"Let's finish the game!" - Young Guns II - Blaze of Glory (1990)
So Billy the Kid and the rest of the Regulators are fucked. Lincoln County sheriff Pat Garrett has discovered his old chums holed in an old house. Billy (Emilio Estevez) and Doc (Kiefer Sutherland) have a little spat and the latter storms out when "BOOM!" Doc gets a big fat bullet to the chest. As Billy and the rest of the gang try fruitlessly to pick off the law that's got the house surrounded, our anti-heroes soon discover that they've got no options left when Doc gets up and through blood-soaked lips utters the words, "Let's finish the game."
Grabbing a pair of guns, he bursts out of the house and takes a load of gunfire as all bar Billy manage to escape as Doc drops to the ground a heroic martyr.
Rocky and Dixon go toe to toe - Rocky Balboa (2007)
After an hour and a half of watching an aging Sly doing his best to recover his former glory, the whole Rocky saga boiled down to a scrap that was better than pretty much all of the other bouts in the series. Filmed in the style of a real ESPN match, Rocky dug deep until the final round. As the seconds die down, Rocky and reigning champ Mason "The Line" Dixon go hell for leather trying to knock a new shade of shit out of each other. The result is a battle that's more tense and electrifying that anything to happen in real-life boxing - even when Tyson bit Holyfield's lug off.
"Fuck you!" - Wanted (2008)
Wesley is a bit of a pussy to say the least. First of all he lets his bitch of a boss intimidate him despite only being armed with a stapler and he's also standing idly by as his supposed best mate, not so subtly, slams his girlfriend. Things change however when he discovers he's imbued with shit-kicking assassin skills and has a cool few million dollars to his name. Naturally he responds accordingly by making his boss look like a twat before belting Barry in the face with his keyboard so hard that the letter keys and Barry's dislodged molar fly off spelling "FUCK YOU". Lovely.
Cyclops finally stomps ass - X-Men 2 (2003)
A bit of a personal one this as I was a massive X-Men fan as a kid and Cyclops was my favourite mutant. While I liked X-Men, my major gripe with it was that Cyclops was nothing short of being a bloody wuss. Letting Wolverine sniff around his slamming hot telekinetic other half, Jean Grey, Cyclops just stood there like a floppy cock whereas his comic book counterpart would have thrown down with Weapon X.
Still, in X2, we finally got to see what Cyke could do when he and Xavier visit Magneto's cell and only to find out it's an ambush. Reeling on his assailants, Scott Summers proceeds to beat the snot out of the goons with some bad-ass martial artistry before finally being put on his arse. Shame that's all Cyclops fans got out of the series really.
"Good luck!" - Taken (2008)
Really speaking, when it comes to Taken and moments to get you fired up, you could stick the entire film into this list. However, if you have to pick one stand out moment, it's got to be the moment Liam Neeson's Bryan Mills tricks his daughter's kidnapper into saying "good luck" and giving the game away - leading to Mills coolly and calmly fucking the entire room up without breaking a sweat. Nice.
"Get me Vaughn" - Major League (1989)
After giving blood sweat and tears, hopeless baseball outfit Cleveland Indians have battled their way to the final of the World Series where they take on the New York Yankees. After slugging it out for eight innings, pitcher Harris is knackered. When Cleveland's nemesis Haywood takes the plate, Indian's coach Lou Brown walks to the mound and tells Harris to take a well deserved rest as he calls in a replacement - pointing to the gate utters three words, "Get me Vaughn."
Cue an opening chord ringing out across the stadium as Rick Vaughn emerges to a frenzied crowd welcoming him to the diamond chanting Chip Taylor's Wild Thing. Hands down the coolest thing Charlie Sheen has ever done - including Denise Richards and the whole "bi-winning" thing.
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