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Thomas Bugg

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Had to start this topic after rewatching this video. Scotty (Ice-T) beating the living hell out of Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) is by far one of the defining moments of the entire movie. If you don't remember the story, Nino and his Cash Money Brothers drug cartel had taken over Harlem for years, and when Nino was a kid he shot a woman to get initiated into a gang. That woman was Scotty's mom. Scotty is now a cop in NYC that's carried this pain with him all these years, and when he got the chance for revenge....well, see for yourself.

"I wanna shoot you so bad, my dick is hard!"

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I can't find the clip on YouTube, but Shia LaBeouf getting beaten up by Guy Pearce in Lawless. It's a great beatdown anyway, but it's Shia LaBeouf being beaten up, and bleeding and begging. What could you possibly want more?

 

Also the guy in Irréversible getting rather gruesomely murdered with a fire extinguisher.

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Some people complain about the anticlimactic nature of this one, but after waiting the whole movie for Seagal to get his hands on Forsythe, it's worth it...

 

To be honest, I have a hard time coming up with a Seagal flick where the heavy was evenly matched with him.  Off the top of my head, the big climatic endings were pretty much heavly one-sided in Seagal's favor.  Only one I can think off off hand is Under Seige, and that was still pretty much an ass whooping.

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I think the most disturbing to me was Nicky and his bro getting beat down with bats and shit in Casino.

 

That wasn't a beatdown, that was a gruesome murder. THIS was a beatdown. 

 

 

We have to designate between these things. There are murders, there are fights, and there are beatdowns. (Not like I don't think the guy at the end of the Casino clip I just posted didn't end up rolled up in a rug though.)

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Oh hey, I remember a good beatdown from a bad movie: The Bodyguard. After Whitney's old bodyguard fucks up the security at a concert and almost gets his client killed, he's pissed off at Kevin Costner for making him look incompetent (by doing his job correctly). He keeps trying to bring the fight to Costner, who is obviously bored by the whole thing and never even stands up or stops eating his dinner in between whipping this schmuck's ass.

 

Off the top of my head, the big climatic endings practically every single fight in practically every single movie were pretty much heavly one-sided in Seagal's favor.

Seagal's gotta be the most insecure action star in film history. He always portrays himself as ridiculously dominant over his enemies; even the few times he's wounded, he totally no-sells it. (Compare that to everyone from John Wayne to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who would actually get the shit kicked out of them in a lot of their films.) I mean, in that entire clip Comedian posted, NOBODY HIT HIM EVEN ONE TIME. Sheeyit, even Danny Trejo wasn't allowed to kill him when he was the heel in Machete, Seagal KILLED HIMSELF and did it while literally sneering in the hero's face and bragging "This ain't shit!" about being disemboweled. Whatta dick.

 

The cops finally catching up to Mickey and Mallory Knox was pretty rough.

Yeah, and why was it so brutal, yet presented as if it's supposed to make the audience uncomfortable to see THESE people beaten? That's just one of the many many examples of why I think that's a morally bankrupt movie. It keeps filming Mickey/Mallory's suffering as if they're babyfaces and don't deserve such rough treatment. When in reality they're the biggest monsters imaginable and deserve everything up to and including crucifixion, they're such worthless no-redeeming-qualities pieces of shit.
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Do edged weapons count in a beat down? If so, we have to consider Beatrix Kiddo's decimating, destruction, and dismembering of the Crazy 88s as an all-time classic.

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