Battle of the Revenge Movies

[lordofdance]

Just pick 10 movies where the main character gets even with somebody that did him/her wrong. After at least 5 movies get more than one vote, then the next round will start.

My nominations:

Foxy Brown
Tombstone
Ms. 45
Unforgiven
High Plains Drifter
I Spit On Your Grave
Harakiri
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Coffy
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

[dontdigonswine]

Once Upon a Time in the West
Oldboy
Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2
Life Aquatic
Taxi Driver (society?)
True Romance
The Departed (that ending!)
21 Grams
V for Vendetta (wow, i was really running out of ideas)

[captainofbeef]

Amadeus
Shawshank Redemption
Platoon
For A Few Dollars More (Van Cleef)
Mystic River
Mad Max

[criterionmaster]

Pulp Fiction (can't believe no one said this yet)
I Spit On Your Grave
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Memento
Harakiri
True Romance
Life Aquatic

Does Seven Samurai count since the villagers are getting revenge by hiring the samurai? I will come back with more sometime soon, and once I see some other choices.

[ie]

Enter the Dragon (Pretty much anything by Bruce Lee. )
Harakiri
Jaws
The Big Lebowski
City of God
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Ong-bak
21 Grams
Memento
and I'll just go with the Shawshank Redemption just because it seems alright

I'd say the Seven Samurai doesn't really count. The samurai are called in to guard the town, not to go out and take out the bandits.

[criterionmaster]

ie said:

I'd say the Seven Samurai doesn't really count. The samurai are called in to guard the town, not to go out and take out the bandits.

Hmm, that's a good point. Yeah, I guess it probably wouldn't count then.

[wkw]

Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
Three Colors: White
Hero (sort of)
Leon - The Professional
City of God
A Better Tomorrow I & II
Bullet in the Head
Lady Snowblood
Hamlet
The Shaolin Temple

[kiddo]

Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)
Three colours: White (Kieslowski)
Thriller – en grym film (Vibenius)
Unforgiven (Eastwood)
Oldboy (Park)
Zatoichi (Kitano)
Phantom of the Opera (Lubin) - not sure if this count

(those I can think of for the moment)

[Evan]

Dracula
The House on the Edge of the Park
Grizzly
Devil Dog: Hound of Hell
Robocop
Beast of Blood
The Crippled Masters
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Mad Max
The Terminator

[criterionmaster]

Definitely Bride Wore Black, which I watched kinda recently. I will give some comments on it in the Truffaut thread though.

[criterionmaster]

How did no one say Brick?! "Break some deserving teeth." That has to count.

[dontdigonswine]

Good point. The Maltese Falcon would qualify too

[criterionmaster]

just saw coffy and that was an amazing revenge film. so much revenge was going on in it, it seemed as though there was a bunch of different people trying to get revenge in the film.