Badass? Either Ripley from Aliens (the iconic loader scene!) or Bill Paxton's character in Near Dark, during the roadhouse massacre.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
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Atropa - Oct 27, 2009 10:45:00 am PDT #4591 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 27, 2009 10:47:20 am PDT #4592 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bill Paxton's character in Near Dark, during the roadhouse massacre.
Oh HELL yeah!
"Finger lickin' good!"
"I hate it when they ain't been shaved!"
And decidedly NOT his character from Aliens.
Kathy A - Oct 27, 2009 10:56:13 am PDT #4593 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I always liked Vasquez from Aliens, too. She might have had her attitude shaken when the aliens took out her squad, especially Drake, but she kept it together (unlike Hudson) and maintained her badassness throughout. Even while she's writhing from pain after being sprayed with alien acid, she's still reloading her pistol, and even manages to go out with a badass quip, "You always were an asshole, Gorman."
msbelle - Oct 27, 2009 11:01:17 am PDT #4594 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My initial gut feeling was to say Bette Davis or Joan Allen, but I can't tell you a specific film. DIfferent kind of badass certainly, but that's what comes to my mind.
Fred Pete - Oct 27, 2009 11:33:38 am PDT #4595 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Bette Davis -- I'm not sure "badass" really fits, but in In This Our Life, stealing her sister's husband is merely the appetizer.
And of course, there's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
ETA: Maybe Barbara Stanwyck fits better, though I can't figure out a specific movie for her, either. She's more of a femme fatale in Double Indemnity.
megan walker - Oct 27, 2009 11:35:05 am PDT #4596 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
If Keanu were actually French, that would only make him a more perfect man in my eyes.
My initial gut feeling was to say Bette Davis or Joan Allen, but I can't tell you a specific film. DIfferent kind of badass certainly, but that's what comes to my mind.
All About Eve certainly comes to mind. Also, actually wearing the red dress in Jezebel, even it it backfired.
megan walker - Oct 27, 2009 11:36:49 am PDT #4597 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Maybe Barbara Stanwyck fits better, though I can't figure out a specific movie for her, either.
The Thorn Birds?
Hayden - Oct 27, 2009 11:50:21 am PDT #4598 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Pun intended I assume?
Sure as the rainwater on Woody Strode's hat.
If we're letting TV creep in here per Scrappy's Swearingen suggestion, I have to say a word for one Omar Little.
Strega - Oct 27, 2009 12:23:36 pm PDT #4599 of 30000
Oh oh oh! Mona Demarkov. Because: arm!
Miracleman - Oct 27, 2009 12:43:02 pm PDT #4600 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Bruce Willis as Joe Hallenbeck The Last Boy Scout.
"Head or gut?"
"Touch me again, I'll kill you."