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"He Doesn't Have My Permission to Die Yet!": Twelve Evil Movie Wardens
3 September 2009 7:43 AM, PDT
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Nobody wants to go to jail. But if you've got to go to jail, just hope you don't do it in the movies. Odds are if you're going to movie jail, you're going to wind up at the mercy of some jerk warden (or captain or superintendent or game show host of a dystopian future) who wants to torture you for kicks.
It happens time and again, most recently in this week's "Gamer" where poor Gerard Butler plays an inmate who finds himself as a running man in a death race against the southern-accented treachery of Michael C. Hall. In honor of "Gamer," here are 12 more corrupt and sadistic movie wardens who could scare anyone straight.
Strother Martin as The Captain
"Cool Hand Luke" (1967)
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate." It's not just the most famous line ever spoken by a movie warden; it's one of the most famous lines in movie history.
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- Matt Singer
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Live action Wacky Races!
31 July 2009 4:46 AM, PDT
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From this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, we have something a bit more whimsical than usual-- why, it's those double-dealing do-badders, Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean Machine, the old Double Zero, and the rest of the Wacky Racers! Take a look at the race itself. I have only two gripes:
The video needs the racetrack announcer doing play-by-play.What is Sawtooth doing driving with Penelope Pitstop?
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- Glenn Hauman
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Van Damme and Jones
13 May 2009 5:37 AM, PDT
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Jean-Claude Van Damme and Vinnie Jones (Mean Machine) will star in Weapons. The film is about the world's two best assassins, who are forced to team up to take down the head of a DEA-backed drug cartel. Jones will play a sharp-shooter, while Van Damme will play a knife... guy. Russell Mulcahy (Highlander) will direct.
On New Years Day 1962, record producer Dick Rowe listened to The Beatles audition for him. He told them "no thanks guys, guitar music is on the way out." When Van Damme turned down The Expendables it was not totally unlike that day.
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- James Thoo
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7 Unconvincing Movie Footballers
22 March 2009 5:09 PM, PDT
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Forget Michael Sheen’s latest bit of high profile mimicry as Brian Clough. The really impressive thing about The Damned United is that it’s that rarest of rare breeds – a half decent movie about football. Hollywood’s history of celluloid soccerball bungles is a rich one. And football’s perceived lack of drama has led to some enjoyably jazzed up sports movies and preposterous on-pitch performances. Here are our favourites… Jason Statham - Mean Machine (2001) Burt Reynolds’ Grid Iron classic...
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