Recently a favorite website of mine posted up a video documenting Christopher Walken's most awkward moments of all time. After viewing it the wheels started turning in my head as to the favorite moments of some of my favorite actors.
Naturally, my thoughts turned to the best of the best. The Baron of Bad ass. The Man.
Sam Jackson.
Much like Christopher Walken, there really isn't an actor quite like Sam Jackson. He's loud, funny, bad ass, nerdy, and seemingly pops up in everything. His name is synonymous with the phrase "Mother Fucker" and many other unforgettable lines of dialogue. What are those lines? Well, I can't spoil the ending.
So without further delay, here are my ten favorite Sam Jackson moments.
10. Nick Fury
Nerds all over the world creamed their pants when rumors ran wild that Sam Jackson would be have a cameo in Iron Man as none other than the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D, Nick Fury himself. Then rumors ran again that Sam had been cut from the film and the dreams of nerds world wide were crushed.
But thankfully after the credits this small little gem came up, teasing us with what was to come for Iron Man and Marvel films in general.
9. "This party's over!"
The good things in the Star Wars prequels are few and far between, but Sam was definitely one of them. After being kept on the sidelines during the first film, Mace Windu finally gets his chance to shine at the end of Episode II. Not only is Sam the only person that could make a purple lightsaber look cool, but he also makes short work of the galaxy's most feared bounty hunter. After bossing around Count Dooku, Mace gets into a short fight with Jango Fett which ends with Mace cold heartedly beheading him! Mace is one Jedi you do not mess with
8. Shaft
If there was one role Sam was born to play, it was John Shaft. Though the film was pretty forgettable, Sam did his best to show why he is who he is. Many moments of badassery (I just created a word) were abound, including Shaft using a police badge as a ninja star! The scene below is just one small example of what awaits you when you sit down to watch Shaft
7."Inglewood Jack! Inglewood Jack!"
I don't know where the idea to have Jules Winfield from Pulp Fiction coach a youth hockey Red Wings team, but I don't care! This skit is a classic and probably more quotable than most SNL skits. Sam Jackson shows he doesn't mind spoofing the foul mouthed image he has created for himself, and hilarity ensues!
6. The Spirit
Without Sam Jackson, Frank Miller's The Spirit probably would have been much, much worse(and that's saying something). Sam plays The Octopus, a villain who claims to have "eight of everything"(?) and employs various hot chicks/retarded clones to take out his arch nemesis, The Spirit. Whether its goofy disguises like a samurai or a Nazi, ranting about his love of eggs, or just plain being himself, Sam is truly unique in this. Yes he is over the top but he had to do something to out do every other actor sleepwalking through the film. Here is just one small sample of Sam's love of eggs in The Spirit
5. "They ate me! A fucking shark ate me!"
One of the most sudden deaths in cinema history. After being subdued for most of the underwater horror film The Deep Blue Sea it seems like Sam's inner badass finally comes out! Alas it was too little too late because, well, take a look...
4. The Long Kiss Goodnight
Basically The Bourne Identity with boobs, The Long Kiss Goodnight contains too many classic Sam moments to count. Whether its telling someone that "When you make an assumption, it makes an ass out of you and umption!" or "You will go to prison, where you will be ass raped on a daily basis. And if you don't go to prison due to the violent nature of this arrest, I will hire people to ass rape you for my own personal satisfaction!" Sadly Sam spends most of the film as a sidekick to Gena Davis' super agent with amnesia, but he does have many good moments. The clip below illustrates the movie's awesomeness in just a few short seconds...
3. Sam's opinion of the death penalty
A Time to Kill is a legal thriller based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. Sam plays a man who murders the men who raped and beat his daughter; Matthew McConaughey is the hot shot lawyer defending him. Hilarity ensues.
The following scene is what happens when the mustache twirling evil lawyer played by Kevin Spacey gets his chance to cross examine Sam.
2. Sam's animal control
I really can't say much about Snakes on a Plane other than it spawned one of the best Sam moments of all time. Originally this line was not in the film but the fan outcry for it was so loud that the filmmakers went back and re-shot the film, adding in the now legendary line of dialogue. I'm pretty sure no one would know about this movie if not for this little gem...
1. Pulp Fiction
This film changed cinema in many way. Not only did it resurrect John Travolta's career, establish Quentin Tarantino as a major director, but it also made Sam Jackson the man we all know and love today. Many classic moments and lines are in this film, hell Jules Winfield steals any scene he's in and earned Sam an Oscar nomination! But when looking for Sam's best moment in Pulp Fiction, I had to go back to the classic moment at the beginning that started made movie watchers from all over bust out their bibles again...
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