She has been named the world’s sexiest woman, but Megan Fox insists she
lacks body confidence.
“I don’t have body confidence,” the Daily Express quoted her as saying.
“I can wake up feeling thin and fit and then the very next day, nothing will have happened to change anything but I just feel I’ve gained 10lb overnight, nothing fits me and it’s all wrong. And those days I throw on a cardigan and disappear,” she added.
The ‘Transformers’ star, who shares a lesbian kiss with Amanda Seyfried in her new film ‘Jennifer’s Body’, has also admitted that she was an outcast at high school.
“I was never accepted – just strange and left on my own,” she told ASOS magazine.
“I had one friend whom I hinged my life on. She’s still my only friend. She’s called Crystal, has a four-year-old and lives in Florida,” she added.
Hollywood star Tom Cruise`s three-year-old daughter Suri has a wardrobe of
designer clothes worth $3 million.
Cruise and wife Katie Holmes have commissioned the world`s top fashion names to custom-make outfits for their toddler, reported thesun.co.uk. Their friend Victoria Beckham has also asked designer Robert Cavalli to make a dress for Suri.
"They really splurge on Suri. Suri is very vocal when it comes to outfits. She`s rarely seen in anything twice," said a source close to the couple.
For all intents and purposes, the Star Wars Saga was always a movie meant for the younger audience. Lucas himself has admitted, when bombarded with questions as to why his universe is populated by Muppets and infantile alien races, that the point was to get a reaction from the youth. However, grown-ups frequent his films and have discovered some pretty adult and decidedly less youth-oriented topics. Take for instance the incredibly pointless plot structures based solely on politics and trade routs that infest the far inferior second trilogy. Yeah, kids love hearing about coups and government negotiations. They live for that stuff!
Well, be that as it may, there are far more sinister story subjects afoot as well: Mass, unnecessary killings. For what is, essentially, a Space Opera, to be festooned with so many needless deaths is not quite as mind boggling as you might assume. Despite the fact that the core audience was supposed to be children, for which each and every bit of merchandise would later be geared. Operas in general tend to stray toward sing-song deaths and long, drawn-out farewell scenes. But even so, for those of us who are life-long Star Wars fans, be prepared for a bit of a shock as we explore The Top Ten Most Unnecessarily Gruesome Star Wars Deaths.
The Poor Tauntaun. Nothing More Than A Furry Tent. Empire Strikes Back
In The Empire Strikes Back, the beast of burden of choice on the planet Hoth was the Tauntaun. So, it came as no surprise that Han and Luke both needed one while scouting about for any signs of the Empire. However, when the going got tough and the weather took a turn for the worse, the Tauntauns showed their true colors. First, as Luke passes by a cave of the notorious Yeti-like snow monster, The Wampa, he gets knocked from his mount when a massive paw nearly decapitates the hapless hairy kangaroo, and drags his gored carcass, oh, and the Tauntaun (rim shot) to his lair to be later consumed. Soon after, once Han has located a dazed and half-frozen Luke wandering around aimlessly, Han uses Luke’s Lightsaber (the first and only time, by the way) and guts the collapsed Tauntaun carcass like a fish and jams Luke’s useless ass inside. Now tell me: do these scenes feel just a slight bit inappropriate for their intended audience? Well, maybe not my kids, but you know what I mean.
A Zantac Moment For General Grievous. Revenge of the Sith
No one will argue the fact that General Grievous was a sadistic madman of a warlord who stopped at nothing to get just what he wanted, up to and including his favorite souvenirs: Jedi Lightsabers. There should have also been no discernible doubt that he was going to get whacked one way or another. However, that being said, watching Obi Wan fire away at his exposed heart with a laser blaster was pretty damn violent. Though the second trilogy didn’t have much to offer in the way of acting or brilliant performance skills, it is to no one’s disbelief that Ewen McGreggor stole the show, at least within the realm of the Jedi actors (especially over one Hayden Christiansen, but I won’t go into his wooden stiffness here… I said ‘wooden stiffness’.), and this scene in particular iced the cake. We all know how Obi Wan feels about blasters as a whole, so when he went trigger-happy on Grievous’ asthmatic ass, it was almost too vindictive and mobbish up to the point when he dropped the still-smoking weapon and proclaimed it, ‘uncivilized’. Really?
