Best badass motherfucker in the movies?

[mutinyco]

Andy Robinson as the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry...

[meatwad]

i think i have to go with dennis hopper in blue velvet. I saw that when i was younger, and he scared the shit out of me for many more years.

[ShanghaiOrange]

Also Darth Vader and Shaft.

[samsong]

a few I forgot..

Michael Madsen - Reservoir Dogs
Russell Crowe - L.A. Confidential
Lee Van Cleef - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) - The Godfather
Charles Bronson - The Great Escape
Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs... for the climax, anyway
Robert Shaw -  Jaws
Eric Bana - Black Hawk Down
Scott Glenn - Backdraft
Alec Baldwin - Glengarry Glen Ross
Mickey Rourke - Rumble Fish
James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause

[Vile5]

Toshiro Mifune in "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro"

ohhhhh...Toshiro Mifune is one of my favorites, particularly in Rashomon
mmm... let me think someone else...
maybe Benicio del Toro in Snatch
Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs
Robert De Niro in Goodfellas
Gary Oldman in The Professional
Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
and what about Martin Scorsese in Quiz Show???

[MacGuffin]

Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen - "Lord Of The Rings"
Andy Garcia - "The Untouchables"
Sean Connery - Any of his Bond movies
Jack Nicholson - "Batman"
Kurt Russell - "Escape From New York"
Ben Kingsley - "Sexy Beast"
Brad Pitt - "Fight Club"

Anything by Bruce Lee

[pete]

trying to squeeze in more asian dudes here...

bruce lee on and off screen
tony ja in "ong bak"<--the craziest action movie within the last decade and a half, but looks like america is not gonna get it.
old school jackie chan--project a 2
sammo hung in eastern condors
spike from cowboy bebop
wu bai from "Time and Tide"

[coffeebeetle]

PBH does not look like a badass at all.

That is the worst thing I have ever heard.

Mos def...Sydney is one badass mutherfucker.

[oakmanc234]

Joe Pesci in 'Casino' (this character would be the fuck out of Tommy in 'Goodfellas')
Adam Sandler in 'Happy Gilmore'
Samuel L.Jackson in 'Jackie Brown'

[chinaski40]

Adam Sandler in "Punch Drunk Love"

fuck it, he was badass to me.  he just didn't know he was badass until the end.

[chinaski40]

boy, do i know how to kill a thread.
no one is better at it than me!

[luctruff]

i thought sandler was a badass mutha in pdl too...

[Jeremy Blackman]

boy, do i know how to kill a thread.
no one is better at it than me!

Have you heard of Tremolosloth?

[kotte]

Sam Jackson is the original bad motherfucker.

[coffeebeetle]

I almost forgot this bad mutherfuckuh, besides Sydney: