Steve McQueen would have been 77 today

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Just saw the Great Escape for the first time in years two night ago. Forgot how good it is.

[NightWatcher]

1. I watch it nearly every time that it's on AMC

it is in my top five movies. Steve was the coolest.

[lildreamer316]

2. Oh MAN.

Now I have to go play my remix of Sheryl's song in tribute.

[jobycom]

3. Watch Daniel Craig in Casino Royale

Not all the time, but there are times I can almost see old Steve's blues shining through.

The Great Escape--I made my thirteen year old daughter watch it a couple months ago, just because I believed it was part of her education. She didn't fully appreciate it, but she did at least finally understand why so many cartoons play that music and show a scene with a kid tossing a ball in detention. :rofl:

[reyd reid reed]

4. That's one of the few DVDs that I actually own...

Love that movie. I like Papillon, too.

[mentalsolstice]

5. The good die young, don't they?

However, just look at Paul Newman and Robert Redford these days, I'd "hit" either one of them, given the opportunity...Stevie could've, would've lasted.

[liberal renegade]

9. now don't go hittin on our seniors

theres laws against that.....

[njdemocrat106]

6. He always seemed so youthful, IMO.

He was a one-of-a-kind, the type of actor who's missed in today's Hollywood.

My favorites starring McQueen are probably the 2 "big" ones he starred in: "Bullitt" and "The Sand Pebbles".

[kedrys]

7. We just don't breed people that are that cool anymore

The s.o. is a HUGE McQueen fan, and I finally saw Bullit a few months back. The human race no longer has the DNA that codes for that kind and intensity of coolness. I don't know how else to explain it.

I saw Towering Inferno in the theater when it first came out, and hadn't seen it since when it came up on TMC (in letterbox, no less). Watching McQueen in it was a treat.

[bikebloke]

8. A fan of his since I was a kid.

And the Cincinnati Kid is good. I didn't care for that one as a kid myself, but like it now. He last film (I believe it was his last) Tom Horne was good. A 70's minimalist western.

Of course The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven are perennial faves.

Once I read that they were trying faust Colin Farrell as the new Steve McQueen. No way, mate.

[Alexander]

10. What's his last movie, where he's a bounty hunter who can't drive?

He's always hitting other cars trying to park. It was a great swan song for him.

I loved all his movies though. If only our leading actors today could be half as cool.