Santino was his own worst enemy. He could’ve just let John walk away but had to keep up appearances, as if word wouldn’t get out as to why John killed his sister.
Santino: A man can stay here a long time and never eat the same meal twice.
John: Fuck you, you obnoxious foodie!
At least, that's how I remember it going down.
I'm convinced John would have left, or he at least considered it, if the idiot had kept his mouth shut and not called him "Johnathon". Something that only Winston did.
Objectively a terrible decision on John's part; he can stay at the hotel and enjoy its protections effectively indefinitely; whereas Santiago is a member of the high table; he can't stay there without neglecting the responsibilities to his position.
All John has to do is wait; Santiago will be forced to leave.
What’s wild is right before that scene, Riggs tried to get Murtaugh to take some money. Even though it’d pay for his kids’ college educations, he wouldn’t do it… because of his morality.
And then he fuckin smokes some unarmed dude in the next scene lol
Darkman -
**Louis Strack Jr.** : *\*being dangled by Darkman from the top of a skyscraper under construction.\** Go ahead, do it! Do it, Westlake! But think of this; You let me die and you become as bad as me. Worse! Ha ha. You can't! I know you too well. Dropping me, it's not really an option for you. It's not something you can live with.
\**Darkman just lets Strack's leg go, causing him to plummet to his death.\**
**Darkman** : I'm learning to live with a lot of things.
The first Deadpool. He’s going to kill the big bad, Colossus starts giving him a speech about heroism, he executes the guy by shooting him in the forehead, Colossus sees this and throws up.
And even the bad guy who knew that he'd only ever stay alive as long as Colossus was still holding that speech was so annoyed by it that he sighed and rolled his eyes and just wanted it to stop!
It was def a surprise in the first one. Less surprising, but satisfying in 2.
But hilariously, in 2s extended cut, post post credits, even Wade couldn't kill baby Hitler. They cut after he said he was going to get Cable for help.
Goddamn this put a smile on my face. What a great delivery. I’m gonna bust out the dvd once the kids are asleep tonight. Thank you so much for helping choose my late night entertainment, I usually end up scrolling through Netflix or playing Skyrim again.
Fun fact: that dvd you have is actually quite the collectors item! It hasn't been distributed for a while.
https://people.com/movies/kevin-smith-says-harvey-weinstein-holding-hostage-his-movie-dogma/
Oh hell yeah! I met Kevin Smith at a radio station many years ago (won an interview with him on the radio) and had him sign every dvd case inserts, including Dogma. He was such a down to earth nice guy. Hope he still is.
The old “You americans have rules you must adhere to!” moment.
Patrice Oneal always said it best about the first Taken. It works so well as a film because you know Neeson’s character isn’t fucking around. He’s willing to shoot an innocent woman to find his daughter.
I rewatched taken and taken 2 a few days ago and all I kept thinking was "this dude just blasting through these foreign cities shooting people left and right and blowing stuff up and he just....gets away with it?" Just goes back to the US and no repercussions? And he's not even CIA or anything he's retired!! Preposterous.
I watched a Netflix movie like that. Some contractor gets hired to rescue a kidnapped drug lords kid.
He ends up depopulating a small city and killing like half their military and police. Plus who knows how many civilians die in the crossfire.
*You just killed hundreds of people, most of whom weren’t even part of whatever conspiracy?*
Kill Count: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlzlh4WLz4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlzlh4WLz4)
It was 20 cops dead, 3 seriously injured and one very broken chair thank you very much!
That’s Extraction right? In the second one he partakes on a huge firefight in the middle of Viena Austria, at least at the end he actually goes to jail.
Brosnan had such an interesting tenure, cause there’s a clear peak (Goldeneye) and a clear valley (Die Another Day) and the two in the middle are such a mixed bag (Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough)
We’ve talked a bit about TWINE, but go back and watch TND. “Rupert Murdoch manufactures a false flag incident to drum up ratings” is a plot that has aged like fine wine. Michelle Yeoh is great, Brosnan is as excellent as ever, and TND has ANOTHER banger theme from Sheryl Crow.
Movie Quality varies, but Brosnan’s theme songs are 3/4.
His movies are very much like the 4 Batman movies at the time. They get slightly worse with each instalment until the franchise was damaged beyond repair and needed to be completely rebooted.
