I guess it depends on one's definition of violence:
Or the amount of percieved violence in any given movie.
Natural Born Killers is obviously violent from beginning to end - but the movie still has great merit, the story explains the reason(s) for all the violence (from Rodney Dangerfield's portrayal of the abusive father - to the media manipulation of the main protagonists).
Movies that have been mentioned in this thread that struck a chord with me are:
Saving Private Ryan
American History X
Passion of Christ (I haven't seen it yet but I have had first-hand reports from folks who have)
Scarface
I think there is a difference between gore and violence (gore being the result, violence being the cause).
Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch & Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia by Sam Peckinpah were considered "violent" in their day (not by today's standards maybe).
Of course just about anything that Quinten Tarrantino has a hand in is bound to be violent and gory! (I love his movies) Dusk Till Dawn .... heehee
Marathon Man was particularly violent in many ways (I still have dentist phobia to this day!).
As a conclusion I would submit Tom and Jerry (and the Simpsons parody Itchy and Scratchy).
Then again there is real life, but who wants to go there? 🙂
The part in American History X where Ed Norton stomps the guy's head on the curb - I have a stomach and nerves of STEEL and that was one of the only violent moments in a film that really "got to me."
I'll cast my vote for Sin City although I haven't seen some of the other films everyone is talking about - Sin City is the only one I know of to show someone ripping off someone's balls and someone chopping off all of a guy's limbs and then letting him get eaten by a dog. Mm, I'm getting kind of hungry all of a sudden.
That scene from Rainman (the one with Matt Damon, not the comedic drama) where he beats the guy in the kitchen and they destroy everything, and then hearing her club the guy in the head, that was pretty violent.
Conan the Destroyer had a lot of violence, more than Conan the Barbarian did, and Barbarian had decapatations. The fight against the pseudo-god where they rip his horn off is awesome.
The number 1 most violent movie of all time has to be:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. one guy was crushed by a cow, one guy had a sword thrown through his head, a plagued village, a guy gets all of his limbs hacked off, a small army gets decapitated, and of course the scene where Launcelot kills nearly everyone in the castle. real hardcore violence.
Originally posted by EsteemedLeader
The number 1 most violent movie of all time has to be:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. one guy was crushed by a cow, one guy had a sword thrown through his head, a plagued village, a guy gets all of his limbs hacked off, a small army gets decapitated, and of course the scene where Launcelot kills nearly everyone in the castle. real hardcore violence.
You forgot the Killer Rabbit. 🙂
Probably the most violent movie I've ever seen is We Were Soldiers. That movie was brutally violent with the realistic war-gore. The part that made me shudder and cringe out loud was when that Japanese guy got caught in the napalm and the meat on his legs came peeling off like a banana. I was also proud to serve in the same battalion as those soldiers, Alpha 2/7 CAV Infantry when I was stationed at Ft. Hood.
Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
Battle Royale was mostly weapons and CGI blood. Hell, "The Running Man" was more violent that BR, god love it.ROTLD 3? Hilarious stuff. Nothing says violence like half a foam rubber zombie being knocked up against a sealed door.
My picks:
Saving Private Ryan
Reservoir Dogs
Scarface
Natural Born Killers
Sin City
that sounds about right.
Ah yeah, I got this list down PAT!
I Spit on your Grave
Sin City
Land of the Dead (not a GREAT movie, but violent as hell)
War of the Worlds Spielberg remake (think about it: they show the aliens spraying human blood by the tons all over the place.)
The Last House on the Left
Desperado
Hard Boiled
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Dog Soldiers
Fight Club
Pieces
Cannibal Holocaust
Day of the Dead
House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
These movies were not put in any specific order and were put on the list not for the ammount of blood, 'cause we all know that that doesn't count for much, but in terms of realism and general violence.
Originally posted by GCG
I would have to go for:Tha Last Boyscout and Natural Born Killers
i forgot about natural born killers, good choice, but the last boyscout......???????? compared with even 'kill bill v.2' that was nothing by way of violence.
if you want to keep a bruce willis movie in this catagory, try "last man standing".....much more violent than LBS.