I am looking for some recomendations of movies where the law is taken into someone's hands.
Death Wish of course tops this list.
The Exterminator and Fighting Back are two that come to mind.
What else?
No revenge flicks please.
taa455
03-03-08, 09:58 AM
This may give you some ideas:
http://www.imdb.com/keyword/vigilante/
I love Batman Begins and The Crow (which you might consider a revenge flick)
Charlie Goose
03-03-08, 10:01 AM
How about....Vigilante? With Robert Kickass Forster.
TallGuyMe
03-03-08, 10:16 AM
Don't all vigilante flicks start off as revenge for something? At least Death Wish started off that way...
The Punisher?
Death Sentence?
The Saw films?
Payback?
Hard Candy?
First Blood?
visitor Q
03-03-08, 10:19 AM
Boondock Saints, period.
Geofferson
03-03-08, 10:43 AM
Just watched The Brave One last night.
dugan
03-03-08, 10:45 AM
Frailty
Jacoby Ellsbury
03-03-08, 12:24 PM
mean creek
bully
falling down
HN
03-03-08, 01:22 PM
Can you have the vigilante without the revenge?
vig·i·lan·te
1. a member of a vigilance committee.
2. any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.
inri222
03-03-08, 01:54 PM
Taxi Driver
Coup De Torchon
Dashed
03-03-08, 02:51 PM
some good ones so far, Ill throw in V for Vendetta thought I guess it could be considered a revenge movie.
superdeluxe
03-03-08, 03:05 PM
Aren't all vigilante movies revenge movies?
Punisher, Boondock Saints, Bricker, Death Sentance
Doughboy
03-03-08, 05:48 PM
Licence To Kill
B5Erik
03-03-08, 06:02 PM
Licence To Kill
Bond goes vigilante! Resigns from Her Majesty's Secret Service to go after the bad guy!
Great movie.
rw2516
03-03-08, 07:24 PM
Darkman
Hard to Kill
War
Absence of Malice, sort of, in a non-violent way
Hank Ringworm
03-03-08, 08:31 PM
Straw Dogs
M
IMO, the best you'll find.
Lastyear
03-03-08, 08:55 PM
Man On Fire
SPiRAL
03-03-08, 09:18 PM
Death Proof
TallGuyMe
03-03-08, 09:29 PM
A Man Apart
DJariya
03-03-08, 09:32 PM
:hscratch:
No revenge flicks? When your asking about a vigilante who is in essence commiting an act of revenge.
One good one from the 80's was Fighting Back with Tom Skerritt.
Leather Face
03-03-08, 10:59 PM
:hscratch:
No revenge flicks? When your asking about a vigilante who is in essence commiting an act of revenge.
Let's try and clear this up.
A revenge flick,imo,is the story line for hundreds of horror movies.
Mrs.Voorhees killed everyone at Crystal lake to avenge the death of her young son Jason.
The girl in I Spit On Your Grave revenged her gang rape one at a time and did not run around killing people that commited the same crime to someone else.
This is the difference.
The Exterminator avenged his buddys killers but then went on to try and clean up the streets of crime.
Ditto Death Wish.
Sorry for the confusion.
dhmac
03-03-08, 11:13 PM
Aren't all vigilante movies revenge movies?
For the most part, yes. But some vigilante movies are purely and completely revenge movies in which someone is trying to kill or bring to justice the very people who wronged him and that's it. While other vigilante movies are someone simply fighting crime without seeking out anyone in particular.
Death Sentence (the movie only, not the novel) is an example of a vigilante movie that's completely and totally revenge based. The main character does not care about other criminals at all - he's just after the gang that attacked his family and nobody else.
While Death Wish is a "cleaning up the streets" vigilante movie, in which the main character is out killing any street criminals he runs across. Seeking out the ones who actually attacked his family, though, isn't really a part of his vigilantism at all (probably because he doesn't even know who they are).
Giantrobo
03-03-08, 11:25 PM
Frailty
That movie is awesome. :up:
Giantrobo
03-03-08, 11:25 PM
Batman films
Jay G.
03-04-08, 12:42 AM
Batman films
Wouldn't a lot of superhero films fit this? A lot of them are vigilantes in the sense that they are stopping bad guys, while not necessarily taking revenge for any specific crime.
Spiderman, Superman, Iron Man, etc. are at heart vigilantes.
To add some more to the list:
Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars
JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES starts out as a vigilante movie & then turns into a revenge movie.
Nick Danger
03-04-08, 10:52 AM
Wouldn't a lot of superhero films fit this? A lot of them are vigilantes in the sense that they are stopping bad guys, while not necessarily taking revenge for any specific crime.
Spiderman, Superman, Iron Man, etc. are at heart vigilantes.
To add some more to the list:
Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars
Most superhero movies, most westerns, and most martial arts movies. There aren't a lot of action movies where the main character relies on law and order to solve his problems. Even when the protagonist has a badge, he usually isn't planning to turn the bad guys over to the court system. Think of True Grit, Dirty Harry, or Lethal Weapon. In Iron Monkey and Robin Hood, the legal government IS the villain.
The scene toward the end where Devane asks Tommy Lee Jones for help is chilling.
"I'll just get my gear."
SuckaMC
03-04-08, 01:42 PM
Is Rolling Thunder out on dvd? If not, why!!? "It's time, boy.." BOOM!
KillerCannibal
03-04-08, 03:01 PM
Is Rolling Thunder out on dvd? If not, why!!? "It's time, boy.." BOOM!
No and, goddamnit, why? With all the star power involved here it's criminal that this isn't out. I have a letterbox bootleg I got at a convention a couple years ago, but I'd pay top dollar for an anamorphic version with extras any day!
Dr Mabuse
03-04-08, 03:18 PM
Frailty
That movie is awesome. :up:
you both have discerning taste in films...
Dr Mabuse
03-04-08, 03:28 PM
oh yeah...
on the topic of the post...
'Goyokin' is a good example...
'Hara Kiri'... that clan got the smack down... the individuals got rubbed out... the clan and the hypocrisy of the false honor of the clans under the Tokugawa years was also convicted... 'Bushido' was alive and well when Samurai lived short lives dying in battle... it was corrupted under the 'Pax Tokugawa' set forth by Ieyasu...
'Unbreakable'... no one mentioned it?... lets face it, it's an almost archetypal vigilante movie...
'Sin City'... Marv does it right...
That there is one damn fine coat you're wearin'...
Giles
03-04-08, 03:39 PM
so would They Call Her One Eye be a vigilante film or a revenge film?
Buy: