# Unintentionally amusing movie deaths
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 12, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636 "2004-04-12T18:26:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/1 "2004-04-12T18:26:32Z")
… or, I suppose, the best of the rest. But I’m in a bit of a quandary here, 'cos I’d always imagined that
Sofia Coppola’s ludicrous death scene in Godfather III
was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. Then along comes Matrix Revolutions and WHAM!
Trinity dies in a much funnier way! Impaled on a hose! Who on earth can get impaled on a hose?
This may be a pointless use of spoiler boxes, but anyway. Which is the funnier? Care to suggest any others?
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### Author:  [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/2 "2004-04-12T18:33:50Z")
Owen Wilson’s death in The Haunting cracked up the entire theater. when he gets his head knocked off by a giant, swinging, iron lion head.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT??? It wasn’t scary, it was ridiculous!
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/3 "2004-04-12T18:55:54Z")
I’ve always been greatly amused by the teacher’s death scene in _Final Destination_–
[spoiler]\*\*First there’s the computer fire, then the monitor explodes and sends glass into her neck, then the _stove_ explodes, the kitchen’s on fire, she’s on the floor, bleeding profusely from the throat, reaching up to the counter for a dish towel … and she pulls a whole mess o’ knives down onto her, impaling herself. And as if that weren’t bad enough … then the chair falls on her and drives the knife home.
It’s just hard to imagine anyone having a worse day.
\*\*I may be wrong about the order of the catastrophes or the exact nature (except for the chair, I love the chair), but suffice to say it’s a great exercise in ridiculousness.[/spoiler]
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### Author:  [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/4 "2004-04-12T19:34:30Z")
The person that bounced off the propeller in Titantic. A well placed “Doh!” had my little group of friends rolling in the theater, which was extra amusing with the people crying around us. Evil, huh?
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/5 "2004-04-12T20:03:22Z")
I just noticed that if you mouse over the thread title from the forum page, it will reveal text in Spoiler boxes. Huh.
Anyway, to the OP - I gotta go with Steven Seagal falling to his death in Executive Decision. I was so overjoyed that he was no longer going to be in the movie that I let out a little cheer.
Another one is from _You Only Live Twice_. James is talking with an agent that’s lived in Japan for many years (the same actor that was later the villain in _Diamonds Are Forever_) and is getting ready to tell James something about the vessel Ling-Po, when he just stops talking and has a weird look on his face. James runs over to find out that he’d just been stabbed in the back. I’ve never actually been stabbed in the back, but I imagine my response would be something more like “AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
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### Author:  [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/6 "2004-04-12T20:19:17Z")
Mine is in Red Dragon
Where the Dragon glues the guy in to the wheelchair, bites off his tongue (lips?) and sends him flaming down the hill of a busy street.
I tell you, you laugh as loud and as hard as I did in the theatre at that, you get a reputation for being sick in the head.
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### Author:  [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/7 "2004-04-12T20:32:28Z")
In Meet Joe Black, when… …the car hits Brad Pitt. He flips through the air, goes splat, and gets run over by a bus (something like that). Sure it was shocking, but Brad Pitt spinning around mid-air and then getting flattened…funny stuff!
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/8 "2004-04-12T20:35:29Z")
Vader’s.
He looked laughable–several people, in fact, did giggle when Luke unmasked him, plus that high-pitched British accent didn’t help. Still think Jones should have done the voice of the dying Vader.
But it don’t matter–Lucas will eventually super Christiansen over that actor anyway…
Sir Rhosis
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### Author:  [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/9 "2004-04-12T20:46:27Z")
> [@Dooku](#):
>
> Anyway, to the OP - I gotta go with Steven Seagal falling to his death in Executive Decision. I was so overjoyed that he was no longer going to be in the movie that I let out a little cheer.
Easily the funniest; I thought I’d be the first to mention it. He didn’t just fall to his death, he flipped end over end and flew off the right side of the screen. I also cheered. We all agreed that was the best part of the movie.
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### Author:  [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/10 "2004-04-12T20:48:37Z")
re: people getting stabbed quietly.
This was a favourite plot twist in British television / movies in the 1980s - cheap, sensational and effective. Bloke is talking. Bloke looks a bit glazed. Bloke falls forward revealing knife.
