The Most Violent Scenes Ever (or Wow, That's Almost as Bad as Salo Part Deux)

Violence is sometimes so over the top that it starts to lose its appeal to me. Even movies with mostly realistic violence like Saving Private Ryan are really just presenting their subject in a realistic light.

However, the movies that most perfectly portrayed violence with an over-the-top yet realistically grueling eye were Goodfellas and Casino. Two scenes in particular were...

In Goodfellas:

Spoiler:

When Stacks gets murdered for forgetting to dispose of the getaway truck in the Lufthansa Heist. That line "You'll be late for your own fuckin' funeral" will forever be with me since it was immediately followed by a brain-splattering silenced gunshot.

I was 13 the first time I watched that movie and that just left me shocked.

Then in Casino:

Spoiler:

When Nicky and his brother Dominic are beaten to death with bats in the corn field. That scene seemed to go on forever and they even buried Nicky alive. When the start to cover him with dirt, you actually see him breathing it out, but he's beaten literally within an inch of death and can't move.

That shit was fucking amazing. :X

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dizzy

Probably Irreverisble. The scene where one of the guys is hitting someone with the fire extinguisher is pretty brutal. You can see how his face gets disfigured and stuff...

To me, the most brutal part of the movie wasn't that, but Alex's rape scene. That was seriously one of the most horrible things I've ever witnessed on screen, mainly because you're sitting there feeling fucking helpless and wanting someone to come and save her... and no one does...

There's nowhere I can't reach.