I love movies about revenge. What's your favorite revenge fliks or books?

[mtnsnake]

What are your favorite movies or books about vengeance...or movies w/great vengeance scenes?

"Death Wish I" is always a must. It's gotta be near the top of the list, just because the entire movie is about revenge.

Some of my favorite movies with good vengeance scenes in them:

That famous scene in "Deliverance" where Burt Reynolds puts an arrow through that slimeball rapist's back.

The great climax to "Once Upon a Time in the West", that epic Western shot in Italy I think, with Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson. I'll never forget the look in Bronson's eyes.

That scene in "Sleepers" where the two boys are grown up and they get even with that prison guard. Take that!!

Got any recommendations on revenge movies or books that are really good ones?

[mark414]

1. boondock saints

more of a vigilante justice thing than revenge...but still good

[leftyandproud]

62. Man on Fire. Kill Bill Vol 1. *NT*

[Aristus]

2. Book:

"The Count of Monte Cristo"

Best revenge tale EVER!

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. I was just going to post that!

Damn that book is great, and the movie is good too, but not like the book.

[loudestchick]

10. which movie---the Chamberlain vehicle?

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. The one with Jesus..... I mean Jim Caviezel.

Hehehe :P

[loudestchick]

21. Now, that one wasn't half bad.

[Aristus]

11. Hey, you snooze, you lose.

:boring:

But you've got great taste in literature! :thumbsup:

[RevolutionaryActs]

19. Oh, thank you!

:7

[russian33]

28. Couldn't agree more...and want to stress the BOOK part

They ruined a wonderful revenge story with that stupid movie! If you get a chance, watch a French version, with Gerard Depardiu...much better, followed the book very well.

[Fenris]

3. "My Bodyguard"

When Matt Dillon gets the shit beat out of him.

[mtnsnake]

23. Yeah, I've seen that and watched it more than once. Good stuff

The bodyguard dude was cool.

[tridim]

31. Wow, I forgot about that movie

It was one of my favorite "early HBO" movies. Haven't seen it since I was about 10.

[slackmaster]

4. Favorite revenge flick = Twisted Brain

High school nerd gets revenge on all the teachers who mistreated him.

Massively campy and perverse, visually disturbing.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0072331/

[cruadin]

5. "The Punisher"--it has been remade, but I'm thinking of the...

one with Dolph Lungren. He's actually not bad in the role of Frank Castle, a man out for revenge.

[Biased Liberal Media]

24. I liked the remake but haven't seen the original

I didn't know it was a remake otherwise I would have watched the original before the remake!

[hippiechick]

6. There was a 'made for tv' move in the 70's

... called 'The Girl Most Likely' which starred Stockard Channing.
She was a homely, chubby, shy girl, & the clique made her homecoming queen in order to publicly humiliate her. (This was before Carrie.)

She was so freaked out at the humiliation that she fled the dance and got in this horrendous car accident and had total plastic surgery. When she recovered she went after and found everyone who had been part of the clique, and killed them.

Being a chubby, shy outcast as a teen, I thought it was the GREATEST MOVIE EVER !!! :evilgrin:


:hippie:

[Left Is Write]

16. That's what I was going to say too! Best revenge movie EVER.

My mother and I both love it. I'm still PO'd that it's not available for sale and no one ever shows it anymore.

And now I'm going to give a petty quibble. It's actually called "The Girl Most Likely To..." and she was humiliated while in a play - they gave her flowers, to which she was severely allergic.

My favorite revenges? It's a tie between the one she did to the cheerleader and the one she did to her sometime boyfriend, Herman.

[hippiechick]

63. Aahh, that's right !!

I loved the cheerleader and the window ... that was awesome !! But I can't remember what she did to Herman ...


:yourock:



:hippie:

[Left Is Write]

66. What she did....(spoiler)

She drowned him in the bathroom.

[EC]

41. Yes, everytime I see Stockard now, I think of this film

She Devil is a close second..

