Coldest moment in an action movie?

Dirty Harry · Post by **Dirty Harry** » 2003-11-20 05:34pm

I suppose It would have to be that part near the end of Heat. Robert Denero finds that murdering biker, Wayne Grow. He kicks down the door and pistol whips the bastard a few times. Wayne Grow looks up at Denero and I can still remember the look of mortal fear on his face. "look at me" he says and Denero makes eye-contact withhim. He then gives Wayne two in the center of mass and one in the head.

The character he played was cold period. I can still remember the way he took down the coppers who got in his way in that bank-robbery gunfight.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-20 05:37pm

Dirty Harry wrote:I suppose It would have to be that part near the end of Heat. Robert Denero finds that murdering biker, Wayne Grow. He kicks down the door and pistol whips the bastard a few times. Wayne Grow looks up at Denero and I can still remember the look of mortal fear on his face. "look at me" he says and Denero makes eye-contact withhim. He then gives Wayne two in the center of mass and one in the head.

The character he played was cold period. I can still remember the way he took down the coppers who got in his way in that bank-robbery gunfight.

Now that was a good ending. Hell, it was a good film, but anything by Mann is.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-11-20 05:51pm

That nasty bit in American history X where the skinhead stamps on the black guy's head after he makes him bite the curb.

justifier · Post by **justifier** » 2003-11-20 08:06pm

Rye wrote:That nasty bit in American history X where the skinhead stamps on the black guy's head after he makes him bite the curb.

Fuck, that was a cold scene. Almost as cold was the ending, you expect a pause, but the black guy doesn't even that time to aim.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-11-20 08:10pm

Is American History X even an action movie?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-11-20 10:13pm

I would say the part in Gladiator when Commodus stabs Maximus before their big match.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-11-21 12:27am

BoredShirtless wrote:
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.

Best exchange from that movie:

LITTLE BILL: You, sir, are a cowardly son of a bitch. You just shot an unarmed man.

WILLIAM MUNNY: Well, he shoulda armed himself ... if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-11-21 12:42am

I've always heard that Munny was supposed to be Blondie from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly as well as the two other spegeti westerns he was in.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-11-21 12:45am

You know, I just realized that the aforementioned dialogue from William Munny doesn't look quite as powerful when you type it onscreen like that. You really have to see Eastwood deliver it with that steely, cold look in his eyes.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-11-21 01:09am

Munny is the Man With No Name? Then it would take place after For A Few Dollars More, right? I guess it fits...sorta...

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2003-11-21 01:36am

The Usual Suspects, when Keyser Soze reacts to what happened to his family.

Pulp Fiction, when Jules casually blows away one of Brett's friends.

The Untouchables, when Ness puts Nitti in the car, the hard way.

Total Recall, when Quaid finishes one of his adversaries with a drill.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2003-11-21 02:02am

Well, I would always vote for the classics. How about in The Maltese Falcon at the end where Bogart is talking to Mary Astor and he is telling her how he's going to turn her in to the police. He says that he'll wait for her until she's released from prison and if they hang her, he'll never forget her. Of course he says it in such a dismissing and casual way that you can't help but laugh at the bitch and her plight. Sam Spade, cool to the end.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-11-21 02:11am

Alyeska wrote:I've always heard that Munny was supposed to be Blondie from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly as well as the two other spegeti westerns he was in.

The writer told me that it was the amalgamation of what the previous gunslingers that Eastwood played would be in old age.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-11-21 02:40am

Its just Eastwood. Thats how Eastwood plays gunslingers. Look at High Plains Drifter--many consider that an unofficial sequel to Good, the Bad and the Ugly as well. Whenever Eastwood plays a gunslinger, he's gonna act exactly like the Man With No Name. Its just the way he is.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » 2003-11-21 03:47am

Equlibrium - The end swordfight when the main character takes apart the other cleric like he was nothing.

Rob Roy - End fight. Main charactre is getting taken apart by the fop with a rapier. Is on his knees, the baddie has his sword at his neck. He grabs the rapier, hold it in place and buries his basket-hilt broadsword about in the middle of the fops chest with a cut that started at the mans shoulder. absolutely brutal.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2003-11-21 04:36am

The Kernel wrote:Well, I would always vote for the classics. How about in The Maltese Falcon at the end where Bogart is talking to Mary Astor and he is telling her how he's going to turn her in to the police. He says that he'll wait for her until she's released from prison and if they hang her, he'll never forget her. Of course he says it in such a dismissing and casual way that you can't help but laugh at the bitch and her plight. Sam Spade, cool to the end.

Well, with luck, you'll be out of Tahatchapi in twenty years. I hope they don't hang you by that pretty neck.

What... what are you saying? You don't really mean—

Yes angel, I'm sending you over. Chances are you'll get life, which means if you're a good girl you'll be out in twenty years. I'll be waiting for you, of course. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.

Don't Sam. Don't even joke about something like that. Ha ha... you're always being so unpredictable. For a minute, I thought you actually meant it.

Don't be silly. You're taking the fall.

One of my favourite movie climaxes as well.

My "coldest" moment in an action film and my favourite scene in Pulp Fiction: Bruce Willis cutting John Travolta in half with his own MAC-10 which the moron leaves sitting on a kitchen counter to take a dump.

I guess it's due to my loathing of Travolta for Battlefield Dearth that I find this scene particularly comical.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-11-21 04:48am

I always felt so sorry for Travolta in that scene. He dies in such a pathetic way. He should've listened to Jules ...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-11-21 07:27am

zombie84 wrote:Its just Eastwood. Thats how Eastwood plays gunslingers. Look at High Plains Drifter--many consider that an unofficial sequel to Good, the Bad and the Ugly as well. Whenever Eastwood plays a gunslinger, he's gonna act exactly like the Man With No Name. Its just the way he is.

Yeah, I wouldn't say it was The Man With No Name, just a very similar character who has come to terms with his past.

I think another good scene is the one in Road To Perdition. You know the one, at night, raining and with a car towards the end. In fact, there are several scenes that dark in the film.

johnmarkley · Post by **johnmarkley** » 2003-11-21 10:57pm

The scene at the end of "Miller's Crossing," when John Turturro is begging Gabriel Byrne not to kill him.
Turturro: Please... Look into your heart!
Byrne: What heart?

Exit Turturro.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-11-22 12:47am

The coldest moment in a flick for me was in war of the rats when the greman sniper hung the kid for ratting the gremans out.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-11-22 02:28am

Wasnt that Enemy At the Gates?

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-11-22 02:51am

In Schindler's List when a German sniped people randomly from his apartment. The scene where the German officers were trying to kill the old man and their pistols wouldn't work. The scene where they were rounding up civilians and/or shooting them in apartment buildings, a German soldier was playing the piano, and two soldiers just stopped and asked what he was playing, showing complete indifference to the magnitude of the situation. And a slew of other disgusting atrocities in the rest of the movie.

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.

The scene in Platoon where an American shoots someone on his own side and tells the others in the chopper that the enemy got him. Then you see him running out, trying to catch the helicopter only to get gunned down by VC...or was it NVA? I forgot.

The big battle scene in the original All Quiet on the Western Front where you see thousands upon thousands of men charge over no man's land and get mowed down by each side's machine guns with no gain at all. Then when the Germans actually made a slight advance into French territory, they were called back to their original trenches for some stupid reason.

The scene in Road to Perdition where Mike Sullivan (Tom Hanks) kills the unarmed messenger.

The horse scene in The Godfather. The scene where Sonny gets gunned down at the toll booth. The scene where Vito gets shot at the fruit stand. Basically all of the murder scenes in The Godfather movies...

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-11-22 02:59am

"The Professional," when Leon takes out the entire building full of guards to reach "the client," and later when he's destroying the SWAT team.

Ligier · Post by **Ligier** » 2003-11-22 07:24am

"It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack, not rationality."

I'm sorry. Say what ya will about Kill Bill, but, that quote sounded like a person bent on absolute cold-blooded revenge. The kind that's been sitting in a freezer for four years or so. Cold.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-11-22 07:40am

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.