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It’s really wrong, but in Oleanna when the professor knocks Olenna to the ground near the end was one of the most satisfying moments ever for me. I was actually shocked at myself for feeling such strong catharsis.
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Oh my God, YES!
[QUOTE=Roderick Femm]
And then there’s the original… Equally satisfying if perhaps too literary for today’s taste.
Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de (CD?) Bergerac
Roddy
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Not as funny, but DAMN it’s good!
I must say Steve Martin’s scene is well and truly beaten.
Oh, yes, absolutely. Cyrano owns the scene.
Amusingly, while I loved the movie, I went to a high school production of it some six years back or so, and I loved the HS production even more. There was something so … Personal… About seeing that scene done live.
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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.
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Totally can’t wait for Molly W. to take on Bellatrix at the end of Deathly Hallows…
Someone already mentioned my favorite: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, when Faithful Wife sends Crazy Hussy to her death. At the time, my ex-best friend was making time with my ex-best husband, and boy! that movie just did me a world of vicarious good.
I also thought of a funnier comeuppance. In My Cousin Vinny, when Vinny is confronted yet again by the redneck fella waving money in his face and calling him a little sissy or something along those lines. Vinny, in a rush to get to court, first responds with that fussy little hand-waving gesture, and when Doofus doesn’t get out of the way, Vinny decks him, snatches the cash, and goes on his way without ever breaking stride.
I can do the fussy handwaving thing, but I’ve never got the hang of decking the bad guy.
Best,
karol
I just got through watching the end scenes of the series finale of Little House on the Prairie. I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the look on the face of that land-grabbing jerk when he rode through the town and found it blown to pieces!
True Lies - “Your fired!”
Commando - “Let off some steam, Bennet!” and of course “I let him go.”
Die Hard - “ooo..I sure hope that’s not a hostage.” and “we’re gonna need some more FBI guys.”
Gladiator - Maximum removes his mask and Commodus nearly craps himself.
Hard to Kill - “I’m going to take you to the bank Senator…the blood bank.”
Unforgiven - “Any man who don’t want to get killed better head out the back.”
The Patriot - Gibson’s character and his sons ambush the British company transporting Health Ledger’s character and he goes freakin apeshit with his tomahawk on the last Redcoat he finds.
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It was hard to tell, but the Witch-Kings last words were “Curse you literary irony!!”
[QUOTE=msmith537]
True Lies - “Your fired!”
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For that matter, RoboCop:
Company boss to villain: You’re fired!
RoboCop: Thank. You. <Thoroughly ventilates villain and IIRC blows him through the window.>
RR
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At the time, my ex-best friend was making time with my ex-best husband…
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term “ex-best husband” before. Interesting.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term “ex-best husband” before. Interesting.
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I read it as “best-ex husband”, which may or may not be an entirely different term.
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I read it as “best-ex husband”, which may or may not be an entirely different term.
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Heh. Well, I have two exes now. And while hethat one may not be the best ex, he was definitely the best husband of the two I’ve had. Therefore, the ex-best husband.
See now? All clear as mud, hmmm?
(You kind of get used to me after a while, I think.)
Yes, thanks for the clarification. 
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Heh. Well, I have two exes now. And while hethat one may not be the best ex, he was definitely the best husband of the two I’ve had. Therefore, the ex-best husband.
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Gotcha. Makes sense
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(You kind of get used to me after a while, I think.)
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Although apparently they didn’t 
I love Star Trek.
(Quantum torpedoes fly harmlessly past the Phoenix)
Borg Queen: DATA!
Data: Resistance is few-tul! (smashes warp plasma conduit that liquefies the Borgs’ fleshy bits)
(Borg Queen starts to fall apart)
Future Janeway, carrying an anti-Borg virus: Must’ve been something you assimilated.
In X3, I cheered when-
Magneto got a chest full of those mutant-neutralizing darts. No one else in the theater did. It was a little embarassing at the time, but I have no regrets.
