# Most viscerally satisfying moments in movies ("just deserts," etc) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830 "2008-04-18T03:02:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/181 "2008-06-17T22:16:00Z")
[QUOTE=Lysitheia] Band of Brothers, when Liebgott kills the commandant of the camp they liberated. [/quote] I liked the scene where the well-to-do German citizens from the nearby town are forced to bury the bodies in the camp. In particular, there’s one plump banker-looking guy in a furlined suit who’s weeping uncontrollably as he’s hauling around these emaciated corpses. You can see in his face the utter, total defeat of Germany, not only in military terms, but in moral terms: not only has his nation lost the war, but he’s just realized that his nation _deserved_ to lose the war. That they’ve been the villains all along. > [@](#): > > Henry V, when > > Henry gives the traitors their death warrants, making them think they’re actually getting commisions from him. Watching the blood drain slowly from their faces as they read is priceless. Brian Blessed cracking the third guy across the face after he pulls off his chain of office was the best part of that scene. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/182 "2008-06-17T23:50:17Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] And of course Vir’s little wave to his severed head, complete with flashback to when he said that’s what he wanted to Morden. [/QUOTE] Oh, gods, yes! That was possibly one of the best payoffs of an almost-forgotten scene in television history…just remembering it gives me the giggles. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/183 "2008-06-18T00:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Oh, gods, yes! That was possibly one of the best payoffs of an almost-forgotten scene in television history…just remembering it gives me the giggles. [/QUOTE] My room mate hates Babylon 5 (I can’t figure out why), but he LOVES that scene. Just something irresistably charming about the goofy little fat guy coming out on top, especially against the smooth charming asshole. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/184 "2008-06-18T01:04:14Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Just something irresistably charming about the goofy little fat guy coming out on top, especially against the smooth charming asshole. [/QUOTE] Whose head is severed? I watched until they changed Captains and the new guy grew a beard. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/185 "2008-06-18T01:05:23Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Whose head is severed? I watched until they changed Captains and the new guy grew a beard. [/QUOTE] Mr. Morden, the suave guy who just wants to give people what they want. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/186 "2008-06-18T01:17:11Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I watched until they changed Captains and the new guy grew a beard. [/QUOTE] They changed captains in the second season. He grew a beard at the end of the fourth season. You haven’t really narrowed down the time frame in which you stopped watching the show, there. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/187 "2008-06-18T01:33:12Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] They changed captains in the second season. He grew a beard at the end of the fourth season. You haven’t really narrowed down the time frame in which you stopped watching the show, there. [/QUOTE] I obviously did not watch regularly. Particularly annoying were the security guy being a drunk and shaving his head; the boxing show and the metamorphosis whats-her-name went through. Perhaps I should have paid attention. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/188 "2008-06-18T02:28:49Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I obviously did not watch regularly. Particularly annoying were the security guy being a drunk and shaving his head; the boxing show and the metamorphosis whats-her-name went through. Perhaps I should have paid attention. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Hey, all key elements of the show, actually, at least key elements of the characters. Well, TKO (boxing episode) wasn’t key anything, it was just fun. Incidentally, the Captain didn’t get a beard until the 4th season of the show, around the same time we got the third or fourth (depending on if you count Ivonova during Season 4) commander of Babylon 5 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/189 "2008-06-18T02:43:12Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] From _Braveheart_ where that English Lord kills William’s wife. William’s storms back into the village with a vengance, kicks all the guard’s asses, pushes the lord around in the mud for a few then cuts his throat. [/QUOTE] I prefer the moment when the princess tells the guard, “the king is dying and his son is a weakling. Who do you think will be in control here?” And I love when she whispers that she is pregnant … a little corny, but deeply satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/190 "2008-06-18T02:57:42Z")
_Serenity_, I got a little overzealous and actually flipped off The Operative when… he realizes that Serenity is leading 30,000 hungry Reavers to the party. Also, in _Gladiator_: When Commodus has been disarmed by a wounded Maximus; he shouts to the guards for a sword, and the captain orders his men not to comply. ---
**Author:** ![gnagtcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@gnagtcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnagtcha)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/191 "2008-06-18T02:57:56Z")
A very young Beau Bridges pitted against two drunk thugs ( Tony Mussante and 1st timer Charlie Sheen ) in a kinda obscure movie called The Incident. Tony and Charlie terrorize people on a subway train and when it finally involves a little girl ( whose father is played by Ed McMahon ) Beau, who’s left arm is in a cast, takes on knife-wielding Tony and in a great scene, after being stuck in the gut, smacks his cast across Tony’s face knocking him out. To me, that was just so. . . right. Anyone else ever see this movie? ---
