3000 miles to Graceland
Michael Sgambati
2025-01-05 23:52:47 +0000 UTCI like Kurt in everything, he's a reliable actor in action, drama or comedy. He's never been an A-lister but that way we didn't have to worry about him falling from that level. I'd say my favorite role is Snake Plissken. Funniest deadpan action hero in a straight ahead action movie.
Scott Ruisch
2025-01-05 15:22:02 +0000 UTCTo me it’s so hard to choose one because Kurt is in the John candy, John Goodman and Jack Nicholson level of actors where he’s good in everything and rarely phones it in.
Luke Gordnier
2025-01-05 04:59:15 +0000 UTCThere’s a cute performance of him doing Sugar Sugar in Disneyland on youtube - it’s a slightly different arrangement(?) from the record and worth watching if you like that sort of thing!
Mary and Steve
2025-01-05 01:48:06 +0000 UTCThis perfectly reflects my own thoughts on the guy as an actor. Well done!
Lux Anatis
2025-01-05 00:44:48 +0000 UTCNo idea this thing existed!
Trevor Poe
2025-01-05 00:37:21 +0000 UTCJohn Ruth from Hateful Eight. Russell’s funny because he’s way better at types than actual characters, which his best directors know how to use. I feel like Tarantino knows to give him time to get comfortable with a type without demanding that a lot of emotion or backstory be worked out. Carpenter knew that too, but the result is that Russell’s performance seems so of the worlds of “Escape From New York” and “The Thing” that he almost blends in. It’s an unselfish choice for the actor but it makes for a lot of great movies which Russell improves without really standing out as an actor. Captain Ron is his biggest standout as a character but that and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 use him the wrong way in my opinion.
TimInFL
2025-01-05 00:30:39 +0000 UTCCaptain Ron, definitely. I think he also makes a cool Santa in the 2 Christmas Chronicles movies even though those movies are not great.
JP
2025-01-05 00:15:43 +0000 UTCIf Kurt Russel is in it im having fun. He is always magnetic. Maybe Capt Ron?
Jason Patterson
2025-01-04 23:30:38 +0000 UTCGood for you for knowing the difference and being able to appreciate both.
Lux Anatis
2025-01-04 22:54:54 +0000 UTCJack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China is a given, but I think his performance as Stuntman Mike in Death Proof is underrated
QuebeckFilms (Listen To Malding At the Midseason)
2025-01-04 22:51:59 +0000 UTCIt’s a very basic sports movie role but he’s excellent in MIRACLE. Much more stern character than he usually plays but he’s just as good doing that as his more jovial characters.
cdpren
2025-01-04 22:41:18 +0000 UTCUsed Cars and Hateful 8, but Gerrit Graham and Walton Goggins are the standouts in those films, so I guess Death Proof
Javi
2025-01-04 22:39:38 +0000 UTCIt's not my favourite performance from him, but his role in Sky High stands out to me. I know it's strange to say, but he gets across the ego and tenderness of Steve Stronghold with it never coming off as too unlikable or overly sentimental. He manages to elevate the material since it's practically a Disney Channel film that was released theatrically (With other names that would go on to bigger things).
The One and Rory
2025-01-04 22:33:18 +0000 UTCI’ll avoid the big roles and say Dark Blue. Not much love gets shown towards that one and it’s a shame because he gets to be real piece of shit in that film. That car chase towards the end too is fantastic.
The Film Smith
2025-01-04 22:29:49 +0000 UTCEasily Death Proof. He plays chill, somewhat charming, and amiable, switches to psychotic monster, then cool and manipulative, and by the end becomes out-of-control, panicked, and fearful. There's so much range in that performance that, while not my favorite Kurt movie, is probably my favorite performance.
Nathan Kearney
2025-01-04 22:19:10 +0000 UTCWell, in keeping with my tirade against video games, I'll mention how much I love his performance in Escape From New York and how it inspired Solid Snake, the lead character in the Metal Gear Solid games. Those games were incredibly novel in a time before video games were so embarrassed to be what they are and so desperate to be considered art that they sacrificed what makes them unique to imitate Cinema.
Lux Anatis
2025-01-04 22:16:21 +0000 UTCI was going to say this!
Nathan Kearney
2025-01-04 22:14:51 +0000 UTCMy favorite Kurt Russell performance is his self-titled bubblegum record from the 1970 - he did covers of “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies and “Dizzy” by Tommy Roe! It’s a footnote in his career but I like its placement between child actor and action star. (Otherwise my pick is probs Big Trouble in Little China)
Mary and Steve
2025-01-04 22:12:06 +0000 UTCYou guys already did the movie, but my favorite is Used Cars.
Troy Thomas
2025-01-04 22:11:03 +0000 UTCDeath Proof - it shows his amazing range as an actor to go from affable Kurt to absolute psychopath in the same movie.
Heath Chamerski
2025-01-04 22:09:06 +0000 UTC2 underrated performances I'd say are swing shift and elvis
Gavin Fitzgerald
2025-01-04 22:03:45 +0000 UTCReal acting: The Thing. Scenery chewing/fun: Big Trouble in Little China
Anthony Hoffman
2025-01-04 22:01:49 +0000 UTCHateful 8
Ian Vaughan Jones
2025-01-04 22:00:56 +0000 UTC
