Most Violent Scenes in Movies

[mrtr33]

I was wondering if anyone had a memorable violent scene from a movie. I'm not talking so much blood and gore from a horror flick, as an action - fighting kind of scene.

I'm thinking of:
James Gandolfini and Patricia Arquette in True Romance
Charlton Heston's chariot race scene in Ben-Hur
Russel Crowe vs. the centurions and tigers in Gladiator

Well, that should be good to get started.

[JFellows]

Al Pacino's final shootout in Scarface
The lobby shootout from The Matrix (though that's pretty stylized)
Many scenes from Flags of our Fathers (especially the "Bonzai" cave scene...you know what I'm talking about)
Mel Gibson going apeshit with his tomahawk in The Patriot

Just a few that come to mind.

[bigwhiteash]

Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen). cutting off the cops ear and dowsing him in gasoline in Reservoir Dogs.

[nhcigarfan]

Does anime count? The original animated release of "Fist of the North Star" was crazy. When certain "masters" would hit people their bodies or body parts would sell up until they exploded with blood and gore everywhere. No the most fluid movie but pretty cool on the violent meter. IMO.

[Newfie]

My first thought was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

[bhands]

the second scene in the new 007 movie when they are jumping and swinging from everything in site.

[bigwhiteash]

My first thought was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

that was BRUTAL

All the more horrifying because apparently, it's fairly accurate historically. (wans't there my self)

[Maduro Man]

Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen). cutting off the cops ear and dowsing him in gasoline in Reservoir Dogs.

I am with you on this one Ash…One of my all time favorite movies too. But the craziest thing about this scene is that you don’t even get to see the ear actually being cut off…The camera pans away and lets you think of what it may have been like to see it. All we get to see is the aftermath. But this scene gets my vote as most violent scene. Hands down…

[BDurrani]

Everything in 300.
Godfather Part 1 where Sonny gets shot up and when the baby is being baptized.
The Departed - Raid scene and ending scene. (don't want anyone to get spoiled who hasn't seen it)

[cigar no baka]

To me, the most horrifying scene yet is at the end of Saving Private Ryan. When the Jewish American soldier is struggling with a Nazi soldier, and the Nazi overpowers him, as he pleads for his life. The Nazi slowly but surely pushes a dagger into his heart, looking him right in the eyes muttering something as he kills him. I can hardly watch that scene again, the sheer inhumanity of such cold-blooded gleeful killing really makes me sick.

[TampaSupremo]

My first thought was the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

+1

Also, in We Were Soldiers after the miscalled napalm drop. The photographer grabs a guy by the ankles and his skin slides off. I cringe every time no matter how much I try to prepare myself mentally.

TampaSupremo

[heftysmokes]

The first one I thought of was a little more light-hearted than the war movies, but I've got to go with the scene where The Bride chops up the Crazy 88's gang in Kill Bill.

Actually, now that I think about it, pretty much every fight scene in the Kill Bill movies is over-the-top violent (the massacre at the church, the fight in the trailer house, putting and end to Buck, etc.) but instead of disgusting or horrifying me, they just crack me up.

[mrtr33]

There has been lots of violence pointed out in the movies above, and on purpose I didn't include anything from the Lord of the Rings (even though there was a time when I knew exactly which scenes to skip to on the DVD's to just watch the fight scenes), or anything from Pulp Fiction. I actually laughed the first time I saw John Travolta "accidentally" shoot Marvin's head off in the back of the car. It wasn't that violence or any action fighting was absent from these movies, but the action was used for action and humor, respectively; not the emotion we are targeting in this thread.

Other movies I am nominating for intense violence: Rocky 3, where the boxing scenes with Mr. T make me cringe, and a Christian Bale movie called Equillibrium, very Matrix-like, but years earlier. Oh, also the last fight in Blade. Yikes. The last two movies are just kind of so overly choreographed, it kind of loses it's effect.

[stjohnroe]

The final church scene in the Killer (John Woo, Chow Yun Fat), absolutely classic GunFu.

[bigwhiteash]

Most of the battle scenes in Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World, are very violent, and portrayed in a way that is very intense.

Tall ships and naval battles have always held a fascination to me. what a Brutal life, to serve on a vessel like that

The Lord of the Rings movies are among my all time favorites, but the battles have more of a fantasy feel to them, so they seem less violent to me.

[WhiteWidow]

There are many great scenes, but the most recent one I've seen was in another Christian Bale movie called Harsh Times, he and his buddy are sitting at a table trying to sell a gun to some Mexican pimp in a creepy Mexican dive, when all of the sudden another dude comes out of nowhere and just gashes the pimp's neck wide open at which point he slumps to ground and is laying there while his remaining blood pumps onto the floor.

[Lopaka]

The opening scene in Hard-Boiled (Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo)

I think there is more shotting in the opening scene then most war movies!

[mrtr33]

Christian Bale has certainly attracted the violent movies, huh? I still have trouble listening to Huey Lewis and the News........

The opening scene of Nightcrawler attacking the White House and almost getting the President in XMEN 2 was pretty cool.

[WhiteWidow]

Christian Bale has certainly attracted the violent movies, huh? I still have trouble listening to Huey Lewis and the News........

The opening scene of Nightcrawler attacking the White House and almost getting the President in XMEN 2 was pretty cool.

Dude has to be the best actor doing anything right now. American Psycho is my all time favorite

[Mizicke5273]

Sin City, just about every scene in that movie has some good o violence in it. Also happens to be one of my favorites as well.