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As to exactly what “getting medieval” involves, let us turn to the indomitable Mr. Pin:
Two I liked very much (kudos for mentioning Dangerous Liaisons though) -
**A Few Good Men - ** “I’m an officer in the United States Navy and you’re under arrest you son of a bitch!”
**Eye for an Eye - ** “I know what you’ve done here.” “Prove it.”
What? No love for the closing scene of Mad Max?
I have to heartily agree with the nominations of Sleeping with the Enemy and Wizards (I cheered out-loud at both when I first saw them… which is unheard of from me…pun intended) and nominate Die Hard when Professor Snape falls. May not qualify as come-uppance though.
Liked the Quiggly one and Princess Bride also.
The Man Who would Be A Super, Syndrome, gets pulled into a jet engine by the cape of his costume.
Very symbolic.
Yeah, well if getting your cock shot off by Ving Rhames is just the preamble to your comeuppance, you know you’re in big trouble.
George: Hey you, get your damn hands off, oh.
Biff: I think you got the wrong car, McFly.
Loraine: George, help me, please.
Biff: Just turn around, McFly, and walk away. Are you deaf, McFly? Close
the door and beat it.
George: No, Biff, you leave her alone.
I also nominate the real-life comeuppance of Joe McCarthy… “Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
This was weirdly aprops, as I juuuust got through watching “Good Night, And Good Luck.”
And once again lowering the whole tone of the thread, I’ll nominate the last fifteen minutes of Animal House.
No, no, no - most of these are just crude violence.
The best comeuppance ever was in Pretty Woman:
Quentin Tarantino is the master of the comeuppance scene. I too love the Butch saving Marsellus’s ass scene in Pulp Fiction.
Both. But I was referring to the latter.
I just watched Open Range with Costner and Duvall.
“Are you the one that killed my friend?”
Blam!! right in the head.
And, the scene in Powder where the kind of a dick hunter got to feel what the deer felt and could never hunt again.
Right on! Just saw it for the first time last night myself! Probably on the same channel as you.
Can’t wait for Broken Trail tonight and tomorrow night.
Does anybody else remember Duvall, Joe Don Baker, and Robert Ryan in an oldie called The Outfit? Ryan surely gets his in fine fashion and Duvall is right there for that one, too.
Is that site a parody or actual book covers?
Actually, it wasn’t sheriff’s deputies – it was the officers of Delano’s own police department. They had unknowingly pulled over their new boss.
This distinction is important because the killer lived (and practiced his vile trade) just outside of the city limits, in the county, where the Delano police had no jurisdiction. Ultimately, Watts has to get the feds involved and a federal search warrant to search…
My nomination isn’t a movie --it’s a scene from Orson Scott Card’s book The Lost Boys. A bright elementary school student is hounded, ostracized, and picked on by his class, but the abuse is begun and continued with the encouragement of his teacher. At one point, he makes a diorama that wins first prize, but she tells her class that another child won and awards that child the blue ribbon. The father, who at first couldn’t believe that a teacher would do such things, had admonished his son not to make things up… but ultimately he visits the school, and learns from the principal ( who is herself unaware of the goings-on) that his son did win the prize. So he goes in to talk to the teacher, and gets her to admit to some of the worse goings-on… then turns to leave, at which point the teacher says that she’ll deny having this conversation and he’ll just look like an overeager parent supporting his son.
Then he pulls from his pocket the little Radio Shack micro-cassette recorder that was running the whole time.
It was a great moment.
They’re real, believe it or not.
Oh, yeah!! This was the BEST!! I never saw that end coming–'twas beautifully done, and SO well-deserved! I just sat there for a few seconds going :eek: and then I cheered, while laughing my butt off!
Yes! That movie is awesome.
Jack Bauer shooting Nina Meyers.
Jack Bauer shooting Christopher Henderson.