Luke’s Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen: Kentucky Fried. A New Hope
So, while Luke is off following around that wacky hermit, Old Ben Kenobi with droids in tow, Imperial Stormtroopers masquerading as Sand People obliterate and torch the Lars-Skywalker homestead destroying everything inside, including Luke’s unsuspecting Aunt and Uncle. When the revelation finally hits Luke like a ton of blue milk that the possibility of the Empire wanting what’s hanging around in R2’s ‘rusty innards’ surely exists, he hauls ass home to make sure his family hasn’t been engulfed in flames. Whoops! Oh, and in case the picture isn’t clear enough, the image shows the two charred corpses just hanging around right where children (ie: mine) can ask, ‘What’s that stuff, Dad?’ Nice one.
The Sad, Sad Death of a Teddy Bear. Return of the Jedi
When a big-ass wooded planet chock-full of cute, furry, miniature Wookies (yep, it was originally intended to be inhabited by Chewie’s kin) decides to befriend the Rebel cause, one may want to rethink the course of action next chosen. It’s very much like enlisting the aid of an army of Teddy Ruxpins. Well, as useful and helpful as they ultimately turned out to be; they were far too cute, far from menacing, and initially did nothing more than worship the fey C-3P0 and hump Han’s leg. Soon, however, they were fully engaged in battle and stomping the far stupider Stormtroopers left and right. That is, until one Ewok fell during a skirmish and died in his friend’s fluffy arms. Look, I’m 35 and that chokes me up every time. And yes, I understand countless more likely lost their plush-little lives, but we never saw it! Imagine a five-year old looking at you with glistening puppy-dog eyes, lips a-quiver, asking why the bear is dead! Damn you Lucas!
Strangling a Fat Slug Crime-Boss, with Style. Return of the Jedi
Warning: This scene kills two birds with one stone! It’s simultaneously gruesome as hell and incredibly sexy all at once! Watch at your own risk! Seriously! Metal-bikini wearing Leia chained to the giant, sluggish crime-boss, Jabba the Hutt made a little something stir back in 1986 when I first saw The Return of the Jedi at my local Plaza 2. Let’s face it: Leia was smoking hot and did nothing more than sit idly by, biding her time, writhing for the pleasure of her monstrous captor while Han suffered in the jail cell and Luke fended off the massive Rancor. Then, with a lithe flip and a bit of good timing, she angled herself behind the vile creature and strangled the shit out of him with his own leash. Now that, sir, is something straight out of The Godfather… only with better aliens. Man, to have been a fly on the wall…
Jek Porkins Makes For a Fine Barbecue. A New Hope
They knew it was a suicide mission. Each and every X-Wing pilot was aware of the risks, yet chose to fly on as they cruised into the Death Star trench. Each had his position, and only a select few were to even get in close enough to launch the photon torpedoes into the exhaust port. And yet there were those brave few who were, for all intents and purposes, attention-grabbing targets. One in particular, the eponymous and erstwhile Jek Porkins was there for the soul purpose of getting his flaming ass handed to him. He didn’t disappoint. As pilot after pilot succumbed to the turbo lasers mounted within the trench, everyone gave a silent salute to Porkins as he was vaporized into a roasted, and mouth-watering, ball of bacon-scented fire. May The Forks Be With You!
Count Dooku Gets A Little Off the Top. Revenge of the Sith
I think everyone kind of knew from the onset that Anakin was a colossal asshole. Oh sure, everyone knew of his ultimate rise to the helmeted Lord of the Sith, but even beyond that, as the young slave boy from Tatooine, Little Annie was still just a damn jerk. So once he’d grown a little and got a taste for what being a rule-breaking Jedi felt like, it was only a matter of time before he was doing Palpatine’s bidding and killing for the sheer pleasure of it. Case in point: Dooku has just entered the room and prepares to do battle, yet again, with Anakin and Obi Wan. Obi Wan, ever the useful floor scrubber, gets his ass handed to him and falls. Anakin, far angrier and broody, whips the snot out of the Sith Lord and fells him. At this point it would have seemed just as logical to call it a day and cuff the old fart, but nooooo… At the request of of the sinister Palpatine, Anakin lops of Dooku’s head. I, for one, didn’t see that coming. A bit over the top… no pun intended.