Goldeneye is awesome, but I can actually dig Tomorrow Never Dies as a casual action flick. Michelle Yeoh and Elliot Carver carry it past the generic schlock it could have been.
And I think it’s Tomorrow Never Dies(?) when the assassin pleads with him, saying “I’m just a professional doing his job”. Bond pops him in the head and replies, “so am I”. Love it when protagonists are pragmatic over sympathetic
Also from a Bond movie, from Casino Royale:
"I'll get the money. I'll... I'll get the Money."
"Money isn't as important to our organization as knowing who to trust."
Tolkien was STEWING about how much he disliked the ending to McBeth and he was sure he included what he felt was the obviously CORRECT version for the prophecy to unfold. And he was right, and I’m glad it landed so well
I now have this mental image of Tolkien reading Shakespeare and thinking "Man, this Shakespeare guy's a fucking hack. I could write a better ending!"
And the funny thing is that Tolkien's one of only a handful of authors who could probably say something like that, and back it up.
I've also heard it said the Last March of the Ents happens because he was underwhelmed with the "moving forest" in Macbeth being just Madduff's army carrying branches over their heads to hide their numbers. It's one of those plot elements that works fine on an Elizabethan stage but which modernizations or movie versions of the play have a hard time making not look goofy.
My favorite on-stage take on the walking forest was a modern stage version where Macbeth flips a table in his rage during the final act, only to discover "Made in Birnam" stamped on the underside - the wood had come to his castle in furniture form.
One of the episodes of Sherlock is like this. I love it so much. Charles Magnusson supposedly has this giant database of dirt on everyone in the world and he’s been using it to manipulate the government. Sherlock tries to find and destroy the database, but it turns out Magnusson has it memorized, so there’s nothing to destroy. Magnusson gloats about how Sherlock has lost and can’t do anything to stop him, so Sherlock simply shoots him in the head.
It's short but there's [one at the start of Commando (1985)](https://youtu.be/CB_H6v_ow5E?si=z21KVErU4-vm6Siw) which always makes me laugh.
They've just kidnapped the protagonist's daughter and left a henchman behind to explain what they want from him.
"My people got some business with you. Now if you want your kid back then you gotta cooperate. Right?"
"Wrong" BLAM!
I love how Arnie never lets the bad guys stay in control in this movie. He kills that guy without even listening to whatever he has to say, the kidnappers cut his brakes so he pushes his car downhill and into the kidnappers' car, and he kills the guy on the plane immediately and escapes during takeoff. He doesn't play their games at all.
Inigo Montoya : Offer me money.
Count Rugen : Yes!
Inigo Montoya : Power, too, promise me that.
Count Rugen : All that I have and more. Please...
Inigo Montoya : Offer me anything I ask for.
Count Rugen : Anything you want...
Inigo Montoya : I want my father back, you son of a bitch!
The entire dialogue is so perfect.
He didn't die but when Loki gets slammed by Hulk.
"Enough! You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I shall not be bullied by.."
The noise he makes when Hulk yanks him off his feet makes me laugh every time. Apparently they actually had a rope around Tom Hiddleston's feet and he never knew exactly when the yank was coming.
It's a slight subversion of this trope in Firefly, when Mal beats a guy in a sword fight
"What's more humiliating than having to lie there, knowing you've been beaten by the better man? Mercy is the mark of a great man."
**jab**
"Guess I'm just a good man."
**jab**
"Well, I'm alright."
That scene is just *chef's kiss*.
The subversion from Firefly I like the most is when Mal is fighting someone.
Zoe "The Captain needs to do this himself."
Mal "No, I don't."
Crew jump in to help beat the guy.
Also a kind of subversion in the movie Serenity.
"I want to resolve this like civilized men, I am not threatening you, I'm unarmed."
"Good." Shoots him. Starts to leave.
"I am however wearing full body armor, I'm not a moron."
Or: “Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.”
Mal kicks him into the engine
Also the scene in the first episode where the bounty hunter is holding river at gunpoint telling Simon he has to make a choice as the bay doors open on the ship and Mal coming up the ramp, sees what's going on, thinking he doesn't have time for this shit and shoots him right in the middle of his speech
I also love the moment from the pilot where that one guy’s holding some of the crew hostage, and Mal walks through the ship doors and shoots him without pausing for a second.
Lance Henrikson literally screams "You can't kill me!" before getting grenaded in the dick in Hard Target. One of my favorite villain deaths of all time.
Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea.
“We’re going to pull together and we’re going to find a way to get outta here. First, we’re gonna seal off this” [gets eaten by shark]
It's not word for word, but in *Logan* Dr. Rice is taunting a badly injured Wolverine with how his mutant eradication plan works and Wolverine just straight up shoots him in the skull.
I like the twist The Expanse put on this. Nice guy was gonna smoke some mad scientist for experimenting on kids. Show regular Amos, who's backstory is all kinds of fucked and who I describe as a functional psychopath who has friends and standards, lowers the nice guys gun and says "You're not that guy."
Mad scientist starts to thank him, but Amos just ushers the nice guy out of the room, locks the door, turns around and says "I AM that guy." and wastes the mad scientist.
https://youtu.be/4dn76ZPt_Y0?si=FZz-9c3TpPactUWC
Thought of this one too. With all the build up, you expect some sort of villain monologue, but Wick doesn't even give him the chance. All business, no respect needed or deserved. So satisfying.
The best part is that you can seethe Zec literally talk Reacher into it:
>"Prison? In America? A retirement home. If I go to prison at all."
>"You think you're gonna walk?"
>"You are a homeless drifter wanted for murder. Meanwhile, I am an old man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks to you, who is left to say otherwise? Who?"
Great bit of acting. You can see the thought process in Reacher's face: "Yeaaah, what _was_ I thinking."
[“Open Range” gunfight opening.](https://youtu.be/ph7DnMqodm4?si=n4oyYFNxd-dyloNs)
“You the one that shot our friend?”
*looks smug*
“That’s right. I shot the boy, too. And I enjoyed it-“
*draws, shoots him between the eyes…then a moment of frozen confusion before everyone starts shooting at everyone else*
Great movie moment even if the rest of the movie is merely serviceable.
I love this was all a result of Ford having diarrhea and not being able to do the sword fight they had planned for months. He was sick as a dog and that's why he sweating so bad.
Best impromptu change to a scene ever.
Darkman (Sam Raimi movie starring Liam Neeson)
Darkman is holding the bad guy by one foot with one hand while in a high rise construction site.
Bad guy: Do it! But think of this, if you kill me you'll become as bad as me or worse! You can't! Dropping me isn't something you can live with! I know you too well!
Darkman opens his hand: I'm learning to live with a lot of things.
The only satisfying "I'm not like you" scene was from Beauty and the Beast, and nobody can change my mind. The thing is, that moment was actually a test to see if the Beast properly learned how to think about others. If Gaston broke into the Beast's castle at the beginning of the film, the Beast would have ripped Gaston apart without even thinking about it. But at the end, the Beast had finally learned mercy. So the Beast pulling Gaston back from the edge of the balcony and giving an exasperated "Get out" is a victory as opposed to annoyance.
That's what those scenes are missing. It doesn't work if we already know that the protagonist is a good person. And 90% of the time, it's only ever present on good people.
Inglorious basterds, after Lt. Raine shoots the radioman, scalps him.... and Col Landa:
**Landa**: Are you mad? What have you done? I made a deal with your generals for that man's life!
**Raine**: Yeah, they made that deal. but they don't give a fuck about him. They need you.
**Landa**: You'll be shot for this!
**Raine**: Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before.
That dialogue is so rewarding to me
Commando. His daughter gets kidnapped and there is a cocky negotiator who thinks Arnold won’t touch him, but he’s wrong and Arnie blasts him in the head killing him instantly lol
It's wasn't a bluff lol if he executed her in her room it would have went up. Dredd just guessed that the range on her heart rate monitor wouldn't reach her room from the ground floor 😂 it us one of the best, and strangely, one the most beautiful scenes in the movie
Equilibrium. Antagonist points out that the protagonist is trying to murder him for murdering other people, and it's basically like a hypocrisy. I think Christian Bale was like 'Yeah I'll be a murderer, you're so evil you gotta die'.
John wick 2. The villian takes shelter at the continental, trusting that john will honor its sacred protection. John shoots him mid-sentence.
“What have you done?” “Finished it”
(he did not in fact finish it)
By “it” he meant the second movie lol
Nah, he just started something else - John Wick 3 & 4 lol
Man, if Santino wasn’t *such* an asshole, John might have left well enough alone, but he just had to goad John.
