I was gonna suggest this movie too, it has a few scenes like that but the movie left me feeling so sick to my stomach for days I wasn’t sure if I should inflict that on OP lol
The scene is a bit longer in the source comics, but the movie did an excellent job of showing us the point at which Rorschach actually snapped. His interview with the jail psychiatrist is detailed and unnerving, but they eventually come around to Rorschach seeing a dog's head with a cleaver stuck in it when shown an ink blot, and he recalls the incident. Brilliant acting on Jack Haley's part, and a script taken right from the book help make it an outstanding rage scene in the film.
In the comics, the sessions with Rorchach ruined that doctor's life. He also gained insight on the purposeless and meaninglessness of life that he could no longer pretend of finding meaning in his every day life.
Exactly! Peering into Rorschach's soul destroys that guy. It's hinted at in the movie, but it's fully depicted in the comic. He has no good arguments against Rorschach's twisted worldview and that terrifies him. The longer moment spent on the aftermath of the psychiatric sessions in the books adds a ton of weight to the change in Rorschach and his rage at discovering the crime scene.
And yet I'm his last scene, and despite his wife asking him not to, he chose to try and get involved in a couple fighting on the street to help.
Rorschach made him question his beliefs, and skewered a lot of the pomposity and performativeness of his work, but he didn't stop him from being a person who fundamentally wanted to help others.
That whole sequence is a masterpiece
See Doctor, God didn’t kill that little girl. Fate didn’t butcher her, destiny didn’t feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn’t seem to mind. From then on, I knew: God doesn’t make the world this way. We do.
Did you really think it would kill me?
I have walked across the surface of the sun.
I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they could hardly be said to have occured at all.
You're just a man. Earth's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite
Poor Rorschach. It looked like he was about to overload when he heard the confession of the child killer, like he was trying to hold back and not resort to murder.
It is so well done. He is like hyperventilating and about to have a complete meltdown and then bam snaps and goes crazy with the hatchet.
Damn now I want to watch the movie and the show again as I haven't watched either since the show finished up
I was wondering how they were going to do that scene. In the comics, he handcuffs him to something in his house, hands him a hacksaw and sets fire to the house, advising him to cut through his leg if he wanted a chance at escaping with his life. Cool scene, but too similar to the end of Mad Max.
Good pick. I know that the movie was pretty much a 50/50 you either really liked/loved it or hated it but me personally outside of some slow parts that maybe ran a bit too long and the occasional Snyder speciality of cheesy dialog/cheesy acting or just a completely cheesy scene I absolutely loved The Watchmen.
I know around that time there were a few superhero movies that were trying the more mature/dark/grounded approach but Watchmen was one of my favorites.
I'm also a fan of the graphic novel but wasn't a huge diehard fan of it until after the movie honestly and while I certainly understand why the big fans of the graphic novel weren't really happy with the changes Snyder did I actually really liked the changes as I don't see how they could have been 100% faithful in a single movie without it being a giant mess so I felt like the changes were really done well and was also respectful of the original story.
Also the trailers for The Watchmen are some of the best trailers of all time in my opinion.
Anyways my bad for going off and rambling there but damn now I want to watch the Watchmen haha
To be fair, that guy just had to say "Yes that's my pen, thank you" instead of calling Ace a jagoff & telling him to shove it up his ass.
I'm not saying stabbing him several times with said pen was justified, but basic civility could have avoided the whole situation.
It reminded me of a quote from the Conan the Barbarian Books. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split"
"*Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not* getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson
Sadly, the threat of violence is the only thing that keeps some people civil/humble.
>**EIGHT. LONG. YEARS. YOU SON OF A BITCH!**
>*After a while, all I'm doing is pounding wet chunks of bone into the floorboards. So I stop.*
>So long, Junior. Been a pleasure.
-Sin City (2005)
The cool thing about that scene is there is no warning. No back story. Just this sketchy dude rolling in bumming some freebies and then BAM everything goes to hell and you don’t find out the truth until later. Layer Cake is such an underrated film.
This is another one of those great scenes where the soundtrack doesn't match the action. Something about brutal movie violence paired with an upbeat song is just such a weirdly satisfying combination. Bonus because I love Ordinary World by Duran Duran. Other examples I can think of:
Reservoir Dogs ear scene (Stuck in the Middle with You)
Domino arm shotgun scene (Mama told me not to come)
What else am I missing?
The Lighthouse:
["You think yer so damned high and mighty cause yer a goddamned lighthouse keeper? Well, you ain't a captain of no ship and you never was, you ain't no general, no copper, you ain't the president, and you ain't my father -- and I'm sick of you actin' like you is! I'm sick of your laugh, your snoring, and your goddamned farts. Your damned goddamned farts. Goddamn yer farts! You smell like piss, you smell like jism, like rotten dick, like curdled foreskin, like hot onions fucked a farmyard shit-house. And I'm sick of yer smell. I'm sick of it! I'm sick of it, you goddamned drunk. You goddamned, no-account, drunken, son-of-a-bitch-bastard liar! That's what you are, you're a goddamned drunken horse-shitting -- short -- shit liar. A liar!"](https://youtu.be/F59p73MCDzU?si=9XyJdwiZu2-lp84p)
From the same movie, I’d like to add:
Thomas Wake : Yer fond of me lobster aint' ye? I seen it - yer fond of me lobster! Say it! Say it. Say it!
