Greatest Cinema Badass of All Time?

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There are boatloads of badass mofos all over the movies, most off us are familiar with most of them.

But I was recently reintroduced to the character I think is the baddest of the bad. Because he’s got it all, multiplied. He has the conviction, clarity, certainty needed to embody real ruthlessness, and to do so with the kind of quiet, unmistakably absolute authority that would make anyone with two brain cells shit their pants.

Plus, he’s got the best hair and best outfit that any badass motherfucker could dream of.

I give you Cedric, the Saxon leader of 2004’s King Arthur (making Clive Owen’s Arthur look like the biggest pussy of all time.)

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I give you Blake from Glengarry Glen Ross.

Can you be a badass without resorting to actual physical violence?

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Y’all both misspelled Rooster Cogburn. And Josey Wales is in second place.

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Lately for me it’s been Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men.” He’s so mindlessly, mill-of-the-gods bad that he’s beyond bad.

Or maybe it’s the haircut?

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Rooster??? Rooster??? TOTAL pussy! Cedric would have killed that whiny little bitch.

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He’s too sick to be bad, I think. I think real badassness has to be sane.

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Clint Eastwood’s William Munny in Unforgiven. Followed closely by Little Bill (Gene Hackman) from the same film.

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Tsk, tsk, tsk… Jeremiah Johnson.

You can close the thread now.

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Name’s Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny… only I ain’t got no friends.

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John Matrix from Commando. Followed by Dutch from Predator.
So what do I win?

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I definitely think that Matrix could kill a one-armed fat man like Rooster Cogburn without breaking a sweat. Maybe by throwing a circular saw blade into his head.

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Jules Winfield, Pulp Fiction. He even has the wallet to prove it.
End Of Thread.

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Hannibal Lechter.

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My new favorite is Mads Mikkelsen’s One Eye from the new movie Valhalla Rising. A mute viking warrior who shows no emotion while literally tearing the intestines out of a living opponent. IOW: one scary mofo.

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How about Clancy Brown at The Kurgan in Highlander?

We should also consider Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in the first Terminator movie, before he got all soft and squishy in T2 and T3.

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This is who I thought of when I saw the title.

*>What’s this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?
-No, I wouldn’t describe him as that.
>How would you describe him?
-I guess I would say he doesn’t have a sense of humor. His name is Chigurh. *

Second would be George Nada (Rowdy Roddy Piper) from They Live.

I’ve come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.

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Pinhead. Or are we restricting the search to this dimension?

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That liver-eating beaver-whipped wuss dreams he could be Inspector Daniel Clay in “Plan 9 From Outer Space”.

Second place to the Butcher Charles Benton (Chaney Jr) in the Indestructible Man.

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Don Logan as played by Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast. While watching the movie I got to the point where I wanted him to do something violent just to relieve the relentless tension that his character created. Absolutely awesome performance.