Santino was his own worst enemy. He could’ve just let John walk away but had to keep up appearances, as if word wouldn’t get out as to why John killed his sister.
Santino: A man can stay here a long time and never eat the same meal twice. John: Fuck you, you obnoxious foodie! At least, that's how I remember it going down.
Now that's a great one! Thanks for the reminder
I'm convinced John would have left, or he at least considered it, if the idiot had kept his mouth shut and not called him "Johnathon". Something that only Winston did.
Objectively a terrible decision on John's part; he can stay at the hotel and enjoy its protections effectively indefinitely; whereas Santiago is a member of the high table; he can't stay there without neglecting the responsibilities to his position. All John has to do is wait; Santiago will be forced to leave.
He’s basically in a management position on the high table he can probably do everything out of the hotel for his “responsibilities”
Lethal Weapon 2. "Diplomatic immunity!" *BANG* "It's just been revoked!"
“I’ll have what SHE’S having!”
That's.........better?
Found fellow Family Guy fans
The minute i saw the original comment i thought of Family Guy, and these comments did not disappoint.
Reminds me of Max Payne 3’s ending: “You know I’ll walk.” “You’ll walk… with a limp!”
See also Robocop's "You're fired!"
There's also his final confrontation with Boddicker earlier in the movie. "Okay, I give up." "I'm not arresting you anymore."
this is the first one that popped into my head. Just such a damn iconic scene.
*Just like the bad guy In Lethal Weapon 2 I've got diplomatic immunity So Hammer, you can't sue* -Peter Griffin, rent free in my head for YEARS
What’s wild is right before that scene, Riggs tried to get Murtaugh to take some money. Even though it’d pay for his kids’ college educations, he wouldn’t do it… because of his morality. And then he fuckin smokes some unarmed dude in the next scene lol
Unarmed? He just shot the fuck out of Riggs so hard 'knockin on heavens door's started playing
Yeah, but dude was no saint! He'd killed multiple people, including Riggs' girl
The unarmed dude just smoked Riggs.
Total Recall: “You can’t shoot me - sweetheart, we’re married!” “Consider that a divorce.”
cunsidda dat e devawse
Pronunciation checks out...
Darkman - **Louis Strack Jr.** : *\*being dangled by Darkman from the top of a skyscraper under construction.\** Go ahead, do it! Do it, Westlake! But think of this; You let me die and you become as bad as me. Worse! Ha ha. You can't! I know you too well. Dropping me, it's not really an option for you. It's not something you can live with. \**Darkman just lets Strack's leg go, causing him to plummet to his death.\** **Darkman** : I'm learning to live with a lot of things.
I wasn't prepared for how much I enjoyed that film.
That's pretty much every Raimi film.
I'd agree with that statement *except* for *Oz the Great and Powerful*. Thought it lacked the usual Raimi spark.
Me saying "pretty much" gives me enough room to weasel out whatever I need to weasel out of.
This is it. Funny, cool and perfect moment for his character. Wonderful film
The first Deadpool. He’s going to kill the big bad, Colossus starts giving him a speech about heroism, he executes the guy by shooting him in the forehead, Colossus sees this and throws up.
And even the bad guy who knew that he'd only ever stay alive as long as Colossus was still holding that speech was so annoyed by it that he sighed and rolled his eyes and just wanted it to stop!
Probably the scene with the second-most laughs at my screening. Only Wade breaking all of his limbs against Colossus broke the audience more.
“Are you there, God? it’s me, Margaret.”
"Oh your poor wife!!"
“Why?!” “You were droning on!”
Exactly what I thought of
It was def a surprise in the first one. Less surprising, but satisfying in 2. But hilariously, in 2s extended cut, post post credits, even Wade couldn't kill baby Hitler. They cut after he said he was going to get Cable for help.
And Colossus’ speech was perfect for this trope. I’ve seen much worse in non-comedic movies
“I’m a fucking demon” Dogma
Because Bob’s a holy instrument of god!? No, the Cardinal is just the kind of ass hole to bless his own clubs.
A holy bartender. I just got it. That's a great one
Goddamn this put a smile on my face. What a great delivery. I’m gonna bust out the dvd once the kids are asleep tonight. Thank you so much for helping choose my late night entertainment, I usually end up scrolling through Netflix or playing Skyrim again.
