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Wed Mar-03-04 08:31 PM
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Movies that end with the villain impaled on a sharp object |
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Trying to make a comprehensive list of movies containing this ridiculously overused cliche...help!
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:32 PM
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1. The Passio... never mind. |
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:33 PM
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Hand that rocks the Cradle
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:33 PM
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4. Star Trek: Nemesis (totally sucked, full of bad cliches) |
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:38 PM
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12. You know, I didn't think it was that bad. And, I think the clichés were |
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mostly intentional.
There were a *ton* of references to other movies (Star Wars and the version of Flash Gordon released in the early 80's, to name two), and I think they were intended, albeit clichéd.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:12 PM
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Bad dialogue
Bad action
Bad space scenes
Bad camerawork
Bad writing
Bad copout...
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:14 PM
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26. Possibly in the top ten of shittiest movies of all time |
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and I would automatically exclude all those cheesy B movies from that top ten list, because they KNEW they were cheesy. I'm talking movies that wanted/pretended/assumed they were legitimate, but were pieces of shit.
Nemesis is that movie.
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:33 PM
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but that's the only way to kill those suckers.
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Thu Mar-04-04 12:59 AM
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51. LOST BOYS; big time vampire impaling in that one. |
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carried out in fine style I might add.
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:34 PM
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7. The reign of evil. the gw bush story |
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Ah forget it, just a fantasy.
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:34 PM
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8. The Little Mermaid and Ghost, i think... |
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Edited on Wed Mar-03-04 08:36 PM by codegreen
oh, and i assume you're not including swords... that would be just silly
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:36 PM
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9. In The Line of Fire and Bringing Out The Dead are two I can |
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:36 PM
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Edited on Wed Mar-03-04 08:41 PM by Paragon
Offhand, I can think of two crappy Denzel Washington movies:
Virtuosity - Russell Crowe impaled on glass sculpture Ricochet - John Lithgow impaled on something
...and then there's Sean Bean, who gets shoved onto a pointy object by Harrison Ford at the end of Patriot Games.
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:37 PM
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11. Dodged a bullet with LOTR. |
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Apparently they filmed Saruman falling and landing on a large spiked wheel.
The most tragic use of this cliche was The Name of the Rose, where the villian inquistor's carriage careens off a cliff ejecting the villian onto some sort of farm equipment. Sean Connery and Christian Slater give the requisite wince. Otherwise it was a pretty good movie.
The worst villian death was Con Air; where the villian, Cyrus the Virus (was that Malkovitch? Good God!) survives the main plot plane crash, a fire truck chase sequence down the Las Vegas strip, the subsequent crash that flings him through the air, and finally succumbs when the pile driver he lands on smashes his head. Nick Cage as Lead Wincer.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:19 PM
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28. Whoops - posted in the wrong spot |
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Edited on Wed Mar-03-04 09:20 PM by Rabrrrrrr
Mever mind
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:38 PM
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Defeated Ming with the battleship Ajax.
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:41 PM
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14. Every Shirley Temple movie. |
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:41 PM
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15. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut |
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:41 PM
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Wed Mar-03-04 08:58 PM
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Travolta gets it from the pointy end of a nuclear weapon. Hard to top, actually. :)
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:06 PM
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20. In The Omen didn't someone end up impaled on a steel picket fence? |
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"Beautifully" done. It wasn't the villain though.
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22. The Devil in Miss Jones? |
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:13 PM
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24. Several of the Hammer Dracula movies. Prince of Darkness for sure. |
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:16 PM
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27. Danny Glover in "Switchback" |
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:21 PM
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29. One of Brosnan's Bond movies |
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One of the Brosnan Bond movies - Bond ends up impaling that one guy in the submarine with the metal thingy the bad guy was trying to shove into the nuclear reactor.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:26 PM
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:27 PM
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a very typical, predictable, cliche-ridden Dirty Harry film. Actually, it was kind of fun to see because the villian was SOOOOO bad and SOOOOO horrible, that you wanted to jump up and cheer when he fell onto a Carousel and was impaled on the pole of a horse.
Then there was Carl from Ghost, who succumbed to a pane of window glass that sliced through him and nailed him to the window, then had the pleasure of devils coming up, grabbing him, then whisking him off to hell where he belonged.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:40 PM
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38. what he means when he said that the villian was-- |
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'SOOOOO bad and SOOOOO horrible'
In other words, the villian sucked. Died well, but was shite whilst breathing.
