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August 14, 2008
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"Go ahead, make my day." "Hasta la vista, baby." "Yippie-kai-yay, motherf**ker."
These are the tough guy movie lines so near and dear to our hearts. We love them because we wish we had said them. Like that time the kid in second grade stole our milk money. Or when the boss passed us over for that promotion. Or that time when we mowed down a gang of Crips with an uzi on the way to a Phil Collins concert.
The Movie: The British paean to bad Michael Bay movies, Hot Fuzz
The Tough Guy: Simon Pegg as Cornetto chomping type-A super policeman Nicholas Angel
The Situation: Angel and Danny (Nick Frost) have awakened the sleepy town of Sanford by unearthing a nasty plot of the NWA (Neighbourhood Watch Alliance), a homicidal brotherhood comprised of mostly elderly townfolk. As the octogenarian army closes in, Angel and Danny prepare to do battle, and Angel drops a tough guy line from one of Danny's favorite action movies, Bad Boys II.
What Makes It So Tough: That it's a tough guy line two-times removed. In truth, the line was not that tough the first time around when Martin Lawrence said it, and it's even more comical when Pegg says it in this American action-movie send up. But Hot Fuzz is a love letter to so-bad-they're-good action movies. So in the spirit of the occasion, we have to give them their recycled tough guy moment.
