Posted on 12/11/2010 6:32:50 PM PST by Krankor
I say Lee Marvin hands down. He was just cool and never thought he had to prove it.
Couldn’t say... but their socks are tougher than any 50 nancy boy actors today.
Your opinion tells me that you are a snot-nosed kid. Don’t worry, you’ll mature.
From a woman’s perspective, no man was cooler than Steve McQueen. :)
:{)
I say it’s a tie.
Tough one. Steve McQueen in the Great Escape jumping the barbed wire fence on the stolen motorcyle is hard to beat for ‘cool’.
Sorry, Chuck Norris.
James Coburn.
Josh Randall....come on! You’re not serious? :{)
BURT LANCASTER,
Kick ass and take names.
No wimps allowed.
Where are the real men?
But according to today’s standard, he would have to play a gay, and a transsexual to show his DEPTH as an actor.
John Wayne never played a gay part......
Lee Marvin got kicked out of my high school (and a dozen others), and my wife used to date Steve McQueen... but I have no idea which one was “cooler”.
I don’t know much about either one but would bet they were pretty tough in real life as well as the movies.
Lee Marvin just plain looked mean. Steve McQueen had a rough and ready look that I liked.
Call it a draw.
They both had very interesting bio’s. Very full lives.
As a Triumph rider, I vote for McQueen.
It’s people like you that make me appreciate my dog. :{)
Yeah - not sure if OP was trolling. Dirty Dozen and Great Escape are two of my all time favorites. Too bad Charles Bronson has passed away - he could give the definitive answer :) Steve McQueen certainly cultivated a cooler disposition (which probably answers OP’s question), but Lee Marvin was probably the better actor.
Time to dig out The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Blob, two of my all time guilty pleasures . . .
I picked up the dvd-set of Lee Marvin’s “M Squad” series. Watched every episode, from all three seasons. He’s pretty awesome. Nobody remotely like him around nowadays. Makes you fully realize the depths of pathetic wimpishness that modern culture has sunk to nowadays.
Steve McQueen was a cool guy, and a wonderfully talented actor.
What a choice!!
Steve kicked the bucket first so his carcass’ rotting remains have got to be colder.
Hmmmm for just plain cool I have to say Steve McQueen if nothing else but for his car in Bullitt......(Although I would argue classic Paul Newman is still the Coolest....I site Cool Hand Luke and The Sting).
However for toughness I say Lee Marvin he was a Marine! Which is Pretty “Cool” in my Book!
Yes...I am a “Movie Geek”...LOL
No contest. McQueen = Bullitt. Mag7
Marvin was good but McQween rocks.
Pic of Harry Von Zell on your profile.
I bet you’re a big Lee Marvin fan aren’t ya. Yeah me too. I love that guy.
You might ask his x wives about that....not a nice fella to be married to...
I used to own two black 1968 Dodge Chargers. That movie still makes me upset.
I have to agree...Lee Marvin...
They’re both great.
McQueen was a Marine, too.
No gravesite, however - his ashes were scattered in the Pacific.
Steve “Cooled Down” the Blob! The stunt that he personally performed when he jumped the fence in “The Great Escape” was mega kool!
I don't know. Tough guy and great actor to be sure, but that whole "Cat Ballou" thing kinda ruins it for me.
Turning a hot lap at LeMans is pretty cool.
They are two of my all-time favorite actors, so it’s hard to choose. However, a decision must be made and the cooler one has to be Steve McQueen. ;-)
Steve McQueen.
Marvin isn’t even close.
Did his own motorcycle stunts.
Forget Lee Marvin or Steve McQueen.
It’s Charles Bronson, in a league of his own.
X wives? You musta meant Michelle Triola who gave up her potentially ‘lucrative’ singing career to be his ‘pal’. She sued for palimony. Let me tell ya sumpin: At the Playboy Club where she sang? The members wanted ‘keys’ to get out!
Time to dig out The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Blob, two of my all time guilty pleasures . . .I vote for Steve McQueen -- and The Blob. Great movie!
Lee Marvin was tougher.
Steve McQueen made the Arctic look tropical.
Norton man here and I have to go with Lee Marvin. - Paul made popcorn. :)
“From a woman’s perspective, no man was cooler than Steve McQueen.” : ElayneJ
“Lady, I don’t have the time.” Lee Marvin’s character in “The Killer”
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I say Lee Marvin hands down. He was just cool and never thought he had to prove it.
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Just my fallible opinion, but I see two guys being great in two categories...
I’d say Lee Marvin gets a “The Real Deal” award for the time he
spent on Iwo Jima in WWII.
And Steve McQueen gets “The Cool Dude” award for Bullit, The Great Escape
as well as surviving a stretch in a reform school/institution
in California.
(IIRC, he made frequent visits and donations to the place)
Speaking of Lee Marvin, “The Dirty Dozen” had to be the most macho, testosterone laden film ever made:
Lee Marvin, Chas. Bronson, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Telly Savalas...These guys were real men, off and on the screen, not like the pampered Nancy boys of today who shave their chest hair.
Clint Eastwood
Yep.
BY ROGER EBERT / October 10, 1970
Marvin finished his Heineken, turned it upside down, watched a single drop fall out. "My agent," he said. "He keeps wanting to know if I've read any more scripts. Fuck scripts. You spend the first forty years of your life trying to get in this fucking business, and the next forty years trying to get out. And then when you're making the bread, who needs it?
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