Payback
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be. From TMDB
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60 of 89 · most liked first“Payback Squad” sounds like the name of a knock-off Quentin Tarantino movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Point Blank and Payback would be a good comparison for film school on how to do an adaptation that vastly surpasses the source vs one that barely matches it
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Simple Alien Blade Runner Superman II Payback now, the X-Files Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie better by adding "in the ass" to it. PAYBACK IN THE ASS
neutral · AI labelView post →Not in a million years would I have guessed that IDIOCRACY would turn out to be the most memorable and relevant movie I’ve worked on. More than WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, ARMAGEDDON, I ROBOT, PAYBACK, DOCTOR DOOLITTLE, and STAR TREK: INSURRECTION. That’s just wild. deadline.com/2026/07/idio...
neutral · AI labelView post →Excellent points from @nondriver.bsky.social about the Graham Street Station, originally proposed in February 1999. Baby One More Time was the #1 song in America. Payback was the #1 movie. I was 19. (I'm now 46.) The proposal from Dave Somers would delay that even further.
neutral · AI labelView post →The theme song that opens the film combines Jim Croce's I Got a Name, James Brown's The Payback and 2pac's Untouchable (Swizz Beatz Remix). Tarantino brought in 2pac's old engineer, Claudio Cueni, to help mix the tracks. 32/59
neutral · AI labelView post →Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother reminded me of Payback, Hardcore, and Ghost Dog. You need to see this film. www.austinchronicle.com/screens/film...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight is BL and GL Movie Night! (I need rest, cuz I'm mowing tomorrow) I saved the finales of Payback and A Dog and a Plane for this♥️♥️♥️. I can't wait to watch them♥️♥️♥️. Also watching Leviticus. #BLSeries
neutral · AI labelView post →"Robin Hood heist" seems too meh But we should come up with a snappy name ... and hope and pray more novelists are interested in writing them and publishers are interested in publishing them (Dear Hollywood: Over here still drumming my fingers waiting for "The Payback" to be optioned for TV/film)
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a snippet of our new song overlaid with a little film footage you may remember... And vote Payback & Associates at sandiegomusicawards.com for Best New Artist! Voting ends in a week and you can vote daily! WordAlso 5/6 ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #WQuers #Wordle
neutral · AI labelView post →This was a year with Showgirls, Waterworld, Pauly Shore's Jury Duty, and the Jerky Boys movie. And he picked "Mr. Payback," an interactive film whose average runtime is 20-30 minutes
neutral · AI labelView post →It's BL and GL movie night!! Need my rest night for mowing tomorrow. There are so many series to pick from. Maybe I'll start with Payback or Ticket to Heaven. I'm definitely going to watch Wishing upon the Shooting Stars ep 3. Anyways, everyone have a great day/night♥️.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Horrorsky + #SciFiSky: The movie "I Love Boosters" is a stealth entry into your favorite genres. Trust and go in blind, come out dazzled. + #Booksky? This movie pairs well with the engaging heist book "The Payback" by @kashana.blacksky.app. Make it a Double Feature for your brain. #ILoveBoosters
neutral · AI labelView post →Short film by me. Car paint job and driving by me, in Need for Speed: Payback youtu.be/Y0D8R5CMSLg?...
neutral · AI labelView post →MadlinePaige.bsky.social The hotel Mr.Biggs walked into has the U.S. flag near the entrance. A Mel Gibson film named "Payback" had a scene where Gibson's enemy ranted about getting no help at the same hotel. President Trump did the scene word for word and posted it on Twitter in his First run.😊🎬🌟✨💫
neutral · AI labelView post →Payback is a paycheck! Mara Corday "Cast in four films by Clint Eastwood, who had an uncredited role in a film in which she co-starred, #Tarantula (1955)." #BMovieManiacs
neutral · AI labelView post →During the 1990s he experienced a movie revival after appearing as a corrupt sheriff in John Sayles’s Lone Star (1996). This led to parts in a string of successful big-budget films including Payback (1999), Planet of the Apes (2001) and the Blade trilogy (1998, 2002 and 2004).