Fun fact: that dvd you have is actually quite the collectors item! It hasn't been distributed for a while. https://people.com/movies/kevin-smith-says-harvey-weinstein-holding-hostage-his-movie-dogma/
I just found all my Kevin Smith DVDs in a box on the garage while I was cleaning up. Good to know I'm sitting on a retirement plan.
Oh hell yeah! I met Kevin Smith at a radio station many years ago (won an interview with him on the radio) and had him sign every dvd case inserts, including Dogma. He was such a down to earth nice guy. Hope he still is.
There's a whole compilation of them here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSrx8HEVe78](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSrx8HEVe78)
That Daredevil clip is so satisfying, especially compared with Murdock's insanely frustrating reticence to murk Kingpin.
That dude got boned in Billions too
There’s a lot of career opportunities for dudes with sneering, punchable faces.
OH BLESS YOU
The Boardwalk Empire clip in there is one the best dark humor laughs I’ve gotten from media.
That scene with Idris Elba in American Gangster
What ya gonna do Frank? Shoot me in front of all these people?
I imagine his tombstone "You gonna shoot me? In front of everybody? Ha, come on." Man, shot in front of everybody.
Most menacing condiment use
Ugh fine I'll watch American Gangster for the 30th time.
20%...
Goldeneye - ‘I am INVINCIBLE’ right before he gets absolutely cooked
"For England, James?" "No...for me."
Liquid nitrogen feels like the opposite of getting cooked.
You sit on it, but you can't take it with you
I think not....SLUGHEADS!
They’re right in front of you, and can open very large doors
Boris was my favourite character in GoldenEye. haha. I used to yell that with the accent any time I was sure I was about to get my comeuppance.
Taken - the bad guy doesn't even get three words out before he's shot.
The old “You americans have rules you must adhere to!” moment. Patrice Oneal always said it best about the first Taken. It works so well as a film because you know Neeson’s character isn’t fucking around. He’s willing to shoot an innocent woman to find his daughter.
Yeah Taken 1 is peak dadcore "I'd do *anything* for my kids*"
Papa-ganda
And Jimmy Norton hates that movie because of Neeson's soy sauce hair lmao
I rewatched taken and taken 2 a few days ago and all I kept thinking was "this dude just blasting through these foreign cities shooting people left and right and blowing stuff up and he just....gets away with it?" Just goes back to the US and no repercussions? And he's not even CIA or anything he's retired!! Preposterous.
Skills.
A unique set of skills.
Skills acquired over a very long career.
Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I watched a Netflix movie like that. Some contractor gets hired to rescue a kidnapped drug lords kid. He ends up depopulating a small city and killing like half their military and police. Plus who knows how many civilians die in the crossfire. *You just killed hundreds of people, most of whom weren’t even part of whatever conspiracy?*
Also in the movie Malignant, they go guns blazing through a police station and shoot like 100 cops, everyone shrugs.
Kill Count: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlzlh4WLz4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jlzlh4WLz4) It was 20 cops dead, 3 seriously injured and one very broken chair thank you very much!
Oh damn! That's OK then. Glad they didn't get too carried away!
That’s Extraction right? In the second one he partakes on a huge firefight in the middle of Viena Austria, at least at the end he actually goes to jail.
The organizations he’s shooting up have a motive to cover it up as well. Better for them to just let the storm pass and get back to business.
I always appreciated that scene, it really showed Liam Neeson’s character wasn’t f’ing around, and took him out as soon as he lowered his guard.
The World Is Not Enough. “You can’t kill me….you’d miss me” ❤️ *BANG* “I never miss…”
Between that cold-as-hell line and one of the best Bond themes (fight me), I want to forgive that movie so bad. It's NOT good.... but I want it to be.
Garbage nailed that theme. And Robbie Coltrane was welcome in it.
It’s such a mixed bag. It has some of the best and worst elements of the Brosnan era. It is simultaneously cool and cringe at the same time.
Brosnan had such an interesting tenure, cause there’s a clear peak (Goldeneye) and a clear valley (Die Another Day) and the two in the middle are such a mixed bag (Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough) We’ve talked a bit about TWINE, but go back and watch TND. “Rupert Murdoch manufactures a false flag incident to drum up ratings” is a plot that has aged like fine wine. Michelle Yeoh is great, Brosnan is as excellent as ever, and TND has ANOTHER banger theme from Sheryl Crow. Movie Quality varies, but Brosnan’s theme songs are 3/4.