[Insider]

55. stockard channing made a lasting impression

great movie. great GREAT movie.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. The Quick and The Dead; Palerider; Unforgiven

And that Seagal movie, one of his early ones in which he ended up in the coma and somehow came out of the 7 year coma 3 minutes before the bad guys were coming to the hospital to kill him, but then he goes all apeshit vengeance mode on the bad guys.

He's a bad actor, but his first few films were ass kickers!

[mtnsnake]

20. The ending to The Unforgiven is worth waiting for

I was going to include that scene on my list although I wasn't sure if it could be considered vengeance or not. I guess it was vengeance for the whores, eh! Great movie.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. I love that movie!

It definitely didn't start out vengeance, but it sure turned into one!

I wasn't sure if it qualified, either, since it isn't specifically about vengeance. But there's such a delicious quantity of it in the end, I had to put it in.

[mtnsnake]

38. "Any one of you lays a hand on the whores & I'll come back & kill

every last one of you"...or something like that.

The low-key music that accompanied the climax was outright different and sooo effective.

[Rabrrrrrr]

45. "I'm coming out now...if I see anyone, I'll kill you. Anyone shoots at me,

I'll kill you, I'll kill your family, I'll kill all your friends, and I'll burn your house down."

I love that line!!

And then when he's at the end of the road he does the "Any of you (something i can't remember) the whores..." line.

[mtnsnake]

50. How'd you remember all that!!?! That was beautiful!

Now I'm gonna have to go and watch that flik again just to experience that ending in its full context!

[Rabrrrrrr]

51. I've remembered it from the first time I saw the movie

It was so over-the-top with seething hatred, my friend and I had to rewind it a couple times to make sure we learned it properly. It was the addition of "and burn your house down" that really makes it pop.

[loudestchick]

9. "Double Jeopardy" w/ Ashley Judd you can't convict her for killing

a dead man.

[cdsilv]

13. Without Remorse....

...and I also agree that the Count of Monte Cristo is the best revenge novel ever. Talk about revenge being a dish best eaten cold!

[Left Is Write]

18. That's a good one too.

We liked that one so much we bought it.

[EC]

43. forgot about this one

it was good

[Tummler]

12. Two recent movies from director Park Chan-wook

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310775/

Oldboy (2003)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

[Osamasux]

14. The new revenge movie champ is Kill Bill

Two halves of one story. Both Volume 1 and Volume 2 are absolutely fantastic. If I have to choose between them, Volume 1 gets the nod. Quentin Tarantino has raised the bar mighty high.


Honorable Mention goes to:
Payback, with Mel Gibson and Maria Bello. Good cast overall. The man is seriously focused on getting even.

[mtnsnake]

29. I've never seen Kill Bill & didn't realize it had revenge in it. It'll be

next on my list to rent!

[Osamasux]

32. Oh, yeah. That's the premise of the whole story,

to get back at everyone that wronged her. (and did they ever!) The title is her ultimate objective.

[iamjoy]

15. That South Park Episode

"Scott Ternorman Must Die"

Only Kidding

[Osamasux]

35. "I made you eat your parents!"

That was some cold sh*t.

[Lorien]

22. Never liked any of them

I don't get the appeal at all. Never understood why people enjoy "slasher films" either. :shrug:

[mtnsnake]

27. haha, you sound just like my wife!

She can never understand why I love the revenge or vigilante movies so much. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Carrie

Hard to beat having the entire school, building and all, literally being sucked into Hell.

[loudestchick]

26. What about "The Princess Bride"--Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya.

You killed my father. Prepare to die. Fabulous Line.

[tridim]

33. We have a winner!

[loudestchick]

34. Thank you!!!

[HawkerHurricane]

37. Stop saying that!

Inigo's quest for vengence was brilliant. Of course, the best line though, was Inigo's response to Count Rouga's attempt to bribe him.