Greedo: Useful Target Practice. A New Hope
Whether you believe Han shot first (he did) or Greedo (he didn’t), the brutal exchange and subsequent execution in the darkened Mos Eisley Cantina didn’t end well for the green alien. In the original trilogy during A New Hope, we witness one Space Pirate, Han Solo, arguing with one of Jabba’s lackeys, Greedo. They prattle on about how Han still owes the boss money, Han retorts with his insistence that he’ll get it to him, and Greedo finally seals his own demise by pissing Solo off. Han, ever the smart ass, slices Greedo’s yes-man speech with his rapier wit, and guns him down with one blast. Now, as the trilogy went though a series of otherwise harmless repairs, Lucas took it upon himself to decide that it would look better if Greedo fired his gun first. This, however, completely turns on its head the whole idea -past and all- of Han Solo effectively turning him into something far less than his original intentions, ie: a grinning pussy. However, this aside, the cold bloodedness to Han’s killing was fully sealed by the searing plume of smoke rising from Greedo’s dying corpse. Gruesome.
Darth Vader: Galactic Serial Killer. Original Trilogy
When Vader’s around, there was really no reason for anyone to be carrying a gun. Mouth off, speak ill of the Force, suggest a different strategy… hell, order his sub with pickles: That’s a chokin’. Sure, Vader had a Lightsaber, we all know that, but he only used it while battling other Jedi. If he needed to put some underling bastard in his place, he’d simply strangle the shit out of him and leave his lifeless carcass strewn across the floor. Hell, as the image illustrates, he could crush your windpipe from miles away! Evidently the Force transcends time and space and can ‘F’ you up from a view screen! Man, now that is brutal and a fair bit unnecessary… however completely kick ass.
Obi Wan to Anakin: ‘Die in a Fire!’ Revenge of the Sith
Though slightly misguided and a bit ho-hum, the fall of Anakin as a Jedi at the hands of his once father-figure and mentor, Obi Wan, was still pretty damn gruesome. After the epic battle across the lava pits of Mustafar, Obi Wan gains the high ground and announces so to the persistent Anakin. Stupidly, Anakin leaps to the Terra Firma only to come face to face with the whipping blade of Obi Wan’s Lightsaber as it lops off his legs. Beyond that, it was all up to the fires burning mere feet from Anakin’s fallen form as flames singe him almost beyond recognition. The final words achingly spat at Obi Wan were, ‘I hate you!’ and never before have they stung so much. I have to hand it to Christiansen; his lack of acting ability culminated with a pretty damn convincing denouement… but only just barely. Oh, and to say, ‘but he didn’t die!’ is a bit slight, since it’s exactly what did happen be it figuratively or otherwise: dead’s dead. This scene was the very reason Revenge of the Sith garnered a PG-13: rather disturbing to say the least.
Before the term "WAGs" even became a popular internet acronym, star NFL athletes were tackling some of the hottest women the world had to offer. Back then the women were cleaner, the football was dirtier and hot chicks loved dudes with mustaches.The best part is that all of these lovely ladies are Cougars or MILFs now and I think that's something we can all be thankful for.
#10 Cathy Lee Crosby (Former Girlfriend Of Joe Theismann) - The former co-host of popular show That's Incredible, Crosby was incredible to look at back in the 80's. Unfortunately for Crosby Theismann's devastating leg not only ended his playing career but it apparently ended their relationship as well.
#9 Jo Jo Starbuck (Former Wife Of Terry Bradshaw) - A former three-time United States pair skating champion, Starbuck was Bradshaw's second wife from 1975-1983. And call me crazy, but if you put a blonde wig on Bradshaw he'd look just like Tonya Harding. Hmm...
#8 Ola Ray (Former Girlfriend Of Jim Brown) - Some of you might remember Ola as the girl from Michael Jackson's Thriller video and some of you might remember Ola from her Miss June Playboy spread in 1980. Either way it was a major WAG score for the greatest running back of all time.
#7 Barbara Graham (Wife Of Steve Young) - Young married the former model in 2000 and I guess they've been doing fun Mormon married stuff ever since.
#6 Pilar Biggers (Wife Of Deion Sanders) - Primetime married the model/actress in 1999 and they went on to star in their own reality show Deion and Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love. I think my favorite episode was the one entitled "Pilar's Lesson: Birds and the Bees."