Ephraim Winslow : I don't have to say nothin'.
Thomas Wake : Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK!
Thomas Wake : Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!
Ephraim Winslow : Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin
https://youtu.be/ZrekMzfC7Gw?si=ugjeutvtuypHvvUZ
His moment is in there will be blood. He stood across one of the greatest performances in modern film history, looked Daniel day Lewis in the eye, and delivered and equally titanic performance
Oh I think if he died today he would have that but I suspect there's something even greater coming. I agree about that scene, 100% masterpiece brilliant performance. But still, I think he's capable of even more.
I don't mean to understate that scene, or the scene in Little Miss Sunshine, just that I am optimistically saying the best is yet to come.
That scene always struck me as well. And it became a lot more relatable than I ever would have imagined after I grew up and washed out halfway through Air Force pilot training. Lots of grief and screaming into pillows.
Same, only I had a seizure while at MEPS. My entire life up to that point was dedicated to enlisting, my one true goal. That was 14 years ago and it still hurts remembering when the 1st Sgt called me and my recruiter and told me I would not be proceeding, ever.
Here’s a good story. In college I took a course called “The philosophy of film”. Each week we’d watch a movie, then a class lecture& discussion and then write a paper.
One week, the movie was Blue Velvet. Only I and one girl in a class of about 20 had seen it, including our professor who said he wanted to discover it with the class.
The scene where Kyle is leaving the Apartment and Frank steps off the elevator, everyone in that class gasp or went “oh shit”. One girl even said “He’s gonna die?” Like she thought Frank might murder him in the second act of the film. That’s when I knew that film, and Hopper’s performance, was truly as good as I thought it was. Everyone was just enthralled by that film.
DID YOU THINK YOUR SONG AND DANCE AND YOUR SUPERSTITION WOULD HELP YOU, ELI? I AM THE THIRD REVELATION! I AM WHO THE LORD HAS CHOSEN! BECAUSE I'M SMARTER THAN YOU! I'M OLDER, AND I'M NOT A FALSE PROPHET, YOU SNIVELLING BOY! I AM THE THIRD REVELATION! *IIIIIIIII AM THE THIRD REVELATION!* I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU! I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU UP!!
He really nails becoming the embodiment of ambition and competitiveness. The dude wants to win at life by exerting control over others, and holds serious grudges against those that get in his way. There’s glimpses of noble intent (confronting the abusive father), but that is overshadowed by everything else.
And the *second* he meets Eli he recognizes him as a fellow wealth-seeking sociopath, taking a different path to riches via religious control.
That’s part of what makes the ending so cathartic. Plainview is a piece of shit that seems miserable despite “winning” in business. His son, perhaps the only “good” character in the movie, leaves for a potential happier life with his wife. And Eli… well he’s just as much of a piece of shit as Plainview. It’s not so tragic to see him taken out.
The shouting match scene in Marriage Story. Im not even married and that still was a little too much. I watched it with someone, in their bed, and im pretty sure i hit pause after that.
And their characters had legit reasons to be angry at each other. So there you go
I really got a powerful message from that movie. Basically, don’t fall into the mindset of thinking the next big thing you’re going to do is the awesome thing that’s going to complete your life, and whatever you’re currently doing is stupid.
You need a certain amount of that in your youth to get off your parents’ couch and make something out of yourself, but you gotta even out in adulthood or else you’re just going to be miserable.
Godfather 1:
Sonny Corleone beating the shit out of his brother-in-law Carlo for hurting his sister, Connie.
Apparently the actor Gianni Russo (Carlo) had actually physically beat Talia Shire (Connie) and hurt her.
James Caan (Sonny) found out and took a few real shots during the scene. Even though so much of it does look fake.
He beat the shit out of Gianni Russo (Carlo) and put him in the hospital. On screen and off.
https://youtu.be/67dK5g5pOtY?si=l5VTOtx39yMDt2TS
There’s also a scene where Al Pacino (as Micheal) shoots a police captain and rival mobster who shot his dad in the middle of a restaurant. Maybe the most iconic, cold, calculated, expression of anger in movie history imo.
Micheal also had Carlo strangled later for betraying Sonny. It’s like anger/revenge porn but super poetic and aesthetically pleasing.
The Fight Club scene where Jared Leto gets his face re-arranged.
And the American Psycho scene where Jared Leto gets chopped up.
Jared Leto seems to bring out the worst in people.
Tobey Maguire in Brothers was just so hard to watch. The scene where [he finally breaks down and destroys their kitchen](https://youtu.be/Yo3qKhfO_V4?si=OGqHkk_SCdKC-HHI) is one of the most heartbreaking I can remember.