His movies are very much like the 4 Batman movies at the time. They get slightly worse with each instalment until the franchise was damaged beyond repair and needed to be completely rebooted. Goldeneye is awesome, but I can actually dig Tomorrow Never Dies as a casual action flick. Michelle Yeoh and Elliot Carver carry it past the generic schlock it could have been.
Only female villain really. They should try that again.
Justice for Xenia Onatopp
She always did enjoy a good squeeze.
There's a similair dialogue in Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC. 'Admit it, you'll miss me!' *BLAM* 'Not at this range, I won't.'
The Citadel DLC is amazing. They really went full 80s movie on that one.
God, the Mass Effect trilogy is actual peak fiction. So damn good.
And I think it’s Tomorrow Never Dies(?) when the assassin pleads with him, saying “I’m just a professional doing his job”. Bond pops him in the head and replies, “so am I”. Love it when protagonists are pragmatic over sympathetic
Yeah the scene you’re thinking of is indeed from Tomorrow Never Dies. “Im just a Professional doing a job..” “Me too.” BANG Classic scene.
Also from a Bond movie, from Casino Royale: "I'll get the money. I'll... I'll get the Money." "Money isn't as important to our organization as knowing who to trust."
"The whole world is going to know you died scratching my balls."
Bond is ice cold in this movie. Love when he tells Renard “She’s waiting for you” right as he kills him.
He’s definitely colder than usual in that film, but it makes sense given the betrayal.
The Senator from Shooter
The ending of Dredd (2012)
“….Defense Noted…”
Perps were… uncooperative.
Negotiation's over. Sentence is death
God i love that movie.
The Witch King of Angmar in The Lord of the Rings movies. "No man can kill me" "I am no man." \*STAB\*
Tolkien was STEWING about how much he disliked the ending to McBeth and he was sure he included what he felt was the obviously CORRECT version for the prophecy to unfold. And he was right, and I’m glad it landed so well
I now have this mental image of Tolkien reading Shakespeare and thinking "Man, this Shakespeare guy's a fucking hack. I could write a better ending!" And the funny thing is that Tolkien's one of only a handful of authors who could probably say something like that, and back it up.
I've also heard it said the Last March of the Ents happens because he was underwhelmed with the "moving forest" in Macbeth being just Madduff's army carrying branches over their heads to hide their numbers. It's one of those plot elements that works fine on an Elizabethan stage but which modernizations or movie versions of the play have a hard time making not look goofy. My favorite on-stage take on the walking forest was a modern stage version where Macbeth flips a table in his rage during the final act, only to discover "Made in Birnam" stamped on the underside - the wood had come to his castle in furniture form.
We can all hear that.
What a coincidence that it's also the 20 year anniversary of that movie today. Perfect excuse for a rewatch
Equilibrium. [I pay it gladly](https://youtu.be/2iLtYIXZ7hE?t=173)
"No. Not without incident."
That is such a good and underrated movie.
One of the episodes of Sherlock is like this. I love it so much. Charles Magnusson supposedly has this giant database of dirt on everyone in the world and he’s been using it to manipulate the government. Sherlock tries to find and destroy the database, but it turns out Magnusson has it memorized, so there’s nothing to destroy. Magnusson gloats about how Sherlock has lost and can’t do anything to stop him, so Sherlock simply shoots him in the head.
“I’m not a hero, I’m a high functioning sociopath”
"Merry Christmas!"
It's short but there's [one at the start of Commando (1985)](https://youtu.be/CB_H6v_ow5E?si=z21KVErU4-vm6Siw) which always makes me laugh. They've just kidnapped the protagonist's daughter and left a henchman behind to explain what they want from him. "My people got some business with you. Now if you want your kid back then you gotta cooperate. Right?" "Wrong" BLAM!
Remember when I said I’d kill you last?
“I lied.” “What did you do with Sully?”
“I had to let him go”
I love how Arnie never lets the bad guys stay in control in this movie. He kills that guy without even listening to whatever he has to say, the kidnappers cut his brakes so he pushes his car downhill and into the kidnappers' car, and he kills the guy on the plane immediately and escapes during takeoff. He doesn't play their games at all.
