Worst/Most Ridiculous Movie Death Scene

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You had to see this coming.

In response to this thread, what are the silliest death scenes you’ve ever seen in a movie–I mean, true WTF moments?

To show what I mean, here’s mine:

Star Trek 2 : Scotty’s nephew’s death scene. He reaches out, grabs Kirk’s hand and asks “Is the word given, Admiral?”
Kirk’s response: “The word is given. Warp speed!”

I realize it loses something translated to print, but anyone who’s seen it knows what I’m talking about. I half expected Scotty to look at Kirk and say, “What in blazes was that?”

What are your cinematic death low points?

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Julius Caesar in what I think is the 1953 version.
While obviously not everyone could stab him exactly at once, I doubt he had time to wander around for what seems like minutes between each stabbing before he finally croaks out “Et tu, Brute.” By the end, it’s comic.

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Well, there was this Mel Gibson movie a little while back that seemed to be just one long death scene… I had trouble following the dialog (it was in some foreign language and I hate reading subtitles) but man, you walk into a movie called “The Passion of Christy” hoping for some softcore and whoa, it’s just some dude getting whaled on for like two hours. I mean, WTF?

:wink:

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I have two words: “Coppola” “Dadddyyyyyyyyyy!”

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Paul Reubens got a lot of kudos for his performance in the filmic Buffy the Vampire Slayer but his death scene was just stupid and awful.

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Thelma & Louise

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Is that the Jason Robards version? Completely awful on all counts.

Not really a death scene, but I always felt the shot of the strangled woman in Frenzy was just plain awful. Hitchcock was superb up to that point, but the close-up of her lying there with her tongue sticking out was just plain ludicrous.

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I love Suzy Parker’s Death by Spike Heel and Fire Escape in the classic The Best of Everything.

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Dead Heat had lots of stupid death scenes.

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What was wrong with the death scene in T&L? The only actual death scene being the one in which Louise shot the rapist.

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The guy who died at the end of Fellowship of the Ring. He kept getting shot with arrows but still kept fighting. I was finally yelling “Die Already!” at my TV.

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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where Padme Amidala “lost the will to live,” despite being surrounded by the ever-so-comforting spoon-handed OB-GYNborgs and their spooky crooning.

I think our scoffing may have ruined the movie for our child

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Boromir, whose death scene incidentally got quite a few votes in the “Best death scenes in movies” thread a bit of the way down. :wink:

I second Padme Amidala–one of the worst points in a terrible, godawful movie.

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Yup. Padme just couldn’t get it up to live for her children. Stoooopid. That’s the problem with prequels: you’re almost always stuck with a stupid event line forced by the movies into which you’re prequelling.

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Trinity in the Matrix

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I think it’s the death scene which made his performance so memorable. It just goes on and on and on and on. Goes from amusing to annoying to comedy gold through its interminable length.

Kinda like Showgirls.

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I’ll say. It misled me into thinking the TV show was going to be a comedy.

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Well the tv show is pretty funny a lot of the time.

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Several musicals come to mind (not all of which have been made into movies) in which a character announces “I… am… dying… but first a song, maestro if you please! Ah one and ah two…”

MAN OF LA MANCHA= Don Q is on his deathbed unable to remember anything… except a foot stompin’ medley! “I am I Don Quixote…” ending with "whithersoever they blow, onward to glory… OH ELIZABETH I’M COMING TO JOIN YOU BABY!.. I go [plop]
EVITA- she’s dying of cancer but not before she sings her final testimony to the tune of A Cinema in Buenos Aires.

CAROUSEL, WEST SIDE STORY, OKLAHOMA- all have choreographed deaths.

LES MISERABLES- the musical’s not a movie yet, but at least three of the buggers do this, one while shot through the lung, while Valjean sings to a dying whore a very polite “would you die already! The fuzz is coming any second!”
REEFER MADNESS has a funny homicide (the pistol and the framing)

ROMEO & JULIET- I don’t dispute that when it came to dialogue Billy Shakespeare took dictation from the gods themselves, but when it came to plots he was on his bloody own. That whole last scene is just an exercise in stupid drama queens trying to outdo each other. NOBODY CAN NOTICE THE OTHER ONE IS BREATHING! THAT WAS THE BEST THE PRIEST COULD DO-- “I know, let’s tell your parents you’re dead and we’ll bury you alive and after a nice nap you’ll pop an Adderall and be up and dancing… around a bunch of rotting corpses, but we’ll cross that bridge- oh, and let’s not tell Romeo, he’d ruin the surprise”. For that matter every Shakespearean play with a character who walks on stage twice or more to say “Y’all ain’t gone b’lieve who just died backstage!”

The aliens in SIGNS. They can cross light years of space to attack a planet (for no obvious reason) but don’t realize “I don’t like H20”. WAR OF THE WORLDS isn’t much better and the virus upload that leads to the alien deaths in INDEPENDENCE DAY is arguably more stupid.

The TV series DRAGNET (not a movie, but I’ll count it anyway) once had a character who died of an LSD overdose.

SUNSET BLVD would, imo, have worked better if you hadn’t known whose body was in the pool at the beginning. I know about the original version of the opening (the talking corpses in the morgue saying “how’d you get here?”) but I think it would have been better to have the audience asking “Is it Joe? Norma? Max? Betty? Another monkey? Who?”

The woman who dies of a poisoned dress in the Cate Blanchett movie ELIZABETH. I know it was in Medea, but is that even possible in real life?

The poisoned cannolis in GODFATHER 3. Just clip the old bastard. He’s 90 and walks with a cane, how hard can he be to kill? A 3:15 a.m. phone call or being overcharged for his linguini would probably give him a mild coronary.

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YES!

“This planet has… water on it? We had literally no idea!”