# Lopped-Off Limbs in Popular Cinema
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 30, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266 "2005-08-30T15:32:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/41 "2005-08-31T19:43:10Z")
It occurs to me that Paul Veerhoeven is a lover of lopped-off limbs. We get a hand in **Robo-Cop** , Both of Michael Ironside’s arms in **Total Recall** , and again, Ironside’s arm , along with at least three more limbs I can recall in **Starship Troopers**.
It may have loosened up the market for wholesale limb loss, but it’s still nothing like the recent numbers in KBII/Sith/SC.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/42 "2005-08-31T19:55:07Z")
I only remember one LOL (Lopped Off Limb) from **Predator** but hey, it sure was a good one. Carl Weathers gets separated from his arm at the shoulder but, falling in slow motion, the fist keeps squeezing the trigger and firing the cradled machine gun. That was worth two fists and an ankle right there.
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### Author:  [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/43 "2005-08-31T20:18:25Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#):
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> She was going to open a second hand store.
The Bride was a smart girl, and she knew how to get ahead in the world…
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> …weighted down with a copy of **A Farewell To Arms**
Damn. When I saw this thread, I instantly wanted to mention **A Farewell to Arms**.
\*\*Wild at Heart \*\* (1990). It wasn’t losing the hand, it was when the dog ran off with it :eek:
\*\*Johnny Mnemonic \*\* (1995) and **The Cube** (1997) both had people eviscerated by very fine wires.
**Ghost Ship** (2002) really ups the total dismemberments in recent years. Big time…
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### Author:  [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/44 "2005-08-31T21:47:38Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> There was quite a similar bit in quite a similar movie (something about a haunted hospital) where someone gets sliced in half vertically (ear to ear, shoulder to shoulder) and just stands there for a bit, then one half falls over.
This also took place in the begining of **The Cube**
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/45 "2005-08-31T22:32:44Z")
Two or three films doesn’t make a trend. If it continues, you might have something.
> [@Case Sensitive](#):
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> She was going to open a second hand store. Speaking of which, there’s **Evil Dead** , in which Ash chops his _own_ hand off - and then traps it under a rubbish bin weighted down with a copy of **A Farewell To Arms**. Groovy.
Evil Dead 2, not the original.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/46 "2005-09-01T03:03:17Z")
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> Wild at Heart (1990). It wasn’t losing the hand, it was when the dog ran off with it
And that was Lynch’s reference to a Japanese movie (the name of which I can’t remember).
Originally Posted by Mangetout
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> There was quite a similar bit in quite a similar movie (something about a haunted hospital) where someone gets sliced in half vertically (ear to ear, shoulder to shoulder) and just stands there for a bit, then one half falls over.
I think that was in the remake of _Thirteen Ghosts_.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/47 "2005-09-01T11:35:39Z")
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> And there was a movie in the late 50s called THE VIKINGS where Tony Curtis gets his hand cut off by Kirk Douglas (or perhaps the reverse.) Dismemberment wasn’t so easy to show in a movie back in those days, so it was a very dramatic event.
Yep. If you’ll notioce, I mentuioned it near the beginning of the thread.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/48 "2005-09-01T12:11:43Z")
**Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence** , with David Bowie, was one of the most gruesomely accurate and body-part dropping films I’d seen. The girl I was with walked out in shock, so I don’t know how it ends.
They just kept on beheading people. -gag-
Cartooniverse
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lopped-off-limbs-in-popular-cinema/319266/49 "2005-09-01T14:33:03Z")
> [@Baldwin](#):
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> I think that was in the remake of _Thirteen Ghosts_.
That director seems to have a thing for slicing people in half and letting them topple slowly. A year after **Thirteen Ghosts** , he directed **Ghost Ship** , which opens with a large group of people being bisected by a snapped steel cable during a shipboard dance.
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