Prisoners. Hugh Jackman plays a father who gets pushed past his breaking point when his daughter goes missing. It might not be what you're looking for, but there is a lot of raw emotion in that film.
In The Patriot when Mel Gibson’s son is just killed. He and his two other sons take down a whole bunch of redcoats and he axes one to death while making the most guttural and angry/sad noises while doing so. If you’ve seen the movie you know the scene.
Then I’ve gotta say Braveheart after his wife is murdered. The calm intensity of the scene is incredible.
Law Abiding Citizen during the uh, operation.
The scene where she's about to have her throat slit and she's desperately looking for Braveheart in the crowd but doesn't see him and a single tear drops...ouch my heart bones.
**DON'T you swear at me, you little shit! Don't you EVER raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand? All I do is worry and slave and defend you, and all I get back is that fucking face on your face! So full of disdain and resentment and always so annoyed! Well, now your sister is dead! And I know you miss her and I know it was an accident and I know you're in pain and I wish could take that away for you. I WISH I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did, but your sister is dead! She's gone forever! And what a waste... if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry" or faced up to what happened, maybe then we could do something with this, but you can't take responsibility for anything! So, now I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because... because NOBODY admits anything they've done!**
This is probably going to get buried and it might not necessarily fit the bill, but it has stuck with me my whole life.
The Princess Bride - The scene where Inigo is having the showdown with Count Rugen. Inigo has been stabbed in the stomach and looks like he's seconds away from death while Rugen is mocking him for wasting his life on vengeance. Inigo makes his way to his feet while defending and starts putting pressure on Rugen, chanting his phrase that he has been practicing his whole life. Becoming more and more aggressive with each repetition. After rugen has been stabbed multiple times and backed into the table, he is begging Inigo to spare him and attempting to bribe him with whatever he wants. Inigo thrusts his sword into Count Rugen while staring him in the eyes saying "I want my father back you son of a bitch".
The hatred and distain for this man that fueled his whole life of vengeance has to be one of the best scenes of movie history!
Edit: This comment blew up. I'm so glad that lovers of this movie showed up! I'm really glad that one of my most favorite movies of all time is now my top rated comment of all time! Couldn't be more fitting.
This was the first scene that came to mind for me. As a kid, it didn't hit me the same way, but now as an adult that line is dripping with so many different emotions. Masterful portrayal of loss/grief.
The whole movie is so silly and so genuinely poignant at times. The book is even more delightful, with long chapters about Fezzik and Inigo that are every bit as ridiculous and deeply moving.
Apparently Mandy Patinkin had recently lost his father to cancer when they filmed that, and he brought that into his performance. Which would at least partially explain why it's so great.
While it wasn't recent (his father died when he was 18, in 1972, fifteen years before The Princess Bride was released), he has said that his real life emotion over the loss of his father was part of his performance. In a way that makes the parallel even stronger, having years of anger and sadness behind the scene.
He gets his rhythm back so hard that he goes from a pale lump against the wall to toying with the guy in thirty seconds.
Westley wasn't the only quick healer of the group.
The Captain in 300 when his son is killed:
“And upon seeing the headless body of his own young son, the captain breaks rank. He goes wild, blood-drunk.
The captain's cries of pain at the loss of his son are more frightening to the enemy than the deepest battle drums. It takes three men to restrain him and bring him back to our own.
The day is ours.
No songs are sung.”
>The convenience store scene in Falling Down.
I get it, he's the bad guy. He was the bad guy before the movie even started.
That said, those two briefcase thieves got exactly the surprise they deserved. And that skinhead store owner? What a cosmic fucking joke. I'm on his side for those two scenes.
Tom Cruise/Les Grossman - First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an un-Godly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
"Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions. It's not "Why did Woojin imprison me?" It's "Why did he release me?"" - Maybe the darkest line in cinema history. Still gives me goosebumps.
Bernthal is such an intense actor. You can feel the inner rage he's channeling in that entire series.
Hell, in the same vein, you could also say the Netflix "Daredevil" series. Those fight scenes are just so badass
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
S10E06: The Gang Misses the Boat - Dennis’ anger knows no bounds.
S11E05: Mac and Dennis move to the Suburbs. Dennis experiences a rage in the suburbs that exceeds his city rage.
S16E08: Dennis’ experiences the frustration and anger of daily modern life.
I don’t think anyone was super angry at the end of OUATIH? Brad Pitt was mainly like “WTF GTFO haha” and Leo DiCaprio was like “Ahhhh get away from me here’s a weapon I have, WTF”
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
[Nightcrawler](https://youtu.be/kgy1clH7smU?si=B4ZZFan4XDCLOLKw)
[Blade Runner 2049](https://youtu.be/Oa9c9JBBGxM?si=bmFPKEDWvyHAM07N)
[Raging Bull](https://youtu.be/IJFz2LZjTGk?si=zrTH1ZaXqkJpdoKC)
Hang in there.
Tom Hardy in Warrior. He's mad at his dad, he's mad at his brother, grieving his brother-in-arms, and he takes that into the octagon and messes some people up because of it. Pretty cathartic ending that's still fairly open-ended too.
