His politics aside, name the last GOOD Bruce Willis movie

[Miles Archer]

He's settled into a trend of making some kind of cameo in a movie (even though his image appears prominently in the art / promo materials and he receives star billing).

These films breed like rabbits on Netflix and elsewhere, and I assume they are mainly direct-to-DVD.

He usually plays some kind of crime lord or ex-CIA...there are only two or three variations to his character, regardless of how many movies he's been in.

This has been going on for at least the last 5 years. He usually shows up long enough to make a threat or a wisecrack, and then the other 88 minutes of the movie are inhabited by largely unknown actors or mighty stars who have fallen to the direct-to-DVD realm.

SO...what was his last GOOD movie, in your opinion?

[DemKittyNC]

1. I'd say

Pulp Fiction.

[Siwsan]

2. I'm not a big fan but I enjoyed 'Bandits', and that goes back quite a way

Not sure if it was because of him, or Billy Bob Thornton, who was hilarious in that film.''

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. That shows up on TV all the time. I sat through part of it back in May, I think.

For me, the fun part is seeing Oregon City and other Portland-area locales.

He's been in some good movies. "The Sixth Sense," obviously, but he was good in "Mercury Rising" too.

[Miles Archer]

6. I was blown away by Thornton's "Lorne Malvo" in Fargo Season One

I thought he actually topped the Steve Buscemi / Peter Stormare evil duo from the original film, because their characters were basically guys who were not too bright who knew how to do things like kidnap, extort, and kill. "Lorne Malvo," on the other hand, knew exactly what he was doing at all times, which made him much more dangerous.

[Blue_Adept]

27. Thornton was fantastic in that

The guys behind the production (who also do Legion) are just fantastic and they utilized him incredibly well, particularly in the senseless brutal violence department because it just blew up out of nowhere at times and he was able to make it work.

[exboyfil]

3. Sin City - 2005

Before that Unbreakable - 2000.
But I have not seen most of his movies.

[Miles Archer]

8. That may be the one

I just took a look at IMDB...everything that came after "Sin City" set the template for his "cameo / star power" nonsense, like his appearances in the "Expendables" movies.

His remake of "Death Wish" doesn't look all that promising, either.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Death Becomes Her

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Red was good from what I can remember

I haven't been "jazzed up" by the last couple installments of the Die Hard franchise. I also am a big fan of "The Fifth Element" and thought he was fun in "The Whole Nine Yards".

[Miles Archer]

9. I enjoyed "Whole Nine Yards" too

It was a "whole" performance, he played a character that was central to the story.

My main objection to many of the most recent movies is that he just shows up long enough to justify having his name in the credits.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I haven't seen a lot of really recent stuff TBH

He's usually serviceable in anything that he's in, but the first three Die Hard films will be my favorite movies with him in them.

[Recursion]

11. Moonrise Kingdom

Wonderful movie.

[peekaloo]

12. Twelve Monkeys

more of a nod to Terry Gilliam.

[PJMcK]

28. Good choice

Great film with a marvelously intelligent and clever script.

[jmowreader]

13. I liked Red a LOT

[red dog 1]

14. Pulp Fiction

In fact, Pulp Fiction may be the ONLY good movie Willis ever made.

Speaking of Pulp Fiction, Willis wanted to play the part of Vincent Vega, one of the lead roles; but Quentin Tarantino said no to that idea.
So Willis played the punch-drunk fighter Butch Coolidge instead.
[He did a good job, imo]

Travolta wasn't the first choice to play Vincent Vega.
Tarantino wanted Michael Madsen, but Madson turned it down to appear in Kevin Costner's
"Wyatt Earp"
[Madson has since expressed regret over his decision]

[Shrek]

15. Death Wish n/t

[DrDan]

16. there was a first one?

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. 2015 onward has been nothing but stinkers

Looking at his credits, I would say Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For was the last good one. It was in 2014.

[NNadir]

18. I have had the pleasure of never seeing a Bruce Willis movie, not one. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

26. You've missed out on some great stuff

Twelve Monkeys should be required viewing in general. Fifth Element is just an utter delight of fun over the top science fiction material. Unbreakable is in my mind the best m night shyamalan movie and he put in a fantastic performance there.

If you just write off an actor as "oh that die hard guy" or something like that, you miss out on a lot of things.

[NNadir]

31. I'm an old man. I've seen so many things in my life that fill and thrill my entire being...

...the overwhelming majority of which have nothing to do with mere entertainment.

Now, I do watch some fluffy movies here and there, and also some movies that move me, make me feel, make me think. I do engage in mindless diversions as well, because sometimes my being is overheated and I just need to shut down to be ready for the next amazing thing.

I wouldn't describe any of the movies that moved me, or made me feel, or made me think, as "required" for anyone else though.

I will not live all that much longer, I think. I feel my mortality more and more as things become more absurdly and incomprehensibly wondrous. All the time I've wasted in my life weighs on me now like a kind of sacrilege.

It's very unlikely that I'll expend any of whatever time I have left to watch a Bruce Willis Movie. I've lived quite well a long time without any of them, and frankly, there are many more things that I'd rather see and do than watch a Bruce Willis movie. What I know of the guy, admittedly purely by osmosis and nothing else, repulses me, and I'd rather spend the rest of time I have on better things.

[jalan48]

19. The Sixth Sense wasn't too bad.

[NightWatcher]

20. Die Hard!

[Iggo]

22. Watched that this weekend. First time in a long time.

It holds up.

[PJMcK]

29. Parts 1 & 2 were pretty good

Parts 3 was stupid. John McClain's escape from the water pipe was silly and scientifically incorrect.

The end of Part 2 has a terrible music cue: When the planes an finally land at the airport, the director kept what's called a "temp track" of music used by the director and editors when assembling the film. In this scene, the director Renny Harlin backed up the film's climax with Sibelius' "Finlandia." It's a fine piece of music but it is so far outside the tone of the rest of the film that it is a jarring finish to an otherwise good adventure. Could it be that Mr. Harlin, who is from Finland, was homesick?

[Iggo]

21. Unbreakable.

Great.

[sakabatou]

23. 5th Element

[Blue_Adept]

25. I can watch that thing over and over

[MrScorpio]

30. My fave too.

[Blue_Adept]

24. His last great movie for me was Unbreakable.

That film suckered people into watching a superhero origin story without realizing it years before the Marvel stuff got underway and all we had otherwise were Batman or Spidey films. It still stands up incredibly well today.

The last really fun movie that I enjoyed was RED, which again came from the comic book side. Such a great ensemble cast and just such a sense of enjoyment.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. I liked The Sixth Sense.

Otherwise I'm not much of a fan.

[miyazaki]

33. The one where he was a drunk washed up cop protecting a witness.