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.