I think my personal favorite is the end of The Island (1980) when Michael Caine unloads a deck-mounted M2 on the pirates. I can only wonder how bad the carnage would have been had it been real .50 caliber ball raining down...
Heat: Neil McCauley confronts Wayne Groh. "Look at me"! Coen Bros. True Grit: Rooster Shoots Emmett Quincy. Unforgiven: William Munny finishes Little Bill Dagget. "Deserve got nothing to do with it".
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"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
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"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
I would have to say at the end of The Punisher when Thomas Jane takes care of John Travolta’s family crime enterprise and exacts his revenge for the death of his family. Just some great old fashioned violence and very satisfying.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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It might not be exactly a Payback Scene, but when Sly has to pull out Ma Deuce HB at the end of Rambo (2008) he has to fuck some mutha fuckas up. Very entertaining!
"But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock
