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The Transporter vs John McClane
Frank Martin 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
John McClane 92%  92%  [ 23 ]
Total votes : 25
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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:43 am 
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Frank Martin

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Mr. Kwai: The delivery will be made. My daughter will get over it. If I'm lucky, she'll see the light.
Frank: Yeah, and if she's lucky, maybe you'll get hit by a truck.

Frank: I'd like to do some sight-seeing.
Pilot: this plane isn't for tourists
[Frank pulls out gun]
Frank: I'm not a tourist.

Frank: Rule #1. Never change the deal.

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[John is fighting Karl]
John McClane: You should have heard your brother squeal when I broke his f***ing neck.

Argyle: So, why didn't you come with her man? What's up?
John McClane: 'Cause I'm a New York cop. I got a six-month backlog on New York scumbags I'm still trying to

put behind bars. I can't just pick up and go that easy.

Hans Gruber: You an American?
John McClane: Only if New Jersey counts.

[on the radio]
Hans Gruber: Mr. Mystery Guest? Are you still there?
John McClane: Yeah, I'm still here. Unless you wanna open the front door for me.
Hans Gruber: Uh, no I'm afraid not. But you have me at a loss. You know my name but who are you? Just another American who saw too many movies as a child? Another orphan of a bankrupt culture who thinks he's John Wayne? Rambo? Marshal Dillon?
John McClane: Was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually. I really dig those sequined shirts.
Hans Gruber: Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?
John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er.


Can the Transporter defeat Die Hard?? Voting goes until Sunday night.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:49 am 
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John McClane.

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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
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There's a reason it's called "Die Hard".


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:10 am 
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I don't know who the other guy is.

So Die Hard it is.

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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:25 am 
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Heres a little info about the transporter

Ex-Special Forces soldier Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the coast of Southern France, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter", who moves any goods from one place to another, without asking any questions.

Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his black BMW E38 735iL, Frank adheres to a strict set of rules, which he never breaks:

1. "Never change the deal".
2. "No names".
3. "Never open the package".

Frank's newest 'transport' seems no different to him than the countless ones that he has delivered in the past. He has been hired by an American known only as "Wall Street" to make a delivery. All begins well, but when Frank stops along route to change a tire, he notices his "package" is moving. Violating one of his own rules, Frank looks inside the bag, finding its contents to be a beautiful woman, bound and gagged. Her name is Lai (Shu Qi), and her presence leads to an assassination attempt on Frank.

Frank's steadfast following of his other two rules—which make up his basic code of survival—quickly fall. Through his new companion, he uncovers a conspiracy of illegal people smuggling, led by Lai's own father. The film ends with Frank intercepting a shipping crate filled with migrants, and the subsequent death of Lai's father at the hands of his own daughter.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
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And a clip of him kicking ass
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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:49 pm 
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Some rather...creative use of physics happening in that clip.

McClane.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:57 pm 
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Frank L. Sisko wrote:
Some rather...creative use of physics happening in that clip.

McClane.

It's those Charlie's Angels physics.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:06 pm 
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This is another one where I'm choosing the winner just out of spite.
The Mrs ADORES Jason Statham, so I'm picking McClane.

That and because of the ridiculous way he got rid of the car bomb in Transporter 2.
That was the stupidest thing I'd seen in years.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:22 pm 
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No contest. John McClane.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:43 pm 
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I actually think the Transporter would destroy McClane, but love Diehard WAAAYYY more than either Transporter film, so my vote goes to Johnny M.


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Frank L. Sisko wrote:
Some rather...creative use of physics happening in that clip.


Little-known fact: the nozzle on that fire hose was made of the metal left over from when Captain America's shield was made.

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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
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Well, that changes things a little, I suppose.


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
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Can Yvonee have my proxy? It would save time if she just voted for both of us in every tough guy poll.

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If he was so tough he wouldn't need the firehouse.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:15 am 
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Get your votes in before the weekends through!!


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 Post subject: IMWAN's Ultimate Movie Tough Guy Challenge: Round 1 Match 15 Frank Martin vs. John McClane
PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:57 pm 
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Winner 22-2 John McClane


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Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er. 8-)


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