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The Best Usages of Clancy Brown

Poll Results: Pick your favorite usage of Clancy Brown

 
  • 14% (10)
    The Kurgan in 'Highlander'
  • 16% (11)
    Career Sergeant Zim in 'Starship Troopers'
  • 7% (5)
    Captain Hadley in 'The Shawshank Redemption'
  • 1% (1)
    John Danziger in 'Earth 2'
  • 19% (13)
    Lex Luthor in 'Superman' (animated series)
  • 2% (2)
    Eugene H. Krabs in 'Spongebob Squarepants'
  • 7% (5)
    Rawhide in 'Buckaroo Banzai'
  • 1% (1)
    Viking Lofgren in 'Bad Boys' (1983)
  • 0% (0)
    Mr. Freeze in 'The Batman' (animated series)
  • 28% (19)
    something not mentioned
67 Total Votes  
post #1 of 35
1/3/08 at 5:54pm
Thread Starter 
Clancy Brown: Movies, television, theater, cartoons, video games...the man flat out rules in whatever medium he chooses to participate in. Why isn't he a bigger star?

Edited: OK, I messed up. I totally spaced out on putting Brother Justin Crowe from 'Carnivale' in here. Mea Culpa...
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post #2 of 35
1/3/08 at 5:58pm
Brother Justin Crowe - Carnivale
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post #3 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:04pm
I'm partial to his Lex Luthor. I was happy to see him show up in Lost. The guy is always good.
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post #4 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:05pm
Without a doubt my favorite Brown role is as dude who kills a bunch of hikers and kidnaps Kirstie Alley in SHOOT TO KILL. Poitier and Berenger really had their hands full in that one.

Runner-up is whoever he played in EXTREME PREJUDICE.
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post #5 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:06pm
Thread Starter 
Crap...how did I forget to put Brother Crowe from 'Carnivale' on this poll...
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post #6 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:07pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diva
Brother Justin Crowe - Carnivale
Winner. He's scary as all fuck in that show.
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post #7 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:08pm
Sgt. Larry "Kill him like an animal" McRose in EXTREME PREJUDICE
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post #8 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:10pm
Begins and ends with Carnivale. He almost makes you want the apocalypse to happen.
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post #9 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:12pm
Thread Starter 
ok, is there a way to edit the polling options? I want to remove Rawhide as an option and put in Brother Justin. That was an unintentional miss on my part.
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post #10 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:16pm
Justin Crowe managed to make Carnivale almost worthwhile, if he wasn't there then I would have cottoned on to the essential dullness of the show after the first episode, but Clancy Brown made Carnivale essential viewing for two seasons.
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post #11 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:23pm
There's not really a wrong choice in this list, but I thought he nailed Lex Luthor within minutes of him popping up in the Superman: TAS pilot. Nobody's gotten that character completely right in a moving medium before or since. And that's from somebody who liked Spacey in Returns.
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post #12 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:24pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Moltisanti
Without a doubt my favorite Brown role is as dude who kills a bunch of hikers and kidnaps Kirstie Alley in SHOOT TO KILL. Poitier and Berenger really had their hands full in that one.
Oh yeah, great choice. I love this movie.

I don't know about you but it always makes me feel good to shop Home Depot and think that Clancy approves.
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post #13 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:25pm
Gene Hackman gets a bit ticked but, yes, Clancy indeed approves.
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post #14 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:33pm
The Kurgan in Highlander. I still go back to that scene in the church.
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post #15 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:34pm
I have to go with Lex Luthor. Adam Baldwin playing Superman in "Doomsday" wasn't nearly as jarring as having someone else play Luthor.

Although, just like in the Billy Zane poll, there should be a choice for "Everything his graceful mug appears in..."
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post #16 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:35pm
I had to go with the Kurgan for sentimental reasons, but he is great in almost everything (Earth 2 being the exception that proves the rule).
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post #17 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:39pm
No mention of Victor from The Bride? Shocked! Shocked I am at its omission! Clancy made a great, sympathetic, Frankenstein's Monster (performance gets ya right in the heart), plus it had an all-star cast (for it's day, anyway) in Sting, David (The Wizard, Time Bandits) Rappaport, Alexei Sayle, and Jennifer Beals.

AND he got some lovin' from Jamie Lee Curtis in Blue Steel. AND he shills for Home Depot! Brown is at Bruce Campbell levels of cool.
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post #18 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:43pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diva
Brother Justin Crowe - Carnivale
No question here. Though don't knock Earth 2
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post #19 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:49pm
I always used to confuse Clancy Brown and Mike Starr.

One day I determined they were different people. I looked at their respective credits, and felt that if Mike Starr had Brown's role in Starship Troopers, then... I don't know. He could walk around all day smiling. Both men can, anyway...

So I'm voting for Starship Troopers.
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post #20 of 35
1/3/08 at 6:53pm
My vote goes to Brown as Lex Luthor with Krabs a close second especially because you don't realize it's him.