Rouga: I'll give you anything you ask for!
Inigo: I want my father back, you son of a bitch!

[loudestchick]

39. And the slashes on both cheeks. Mandy Pantinkin was wonderful in the role

[tridim]

36. Animal House - "Ramming Speed!"

Revenge of The Nerds - "We've got bush!"

Rich, Republican frat boys always seem to lose in the movies. :)

[kodi]

40. the Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

"THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.'

"It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my in to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my to smile now was at the thought of his immolation."

[EC]

44. Yes, yes, yes

This is also the song on Alan Parson's Tales and Mysteries of Edger Allen Poe that makes me feel the most devious singing with it...it has a wicked feel to it...


on edit: just had to add the lyrics

The Cask of Amontillado

Lead Vocal: John Miles

By the last breath of the four winds that blow
I'll have revenge upon Fortunato
Smile in his face I'll say "come let us go
I've a cask of Amontillado"

Sheltered inside from the cold of the snow
Follow me now to the vault down below
Drinking the wine as we laugh at the time
Which is passing incredibly slow

(What are these chains binding my arms)
Part of you dies each passing day
(Say it's a game and I'll come to no harm)
You'll feel your life slipping away

You who are rich and whose troubles are few
May come around to see my point of view
What price the crown of a King on his throne
When you're chained in the dark all alone

(Spare me my life only name your reward)
Part of you dies each brick I lay
(Bring back some light in the name of the Lord)
You'll feel your mind slipping away

[Deja Q]

42. Star Trek II, VI, For Your Eyes Only, Licence to Kill, Superman II...

revenge plots are great. Especially when the villains are COOL.

[Zuni]

46. Fresh---the one with the kid drug dealer

A little black kid in NYC is a major dope runner. To get his sister out of prostition, he uses his chess skills to turn the tables on two major inner city drug suppliers and take a shit load of cash for himself

[EC]

49. Yes, I forgot about this one too

a young kid winning in the end...loved it

[EC]

47. Tape

a 3 character film, directed by Richard Linklater, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard .... all in one hotel room...very good...it's more a got ya type revenge though, no violence..

[clovis29]

48. "revenge of the nerds" (don't laugh)

[Spirochete]

52. Gangs of New York

Memento

[thebaghwan]

53. The one where Michael Douglas flips out in traffic on the L.A. freeway.

Robert Duval is in it also. Love that movie. Think it might be called The Fall.

[RevolutionaryActs]

54. Falling Down. n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

56. For a movie about the futility of seeking Revenge...

Changing Lanes.

[CanuckAmok]

57. "The Limey", "Get Carter", and "Snatch"

Don't piss off the English, boy!

[CanuckAmok]

58. "The Limey", "Get Carter", and "Snatch"

Don't piss off the English, boy!

[Kire]

59. not my favorite at all, but the archetypal revenge movie is:

"I Spit on Your Grave" with the grand-niece of Buster Keaton getting raped and beaten and raped and raped, over and over again, and then, apparently, getting her revenge. But, I couldn't get through all of the rape, so I have to trust that the revenge was sweet from the reviews. A true exploitation flick from the 70's.

[CanuckAmok]

60. I remember that one was rumoured to be "snuff", when I was a kid.

It probably would never have seen the light of day if not for that rumour.




Peter Griffin: "are...are they really going to kill that girl?"

Lois Griffin: "Shhh, Peter...people are trying to watch the movie."

[ShadesOfC]

61. Masterful

"Embers" novella by Sandor Marai

[Dzimbowicz]

64. Taxi Driver

[Bridget Burke]

65. "Live & Loves of a She Devil"

The British miniseries, not the movie with Rosanne Barr.

Delightfully over the top revenge. I believe there are DVD's--but not in the format we use here.

...I ought to check out the book.

[Love Bug]

67. "The First Wives Club" "The Count of Monte Cristo"

[Orsino]

68. Mr. Majestyk

Don't f--- with Bronson's melons.

