# Unintentionally amusing movie deaths **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/61 "2004-04-14T14:36:34Z")
The one at the end of **Robocop** , where Emile get doused in toxic waste and starts to melt…then he gets hit by Clarence’s car! Splat! (Though I have to wonder if that really was intended to be amusing. I’m sure all the rabid Verhoeven-heads will inisit that it was supposed to be funny. Ah, well.) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/62 "2004-04-14T14:49:33Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I recall having a discussion with a very religious friend after watching _Passion_, where I tried to convince her that, by definition, Jesus was now a zombie. “Blessed are the brains, for they are… Mmmm… Brains.” ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/63 "2004-04-14T22:27:16Z")
Bride of Chucky; the lead character’s van is stopped on the side of a highway under an overpass the lead male character’s freind finds the body of his father (the chief of police) stuffed in a cooler in the van (he was killed by Chucky), he backs away in horror… …into the path of a speeding 18-wheeler… and is turned into a fine red mist ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/64 "2004-04-14T22:38:45Z")
When we saw the movie _Psycho II_ my sister and I literally **burst** into laughter during the scene where: Norman takes a shovel and slams it down on the nosy neighbor’s (I think that’s what she was…it’s been years since I saw it and I have no intention of watching this stupid film again) head. Then she lays there twitching and convulsing like he electrocuted her. It was just hysterical. Almost slapstick in the way it was done. The look on Norman’s face alone was worth a huge guffaw. While I’ve heard since that time it may have been intentionally funny, nobody but my sister and I laughed. And by the way, that was one of the sorriest, most ill-conceived films ever. The above death scene was its only redeeming feature. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/65 "2004-04-14T23:29:37Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I considered posting that, but figured that the humour was completely intentional. Fair enough. I will say the theater more gasped than laughed – but I found it funny & I’ll bet Tarintino did too, so good point. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/66 "2004-04-15T01:39:39Z")
**Dooku** and **Leaper** = 😛 I’m aware of that, btw-I read it on the Jedi Council Boards. But I still think it would have been funny. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/67 "2004-04-15T02:29:45Z")
By the end of _Se7en_, I’d reached that “so horrified you get loopy” stage, and when the infamous box appeared, I leaned over to my husband and said, meaning it in a goofy, over-the-top way, It’s _a human head!_ And well, you know if you’ve seen the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Tremmie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Tremmie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tremmie)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/68 "2004-04-15T03:02:01Z")
The first orc death at the battle of Helms Deep, when the old guys arrow slips. The orcs stop their chanting and get this indignant look like “Oh man, we where just gonna do our chant and go home but you guys made it personal now… Its on!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/69 "2004-04-15T03:50:40Z")
> [@Tremmie](#): > > “…It’s on!” The Isengard crew got totally _served!_ ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/70 "2004-04-15T04:47:41Z")
Then a spotlight fell on the elves and killed them all … that means the winner is Isengard! ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/71 "2004-04-15T05:22:43Z")
Shatner dying in _Star Trek: Generations_ because a scaffolding fell on him. The guy survived Klingons, the “50 quatloos on the newcomer” guys, and Ricardo Montalban. But a devious scaffolding is more than a match for Kirk’s tenacity and he snuffs it. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/72 "2004-04-15T07:46:31Z")
I’m not going to spoiler this because it was a silly movie anyway… In Razerback (the single best movie ever made about a man eating pig) when the punk guy gets eaten by Razerback in the pet food factory. You see only the shadow of the event happening on the factory wall -but if you listen you hear the punk guy going “ouch, oww, ouch, ouch” Comic gold. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/73 "2004-04-15T07:47:47Z")
Err. I mean “razorback” Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/74 "2004-04-15T13:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > I was almost thrown out of the theater for giggling all the way through “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and I did the same for much of "Saving Private Ryan That’s really disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/75 "2004-04-17T02:38:32Z")
> [@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. :eek: He was supposed to _explode?_ Uh… no. Sure, a sudden drop in pressure like that is really unhealthy, but NO ONE has ever “exploded” from that sort of pressure differential. Even more frightening – Steven Seagal’s stubborness actually _improved_ the movie and made it more realistic. :eek: And I don’t get the “float away” part at all – was he supposed to somehow learn to fly by flapping his arms? Have time to fashion a crude parachute out of his shirt and underwear? Catch a ride on a passing jet? What? [expletive deleted] idiots… ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/76 "2004-04-17T12:58:56Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > And I don’t get the “float away” part at all – was he supposed to somehow learn to fly by flapping his arms? Don’t be facetious. He would have died, but not on-screen - that was the compromise. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/77 "2004-04-17T15:09:11Z")
First thing I thought of when seeing the title was the photographer’s beheading (David Warner) in The Omen, tho Meg Ryan’s death in City of Angels takes the cake. I will add Jonathan Frid/Barnabas Collins getting shot by an arrow & then the hero comes down to twist it in as blood gushes & Frid writhes for a ridiculously long time (tho as a kid I thought it was so damn cool) in NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS. (Or was it HOUSE OF D…S…). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/78 "2004-04-17T15:54:30Z")
How about Samuel Jackson in Deep Blue Sea?He’s giving a big important rousing speech about sticking together in this time of [sub]yadd yada yada[/sub] and this huge freakin’ shark just ups and eats him That might have been intentionally funny, but the whole film was such a mess, it would hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/79 "2004-04-17T18:00:40Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > Don’t be facetious. He would have died, but not on-screen - that was the compromise. it’s the law of The Literal Cliff-hanger from those old hong kong tv serials - so long as you don’t see the character die on screen, there is the basic assumption that he will return alive somehow. (if the story requires it.) ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636/80 "2004-04-17T18:26:59Z")
The “Dirty Den” effect. Mark Fowler will be back. Coffin or no coffin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unintentionally-amusing-movie-deaths/239636.md?page=5)