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EW's "The Most Violent Movies Ever!"

post #1 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:18am
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15. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
14. HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER
13. HANNIBAL
12. SEVEN
11. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
10. RESERVOIR DOGS
9. THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
8. SAW
7. THE HILLS HAVE EYES
6. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
5. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4. PAN'S LABYRINTH
3. HOSTEL
2. IRREVERSIBLE
1. AMERICAN HISTORY X
AHX is too high. Dogs is too low. And how are there no action movies on here? Pretty much any Arnold Schwarzenegger movie deserves to be on this list. Also, Irreversible aside, the lack of foreign films is quite noticeable.
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post #2 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:22am
That's gotta be the Hills Have Eyes REMAKE, right? Not the original.
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post #3 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:23am
No Dead-Alive, no list!
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post #4 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:24am
They suck.
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post #5 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:24am
Seven? Didn't Fincher go into depth about how he never really shows any on screen violence? It may be eerie or disturbed, but it's not violent if the dictionary definition means acting with great force or intensity as to cause injury (free online dictionary y'all).
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post #6 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:28am
There are at far too many films to list that are more violent than any of those, but it's EW, so why bother.
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post #7 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:37am
Yeah, this list is bullshit. Pretty much "Most Violent Movies a Mainstream Audience of 2007 is Likely To Have Seen".
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post #8 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:41am
Reservoir fucking Dogs? There's hardly any. Just a lot of shouting.

Shit list.


Ohhhhh and if I ever hear someone call Saw the goriest movie they've ever seen one more time, I'm going to strap them into a chair for a Guinea Pig marathon.
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post #9 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:49am
Where were actual ultraviolent films? Paul Verhoven's Robocop, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, or John Woo's Hard Boiled, The Killer, Face Off, Windtalkers, or Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi, Versus, or Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill 1, or Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, Planet Terror and Michael Davis Shoot Em Up?
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post #10 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:49am
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Yeah, this list is bullshit. Pretty much "Most Violent Movies a Mainstream Audience of 2007 is Likely To Have Seen".
I was going to go with, "Most Violent Movies Our Intern Was Able to Recall Off The Top Of Her Head."
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post #11 of 65
9/27/07 at 11:56am
Frank Cobretti, Seeing your user name, I realize I forgot to add Stallone's Cobra and Rambo First Blood Part II to the most violent films off of EW's misinformed list.
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post #12 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:08pm
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Yeah, this list is bullshit. Pretty much "Most Violent Movies a Mainstream Audience of 2007 is Likely To Have Seen".
But then they go and put Irreversible on there.

And even if that was what they were going for, where the fuck is Robocop?
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post #13 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:10pm
EW lists have all the depth and research of a MySpace page.

This is no different.
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post #14 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:18pm
What a horrible list.

1. AMERICAN HISTORY X


WHAT?
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post #15 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:20pm
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Originally Posted by Anderson
EW lists have all the depth and research of a MySpace page.
This one seems more egregiously dumb and easily refuted than their lists usually do, though.
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post #16 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:31pm
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Pretty much "Most Violent Movies a Mainstream Audience of 2007 is Likely To Have Seen".
I was thinking, "Most Violent Movies You Can Find On The Shelf Of A Poorly Stocked Small-Town Hollywood Video."
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post #17 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:32pm
"Violence", to me, is a lot different than "gore". And, thus, so can "violent" and "gory" be two completely different type of movies.

The Bourne Ultimatum is violent. Hot Fuzz is violent and gory (weird example, I know, but it's what came to mind because of THAT death). Saw is just plain gory.

And Se7en is a movie of insinuations and fallout more than violence. I dunno what the fuck it's going on that list.
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post #18 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:33pm
It seems more like a list of movies with scenes that make you cringe rather than actual violent movies.
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post #19 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:35pm
An Entertainment Weekly list of Most Violent Movies is like a Saturday Evening Post list of Best Cum Shots.
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post #20 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:44pm
I kinda thought Popeye with Robin Williams would be on there. EW is fucking horrid.

No offense to "horrid" who frequents the boards though...
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post #21 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:47pm
This may very well be the most clueless list I've ever seen assembled. If whoever compiled that ever watched Ichi The Killer they'd probably suffer a stroke.
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post #22 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:49pm
What? No Robocop? I call bullshit on this list. And Kill Bill (Both chapters) has way more violence than Resevoir Dogs in terms of total kills.
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post #23 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:58pm
Entertainment Weekly. "We make lists because writing articles makes our heads hurt."
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post #24 of 65
9/27/07 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by stelios
This may very well be the most clueless list I've ever seen assembled. If whoever compiled that ever watched Ichi The Killer they'd probably suffer a stroke.
I had to avert my eyes during a couple scenes.
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post #25 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:30pm
Does Oldboy make it on to the list? It's been a while since I've seen it, so I can't remember how EXPLICITLY violent it got.
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post #26 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Yeah, this list is bullshit. Pretty much "Most Violent Movies a Mainstream Audience of 2007 is Likely To Have Seen".
Well, considering their audience, that's not a bad thing for them.
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post #27 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:38pm
How is "The Color Purple" not number one?

Oh...they said viole(n)t movies. My bad.
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post #28 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by stelios
This may very well be the most clueless list I've ever seen assembled. If whoever compiled that ever watched Ichi The Killer they'd probably suffer a stroke.
Ichi's fucking DVD package has more blood than half these movies:

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post #29 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:45pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello
Reservoir fucking Dogs? There's hardly any. Just a lot of shouting.
And let me tell you, Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies of all time, and even I wouldn't classify it as one of the most violent. They even cut away when Mr. Blonde is hacking off the cop's ear, for God's sake.

And how the hell is The Godfather not on the list? With the horse's head, the several Sicilian Neckties, and the bloodbath at the end during the baby's christening? Have they never seen The Godfather? This reads more like "A Particularly Squeamish 12 Year Old's List of the Most Violent Movies Ever."
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post #30 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:51pm
I think we all agree that Pan's Labyrinth is a brilliant movie, but to call it the fourth most violent movie ever is absurd. David Bowie's Labyrinth is almost as violent, what with the baby snatching and self-decapitations and all.
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post #31 of 65
9/27/07 at 1:53pm
Yeah, any violent movie list that doesn't include I Spit On Your Grave (or any of the other totally valid suggestions in this thread) needs to go back to list school.

EW's lists seem to exist solely to boost DVD sales of the films that studios want to sell.
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post #32 of 65
9/27/07 at 2:07pm
They should just retitle the list "10 movies with at least one really memorable violent scene and Seven, which just has a lot of implied violence."
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post #33 of 65
9/27/07 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by Pop Zeus
Yeah, any violent movie list that doesn't include I Spit On Your Grave (or any of the other totally valid suggestions in this thread) needs to go back to list school.
And Dawn of the Dead for that matter.
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post #34 of 65
9/27/07 at 2:33pm
Seven? There's no violence in Seven.
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post #35 of 65
9/27/07 at 2:35pm
How is "Passion of the Christ" not in the top 5 at least? One of the goriest Cineplex movies ever (in other words: mainstream distribution)
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post #36 of 65
9/27/07 at 2:39pm
If we're talking "violent" what about things like Die Hard 4? Or Spiderman 3? Or any number of other summer tentpoles that use egregious cartoon violence?
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post #37 of 65
9/27/07 at 2:59pm
Empire did this list better a few months ago.
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post #38 of 65
9/27/07 at 3:08pm
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I haven't seen Dogs in a long time. Thinking back, I guess there isn't a lot of violence in it. There's the final shoot out, but even that wasn't really all that violent.

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Originally Posted by EchoBase
Or any number of other summer tentpoles that use egregious cartoon violence?
Although they don't specify what their criteria was, I automatically assumed cartoony violence didn't count.
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post #39 of 65
9/27/07 at 3:09pm
No Wild Bunch?
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post #40 of 65
9/27/07 at 4:35pm
While it's good to open the conversation as to what constitutes "violent", even it's fans know that "Saw" is a fucking pussycat in that department. Stupid list.
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post #41 of 65
9/27/07 at 4:41pm
Even Braveheart is more violent than most of those films.
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post #42 of 65
9/27/07 at 5:05pm
In regards to the movies on this list, EW can "Choke on 'em!!!"

Besides have they not heard of Cannibal Holocaust, Zombi, City of the Living Dead, Maniac, STRAW DOGS!!!!, Shogun Assassin films, Riki-oh?

Fuck these mainstream dickfaces.
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post #43 of 65
9/27/07 at 5:06pm
Hell, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz were worse than some of the things on that list. And Saving Private Ryan should definitely be higher.

This almost seems like a "Movies With the Most Implied Violence" list.
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post #44 of 65
9/27/07 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by Bill Brasky
I think we all agree that Pan's Labyrinth is a brilliant movie, but to call it the fourth most violent movie ever is absurd. David Bowie's Labyrinth is almost as violent, what with the baby snatching and self-decapitations and all.
Does the Goblin King stove in somebodys face with a bottle? Does he get Chelsea grinned?

No?

Then Pan's is indeed a more violent film. In fact the brutality and scope of the violence in Pan's probably makes it one of the few deserving entries on the list.
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post #45 of 65
9/27/07 at 5:18pm
When Duke Fleed has movies that would be better suited for this type of list (not good examples, but better than EW) then you know that this is all basically bubblegum shit.
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post #46 of 65
9/27/07 at 6:42pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
An Entertainment Weekly list of Most Violent Movies is like a Saturday Evening Post list of Best Cum Shots.
I swear, there's just not enough rep on the planet for this. The system says I can't rep the same post twice? Bah on the system, then.
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post #47 of 65
9/27/07 at 6:46pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
I swear, there's just not enough rep on the planet for this. The system says I can't rep the same post twice? Bah on the system, then.
Richard Dickson cum shotted the system.
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post #48 of 65
9/27/07 at 6:50pm
The Ed-209 turning the poor exec into hamburger meat on the maquette table, that scene right there should have the honor of #6 on the list.
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post #49 of 65
9/27/07 at 6:51pm
But there's a difference between Violence and Gore, the Ed-209 bit goes on for SO long that it stops being horrific and violent and just becomes kinda funny.
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post #50 of 65
9/27/07 at 6:55pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall
But there's a difference between Violence and Gore, the Ed-209 bit goes on for SO long that it stops being horrific and violent and just becomes kinda funny.
That and one of the actors yells for a medic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kWgcIlWn0
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