My vote would go to the iconic Ellen Ripley scene, too. Say what you will about Cameron's douchebaggery offscreen, but he gave us some of the strongest, best female movie characters of the 80s.
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2009 11:29:40 pm PDT #4573 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2009 2:15:14 am PDT #4574 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jackie Chan in Drunken Master II. The scene at the end, when he smashes a table with his bare hands. Why? Because the bad guy was just momentarily out of reach, and Chan's character was just so full of rage and energy he had to smash something....
billytea - Oct 27, 2009 2:17:11 am PDT #4575 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jackie Chan in Drunken Master II. The scene at the end, when he smashes a table with his bare hands. Why? Because the bad guy was just momentarily out of reach, and Chan's character was just so full of rage and energy he had to smash something....
Plus, there's the outside chance that he was drunk.
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2009 2:18:26 am PDT #4576 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh yeah. But on the bad alcohol - the stuff that makes you blind if you drink it....
Tom Scola - Oct 27, 2009 2:19:44 am PDT #4577 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
John Wayne riding a horse with the reins in his mouth, shooting (and pumping) a rifle in one hand, and a revolver in the other, in True Grit.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 27, 2009 3:02:04 am PDT #4578 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm actually shocked. Shocked I say! It's such a Hec film.
Me too. Such a great movie. Terrance Stamp is awesome.
Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen.
I'll see that, and raise you Lee Marvin in Point Blank.
Also, The Killers (which also happens to have Ronald Regan's last film role, as the white-collar/gangster villain).
Jesse - Oct 27, 2009 3:03:30 am PDT #4579 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Even I've seen The Limey! I do love Soderburgh.
erikaj - Oct 27, 2009 5:02:23 am PDT #4580 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Shaft! But it's hard to pick a scene...I think they all count.
Hayden - Oct 27, 2009 5:38:46 am PDT #4581 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lee Marvin in Point Blank.
That's what I was thinking.
Bronson as Harmonica in the opening scene of Once Upon A Time In The West brings a trainload of iconic badassery, too.
P.M. Marc - Oct 27, 2009 6:47:50 am PDT #4582 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Fucking The Limey. Movie makes me slightly paranoid.
But, yeah, total bad ass.