# Worst Movie Death Scenes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928 "2019-04-23T10:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/21 "2019-04-23T23:50:46Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Just out of curiosity, has anyone heard Martin Scorsese just rip apart a movie? It seems he can find merit in nearly every film. > > Incidentally, my father saw this movie when it was first released. He said it was by far the worst moviegoing experience he had in his then-young life. It’s really awful. Melodramatic all the way through, but also \*seriously \*racist. (Made by the same producer as _Gone With the Wind_.) Anyone who thinks thinks haven’t gotten better in that regard should watch this and see how far we’ve come (even with the obviously great problems we still have). Good question about Scorsese. > [@D\_Odds](#): > > While there are plenty of dreadful death scenes, the very first that came to mind was Sean Connery in **Untouchables**. It’s a little OTT for sure, but I don’t mind that one. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Must have been a hot day. The sweating is nearly as bad as Striker from Airplane! LOL, right? I guess they were trying to lean into the “in the Sun” part. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/22 "2019-04-24T00:20:56Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > It’s really awful. Melodramatic all the way through, but also \*seriously \*racist. (Made by the same producer as _Gone With the Wind_.) Anyone who thinks thinks haven’t gotten better in that regard should watch this and see how far we’ve come (even with the obviously great problems we still have). That producer, David O. Selznick, was trying to top “GWTW” was **Duel in the Sun** and ended up driving himself to the verge of a drug-induced nervous breakdown. As might be expected with this film, the story behind its making is far more interesting than the final product. If you’re curious, you may want to check out David Thomson’s biography of Selznick, _Showman_, or the compilation of Selznick’s memos that was put into book form. To say Selznick was a control freak would be a gross understatement. I’ve also seen **Duel in the Sun** and … it’s mess. I was more bothered by the casting of Gregory Peck as the bad-boy son but that’s only because I’m more familiar with him playing stolid and quietly heroic characters like Atticus Finch. **Duel in the Sun** was an early role before his film image was set. (For the record, his Joseph Mengele in \*\*Boys From Brazil \*\*didn’t work for me either.) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/23 "2019-04-24T00:34:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Padme in Revenge of the Sith. > > Uh, she just lost the will to live? Dude, at least have it be that Anakin damaged her by force-choking her. She has two babies and loses the will to live. > > Nice. I remember SMH at that one. Baby # 1 is delivered (using some kind of vacuum extractor that seems to eliminate the need for labor) and she gasps “Luke”, then baby # 2, she whispers “Leia” and then she just fades out. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/24 "2019-04-24T00:45:11Z")
> [@Kelby](#): > > That. > > Was. > > Awesome! I think we have the worst fight scene there too. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/25 "2019-04-24T01:18:09Z")
Paul Reubens (aka Vampire Peewee) in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. The movie version. [Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1992 Movie - Amilyn death scene and post credit scene - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh_S9NGIU) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/26 "2019-04-24T01:49:07Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Paul Reubens (aka Vampire Peewee) in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. The movie version. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh\_S9NGIU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh_S9NGIU) Uh…best movie deaths? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/27 "2019-04-24T01:51:48Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > There is always this scene from _Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow_ (1978): > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwTOwehZhpo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwTOwehZhpo) Nut Tap of DEATH! ---
**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:** [April 24, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/28 "2019-04-24T02:04:20Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I think we have the worst fight scene there too. That would be [this](https://youtu.be/uxkr4wS7XqY). Just a coincidence also one of my favorite deaths not already mentioned. Also top three ridiculous sarcastic death comments. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/29 "2019-04-24T03:26:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Uh…best movie deaths? LOL, yeah. That was pretty funny, but it was clearly intended to be absurd and silly. I was thinking about deaths that are intended to be taken as seriously as the proverbial heart attack, but which are _unintentionally_ self-parodying. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/30 "2019-04-24T03:40:43Z")
I wondered if that Turkish guy would _ever_ die. > [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I get the ‘oh my’. i know why [Kirk] did it. Maybe if he smiled saying it (though that might make i even worse)…lemme think of a better line. > > i can’t. Just scrap it and have him reiterate something about staying in the chair. I always thought he should have said “Edith” with his dying breath. > **[Edith Keeler](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Edith_Keeler)** > > But she was right, peace was the way,""She was right. But at the wrong time.Kirk and Spock Sister Edith Keeler was a female Human social worker in New York City, United States, in the 20th century. In 1930, she ran a soup kitchen out of the 21st... ---
**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:** [April 24, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/31 "2019-04-24T03:59:16Z")
The Turkish thing is an edit. The original scene in the movie didn’t repeat itself and use that same sound effect over and over. Still great though. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/32 "2019-04-24T20:12:26Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Paul Reubens (aka Vampire Peewee) in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. The movie version. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh\_S9NGIU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVh_S9NGIU) I like to imagine that that one is still going on. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/33 "2019-04-25T00:24:55Z")
Anthony Zerbe in _License to Kill._ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/34 "2019-04-25T01:10:00Z")
Pretty much any old movie that featured the heroine dying of consumption (tuberculosis) had the same formula. She’s lying in bed, speaking barely above a whisper, then coughs one little cough, slumps, and closes her eyes. Greta Garbo may have pulled it off in _Camille_, but that only proves what a great actor can do with bad material. The entire part up to and including the death of Satine in _Moulin Rouge!_ was the most weirdly over-the-top moment of excess in a weird, over-the-top movie stuffed full of excess. I’m undecided whether it was unbelievably ridiculous or unbelievably brilliant, but I lean toward the former. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/35 "2019-04-25T16:36:50Z")
> [@seal\_cleaner](#): > > Anthony Zerbe in _License to Kill._ That would win an Oscar for Best Visual Effects compared to [Kananga’s death](https://youtu.be/Myc6HpJzgaU) in **Live and Let Die**. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/36 "2019-04-25T18:45:37Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > That would win an Oscar for Best Visual Effects compared to [Kananga’s death](https://youtu.be/Myc6HpJzgaU) in **Live and Let Die**. Whaaat? I used to like Roger Moore as Bond, but that is pretty silly. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/37 "2019-04-27T03:45:49Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > Easily the Turkish film “Kareteci Kız”: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5sZF8K-Ko](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5sZF8K-Ko) He looks a little like Rowan Atkinson, so I can totally see this role played by Mr. Bean. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928/38 "2019-04-27T09:32:17Z")
No hate for Jimmy Durante’s character’s death in _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_ ? He literally kicked the bucket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-movie-death-scenes/832928.md?page=1)