Comments on: Armageddon sick of it

By: Irishman

Irishman — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:17:31 +0000

>10. Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias.
Too populist to die nowadays, Robertsâ€™s early career exit is a moment to savour, only lessened by the fact histrionic mother Sally Field does not join her.

Too populist?!?! Is that really the word they mean to use? Perhaps “popular” is what they meant?

By: DouglasG

DouglasG — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:57:47 +0000

What about movie deaths that you want to happen but they don’t. Like Jeff Goldblum’s character in “Jurassic Park”. He was annoying throughtout and you just hope he gets eaten by a T-Rex or something. However, he lives to make a second movie, and he is just as annoying!

Luckily for me, I haven’t seen most of the movies on that list. Including “Armageddon” Thanks Bad Astronomer!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:49:38 +0000

Wash in Serenity definately the most unexpected.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:57:30 +0000

I think Armageddon was on TV last night.

The only time I “saw” Armageddon was on a flight and I didn’t bother getting the headphones to listen to it. The kids in the row in front of me had a portable VCR player and were watching “Wizard of Oz”. So my memories of Armageddon is seeing Bruce Willis and hearing “I’ll get you my pretty! And your little dog, too!”. I haven’t bothered seeing it since Phil says it’s really bad.

As far as movie reviews, most of the sci-fi movies come out for the summer “silly” season.

On my top ten of welcome deaths are: Leo DiCaprio in the Titanic (who should have already been dead due to electrocution, hypothermia, and the suction of Titanic going down) and the main character in The Who’s “Quadrophrenia”. I remember thinking “will the guy just go ahead and commit suicide and put us out of our misery”? Then again, I saw that movie sober which was probably the first mistake.

By: Slav

Slav — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:01:41 +0000

The Abyss was a wonderful (albeit slow) sci-fi film right up to the point where the woman drowns and is resuscitated 5 minutes later.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:07:13 +0000

Bwahahaha said:

Pretty much everybody in MAD MAX and THE ROAD WARRIOR?

The guy on the motorcycle who gets it head-on by Mad Max in the truck is a good death. OK, it’s sick, but I imagine one’s eyes would do that when faced with a grill of an on-coming 18-wheeler…then to add insult to injury, the truck drives over him.

Nigel Depledge said:

I think I can understand where those comments came from. The Abyss was a wonderful (albeit slow) sci-fi film right up to the point where the woman drowns and is resuscitated 5 minutes later. I found that too incredible and it ruined the film for me.

I found the acting in “The Abyss” to be horrible, but the concept a lot of fun. The drowing–that’s Cameron’s “overkill” for ya.

By: Jim in STL

Jim in STL — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:01:11 +0000

Holy moly! Lenin’s image in the shower curtain! They say that the only protection against becoming a comunized raging heathen zonbie when this happens is to have a grilled cheese Mary and two cloves of garlic on a rope………you DID have a grilled cheese Mary and two cloves of garlic on a rope didn’t you?

By: Timothy Gaede

Timothy Gaede — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:24:41 +0000

Curse ye, Gene Siskel!

I went to see Armageddon only because Gene Siskel gave it three stars. He said that you get bombarded by so much action and noise that it ultimately becomes amusing. I guess I don’t have Siskel’s sense of humor because I didn’t laugh and walked out of the theater.

I never saw the demise of Bruce Willis.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:37:58 +0000

Now we speak atom bomb, Best Resurrection: At the end of season 1 of Sledge Hammer, he tries to dismantle a nuclear device only to blow up the whole city and himself. To be continued….

Season 2 began with the announcement: “The following season of Sledge Hammer! takes place five years before that nuclear explosion.”

By: TheGalaxyTrio

TheGalaxyTrio — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:51:18 +0000

>>Slim Pickens riding the A Bomb in â€œDr. Strangelove”

I hate to say it, but I always considered that a glaring misfire by Kubrik in an otherwise brilliant film.

