Simple, irresistible desire is what
drives revenge movies — desire for retribution, inexorably enacted.
Not exact matches
The
revenge plot of that 1995
movie was not so coincidentally triggered by the violent death of a young girl (in a drunk -
driving accident.)
0:00 — Intro 10:20 — Headlines: Woman Sues Over
Drive Trailer, Werner Herzog to Play Villain in One Shot, Disney to Re-Release Four More
Movies in 3D, Tower Heist to Get Comcast VOD Release 33:45 — Review: The Ides of March 56:00 — Review: Real Steel 1:21:45 — Trailer Trash: Young Adult 1:26:55 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catching Hell, The Real Rocky, Halloween II, Blood Feast, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's
Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Innocents, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan, Black Sabbath, The Blair Witch Project, The Living Corpse aka Dracula in Pakistan, Horror of Dracula, The Lion King, The Beaver, The Company Men, Pee - wee's Big Adventure, Miracle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Submarine, Mimic, George Harrison: Living in the Material World 2:23:00 — Junk Mail: Supporting Filmmakers You Like, The Disney Vault, LOTR Theatrical vs. Extended Editions, Fantasy Films Piggybacking on Harry Potter, Henry Rollins and Kobe Bryant, Mathematical Equation for Determining the Best Directors, Friend in Me Remix 2:57:40 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:59:30 — Outro
It's not entirely clear how to catergorize «
Drive Angry»: supernatural / occult / road
movie /
revenge / redemption exploitation fare?
With its obsessed but unqualified hero, Blue Ruin makes a kind of comic sense if you match it up against glum, big - budget, male
revenge fantasies — hard -
driving movies with the likes of Charles Bronson and Mel Gibson.»
As opposed to
Drive, which was based on a good screenplay by Hossein Amini and based, in turn, on a (reportedly) good novel by James Sallis, Only God Forgives is an original property written by Refn, and it appears, for all intents and purposes, to be his version of an Asian
revenge movie.
Machete (Fox)-- Born of a tongue - in - cheek trailer for a border
revenge movie that never was, Robert Rodriguez's big - budget
drive - in flick is a more convincing slice of B -
movie love than his earlier Planet Terror, certainly more coherent.
Focusing «action
driving» (similar to the Fast & Furious
movies) rather than «always on street racing» like the last few titles, this new entry looks to tell an action packed
revenge tale while mixing in the refined racing mechanics of the franchise.