Monday, August 22, 2011

Top 5 Revenge Movies

For this list, I'm discounting any sport rivalry movies. Because that isn’t revenge, it is more comeuppance. Or soldiers given order and/or sent on a mission (such as Munich).

Someone had to wrong you and you had to go out of your way to get payback. And/or the lead wronged someone and they are coming for payback.

My Top 5:

Braveheart - all because they killed his love.
Young Guns - all because those bastards killed John Tunstall.
Out for Justice - all because Richie killed Bobby.  
Conan the Barbarian - James Earl Jones and a bunch of jacked dudes killed Conan's mother and father.
Old Boy - this is some serious revenge. If you haven't seen it, you really should.  Don't want to give anything away.

Next 5 (Top 10):

These could have easily been the top 5.  Really tough list to make.

Memento
Revenge of the Nerds 
Unforgiven
Rushmore
The Bourne Identity / The Bourne Supremacy

Next 5:

One Crazy Summer
Batman
Rocky IV
The Limey
Kill Bill Vol. I

Honorable Mention (alphabetical):

Boondock Saints
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
Cache
Death Wish
El Mariachi
Election
Evil
Friday the 13th
Matewan
Mean Girls
Nothing to Lose
Office Space
Point Blank / Payback
Porky’s
Red Hill
Road to Perdition
Robin Hood (Original)
Sleepers
Snatch
The Crow
The Firm
The Player
Thelma & Louise
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Troy

4 comments:

  1. You should really make time to watch “I Saw the Devil”.

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  2. I've seen it. It didn't make my list.

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  3. Really? I think it was too long, and got carried away a bit. But still thought it was a good revenge movie. And the beginning was insanely disturbing for me.

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  4. It's not bad, just not worthy of being listed here. I'm not a fan of torture porn without a gripping story. There was no cat and mouse in that movie - and I was craving it.

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