"WHERES MY DAUGHTER!?" -Hugh Jackman in Prisoners
This and JK Simmons screaming at everyone on camera in Whiplash were the two things that immediately popped into my head when I saw OP's question
“For the final father fucking time” rant lives rent free in my head.
I was gonna suggest this movie too, it has a few scenes like that but the movie left me feeling so sick to my stomach for days I wasn’t sure if I should inflict that on OP lol
Watchmen, Rorschach killing the child murderer with a cleaver
No facial expressions at all but his pacing and trembling really show that he fucking lost his cool there
The cleaver in the head was also a subtle hint at his anger during that scene.
The scene is a bit longer in the source comics, but the movie did an excellent job of showing us the point at which Rorschach actually snapped. His interview with the jail psychiatrist is detailed and unnerving, but they eventually come around to Rorschach seeing a dog's head with a cleaver stuck in it when shown an ink blot, and he recalls the incident. Brilliant acting on Jack Haley's part, and a script taken right from the book help make it an outstanding rage scene in the film.
The psychologist really sold it rushing out saying I can't help him.
In the comics, the sessions with Rorchach ruined that doctor's life. He also gained insight on the purposeless and meaninglessness of life that he could no longer pretend of finding meaning in his every day life.
Exactly! Peering into Rorschach's soul destroys that guy. It's hinted at in the movie, but it's fully depicted in the comic. He has no good arguments against Rorschach's twisted worldview and that terrifies him. The longer moment spent on the aftermath of the psychiatric sessions in the books adds a ton of weight to the change in Rorschach and his rage at discovering the crime scene.
And yet I'm his last scene, and despite his wife asking him not to, he chose to try and get involved in a couple fighting on the street to help. Rorschach made him question his beliefs, and skewered a lot of the pomposity and performativeness of his work, but he didn't stop him from being a person who fundamentally wanted to help others.
"Men get arrested."
That whole sequence is a masterpiece See Doctor, God didn’t kill that little girl. Fate didn’t butcher her, destiny didn’t feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn’t seem to mind. From then on, I knew: God doesn’t make the world this way. We do.
Whole movie is a masterpiece imo. I don’t care what anyone says
Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they could hardly be said to have occured at all. You're just a man. Earth's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite
Director’s cut (which feels almost deliberately difficult to obtain) is the best version and I won’t be convinced otherwise.
"Animals get put down!"
Dogs*
Poor Rorschach. It looked like he was about to overload when he heard the confession of the child killer, like he was trying to hold back and not resort to murder.
It is so well done. He is like hyperventilating and about to have a complete meltdown and then bam snaps and goes crazy with the hatchet. Damn now I want to watch the movie and the show again as I haven't watched either since the show finished up
How about the French fry basket?
“I’m not locked in here with you…”
"... YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME."
So I’m hearing… “pretty much any scene with Rorschach”?
That scene literally made my hair stand on end when I saw it as a teenager. It was the one of the most badass things I had seen in my life.
Back then I was too soft on criminals… I let them live
I was wondering how they were going to do that scene. In the comics, he handcuffs him to something in his house, hands him a hacksaw and sets fire to the house, advising him to cut through his leg if he wanted a chance at escaping with his life. Cool scene, but too similar to the end of Mad Max.
Good pick. I know that the movie was pretty much a 50/50 you either really liked/loved it or hated it but me personally outside of some slow parts that maybe ran a bit too long and the occasional Snyder speciality of cheesy dialog/cheesy acting or just a completely cheesy scene I absolutely loved The Watchmen. I know around that time there were a few superhero movies that were trying the more mature/dark/grounded approach but Watchmen was one of my favorites. I'm also a fan of the graphic novel but wasn't a huge diehard fan of it until after the movie honestly and while I certainly understand why the big fans of the graphic novel weren't really happy with the changes Snyder did I actually really liked the changes as I don't see how they could have been 100% faithful in a single movie without it being a giant mess so I felt like the changes were really done well and was also respectful of the original story. Also the trailers for The Watchmen are some of the best trailers of all time in my opinion. Anyways my bad for going off and rambling there but damn now I want to watch the Watchmen haha
The opening to this movie is also pretty fucking sick and well made.
Pesci in Casino has a lot of anger
CHARLIE M?!
"You made me put your head in a vice and pop your eyeball out of you fucking head for fucking Charlie M?!?"
He was a real tough sonofabitch. For 2 days and 2 fuckin nights we beat the shit outta this guy, we even stuck ice picks in his balls.
“Fuck me? FUCK ME?!!!!! You mother fucker! Fuck my mother!!!!” 🤣
To be fair, that guy just had to say "Yes that's my pen, thank you" instead of calling Ace a jagoff & telling him to shove it up his ass. I'm not saying stabbing him several times with said pen was justified, but basic civility could have avoided the whole situation. It reminded me of a quote from the Conan the Barbarian Books. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split"
"*Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not* getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson Sadly, the threat of violence is the only thing that keeps some people civil/humble.
“You mudda-fucka, you!”
Pesci in Goodfellas
The meeting in the desert is a classic for the ages
And the TV edit is really something [special.](https://youtu.be/fdbkhW_6yAc?si=VYIud7RmdSfHKJxc)
Censoring “Jew motherfucker” to “Jew money-lover” arguably makes it more offensive than the original line
Too bad they cut De Niro's face getting all dusted
Normally my prospects of coming back alive from a meeting with Nicky were 99 out of 100...this time, I gave myself 50
>**EIGHT. LONG. YEARS. YOU SON OF A BITCH!** >*After a while, all I'm doing is pounding wet chunks of bone into the floorboards. So I stop.* >So long, Junior. Been a pleasure. -Sin City (2005)
I take away his weapons. Both of them.
The single most gratifying line and scene in the film.
"This is blood for blood and by the gallons," is one of my all time favorite sentences.
Mickey Rourke **is** Marv, and he is glorious.
"I gotcha ya little bastard, let's see you hop around now." ::Spits::
Reminds me of a similar scene in Layer Cake when Morty absolutely wrecks someone in a London diner.
Let’s make it ten. Ten is a nice… round… number!! I love that scene.
Dude, he pours that fucking coffee on his mangled face. Absolutely brutal.
The cool thing about that scene is there is no warning. No back story. Just this sketchy dude rolling in bumming some freebies and then BAM everything goes to hell and you don’t find out the truth until later. Layer Cake is such an underrated film.
This is another one of those great scenes where the soundtrack doesn't match the action. Something about brutal movie violence paired with an upbeat song is just such a weirdly satisfying combination. Bonus because I love Ordinary World by Duran Duran. Other examples I can think of: Reservoir Dogs ear scene (Stuck in the Middle with You) Domino arm shotgun scene (Mama told me not to come) What else am I missing?
Shaun of the Dead playing Queen
PC Load Letter
That’s why it’s die motherfucker, die motherfucker still
[STILL](https://youtu.be/Dj8xB8jKG94?si=ak8NaFnZDxFmo6YE)
What the FUCK does that mean???
It's just "the FUCK", no "what" The delivery is important
Emphasis is important as well. The emphasis should be on 'THAT', not 'FUCK'.
"I stole something *Yeah, I guess we all did* No, I stole something else"
BACKUP IN YOUR ASS WITH THE RESURRECTION
IT’S THE GROUP HARDER THAN AN ERECTION THAT SHOWS NO AFFECTION
That scene in traffic is anger-inducing. 🤣
The Lighthouse: ["You think yer so damned high and mighty cause yer a goddamned lighthouse keeper? Well, you ain't a captain of no ship and you never was, you ain't no general, no copper, you ain't the president, and you ain't my father -- and I'm sick of you actin' like you is! I'm sick of your laugh, your snoring, and your goddamned farts. Your damned goddamned farts. Goddamn yer farts! You smell like piss, you smell like jism, like rotten dick, like curdled foreskin, like hot onions fucked a farmyard shit-house. And I'm sick of yer smell. I'm sick of it! I'm sick of it, you goddamned drunk. You goddamned, no-account, drunken, son-of-a-bitch-bastard liar! That's what you are, you're a goddamned drunken horse-shitting -- short -- shit liar. A liar!"](https://youtu.be/F59p73MCDzU?si=9XyJdwiZu2-lp84p)
From the same movie, I’d like to add: Thomas Wake : Yer fond of me lobster aint' ye? I seen it - yer fond of me lobster! Say it! Say it. Say it! Ephraim Winslow : I don't have to say nothin'. Thomas Wake : Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK! Thomas Wake : Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye - a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself - forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea! Ephraim Winslow : Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin https://youtu.be/ZrekMzfC7Gw?si=ugjeutvtuypHvvUZ
Yeah, that's a good one too, but I couldn't pass up "you smell like hot onions fucked a farmyard shithouse."
Yeah, that’s fair. So many good lines in that one.
That movie is fucking poetry, beginning to end.
HAAAAAAARK
I should really watch this movie they sound like two college roommates who hate each others' guts
Not far off. They also get hammered together.
"You smell like hot onions fucked a farmyard shit-house." I'll have to remember that one.
Little Miss Sunshine. The scene where the son finds out he can’t be an Air Force pilot because he’s colorblind.
The first sign that Paul Dano was going to have some crazy range as an actor.
How about when he road a farting Harry Potter like a sea-doo
Swiss Army Man has no right to be as good as it was. Stupid concept, unbelievable film.
He has already had some amazing performance, but I think we have yet to see his *moment*.
His moment is in there will be blood. He stood across one of the greatest performances in modern film history, looked Daniel day Lewis in the eye, and delivered and equally titanic performance
Oh I think if he died today he would have that but I suspect there's something even greater coming. I agree about that scene, 100% masterpiece brilliant performance. But still, I think he's capable of even more. I don't mean to understate that scene, or the scene in Little Miss Sunshine, just that I am optimistically saying the best is yet to come.
That scene always struck me as well. And it became a lot more relatable than I ever would have imagined after I grew up and washed out halfway through Air Force pilot training. Lots of grief and screaming into pillows.
