The Expendables just reminds me of how rare a truly good action flick is in today's movie market. It makes me long for the late '80s and early '90s typified action films like Commando and Demolition Man. The action, the explosions, and of course....the death scenes. In that regard, The Expendables does not fail....
In this scene, Gunner(Dolph Lundgren) takes out a Somalian pirate with a grenade launcher, blowing off his torso and setting the tone for the rest of the film. "WARNING SHOT!"
More great death scenes from The Expendables
*videos coming soon*
When General Garza's daughter gets a visit by two soldiers looking for some of the old in-out, in-out. Barney(Sylvester Stallone) saves the day with his trusty knife, stabbing one soldier in the throat and slowly twisting the blade. Brutal.
Another great scene comes near the end when Jet Li and Jason Statham both fight our villain's secondary henchman,'The Brit'(Gary Daniels). After an extended fight, the duo end it with a double team move, finishing him off with an axe kick to the neck, breaking it instantly. The best death scene of the film.
Other notable scenes include a Randy Couture superman punch to the top of Steve Austin's head, killing him. Terry Crews blasting soldiers away with an automatic shotgun and I mean BLASTING THEM AWAY, the scene is worth the price of admission alone. WATCH IT HERE
Friday, August 13, 2010
The Expendables - Death Scenes
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Predator - Blain's Death
Jesse "the body" Ventura shines in his role as sergeant Blain. Equipped with a modified M134 minigun he calls "Ol' Painless" and an attitude, Blain's death sets up Mac's actions for the rest of the film and gives us our first main death scene. Along the way, the tobacco chewing, MTV shirt wearing soldier also manages to give us the classic line, "I ain't got time to bleed." While scouting the forest, Blain sees something in the bushes......and the fun begins.
Predator - Death Scenes
This week we will take a look at the death scenes from the epic 80's action flick, Predator. This movie has a number of strong elements, but what really makes the film work is the Predator himself. Kevin Peter Hall, the man under the suit brings the character of the Predator to life using only gestures and body language. The Predator is a killing machine, armed with wrist blades, a plasma caster with triangular laser rangefinder, and many other advanced technological weapons all used to give us some great death scenes.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Commando - "I Lied"
Another great one-liner death at the hands of Movie Death Legend, Arnold Schwarzenegger. After following designated henchman Sully, Matrix grabs him by the leg and dangles him over a mountainside with one hand.
Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
Sully: That's right, Matrix! You did!
Matrix: I lied
[He then drops him off the side of a mountain]
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Movie Death Legend - Arnold Schwarzenegger
He killed 81 people as John Matrix in Commando. He wasted 44 in Total Recall as Dennis Quaid and Obliterated 51 men as Harry Tasker in True Lies. Over his extended career of making movie death magic his characters have accumulated a grand total of 312 kills. His films, a total of 547 movie deaths! Therefore we dub Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Movie Death Legend.
**Info from Movie Body Counts
A Look back a some of Arnold's greatest Fatalities......
(click on the titles to watch the scene)
Total Recall - See You at the Party
Commando - Tool Shed Scene
True Lies - You're Fired
Commando - Let Off Some Steam.jpg)
The Running Man - Sub-Zero now plain zero
Terminator - "I'll be Back"
MORE DEATHS IN SCHWARZENEGGER FILMS
Eraser - Alligator Rampage
Running Man - Chico crosses the line
Total Recall - Cohaagen Pops
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Running Man - Sub-Zero now plain zero
Professor "Subzero" (Tanaka) ice-skates and slashes his victims to pieces with a modified and razor-sharp hockey stick, but he's no match for Ben Richards (Schwarzenegger) who rips down a line of razor wire and wraps it around Sub-zero's neck. Richards pulls on the razor wire, strangling and slicing Sub-Zero to death.
C.O.D. - Throat slit and strangled by razor wire
Victim - Sub-zero (Professor Toru Tanaka)
Assailant - Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Quote - "Hey Killian, here is Sub-zero, now....plain zero"
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Website of the Week - Movie Body Counts
The Website of the Week is moviedeathbodycounts.com. Movie Body Counts does exactly what it says. It takes your favorite action, sci-fi, and war films and tallies the actual visible on screen kills/deaths.
Lets take the 1996 Arnold action flick Eraser for example:
Body count
Total: 52
Arnie: 29
James Caan: 4
By Scene
Protection: 4 (1 hanged, 1 shot, 2 neck broken, 4 by Arnie)
Office: 1 (1 shot)
Feds: 6 (3 supershot, 3 blown up, 3 by Arnie)
House: 6 (4 shot, 1 stabbed, 1 fell, 3 by Arnie, 3 by Caan)
Plane: 1 (1 shot, 1 by Caan)
Zoo: 4 (3 eaten, 1 shot, 1 by Arnie)
Cyrez: 7 (4 blown up, 2 shot, 1 neck broken, 6 by Arnie)
Docks: 20 (3 supershot, 8 blown up, 8 shot, 1 stabbed, 12 by Arnie)
Limo: 3 (3 hit by train)
By Kill Type
Shot: 18
Shot by the awesome, physics-defying gun: 6
Neck broken: 3
Hit by a train: 3
Eaten by crocodiles: 3
Blown up: 15
Hanged: 1
Stabbed: 2
Fell: 1
Now that's detail, visit Movie Body Counts and check the body count of you favorite film.
Friday, November 14, 2008
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Friday, June 13, 2008
True Lies - "Your Fired"
In the final showdown, our villain Aziz has fallen off the Harrier and snagged his gun strap onto a Sidewinder missile. PERFECT!! Arnold Fires and Aziz is sent zooming to his death through a building into a helicopter.
Justaguything.com came out with "27 Of The Greatest Movie Kill Scenes Ever Made" complete with videos(although some have been removed). Some pretty good ones on there. Check it out.
Related Arnold Kills
Total Recall - See You at the Party Richter
Commando - Tool Shed Scene
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Commando - Tool Shed Scene
In this scene from Commando, Arnold goes on a rampage with some tool shed items. First he drops down from the ceiling and stabs a guy with a pitch fork. He then throws some saw blades at one guy's head taking off his scalp, and one into another guy's chest. He then grabs the axe and a machete. He uppercuts a guy in the yarbles with an axe and uses the machete to chop another guys arm off. If you haven't seen Commmando, then you've missed quite the body count.
Related Arnold Kills
Total Recall - Cohaagen Pops
Total Recall - See You at the Party Richter
True Lies - Your Fired
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Eraser - Alligator Rampage
Eraser is what you expect from an Arnold Schwarzenegger film, two hours of mindless nonstop CGI action with preposterous situations, a body count in the dozens, and epic Arnold one-liners. My kind of movie.
In this scene, Arnie shoots the Alligator tank in the middle of a shootout at the New York City Zoo. The Gators must have been pissed because they go on a rampage. Not Industrial Light & Magic's best work, but decent, I've seen worse. One guy gets his arm ripped off, another gets his head crushed by the Gators. After the appetizers, the gator goes after Arnie. After a short scuffle, he shoots the alligator through the head, and gives the classic line, "your luggage."
Related Arnold One-Liner Kills
Total Recall - "See you at the Party Richter"
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Total Recall - "See you at the Party Richter"
You thought one-liners occur only in Bond movies. Nope, the classic one-liner before or after killing the villain has been around forever. From the classic "make my day" to "yippee-ki-yay." Sometimes it can be cheesy, but when well executed it can become a movie classic. Schwarzenegger is a veteran at the one-liner, in this scene from Total Recall he eliminates the villain Richter and then has something to say about it. Leave a comment and tell us your favorite one-liner?