It became so common in bog-standard tv series and the like, that for years afterward whenever anyone stood relatively still and gazed into the distance, me and my brother and sister would immediately announce “he’s been stabbed!” Occasionally we were proven right and felt totally cool, but usually we’d misinterpreted some halfwit actor’s idea of depicting intense thought.
Vader’s death was stupid. They should’ve used Dave Prowse’s face, at least he looked vaguely like the eventual young Anakin, and it would have cheered him up, the poor dupe. I mean, let him have the last two minutes!
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/11 "2004-04-12T21:18:09Z")
I don’t know which version it was, or who made it, but when I was in 9th grade, we watched an adaption of Dickens’s _Great Expectations_. The scene were Miss Havisham runs around the room in a giant fireball is comedy gold.
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### Author:  [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/12 "2004-04-12T21:21:24Z")
> [@RogueRacer](#):
>
> The person that bounced off the propeller in Titantic. A well placed “Doh!” had my little group of friends rolling in the theater, which was extra amusing with the people crying around us. Evil, huh?
I was partial to “Ten points! No splash!” myself.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/13 "2004-04-12T21:22:58Z")
The climax of _Kiss the Girls_ where Morgan Freeman is about to shoot the villain, then realizes that the flash from his gun will set off the natural gas filling the room. So he grabs a carton of milk and shoots through it to ‘dampen’ the flash while still killing the villain. I think everyone in the theater thought of the same joke at the same time. Got Milk? So the ‘thrilling’ ending just became a joke.
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/14 "2004-04-12T21:39:37Z")
Re: _Titanic_
When the people are falling down the now-vertical part of the sinking ship:
**PLINKO!**
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/15 "2004-04-12T23:08:22Z")
I know it’s already a really bad movie, but in **Starship Troopers** , the lead chick is dying and says to the lead guy “It’s ok, because I got to sleep with you first” or something very similar. Worse final words of any death scene I’ve ever witnessed.
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### Author:  [@Farmwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmwoman)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/16 "2004-04-13T00:00:22Z")
Lee Remick’s clumsy demise in _The Omen_ always cracks me up. Come on, casts on both arms and head stuck in a flimsy negligee?.. It reads more like a gag from _Planes, Trains and Automobiles_ than a heart-stopping horror scene.
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### Author:  [@HumptysHamhole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumptysHamhole)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/17 "2004-04-13T00:11:23Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Anyway, to the OP - I gotta go with Steven Seagal falling to his death in Executive Decision. I was so overjoyed that he was no longer going to be in the movie that I let out a little cheer.
I third this scene. I saw an interesting interview with John Leguizamo (sp?) about this scene. He said that Segal threw a fit the day that the scene was to be shot. Segal was complaining that he never died in his films and his fans would go ape if he went through with it. The director made a comprimise with Segal in the scene. Segal’s character was supposed to explode (from the depressurization) but Segal wouldn’t have it. The director finally agreed to just let Segal float away so that the production could continue.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/18 "2004-04-13T00:18:13Z")
> [@Ross](#):
>
> Vader’s death was stupid. They should’ve used Dave Prowse’s face, at least he looked vaguely like the eventual young Anakin, and it would have cheered him up, the poor dupe. I mean, let him have the last two minutes!
It would have been a sight more unintentionally amusing if they had, as anyone who’s ever heard him speak can attest.
“I have to save you!”
“You already aaave, moi son.”
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/19 "2004-04-13T00:26:23Z")
> [@HumptysHamhole](#):
>
> I third this scene. I saw an interesting interview with John Leguizamo (sp?) about this scene. He said that Segal threw a fit the day that the scene was to be shot. Segal was complaining that he never died in his films and his fans would go ape if he went through with it. The director made a comprimise with Segal in the scene. Segal’s character was supposed to explode (from the depressurization) but Segal wouldn’t have it. The director finally agreed to just let Segal float away so that the production could continue.
Normally I would question this, as what sort of actor would sign onto a project without reading the script first and have no idea that his character dies until the day that scene is to be shot.
Normally.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/20 "2004-04-13T00:26:40Z")
I had mine all picked out as soon as I read the thread title, but **Ross** had to go and use it for his very first example.
“Daddy.” _thump_
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