A Fistful of Scars! (Brad's Picks)

Everybody seems to love the little boy with the Lightning Bolt scar.  I think he's kinda cool.  And to celebrate that bit of kinda cool, ITMOD is running down its list of the great cinematic scars.

5.  La Chiffre's Weeping Eye (Casino Royale):  The obvious flesh wound choice from the James Bond franchise might be Blofeld's massive, hiddeous facial scar but I've gotta go with the subtle, short scar that drifts across Mads Mikkelsen's milky eye.  Plus, it sometimes weeps blood!  Neat-O!

4.  Peyton Westlake's Chemical Burns (Darkman):  Scientists should not mess with Larry Drake cuz he will dunk your ass in boiling chemicals!  And Larry Drake should make sure said naughty scientists are dead and not transformed into scarred, but pain-free mad bastards who scream for stuffed elephants!  Liam Neeson will mess you up right back.

3.  Toht's Scar of Ra (Raiders of the Lost Ark):  Oh, sharp dressed Nazi Henchman.  You were so excited to  get your hands on the Staff of Ra you didn't realize it was surrounded in flames.  But you got a souvenir and a pat on the back from your masters.  Too bad you should have burned the other half on your left hand.

2.  Debby's Two-Face (The Big Heat):  Gloria Grahame is absolutely amazing in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (one of my new all-time favorite movies).  She's the beautiful, putupon moll to Lee Marvin's short tempered henchman.  When she squeaks the wrong line at the wrong time she gets a pot of coffee in the face.  And similar to the DC Comics villain, she's transformed into a monster of revenge and a complete badass herself.

1.  Quint's Removed Tattoo Scar:  Three men sit around a table spitting "war" stories back and forth.  Then Richard Dreyfuss' asks sailor Robert Shaw about the tiny scar on his arm.  What transpires is an epic real war story about the USS Indianapolis, the delivery of the A-Bomb, and a swarm of man-eating sharks.  Absolutely haunting.  Not only is this the best scene in the movie, it's also the greatest Storytelling moment in cinema.

--Brad

A Fistful of Scars! (Matt’s Picks)

    I’m not the Potter fan everyone else seems to be.  Frankly, the fifth movie kind of killed my enjoyment of the franchise, and I’ve not read or watched anything else after  I saw it.  I keep meaning to read the last book, but it’s fallen WAY down my pile of ‘to read.’   All that aside, one can hardly miss that the film event of the week is the final adventure of the young wizards.  In honor of that and the lightning bolt on Harry’s head, let’s have a list of some of our favorite scars.

5.  Doctor Evil’s Awesome Face Cut (Austin Powers):  He didn’t go to evil medical school to be called “Mr.”

4.  Milton Dammers’ Roadmap of Pain (The Frighteners):  With his frantic madness and little Hitler hair cut, you know this guy’s been through some…well, stuff.  But when he rips his shirt open, you see it written on his skin.  Yikes.

3.  Danny Trejo (Whatever He’s In):  The man has more bumps than the moon.  His face was made for the wonders of digital.  He’s like his own make-up effects team.  Beautiful. 

2.  Jack Goodman’s Meaty Chunks (An American Werewolf in London):  He gets progressively more disgusting as the film continues, but when he first shows up to torment our young, cursed hero, Jack is not looking so good.

1.  Marv’s Face (Sin City):  Marv has been living the life, in and our of prison, for a long time.  It leaves its marks on a man, both inside and out.  But hey, there was Goldie.  She said her name was Goldie.

-Matt