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post #1 of 70
11/6/07 at 5:35am
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I saw the end of GONE WITH THE WIND on TV today, and there's this scene where Rhett and Scarlett's obnoxious young daughter is riding a pony. She tries to jump over a gate, but the pony just stops, at which point the kid goes flying head-first into the gate at 90 m.p.h., at which point I start howling in laughter.

Can't be bothered searching for an older thread.
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post #2 of 70
11/6/07 at 6:26am
It's just one of the credibility issues that beset the third Godfather movie, but the one that seemed to drive a final nail into the coffin when I first saw it, and still strikes a note of unintentional humour, is the way Michael goes out at the end. Whilst it may be thematically sound on paper, the combination of trying way too hard to make a final statement and the simple physical incongruity of an old man rolling out of his chair adds up to comedy gold.
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post #3 of 70
11/6/07 at 6:29am
Thread Starter 
Here is a YouTube of the hilarious pony death, at about the 2-minute mark.

Also: OCTOPUSSY

Louis Jourdan flies his plane into a cliff and it explodes and he dies. But not so fast! Why have a perfectly spectacular death scene, when you can ruin it by shoehorning in a last-minute clip of Louis Jourdan with his hands in the air and going BLAAAARGGGHHH in a poorly overdubbed voice?
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post #4 of 70
11/6/07 at 6:45am
That Gone With The Wind -clip made my face hurt.
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post #5 of 70
11/6/07 at 7:46am
I can't remember if it actually shows his death or not, and I'm in no rush to rewatch the film to verify, but DeNiro's last scuffle in 15 Minutes is a riot.
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post #6 of 70
11/6/07 at 7:56am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEcUTxaYsAI

Nothing dumber then the Green Goblin knifing himself in the crotch at the end of Spiderman.
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post #7 of 70
11/6/07 at 8:47am
The girl getting hit by a truck in The Devil's Rejects.

Also, Jon Voight being eaten and vomitted in Anaconda.
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post #8 of 70
11/6/07 at 8:51am
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Originally Posted by Chris Myers
The girl getting hit by a truck in The Devil's Rejects.

Also, Jon Voight being eaten and vomitted in Anaconda.
Don't forget that he winked at J-Lo as the final act of a regurgitated man.
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post #9 of 70
11/6/07 at 9:47am
The Final Destination films always seem to have a few good ones - the girl getting destroyed by the bus in the first one, the kid coming out of the dentists' office and getting La Machined by a pane of glass, and the weightlifter's head exploding in the third one. Just mixtures of "WHOA" and laughing my ass off.

However, nothing beats Anne Ramsey meets basketball in Deadly Friend.
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post #10 of 70
11/6/07 at 9:53am
Friday the 13th Part VII. Jason picks up the girl in the sleeping bag and whacks her against a tree.

My favorite kill in ten movies. I only regret that they had to cut it down to just one whack instead of half a dozen.
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post #11 of 70
11/6/07 at 10:50am
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Originally Posted by jhp1608
It's just one of the credibility issues that beset the third Godfather movie, but the one that seemed to drive a final nail into the coffin when I first saw it, and still strikes a note of unintentional humour, is the way Michael goes out at the end. Whilst it may be thematically sound on paper, the combination of trying way too hard to make a final statement and the simple physical incongruity of an old man rolling out of his chair adds up to comedy gold.
This was the first thing that I thought of when I read the title for this forum. The theater that I was in howled with laughter at that moment. The second funniest death took place a few moments earlier when Sofia Coppola dies. Her lack of acting skill, coupled with the overwrought silent scream from Pacino, killed whatever good will was left from the audience towards this movie. Add in the header that Pacino makes a few moments later and it's pure comedy gold, just as you said.
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post #12 of 70
11/6/07 at 11:08am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Y3hvd0bFQ

The first two movie death scenes are my favorites here. The first movie in particular, the shark one, has offensively bad kills. I was actually confused when I first saw it as to why they would try and make something that looks so awful.
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post #13 of 70
11/6/07 at 11:09am
John Malkovich has a really drawn out death in Con Air. Same with Ricardo Montalban in The Naked Gun. Although, I'm sure Montalban's demise was the only one that was suppose to be intentionally funny.

