# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**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:** [April 21, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/141 "2008-04-21T19:02:27Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] Did you mean this move? [Pocahontas](http://imdb.com/title/tt0114148) [/QUOTE] That post was viscerally satisfying for you, wasn’t it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/142 "2008-04-21T19:06:37Z")
**Boondock Saints** , the courtroom scene at the end, and the “interviews” with various citizens over the morality of the whole “holy vigilante” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/143 "2008-04-21T19:11:39Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] That post was viscerally satisfying for you, wasn’t it? 😃 [/QUOTE] Post of the day! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/144 "2008-04-21T19:21:22Z")
I thought for sure by now someone would have mentioned Paul Newman decking Charlotte Rampling in **The Verdict**. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/145 "2008-04-21T19:54:55Z")
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when he dupes Mr Malfoy into freeing Dobby the whole audience burst into cheers. And then when Dobby laid the smack down on Malfoy for trying to take revenge on Harry everyone, both adults and children, stood up and applauded. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/146 "2008-04-21T19:57:14Z")
The ending of **Jaws**. “Smile,you son of a b…\” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/147 "2008-04-21T20:02:13Z")
Except for the Rebecca DeMornay _Hand That Rocks The Cradle_ (may not be exact title), I’m having trouble remembering the names of any other movies where the bad guy or gal ends up impaled on some sharp pointy object. But also I can’t remember any of them that wasn’t a “Yesssss!” moment. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/148 "2008-04-21T20:08:23Z")
I must have watched _Die Hard_ a couple dozen times, and I still get a big charge out of watching Bonnie Bedelia punch William Atherton in the face. I’m not usually very keen on fisticuffs, but by golly, some folks just need punchin’. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/149 "2008-04-21T20:09:15Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Except for the Rebecca DeMornay _Hand That Rocks The Cradle_ (may not be exact title), I’m having trouble remembering the names of any other movies where the bad guy or gal ends up impaled on some sharp pointy object. But also I can’t remember any of them that wasn’t a “Yesssss!” moment. [/QUOTE] The Princess Bride. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/150 "2008-04-21T20:44:40Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] …any other movies where the bad guy or gal ends up impaled on some sharp pointy object. [/QUOTE] _Hot Fuzz_. Best. Impalement. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/151 "2008-04-21T21:00:33Z")
Also in Hot Fuzz The woman on the bike, getting the car door opened in front of her was pretty sweet. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/152 "2008-04-21T22:30:13Z")
**Day Of The Dead** – when Bub salutes for the second time. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/153 "2008-04-21T22:37:24Z")
Oh yeah, in _Killing Zoe,_ when Eric Stoltz is engaged in that long, dramatic, drawn-out hand-to-hand fight with the insane French robber with long hair, and then all of a sudden, the bad guy turns around a corner and finds himself staring at like twenty armored and gas-masked special-forces commandos, who, after pausing for a few seconds to let the audience enjoy the surprise of the moment, completely empty their magazines into the bad guy, putting about a thousand holes in him. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/154 "2008-04-21T22:42:34Z")
In _The Incredibles_, when we get the big payoff to Edna’s “no capes!” diatribe. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/155 "2008-04-21T23:13:56Z")
I must say I’m surprised that some posters found this moment from _The Wire_ to be “viscerally satisfying”: > [@](#): > > Stringer Bell getting capped by Omar and Brother Mouzone, both of whom he had fucked over, among many others, and knowing exactly who was doing it, why, and how (his best friend, who he set up to get arrested, gave him away to his assassins). I thought that was heartbreaking. Yeah, he had it coming in the sense that his assassins had every right to come after him, but I certainly never thought of him as a bad guy. Anyway, I’m glad I’m the first to think of this one. From _Miller’s Crossing_, when. . . Tom takes out Bernie. If ever there was a guy who needed to be shot down in cold blood. . . ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/156 "2008-04-22T03:03:34Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when he dupes Mr Malfoy into freeing Dobby the whole audience burst into cheers. And then when Dobby laid the smack down on Malfoy for trying to take revenge on Harry everyone, both adults and children, stood up and applauded. [/QUOTE] For me it was the next movie, _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_, when Hermione punches Draco for trying to take photos of Buckbeak’s execution, and Draco and his henchmen run off like the cowards they are. Hermione: That felt good. Ron: Not good - brilliant! Also in _Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_, when Umbridge gets what’s coming to her, courtesy of some very offended centaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/157 "2008-04-22T09:36:29Z")
[QUOTE=Waenara] _Hot Fuzz_. Best. Impalement. Ever. [/QUOTE] What about that nasty Marine from “The Rock”? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/158 "2008-04-22T14:02:13Z")
[QUOTE=Waenara] _Hot Fuzz_. Best. Impalement. Ever. [/QUOTE] Yeah, loved this one. A lot of great moments in that movie for the viscerial. All I have to do is (immitating the impale-ee’s voice) say, “Thiiish huuurtsshhh… Shoooo muuuushhhh” and I can get my friends to wince and shiver. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 22, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/159 "2008-04-22T16:12:42Z")
[QUOTE=VarlosZ] Anyway, I’m glad I’m the first to think of this one. From _Miller’s Crossing_, when. . . Tom takes out Bernie. If ever there was a guy who needed to be shot down in cold blood. . . [/QUOTE] “What heart?” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830/160 "2008-04-22T16:16:04Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] “What heart?” [/QUOTE] I thought of that line in _Heist_ when Danny DeVito asked Gene Hackman, “Don’t you wanna hear my last words?” and Hackman answered, “I just did.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-viscerally-satisfying-moments-in-movies-just-deserts-etc/445830.md?page=9)