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Seriously, I was SHOOK by that scene. Before the awful reveal, I was thinking, yeah unfortunately that's probably the right thing to do. But then just a minute later the effing military shows up! I like to pretend that just a few minutes after the credits start rolling one of those HUGE creatures that walked over them came by and stepped on the truck, killing them, or at least him.
This is death, but worse than death - Quynh, in The Old Guard, get locked in an iron casket and thrown in the sea and because she’s immortal she is continuously drowning.
That reminds me of all the horrible things that happened to Captain Jack in Torchwood. At one point he was repeatedly stabbed to death over the course of what I think was several weeks.
That freaked me out. Wish they hadn't actually shown her "wake up" only to drown all over again. I didn't need a visual to understand just how god-awful that fate would be.
So, about 3 minutes to drown, maybe one to wake back up. In the 500 years it took for that iron to rust through, that's 65 743 595 drownings... And as Charlize's character reminds us right off the bat: It never gets any easier. Like Blackadder said: A fate worse than a fate worse than death... that's pretty bad.
Fun fact: Darth Vader's suit was made to keep him in constant pain. Palpatine had I designed that was so he couldn't become more powerful and overthrow him. Also, I agree with everyone who said Event Horizon. That's the scariest fucking movie I've ever seen in my life.
I think I have the Timothy Zahn novelization of Return of the Jedi where Vader is contemplating how the Emperor found him after a crash landing he had during the Clone Wars. I still prefer that version.
As someone who's read the short story and watched the full letsplay of the game, no thank you. I'll have to watch it if someone does that, but I don't think I want to.
Getting taken by the Cenobites/Pinhead to be tortured for eternity would kinda suck... would probably just rather take my own life if they give me a chance...
I was amused, when watching 'A Clockwork Orange', for the nth time, to notice something that shows just how bad Alex is: when he's arrested, he is held by two policemen, whose numbers are visible. Those numbers are: '665', and '667'. Alex, standing between them, evil incarnate, is obviously number '666', the fabled 'Number Of The Beast'. Knowing Kubrick's almost fetishistic eye for detail, this was deliberate. And it's brilliant.
Ashildr from "Doctor Who" - You see everyone you've known, everyone you've loved, everyone and everything you've cared about die and at the end of time, it's just you.
A clockwork orange is one of those movies where u shouldn't like Alex but Malcolm McDonald plays him so great u cant help but like a rapist murderer. Leaves a bad taste in ur mouth
The Fly actually gets even worse at the end. When the receiving pod is damaged, the screen reads "Fusion of Brundlefly and Telepod complete". What's worse than being gene-spliced with a fly? Being gene-spliced again with the splicer itself! It is at this point that Brundleflypod calls it and points the shotgun at his own head.
The ending of "Repo Men" comes to mind. Being trapped in what is essentially a mind cage feels pretty horrific even if you don't completely know what's happening. Then there's Quynh in "The Old Guard," trapped in an iron casket and drowning over and over and over. Being taken over by an Agent in "The Matrix," only to be possibly be killed by a resistance member. Basically, you just get your life snapped away by one of those malevolent programs, and if they fail, you die as well? That just plain old sucks.
"Being transformed into a cyborg" Even worse than Robocop's situation, though, was that lady at the end of Superman III. She was violently violated by that AI and turned into its own mechanical zombie weapon. That transformation scene terrified me as a kid. Thinking about now, over 35 years later, I still get a bit of a chill.
Right with you there. That scene added a huge amount of darkness to what was a pretty lightweight romp of a movie (I've still got plenty of time for it, though). That was Vera, played by Jazz singer Annie Ross, who died, aged 89, in July this year.
That scene scared me as an 8 year old. I wanted to see Return of the Jedi but my mother took me to Superman instead. I think she regretted that decision after I woke up screaming a few times, thanks to that very scene. *shudder*
I thought in Inception it was the other way around. they spent 50 years in a dreamlike state but only 5 hours had past in the real world. and that's why she was so crazy and not believing it was real🤔
He kind of seems to have misunderstood subtle details like this in a lot of these movies. He also thought that the people who died in firefly had a quick and painless death. That couldn't be further from the truth. Those people had their will to live removed, and simply laid around in their own filth until they died from the elements. It would be a horrible way to die.