neutral · AI labelView post →My top five movie genres 1. Heart-shaped potatoes, Agnes Varda; 2. Zero plot & no one dies; 3. Sam Shepard or was that Chris Cooper; 4. Wait, who are they casting in The Payback?; 5. Kids ride around unsupervised on bikes.
neutral · AI labelView post →We went for breakfast... in Canada. We made a deal; if she'd stop hookin', I'd stop shooting people. Maybe we were aiming high. Despite Mel Gibson, Payback is an incredible movie.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (233/365) #NowShowing PAYBACK (1999) 🧡🤘 #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Five: I saw a ton of movies with the guy. He really dug the Mel Gibson film 'Payback'
neutral · AI labelView post →ripping a poster about a Payback film down off a movie theater building, the entire display popping into pieces as he wrenches it away from the screws that keep it attached to brick. . . . something about it returning to theaters after fifty years. he didn't fully read it. he just wanted ---
neutral · AI labelView post →As a longtime location manager, lover of great cities and part time flaneur I could write for days on this. Let's start with a curveball, a city that is "not" in a film. The Mel Gibson film Payback was shot in Chicago. It was intentionally set in an unnamed, unidentified city. They were unspecific
neutral · AI labelView post →Payback is a really strange movie. Everyone doing their worst acting thus making it feel like a Max Payne film.
negative · AI labelView post →I need Need for Speed Payback to be made into a movie, get the story polished up more and find the right people for the cast and it would be a great film to watch. Video is just a bonus. Rhinos in this game hit hard, but Mac hits Harder.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm just gonna buy The Outfit and just keep my Parker movie collection at it and Point Blank. Payback is fine, but I'm never clamoring to revisit it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Payback (1999) the Director's Cut. Somehow it might be the only DC I'm aware of that is shorter than the theatrical cut. I'd also say it's not that good as compared to the original film. It has a few laudable qualities but it's also rather dramatically different.
negative · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Payback on Letterboxd boxd.it/8wAKKX
positive · AI labelView post →Film Sack 637: Payback, is UP! After a successful heist, Porter is left for dead. Once he recovers, he seeks vengeance and wants his share of the money. How's it hold up! Come see! EPISODES, FEEDS, and SITE: filmsack.com
neutral · AI labelView post →I miss when they used to make medium budget movies for middle aged and old people. You’d then have to explain to your grandparents that just because the movie is called Payback doesn’t mean Mel Gibson’s character is named Payback.
unlabelledView post →Black Caesar. The movie is not at all a favorite of mine. James Brown making a soundtrack that has nothing to do with the movie. The sequel to a movie he was originally going to do the soundtrack for, but they didn’t use the music, so that album became The Payback.
unlabelledView post →Payback for getting blown off in that one iron man movie...
unlabelledView post →Weird to see him in those films from the 80's and 90's. Now I sort of feel like I'm being conned in some way, which I guess I am since everyone in the film is acting, but somehow it's different with Gibson. Seeing the director's cut of Payback brought this into sharp focus for me.
unlabelledView post →The first one with Lee Marvin. It's basically the movie, that Payback... Homages.
unlabelledView post →I'd make the caveat that there's a difference between enjoying art made by bad people & actively supporting bad people. Braveheart used to be among my favorite films. Payback is an objectively great neo-noir. But I will *never* pay to see another Mel Gibson film after what I've learned about him.
unlabelledView post →I love a good revenge movie even if it's bad, but it's very gratifying to see filmmakers go out of their way to make a good one. Good job with Payback. It deserves to be remembered.
unlabelledView post →Watched Episode 7 "Sky's Comeback" #Payback #wetrakr
unlabelledView post →All this time, I've been thinking that they mean Director Author as in a film / movie director. It just occurred to me that they might mean Director like someone in the C-Suite. Should I feel accomplished or embarrassed? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #PayBack #PayBackTheSeries
unlabelledView post →We also had an old Chesapeake friend called Porter. Named after Mel Gibson's character in the movie "Payback". He never gave up...
