Most Violent Scenes in Movies

[TampaSupremo]

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

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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!