Badass moments in cinema... - Page 2

It Happened One Night: When Clark Gable steals the car from the guy who tries to steal his luggage after hitch-hiking.

'For Your Eyes Only' - James Bond kicks the car with the bad guy over the cliff. For me, it's by FAR the most badass Bond moment in any film.

'Highlander' - Pretty much any scene with the Kurgan in it is pretty badass. I always got a kick out of his sudden appearance in the hallway when Brenda comes home to her apartment. He growls, "Hello, pretty..." and finishes a popsicle.

Leading to that bizarre exchange where Brandon Lee says something like "Just in case we die, I just want you to know you have the biggest dick I've ever seen."

I also enjoy the (implied) badass moment of Mr. Blonde picking up drive-thru with a cop in his trunk.

A Better Tomorrow II: Ken gets shot the fuck up, falls to a knee with a visibly oozing gunshot wound to his leg, stands, sneers at his attacker, then calmly removes his sunglasses and replaces the matchstick in his bloody mouth. Also, I should note, while wearing the bullet-riddled coat his brother died in.

Lost Highway, tailgater.

Pitch Black, "Did not know who he was fucking with."

Alec Baldwin as blithe psychopath "Junior" Frenger in MIAMI BLUES.

While holding up a pawn shop he gets his fingers hacked off. So what does this badass do? Kills the attacker, robs the shop, and then carefully scoops up his severed fingers and drops them into his pocket before leaving.

Almost as badass as Fred Ward soaking his dentures in a glass of Scotch.

Uh, not exactly. But don't forget she might've been forced to pay the dinner and champagne he ordered for her before leaving... and that she probably did it on Dimitrios' bank account!!

Some more badass random moments:

In the Line of Fire: Clint almost executes his own partner Dylan McDermott on the weight of one bullet.

The Chronicles of Riddick: after infiltrating Lord Marshall's "die or be converted" council, he drops his disguise and steps forward just to waste the guy that killed Imam.

Gladiator: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius..." Surprised this hasn't popped up here yet.

Escape from LA: Snake Plissken takes mankind 500 years back to the past technology-wise just because they tried to fuck him.

Lethal Weapon: Gary Busey puts a lighter to his arm without even flinching. Actually that makes a x2 moment, since Ed O'Ross is also such a badass for not turning into instant jellyshit at that exact moment.

If you find it to be badass, what can I say? All I'm sayin' is the point of the scene was to show Munny's intimidation is kind of a pathetic, like a bully. In one sense it is understandable, as he thought it would help facilitate his exit. But, to me, it's the opposite of badass.

Garcia. THE UNTOUCHABLES. "Yeah, I got him."

Chief: Jackson, you almost tore that boy's arm off!

Jackson: HE HAD A SPARE.

Seagal in EXIT WOUNDS:

His partner: Did you really beat a suspect unconscious with a dead cat?

Seagal: No, that cat wasn't dead.

Also when he (and his stuntman) jumps over the car in the alley, and there's that slow-mo close-up of his reaction. Andrzej Batkowiak really brought his A-game to the set that day.

Fucking love that movie. Also love Nakadia's metldown/last stand in the climax.

Back to Sin City. Miho. Deadly little Miho.

Arnold in Commando - "You're a funny guy, Sully. That's why I'm going to kill you last." Cut to Arnold holding Sully (by his LEG) over a cliff:
"Remember when I promised I was going to kill you last?"
"YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, MATRIX!!! YOU DID!!!!"
"I lied."

And of course, Michael Keaton, with this exchange:
"What are you!?!"
"I'm Batman."

Crap, you're right. Change that checklist to say:

Steals his lady;
Leaves his lady sexually unfulfilled

It's probably even MORE badass than had he closed the deal.

Yojimbo.

The best badass Bond moment in ROYALE was asking for the valet ticket.

Glover in Back to the Future.

Bruce Lee tasting his own blood is ENDGAME.

Concurrence. And I feel shame for not thinking of that, Lee geek that I am.

Redford in The Great Gatsby.

"They say you killed a man."

"Only one?"

Another great Bruce Lee moment: ENTER THE DRAGON, when he casually yawns while in the heat of battle. Well, kind-of battle.

THUNDERBALL:

James Bond (Connery) absolutely fucking wastes a guy in a hospital, and to notify the authorities, casually jabs out with his elbow at a fire alarm, without even looking to see if it's there, while strolling down a corridor.