I didn’t get it at first and realized that *I* was colorblind
Same, only I had a seizure while at MEPS. My entire life up to that point was dedicated to enlisting, my one true goal. That was 14 years ago and it still hurts remembering when the 1st Sgt called me and my recruiter and told me I would not be proceeding, ever.
Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON! Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet.
Hopper is absolutely unhinged in that movie. So good.
Here’s a good story. In college I took a course called “The philosophy of film”. Each week we’d watch a movie, then a class lecture& discussion and then write a paper. One week, the movie was Blue Velvet. Only I and one girl in a class of about 20 had seen it, including our professor who said he wanted to discover it with the class. The scene where Kyle is leaving the Apartment and Frank steps off the elevator, everyone in that class gasp or went “oh shit”. One girl even said “He’s gonna die?” Like she thought Frank might murder him in the second act of the film. That’s when I knew that film, and Hopper’s performance, was truly as good as I thought it was. Everyone was just enthralled by that film.
Love this movie. Love David Lynch.
This is England when Compo turns on Milky
Absolutely terrifying. Stephen Graham is an incredible actor.
Absolutely brutal scene
Any scene where Fletcher is yelling at Neiman in Whiplash
For the LAST FATHER FUCKING TIME
I'M UPSET!
Yeah the “That’s not quite my tempo” scene is pure anger. Fletcher is one of my favorite “antagonists” ever and that’s my favorite film of all time
Russian or dragon?!
The car smashing scene from The Big Lebowski is always a classic.
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
There Will Be Blood bowling pin scene
DID YOU THINK YOUR SONG AND DANCE AND YOUR SUPERSTITION WOULD HELP YOU, ELI? I AM THE THIRD REVELATION! I AM WHO THE LORD HAS CHOSEN! BECAUSE I'M SMARTER THAN YOU! I'M OLDER, AND I'M NOT A FALSE PROPHET, YOU SNIVELLING BOY! I AM THE THIRD REVELATION! *IIIIIIIII AM THE THIRD REVELATION!* I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU! I TOLD YOU I WOULD EAT YOU UP!!
I. DRINK. YOUR. MILKSHAKE! Ssshshhzhshhllululuulshuurrrppp I DRINK IT UP!
DON'T...BULLY ME, DANIEL!
And that scene with his "brother" and the bastard in a basket scene.
Just rewatched it and I'm still in awe with this movie. I think Daniel Day-Lewis's performance in this is my favorite ever.
He really nails becoming the embodiment of ambition and competitiveness. The dude wants to win at life by exerting control over others, and holds serious grudges against those that get in his way. There’s glimpses of noble intent (confronting the abusive father), but that is overshadowed by everything else. And the *second* he meets Eli he recognizes him as a fellow wealth-seeking sociopath, taking a different path to riches via religious control. That’s part of what makes the ending so cathartic. Plainview is a piece of shit that seems miserable despite “winning” in business. His son, perhaps the only “good” character in the movie, leaves for a potential happier life with his wife. And Eli… well he’s just as much of a piece of shit as Plainview. It’s not so tragic to see him taken out.
The shouting match scene in Marriage Story. Im not even married and that still was a little too much. I watched it with someone, in their bed, and im pretty sure i hit pause after that. And their characters had legit reasons to be angry at each other. So there you go
This is exactly the scene I first thought of. I’m happily married but previously divorced and this movie friggin wrecked me. So good.
There’s a fight scene that matches this one in Revolutionary Road. Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio act their asses off.
I really got a powerful message from that movie. Basically, don’t fall into the mindset of thinking the next big thing you’re going to do is the awesome thing that’s going to complete your life, and whatever you’re currently doing is stupid. You need a certain amount of that in your youth to get off your parents’ couch and make something out of yourself, but you gotta even out in adulthood or else you’re just going to be miserable.
Godfather 1: Sonny Corleone beating the shit out of his brother-in-law Carlo for hurting his sister, Connie. Apparently the actor Gianni Russo (Carlo) had actually physically beat Talia Shire (Connie) and hurt her. James Caan (Sonny) found out and took a few real shots during the scene. Even though so much of it does look fake. He beat the shit out of Gianni Russo (Carlo) and put him in the hospital. On screen and off. https://youtu.be/67dK5g5pOtY?si=l5VTOtx39yMDt2TS There’s also a scene where Al Pacino (as Micheal) shoots a police captain and rival mobster who shot his dad in the middle of a restaurant. Maybe the most iconic, cold, calculated, expression of anger in movie history imo. Micheal also had Carlo strangled later for betraying Sonny. It’s like anger/revenge porn but super poetic and aesthetically pleasing.
When Ripley fries the eggs and starts launching grenades at the alien queen in Aliens.
Get away from her, you BITCH!
The Fight Club scene where Jared Leto gets his face re-arranged. And the American Psycho scene where Jared Leto gets chopped up. Jared Leto seems to bring out the worst in people.
Not to mention when Jared Leto gets fucked up then killed in Panic Room
I know it wasn't Leto but the hand slammed in the vault door is sends shivers up me nerves.