#5 Jennifer Montana (Wife Of Joe Montana) - The third marriage was a charm for Montana who met Jennifer while they worked on a Schick commercial in 1985. And there's so many shaving jokes circling in my head right now that I think my brain might explode.
#4 Kim Alexis (Former Girlfriend Of Jim McMahon) - McMahon allegedly did the "Super Bed Shuffle" with the former supermodel back in the late 70's. Then McMahon decided his future was so bright that he had to date more models and Alexis went on to marry hockey player Ron Duguay.
#3 Stacy Sanches (Former Girlfriend Of Marcus Allen) - Allen reportedly dated the 1996 Playmate of the Year from 2000-2002. Talk about the perfect way to start off the the new millenium.
#2 Carrie Stevens (Former Girlfriend Of John Elway) - The former Playboy Miss June 1997 dated Elway briefly in 2004. After they broke up Elway reportedly said, "She's a nice gal, it was just difficult" which was probably a nice way of saying, "she's hot but mentally insane."
#1 Raquel Welch (Former Girlfriend Of Joe Namath) - Broadway Joe certainly got his share of "broads" during his playing days and Raquel was his #1 conquest. I wonder if he knows the joke about the Pope and Raquel Welch on a lifeboat?
As seen in: Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II
From the mind of Kevin Smith and featured throughout the View Askew Universe, Mooby the Golden Calf is a McDonald’s type fast food spokescow making reference to the Old Testament story of the golden calf that was worshipped as a graven idol. Complete with a theme song, Mooby also evokes memories of old-fashioned Disney characters like Mickey Mouse.
Soul Glo
As seen in: Coming to America
For when you need to rock your jheri curls, just be careful not to stain your couch. Just let your sooooouuuuullllll gloooooooo!!!!!
Cyberdyne Systems Corporation
As seen in: The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Terminator Salvation
Terminator fans are well aware the company is responsible for the genesis of the supercomputer Skynet, which becomes the primary antagonist of the whole series, including its armies of machines.
Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
As seen in:Idiocracy
The formerly fictional energy drink is now no longer imaginary. Redux Beverages makes the movie-inspired beverage (which itself was inspired by the fallen drink Rondo), and they are same company that brought us Cocaine Energy Drink. What a fine product line. Brawdo, It’s got what plants crave.
Nails Cigarettes
As seen in: the View Askew Universe
Got Nails? The Nails Cigarette campaign has a unique “truth in advertising” rarely displayed by a tobacco company. Plus the cigarettes are unfiltered, intolerable by right-wing America, and you are unlikely to survive more than ten minutes while smoking them. Have fun!
Weyland-Yutani
As seen in:the Alien Quadrilogy
Often referred to simply as “The Company”, It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization Administration. It also has a seat in the Interstellar Commerce Commission’s Company Review Board and maintains a large presence on Earth. In short, they build better world.
Sex Panther
As seen in: Anchorman
It’s made by Odeon, illegal in nine countries, and made with bits of real panther. So you know it’s good. They’ve done studies on this type of thing. Caution: may smell like Bigfoot’s dick.
Dapper Dan
As seen in: Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
Don’t settle for Fop. You’re a Dapper Dan man! Whip out a can of Dapper Dan pomade to grease your hair down. The fictional pomade was first introduced for the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and the Coens continue to run with it.
Pizza Planet
As seen in: Pixar movies
Pixar created it, and Walt Disney followed through with actual restaurants located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disneyland Paris designed to resemble the animated creation. For a complete list of movie references on this brand, consult Wikipedia.
Red Apple Cigarettes
As seen in: Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Til Dawn, Four Rooms, Kill Bill, and Grindhouse
You’ll notice the Quentin Tarantino connection to all those movies, as its the brand of choice for cigarette smokers when he’s around.
Big Kahuna Burger
As seen in: the Tarantino Universe
Speaking of Tarantino…now, this is a tasty burger. Big Kahuna Burger is a fictional chain of Hawaiian fast food chain referenced in several of Tarantino’s films such as Death Proof, Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, True Romance, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. It even inspired a real chain. Although Big Kahuna is no Teriyaki Donut.
Chotchkie’s
As seen in: Office Space
Where the guys from Initech meet with their pals at lunch, or a better name for a generic chain restaurant staffed by twenty-somethings in goofy uniforms. Too bad they make you wear pieces of flair.
