Wow, I didn't realize how much crap this guy has starred in. He's in some of my favourites, though. Twelve Monkeys in particular, which is one of my top 10 or 20 favourite movies of all-time. I know it's not a straight up comedy, but Bruce had me laughing my ass off through half of that movie with his drooling, slurring, wandering around through the past in desperate confusion as he tries to convince people of his absurdly implausible story about looking for a virus to save the future. And the violence in the movie is a riot too. I almost feel bad laughing at someone being beaten to death, but just look at the clumsy, frenzied way he does it...how could you not crack up at that?
Unbreakable and The Last Boy Scout are also flicks of his that I think are underrated. When he coldly, wearily whispers to a thug, "You touch me again and I'll kill you", the thug pokes him mockingly, and he KILLS THE MAN WITH ONE SHOT TO THE NECK in "The Last Boy Scout", that was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie.
"Pulp Fiction" and the first three Die Hard movies (haven't seen the fourth) are of course excellent too. I think he deserves more credit for how much he contributed to "Pulp Fiction" being great. His scenes with his girlfriend feature some of the most authentic and impressively subtle/realistic acting and the sweetest, most insightful conversations in the movie.
I know the movie earned its reputation mostly for the crazy violence and wonderful dialogue with its insight into criminal/hitmen lifestyles, but those scenes are some of the best I've ever seen in depicting the reality of the special intimate world shared between a close couple, and Willis and his co-star in that scene are a big reason why it does that so well.
His wide-eyed trance-like rescue of Marsellus Wallace is awesome too and another stellar bit of acting from Willis, but in the opposite way of the bedroom scenes. Those scenes showed his skill for quiet, thoughtful acting, while the sword-stuff was just Willis at his sweaty, macho, wildman best.
Unbreakable and The Last Boy Scout are also flicks of his that I think are underrated. When he coldly, wearily whispers to a thug, "You touch me again and I'll kill you", the thug pokes him mockingly, and he KILLS THE MAN WITH ONE SHOT TO THE NECK in "The Last Boy Scout", that was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie.
"Pulp Fiction" and the first three Die Hard movies (haven't seen the fourth) are of course excellent too. I think he deserves more credit for how much he contributed to "Pulp Fiction" being great. His scenes with his girlfriend feature some of the most authentic and impressively subtle/realistic acting and the sweetest, most insightful conversations in the movie.
I know the movie earned its reputation mostly for the crazy violence and wonderful dialogue with its insight into criminal/hitmen lifestyles, but those scenes are some of the best I've ever seen in depicting the reality of the special intimate world shared between a close couple, and Willis and his co-star in that scene are a big reason why it does that so well.
His wide-eyed trance-like rescue of Marsellus Wallace is awesome too and another stellar bit of acting from Willis, but in the opposite way of the bedroom scenes. Those scenes showed his skill for quiet, thoughtful acting, while the sword-stuff was just Willis at his sweaty, macho, wildman best.