Gimme Andrew Robinson anyday.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:27 PM
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32. Agent Smith ended up being impaled ~by~ Neo |
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:29 PM
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with Kenneth and Emma when they were still married.
Bad guy Derek Jacobi ends up impaled in a wicked-ass scissors sculpture.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:30 PM
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Really bad Arnold movie. Villain ends up impaled on a steam pipe.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:33 PM
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36. "Really bad Arnold movie?" |
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Is there any other kind of Arnold movie? Isn't that an oxymoron, lol!
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Thu Mar-04-04 12:20 AM
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49. No, I like some of his shit. |
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I liked the Conan movies even if they were a bit cheesy. I'm all into the Swords and Dragons shit. I also liked True Lies, Predator and Total Recall.
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:34 PM
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42. As Ah-nold tells the guy to "let off some steam" |
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as he writhes on the steam pipe protruding from his chest.
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Wed Mar-03-04 09:39 PM
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Edited on Wed Mar-03-04 09:39 PM by doubleplusgood
...evil-looking bad guy falls onto sharp sculpture of some kind.
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:22 PM
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39. Lair of the White Worm |
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Tacky, yes -- but fun, in a warped kind of way.
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:27 PM
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41. Wyrm, isn't it? And yeah, really cool movie! |
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I remember seeing it in the theater and thinking, Wow, not what I expected but EXCELLENT!
Been meaning to get a copy on DVD if it's out.
Lovely movie, really.
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:25 PM
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40. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle?" |
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:37 PM
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43. "Bringing in the Dead" |
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Well not THE villian, one actually feels sympathy for the drug dealer by the end of the movie....but he does end up impaled on a sharp object.
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:40 PM
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44. Con Air, a few of the Terminator movies I think |
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Seems to happen to poor John Malkovich quite often.
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:51 PM
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45. that one with Denzel Washington.. |
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I forget what it was called...they have a fight on a big radio antenna..sorta like the end of "Cable Guy" with Jim Carrey..
I remember "Ice Tea" was in the movie as well...It was about some killer who threatened Denzel's family...videotaped his walk through his house, up to the family bedroom to scare Denzel...
In the end, Denzel faked his death...pretending to go insane from the mind tricks played on him by the bad guy...The killer thought he was dead, then Denzel called him out, and they had the final fight up in the tower... boy..I know this makes no sense to those who haven't seen the movie...these are the only fragments I can remember, and I forget the name..
but yeah, the bad dude ends up impaled
oh, and I believe "The Crow" with Branden Lee...they had a fight on top of the church...I think the bad dude in the end was impaled too..
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Fri Mar-05-04 08:20 AM
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BUt the impalement is not the bad guy's (an android) real death -- he dies when his processor is grabbed by Denzel and smashed in the pavement.
Now who plays the villain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RUSSELL CROWE!
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Wed Mar-03-04 11:56 PM
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with Orson Wells winding up impaled on a fence.
Dead Again, with Derek Jacobi winding up impaled on a giant scissor.
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Thu Mar-04-04 12:08 AM
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47. Orson Welles in the Stranger |
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is impaled on the sword of a moving figure in a clock tower.
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Thu Mar-04-04 12:11 AM
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48. That's right! So who was impaled on a fence? |
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Someone who falls off a tower.
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Thu Mar-04-04 12:22 AM
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50. Ghost (glass dagger from broken window) & Dead Again (Giant Scissors) |
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didn't see either of these listed.
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Thu Mar-04-04 02:03 AM
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52. Memory fading fast..... |
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"Flesh for Frankenstein", aka "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" the Baron gets a pole run through his chest.
"Trog" if you consider said creature a villain, it meets its end as it falls onto a stalagmite....I think it was trying to avoid Joan Crawford. (the real villain)
I imagine there were various bad guys harpooned in the James Bond films but I can't remember which ones...maybe all of them?
Elizabeth Taylor gets impaled at the end of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"........alright that one is an outright lie....it was Sandy Dennis that was impaled...no wait nevermind...I need sleep.
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Thu Mar-04-04 02:11 AM
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Didnt cobra end with that guy on a hook.. hard coming up with one that u guys didnt..
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Thu Mar-04-04 03:38 AM
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54. The Hand that Rocked the Cradle |
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55. "The List of Adrian Messenger" |
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Thu Mar-04-04 05:17 AM
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56. Gladiator and Lethal Weapon 4 |
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Jet Li gets a metal rod driven through his ribcage by Danny Glover which Mel Gibson later uses to lift him off the ground. Great fight scene.
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Travolta is impaled by a nuclear missile (!!!)
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