Then the patients start evacuating their rooms, including a cute girl, whom Bond instantly starts flirting with.

In front of his current girlfriend.

Batman Begins: I agree with Nick that its the best Batman movie, and if I had to choose a moment, it'd be Batman in the rain holding a crooked cop off a ledge and screams in his face "SWEAR TO ME!"

Serenity: River taking down everyone in the bar.

Blade: Blade regains his strength and lands on the raised platform with a huge thud and then the music pounds and in a fluid motion he catches his shades in the air, puts them on, and starts killing fools.

Blade 2: The final fight, but specifically incorporating wrestling moves in it.

Man on Fire: [Creasy has rectally inserted a five minute time bomb into Fuentes]
Fuentes: A last wish, please, please. Please.
Creasy: Last wish? I wish you had more time.


Equillibrum: Last fight with Taye Diggs


X2: Nightcrawler's attack on The White House. Wolverine attacking the soldiers is an overrated scene.


Desperado: Buscemi finishes his story and leaves and a minute later, the biggest fucking sillouhette is in the doorway.


T.V.

Buffy: After getting revived, she, Xander, and Angel are going to The Bronze when they see a vampire, Buffy cherfully says "Oh look, a bad guy" stakes her and never breaks her stride.

Angel: Angel sets Darla and Dru on fire.

24: Say what you will about season 6, but it had Jack's best kill with the neck bite.

Batman Begins: I agree with Nick that its the best Batman movie, and if I had to choose a moment, it'd be Batman in the rain holding a crooked cop off a ledge and screams in his face "SWEAR TO ME!"

Serenity: River taking down everyone in the bar.

Blade: Blade regains his strength and lands on the raised platform with a huge thud and then the music pounds and in a fluid motion he catches his shades in the air, puts them on, and starts killing fools.

Blade 2: The final fight, but specifically incorporating wrestling moves in it.

Man on Fire: [Creasy has rectally inserted a five minute time bomb into Fuentes]
Fuentes: A last wish, please, please. Please.
Creasy: Last wish? I wish you had more time.


Equillibrum: Last fight with Taye Diggs


X2: Nightcrawler's attack on The White House. Wolverine attacking the soldiers is an overrated scene.


Desperado: Buscemi finishes his story and leaves and a minute later, the biggest fucking sillouhette is in the doorway.


T.V.

Buffy: After getting revived, she, Xander, and Angel are going to The Bronze when they see a vampire, Buffy cherfully says "Oh look, a bad guy" stakes her and never breaks her stride.

Angel: Angel sets Darla and Dru on fire.

24: Say what you will about season 6, but it had Jack's best kill with the neck bite.

Not a huge Star Wars fan, but:

"I love you."

"I know."

Badass.

Tombstone: Wyatt Earp slapping that faro dealer three times and makes him back down without even having a gun on him. The closeup of his face, especially his eyes, is just badass.

Or when he goes after Curly Bill and just walks through gunfire without getting hit.

And Chavez Y Chavez pulling a knife from his arm in Young Guns 2. And then giving it back.

In Seven Samurai, Kyuzo walks out of a foggy forest with a newly acquired rifle and hands it away with a "what now, bitch?" attitude.

Han shooting first.

Badass.

I don't know if it counts, because he's more punching bag than badass, but Deckard sipping vodka with a bloody lip has always been supremely cool.

James Coburn in The Magnificent Seven: "You lost." *pulls hat back down, and goes back to sleep

-Last shot of Mel in Road Warrior

-Van Damme grabbing a flaming piece of wood in Hard Target

-Snake's smile right before the Escape from New York credits roll

and this:

Michel LeGrand is a composer. Unfortunately, I don't remember that scene well enough to tell you who that actually was.

A few of the Duke's badass moments:

--"Fill your hands, you son of a bitch!" as Rooster Cogburn puts the reins in his mouth and rides head on at Ned Pepper's gang, shotgun in one hand and a six shooter in the other. Badass.

--This line from Big Jake, not one of his best westerns but certainly one of his most entertaining:

"And now you understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all... your fault, my fault, nobody's fault... it won't matter - I'm gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I'm gonna blow your head off. "

--Similarly, his comment to Montgomery Clift in Red River-- "Cherry was right. You're soft, you should have let 'em kill me, 'cause I'm gonna kill you. I'll catch up with ya. I don't know when, but I'll catch up. Every time you turn around, expect to see me, 'cause one time you'll turn around and I'll be there. I'm gonna kill ya, Matt. "

No one ever quite made a death threat the way John Wayne did.

