Film: Rambo (2008)
Moment: Rambo lets loose with a .50 caliber machine gun
Remember when Sly Stallone tried to kick-start his career as a “serious actor” by putting on like 50 pounds to star in Cop Land? Yeah, he kinda gave up on that whole thing. After appearing in a string of direct-to-DVD stinkers in the early ’00s (remember Avenging Angelo?), Stallone smartly returned to the big screen later that decade in revivals of his two most famous franchises. In the 2008 reboot of his second-most-iconic lead character, Stallone once again donned the headband to play John Rambo, the invincible former Green Beret who in this installment sets out to kick some serious junta ass in war-torn Burma. The film is essentially an uber-violent ’80s-style action movie posing as a humanitarian statement (seriously, Stallone actually claimed that while doing press), and the most violent sequence of all is saved for the finale in which the no-nonsense soldier takes out a horde of enemy combatants with a jeep-mounted .50 caliber machine gun. This scene without a doubt features some of the most brutal gunshot deaths in movie history, with one unlucky dude’s torso instantly disintegrating as Stallone lays into him at point-blank range (we later see the lower half of his body spilling sickly into the road). Score one for democracy!