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Posted: 12/25/2018 10:39:05 PM EST
Man on Fire or Law Abiding Citizen? Watched them both recently. I go with Man on Fire. Better ending and Denzel is the shit. LAC does have some great and brutal ways to end some people tough. I just wish he would have survived. What are some other great revenge movies?
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 10:43:21 PM EST
[#1]
Man on Fire.

x87.

Hands down.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 10:44:16 PM EST
[#2]
Old boy ( the original)
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:20:16 PM EST
[#3]
I love a good revenge movie and there's so many to choose from it's impossible to pick one. I mean, Unforgiven turns into a revenge flick at the end. It's such a great / common trope. Rocky IV was a good revenge flick. Death Wish? There's a zillion of them.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:21:41 PM EST
[#4]
The Count of Monte Christo
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:22:33 PM EST
[#5]
Rolling Thunder
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:23:48 PM EST
[#6]
Punisher comes to mind.

Out of the poll, Man on Fire.  LAC had a shitty ending.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:24:50 PM EST
[#7]
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:24:55 PM EST
[#8]
John Wick
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:25:35 PM EST
[#9]
Death Wish
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:25:46 PM EST
[#10]
I liked "payback"
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:25:57 PM EST
[#11]
Tituss Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:26:03 PM EST
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Punisher comes to mind.

Out of the poll, Man on Fire.  LAC had a shitty ending.
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The ending didn't fit the rest of the movie. I have no problem with him dying, but the way it happened was bullshit and ruined the movie.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:26:50 PM EST
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Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:26:52 PM EST
[#14]
Man on Fire
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:27:05 PM EST
[#15]
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A man’s dog, home, and car?    Yep, it’s up there.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:28:01 PM EST
[#16]
Dirty Work (5/12) Movie CLIP - A Whole Lotta Dead Hookers (1998) HD
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:28:46 PM EST
[#17]
I spit on your grave.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:29:45 PM EST
[#18]
Wrath of Khan
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:30:26 PM EST
[#19]
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A man’s dog, home, and car?    Yep, it’s up there.
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Monica
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:30:35 PM EST
[#20]
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:30:40 PM EST
[#21]
Hobo With A Shotgun
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:32:39 PM EST
[#22]
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TPNI
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:33:17 PM EST
[#23]
Cell phone and last supper scenes make LAC the choice.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:36:13 PM EST
[#24]
Man on Fire out of those two. Should have kept the original ending though.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:36:56 PM EST
[#25]
Of the options, Man On Fire

Honorable mentions: The Count of Monte Cristo, Payback, Death Wish and a straight-to-Netflix movie with Kevin Bacon that I'm drawing a blank on the name of. He's an everyday dude who goes after the guys that killed his son. My only gripe is they go way overboard on how they portray him not knowing anything about guns. I'm pretty sure an adult's seen enough people load a gun in movies, and on TV that they could figure it out in real life.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:39:00 PM EST
[#26]
LAC was a great movie up until the last 15 minutes.
Fucking right...Jamie Foxx beats a fucking super-brain.

Bullshit.

MoF was much better.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:41:01 PM EST
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That revenge was pretty cold and well thought out.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:42:13 PM EST
[#28]
Man on fire. Best ever is the count of monte christo.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:42:21 PM EST
[#29]
Shawshank Redemption and Mystic River are two good choices.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:44:43 PM EST
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And high plains drifter...

Edit.  Nevada Smith was a good western revenge movie also
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:44:55 PM EST
[#31]
I like both movies, but it's not even close. It would be closer if law abiding citizen had a better ending.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:47:29 PM EST
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came here to post this
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:48:25 PM EST
[#33]
Payback was my initial thought.  Of the choices, MoF.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:48:40 PM EST
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this
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:49:47 PM EST
[#35]
This one is pretty epic.

Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:50:03 PM EST
[#36]
Payback.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:51:04 PM EST
[#37]
Quoted:
Man on Fire or Law Abiding Citizen? Watched them both recently. I go with Man on Fire. Better ending and Denzel is the shit. LAC does have some great and brutal ways to end some people tough. I just wish he would have survived. What are some other great revenge movies?
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The Count of Monte Cristo.
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:53:43 PM EST
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Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:56:15 PM EST
[#39]
Revenge of the Nerds. /thread
Link Posted: 12/25/2018 11:57:32 PM EST
[#40]
Man on Fire isn't a revenge movie. The character's goal is to rescue the girl, not get revenge. So, it's not a revenge movie. Unless you're referring to the original one starring Scott Glenn, because I don't know much about that original Man on Fire movie. John Wick is a better revenge movie than Law Abiding Citizen. Law Abiding Citizen was a disappointment. The previews made it appear that Butler's character was seeking revenge against the murderers that murdered his wife and child and against the crooked Assistant District Attorney who made a deal to let them off. That was not what that movie was about. Just a man seeking vengeance on the murderers as well as those officers of the court that weren't corrupt as the previews seemed to indicate.

A much, much better "revenge" movie was Bruce Lee in "The Big Boss." Lee's character, Cheng Chao-An, moves to a small town to work with his relatives at an ice factory. The owner is using the factory to smuggle drugs in the ice and murders his entire family when some of them discover the truth. Cheng Chao-An kills the owner's son and his hench men and later goes to his compound to kill the owner and the rest of his henchmen. He kills all of them. Now, that's a true revenge movie. Another good one was "Wanted: Dead or Alive." Bounty Hunter Rutger Hauer's character is targeted by terrorist Gene Simmon's character who murders his girlfriend and best friend. He goes all out to find him and kill him, taking out his terrorist associates along the way.

Much better revenge movies than the ones that Op presented.





The scene at the end where he shoves the grenade in Simmon's mouth is a great climax. Especially after the FBI agent tells him that he will get a bonus for bringing him in alive, after he murdered his girlfriend and best friend.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:02:06 AM EST
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Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:06:52 AM EST
[#42]
I just watched LAC a couple hours ago.

I love the movie, but the director confused who the protagonist and antagonist were in the film, therefore totally botched the ending.

It could have been biblical, like V for Vendetta.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:09:55 AM EST
[#43]
John Wick is better than both of those. And a pure revenge film.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:11:12 AM EST
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Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:12:39 AM EST
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Yep. That's up there. 1 more than 2.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:13:48 AM EST
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This. I really liked the one with Jim Caviezel. Also, it is the best revenge story ever written.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:15:56 AM EST
[#47]
No Unforgiven?

Fail.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:17:17 AM EST
[#48]
MoF by far. LAC was shit in comparison.
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:19:07 AM EST
[#49]
Mandy
Link Posted: 12/26/2018 12:19:23 AM EST
[#50]
Gladiator.
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