More Car Chase tough guys....And why "Dominic Toretto" isn't on the list!!

As I thought, several people griped that I didn't include Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, or "The Rock" from the Fast&Furious movies in the last post. That's like asking why wasn't the Johnny Depp Voiced sheriff / lizard "Rango" included with Alan Ladd  ( "Shane" ) Gary Cooper ( "High Noon" ) John Wayne ("True Grit" ) or Clint Eastwood ( "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" ) on a list of classic badass western movie heroes. Does anybody really think that Paul Walker with his "I know I'm a cute, blonde, surfer dude" smirk is as tough as Steve McQueen?  Puhleeze. I like Vin Diesel as an actor-when he's acting ( "Boiler Room," "Saving Private Ryan", "A Man Apart" ) but he phones in the "F&F performances. And yes, I read about him being a bouncer and that's where he came up with the famous "500 fights" speech from "Knockaround Guys". However when Robert Mitchum came to Hollywood he had a 50 inch chest and a 30 inch waist on his 6' 4" frame that was forged working on a southern prison chain-gang. In the '40's and '50's. After "Thunder Road" came out Mitchum got in a bar fight with and kicked the shit out of a Heavyweight contender who had gone 10 rounds with Rocky Marciano. Diesel is playing a character that's been to prison. Mitchum had ACTUALLY BEEN to prison, and the worst kind. As for "The Rock"- again I personally like him as an actor when he's acting seriously-( "Faster", "Snitch" "Be Cool" ) but "The tooth Fairy? and all those Disney movies? He want's to be taken seriously-Would Al Pacino or Bruce Willis have donned that tu-tu for ANY amount of money? He may match up to Mitchum size-wise, and is a gifted athlete for a big man, but winning scripted WWF matches isn't really isn't the same as surviving several years in a southern prison or beating the # 1 Heavyweight contender in a bare-knuckle street fight is it?  I don't care how many college boys Diesel threw out of yuppie bars or how many badasses the Rock PLAYS on screen,  a young Robert Mitchum would have left either of them "Looking like a jig-saw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone."  Tyrese Gibson with his "I"m intinidating because I'm black, bald and buff" swagger?  He wouldn't even have been "Gator's" bitch. Gator would have sold him to other white boys. Don't think so?  Burt Reynolds was a star football player at the University of Florida and was on his way to the NFL when he blew his knee out. He went to hollywood and worked as a stunt man for several years before he became a star. Like Steve McQueen, he did a lot of his own stunts. And he killed Sara Miles' husband in a fist-fight on the set of "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing" in Mexico. If you watch "Deliverance" closely-that's him taking that flying leap over the rapids not a double. And him and Hal Needham did most of the stunt-driving in "Smokey and the Bandit" not CGI like Gibson's stunts in the F&F movies.  Any how a couple we missed- "Popeye Doyle"-Gene Hackman did the stunt driving in the famous chase in "The French Connection".  And we forgot "Buddy" played by Roy Schieder in the "Seven-ups". He pilots the Pontiac Ventura in the best chase filmed since "Bullitt", kicks a bunch of ass, and hangs his childhood friend who's been setting cops up out to dry. Mastermind