Honorable mention goes to Jeffrey Combs' death in The Frighteners. I had to rewind that scene the first time I saw it on video.
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post #14 of 70
11/6/07 at 12:10pm
"Hey Sully, remember when I promised to kill you last?"
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post #15 of 70
11/6/07 at 1:01pm
"Yankee go home!"
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post #16 of 70
11/6/07 at 1:10pm
ed-209 vs unknown exec:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kWgcIlWn0

"Someone get a goddamn paramedic!?"

Best unnecessary line in a film.
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post #17 of 70
11/6/07 at 1:14pm
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Originally Posted by sackley
much as I think Dancer in the Dark is a great film, for anyone who can't wait for Bjork to shut the fuck up, her exit in that film is pretty funny.
AMEN
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post #18 of 70
11/6/07 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
If you've never seen Brad Pitt's death in Meet Joe Black...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk42KyeI3kY

...then you're missing out on pure comedy gold. Be sure to add some childish fun to your viewing by going "DOINK!" each time he gets hit.


This is the first one I thought of. You do indeed win, LisaNewYork.

J.T. Walsh's demise in Breakdown is pretty funny just for the sheer overkill.
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post #19 of 70
11/6/07 at 1:32pm
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Originally Posted by The Gayest
Another classic from Robocop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ
Melty Tips
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post #20 of 70
11/6/07 at 1:54pm
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Originally Posted by C.Swicegood
J.T. Walsh's demise in Breakdown is pretty funny just for the sheer overkill.
Oh man, I toally forgot about that. Definitely one of my favorite deaths.
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post #21 of 70
11/6/07 at 2:07pm
No mention of Major Kong from Dr. Strangelove?
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post #22 of 70
11/6/07 at 2:13pm
Caught Into The Blue, or most of it anyway, on cable the other day. I remember an old podcast where they riffed on it for a long time, but it's truly amazing how that flick gets so suddenly, cartoonishly violent at the end. In addition to the shark with a fixation for naughty bits, there's the absolutely spectacular Josh Brolin underwater-facemelt. Although I'd probably experience the same thing if I spent any amount of time in close proximity to Jessica Alba in a bikini.
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post #23 of 70
11/6/07 at 2:48pm
The one in GYMKATA where the guy is talking about there being a "little bit of anti-Americanism around." A split second later he gets an arrow to the heart.
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post #24 of 70
11/6/07 at 3:28pm
The Bond movies should be all over this thread. My personal fave is the unlucky individual who tries to smash the windshield of Bond's "Burglar Protected" car in For Your Eyes Only.
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post #25 of 70
11/6/07 at 3:33pm
Another from Robocop, the Magnavolt commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyuKEK7wmsw
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post #26 of 70
11/6/07 at 4:04pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ratty
The Bond movies should be all over this thread. My personal fave is the unlucky individual who tries to smash the windshield of Bond's "Burglar Protected" car in For Your Eyes Only.
Another favourite is in LIVE AND LET DIE.

Roger Moore feeds a compressed gas pellet to Yaphet Kotto, who starts to inflate like a balloon, floats up to the ceiling, then pops. And instead of meat and offal, a few scraps of rubber rain down on Bond. Amazing.