unlabelledView post →Podcast #109. Another fun episode for me. I talked to Gregg Henry (Payback, Body Double, Guardians The Galaxy) about his new film ABOVE THE LINE. I've admired him for years, so it was great chatting with him. Listen below or wherever you get podcasts. www.moviesinfocus.com/podcast-epis...
unlabelledView post →Thank you! From asian ones, Payback and an episode of My Royal Nemesis. Non Asian, Spider Noir, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder s2. Movie I have some horror for today: Faces of Death (2026).
unlabelledView post →Loved the neo-noir vibe. My ★★★★ review of Payback on Letterboxd boxd.it/eoSw3x #filmsky
unlabelledView post →I have just finished viewing the 1995 film, Payback, directed by Anthony Hickox and featuring C. Thomas Howell, Joan Severance, Marshall Bell, Richard Burgi, John Toles-Bey, and R.G. Armstrong. #Films #Movies #AcademyAwards #RogerEbert #TIFF #Cannes
unlabelledView post →Adapted from a Donald Westlake novel with the same character (different name) Lee Marvin played in Point Blank (1967) and Mel Gibson in Payback (1999). A few ofher films as well. Play Dirty, a recent Mark Wahlberg film, is really the only one that uses the character's name. Parker.
unlabelledView post →@timo21 @Nonilex MAGA is likely to get a more violent and diabolical uprising than any projected by the popular hero movies that have helped to reinforce its abnormality! #PayBack
unlabelledView post →Encouraging. When I graduate to writing non-smut, I won't have to abandon my roots :-) Didn't know about Westlake. I see he also wrote what became "Payback". That movie was one hell of a ride. I'll have to check out his novels.
unlabelledView post →Apparently, mine's some effing Mel Gibson thriller called Payback. That's probably a bad sign but I don't remember anything about this film and I don't really care to investigate lol 🤷♂️
unlabelledView post →The more you give dipshits like this a platform the more ridiculous they will get. Starve them of their publicity. Say what they did, not their name. Just say the jerk from the Payback or Ransom movie & everyone will know who you're talking about.
unlabelledView post →It’s a great, great series. Have you seen the Mel Gibson movie Payback? It’s an adaptation of the first Parker book The Hunter.
unlabelledView post →The movie John Wick taps in to the same thing for me that the movie Payback did. It’s not vengeance, it’s violation of principle and standard. The dumb fucking action parts of both movies are boring, but I get the driven by intent and purpose in both stories .
unlabelledView post →ngl I was hoping for more ACTION MOVIE PAYBACK tm (im sorry) but Nic Cage was great in that role
unlabelledView post →Reference - Jet Position: laurenpolizzi.com/art-directio... // (Note: Unlike the position chart here, Halo's pilot in the film was changed from Fritz to Omaha) - Maverick (00) & Rooster (410) - Hangman (105) - Payback/Fanboy (501)
unlabelledView post →I was trying to find a used paperback version of Donald Westlake's Payback novel and thankfully found older versions that were published before the Mel Gibson film adaptation because pulling out a book with him holding a gun on the cover in public doesn't seem like the best idea
unlabelledView post →Don't forget his movie roles like Payback😎
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Payback (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke Genre: (Crime) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1087648-pa...
unlabelledView post →1999 runners up American Movie Dogma Galaxy Quest Payback Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 8mm Office Space The Matrix The Mummy Deep Blue Sea Mystery Men The Sixth Sense
unlabelledView post →I just watched the absolute hatchet job of a director's cut that is "Payback: Straight Up". I was not aware of the fact that it was practice to remove every entertaining part of a movie for its director's cut.
unlabelledView post →I am honestly surprised that trump has not been assassinated for real, you know, not the fake ones. Also, why is there four different ending for the movie 'Payback'? And one more query, am I the only one who does not find Zendaya attractive?
unlabelledView post →This is my favorite from '99, but Payback is a heckuva movie
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