**Author:** ![gnagtcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@gnagtcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnagtcha)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/192 "2008-06-18T03:00:36Z")
Sorry, not Charlie Sheen, but Martin Sheen. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/193 "2008-06-18T04:38:02Z")
There was an episode of Law and Order where this bad guy murdered several people while escaping to Canada, which has a law against extraditing people to countries for crimes that they could get the death penalty for. One of the ADAs from New York says that adhering to this policy could potentially turn Canada into a haven for murderers and such on the run from the law in the US, to which the bad guy’s attorney replies that they can’t make legal decisions based on pure conjecture. All through this, of course, the main bad guy has this smug smile, and even freely admits to killing each of the people he did, in front of both sets of attorneys and a Canadian judge presiding over the extradition hearing. So the New York prosecutors change their request. Instead of requesting that the guy be extradited for murder, they ask that he be extradited on a charge of grand theft auto, because he stole a car during his escape to Canada. The Judge immediately approves the request, and when the defense attorney claims that the New York prosecutors will just charge him with murder and execute him once he is back in the US, the judge repeats the guy’s line about how they can’t make legal decisions based on pure conjecture. At this point, you see the smug smile just suddenly drop from the bad guy’s face, and the next scene is him being escorted down a hallway to a holding cell where he will be handed over to the American authorities, complete with a big US flag hanging on the wall in the background. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/194 "2008-06-18T06:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=gnagtcha] Anyone else ever see this movie? [/QUOTE] Thank you! I saw this movie a long time ago on TV in Switzerland, but I could never remember the title or who was in it. The other people in the subway car just pretended they didn’t notice the two thugs terrorrizing everybody, and at the end, they all file out of the subway car leaving our hero lying on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/195 "2008-06-18T09:09:57Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Oh, gods, yes! That was possibly one of the best payoffs of an almost-forgotten scene in television history…just remembering it gives me the giggles. [/QUOTE] I’ve been catching up on the series with onDemand cable TV, I saw the first scene with Mr Morden in B5 and remembered the glee when Vir was able to wave at Mr Morden’s severed head 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/196 "2008-06-18T11:43:52Z")
The Cooler: One of the managers who is trying to modernize the casino snaps and beats the crap out of an obnoxious tourist who was making fun of him ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/197 "2008-06-18T12:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] There was an episode of Law and Order where this bad guy murdered several people while escaping to Canada, which has a law against extraditing people to countries for crimes that they could get the death penalty for. One of the ADAs from New York says that adhering to this policy could potentially turn Canada into a haven for murderers and such on the run from the law in the US, to which the bad guy’s attorney replies that they can’t make legal decisions based on pure conjecture… [/QUOTE] I remember that one and it was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/198 "2008-06-18T16:18:51Z")
I just saw _Waitress_ for the first time. Our heroine has finally had her baby, and her irritating, disgusting, sniveling, abusive snot of a husband speaks up: > [@](#): > > Earl: Hey. You remember what I said - don’t you go lovin’ that baby too much. > > Jenna: I don’t love you, Earl. I haven’t loved you for years. I want a divorce. > > Earl: [laughs] Well, that’s not a funny joke. You got this new baby here, you shouldn’t be making jokes like that… > > Jenna: I want you the hell out of my life. You are never to touch me, ever again. I am done with you. If you ever come within six yards of me, I will flatten your sorry ass and I’ll enjoy doin’ it. After a whole movie’s worth of Earl, that was a _deeply_ satisfying moment. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/199 "2008-06-18T19:54:48Z")
It’s a cheesy movie, but I love the end of Sleeping With the Enemy, when the abusive husband is menacing her, and she holds him at gunpoint while calling the police. He’s still smug, no doubt thinking the police and courts aren’t going to stop him from tracking her down again and punishing her. Then he hears her say to the 911 operator, “Yes, I’ve just shot an intruder.” She gives him just enough time to digest that, then blammo! One of my favorite scenes in Rome is Pullo’s been living happily with Gaia for a long time, never suspecting that she murdered his beloved wife and unborn child. Finally, Gaia is on her deathbed, and confesses (IIRC). Never mind that she’s hours or less away from dying anyway, Pullo slowly and deliberately strangles her. I also really like this [scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HP_ehhI4UM) in Only the Lonely, when John Candy’s character finally stands up to his bitchy mother. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830.md?page=9)