# Worst/Most Ridiculous Movie Death Scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338 "2006-05-19T00:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338/61 "2006-05-20T18:58:43Z")
[QUOTE=ryobserver] Am I the first to mention _Moulin Rouge_? Ok, it was a fantasy film (as much as \*The Matrix \* or _LOTR_), so I wasn’t expecting a realistic portrayal of tuberculosis, but really. When you’re dying of TB, singing loud enough to be heard at the far end of a large theater (in the days before microphones) is not really an option. If you’ve got enough lung power left to do that, you’re not going to immediately hawk up a bit of blood and die. It might have worked if Satine’s vocal efforts had brought on a lung hemorrhage, but she’d have had to bring up a lot more blood to make that convincing. [/QUOTE] Do you think _Honky Tonk Man_ is better or worse in that regard? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338/62 "2006-05-20T19:01:04Z")
In _Love Story_, the closer to death Ali McGraw gets, the more beautiful she is (and MAD magazine did a great parody with that point in it). ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338/63 "2006-05-20T20:04:39Z")
A second to Ali McGraw’s death being poorly done in “Love Story”. But I also have to add that I think Boromir’s death scene in the FOTR film was wonderfully done, very very moving. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338/64 "2006-05-21T02:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=tim314] Didn’t Gimli and Legolas kill about 40 orcs each at the battle of Helm’s Deep? (In the book, I mean.) [/QUOTE] Gimli was proud to have killed two, while Legolas was up to twenty at one point (I think they squeezed that line in the movie, then milked it to death). I’m not saying that the book characters were wimps, I’m saying they were unlikely to charge into crowds of angry Uruk-Hai with sword swinging. Boromir kills one Orc after he takes an arrow, and that’s only becuase the dumb orc got too close hoping for hobbits prisoners. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338/65 "2006-05-21T10:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] For the thread, I think I’d have to go with Samuel L. Jackson being chomped by the shark in **Deep Blue Sea**. [/QUOTE] I loved that scene. It was a welcome antidote to the stereotypical “pep talk” scene. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338/66 "2006-05-21T11:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Miskatonic] Gimli was proud to have killed two, while Legolas was up to twenty at one point (I think they squeezed that line in the movie, then milked it to death)… [/QUOTE] From your previous posts its obvious you are familiar with the books. You do know then that this exchange and the ensuing body count contest between the two characters is taken almost word for word from the books? I agree though that even though we are allowing for a fantasy world setting there is a difference between killing that many foes sequentially over the course of a several hour battle vs. charging into a crowd of them all standing in a group. It did stretch credibility at least for me, a big fan of the books and movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-ridiculous-movie-death-scene/357338.md?page=3)