Most Violent Scenes in Movies

[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.

[mrtr33]

Christian Bale is great as the new Batman. And I loved him in The Prestige. And I thought Equilibrium was good as well. American Psycho kind of disturbed me, but it had some great lines.

[slcraiders]

The Puppet Sex scene in World Police.

...oh shit, wrong thread.

[bigwhiteash]

The Puppet Sex scene in World Police.

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LMFAO

[Maduro Man]

The Puppet Sex scene in World Police.

...oh shit, wrong thread.

LOL!!!

[cigar no baka]

I find that violent scenes in movies don't really get to me unless the violence is portrayed in a very realistic fashion, with no sanitization. Most so-called violent scenes and movies have cartoonish, sanitized violence so it fails to get any reaction from me.

Thus, that's why I said the scene in Saving Private Ryan was the most violent. The death scene is not sanitized, and the horrific reality is right in your face; the Nazi soldier is taking great, personal pleasure in slowly inserting the knife into his heart, and you see the blood, you see the horrified desperate look on his face as the knife goes in. And you can almost feel the knife go in; you can perceive the essence of a dying man, and the hatred and glee that the Nazi feels as he snuffs out his life.

To me, that is more horrifying and violent than all the car chases, explosions, and Hollywoodish machine-gunning of foes tthat I have ever seen.

[mrtr33]

I agree with CNB.

There are some scenes with almost a comical display of horror/violence. That wasn't what was so much intended in this thread. I found it personally uncomfortable to watch Rocky III. Unfortunately, for me, kung-fu movies don't do much for me in the way of terror or violence. While I realize it's all Hollywood behind these movie scenes, it's like comparing backyard wrestling with WWF wrestling.

Possibly for another thread, would be sadistic bad guys. For that, I would vote Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, as the Nazi officer who stands on his roof picking off the working Jewish population below, Peter Stormare in almost everything he's been in, or Jason Issacs in The Patriot.

[rsanz]

I find that violent scenes in movies don't really get to me unless the violence is portrayed in a very realistic fashion, with no sanitization. Most so-called violent scenes and movies have cartoonish, sanitized violence so it fails to get any reaction from me.

Thus, that's why I said the scene in Saving Private Ryan was the most violent. The death scene is not sanitized, and the horrific reality is right in your face; the Nazi soldier is taking great, personal pleasure in slowly inserting the knife into his heart, and you see the blood, you see the horrified desperate look on his face as the knife goes in. And you can almost feel the knife go in; you can perceive the essence of a dying man, and the hatred and glee that the Nazi feels as he snuffs out his life.

To me, that is more horrifying and violent than all the car chases, explosions, and Hollywoodish machine-gunning of foes tthat I have ever seen.

I find that movie really moving and hard to watch but watch it quite often, lest we forget. Once I asked a German speaker what that soldier was whispering into Mellish's (?) ear as he killed him and he said 'for you it is easy' or some such sympathetic thing. I never had the impression it was glee in the German soldiers heart, more a sense of mutual respect...

Anyway, my vote for most shocking violence in a movie would be the sudden, and very realistic, domestic violence in Once Were Warriors.