Most viscerally satisfying moments in movies ("just deserts," etc)

That post was viscerally satisfying for you, wasn’t it?

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Boondock Saints, the courtroom scene at the end, and the “interviews” with various citizens over the morality of the whole “holy vigilante” thing.

Post of the day!

I thought for sure by now someone would have mentioned Paul Newman decking Charlotte Rampling in The Verdict.

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.

The ending of Jaws.

“Smile,you son of a b…<ka-boom!>”

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.

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’.

The Princess Bride. :wink:

Hot Fuzz.

Best. Impalement. Ever.

Also in Hot Fuzz

The woman on the bike, getting the car door opened in front of her was pretty sweet.

Day Of The Dead – when Bub salutes for the second time.

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.

In The Incredibles, when we get the big payoff to Edna’s “no capes!” diatribe.

I must say I’m surprised that some posters found this moment from The Wire to be “viscerally satisfying”:

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. . .

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.

What about that nasty Marine from “The Rock”?

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. :slight_smile:

“What heart?”

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.”