As an added bonus, when the camera zooms in on InflatoKotto, the film stock suddenly gets really grainy. A quality production all-around!
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post #27 of 70
11/6/07 at 4:14pm
He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.
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post #28 of 70
11/6/07 at 4:26pm
Michael Caine blows away a shitload of pirates with a machine gun.
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post #29 of 70
11/6/07 at 7:14pm
Hot Fuzz and the poor bastard who has his head caved in by the church steeple, both horrific and hilarious.
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post #30 of 70
11/7/07 at 8:01am
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Originally Posted by Amphibatron
Third comes from an actual Best Picture winner. Comet Denethor from Return of the King. Not only is he set ablaze, but then he runs the length of a football field to leap into the battle below. I like to think he was still alive when he fell into the mouth of a Battle Troll who then spit his burning body onto the battlefield where he was trampled under horses and orcs only to have a warg walk by and piss on his corpse. Just because that death wasn't hilariously over the top enough to begin with.
This is even funnier in the extended edition, because of how much further away from his eventual fall he is. He must be two football fields away.
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post #31 of 70
11/7/07 at 8:56am
People can call the Next generation boring, but the awesomeness of a badguy uttering a line so terrible that Picard and Riker shoot his skin off, and skull-exploderise him, is undeniable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_7SHRr408k
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post #32 of 70
11/7/07 at 10:03am
I always wondered what happened to the deformed Orc captain before I saw the extended edition. Somewhat like Amphibatron, I liked to think Denethor fell right on top of him. It would have been something quite PJ-like to do.
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post #33 of 70
11/7/07 at 2:47pm
This topic has really gotten the old noggin juices flowing and, while some of my favorites (Basketball-Meets-Fratelli) have been mentioned, I find that there is at least one noteable omission: Meg Ryan in City of Angels. Now, I despised this movie, but Meg's death almost redeemed the whole thing. I mean, who rides their bicycle down a busy logging road with their eyes closed and their arms spread to either side? And how did she not hear the semi coming before it was too late? So, so very funny.
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post #34 of 70
11/7/07 at 2:57pm
Little Boy Block in Planet Terror.

BANG!
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post #35 of 70
11/7/07 at 6:26pm
I tried, Lisa. Trust me, I tried. The best I could find was this foolishness from Youtube. Specifically, I'd recommend starting at the 8:08 minute mark to save yourself from the horror of sitting through any more of this film than you have to. For the diehard, I'd recommend starting at the 6:35 mark in order to get the full effect.
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post #36 of 70
11/7/07 at 7:23pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amphibatron
There are three scenes that involve characters falling to their deaths that come to mind, and each are funny for completely different reasons. First there is Craig Wassan plunging through a high rise window to his demise in Ghost Story. Nothing particular funny about that except that on the way down we are assaulted with full frontal, wagging in the wind Wassan cock! I try to imagine what that day on set in front of the blue screen was like and my brain shuts down. Was there a penis wrangler charged with aiming the wind machine directly at Wassan's junk while John Irvin demanded more lifelike wang waving? String? I don't want to know!
When I first read this, I thought you meant GHOST, and I was racking my brain trying to think of why Patrick Swayze's oily business partner would fall out of a skyscraper with a flapping bare cock, why I didn't remember it, and why I was allowed to watch it as a child.
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post #37 of 70
11/8/07 at 12:08pm
In Deep Impact - when the huge wave hits Manhattan and everyone is running like fuck theres a fat guy sitting down reading a paper and doesn't notice the 200m hight wall of water coming up behind him and just gets swept up. And why the fuck is he reading the paper? What else, other than the 2 mile wide humanity-ending rock heading to earth for the past 18 months, is there to read? And who would bother to publish a paper the day the Earth comes to an end.

Anyway - i always laugh at him.
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post #38 of 70
11/8/07 at 12:50pm
It's not so much a real character death, but I find the exploding pig-lizard from Galaxy Quest to be hilarious. The squirting, squirming mass of goo gets me every time, and the deal is sealed with "and then it exploded".

The poor pig-lizard gets beamed up just before the 2 minute mark on this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPND-I2_1dk
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post #39 of 70
11/8/07 at 3:27pm
Seeing Versus in the movie theaters was classic. My friend and I were rolling when they pulled out the .50 BMG to explode a dude.
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post #40 of 70
11/8/07 at 3:32pm
I think were occasionally getting a shift of references here. I really think the thread starter was thinking about unintentionally funny death scenes. Scenes that were probably originally intended to be serious, but somehow you thought it was funny.

The Gone with the Wind death is a really good example.