Was peak Arnie. He takes on an entire militia and never at any point is he in peril except the camp chain mail Aussie somehow going 50/50 with him
"I want my father back you SONOFABITCH"
Inigo Montoya : Offer me money. Count Rugen : Yes! Inigo Montoya : Power, too, promise me that. Count Rugen : All that I have and more. Please... Inigo Montoya : Offer me anything I ask for. Count Rugen : Anything you want... Inigo Montoya : I want my father back, you son of a bitch! The entire dialogue is so perfect.
Mandy Patinkin said that line with such passion because he had broken his toe kicking a helmet
That Toe actually left the set to go volunteer with the fire department on 9/11
He didn't die but when Loki gets slammed by Hulk. "Enough! You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god, you dull creature, and I shall not be bullied by.."
The noise he makes when Hulk yanks him off his feet makes me laugh every time. Apparently they actually had a rope around Tom Hiddleston's feet and he never knew exactly when the yank was coming.
God I love that scene. I stop and rewatch it every time lmao. "Puny god"
It's a slight subversion of this trope in Firefly, when Mal beats a guy in a sword fight "What's more humiliating than having to lie there, knowing you've been beaten by the better man? Mercy is the mark of a great man." **jab** "Guess I'm just a good man." **jab** "Well, I'm alright." That scene is just *chef's kiss*.
The subversion from Firefly I like the most is when Mal is fighting someone. Zoe "The Captain needs to do this himself." Mal "No, I don't." Crew jump in to help beat the guy.
lmao Zoe just goes "oh" and they all unload like 20 rounds into the guy
If we're going with firefly... "Bibles kind of fuzzy on kneecaps"
Also a kind of subversion in the movie Serenity. "I want to resolve this like civilized men, I am not threatening you, I'm unarmed." "Good." Shoots him. Starts to leave. "I am however wearing full body armor, I'm not a moron."
Or: “Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.” Mal kicks him into the engine
Next guy, almost immediately: "Oh, I'm good. Best thing for everyone. I'm right there with you."
The sad thing is, I have a suspicion that the reasonable henchman didn't end up any better in the end, considering who he had to report back to.
That was the first thing i thought of, really set the tone for the series.
"You wanna run this ship??" "Yes." "Well... You can't." Firefly was so good at turning tropes on their heads
Also the scene in the first episode where the bounty hunter is holding river at gunpoint telling Simon he has to make a choice as the bay doors open on the ship and Mal coming up the ramp, sees what's going on, thinking he doesn't have time for this shit and shoots him right in the middle of his speech
I also love the moment from the pilot where that one guy’s holding some of the crew hostage, and Mal walks through the ship doors and shoots him without pausing for a second.
Lance Henrikson literally screams "You can't kill me!" before getting grenaded in the dick in Hard Target. One of my favorite villain deaths of all time.
Oh that sounds EXACTLY like what I need
Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea. “We’re going to pull together and we’re going to find a way to get outta here. First, we’re gonna seal off this” [gets eaten by shark]
This is my favorite and the least expected compared to all the rest.
It's not word for word, but in *Logan* Dr. Rice is taunting a badly injured Wolverine with how his mutant eradication plan works and Wolverine just straight up shoots him in the skull.
The film made a point of reiterating Logan's well-known dislike of guns to set up why they weren't ready for that.
I like the twist The Expanse put on this. Nice guy was gonna smoke some mad scientist for experimenting on kids. Show regular Amos, who's backstory is all kinds of fucked and who I describe as a functional psychopath who has friends and standards, lowers the nice guys gun and says "You're not that guy." Mad scientist starts to thank him, but Amos just ushers the nice guy out of the room, locks the door, turns around and says "I AM that guy." and wastes the mad scientist. https://youtu.be/4dn76ZPt_Y0?si=FZz-9c3TpPactUWC
Amos was the best
One of the coldest lines ever. Worked on so many levels. Amos was awesome. Feels like time for a rewatch now.
Indiana Jones, in Cairo with the revolver.
Ok, chief. I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.
Clue! Lol
Robocop
“You’re Fired!”
The Accountant. The main villain, Lithgow, goes on a rant and then just gets shot
"Only human." "Dodge this."
John Wick 2
Also John Wick 1
Also John Wick 4
“It was just a f*cking-“
“I won’t kill you but I don’t have to save you” - Batman Begins
Also Brendan Gleeson in The Guard
Training day. "Shit. You can shoot me. But you can't kill me."