But I also suggest his work in Megas XLR and his understated rule as the producer on Breaking News.

We need to get this man into a buddy-action movie with Ron Perlman.
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post #21 of 35
1/3/08 at 7:23pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by EdHocken
We need to get this man into a buddy-action movie with Ron Perlman.
No, the world would implode under the all-encompassing awesome. I rather like the world.

I think it speaks volumes that the largest amount of votes currently goes to "Other", especially when there really isn't a bad pick in the bunch. Me, I'm all about the Brother Justin. The last six episodes of Carnivale made me want to scream when I found that the show got cancelled. Just an awesome ending for season 2.
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post #22 of 35
1/3/08 at 8:33pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by EdHocken
We need to get this man into a buddy-action movie with Ron Perlman.
Why not Zane, or Sizemore? Perlman can be the villain.
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post #23 of 35
1/3/08 at 9:03pm
Well, if I'm not mistaken Sizemore is in jail at the moment and in my view has pretty much fucked up one too many times.

Billy Zane would play the villan. And get Bruce Campbell to be the tough as nails with a heart of gold police captain that usually chews out Perlman and Brown but then comes in the clutch at the end.
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post #24 of 35
1/3/08 at 9:06pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by EdHocken
Well, if I'm not mistaken Sizemore is in jail at the moment
He got out right before Christmas.
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post #25 of 35
1/3/08 at 9:08pm
Oh he is. Still, I'd rather not have him in my fantasy casting despite his work on Xxyznx Road. Leo Grillo needs to stop with the phone calls.
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post #26 of 35
1/3/08 at 10:56pm
When I see him my first reaction is "oh, its the Kurgan" but, yeah, his best role is probably Brother Justin. And please, don't bad-mouth Earth 2. It doesn't make you cool or anything, in those days we sci-fi fans had less to choose from and it was a nice change to have a show with a genuine script that didn't treat the audience like brain-dead children; which, now that I think about it, is probably why it didn't last. Firefly, anyone?
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post #27 of 35
1/4/08 at 9:50am
Anyone who didn't vote "The Kurgan from Highlander" is wrong.

Simply, utterly, and completely dead wrong. Answering "E" for every 4 answer multiple choice question on the SATs isn't as wrong as you were. Michael Jackson having sleep overs with 10 year old boys isn't as wrong as you were. You've made the wrongness of invading Iraq without an exit strategy seem trivial in comparison.

Now hang your heads in shame on just how wrong you are.
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post #28 of 35
1/4/08 at 9:58am
He should win just for the church scene.

Highlander is a weird flick. It's almost exactly 50% terrible 80's action movie and 50% perfect 80's action movie. I'd say the casting of Clancy Brown is about 15-20% of what makes that perfect half work so well.
I might need to draw up a Highlander pie chart after this.
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post #29 of 35
1/4/08 at 10:48am
Thread Starter 
I'd like to see a 'Highlander' remake, just be sure and bring back Clancy Brown as the Kurgan again. Fix what was wrong or cheesy about the script (the 'romantic' dialog between Connor and Brenda was appalling), recast some of the roles with people who can actually act (anyone but Roxanne Hart, PLEASE), and hire a decent swordmaster to punch up the fight scenes. Oh, and keep Rob Zombie away from it.
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post #30 of 35
1/4/08 at 2:20pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Isao Kanemasa
Sgt. Larry "Kill him like an animal" McRose in EXTREME PREJUDICE
wins.
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post #31 of 35
1/5/08 at 11:52pm
Well, of course it's the Kurgan ("Hi, I'm Candy." "Yesssss, of course you are"), but I dug Clancy as Jamie Lee Curtis's love interest in Kathryn Bigelow's BLUE STEEL. His character's name is Detective Nick Mann, for God's sake! Quien es mas macho? The answer is no one.
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post #32 of 35
1/6/08 at 1:39am
I think his JL Luthor work is more or less my favorite version of Luthor in any medium. He was also pretty good as Long Feng on Avatar, but I'm pretty sure he was cast because the character is similar to Luthor, and Andrea Romano voice directs both shows.
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post #33 of 35
1/6/08 at 2:07am
His turn in Carnivale was fucking great. But I will always see him with that skull-helmet, grumbling "Ramirez".

Those two instances of Clanicification are my two favorites.
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post #34 of 35
1/7/08 at 1:11am
Though the movie was flawed to the point of unwatchability, Rolf Muller and Clancy Brown were both uber-badass Vikings in Pathfinder

I voted the Kurgan.
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post #35 of 35
1/9/08 at 2:29pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Felt Pelt
I always used to confuse Clancy Brown and Mike Starr.

One day I determined they were different people. I looked at their respective credits, and felt that if Mike Starr had Brown's role in Starship Troopers, then... I don't know. He could walk around all day smiling. Both men can, anyway...

So I'm voting for Starship Troopers.
Mike Star is like the missing link between Clancy Brown and Danny Aiello.
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