If you couldn't make it to MTV News' Greatest Movie Badasses of All Time event on Friday night at New York Comic-Con, fear not. We've got the next best thing. By now you probably know that we've spent the last couple months searching for the ultimate badass. On Friday night we revealed the top ten list. We announced it at a hilarious panel featuring Method Man and Judah Friedlander that you can watch in its entirety here. But if you're the kind of badass lover who likes to cut to the chase, check out our surprise reveal of the Greatest Badass below.
We've made our picks but that doesn't mean you missed your shot to weigh in. Tell us what we got right AND wrong! After all, a true badass would never go down without a fight.
The headline above may seem a preposterous question. After all, Eastwood is 78-years-old, and hasn't gone by the name Harry Callahan since Jim Carrey went by James (check out the credits for the last "Dirty Harry" flick, "The Dead Pool"). But in a year when a new "Indiana Jones" flick is fast approaching a $300 million gross, well stranger things have happened.
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Right Place, Right Time: 'The Social Network' And Other Movies That Hit a Nerve
Posted 10/1/10 1:01 pm EST by MTV Movies Team in #NowPlaying, Commentary, News
Movies based on or inspired by real life events are commonplace, but every once in awhile one comes along that taps into something so current it hits a raw nerve with the public. This week sees the release of such a film, David Fincher's "The Social Network," based around the founding of the Facebook website, which -- at over 500 million users and counting -- is dominating human interaction the way arguably no device has since the telephone.
Currently at the height of its popularity, Facebook has been an accelerator pad for public discourse, and Fincher's film and its depiction of founder Mark Zuckerberg (the world's youngest billionaire) is less a biopic than a document of history still being written. Whether Zuckerberg and his website will still have the sway it has today five years from now is anybody's guess, but we're going to take a look back at other timely films that tapped into the zeitgeist like no others have. Read More...
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