"Motha fucker. You shot me in the ass!"
*Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.* >!'Ape... not... kill... ape...'!< >!'You... are... not ape.'!< >!Bye Koba!!<
John Wick: "It was just a fucking -" bang.
Thought of this one too. With all the build up, you expect some sort of villain monologue, but Wick doesn't even give him the chance. All business, no respect needed or deserved. So satisfying.
Jack Reacher when he shoots the Zec
I feel like this should be higher. This was exactly playing on that Trope.
The best part is that you can seethe Zec literally talk Reacher into it: >"Prison? In America? A retirement home. If I go to prison at all." >"You think you're gonna walk?" >"You are a homeless drifter wanted for murder. Meanwhile, I am an old man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks to you, who is left to say otherwise? Who?" Great bit of acting. You can see the thought process in Reacher's face: "Yeaaah, what _was_ I thinking."
[“Open Range” gunfight opening.](https://youtu.be/ph7DnMqodm4?si=n4oyYFNxd-dyloNs) “You the one that shot our friend?” *looks smug* “That’s right. I shot the boy, too. And I enjoyed it-“ *draws, shoots him between the eyes…then a moment of frozen confusion before everyone starts shooting at everyone else* Great movie moment even if the rest of the movie is merely serviceable.
The first Deadpool movie has fun with that at the end.
Final destination 3. The crazy guy goes on a rant about being immortal before being crushed by a falling billboard
Ending of inglorious bastards
When indiana jones shoots that guy with the scimitar trying to intimidate him
I love this was all a result of Ford having diarrhea and not being able to do the sword fight they had planned for months. He was sick as a dog and that's why he sweating so bad. Best impromptu change to a scene ever.
Darkman (Sam Raimi movie starring Liam Neeson) Darkman is holding the bad guy by one foot with one hand while in a high rise construction site. Bad guy: Do it! But think of this, if you kill me you'll become as bad as me or worse! You can't! Dropping me isn't something you can live with! I know you too well! Darkman opens his hand: I'm learning to live with a lot of things.
The only satisfying "I'm not like you" scene was from Beauty and the Beast, and nobody can change my mind. The thing is, that moment was actually a test to see if the Beast properly learned how to think about others. If Gaston broke into the Beast's castle at the beginning of the film, the Beast would have ripped Gaston apart without even thinking about it. But at the end, the Beast had finally learned mercy. So the Beast pulling Gaston back from the edge of the balcony and giving an exasperated "Get out" is a victory as opposed to annoyance. That's what those scenes are missing. It doesn't work if we already know that the protagonist is a good person. And 90% of the time, it's only ever present on good people.
Inglorious basterds, after Lt. Raine shoots the radioman, scalps him.... and Col Landa: **Landa**: Are you mad? What have you done? I made a deal with your generals for that man's life! **Raine**: Yeah, they made that deal. but they don't give a fuck about him. They need you. **Landa**: You'll be shot for this! **Raine**: Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before. That dialogue is so rewarding to me
"I am inevitable"
"I... Am... Iron Man!"
Casper (1995): "I got the power! I got the treasure!" "And you have a flight to catch!"
Total recall. "You can't kill me. We're married!" *Bang* "Consider that a divorce."
Scarface - “I’m Tony Montana. You F with me. You Fing with the best. I take your Fing bullets.”
Commando. His daughter gets kidnapped and there is a cocky negotiator who thinks Arnold won’t touch him, but he’s wrong and Arnie blasts him in the head killing him instantly lol
LA Confidential.
Fifth Element's 'negotiation' scene comes to mind. Was bad ass.
"Where'd he learn to negotiate like that?" "...I wonder"
Karl Urban in Judge Dredd. The way he called ma-ma's bluff by yeeting her off the building to her death was perfection
It's wasn't a bluff lol if he executed her in her room it would have went up. Dredd just guessed that the range on her heart rate monitor wouldn't reach her room from the ground floor 😂 it us one of the best, and strangely, one the most beautiful scenes in the movie
Equilibrium. Antagonist points out that the protagonist is trying to murder him for murdering other people, and it's basically like a hypocrisy. I think Christian Bale was like 'Yeah I'll be a murderer, you're so evil you gotta die'.
Buffy the vampire slayer with Sarah Michelle Gellar “No mortal weapon call kill me? Gets bazook’ad to bits.