Chico’s Bail Bonds
As seen in: Bad News Bears
It’s a match made in heaven. Who hasn’t had a Little League coach who’s been caught doing something illegal? And you can also show your support the best fictional kid’s ball club!
Paper Street Soap Company
As seen in: Fight Club
For those who want to rebel against the structure of our culture, the rainbows that we chase, the corrupt oligarchy that most of us work. Plus great at getting out blood stains.
Spatula City
As seen in: UHF
Thanks “Weird Al” Yankovic, and more recently Rush Limbaugh, for bringing this spatula outlet store to life. Spatula City, they sell Spatulas, and that’s all!
Tyrell Corporation
As seen in: Blade Runner
Named for its founder Dr. Eldon Tyrell, is a biotech company primarily concerned with the production life-like androids (or replicants).
Elsinore Beer
As seen in: Strange Brew
I’ll have an Elsinore beer. Hold the donut, Eh. But keep the mind-altering drugs and possible plans of world domination.
S-Mart
As seen in: Army of Darkness
Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It’s got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That’s right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.
The Very Big Corporation of America
As seen in: Monty Python’s Meaning of Life
Unfortunately, The Very Big Corporation’s much-hyped acquisition of British insurance firm Permanent Assurance disintegrated amid cultural differences and some cannon fire.
Stay Puft Marshmallows
As seen in: Ghostbusters
He really is on all the packages you used to buy, particularly when you roasted marshmallows at Camp Waconda. And here you thought he was the most harmless thing.
Wayne Enterprises
As seen in: Batman films
A premier inventor of a wide varierty of products, the Gotham-based conglomerate has been a bedrock of industry for a long time. The downside is that I heard that Bruce Wayne is a giant douche parties all the time and mooches of his wealth. He’s no Batman.
Umbrella Corp
As seen in: Resident Evil Trilogy
The bioengineering pharmaceutical company first appearing in the Resident Evil video game series and later films. It may sound slike they do good things like pharmaceuticals, medical hardware, defense, and computers. But they also have dabbled in more clandestine operations utilizing genetic engineering and bio-weaponry. Thanks for the zombies Umbrella Corp.
Fruity Oaty Bars
As seen in: Serenity
Fruit oaty bars make a man out of my mouse! Fruity oaty bars make your busts out of your blouse! Caution: may cause sudden outbursts of violence.
RePet
As seen in: The 6th Day
This one may not be too far from reality.
Acme
As seen in: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Last Action Hero, various Warner Brothers cartoons
The only company endorsed by Wile E. Coyote. Sure, it’s more of cartoon fictional brand than a movie one, but it’s made it’s appearances in various films over the years. And no fake brand is more well recognized. Plus, no one makes a better anvil.
Once upon a time, Alec Trevelyan and James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) were the best of friends. Then Trevelyan was killed during a mission toward the end of the Cold War, and Bond continued to be a boozy womanizer.
This being a Bond film, however, it turns out that Trevelyan merely faked his own death, and has now stolen the keys to the GoldenEye satellite, which is capable of emitting an electromagnetic pulse that can knock out any electronics, and he is holding Britain ransom as revenge for the deaths of his parents. Bond is sent to stop his former chum, and they end up fighting atop a massive radio antenna cradle that is situated high above the ground.
After a grueling battle, Bond tosses Trevelyan off the cradle, and the villain plummets to the ground. Miraculously he survives the fall…at least until the antenna cradle comes crashing down on top of him. Worse, Trevelyan can't even hit the reset button on his N64 and simply start the level over.
Chev Chelios is just trying to stay alive. See, earlier he was injected with a slow acting poison, and the only way to keep the poison at bay is to keep his adrenaline flowing. So Chev has been running around town, engaging in all sorts of extreme behavior as he searches for the man who killed him.
When he finally gets his hands on the guy, they both just happen to be in a helicopter that is flying high above the city. Chev pulls the guy out the chopper, and they both plummet toward the ground at high speed. Not content to let gravity do the job, Chev strangles his murderer to death, and then lets the limp body go sailing away.
Chev then pulls out his cell phone and says good-bye to his girlfriend before bouncing off the hood of a car and landing on the ground with a thud. Then he blinks, thus setting up an even crazier sequel, with the tagline: "He was dead... but he got better."
Billy Score in Sharky's Machine
Dar Robinson has huge balls. To paraphrase Bill Hicks, he probably needed specially fitted jeans and a wheelbarrow to transport his massive cojones around. For those who don't know, Robinson still holds the record for the highest free-fall stunt ever performed for the time he leapt off of Atlanta's Westin Peachtree Hotel and plunged 220 feet with only a safety wire and an inflatable airbag standing between him and the sidewalk below.
Despite the fact that Dar "Steel Testes" Robinson actually jumped off a building for his art, director Burt Reynolds only used a split second shot of the actual stunt, substituting footage of a falling dummy in the final film. Nonetheless, Robinson's willingness to toss himself of a building all in the name of authenticity is enough to earn him a spot on this list.
Norville Barnes in The Hudsucker Proxy
Norville Barnes is having a bad day. Hours earlier, he was the Golden Boy of New York; his new invention, the hula hoop, made him an overnight sensation, and he managed to catch the eye of the lovely reporter, Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Unfortunately, he also ran afoul of Sidney J. Mussberger (Paul Newman), who has convinced the world that he actually invented the hula hoop, and Norville simply stole the idea.
Now an angry mob is out for Norville's head, and he escapes to the top floor of the Hudsucker skyscraper. Norville slips and falls off the building at the stroke of midnight, but is saved at the last minute when the ghost of Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) stops time and informs Norville that he now owns the controlling shares of Hudsucker Industries. Time resumes, and Norville lands safely on the ground, where he reunites with Amy and goes on to invent the Frisbee.
Gollum in Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King
Pity poor Smeagol; first the dim but well-meaning hobbit finds the One Ring, and while it bestows upon him long life, it also shrivels him up and turns him into a dead ringer for one of those progeria kids that are always being trotted out on the Maury Povich show.
Then he loses the ring, and gets captured and tortured by Sauron's goons. Then he has to spend two whole movies watching Elijah Wood and Sean Astin make moony eyes at one another, and then after all that, when he finally gets his precious back, he falls to his death into a pit of molten lava. Not the most noble of deaths, but at least he was spared of having to suffer through the three different agonizingly long endings that Peter Jackson tacked on to Return Of The King.
Sarah in Cliffhanger
While trying to rescue two of his friends from being stranded on a lonely mountaintop, Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) shows off his impressive climbing skills, shaming both William Shatner and Tom Cruise in the process.
He manages to get Hal (Michael Rooker) safely off the peak and into a helicopter, but Sarah is not so lucky. As she makes her way across the chasm, her harness breaks, and she is left dangling perilously high above the ground. Walker makes his way out to try and save her, and manages to get a hold of her hand just as the harness gives way.
Unfortunately, she loses her grip and plummets to her death on the rocks below, and all her helpless and useless boyfriend can do is watch and wail from the safety of the helicopter. Ladies first, douche!
Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton in Vertigo
John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) is a cop with a fear of heights. So when he falls in love with the suicidal Madeleine Elster and takes her to an old monastery with a really high bell tower, he's just asking for trouble. After she leaps to her death from the top of the tower, Scottie has a nervous breakdown.
Then he meets Judy Barton, a young lady who could almost pass for Scottie's late, lamented love. Almost, that is, until Scottie obsessively makes her over into the spitting image of poor, dead Madeleine. Eventually, Scottie figures out that Judy may have had a substantial part to play in Maddy's death, and he takes her back to the top of the bell tower to confront her about this.
Sadly, Scottie's rather awful luck with women holds, and poor Judy plunges to her own death. Man, Hitch just hated women.
Father Karras in the Exorcist
After his mother's death, Father Damien Karras has begun to doubt his faith. Then he learns that a young girl named Regan (Linda Blair) has become possessed by a demon, and that he is the only person who can help her. So with the help of the wizened old Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow), Father Karras attempts to drive the devil out of Regan.
However, the wily beast proves to be more powerful than they could have imagined, and during the battle Father Merrin suffers a heart attack. Finally, when all hope seems lost, Father Karras tricks the demon into leaving Regan's body and entering his own, at which point he throws himself out the window, and he tumbles down a flight of stairs to his apparent death.
Apparent, because he pops up 10 years later in the unnecessary but still good second sequel, The Exorcist III.
Mola Ram in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Mola Ram can pull a person's heart from his chest and show it to him before lowering the screaming sap into a pit of molten lava, all while the victim is still alive. So it should come as no surprise that it would take a lot to dispatch him from this mortal coil.
Intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) learns this lesson the hard way; first, he drops Mola Ram off a rope bridge, but unfortunately for our hero, Mola Ram not only hangs on, but climbs up and tries to rip out Indy's heart. So Indy eschews science in favor of some mystic mumbo jumbo, causing the Sankara stones he's carrying in his bag to burst into flames and burn through the canvas, sending them tumbling into the river. Mola Ram tries to catch them and loses his grip, and is sent plummeting down into crocodile infested water below.
Michael Myers in Halloween
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) stands in the bedroom doorway in the grip of shock, believing that she has finally dispatched the Shape, aka Michael Myers, once and for all. Unfortunately for her, he's not quite dead yet.
He gets up and immediately tries to strangle poor Laurie, but she's saved in the nick of time by a well-placed bullet from crazy ol' Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance). Loomis keeps plugging away at Meyers, driving him back with every shot, until finally the masked monster tumbles over the porch railing and crashes down into the back yard.
Laurie asks if that was the boogeyman, and Loomis assures it was. He then steps out onto the porch and peers over the railing, only to discover that Michael is nowhere I to be found. Like Rob Zombie's awful remake, the evil is still out there, and the nightmare is only beginning.
Dick Jones in Robocop
Dick Jones had it all; he was next in line to take over Omni Consumer Products when the Old Man (Dan O'Herlihy) died, he had a guaranteed military contract lined with the ED-209 project, and a key to the executive bathroom. Then Bob Morton (Miguel Ferrer) and Robocop (Peter Weller) came along and screwed it all up.
Jones dispensed with Morton easily enough, but Robocop proved a little more difficult to stop, despite the fact that Jones snuck in a failsafe that prevented the cyborg from arresting any high-level employees of OCP. Jones made a fatal mistake when he took the Old Man hostage.
Apparently that's the kind of offense that can get you fired, which can then lead to Robocop filling you with lead and sending you flying out the window of the 96th floor. This in turn then causes you to become a stop-motion puppet with disproportionately large arms, but that is neither here nor there.
Gaston in Beauty And The Beast
Gaston obviously thought pretty highly of himself, and all the people in the village were just a bunch of enablers, feeding his oversized ego at every turn. So it's sort of understandable that this type A narcissist would be shocked to find out that Belle (voiced by Paige O'Hara) would prefer the cute, cuddly, and marketable Beast (voiced by Robbie Benson) to the village stud.
So, Gaston leads the angry peasants to Beast's castle, and while they distract the enchanted staff, the wily villain makes his way up to the Beast's private quarters to confront the monster and win the hand of the lovely Belle. A vicious battle ensues, and it ends with both parties clinging to the side of the castle that overlooks a vast canyon below.
Eventually, Gaston loses his grip, and falls to his death. At least he looked handsome doing it.
Richter in Total Recall
It would appear as though Paul Verhoeven likes to dispatch of his villains by tossing them from great heights. He did it to Dick Jones in Robocop, but after reviewing the film, Verhoeven apparently thought that Jones' death wasn't quite bloody or gory enough.
So, in Total Recall, he focuses his violent rage on the character of Richter, who foolishly engages in a fist fight with muscle-bound superspy Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) on an industrial elevator platform. Quaid knocks Richter over the side of the platform, but the tenacious henchman manages to hang on.
Unfortunately, the elevator is rapidly approaching a narrow opening, and Quaid grab hold of Richter's arms, which are severed when the elevator passes the opening. Richter's disarmed body plummets to the ground below, his newly acquired bloody stumps waving uselessly all the way down. Gorey enough for you, Paul?
Quentin Hapsburg in Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear
Frank Drebin (Leslie Neilsen) is sent to investigate a bombing at the Meinheimer research institute, where he is reunited with his old flame, Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley). Sadly, Jane has moved on, and has hooked up with the slimy Quentin Habsburg, an executive with Hexagon Oil. Habsburg wants to sabotage President Bush's new energy initiative by kidnapping Dr. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths) and replacing him with an exact duplicate.
