Coldest moment in an action movie?

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-11-20 12:19am

What's the most wicked thing you;ve ever seen in an action movie that was done by the hero (or anti-hero)?

I just saw a Korean movie called 2009Lost Memories. The hero is a cop and there is a nerdy guy with horrible-looking glasses in the office who he likes to tease. In one scene, the hero's uncle is killed by a guy in a ski mask. The two tussle, and he hits the assassin in the temple pretty hard, and he gets away. The next day, as a result of a conspiracy in th edepartment, the hero is arrested for his uncle's murder, and as he's taken away, he sees his friend has new expensive glasses, and a bandage on his temple. He mentions the glasses to the guy as he is being taken away. The guy turns away, thinking. Suddenly, he hears a struggle, and he turns around to see the hero yanking a gun out of a cop's holster, and he gets a bullet between the eyes, even though he wasn't armed. I was kind of shocked when I saw this, since normally heroes don't kill unarmed bad guys in American movies.

What's the coldest moment you've seen in an aciton movie?

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-11-20 12:33am

well, Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter rapes a girl in one of the first scenes, and he's the good guy in the movie. The first anti-hero is still the coolest.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-11-20 12:33am

Not quite an action movie, but it's in this movie called Memento.

The main lead has anterograde amnesia, where he can't remember new stuff. So this lady and him get into this verbal fight (the lady is evil), and the guy slaps the lady once, so now the lady has a bruise. And then the lady says something cocky and walks out of the house and to the car.

The guy suddenly panicks and looks for something to write down what just happened otherwise he'd forget it all. Unfortunately the lady hid all writing instruments when she had first come into the house. Right now the lady's in her car, but not going anywhere. A few seconds later, she walks back into the house and the guy, not remembering what happened, goes, "what happened to you?"

The lady then says this other guy beat her up and asks the main lead to go do something about that guy. (in reality she's using the main lead as perhaps a way to get revenge or to screw up the other guy).

Pretty nasty, no?

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-11-20 01:25am

Saw Memento. Very interesting movie. The bad thing is that I can relate to the main character all too well as my short-term memory is only a bit better than his, granted everything past my short-term memory is fine, so I do memorize new things, most of the time. And that is not an exageration, ask Ver.

Metrion Cascade · Post by **Metrion Cascade** » 2003-11-20 01:38am

S P O I L E R
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Julie Taymor's movie production of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus."

At the end, Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) feeds Tamora's (Jessica Lange) sons to her in a pie as revenge for the rape and mutilation of his daughter. He stands there watching with a huge, cheesy smile as she wolfs down her own flesh and blood. It's hilarious, but really sick.

Joe Momma · Post by **Joe Momma** » 2003-11-20 03:50am

Metrion Cascade wrote: Julie Taymor's movie production of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus."

(SNIP spoilage)

That was a great flick. The spoon 'n pistol bit at the end was the coolest use of bullettime EVER.

(No, I'm not going to explain it. Go see the movie!)

-- Joe Momma

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-11-20 12:20pm

The scuffle with the knife in Saving Private Ryan always made me shudder...

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-11-20 12:23pm

Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:The scuffle with the knife in Saving Private Ryan always made me shudder...

The Coldest part of that movie was
SPOILER
When the German guy that was supposed to be captured ended up killing Tom Hanks' character...

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-11-20 12:29pm

Unforgiven:

William Munny : "Deserves got nothing to do with it." [kills Little Bill]

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-11-20 12:31pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:Unforgiven:

William Munny : "Deserves got nothing to do with it." [kills Little Bill]

I read somewhere that William Munny was supposed to be the older version of a cowboy Eastwood played in his heyday of Cowboy films. Anyone else read this or am I having one of my moments?

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-11-20 12:40pm

I think that was the intended effect of his character.

In the movie, he was shown to have aliases in his past and to have killed a U.S. marshall and exploded a train so it was supposed to be inferred that his character in Unforgiven to be the old and retired version of the dangerous killers Eastwood had played in his heydey. I'm not sure if it was one specific character, though.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-11-20 12:53pm

In Natural Born Killers, the very end... I won't spoil it for those that haven't seen, but ... yeah, that was kinda unexpected, kinda cold...

(BTW, that movie is a fucking trip.... I've watched it three times and still haven't made full sense of it)

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-20 01:08pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:Unforgiven:

William Munny : "Deserves got nothing to do with it." [kills Little Bill]

Unforgiven: "You better bury Ned right; and don't you be cutting up or otherwise harming no whores, or I'll come back and kill all you sons a bitches." Ice. Cold.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-20 01:14pm

I can't believe nobody mentioned the nonchalant force-choke death of Admiral Ozzel at Hoth. Vader was just so cool about it. I love Vader....

