# Stupidest Looking Death Scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120 "2013-01-05T00:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/61 "2013-01-07T20:51:13Z")
I believe that’s the crux of those movies but my point was when she gets hit by a bus, there’s nothing fake or stupid looking about it. KaBOOM and she disappears and you’re thinking holy crap, what could possibly be left after such an impact that would be useful to identify someone. Yes, I did back it up and replay it a couple of times. I’m a bad bad bad bad bad bad bad person. ETA: I wonder what it would have been like to be in a theater full of teenage girls when that scene happened. Shrieks of horror, I’d assume. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/62 "2013-01-07T22:04:50Z")
Can’t remember the title, but it was an ultra-cheezy kung-fu movie where the good guy gouges out the bad guy’s eyes and they fall on the floor as the bad guy drops. Two ping-pong balls with eyes painted on them, and they bounced repeatedly. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/63 "2013-01-07T23:10:06Z")
Why, that can only be the classic _Enter the Muppet_. ---
**Author:** ![sbunny8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@sbunny8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sbunny8)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/64 "2013-01-08T21:54:26Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > I would nominate the bad guy’s death in Ghost. First, they had to make some incredibly convoluted Ruben-esque series of accidents so Swayze wouldn’t kill him directly. I believe you meant to say [Rube-Goldberg-esque](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine), not [Rubenesque](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubenesque). My vote for stupidest death scene is at the end of the movie Commando, when Arnold has been beaten senseless and somehow finds the superhuman strength to [throw a section of pipe through a human torso, piercing a steam boiler behind the victim](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19R2fDXCzcM), so he can deliver the line “Let off some steam, Bennett.” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Captain\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_M)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/65 "2013-01-08T22:28:24Z")
I always felt somewhat flummoxed by Dennis Hopper’s death in Speed. Stategic genius. Loads of police training. Doesn’t know to duck while riding on top of a subway. Gets beheaded by a low hanging sign. Keanu quips “Lost his head.” For that matter, the death of Corrine in the movie version of “Flowers in the Attic” is rather anticlimactic: death by hanging from a frilly veil, made worse by the fact the character survives in the book and its sequels. Woulda preferred it if the cops dragged her off to rot in jail. I’ve also seen a lot of Troma movies with stupid deaths, though I suppose in that case that’s the point. The dumbest one in my opinion was The Toxic Avenger 4, where Toxie relieves a robber dressed as a baby of his soiled diaper, hits him in the face with it, then steps on his diaper covered face as he lies on the floor, extracting his brain. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/66 "2013-01-09T10:34:59Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Well, there’s Shakespeare. Somebody gets stabbed in the heart, then gives a 300-line speech about how much that sucked. 😉 > > d&r Hell, there are a ton of operas where they get stabbed, and don’t bleed–just sing! ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/67 "2013-01-09T12:32:37Z")
There is a Spanish youtuber (nick “Loulogio”) who posts weird, wonderful and absolutely insane clips from Z-serie movies with a running commentary. I was fortunate enough to find one of his best subtitled into English, and I submit it here for your consideration: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VENgklxy5UQ) The result of producers sticking two movies together (1st movie some kind of war drama, 2nd movie some insane ninja flick) to provide an AWESOME climax to the story. Just watch it and count how many stupid deaths you can find in the ninja section ^.^ Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/68 "2013-01-09T12:42:42Z")
> [@Mann\_Slaughter](#): > > Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! > > POW! > “Aggggghhhhhhhh!” (Squeezes a blood capsule against his belly) > POW! > “Aggggghhhhhhhh!” (Falls over dresser) > POW! > “Aggggghhhhhhhh!” (Gets up and spreads himself against the wall) > POW! > Lather, rinse repeat! > > I was once a big fan of poorly-dubbed ‘Kung-Fu Theater’ movies from the 70’s, so I’ve seen some bad movies, with ludicrous death scenes but this one tops them all! Great find, “Morbo”! 🆒 It’s mnot a death scene, but I found this on that same page, and had to point it out: **Matrix Cow** https://www.youtube.com/embed/voaJ-MeeEsI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/69 "2013-01-11T01:03:57Z")
> [@Captain\_M](#): > > For that matter, the death of Corrine in the movie version of “Flowers in the Attic” is rather anticlimactic: death by hanging from a frilly veil, made worse by the fact the character survives in the book and its sequels. Woulda preferred it if the cops dragged her off to rot in jail. Yeah, but then we wouldn’t have the classic scene of Corinne being chased off the balcony by her daughter yelling “EAT SOME COOKIE!!!” :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/70 "2013-01-11T05:10:06Z")
> [@sbunny8](#): > > I believe you meant to say [Rube-Goldberg-esque](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine), not [Rubenesque](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubenesque). He wasn’t killed in an extravagant Baroque style that emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality? ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/71 "2013-01-11T15:34:37Z")
