Top 5 Bruce Willis films
It's pretty much my duty to do a Top 5 for every major actor in Hollywood. It's a self-appointed duty, but important nonetheless. I've been thinking this one up since I re-watched Pulp Fiction a week ago and did a Samuel L. Jackson Top Five. Hey, those two have been in three movies together! You won't see all three here. Because Die Hard With a Vengeance was a terrible movie. All in all, I've seen 18 movies with Bruce Willis in them. Maybe half of them were good. Notable Bruce Willis movies I haven't seen: The Kid, The Whole Nine Yards and its sequel, The Story of Us, Last Man Standing, Hudson Hawk (hahahahahaha), or anything since 2000's Unbreakable. It seems like a lot of the earlier ones that I've missed are horrible anyway (a la Death Becomes Her). Let's do this...
5. Pulp Fiction (I considered Armageddon for this spot, because while it's a horrible movie, I kinda like it. But, c'mon, Armageddon over Pulp Fiction? Yeah, it doesn't work for me either. My favourite part of Armageddon is when the patriotic astronauts plant a flag on an asteroid they're about to blow up)
4. 12 Monkeys (this movie continued Bruno's post-Pulp Fiction renaissance. A phenomenal performance that keeps you guessing about the true nature of the film)
3. Unbreakable (now that they told David Dunn's origin story, they should do a sequel where he defends a nature reserve of people who see dead people from aliens. That would be awesome)
2. The Sixth Sense (this is probably the best movie Willis has ever been in, but only one movie could truly be the number one Bruce Willis film)
1. Die Hard (the greatest action Christmas film of all-time! This movie created the formula for action movies that would rip it off for years to come-- making sequels more and more difficult to think up. An ordinary guy with some law-enforcement/military training is trapped in an unexpected terrorist situation and proceeds to take them out one-by-one within the confines of some area-- an office building, airport, airplane, train, boat, bus, etc. Terrorists plan for everything but the fly in the ointment. Also, John McClane ushered in a new wave of sensitive action heroes. theskooch is going to try and explain how the third installment isn't a betrayal of the whole Die Hard formula in a comment here. But he's wrong. I'm right. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker)