Movie Badasses

Put it like this... I had to google the name.

Tyler Durden - Fight Club
Jack Burton - Big Trouble in Little China
Bullet Tooth Tony - Snatch
Cool Hand Luke - Paul Newman

You know, Nemesis, they were actually my first thought. I loved those characters, so evily nasty, and yet polite.

Bruce Campbell, Ash, Army of Darkness, or Elvis in Bubba Ho-tep

You know, Nemesis, they were actually my first thought. I loved those characters, so evily nasty, and yet polite.

Yup. Although, browsing the boards on Neil Gaimans site a while back, I was profoundly disturbed by a vivid discussion about whether they were gay or not. If there''s two characters I never, ever, want to get any kind of such information about, it''s those two.

Sean Bean as sharpe in the Sharpes series. I''ve never seen a british officer kick so much as (I know it''s a mini-series but damn Sharpe kicks so much ass he counts). Tom Berenger as Barnes in Platoon and Adam Baldwin as Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket too. Brad Pitt as that boxer guy in Snatch also.

OK... here goes my list then...

Tyler Durden
Spike Spiegel
Faye Valentine
Vash the Stampede
The Brothers and El Dueche from Boondock Saints
Darth Vader, assuming the Prequels never happened
(can you really call Yoda one?)
Agreed on the point of anyone from Kill Bill (though I''ve yet to see volume two -_-)
the kid from Akira, who''s name currently escapes me, gotta love anyone who uses a laser gun
Inu-Yasha and Noraku

Is it bad that most of my badasses come from anime?

I know it isn''t a movie, but my new favorite bad-ass is Seth Bullock on Deadwood. Please send us more scenes where he beats someone until candy comes out.

Why has nobody mentioned Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lechter? He''s so deliciously bad. He could eat my liver with fava beans and a nice chianti any time....:wink:

the kid from Akira, who''s name currently escapes me, gotta love anyone who uses a laser gun

Keneda. Tetsuo was a badass as well.

I dunno.. Tetsou kinda reminds me of Anakin in a way.

I''m not powerful enouuuuugh... oooh, I have special powers, now they''ll all paaaaaay!

John McLean because Bruce Willis is just so *dreamy*!

John Cusack in Grosse Point Blanke. The hand to hand combat is just brutal and the frying pan/Glock incident is one of the best beat-down scenes of all time.

Boba Fett. Because when Darth Vadar chastizes you for excessive force, you know you''re bad.

Lelu.

The Bride from Kill Bill is my #1 favorite bad ass. No guns, no crazy abilities to warp space time, just a sword and a whole lot o'' hate.

I''m not powerful enouuuuugh... oooh, I have special powers, now they''ll all paaaaaay!

LOL!

The rabbit - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Reaper81,

Boba Fett. Because when Darth Vadar chastizes you for excessive force, you know you''re bad.

He has a point there. Boba Fett has definitely moved up on the list.

Actually, I''m rarely interested in the badass. I much prefer the average guy pushed to the point of doing something extraordinary.

This, to me, is the definition of badass.
Or the trying-to-be-ordinary guy pushed back into his old talents, a la Rambo in the first movie(but only the first one).
But, more often, I prefer the ""normal"" guy pushed beyond his limits. Someone mentioned Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive, but Harrison Ford''s character(I''d have preferred a different actor, though) is even tougher.
Or the situation Sam Neill''s character finds himself in in Jurassic Park or Sean Connery(I think) in Outland(I think that''s the right title).

On the over-the-top badass list, I''m surprised noone''s mentioned Snake Plissken(Escape from New York) or Woody Harrelson''s character in Natural Born Killers or what''s-her-name in Terminator 1.

Oh, and Sam Elliot in Road House.
And Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 1 and 2.
And Pierce Brosnan in Livewire.

I could go on and on forever. Have I mentioned I worked in a video store for 5 years?

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot about half the cast of The Dirty Dozen and Steve McQueen''s character in The Great Escape.

Don''t think I''ve yet seen anyone mention Keyser Soze, from the Usual Suspects.

"deftly" wrote:

Don''t think I''ve yet seen anyone mention Keyser Soze, from the Usual Suspects.

That''s because as great as the IDEA of Soze is, you come to the realization that Soze is actually Kevin ""K-Pax"" Spacey, and the whole thing collapses.

"sigfry" wrote:

The rabbit - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

You see, that to me is the definition right there.

When they need a holy hand grenade to get rid of you, you are a badass.

What about Chow Yun Fat in Hard Boiled? I can''t believe he wasn''t mentioned yet.

"Strekos" wrote:

What about Chow Yun Fat in Hard Boiled? I can''t believe he wasn''t mentioned yet.

Since then,

Replacement Killers (ok)
Bulletproof Monk (it had that American Pie dude in it, consider yourself warned),
The King and I.

Verdict: Not badass.

"mateo" wrote:
"Strekos" wrote:

What about Chow Yun Fat in Hard Boiled? I can''t believe he wasn''t mentioned yet.

Since then,

Replacement Killers (ok)
Bulletproof Monk (it had that American Pie dude in it, consider yourself warned),
The King and I.

Verdict: Not badass.

BS, his movies made in America don''t count. His Hong Kong work is all badass. Well except for the soap operas

"Strekos" wrote:
"mateo" wrote:
"Strekos" wrote:

What about Chow Yun Fat in Hard Boiled? I can''t believe he wasn''t mentioned yet.

Since then,

Replacement Killers (ok)
Bulletproof Monk (it had that American Pie dude in it, consider yourself warned),
The King and I.

Verdict: Not badass.

BS, his movies made in America don''t count. His Hong Kong work is all badass. Well except for the soap operas :D

See, you just proved my point.

Soap Operas=not badass.

I dont know, Patch from ""Days of Our Lives"" was pretty badass.

"fangblackbone" wrote:

I dont know, Patch from ""Days of Our Lives"" was pretty badass.

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Look... You''re a friend... I''ll never mention you watch Days of Our Lives... Let''s just pretend that post never happened.

Ooh, who here remembers Luke and Laura''s wedding?
Ahh, the memories.

It could have been worse. He could have said he watched the one with vampires, witches, demons, cloning, and alien abductions. That''d be scary.

No mentions of Bruce Lee? How about Jason Statham in ""The Transporter"" or Rowdy Roddy Piper in ""They Live"".

And of course the king of all badasses, Chow Yun Fat in pretty much anything, but ""Hard Boiled"" was always my favorite.

EDIT: Didnt even notice the chow yun fat posts, was trying to avoid duplicates.

You know I purposefully left out the just to see how riled up I could get you guys.

You''re telling me I only reeled in Mex? Im losing my touch.

"Sinatar" wrote:

or Rowdy Roddy Piper in ""They Live"".

""I''m just here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I''m all outta bubblegum.""