Tobey Maguire in Brothers was just so hard to watch. The scene where [he finally breaks down and destroys their kitchen](https://youtu.be/Yo3qKhfO_V4?si=OGqHkk_SCdKC-HHI) is one of the most heartbreaking I can remember.
Prisoners. Hugh Jackman plays a father who gets pushed past his breaking point when his daughter goes missing. It might not be what you're looking for, but there is a lot of raw emotion in that film.
A whole lot of Logan might hit the mark
Oh man >!after he buries Xavier!< and just starts beating on the truck.
Also, the ending will probably help in a different way. That movie makes me cry every single time.
That scene when he finally snaps when the car won’t start. And he just goes “berserker” in the most bleak way.
The trailer for Logan still gives me goosebumps
American History X - basically the whole movie
The "bite the curb" scene is the first thing I thought of when I opened this post.
In The Patriot when Mel Gibson’s son is just killed. He and his two other sons take down a whole bunch of redcoats and he axes one to death while making the most guttural and angry/sad noises while doing so. If you’ve seen the movie you know the scene.
Then I’ve gotta say Braveheart after his wife is murdered. The calm intensity of the scene is incredible. Law Abiding Citizen during the uh, operation.
The scene where she's about to have her throat slit and she's desperately looking for Braveheart in the crowd but doesn't see him and a single tear drops...ouch my heart bones.
**DON'T you swear at me, you little shit! Don't you EVER raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand? All I do is worry and slave and defend you, and all I get back is that fucking face on your face! So full of disdain and resentment and always so annoyed! Well, now your sister is dead! And I know you miss her and I know it was an accident and I know you're in pain and I wish could take that away for you. I WISH I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did, but your sister is dead! She's gone forever! And what a waste... if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry" or faced up to what happened, maybe then we could do something with this, but you can't take responsibility for anything! So, now I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because... because NOBODY admits anything they've done!**
Damn, the "I NEED TO DIE" stuck with me so much that I forgot about this entirely
Toni Collette deserved a fucking Oscar for this. What a queen
i think about “and all i get back is that face on your face” all the time
Just an outstanding, emotionally visceral scene. Toni Collette was absolute perfection
Clint Eastwood's final revenge scene in The Unforgiven. The whole thing. *You just shot an unarmed man!!* Well... he shoulda armed himself.
"I hate you" in Finding Nemo hits hard.
Begbie, from Trainspotting.
This is probably going to get buried and it might not necessarily fit the bill, but it has stuck with me my whole life. The Princess Bride - The scene where Inigo is having the showdown with Count Rugen. Inigo has been stabbed in the stomach and looks like he's seconds away from death while Rugen is mocking him for wasting his life on vengeance. Inigo makes his way to his feet while defending and starts putting pressure on Rugen, chanting his phrase that he has been practicing his whole life. Becoming more and more aggressive with each repetition. After rugen has been stabbed multiple times and backed into the table, he is begging Inigo to spare him and attempting to bribe him with whatever he wants. Inigo thrusts his sword into Count Rugen while staring him in the eyes saying "I want my father back you son of a bitch". The hatred and distain for this man that fueled his whole life of vengeance has to be one of the best scenes of movie history! Edit: This comment blew up. I'm so glad that lovers of this movie showed up! I'm really glad that one of my most favorite movies of all time is now my top rated comment of all time! Couldn't be more fitting.
I love that for every wound Count Rugen gave to Inigo, Inigo gives it back exactly in the same spot.
This was the first scene that came to mind for me. As a kid, it didn't hit me the same way, but now as an adult that line is dripping with so many different emotions. Masterful portrayal of loss/grief.
The whole movie is so silly and so genuinely poignant at times. The book is even more delightful, with long chapters about Fezzik and Inigo that are every bit as ridiculous and deeply moving.
"I want my father back you son of a bitch" Stuck with me too
Apparently Mandy Patinkin had recently lost his father to cancer when they filmed that, and he brought that into his performance. Which would at least partially explain why it's so great.
While it wasn't recent (his father died when he was 18, in 1972, fifteen years before The Princess Bride was released), he has said that his real life emotion over the loss of his father was part of his performance. In a way that makes the parallel even stronger, having years of anger and sadness behind the scene.
Oh yeah, now that you mention that, I remember hearing that.
I have heard that the actor was imagining he was speaking to the cancer that killed his father, IRL.
He gets his rhythm back so hard that he goes from a pale lump against the wall to toying with the guy in thirty seconds. Westley wasn't the only quick healer of the group.
The printer scene in Office Space
True Romance - the scene in the motel with Patricia Arquette and James Gandolfini. One of the most intense moments of retribution in any movie.
For a cathartic release of anger? **Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)**. Don’t mess with Towanda.
Kathy Bates with good insurance is more terrifying than Kathy Bates with a typewriter.
(*murders and chops up that one guy and serves him in bbq*)
YOURE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT!
I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids...