Seriously, has there ever been another action flick where the hero girds his loins to avenge the destruction of fruit?

Must be seen to be believed.

[Beer Snob-50]

69. All the Death Wish movies, Revenge of the Nerds I

Saw part of Death Wish III on AMC last night. Oh and Carrie! The Busty Morgan (or Hart) movies also (women's sister is raped and in a coma from the rape, big breasted sister gets revenge by drugging rapist and then smothering them to death with her breasts)

[Doctor_J]

70. absence of malice

Newman should've gotten his Oscar for that one. The revenge angle is finely crafted, and the performances by Bob Balaban, Sally Field, and Wilford Brimley are great.

[Balbus]

71. Dangerous Liaisons

[StopTheMorans]

72. the Shawshank Redemption, b/c Andy takes so long to exact his revenge

[Deep13]

73. Moby, Snowblood

The king of revenge stories has to be Moby Dick. The Gregory Peck film was from a screenplay by Ray Bradbury who added the line, "May God hunt us if we do not hunt Moby Dick." Good revenge movies usually show the avenger being destroyed by the desire for revenge. Star Trek II is based on Moby Dick with Kirk substituting for the whale. Kahn even quotes from the novel. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is another revenge story which was also made into a screenplay by Bradbury. Bradbury explained at a speech in Toledo, OH in 1994 that the difference between Moby and 20,000 Leagues is that in Moby Dick, the avenger hunted the whale while in 20,000 the avenger became the whale. (For those who do not remember, Cpt. Nemo was exacting revenge on civilization for the institution of slavery.) Ultimately, both protagonists are destroyed by their obsessions.

What about I Spit on Your Grave, a rape-revenge film? Nasty piece of work. Really harsh. Most of it is shot in third person with no real insight into what the characters are thinking. Also, there is no subtlety, all the violence happens on camera without masking lighting techniques. It is one of the few commercial movies ever made with no music score. The filmmaker makes the victim suffer horribly. As the revenge unfolds, one is left to wonder two things: is it really justified? and has the victim been permenantly damaged? One of the assailants is a boarderline retard; he gets killed. Another is a husband and father, he bleeds to death after the victim lures him into a bath and emasculates him. The victim begins as a confident writer on vacation from the city to write the great American novel. She is happy to be at one with nature. After the crimes against her, she becomes a calculating asassign. She listens to opera while an assailant bleeds to death in the next room screaming. According to the commentary by Joe Bob Briggs, the story is one of civility versus the wild. It is analogous to both a settler from the city being attacked by Indians and to Red Riding Hood. At the end, the victim heads UPriver into the territory of the now dead rapists. This is a nasty, disturbing movie.

You cannot mention revenge films without High Plains Drifter, where a nameless stranger takes revenge on a town that murdered its Sheriff. This film supposedly irritated John Wayne because it completely scrapped the code of morality that had previously governed western films. The spagetti westerns did it first, but maybe the Duke had not seen them. Notice how in Fistful of Dollars Eastwood rides into town wearing a brown hat? That indicates moral ambiguity.

The best revenge film ever I think is Lady Snowblood, a Japanese martial arts film set in the 19th century. Snowblood is born in prison to a mother who dies in the process. She is raised to exact revenge on those who put her mother in jail. Nothing in a Japanese film occurs without a purpose. The weather and the scenery propels the story. The falling snow becomes a metaphor for death.

SPOILER: * * * *

Like most revenge movies, the protagonist buys the farm in the end. Upon confronting the last enemy, she makes the fatal mistake of bringing a knife to a gun fight. She kills him, but bleeds to death in the snow.

[rbnyc]

74. Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2.

First one came out soon after the car accident which ruined my wedding, ended my pregnancy, and left me having to re-learn how to walk.

Move toe!

[ceile]

75. Book: Dolores Claiborne...

Well, I guess that could be the movie too. The movies was very true to the book.