# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/41 "2018-07-11T17:49:13Z")
Jeff Bridges has been my favorite actor since I saw _Thunderbolt and Lightfoot_ in '74. I’d already seen him in _Last Picture Show_ and _Bad Company_, but T&LF made me sit up and notice how _very_ good an actor he was. I’ll watch just about anything he’s in (except for the execrable _King Kong_ remake). Favorites: **Starman** (he should have gotten the Oscar) **Lebowski Fisher King Thunderbolt and Lightfoot** and **Rancho Deluxe** which hasn’t aged well but has always been a favorite for the interplay between Bridges and Sam Waterston. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/42 "2018-07-11T18:07:41Z")
There’s a surprisingly OK gymnastics movied called Stick It! with him as the coach. I always watch it when I see it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/43 "2018-07-11T18:32:59Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > _Nadine_. Oh yeah, fairly decent JB movie. Not in my top 5 but in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/44 "2018-07-13T16:54:26Z")
_The Big Lebowksi_, hands down. It’s also my favorite Coen Bros. movie. Sheer genius. He was also very good in _True Grit_ (he said in an interview that he imagined Rooster Cogburn might’ve been The Dude’s great-grandfather!), _Tron, The Door in the Floor_ (playing a grieving dad, in a movie based on just a small part of the very good John Irving novel _A Widow for One Year_) and _The Fabulous Baker Boys_ (terrific chemistry with Michelle Pfeiffer). The _King Kong_ remake, which I saw again not long ago for the first time since it originally came out, is good cheesy Seventies fun, and he’s good in it. I like Jeff Bridges, Terry Gilliam and Robin Williams, but I have to say, _The Fisher King_ left me cold. Looking over his IMDb list, I’m a little surprised at how few of his movies I’ve seen. He’s been in a _lot_. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/45 "2018-07-13T18:15:35Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _[Fearless](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106881/)_ A great film that has slipped through the cracks, though I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/46 "2018-07-17T23:40:56Z")
Tron, The Big Lebowski and… Tron. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/47 "2018-07-18T04:08:19Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Tron, The Big Lebowski and… Tron. Yeah, but what about the movie where his character actually goes _into_ a computer and has all sorts of adventures? It had some pretty cool sfx for its day, as I remember. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680/48 "2018-07-18T04:19:45Z")
> [@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. Better smile when you say that, Pilgrim! 😃 No, just kidding. I haven’t seen Bridges’ _True Grit_, but there’s no doubt he’s a brilliant actor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-jeff-bridges-movies/817680.md?page=2)