Tyler Durden picked as greatest movie character ever...

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by empireonline.com.

http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/

Way to go, Tyler.

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this is got to be one of those lists where it's like 25 year old making it and there's only movies from the last 25 years on it. Tyler Durden shouldn't even be in the top 10!

maybe around # 12 or 13 though. But NOT the top 10.

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I agree. There were many other iconic characters left off.

Here's a list yahoo movies put together for 25 characters that were snubbed.

25. Willy Wonka (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
24. Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
23. Tony Manero (Saturday Night Fever)
22. Dr. Evil (Austin Powers series)
21. Mad Max (Mad Max trilogy)
20. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
19. John Rambo (Rambo series)
18. Superman (Superman, Superman II)
17. Popeye Doyle (The French Connection)
16. Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels (Tootsie)
15. Jake La Motta (Raging Bull)
14. Annie Hall (Annie Hall)
13. Will Kane (High Noon)
12. Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd.)
11. Harry Lime (The Third Man)
10. Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
9. Yojimbo (Yojimbo, Sanjuro)
8. Tracy Flick (Election)
7. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
6. Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now)
5. Shaft (Shaft)
4. Jake Gittes (Chinatown)
3. Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
2. Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid series)
1. The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin's films)

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Heath Ledger's Joker is #3! Come on!!!

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I just went through them all. It's even more of a joke than I originally thought. i'd say 75 of them are from movies in the last 25 years, 50 of those from movies since the year 2000!!! They had Tony Stark and Wall- E on there fer crying out loud!
Everyone from lord of the rings and star wars, of course. Jigsaw and Blade were rated higher than RP McMurphy and Alex from clockwork orange!!!

Just absolute pure stupidity!

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darth vader was #2
i think the dude was like #4 or something.

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The Dude is 7, yay! I voted for him over The Durden only because The Dude was made for the film world, Durden literary

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Yeah, I saw I got it wrong and fixed it.

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Also, they totally got the quote wrong...It's not "You are the all singing, all dancing..., it's 'we are'.

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i think Walter was in the 50's somewhere.

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Smartazboy wrote:
I agree. There were many other iconic characters left off.

Here's a list yahoo movies put together for 25 characters that were snubbed.

25. Willy Wonka (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
24. Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
23. Tony Manero (Saturday Night Fever)
22. Dr. Evil (Austin Powers series)
21. Mad Max (Mad Max trilogy)
20. Annie Wilkes (Misery)
19. John Rambo (Rambo series)
18. Superman (Superman, Superman II)
17. Popeye Doyle (The French Connection)
16. Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels (Tootsie)
15. Jake La Motta (Raging Bull)
14. Annie Hall (Annie Hall)
13. Will Kane (High Noon)
12. Norma Desmond (Sunset Blvd.)
11. Harry Lime (The Third Man)
10. Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
9. Yojimbo (Yojimbo, Sanjuro)
8. Tracy Flick (Election)
7. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
6. Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now)
5. Shaft (Shaft)
4. Jake Gittes (Chinatown)
3. Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
2. Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid series)
1. The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin's films)

I know who two of those are.

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You definitely know Rambo, Superman, and Mr. Miyagi. That's 3.

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I bet she knows Superman and Shaft.

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neither The Tramp or Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder's version, of course) made the list?

FUCK THAT SHIT!

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Holly Golightly, Dr. Evil, Annie Hall and enough of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to pick out Wonka in a police line up.

Hey, that's not two.

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nathaniel parker wrote:
Jigsaw and Blade were rated higher than RP McMurphy and Alex from clockwork orange!!!

Just absolute pure stupidity!

Holy fuck...

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I reckon a list of this nature is always gonna leave people thinking of iconic characters that they would have....whooaaaah, no Mad Max, that's bullshit, double whooooaaaaah, Steve McQueen's Bullit aint on there either but Eastwoods Dirty Harry is. How can that be so when Bullit is the renegade cop that Eastwood based Harry Callahan on.

The list has so many week points, almost as if the guy who put it together was struggling to remember 100 characters. I mean ET and Yoda, why not throw Kermit the fuckin frog in there and all the other fuckin sock puppets that will never be above cute comedy status, iconic my ass.

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I would rather it say 'The Narrator' on that list.

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After finally seeing Bullitt, Eastwood is 5x more badass. Not 10x, but at least 5.

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