# Your favorite Jeff Bridges movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680 "2018-07-10T20:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/21 "2018-07-10T22:36:05Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > My favorite movie of his is **True Grit** , which years later stands out as one of the most satisfying moviegoing experiences of my life. Yeah. That’s about what I was going to say. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/22 "2018-07-10T22:47:58Z")
_Nadine_. _Tron_. I seem to be the only person on the planet who does not hate the 1976 version of _King Kong_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mr.Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/23 "2018-07-10T22:49:52Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > This was the title for my bulletin board with student opinion pieces. Got some parent snickers outta that one. > > My favorite movie of his is **True Grit** , which years later stands out as one of the most satisfying moviegoing experiences of my life. I agree, his True Grit was worlds better than the original. Part of that is just the general improvement in moviemaking in 40 years. A bigger part is that Bridges is just a much better actor than Wayne. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/24 "2018-07-10T23:17:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > If asked, I’ll say that I’m a fan of Jeff Bridges, yet when I look at his filmography, the only one that really stands out for me as “ooooh yeah let’s watch that” is _Thunderbolt & Lightfoot_, from 1974. 🆒Great minds think alike:D ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/25 "2018-07-10T23:25:23Z")
a ton of good ones but I really like Starman, he was so excellent in that. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/26 "2018-07-10T23:35:20Z")
Not a Jeff Bridges fan…though he is still preferable to Beau. _The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go_ (1970) “Introducing Jeffrey Bridges” - his first billed role in a feature film. While his performance may be bad, the film is godwaful and best avoided. _Fat City_ (1972) A story of losers who box. Stacy Keach is excellent as the vet, Bridges is okay as the newbie. Susan Tyrell is her usual obnoxious self and her scenes with Keach will test your endurance for drunken whininess. Still, some good bits and an awesome last line in this John Huston directed flick (his revenge on Stockton, California?) _The Iceman Cometh_ (1973) Nearly four hours of losers in a bar having their dreams crushed. I’ve only read it. If this version is anything like the play, don’t say you weren’t warned. _Stay Hungry_ (1976) Haven’t seen this in decades, but I recall it being okay. _Winter Kills_ (1979) An all-star cast runs through JFK-like assassination theories. Uneven, but at times brilliant black comedy. _Tideland_ (2005) This was terrible and obnoxious, with a little girl doing irritating voices for far too long. Nothing much happens in it very slowly. Bridges does some of his finest acting as a corpse. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/27 "2018-07-10T23:46:11Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I seem to be the only person on the planet who does not hate the 1976 version of _King Kong_. I thought it was pretty good. I also don’t like Big Lakowski or whatever it’s called, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/28 "2018-07-10T23:51:59Z")
TRON was on just a couple days ago. It has held up surprisingly well in my opinion, 😉 Much better than than the drecky sequel even today. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/29 "2018-07-10T23:54:11Z")
“Hell or High Water” is excellent, and he was excellent in it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/30 "2018-07-10T23:54:20Z")
> [@Mr.Bill](#): > > I agree, his True Grit was worlds better than the original. > > Part of that is just the general improvement in moviemaking in 40 years. > > A bigger part is that Bridges is just a much better actor than Wayne. And Matt Damon is a much better actor than Glen Campbell and Hailee Steinfeld is a much better actress than Kim Darby. Robert Duvall is better than Barry Pepper though. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/31 "2018-07-11T00:02:56Z")
Funny, I just watched Jagged Edge last night. Anyway, of course TBL but after that I’ll say Door in the Floor and Fabulous Baker Boys. Blown Away is not bad either. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/32 "2018-07-11T00:03:24Z")
I’ll second _The Last Picture Show_ and (despite his overacting in parts) _The Fisher King_, and add one not yet mentioned: _Arlington Road_. Some have criticized it as a formulaic, suspicious-neighbors thriller, but I loved it, and Jeff is good in it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mr.Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/33 "2018-07-11T00:34:45Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And Matt Damon is a much better actor than Glen Campbell and Hailee Steinfeld is a much better actress than Kim Darby. > > Robert Duvall is better than Barry Pepper though. All true. But we were talking about Bridges…:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/34 "2018-07-11T00:34:50Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > …I really like Starman, he was so excellent in that. Just finished watching it. I love the scene where he gets his first taste of [dutch apple pie](https://youtu.be/PceAhnXuwCw). Later he asks for it at a diner but has to settle for cherry cobbler instead–he is clearly disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/35 "2018-07-11T01:07:49Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Not a Jeff Bridges fan…though he is still preferable to Beau. :eek: But- but- Beau was in _Greased Lightning_! ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/36 "2018-07-11T07:34:51Z")
I’ve never really given it too much thought before but, seeing as “The Movie-Going Public” wouldn’t really put him on a top leading-man list, he has a heck of a back catalogue doesn’t he? I guess that he’s never been in fashion so has never gone out of fashion. I watched “True Grit” again just the other night. I happened to just change the channel, it was on and I felt it necessary to continue watching. Possibly my favourite alongside The Big Lebowski. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/37 "2018-07-11T10:31:28Z")
I like “Arlington Road.” For some reason “8 Million Ways to Die” was one of the few VHS tapes we owned when I was a kid. So I have a soft spot for that one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/38 "2018-07-11T12:46:59Z")
Iron Man! It kind of hurts that I only recently realized that he and Kurt Russell are, in fact, two different people. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/39 "2018-07-11T14:47:26Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > :eek: > > But- but- Beau was in _Greased Lightning_! And The Incident! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/40 "2018-07-11T15:34:20Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > And The Incident! One of Ed McMahon’s finest moments! YES! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680.md?page=3)