Speaking of atom bombs, for unexpected, how about everyone in New York at the end of Fail Safe?

And many main charatcers, followed by the human race, at the end of the miniseries World War III.

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:09:40 +0000

And under the category of “Well, what else would you do?” – for movie deaths:

Slim Pickens riding the A Bomb in “Dr. Strangelove” – “Yeeee Haaaa!”

By: Serenity

Serenity — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:13:55 +0000

I hear “Wash” will be replaced by “Mr. Fish” (Abe Vigoda.)

>>guano Says:
Most unexpected: Wash in Serenity.
>>

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:09:06 +0000

This kind of cynicism is self congratulatory nonsense and so tired.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:30:11 +0000

I can’t help but agree with a lot of them. Gosh, Dicaprio dying in Titanic made my day (especially that this movie bored me beyond bounds.)

By: Aerin

Aerin — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:25:04 +0000

Chris – I’m with you on that. I didn’t see “The Good Son” until many years after it came out, but I remember thinking how creepy the whole thing was and how well done the boys’ characters were, considering the actors’ ages at the time.

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:15:55 +0000

I was just so surprised when President Nixon didn’t get assassinated in The Assassination of Richard Nixon. What gives?

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:02:53 +0000

I don’t have to mention “The Hitcher” and Jennifer Jason Leigh in the “unexpected dead” category, do I?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:27:50 +0000

Most satisfying: Macauly Culkin in “The Good Son” – I was working as an usher at one of the theaters it was playing at, and when he died, the whole sold-out crowd broke out into cheers and applause

By: guano

guano — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:22:20 +0000

Most unexpected: Wash in Serenity.

Most satisfying: The Emperor in Return of the Jedi.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:12:47 +0000

The most disturbing death I remember from movies is the one at the end of Seconds.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:09:23 +0000

TheGalaxyTrio, I don’t believe you…

By: TheGalaxyTrio

TheGalaxyTrio — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:19:19 +0000

Re: The Sixth Sense

No one ever believes me, but I figured out the punchline of Sixth Sense when I saw the first trailer. After it ran, I thought, “Wouldn’t it be funny if Willis’ character is also dead?”

By: TheGalaxyTrio

TheGalaxyTrio — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:17:48 +0000

>> right up to the point where the woman drowns and is resuscitated
>> 5 minutes later. I found that too incredible and it ruined the film for me.”

Oh, c’mon. That James Cameron at his emotion manipulation directing best. People have been successfully recussitated after much longer times, and it always seems to involve freezing water. There was a case of a boy under freezing water for over 15 minutes who was revived. Five minutes is unusual but not imposssible.

>> The Matrix (the first film) promised so much â€¦ that its sequels
>> failed to deliver. I think many sci-fi fans judged the sequels harshly
>> because they had such high expectations.”

That was the problem: fans seemed to be expecting the Second Coming.

I, however, simply hoped for a decently constructed sci-fi action epic, and I got what I wanted, and was therefore satisfied. There’s some brilliant scenes in #2 and #3. The Matrix trilogy is an above average Hollywood sci-fi actioner, and it never really tried to be anything else.

And if I may nitpick some other comments, the list was *unexpected* deaths. For example, HAL9000′s “death” wasn’t that unexpected. The astronauts he killed in cryosleep *were* unexpected deaths. You savvy?

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:08:35 +0000

Good call, Star*liter.

And as for “iconic” deaths, hmm, I’m sure we could make a beginning by scrolling down the IMDb’s Top 250 list. Start with Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars and go from there. . . .

And what about the totally expected deaths, instead of the completely unexpected ones? I’m thinking Lester Burnham in American Beauty.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:01:40 +0000

Guano, you said:
“I think I hate that site. Their comments about The Abyss and The Matrix trilogy were uncalled for.”

The Matrix (the first film) promised so much … that its sequels failed to deliver. I think many sci-fi fans judged the sequels harshly because they had such high expectations.