IdleRich
IdleRich
This thread was inspired by watching this film called The Nun, it's part of The Conjuring "franchise" to give it the depressingly soulless term which they no doubt prefer.
Anyway, I'm home alone, The Nun comes on.... never mentioned it before but I am a bit of a coward with these things and I thought to myself "Hmmm, if I watch this will I scare myself? Will I be jumping at every noise, afraid to turn the light off when I should sleep, unable to sleep, then when I finally do, tormented by nightmarish nightnares?" suffice it to say, I need not have worried.
But, to my surprise SPOILER the final bit when they killed the demonic Nun was good. Basically the only way to kill her turned out to be the blood of christ or something (I wasn't really paying attention by that point) and luckily they managed to get hold of a glass vial of it. So, final scene, the goodie has the vial but The Nun manages to grab her and hold her under water until she is all but dead... and then the glass vial floats to the top of the water broken and empty... the blood is gone... the goodie is totally defenceless and The Nun knows it! Oh no, how can she get out of this one?
So she (The Nun) lifts her (the goodie - also a nun, but not THEE nun) out of the water by the throat, holding her up in triumph, gloating before delivering the coup de grace... except at the last minute, the goodie spits into her face - it turns out she had broken the glass herself and kept the blood in her mouth the whole time, holding her breath, hoping for that one opportunity which she seized perfectly. The blood hits The Nun and she sizzles and burns up and dies in horrible agony I guess.
It was a cool turnaround. It reminded me a little bit of Die Hard when Bruce Willis comes out SPOILER to surrender to the bad guy and he's got his hands on the back of his head and he's shirtless so there absolutely no way he can have a concealed weapon... except he's only fucking sellotaped it to his bare back and he grabs it and shoots Hans Gruber or whatever his name is and - after a bit more buggering around - he falls about a thousand storeys to his death. Yeah!
So yeah, more examples of that kind of thing please. Of course there will be loads of spoilers cos normally the big bad guy gets the best death. So this thread is often about the end of films. So please assume there are SPOILERS almost everywhere you look.
Hand in hand with Die Hard I have to mention Robocop. Long story short, Robocop has a secret command that means he can't kill executives from the company that made him, so as he tries to shoot the baddie he can't pull the trigger, but the biggest boss is there and he shouts "Dick you're fired" so he is no longer an employee and then Robocop shoots him and he falls through a window and plunges a thousand storeys to his death.
OK, those had to be got out of the way... more interesting ones to follow...
Anyway, I'm home alone, The Nun comes on.... never mentioned it before but I am a bit of a coward with these things and I thought to myself "Hmmm, if I watch this will I scare myself? Will I be jumping at every noise, afraid to turn the light off when I should sleep, unable to sleep, then when I finally do, tormented by nightmarish nightnares?" suffice it to say, I need not have worried.
But, to my surprise SPOILER the final bit when they killed the demonic Nun was good. Basically the only way to kill her turned out to be the blood of christ or something (I wasn't really paying attention by that point) and luckily they managed to get hold of a glass vial of it. So, final scene, the goodie has the vial but The Nun manages to grab her and hold her under water until she is all but dead... and then the glass vial floats to the top of the water broken and empty... the blood is gone... the goodie is totally defenceless and The Nun knows it! Oh no, how can she get out of this one?
So she (The Nun) lifts her (the goodie - also a nun, but not THEE nun) out of the water by the throat, holding her up in triumph, gloating before delivering the coup de grace... except at the last minute, the goodie spits into her face - it turns out she had broken the glass herself and kept the blood in her mouth the whole time, holding her breath, hoping for that one opportunity which she seized perfectly. The blood hits The Nun and she sizzles and burns up and dies in horrible agony I guess.
It was a cool turnaround. It reminded me a little bit of Die Hard when Bruce Willis comes out SPOILER to surrender to the bad guy and he's got his hands on the back of his head and he's shirtless so there absolutely no way he can have a concealed weapon... except he's only fucking sellotaped it to his bare back and he grabs it and shoots Hans Gruber or whatever his name is and - after a bit more buggering around - he falls about a thousand storeys to his death. Yeah!
So yeah, more examples of that kind of thing please. Of course there will be loads of spoilers cos normally the big bad guy gets the best death. So this thread is often about the end of films. So please assume there are SPOILERS almost everywhere you look.
Hand in hand with Die Hard I have to mention Robocop. Long story short, Robocop has a secret command that means he can't kill executives from the company that made him, so as he tries to shoot the baddie he can't pull the trigger, but the biggest boss is there and he shouts "Dick you're fired" so he is no longer an employee and then Robocop shoots him and he falls through a window and plunges a thousand storeys to his death.
OK, those had to be got out of the way... more interesting ones to follow...