Bruce Willis - Favorite Performance

Loved the show but it quickly went downhill after they got 'horizontae'.
It only managed to capture the previous magic in a few later episodes.
My personal favourite episode would be the send up of Rocky IV ……………….. 'We talkin' fun evening or what'.

I put my favourite Bruce performance above as 'The Return of Bruno' mainly because it was David Addison let loose on the music scene.

 

Do bears bear?
Do bees be?

The Rocky 4 one was great!

They send Maddie and David out on a real date only to be foiled when the scalped tickets to the Opera end up being intended for a couple of international spies!

 

Favorite Performance?? There's only one! John McClane!

Fake blood being applied to our hero's feet.

 

Last Man Standing (1996)
Directed by Walter Hill from a story by Akira Kurosawa
Music by Ry Cooder
Starring Bruce Willis, David Patrick Kelly, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, and Leslie Mann

 

On one of the Moonlighting DVD commentaries, Cybill said that, with them averaging 14 episodes or so a season, the series would have worked better in today's TV environment with shorter seasons and longer breaks. It also didn't help that there wasn't a large ensemble cast to share the load -- all the pressure was on the two leads. But when that show worked, though, it was truly brilliant...

 

Thanks for the info!

It was a "must watch" or must record at that time.

For the record they did 6, 18, 15, 14, and 13 episodes in the seasons.

The 14th episode of season 3 or 37th episode was the point of no return...haha.

To this day I've never been able to fishish the final season.

Back to Bruce ...thought he was excellent in Unbreakable.

 

I don't blame you for not watching Season 5. Overall, you're not missing much (although "Womb With A View" is amazing). I'm one of the few who actually likes Season 4. I thought Maddie's absence forced the writers to try harder to come up with good episodes and several were, indeed, fantastic: "Trip To The Moon," "Come Back Little Shiksa," the "Cool Hand Dave" 2-parter, "Tracks of My Tears," "Maddie Hayes Got Married" and the brilliant "Father Knows Last" which contains one of Bruce's finest acting scenes ever:

 

My favorite Bruce Willis is TV Bruce Willis: Moonlighting, Friends, and one that hasn't been mentioned, "Miami Vice", where he played an abusive husband.

"I tried to tell you fellas...I got the JUICE..."

 

This is what I came to post. I also think he's great in Pulp Fiction, and Die Hard is hard to ignore for me, but in Unbreakable he really affected me.

Also, he seemed a breath of fresh air when Moonlighting first came out. Pity that show declined so rapidly and so steeply.

 

Sixth Sense.

 

Awwww man, Bruce is moving out of the 'hood.

Bruce Willis selling Westchester estate

 

One day someone will try to remake it. They should be shot immediately.

 

I’m always impartial to Christmas movies, so Die Hard.

Yippie Ki-Yay ............

 

in his later years I enjoyed the remake of Death Wish...

 

yes a Christmas staple every year! and we get a fabulous Christmas Song in the end! Let It Snow by Vaughn Monroe.

 

Sixth Sense is good. Unbreakable is very understated, almost too much for me though it perfectly delivers the story. I want to go with the scene chewing he does in Armageddon but....nah, that's the one. I like his work when he is acting not standing. Also Pulp Fiction is great for him.

 

did it sell & where did he move?...

 

My favorite performance of Bruce's...I never saw. Limited number of people saw it, but when it comes to serendipitous meetings, this one is it.

1979, I'm at my first radio gig, working weekend overnights. Which not only left me alone in the station, but running the Saturday night/Sunday morning "P.A. Shift" - you know, public service programming, preachers bloviating on the mic until we turn them off exactly 30 minutes into the show whether they care or not, that sort of thing. At the back of the building, there's the closet where the Music Director tosses all the LP's he gets in the mail, on their way to the dumpster when there's no room to stash them. Doesn't matter what they are, most Music Directors I've known don't really know anything about music...or care, if they're not the hit that already charted three weeks ago they're waiting to get from the promoter. Well, here I am with 15-30 minutes of free time on my hands week after week, and only A WHOLE CABINET FULL OF FREE ALBUMS NOBODY CARES ABOUT...and an open Production Studio I can use to audition albums. Which I do every Saturday night for weeks...because I've put it upon myself to AUDITION EVERY ONE. And that's where I met this jazzbo named Robert Kraft, and the Ivory Coast. Liked the album, thought he was clever (if a little focused on the nose-tooting); hip stuff, swingin', half live half studio.

And it was somewhere around this time he's doing a show, and some douche in the audience whips out his harmonica, and starts playing. And Kraft invites said douche up to the stage, and it's the beginning of a beautiful lifelong friendship.

Why do you care? Because this was the first guy I ever wrote a fan letter to...once I discovered he ended up exec-producing The Little Mermaid at Disney, so I had an address. And...it's the first time an artist has answered my fan letter.

And, if you forward to about 3:10 here, you'll learn a little bit more about Robert Kraft and his friend the douche.

 

The Fifth Element
Die Hard
12 Monkeys
Pulp Fiction
Sin City

 

I watched the remake of Death Wish last night because I found a sealed DVD copy in a thrift shop and thought "Why not?"

I enjoyed it much more than I thought, and I realized I missed seeing Bruce on the screen.

 

Pulp Fiction

I love the scene where he saves Marcellus.

 

Striking Distance
Mercury Rising
The Jackal

 

Willis is a mystery to me..why does a guy with his talent make such bad movies...anyhow his best was when he played a cold blooded killer on[Miami Vice]way back in the day.

 

Moonlighting