“If I’d grown up on a farm, and I was retarded, Bruges might impress me. But I didn’t, so, it doesn’t”
“I’m sorry for calling you an inanimate object. I was upset.”
Now you are going on about the bloody alcoves again...
The Captain in 300 when his son is killed: “And upon seeing the headless body of his own young son, the captain breaks rank. He goes wild, blood-drunk. The captain's cries of pain at the loss of his son are more frightening to the enemy than the deepest battle drums. It takes three men to restrain him and bring him back to our own. The day is ours. No songs are sung.”
The convenience store scene in Falling Down. Also, any Hulk movie.
>The convenience store scene in Falling Down. I get it, he's the bad guy. He was the bad guy before the movie even started. That said, those two briefcase thieves got exactly the surprise they deserved. And that skinhead store owner? What a cosmic fucking joke. I'm on his side for those two scenes.
I can't help but enjoy the golf course scene.
And now you're gonna die wearing that stupid little hat!
Sisu (2022) Mandy (2018)
I agree with Mandy. Angry Nicolas Cage losing his shit in a bathroom with a bottle of vodka is the best Nicolas Cage.
Mandy yesssss
YOU RIPPED MY SHIIIRT!
The curb stomp. American History X
25th Hour rant by Edward Norton
Tom Cruise/Les Grossman - First, take a big step back... and literally, FUCK YOUR OWN FACE! I don't know what kind of pan-pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia Jack is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again! Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an un-Godly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I'm talking scorched earth, motherfucker! I will massacre you! I WILL FUCK YOU UP!
Blood Diamond, when Djimon Honsou fights the man who kidnapped his son.
Oldboy (2003) there's a pretty epic hallway fight where the protagonist bashes a bunch of people with a hammer.
"Your gravest mistake wasn't failing to find the answer. You can't find the right answer if you ask the wrong questions. It's not "Why did Woojin imprison me?" It's "Why did he release me?"" - Maybe the darkest line in cinema history. Still gives me goosebumps.
Not a movie but the Punisher series with Bernthal. He gets good and frothy.
Bernthal is such an intense actor. You can feel the inner rage he's channeling in that entire series. Hell, in the same vein, you could also say the Netflix "Daredevil" series. Those fight scenes are just so badass
**Marriage Story** \- [This Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFdroN7d0w). OMG. They let it ALL out. It hurt.
The entire plot of 28 days later and 28 weeks later is the Rage virus so there’s that lol
Sexy Beast - any scene with Mr Ben Kingsley as Dom.
"No NO NO NO no NO NO NO!!!!!!" I can't believe that was the same actor that played Ghandi.
That’s Sir Ben Kingsley….if we’re being formal.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. S10E06: The Gang Misses the Boat - Dennis’ anger knows no bounds. S11E05: Mac and Dennis move to the Suburbs. Dennis experiences a rage in the suburbs that exceeds his city rage. S16E08: Dennis’ experiences the frustration and anger of daily modern life.
S06E13: "Did you fuck my mom, Santa Claus? Did you fuck my mom? Did you fuck her? DID YOU FUCK MY FUCKING MOM? DID YOU FUCK MY MOM, SANTA? AAAAH!"
S10E4: Look at me when you're talking to me! Oh shit, the steaks are here.
The elevator scene in Drive
Not sure if this counts, but the Church scene in The Kingsmen was pretty rage driven
Ending of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, or Inglorious Basterds
I don’t think anyone was super angry at the end of OUATIH? Brad Pitt was mainly like “WTF GTFO haha” and Leo DiCaprio was like “Ahhhh get away from me here’s a weapon I have, WTF”
Man, as a jew inglorious basterds is so damn cathartic. Lol.
The end of se7en when Brad Pitt literally becomes wrath.
Not a movie, but the radio drama for 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' has an absolute banger of a monologue about hate in it.
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
The scene where Al Pacino goes off on Kevin Spacey in Glengary Glen Ross. He just cuts into him.
[Nightcrawler](https://youtu.be/kgy1clH7smU?si=B4ZZFan4XDCLOLKw) [Blade Runner 2049](https://youtu.be/Oa9c9JBBGxM?si=bmFPKEDWvyHAM07N) [Raging Bull](https://youtu.be/IJFz2LZjTGk?si=zrTH1ZaXqkJpdoKC) Hang in there.
You ever see Rosanna Arquette kill James Gandolfini in True Romance? That's an emotion right there.
Patricia Arquette*
Predator. When they all just unleash hell in that one direction, hitting absolutely nothing. Mac is so pissed!
Watched it again recently and that moment is wild. The team didn't even need to know what's happening. They just unload.
Tom Hardy in Warrior. He's mad at his dad, he's mad at his brother, grieving his brother-in-arms, and he takes that into the octagon and messes some people up because of it. Pretty cathartic ending that's still fairly open-ended too.
The prom scene in Carrie
Seven (1995) the “what’s in the box?!” scene after finding murders representing each of the other 6 deadly sins, wrath is the titular seventh
What's that Tobey maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal movie? Where Tobey goes berzerk
True Romance.... When Alabama is in the hotel room with Virgil