10 Coolest Movie Put Downs
Withering one-liners, delivered with a twinkle...
Ben Richards - The Running Man
The narcissistic Killian explodes upon impact with his own Cola ad. “Well that hi⛦t t🃏he spot!”
P🥀erfectly timed irony and delivered 💖when Arnold Schwarzenegger still had a thick enough Austrian accent make this a snort out loud witticism.[page-break]
Colonel Jack O'Neil - Stargate
Average film, enjoyably historical put-down. Kurt Russell’s just in time to beam a nuke aboard Egyptian-alien villain Ra’s fleeing spaceship. “Give my regards to King Tut, asshole”, he his🍒ses as the henchman is beamed aboard holding the ticking bomb.[page-break]
Officer Jack Traven - Speed
Dennis Hopper insists he’s “smarter” than Keanu, strangli♌ng him atop a subway train. Too smart to notice the lig🤪ht about to rip his head off? It’s a shock moment, pitched before Reeves’ perfectly timed, “Yeah? Well I’m taller!” gains a big laugh.[page-break]
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Ivan Drago - Rocky IV
Dolph Lundgren’s sign-off to Apollo Creed is calculated, clinical and as cold as Drago’s native Russia. Delivered in a completely emotionless monotone, he couldn’t care less that Cre𒊎ed is fading fast. “If he dies, he dies”. He died.[page-b꧃reak]
D-Fens - Falling Down
Michael Douglas pours on the bitterness in Joel Schumacher’s ex🐬ceptional man-meltdown movie. A random golfer suffers a heart attack he’s i🌠nduced. “Bad news… you’re gonna die. Wearing that stupid hat. How does it feel?” Uncomfortably amusing.[page-break]
Marcus Brody - Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Denholm Elliot mirrors general opinion when he’s offered some water in the dessert by the slimy, doublecrossing Nazi Walter Donovan. He states – deadly deadpan – “I’d rather spit in 🧔your face”. It’s refreshingly rude and satisfying.[page-bre📖ak]
Steven Seagal - Above The Law
Amusingly occurs after Steven Seag💟al’s ludicrous decision to blow a gang member’s brains out, in cold blood, because he points out Seagal can’t beat the entire group. “You’re right, but I’ll get an ‘A’ for effort”. Well that&rsquo🍃;s OK then Steve.[page-break]
Blade - Blade
Refreshingly metaphoricalꦺ for a comic-book hero, Wesley Snipes’ line still clicks as he vanquishes a vampire-demigod to its own mortality. Oozing cool he quips, “Some motherfuckers always trying to ice-skate uphill”, before sheltering from exploding guts.[page-break]
Gordie Lachance - Stand By Me
Told to♏ put down his gun by Castle Rock hardnut Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton’s toothpick-thin hero looks the older boy in the eye and says, “Suck... My... Fat One, you cheap, dime-store hood.” kid&rsqu🐎o;s got big balls, too.[page-break]
Chief Brody - Jaws
After weeks of anguish🐲 and a shark-hunting trip from watery hell, Roy Scheider must release himself – and th𝓰e audience – from the fear.
He&rs𒁏quo;s got one shot at the explosive air tank which has been thrown into the shark’s mouth. He can’t miss… “Smile, you son of a bitch!” Boom.
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