Badass moments in cinema... - Page 5

Michael Keaton's Batman has hundreds of them, a case perhaps of his bulky suit neccessitating actual ingenuity on the part of the filmmakers. If he can't turn his head, then let's have him backhand a guy without even looking to make sure he's there. Holy fucking shit that rules.

I got in trouble in primary school for doing this to a girl. Don't say that kids don't copycat violence in movies, because they do, and it's awesome.

My personal favourite Bat-ass moment is the "You missed!" scene with the taser clown in RETURNS.

Whenever I think about the '89 Batman, the backhanded punch is the image that pops into my head. That was probably the first event movie I remember being excited about when I was a kid. I would've been about 7 years old at the time. The only thing I knew about Batman came from the Adam West series, and the movie was just so different from that.

As for imitating things I shouldn't have... I used to say, "C'mere, you gruesome sunuvabitch. Come to me!" to people, having no idea what it even meant. Kids more worldly than I informed me that it was a bad bad thing to say. Good thing too... I never got caught.

What I did get caught doing (sorry this is so off topic) was mimicking the blow-job gesture that pisses Rollergirl off in Boogie Nights. This is something I would only do because it was in a movie! I'm not someone who would do that in any other case. Regardless, my photography teacher saw me doing it and went, "JOON!!!!"

Whoops.

That walk Edward Scissorhands does straight up to camera as he stabs Anthony Michael Hall was always pretty bad-ass to me (in a movie where bad-assness doesn't seem to fit).

This thread needs more Dennis Hopper.
Especially the most badass suicide in history.

I give you the infamous Sicilian scene from True Romance:


You know, I read a lot. Especially about things that have to do with history. I find that shit fascinating. Here's a fact, I don't know if you know or not, Sicilians were spawned by niggers. It's a fact. You see, Sicilians have black blood pumpin' through their hearts. If you don't believe me, you can look it up. Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you see, the Moors conquered Sicily. And Moors are niggers. So you see, way back then, uh, Sicilians were like, uh, wops from Northern Italy. Ah, they all had blonde hair and blue eyes, but, uh, well, then the Moors moved in there, and uh, well, they changed the whole country. They did so much fuckin' with Sicilian women, huh? That they changed the whole bloodline forever. That's why blonde hair and blue eyes became black hair and dark skin. You know, it's absolutely amazing to me to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, that, uh, that Sicilians still carry that nigger gene. I'm quoting history. It's written. It's a fact, it's written.Your ancestors are niggers. Uh-huh. Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid... now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.

The Peacemaker: after totalling the last villains BMW, George Clooney walks calmly towards it, checks his gun (again calmly) and executes the remaining survivor in iceberg-cold blood.

There. Done.

I agree. Nothing wrong with Hopper. But if you wanted to add MORE, you should have brought up an instance that wasn't mentioned in post 130.


GODZILLA 2000 (American Version): After defeating Orga in a city-destroying battle royale (and after killing the lead human antagonist as well), G-Man stomps away from out hero characters, continuing to wreck the town for shits & giggles. Despite this, our main characters look on in admiration for the giant, radiation-breathing kaiju and have this following dialogue exchange:

Shiro Miyasaka: We scientists produced this monster... Godzilla. And ever since, we tried to destroy him.
[Godzilla continues to trample through Shinjuku]
Yuki Ichinose: But then, why... Why does he keep protecting us?
Yuji Shinoda: Maybe because... Godzilla is inside each one of us!


BAD ASS. And one of the few times when I actually preferred the US dialogue to the original Japanese.

"Look in your heart, look in your heart!"

"What heart?"

BLAM!

*blink-blink*

The final gunfight scene in Violent Cop is badass in a possibly sarcastic fashion. I'm not sure yet.

Those two freeze-frames on the face of Chow Yun Fat and Danny Lee has always been badass to me. Even moreso because that moment would've never worked that way anywhere else. Cheesy as hell, but not in The Killer.

I'm not gonna look through the whole thread, and I know it's probly been done but...YIPPEE KI YAY MOTHERFUCKER!!

Harmonica stuffing his harmonica back into Frank's mouth after their shootout in Once Upon a Time in the West. Also, just everything involving Mrs. McBain in various states of undress.

James Caan dragging himself out of his wheelchair and stuffing the burning pages of his book into Kathy Bates' mouth in Misery. "Eat this, you sick, twisted fuck!"

Raising Arizona - Every scene with Leonard Smalls, the lone biker of the apocalypse, notably appearing from an explosion, laying waste to desert flora and fauna for no particular reason, tracking his quarry by smell, making cigars and matches shoot into his hands, catching flies by the wings, and so forth. Second place goes to Nathan Arizona, for standing up to him without even blinking.

Let's not forget two other badass moments in that badass film:

1) End of the film. Shit is fucked and they know it. They all meet up with Borgnine, who's been waiting for them the whole time. No one says anything except for Borgnine: "Well all RIGHT!" Then they all grab their guns and WALK.

2) That pause in the bloodbath where things calm down and for a brief moment it seems possible that they're gonna get out of this OK...then Holden sees whatsisface and is like, "FUCK IT." And he shoots the asshole knowing full well it's gonna bring the shitstorm.

Also badass:

Alec Guiness as Nicholson in Bridge on the River Kwai. Saito sits him down to dinner after keeping him locked up in a box and starving him. Tries bribing him with food & scotch. A visibly hurting Nicholson declines. Then Saito gets down to business:

Saito: Do you know what will happen to me if the bridge is not built on time?
Nicholson: I haven't the foggiest.
Saito: I'll have to kill myself. What would you do if you were me?
Nicholson: I suppose if I were you... I'd have to kill myself.
(picks up glass of scotch)
Cheers!

BAD-ASS

R Lee Ermey is listening to Morgan Freeman lay out the facts:

"There are seven deadly sins, Captain..."

A phone is ringing in the background. Ermey stops Freeman with the following:

"Hold on a second -" [Picks up ringing phone] "This isn't even my desk!" [Slams phone down]

Dunno if its technically badass, but i've always liked it and you get the impression that Ermey's character was a no-fucking-around kinda cop back in the day.

One seen this past weekend:

Viggo putting out his cigarette with his fucking tongue in Eastern Promises.