![]() ![]() Note that though the rest of the season takes place in the same day, Curtis’s grisly passing and entirely out-of-character final moments are quickly forgotten, and the poor bastard is hardly mentioned at all. So, naturally, by-the-book Curtis holds a gun to the informer’s head and says he has to die, and Jack shoots Curtis in the neck. ![]() But uh-oh! It turns out that the now-helpful baddie is on Curtis’s shit list for killing his buddies after Desert Storm. At the start of the sixth season, Curtis’s third on the show, Jack cuts a deal with a terrorist turned informer. But no death in the show’s run has been handled with a clumsiness that compares to the icing of Curtis Manning (Roger Cross), a fan favorite known as “Black Jack” because he was just as cool, competent, and calm as his fellow CTU agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), but black. Leave it to ruthless Joss Whedon to repay his rabid fans by killing off their most beloved character just before the climactic final scenes.Ģ4 kills off its characters with a bloodthirstiness that is positively Transylvanian. But he’ll be left out of any sequels - though actor Alan Tudyk enjoys spreading rumors of those sequels anyway - as he takes a grappling hook through the chest, in a scene that would almost be funny if it weren’t such a major bummer. Joss Whedon’s ragtag crew of smugglers flew from TV to the big screen aboard their ship the Serenity (thanks in part to solid DVD sales for the original series), piloted by the ship’s class clown, the irrepressible Hoban “Wash” Washburne. He lost that loving feeling in the danger zone, when he attempted to eject on a daring training mission - awkwardly whacking his head on the cockpit cover. The good-times, piano-plinking, Jerry Lee Lewis–loving redhead was the ultimate wingman: Not only was he Maverick’s co-pilot and confidant, he was Cruise’s neutered accomplice in the courtship of Kelly McGillis, and one hell of a Jams-wearing volleyball partner. The moment serves as a useful thumbnail for Jackson’s post-nineties career: Sam Jackson, once mighty, now masticated. He even delivers a triumphant, soul-stirring survival speech to his party - only to be interrupted by a super-intelligent shark with a real sense of comic timing. When he appeared as avalanche-surviving corporate executive Russell Franklin in the shoddy yet deeply awesome Deep Blue Sea, audiences expected him to kick some motherfuckin’ shark ass and lead his party of scientists to safety. Jackson had become one of our most cherished badass action-movie conventions. Russell Franklin, Deep Blue Sea (1999)Īfter a bevy of heavy-hitting roles in nineties flicks like Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Die Hard With a Vengeance, Samuel L. Enjoy slowly bleeding to death from a giant gaping chest wound.”ĩ. ![]() “Hey, thanks for selflessly traveling thousands of miles to save a child’s life,” Stanley Kubrick says. When he arrives at long last, seconds after stepping in the door, he is killed with an ax by Jack Nicholson. Toward the end of The Shining, Scatman Crothers’ Dick Hallorann flies from Florida to Colorado, then travels miles and miles through a vicious blizzard in the dead of night, because his extrasensory gifts have warned him that Danny Torrance is in danger at the Overlook Hotel. ( Spoilers, obviously!) Vulture takes a look at ten other characters whose ignominious deaths made us shake our heads and think, He deserved better. But every once in a while someone audiences have grown to love is dispatched in a disappointing, stupid, or downright ridiculous fashion - as happened to a certain beloved character on a certain beloved HBO drama recently. Think Titanic’s Jack giving his life to save his Rose, or Boromir taking a dozen arrows to the chest to protect the hobbits, or Charlie using his last breath to warn Desmond it’s NOT PENNY’S BOAT. Usually, our TV and movie heroes, when they die, get dramatic, noble deaths. ![]() Clockwise from top left: Courtesy of Miramax, Universal, Gramercy Pictures, Fox iStockphoto (reaper) ![]()
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