When I was about 13 my friends and I were watching a cheesy B-movie horror. A huge boulder rolls down a hill and squashes two teenagers in a tent. We laughed so hard we had tears in our eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/72 "2013-01-11T15:38:58Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Thanks..I had the two flicks mixed up! “White Heat” did have aneat ending! What’s the Cagney film where his character is a total prick of a gangster and at the end his enemy kills him, wraps up his body and stands it up outside his mom’s front door? His brother opens the door and the body falls straight inside? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/73 "2013-01-11T16:07:17Z")
The turkish movie gets a serious laugh, but for my money, it’s Mary Corleone’s death in Godfather 3. Worst acting ever. Worst death scene ever. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/74 "2013-01-11T20:55:22Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > What’s the Cagney film where his character is a total prick of a gangster and at the end his enemy kills him, wraps up his body and stands it up outside his mom’s front door? His brother opens the door and the body falls straight inside? _[The Public Enemy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_Enemy)_ ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/75 "2013-01-12T19:29:16Z")
> [@Captain\_M](#): > > I always felt somewhat flummoxed by Dennis Hopper’s death in Speed. Stategic genius. Loads of police training. Doesn’t know to duck while riding on top of a subway. Gets beheaded by a low hanging sign. Keanu quips “Lost his head.” The exchange was actually a lot more clever than that: \*\*Howard Payne: \*\*_[Payne wrestles with Jack for a deadman-switch detonator on top of a runaway subway train]_ I’m smarter than you, Jack! I’m smarter! I’m smarter! _[Jack sees a hanging light approaching and forces Payne into its path. Payne looks up and screams before the light decapitates him]_ **Jack:** _[grabbing the detonator before Payne’s body falls away]_ Yeah? Well, I’m TALLER! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/76 "2013-01-12T21:37:57Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Can’t remember the title, but it was an ultra-cheezy kung-fu movie where the good guy gouges out the bad guy’s eyes and they fall on the floor as the bad guy drops. Two ping-pong balls with eyes painted on them, and they bounced repeatedly. Not _exactly_ what happens here, but this clip isn’t called “[Best fight scene of all time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY)” for nothing! (from the film “Undefeatable”). The eye action starts a little before 2:00, but the fun starts at 0:00. The _Commando_ one mentioned is pretty bad. But Sully’s death from the same film is the best thing ever. Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? Sully: That’s right, Matrix! You did! Matrix: I lied. Insert Austrian accent, and go! ---
**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:** [January 13, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/77 "2013-01-13T00:09:16Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The exchange was actually a lot more clever than that: > > \*\*Howard Payne: \*\*_[Payne wrestles with Jack for a deadman-switch detonator on top of a runaway subway train]_ I’m smarter than you, Jack! I’m smarter! I’m smarter! > _[Jack sees a hanging light approaching and forces Payne into its path. Payne looks up and screams before the light decapitates him]_ > **Jack:** _[grabbing the detonator before Payne’s body falls away]_ Yeah? Well, I’m TALLER! Further, there’s a much earlier foreshadowing moment. Jack’s friend Harry (played by Jeff Daniels) leads a team to Payne’s house, which Payne has booby-trapped with explosives, killing Harry and the others. Payne taunts Jack with this. Jack is peeved. Jack: I’m gonna rip your fucking spine out, I swear to God! And that’s pretty much exactly what he ended up doing. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/78 "2013-01-13T00:13:32Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Not _exactly_ what happens here, but this clip isn’t called “[Best fight scene of all time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY)” for nothing! (from the film “Undefeatable”). The eye action starts a little before 2:00, but the fun starts at 0:00. I’m glad you posted it, as I REALLY wanted to. I love that scene 🙂 The one guy kinda looks like Peter North, which just ranks it higher on the, “It’s so bad it’s good” scale. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/79 "2013-01-13T02:13:56Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I hesitated to post this one, b/c I think it’s kind of [awesome](http://youtu.be/LOeu61j4M6o). I can’t think of anything that can top this one. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120/80 "2013-01-14T18:31:39Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Any death scene where a blue screen background is promient..so usually falling deaths in older movies just look just look stupid. > > Hans Gruber in Die Hard springs to mind as well as the lead nazi in IJ: The Last Crusade. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I always felt this way about Ronny Cox’s death-by-fall scene in _Robocop_. Even if you forgive the obvious blue-screening, something was way off about the perspective, or the physics of the fall, or something. It just looked wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-looking-death-scenes/646120.md?page=5)