8 Ball-Busting Scenes That Leave All Men Crossing Their Legs

4. Inglourious Basterds -€“ Barroom Shootout

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Tarantino isn't above a good bullet to the crotch moment; Django Unchained had Candie€™s lackey Cash getting rightfully punished and Pulp Fiction has a violated Marcellus Wallace enact revenge on captor Zed with a shotgun. But it a standout scene in his 2009 return to form that makes this list.

In the film€'™s best scene not containing Christoph Waltz'€™s Oscar-winning performance as Jew Hunter Hans Landa, we see Michael Fassbender€™'s British actor team up with the titular vengeance gang and pose as a Nazi soldier to liaise with German film star Bridget von Hammersmark as part of their plan to kill the Führer. The plan goes awry when a German officer notices something afoot; Lieutenant Hicox puts up a good show, but in a typical Tarantino-esque flourish, a small social tick gives him away.

In an R-rated version of Han shot first, both have their guns pointed at the other€™s balls. It racks up the tension in a scene that already had the audience on edge and when it explodes (this is Tarantino after all), no man can help but wince at the cruellest of deaths for the Nazi, despite it being particularly graphic or even all that suggestive.

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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.