I probably shouldn't have posted that Magnavolt death scene because it was probably intended to be a funny death from the start.
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post #41 of 70
11/8/07 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by billylove
I think were occasionally getting a shift of references here. I really think the thread starter was thinking about unintentionally funny death scenes. Scenes that were probably originally intended to be serious, but somehow you thought it was funny.

The Gone with the Wind death is a really good example.


I probably shouldn't have posted that Magnavolt death scene because it was probably intended to be a funny death from the start.
Oops... Pardon my lapse. I'm at work right now. Not... thinking... clearly... I'll peruse my dvds later in the day and see if I can come back and contribute something a bit more unintentionally funny stuff as well.
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post #42 of 70
11/8/07 at 4:13pm
I didn't mean to point you out at fault. I did the same thing too.
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post #43 of 70
11/10/07 at 2:24am
Serious or not, that guy getting eaten by the T-rex while trying to enter a Blockbuster in order to escape in "The lost world" kills me everytime i see it.
Also, when watching "Saving Private Ryan", I always feel bad for laughing at the guy who gets saved from a bullet by his helmet and he takes it off, only to be shot in the forehead a second later.
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post #44 of 70
11/10/07 at 9:36am
Snakes on a Plane is filled with them, but again, I think those were intentional. As was Paul Reubens' scene-stealing in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

Unintentional - Tommy Lee Jones' stand-in head getting knifed by Seagal in Under Siege.
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post #45 of 70
11/10/07 at 10:58am
I watched that with a buddy who was a former Navy/UDT guy. As soon as the guy takes his helmet off to look at it, my buddy says, almost instinctively, "Replace your cover! REPLACE YOUR FUCKING COVVV.....<bullet zips into soldier skull>..see, shouldn't have taken off his cover."
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post #46 of 70
11/10/07 at 3:58pm
My favorite non-human demise is the Wonder Wheel in the Richard Pryor/Jackie Gleason movie The Toy.

When Pryor accidentally pops the Wonder Wheel after riding it across the store, his reaction to its deflation is priceless comedy gold.

I unfortunately could not find a clip on YouTube, but...

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gayest
Another classic from Robocop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ
Hey, that's Paul McCrane, who played Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano on ER for 7 years before being owned by two helicopters in a matter of weeks. Watch and learn...

Helicopter Lovin'

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ratty
The Bond movies should be all over this thread. My personal fave is the unlucky individual who tries to smash the windshield of Bond's "Burglar Protected" car in For Your Eyes Only.
KABOOM!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul McCartney
Another favourite is in LIVE AND LET DIE.

Roger Moore feeds a compressed gas pellet to Yaphet Kotto, who starts to inflate like a balloon, floats up to the ceiling, then pops. And instead of meat and offal, a few scraps of rubber rain down on Bond. Amazing.

As an added bonus, when the camera zooms in on InflatoKotto, the film stock suddenly gets really grainy. A quality production all-around!
I love how the fat henchman falls perfectly into the rocket and then Kananga makes the farting deflating balloon sound as he rises into the air before exploding.

Pop goes the weasel
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post #47 of 70
11/10/07 at 5:32pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Luca S.
He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.
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Originally Posted by Detonathor
"Well, he always did have an inflated opinion about himself."
Hmmm
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post #48 of 70
11/10/07 at 7:03pm
Ellis' death in Die Hard. Fucker deserved it.
Naked Gun and 2 1/2 had funny deaths. Death by lion my fav of the two. Its just, BAM! Theres a lion.
Bob the Goon in Batman (89).
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post #49 of 70
11/10/07 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by moovyphreak
Hey, that's Paul McCrane, who played Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano on ER for 7 years before being owned by two helicopters in a matter of weeks. Watch and learn...

Helicopter Lovin'
I love how he just ducks & screams instead of, you know, running. I've seen maybe 4 episodes of ER ever, but 2 of those with the helicopter were two that I saw. Good stuff.
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post #50 of 70
11/11/07 at 6:20pm
Captain Kirk's death in the first TNG movie. Priceless.
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