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.
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.
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.
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:
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 ^.^
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.
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 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!
Not exactly what happens here, but this clip isn’t called “Best fight scene of all time” 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!
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.
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.