Drebin learns of the scheme and sets out to stop Hapsburg, who plans to assassinate the President with a nuclear device. Drebin confronts Hapsburg, but Capt. Ed Hocken (George Kennedy) tosses the assassin out the hotel window. In a strange twist of fate, Hapsburg manages to land on an awning and survive the fall, only to be mauled to death by a lion that Frank accidentally released from the zoo earlier in the picture. D'oh!
Frank Nitti in The Untouchables
Frank Nitti should have just kept his mouth shut. After leading intrepid FBI agent Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) on a thrilling rooftop chase cum shoot-out, Nitti is placed under arrest. As Ness leads him back into the courthouse, Nitti brags that he killed Ness's friend and mentor, Jim Malone (Sean Connery). Not only that, but he decides to twist the knife even further and inform Ness that Malone died "screaming like a stuck Irish pig."
Just as they are about to reach the door which will lead the two of them back into the building, Ness grabs Nitti and tosses him off the roof. Nitti screams like a bitch all the way down, prompting Ness to ask him if Malone "sounded anything like that". Nitti is unable to answer, though, as he crashes through the roof of a parked car and promptly dies.
Phillip Vandamm and Leonard in North By Northwest
It's another two-fer from Hitchcock! Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has spent the entire film trying to stay one step ahead of the men who have mistaken him for a government spy, but by the end of the movie, he's had enough. Along with the lovely Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), Thornhill leads his pursuers to Mount Rushmore, where they engage in a spirited chase across the faces of the presidents.
Thornhill wrestles briefly with criminal mastermind Phillip Vandamm beneath Washington's chin before kicking the villain to his doom. Then, while trying to rescue Kendall from a similar fate, Thornhill runs afoul of Vandamm's henchman, Leonard, who is shot by a real government agent and then plunges to his own death off-screen. While not the most graphic sequences, they both comprise one of the tautest, most intense climaxes in film history.
Admittedly, Donald Blake, aka the Comedian, was a bit of a bastard, but at least he had a sense of humor, even on the day he was killed. Blake was just sitting around his lavish high rise apartment watching TV, when the door was kicked in by a shadowy assassin.
The two men engage in some brutal fisticuffs, and while Blake manages to hold his own, eventually the attacker gets the upper hand. He picks Blake's prone body up off the floor and regards the man's scarred and bloody face. Blake lets out a cynical laugh and mutters the words "It's all a joke" right before the assassin tosses him out the window and to his bloody death on the sidewalk below. Even at the end, Blake proved he could laugh at himself.
King Kong in King Kong
According to Carl Denham, it was beauty that killed the beast, but being riddled with bullets and falling from the top of the Empire State Building probably had something to do with it, too.
When they made King Kong, directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack probably had no idea that they were creating one of the most iconic films in motion picture history, but they did just that, and the titular ape's climactic battle against a fleet of bi-planes atop what was then New York's tallest building went on to enter the collective pop culture unconsciousness.
Even more famous, though, is Kong's death, which 70 years later still manages to elicit strong emotions in viewers. It's a testament to the power of the original film that twice now others have tried to recreate the magic and the pathos of the death scene and neither has even come close.
Major T.J. "King" Kong in Dr. Strangelove
From one Kong to another, Major T.J. "King" Kong leads the crew of a B-52 that has been dispatched to Russia and ordered to deploy their payload over Moscow. Unbeknownst to Kong and his boys, their orders come straight from Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) who has snapped under the pressure of being a soldier during peacetime, and has become obsessed with people's precious bodily fluids.
Being a good soldier who would never question his orders, Kong is determined to carry out his mission, and when the bomb bay doors refuse to open, the Major heads down there himself to fix them. When he does, he is still straddling the nuke as it drops out of the belly of bomber, but rather than be distraught over his fate, Kong rides the bomb all the way down, a whoopin' and a hollerin' like a true cowboy.
Hans Gruber in Die Hard
When he set out to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from the vault of the high-tech Nakatomi Building in Los Angeles, Hans Gruber probably never expected that he'd be dropped from the top floor of the high-rise by some blue-collar cop from New York.
Unfortunately for the cool and calculating thief, that's exactly what happens in the climax of director John McTiernan's classic action film, as our hero John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes exception to Gruber's use of Mrs. McClane née Genarro (Bonnie Bedelia) as a human shield during the film's final showdown.
One well-placed bullet later, and Gruber is plunging to his death, and McClane is reunited with his estranged wife, completely unaware that Die Hard 4.0 is out there, waiting for him.
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