Cars are cool. Using cars to inflict unlimited violence on your fellow human being is cooler (as long as they deserve it). Below are the ten best examples of cars being used as weapons in movies. Note: I have included a number of accidents in this list; its still the car doing the damage.

10. Meet Joe Black

The best example of car as unintentional weapon, this short but so, so sweet clip sees perenially underrated Brad Pitt getting mowed down by not one but two automobiles in a scene resembling some kind of human Pong. Audiences cheered at this point, believing this horrendous piece of film making was over. How wrong they were.

9. Christine

Proving that CGI doth not always make the best special effects, Christine was notable for the quite incredible hair styles on show. Rumour has it that the car demanded a mullet on set.

8. Bad Boys II

When you say Will Smith, people generally cheer. When you say Martin Lawrence, people generally curl up into a ball and find their happy place. Trigger a rollercoaster of emotions as the bad boys persue the bad guys on a freeway, only for the criminals to unleash a whole auto-transports worth of brand new vehicles on to the road. Do we want them to die? Our heart says save Will, our head says destroy Lawrence.

7. Death Proof

This clip continues Tarantinos horrendous foot fetish, and also underscores how mean Kurt Russell can look when he wants to. Its a rare director who can bring something new to a scene as well worn as the car crash, so as with most things Tarantino decides to give us as much car crash as we can handle, replaying the same collision from several different angles, each more horrific than the last.

6. Batman

Tim Burtons Batman was a dark, camp misfit. Jack Nicholsons Joker brought levity to the situation, so its great to see this moment of calculated darkness as the Batmobile, remotely driven by the caped crusader, cruises its way into the perps den before inconsequentially dropping a fat bomb out the middle of its tyre. Queue a badass detonation, the car exploding out of the fire like a bat out of hell. Every single boy in the audience wanted a Batmobile from that moment on. The bomb rims have yet to make an appearance on Pimp My Ride.

5. Robocop

Yes its the toxic waste dude. Easily the grossest death scene in blockbuster history, its also an instance of great black humour as Clarence Boddicker (the dude from That 70s show, guys!) fresh from cutting his compadre clean in half, turns the wipers on to clean the blood from his windscreen, a deliciously pragmatic conclusion to a moment of ultimate horror.

4. Transformers 2

You could take any five minute segment from Michael Bays frame-buggering action extravaganza, though theres nothing quite as menacing, as plain awesome as watching Devastator transform. As cement mixers, cranes and diggers combine, there is a mounting sense of total doom. The ensuing destruction is enough to make your eyes bleed.

3. Terminator

The Terminator: I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?

Desk Sergeant: No, you can't see her she's making a statement.

The Terminator: Where is she?

Desk Sergeant: It may take a while. Want to wait? There's a bench over there.

The Terminator: I'll be back.

In the space of a minute Arnold Schwarzenegger assured his place in the Hollywood pantheon. Its easy to forget that this line is so great because the Terminator then drives a car through the front of the building. Its also a showcase of director James Camerons impeccable skills, beginning with the bland close-up of pencil on paper, followed by the innocuous, polite enquiry of the Terminator which then builds into a direct demand as it scopes the room to assess its integrity. After a further rebuttal, subtlety takes a quiet walk out the door and comes back in the form of a four-door saloon.

2. Final Destination

You can kind of see it coming. Stepping into the road, shouting her mouth off. Yet its still a shock. A great example of economical horror, a young girl receives a face full of bus. The subsequent splatter of blood is at once barely noticeable and entirely gratuitous, and the single scream that follows from one of the onlookers is a textbook example of less is more. If someone really did get hit in the face by a bus (driven by death, dont forget), this is how it would probably go.

1. The Enforcer

Alexander the Great. Genghis Khan. Harry Callahan. Of all the people in history, fictional or otherwise, Dirty Harry would be near the top of your list of people to leave well alone in a queue. This is a real standout moment in a film full of iconic Eastwood. The great thing about this scene is the difficulty in pinpointing Harrys motivation for piling his car into the front of the store. Did he just want to get things over and done with? Did he want to save the womans life? Is it because they ruined his sports jacket? Maybe all of these things contribute to the best use of car as weapon in a movie, ever.

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