Yep, I’ll second that one! I really learned to hate Tim Roth in that movie.
Ahem, you forgot something. Eight somethings.
That one had a mini-catharsis that was wonderful as well - when Liam Neeson, taken prisoner, wraps the rope around Tim Roth’s throat, and uses him as an anchor to climb down the rope. This both effects his escape and ruins Roth’s voice forever. Take that, you effete bitch!
George McFly flattening Biff in Back to the Future.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Arab-ninja guy is dicking around with all those scimitars, so Indy just whips out his gun and drops him.
This is also my ultimate “That boy NEEDED killin’” illustration.
VCNJ~
When they throw Peter Graves out into the compound decked out in Just Married attire in Stalag 17.
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Some people think, perhaps from the pronunciation, that “just deserts” should be spelled “just desserts”. True, it has nothing to do with dry sandy places, but it equally has nothing to do with what you eat at the end of meals. Here, the noun “desert” comes from the verb “deserve”, and means “what is deserved”. So it really should be “just deserts”.
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A great moment that is literally cathartic is in Spirited Away when the girl pulls out the rubbish that is choking the river spirit in the bath: “That’s no stink god!”, then a very relaxed and relieved “aaaahhhhh”.
Leon’s last scene in Leon (a.k.a. The Professional).
Some good examples in a thread I started on this very topic.
I remember the first time I saw that. I was completely overwhelmed by the raw creative vicious cruelty of that move. Wow. I had never seen anything so nasty.
High up on the cheese scale, but felt damn good:
Lethal Weapon 2
Scummy South African who has just shot Mel Gibson: Diplomatic Immunity!
Danny Glover, cracking his neck and aiming his gun: Has just been revoked.
Aggh. What a horrible movie and a horrible scene. The only thing visceral about it was that it made me want to puke.
Remember The Titans, when the bruiser from the opposing team gets taken down by the Titan’s linebacker, who then proceeds to point straight at the other team’s coach before moving on to the next play. After all the talk the other coach had done about “beating the chocolate” out of the Titans, it was a super-satisfying scene.
Ooooo! Ooooo!
The first time I ever stood up in a theater and cheered was when Clark went back to the truckstop at the end of Superman II and taught that prick truck-driver some manners.
The Big Sleep.
Phillip Marlowe shoots Canino in the stomach. Several times.
Ivanhoe. (Robert Taylor)
Rebbecca is sentenced to death. Ivanhoe strides out from the crow and throws his gauntlet to challenge the subject by trial of combat.
The ending of Cruel Intentions, when everyone is walking out on Buffy-Kathryn’s eulogy to the Bitter Suite Symphony and she is reduced to tears.
Nice, I was going to start such a thread if I remembered enough such moments. Two that I can think of;
From the original “Flight of the Phoenix”, I’ll spoiler it.
When some unknown Arabs come near the crash site, an English Captain and a Doctor go off to investigate, the English sergeant refusing to help. When the pilot goes off to see what’s happened, he finds both dead, their throats cut. The sergeant seems quite happy at this and just when you think to yourself that someone should smack him across the jaw, good old Jimmy Stewart does just that.
I can’t abide the henchman Chester in DOA (again the original) so its rather pleasing that…
…after punching our poisoned hero repeatedly in the belly and gloating over his pain, Chester is outwitted and ends up taking a bullet to the gut from a policeman in a drugstore.
And yeah, “I… have had… enough of you!”. The Shatner delivery helps in this case 
On the theme of Star Trek, although its probably the wrong way around for this thread, I liked the moment when Khan thinks that he’s paid back Kirk for what happened after he was marooned on Ceti Alpha V. Almost for the look on Khan’s face as much as that line.
:smack: How could I forget, perfect retribution for The Goose.
Also, “Dick, you’re fired” (with a thumbs up from Johnson!)