Coldest moment in an action movie?

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Han Solo killing Geedo in SW: ANH

In Equalibrium the Cleric shooting his partner in the face

Anakin killing the Sand People in AotC

Keanu killing himself in the Devils Advocate

Brad Pitt shooting Kevin Spacey in Seven.
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The part in Schindler's List where the Nazis are seeing how many people they can kill with one bullet by lining them up and shooting through their heads.
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Spyder wrote:Equilibrium:

Main character shows up just in time to prevent the chick he's into from getting executed in a furnace, only to find that there's no way he could do it without blowing his cover. Said chick is roasted right before his eyes. That and the scene where they start shooting puppies.
Yeah, those scenes were evil. No compassion or anything other than from the main Cleric for the Tetragrammton.
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Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Yeah, those scenes were evil. No compassion or anything other than from the main Cleric for the Tetragrammton.
Shooting his partner in the face scene that Lord Pounder pointed out was pretty damn cold, then there was the scene where he was leading a bunch of sense offenders to safety then he got caught at the end and had to let them all be executed to keep his cover.

Equilibrium, highly reccomended movie BTW.
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Lord Pounder wrote:Han Solo killing Geedo in SW: ANH
Why is that cold? Greedo said he was going to kill Han, so he fired first to eliminate the threat. He had a blaster pointed at him. He had every right to fire first.
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Watching from the perspective of the child i was at the time, Han has just agreed to help our hero's i expected him to conduct himself as a hero. He didn't untill Lucas fucked it up.
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When the British officer (Timothy Dalton?) gets all of the villagers into the church, boards it up and burns it.

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zombie84 wrote:Wasnt that Enemy At the Gates?
Yes it was, it was based on the book called War of the Rats, the book was far far better then the moive.
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IRG CommandoJoe wrote: The scene in The Longest Day where the Germans tried to surrender to an American, but he shot them because he didn't know what they were doing.
I don't remember that in the longest day, I do remember something similar happening in Saving Private Ryan, but it was really cold because they knew the guy was surrendering and laughed after they shot him.
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part of my mind instantly remembered the russian hacker in "Golden Eye" lol-hey you asked for the coldests, liquid nitrogen is pretty damn cold....


personally though I would go with Vincent Price, and the good old Dr. Phibes.....
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And since no one has mentioned Akira Kurasawa....

Yojimbo-The Police Chief beating to death the town drunk
Yojimbo-Letting the last gangster slowly bleed to death, making like he was going to let him have his last request and then throwing it away.
Kagemusha-Upon learning that his father has been replaced by a thief, a young lord decieds to "Cleanse his family's honor" by charging a superior force, armed with rifles! <Result predictable>
Rashoman-stealing the blanket from the baby
The Hidden Fortress-Branding the bad guy general on the face for LOOSING a fair fight to the good guy general.
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