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Top Movie Cops List

June 19th, 2008 10:49am EDT Post a comment

I know what your thinking. When ranking the top movie cops of all time did we rank six cops or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 12:05:43 By: rob who had a broken foot (

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i think a list like this could go top ten! no murtaugh or riggs? no sweetchuck or zed or mahoney? no nordberg or drebin? but mcclaine as number 1 is the right call. i love me some die hard!

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Thu Jun 19 2008 12:14:39 By: Mike Ryan (

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@Rob who had a broken foot: Riggs is mentioned! Yes, I did stay away from "zany" cops.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 13:14:16 By: Marcus Garvey (

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rod farva makes all these guys look like chumps

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Thu Jun 19 2008 13:39:24 By: Mike Ryan (

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@Marcus Garvey: Point taken, but again I tried to stay away from movies like Super Troopers. I think that would deserve its own separate column.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 14:02:58 By: Sinbad (

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Rob, you have left your Zed recommendation open for interpretation--I mean the "Dead Zed" was also a cop, correct?

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Thu Jun 19 2008 14:13:53 By: quin browne (

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i'm with you exactly on this list.
woot.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 15:18:09 By: rob who had a broken foot (

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@ mike r: oh, now i see it. but now that you're an international sensation after the dc vs marvel movie piece, can't starpulse throw you a bone and let you write up 10 cops instead of five!?
@ sinbad: sorry for the zed confusion. of course i meant the gang member turned cop from the police academy series. i once named a pet cat zed.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 15:33:03 By: Mike Ryan (

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@rob who had a broken foot: I decided to only do five. If I did ten, where would it end? Fifteen cops, twenty cops. By then you have an entire swat team and the individual talents of each guy gets lost in the shuffle, no?

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Thu Jun 19 2008 16:25:27 By: survivingmyself (

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Nice, I agree about all of these.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 16:39:58 By: Mike Ryan (

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@survivingmyself: Thank you sir

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Thu Jun 19 2008 22:20:32 By: ABLEZA (

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Dirty Harry was cool.

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Thu Jun 19 2008 23:43:36 By: Mike Ryan (

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@ABLEZA: That is an understatement.

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Fri Jun 20 2008 06:32:33 By: JoeNickKevinJonaslover566 (

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stupid list

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Fri Jun 20 2008 08:04:11 By: Ptm368 (

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Honorable Mention:
Ray Hughes (Gregory Hines)
Danny Costanzo (Billy Crystal) in "Running Scared" 1986
Best "Buddy Cop" movie ever!
Best Line: You get to do all the dangerous stuff; I get to parallel park!

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Fri Jun 20 2008 12:24:48 By: Bill From Gainesville (

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Thats some real detail about Die Hard originating from Frank Sinatra -- Scary knowledge.

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Thu Jun 18 2009 07:23:43 By: Madholman (

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My list of top 5 Cops would be this! 5)John McClane-Die Hard 4)Axel Foley-Beverly Hills Cop 3)Roger Murtaugh-Lethal Weapon 2)Lt.Columbo-Columbo 1)Martin Riggs-Lethal Weapon

And top five detectives
5)Shawn Spencer-Psych 4)Sherlock Holmes-Hound of Baskervilles and other Sherlock Holmes stories 3)Hercule Poirot-Death on the Nile and other Hercule Poirot stories 2)Adrian Monk-Monk 1)Lt.Columbo-Columbo

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