# The single most played-out scene in movies is . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876 "2008-03-02T20:18:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/41 "2008-03-03T13:34:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] At 1:22 of [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PqJyvb8Jo) from _The Matrix_, among other places. [/QUOTE] Be annoyed. Be [very](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/neck/) annoyed… ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/42 "2008-03-03T18:38:01Z")
I think you have two kinds of “kill me now” scenes. There’s the kind where they really mean it, because life will suck if they don’t die, like in _The Departed_. Then, there’s the “skin that smokewagon” kind where someone is challenging a coward to be man enough to pull the trigger. A real bitch slap. Both are played out, but they’re distinctly different animals. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/43 "2008-03-03T18:43:54Z")
My most annoying movie cliche: Tough Guy walks away from a house, a car or something else which either looks OK, or is already on fire. It then explodes impressively, and Tough Guy keeps walking toward the camera, not looking back or even flinching. Ooooo, he’s tough. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/44 "2008-03-03T18:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Be annoyed. Be [very](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/neck/) annoyed… [/QUOTE] I am so going to have to do that next time I see my Chiropractor. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/45 "2008-03-03T18:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] My most annoying movie cliche: Tough Guy walks away from a house, a car or something else which either looks OK, or is already on fire. It then explodes impressively, and Tough Guy keeps walking toward the camera, not looking back or even flinching. Ooooo, he’s tough. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] (Bonus points if he stops to light a cigarette while it explodes behind him.) This was probably a cool scene for whoever filmed it first but my god it’s been done to death. Most recently in the trailer for Iron Man. Grooan :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [March 3, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/46 "2008-03-03T19:31:46Z")
Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. _Clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap!_ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/47 "2008-03-03T19:41:01Z")
Mysterious person riding motorcycle is always a woman with log flowing hair that she flips in slow motion after taking off her helmet. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/48 "2008-03-03T19:42:33Z")
Joe Pesci to Robert DeNiro in **Raging Bull** : “Me, kill me! Start here, kill me first, do me a fuckin’ favor.” In **The Unforgiven** , there’s a jail scene where Gene Hackman (as Little Bill) hands the pulp western writer a loaded gun and tells the writer to shoot him (Hackman) and make his escape. But it’s obvious Hackman knows the writer doesn’t have the nerve to do it. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/49 "2008-03-03T19:46:29Z")
_Bad Boys_ has every cliche ever filmed, so it’s no suprise that it has both the “kill me! do it!” scene and the “bad guy comes back to life and gets shot” scene. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/50 "2008-03-03T19:56:47Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] ‘Kill me. Do it. Do it now. Go ahead and do it. Do it. Kill me.’ [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah, I remember that from _Battlefield Earth_. What? Oh, it wasn’t in the movie itself, AFAIK. The line was spoken by me, about two minutes in. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/51 "2008-03-03T20:08:42Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] I think you have two kinds of “kill me now” scenes. There’s the kind where they really mean it, because life will suck if they don’t die, like in _The Departed_. [/QUOTE] Another example of this is _Lonesome Dove_. Some secondary character, having been shot in the gut, scalped, and probably other things which I have blocked from memory, asks Duvall to kill him. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/52 "2008-03-03T21:31:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] Yes, but then he grabs the gun and nearly pulls the trigger himself, before Danny Glover pulls it away. [/QUOTE] Even better - Mel does pull the trigger, but Glover has his thumb between the hammer and the frame of the revolver, so it doesn’t fire, though it hurts Danny like a sonofabitch. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/53 "2008-03-03T21:34:12Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] I think you have two kinds of “kill me now” scenes. There’s the kind where they really mean it, because life will suck if they don’t die, like in _The Departed_. Then, there’s the “skin that smokewagon” kind where someone is challenging a coward to be man enough to pull the trigger. A real bitch slap. Both are played out, but they’re distinctly different animals. [/QUOTE] The scene in _Dead Presidents_ is distinctly different, but I think there is a lot of overlap between these two. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/54 "2008-03-03T21:40:37Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] Now I’m disappointed that I can’t come up with a better list than that. I know I have seen that so many more times in other movies. Maybe someone else can think of a few more. [/QUOTE] It’s in the commercial for “Vantage Point.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/55 "2008-03-03T22:50:46Z")
If I’m remembering right, in **Red Dawn** , Jennifer Grey, gravely wounded, begs Patrick Swayze to kill her. He can’t do it, and instead leaves her with a live grenade. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/56 "2008-03-03T23:03:02Z")
From **Carlito’s Way** : > [@](#): > > Lalin: I mean, look at me! You got everything, man. I mean… come on! Look what I got to… fuckin’ go around with… fuckin’ diapers, man. I got fuckin’ diapers! I shit in my pants every day, I can’t walk, I can’t hump… you know! Go ahead and kill me, you cocksucker! In **The Fly** , there’s an unspoken “Go ahead and shoot me” moment, as Jeff Goldblum’s mutated character pulls the barrel of the shotgun against his head. From **The Muppet Movie** , Kermit to Doc Hopper: > [@](#): > > I don’t think you’re a bad man, Doc. But I think if you look in your heart, you’ll find you really want to let me and my friends go to follow our dream. But if that’s not the kind of man you are and if what I’m saying doesn’t make any sense to you, well, then, go ahead and kill me." ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/57 "2008-03-03T23:10:13Z")
Final Confrontation. The good guy is just about to take on the bad guy when the bad guy reveals that everything the hero has been doing all film was in fact an elaborate ruse by the bad guy. In fact if the hero hadn’t retreived the golden macguffin for him then his whole plan would have failed. Unfortunately for the villain his intricate plan fails to account for the fact that the reason the hero was such a useful tool was his ability to fight his way through almost impossible situations. In fact, just like the one he’s in now… ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/58 "2008-03-04T01:29:17Z")
Scrappy underdog team practices hard and wins (or barely loses) the last play in slo-mo. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/59 "2008-03-04T03:01:40Z")
Kevin Kline staring down K-K-K-Ken’s steamroller in **A Fish Called Wanda**. > [@](#): > > Come at me! Gimme your best shot. > Go on, Ken! > You don’t have the guts. Admit it! Of course it’s played for laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876/60 "2008-03-04T03:19:30Z")
**Batman Begins** (scene on the train): Ras Al-Ghul: Are you finally prepared to do what is necessary? [by which he means “Go ahead and kill me”] Batman: I’m not going to kill you, but I don’t have to save you either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-most-played-out-scene-in-movies-is/439876.md?page=4)