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-11-20 01:54pm

Xenophobe3691 wrote:
Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:The scuffle with the knife in Saving Private Ryan always made me shudder...
The Coldest part of that movie was
SPOILER

No, the coldest part was the tank blowing up the bell tower and killing the sniper.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-20 01:59pm

Stravo wrote:
Bertie Wooster wrote:Unforgiven:

William Munny : "Deserves got nothing to do with it." [kills Little Bill]
I read somewhere that William Munny was supposed to be the older version of a cowboy Eastwood played in his heyday of Cowboy films. Anyone else read this or am I having one of my moments?

You mean The Man With No Name? I can't see how Munny can be based off him given how different the characters seem. Munny seems a lot colder in ways.

The last scenes of Unforgiven are just evil.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-11-20 04:00pm

Kuja wrote:
Xenophobe3691 wrote:
Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:The scuffle with the knife in Saving Private Ryan always made me shudder...
The Coldest part of that movie was
SPOILER
No, the coldest part was the tank blowing up the bell tower and killing the sniper.

I disagree, the tank was a very impersonal thing. I still think the way the german slowly inserted the knife into the guy's chest was pretty damn cold.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-20 04:10pm

Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:
Kuja wrote:
Xenophobe3691 wrote: The Coldest part of that movie was
SPOILER
No, the coldest part was the tank blowing up the bell tower and killing the sniper.
I disagree, the tank was a very impersonal thing. I still think the way the german slowly inserted the knife into the guy's chest was pretty damn cold.

Or how about the way he sort of went "shush shush" to the German. His reaction to getting knifed was very sad.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-11-20 04:18pm

BoredShirtless wrote:
Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:
Kuja wrote: No, the coldest part was the tank blowing up the bell tower and killing the sniper.
I disagree, the tank was a very impersonal thing. I still think the way the german slowly inserted the knife into the guy's chest was pretty damn cold.
Or how about the way he sort of went "shush shush" to the German. His reaction to getting knifed was very sad.

Anyone's reaction would be, their life is ending. Sadness, among other things, would be felt by most.

And the german did the "shush" thing to American, not other way around... as I remember it, it was an american taht was killed there, but I might have to watch it again. Yeah, that was sad.

(that last post up there was my 2222th... cool)

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-20 04:25pm

Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:And the german did the "shush" thing to American, not other way around...

Yeah, that's right! The American was going "no! wait wait!" and the German was telling him to "shush" saying "just accept you're going to die and be calm."

as I remember it, it was an american taht was killed there, but I might have to watch it again. Yeah, that was sad.

Yep you're right it was the American. Yes, very sad.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-20 04:33pm

Personally, i think the coldest patr was the way the German walked past the other guiy, knowing he had seen (or heard) the killing, and knowing he was too scared to do anything about it.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-11-20 04:51pm

InnerBrat wrote:Personally, i think the coldest patr was the way the German walked past the other guiy, knowing he had seen (or heard) the killing, and knowing he was too scared to do anything about it.

I remember that now... that was... wow.

The whole seen was pretty damn cold, I guess.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-20 04:55pm

InnerBrat wrote:Personally, i think the coldest patr was the way the German walked past the other guiy, knowing he had seen (or heard) the killing, and knowing he was too scared to do anything about it.

I don't remember, did the German have a gun with him? I always thought he could have shot that guy, but he didn't because he sort of felt bad about what he did upstairs. That's why that scence wasn't cold for me.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-20 05:01pm

BoredShirtless wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:Personally, i think the coldest patr was the way the German walked past the other guiy, knowing he had seen (or heard) the killing, and knowing he was too scared to do anything about it.
I don't remember, did the German have a gun with him? I always thought he could have shot that guy, but he didn't because he sort of felt bad about what he did upstairs. That's why that scence wasn't cold for me.

He didn't do anything because that guy literally shat himself on the spot. I'm pretty sure the feeling that you just saw the enemy kill someone you knew and you didn't do anything would be worse than just dying there and then.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-11-20 05:07pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote: He didn't do anything because that guy literally shat himself on the spot. I'm pretty sure the feeling that you just saw the enemy kill someone you knew and you didn't do anything would be worse than just dying there and then.

No I agree it was really sad, but was it cold? Not for me anyway.