Definitely one of the all-time greats. Another Duke favorite of mine is when he faces down Bruce Dern in The Cowboys:

"I'm fifty-seven years old, I've broken my hip twice, and my back once, and on my worst day, I could still beat the hell out of you."

Westerns just naturally lend themselves to badass moments, I suppose.

How about just Takeshi Kitano in general.

Saving Private Ryan
-When the random paratrooper opens the lid to the tank. Bang.

Munich
-The cross dressing assassins. I've watched that little clip alone around 100 times.

How can I almost forsake my avatar and forget to mention Atkins in Night of the Creeps?
"It's Miller time!"

Who, incidentally, played Hugo Drax in MOONRAKER. Great actor.

A couple more:

ELVIS '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL: Elvis enters a whorehouse and starts serenading/hitting on one of the whores. He is then attacked by dozens of thugs, so he fights them off using explosive martial arts techniques, pausing between opponents to continue to serenade/hit on his whore of choice.

HARUM SCARUM: Elvis' reflection in a rock pool comes to life and starts singing of the pleasures of love. For about five solid minutes.

OK, the last one not so much, but you get the idea. Elvis rules.

Elvis had Mary Tyler Moore trying to choose between him and Jesus. How badass is that?

Oldboy.
Oh Dae-su , in the corridor, with a hammer.
Bad.
Ass.

The slow build pullback shot, scored to Slim Whitman, where we agonizingly wait for Otis to cap Walt Goggins. (nice to remember a good Rob Zombie moment after this weekend.)

The final shoot out in Open Range.

Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs throwing down his fast food soda, hopping off his perch and saying almost nonchalantly with his head cocked "Are you going to bark all day little doggy or are you going to bite?"

And, a capper I saw recently, from Miami Vice -

Deep-Chested Aryan Brother: [Holding detonator] Shoot me, she dies. Shoot me, go ahead. Fuck it, we can all go. That's cool.

Det. Gina Calabrese: That's not what happens. What will happen is... what will happen is I will put a round at twenty-seven hundred feet per second into the medulla at the base of your brain. And you will be dead from the neck down before your body knows it. Your finger won't even twitch. Only you get dead. So tell me, sport, do you believe that?

Deep-Chested Aryan Brother: Hey, fu...

[Calabrese shoots him through the head]

...And probably his same Ronin character seven years later (or two decades prior) in Munich.

More badassery, this time full performances on through the movies' running time:

* Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo: his character is a total badass from start to finish. Even his song with Dino might've scared the beejeezus out of most bandidos. You gotta love the flower pot ambush.

* Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive: "I didn't do it". "I don't care". His look to the surviving prison bus warden as he lies his report is priceless as is his incredulous stare moments later to the Deputy Sheriff who tries to sort his way out of a road map. Extensive award may go to US Marshals as well, with him taking down the russky gang in full chicken regalia and that great "You always have to win" "Yes, I do" moment in the elevator right before he goes to avenge Newman's death.

* Gene Hackman in The French Connection: "Ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" is one of the greatest huh? moments in any interrogation scene. Of course his magna badassery leads to him losing his prime suspect and killing one of his peers, but that's irrelevant in a list like this.

* Tom Sizemore AND Eric Bana in Black Hawk Down: A movie that has to be rewatched at least once a year. During the final rescue scene the former just stands there berating everybody while a trillion bullets whizz by, and the latter decides to go back in combat minutes after returning safely to base camp.

* Jackie Gleason in The Hustler and Ed G.Robinson in The Cincinnatti Kid: Two thematically similar movies and two great opponents that are never seen losing in their game (only Newman wins when Minnesota Fats decides he's had enough). Recently rewatched Tin Cup and was surprised to see how much it owes to these two (but I'm not including Don Fucking Johnson in this).

* Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride: truly hilarious badassery from start to finish. "My name is Iñigo Montoya...". In fact he is so badass, sometimes he feels frustrated by those around him. Great smile of his at "I'm not left-handed either". Add some extensive kudos to Cary Elwes for defeating Prince Humperdinck completely paralyzed.

I have to second that. He was just there to bring the cute so teenage girls would see the movie. Walter Brennan was more badass than he was.

100 posts in and no one has mentioned one of Clint Eastwoods finest moments of bad Assery?
For shame, gentlemen.