# Best/Worst back from seeming death scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805 "2006-05-22T20:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/21 "2006-05-23T13:32:33Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Viola was in **Twelfth Night** , not **True Romance**. 😛 Best and worst at the same time? Tom Cruise at the end of **Far and Away**. He’s basically dead, his spirit is floating above his body, and only Nicole Kidman’s loving exhortations bring him back. Worst because of how cheesy it is, best because it fulfills the romance novel formula that movie followed. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/22 "2006-05-23T13:54:55Z")
**Appleseed** immediately came to mind, though I’m not sure how well this fits into the confines on this thread. Main issue was the death scene itself was horrid. Horrid horrid horrid. Back acting, bad animation, it just sucks balls. I’d like to erase that scene from my memory (I don’t even think the movie is all that good, but this is way worse than the rest of it). The ‘oh he’ll be fine’ portion of it is kinda cheesy too. I wish the director would’ve just made that section into something less dramatic, the entire thing is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/23 "2006-05-23T13:55:20Z")
That reminds me of a good “worst” one: Neo, in **The Matrix**. He dies _in the real world_, and gets brought back to life by True Love? Uh uh, sorry, that’s too much Deus Ex for my Machina. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/24 "2006-05-23T13:56:38Z")
Juliet is one of the worst–Romeo couldn’t tell she was breathing? ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/25 "2006-05-23T14:07:40Z")
The Last Starfighter - Centauri rips his mask off so triumphantly! I love that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/26 "2006-05-23T14:08:02Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > That reminds me of a good “worst” one: Neo, in **The Matrix**. He dies _in the real world_, and gets brought back to life by True Love? Uh uh, sorry, that’s too much Deus Ex for my Machina. I don’t think he was brought back to life by “true love”. He survived his death in the matrix because he was “the one”. Trinity’s speech about being in love with him was incidental. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/27 "2006-05-23T14:14:35Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Juliet is one of the worst–Romeo couldn’t tell she was breathing? Couldn’t her _family_ or at least, the undertaker, tell she was alive? “Juliet, it’s time to get up and get dressed for your wedding. Juliet? Juliet? Madame! Madame, come quickly!” “What is it?” “Juliet is just lying there, and won’t wake up!” They both look down at the breathing, warm and non-rigored form. “Well, fuck. Looks like she’s dead. Somebody call the cemetary, and, oh, let the groom know we’re changing from a one o’clock wedding to a two o’clock funeral.” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/28 "2006-05-23T14:29:38Z")
> [@Mr. Wiseguy](#): > > I don’t know if this quite qualifies, if the spirit of this thread is ‘apparently dead but just fine after’ …but does anybody remember that non-death scene from Seven? The drug dealer that was kept alive on only IVs for a year, and the cough that made your heart skip a beat? I still don’t like to think about that one. I watched the movie by myself in the dark and I swear my skin jumped an inch off the rest of me. That’s only happened twice to me - evidently I was also the only person in the whole wide world who didn’t know about the surprise at the end of _Carrie_. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/29 "2006-05-23T15:01:16Z")
> [@ACC\_Expat](#): > > Does the Aragorn-over-cliff debacle from _The Two Towers_ qualify? (Obviously, no one who knew the books was fooled…but I suppose someone might have been.) If so, then that’s my choice for worst. Totally agree. Not just because it’s not that well done, but because it’s so unnecessary and silly. Jackson knew probably at least 50% of his audience knew the story and wouldn’t be the least bit surprised so it makes the logic behind it all the more dumbfounding. God I fucking hate that scene. Jackson would be well served to divorce himself from those hacks he writes with. ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/30 "2006-05-23T15:10:09Z")
Best: River Tam in _Serenity_. I thought it was a given that she would lose her life fighting the Reavers, but when that door opens up and there she is… it gives me shivers every time. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/31 "2006-05-23T15:35:35Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Totally agree. Not just because it’s not that well done, but because it’s so unnecessary and silly. Jackson knew probably at least 50% of his audience knew the story and wouldn’t be the least bit surprised so it makes the logic behind it all the more dumbfounding. > > God I fucking hate that scene. Jackson would be well served to divorce himself from those hacks he writes with. I hadn’t ever read the books, but I immediately thought, “He’ll be back.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/32 "2006-05-23T16:46:33Z")
> [@wm--](#): > > Best: River Tam in _Serenity_. I thought it was a given that she would lose her life fighting the Reavers, but when that door opens up and there she is… it gives me shivers every time. Raises a question of who opened the door, though. None of the Serenity crew did, and if it was River, that means she hit the button and then hustled into that dramatic backlit pose. As with many things science-fictiony, though, the reasoning is simple: because it looks cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Wiseguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mr.Wiseguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Wiseguy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/33 "2006-05-23T17:01:41Z")
The worst ‘not-really-death’ scene of all time is, hands down, the end of _ **The Faculty** _. Kill the queen Alien and all the teachers are back to normal?? Even the one that got her head chopped off?? WTF??? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/34 "2006-05-23T17:14:58Z")
> [@Mr. Wiseguy](#): > > The worst ‘not-really-death’ scene of all time is, hands down, the end of _ **The Faculty** _. > > Kill the queen Alien and all the teachers are back to normal?? Even the one that got her head chopped off?? WTF??? That reminds me of **Soapdish** : We need to bring your character back. --But I was beheaded! The audience saw my head leave my body… /vague memory of the dialogue ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/35 "2006-05-23T17:34:56Z")
> [@Mr. Wiseguy](#): > > The worst ‘not-really-death’ scene of all time is, hands down, the end of _ **The Faculty** _. > > Kill the queen Alien and all the teachers are back to normal?? Even the one that got her head chopped off?? WTF??? However, it did lead to the great shot of a restored Jon Stewart waving to a student, and still missing several fingers that got hacked off earlier. That movie still gets bonus stupid points for the character who explains that she’s not really a lesbian, she just pretended to be one because “it was easier.” Because being gay in high school is such a fuckin’ cakewalk. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/36 "2006-05-23T17:51:58Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Raises a question of who opened the door, though. None of the Serenity crew did, and if it was River, that means she hit the button and then hustled into that dramatic backlit pose. > > As with many things science-fictiony, though, the reasoning is simple: because it looks cool. I’m willing to believe it had something to do with the Alliance soldiers arriving at the base. Maybe they hit some kind of master door override switch when they got there. But yeah, it looked so cool, who cares. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/37 "2006-05-23T17:57:30Z")
I’ll nominate any of the several apparent deaths in _The Big Hit_. Hint: in this universe, explosions are almost never lethal. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/38 "2006-05-23T18:24:04Z")
> [@Talon Karrde](#): > > Han Solo being set free from the carbonite was great. But we expected that, it was never “seeming death.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/39 "2006-05-23T18:27:25Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Oh dear. I think I will concede on that one; way back in school, my English teacher told us that if we ever wrote a story that ended “…and I woke up and it had all been a dream”, he would beat us with sticks. It **is** possible to make that work. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little\_Nemo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805/40 "2006-05-23T19:52:56Z")
Well, as far as dying and coming back on a consistant basis, nobody beats [Casey and Andy](http://www.galactanet.com/comic/220.htm) . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-back-from-seeming-death-scene/357805.md?page=3)