And then there was Independence Day:
“Think he has any clue what’s about to happen to him?”
“Not a chance in hell. Goodnight!”
(Alien fighters’ shields prove useless)
Russell Case: Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it?
“Hello, Boys! I’m baaa-aack!”
Band of Brothers, when Liebgott
kills the commandant of the camp they liberated.
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.
[QUOTE=RiverRunner]
For that matter, RoboCop:
Company boss to villain: You’re fired!
RoboCop: Thank. You. <Thoroughly ventilates villain and IIRC blows him through the window.>
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I love the thumbs up Johnson gives him immediately afterwards 
Mentioned, but misworded:
GET AWAY FROM HER, YOU BITCH!
And the moment before Eowyn declaring that she was no man, when she stands over her dying uncle’s body.
“Touch him, and I will kill you.”
The witch-king spurs his mount forward, and Eowyn brings her sword down on its neck, nearly decapitating it, then finishes the job with one more swing. I saw the movie on its opening night, and everyone in the theater cheered.
In my case, it would be a moment in the made-for-TV movie “CITIZEN X”, which dramatizes the story of Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer in the Soviet Union that was finally arrested after many years of effort and not a few dead ends.
The scene takes place between Bondarchuk (rather disgusting party boss who is pushing everyone around) and militia colonel Fetisov (nominal head of the investigation to catch the killer). The main character, Burakov, an ex-forensic doctor who was promoted to detective and tasked with finding the murderer, has just had a nervous breakdown in front of Bondarchuk, Fetisov and other members of the “commission” that is directing the investigation. He has left the room in tears, totally broken after years of futile work and total disregard of his efforts on the part of the commission, which is more interested, it seems, in preventing news and rumours of this killer to reach the population and in denying that such a phenomenon from the decadent West as “serial killers” could ever happen in the Soviet Union.
Anyway… Bondarchuk and Fetisov are left alone in the room. Bondarchuk has very vocally demanded that Fetisov fire Burakov. And then Fetisov very curtly replies: “No.” Bondarchuk goes apeshit on Fetisov, shouting and intimidating him, and the following exchange takes place…
Fetisov: I have here…
Bondarchuk: I don’t care what you have there!
Fetisov: Information…
Bondarchuk: Who cares!
Fetisov: About the nineteen year old boy you maintain in the town of Shakti! And the apartment you have arranged for him… and the gifts that you have given him… and the dates of your last three overnight visits. If you attempt to fire Lieutenant Burakov… now, or at any time… I will send all this to your wife.
(Bondarchuk appears broken and devastated by this revelation)
Bondarchuk: I recommended you for this position.
Fetisov: I will always be indebted to you.
There was also a satisfying exchange between Bondarchuk and Burakov, earlier on, which went as follows:
Bondarchuk: (Fuming with anger) I want to know, why are we arresting so many perfectly respectable doctors and party members?
Burakov: Because we were told to.
Bondarchuk: You were told to investigate them, not detain them!
Burakov: The party members who are doctors we detain for a very brief period of time. The party members who are sexual deviants, we intend to detain a little longer.
Just my 2 eurocent!
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I don’t know if it qualifies, but Andy Shepherd’s entire speech at the end of “The American President.” I’ve memorized it, mostly because it embodies the liberal mindset. But what brings me out of my seat with a cheer every time is the last eight words.
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Without even checking:
“My name is Andrew Shepherd and I *am * the President.”
God, that’s good!
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I’d add more, but most of my favorite “had it coming” moments tend to be on TV shows (a certain scene from Babylon 5 involving cheerful gospel music about Judgement Day and a mob of angry Narn comes to mind)
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“And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place”, both the song and the episode title.
Also from Babylon 5, Mister Morden’s comeuppance.
Morden : “What are you going to do, blow up the island ?”
Londo : “Now that you mention it . . .” < pulls out remote control >
Morden : “NOOOOO !”
< flash to scene of nuclear detonations on the island in question >
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.