It was indeed that way around. Cobb is an old man in a young man's body. I'm not sure it's down to Simon not understanding the concept and more misspeaking and nobody noticed. I hear the same screw up a lot when people talk about how dogs age
Don't know if you'd class it as Sci Fi, but what about The Old Guard, when one of the immortal women is locked in a chamber and dropped into the ocean. Doomed to spend hundreds of years drowning to death, waking up, then drowning again. Definitely worse than death!
This one confused me a little, she could only drown once. After that every time she came back she would asphyxiate due to lungs not being able to extract air from the water. Still a bad way to go but not multiple drownings.
I'd say what happens to captain Miller in Event Horizon is definitely a fate worse than death even though it will eventually lead to death. He saves his crew by sacrificing himself being transported to a Hell dimension of chaos and suffering. Who knows how long he will suffer there until he is killed it could be eternal.
I would have included Sam Lowry being left to die in the torture chamber from “Brazil” on this list too. As much as I adore that film, that ending still haunts me!
In the original The Fly movie, how did the fly know how to do stuff in the lab when the ending clearly establishes that the scientist's head, brain, etc. was swapped over to the fly body?
@@TonyHammitt So let me get this right... Brundlefly didn't _actually_ pretend to be stuck in the web, before slapping the spider around the chops, calling him a "sucker" and cockily flying off?! Damn... The Simpsons lied to me man?!
In 13 ghosts not only did the guy have to deal with the woman he loved and the mother of his children dying horribly but twisted evil guy captured her soul or ghost and used it for some maniacal machine. Then he finds out that he is the 13th ghost because that evil brain is counting on him sacrificing himself in order to set the ghost free.
@Michael Brush i only saw that movie once but I always remember the ending. The person that tried to conduct the ritual was turned into kabob meat cubes from that gyroscopic slicing thing. That was freaky. Also final destination 3 with the tanning beds.
I think you're a bit off on Dark City. Everyone else aside from the MC wakes up with new memories cobbled together from everyone else. the MC is the only one where the process was interrupted and his new memories weren't installed.
@J Redfield He TRAINED the MCs ability to "Tune" by implanting an altered life when he was supposed to be implanting the alien race into the MC. MC being able to "Tune" in the first place was as much a surprise to the Dr. as anyone. The Detective who stopped sleeping before the MC triggered his abilities had it worse.
About BRAZIL, I disagree... though he is (potentially) trapped in a hallucination, it is the dream of his choosing, that he takes pleasure in. One he prefers to never awaken from...
The original The Fly has an even more horrifying outcome! Not only does a man become half-fly, then gradually loses his humanity, the FLY also became half-human and growing more human. That end of the movie with the SPIDER as it screams "HELP ME" is chilling!
I think the best part about this video is the fact that Simon, the presenter, looks and sounds like a gigantic musclehead that would give sci-fi nerds swirlies. But instead he's here talking about sci-fi movies with passion. I guess I just found the juxtaposition pretty funny 😅 Kinda feels like Jason statham talking about hello kitty or something 😂
@@GoudaFetaExpandDong You might want to bring that down a bit. You can go about a month without food but you'll be dead in three days - seven tops without water
It was just one of the biggest plotholes in the movie that has always bothered me. You need someone to plug you in, so who plugged in Cipher when he was making his deal with Agent Smith?
@@throatwobblermangrove8510 I've heard that before, can't remember if they explicitly stated whether u could plug yourself in or not. Maybe they communicated through the green Screensaver? I do remember them stating that they could see what was happening in the matrix through the green characters on the screen. Or maybe just a phone call? Like they would make right before they beamed out? Idk, still loved that movie when it came out and i really didn't think i was going to. The sequels were like nearly all sequels, hard to capture that "new" energy when its your 2nd or 3rd time around. But still pretty visionary as a whole imho, especially for the time.
@@allineedis1mike81 They were pretty specific about needing to be removed by someone else if you're in the Matrix, which makes the scene where Cipher is eating the steak not make sense unless he has an unnamed co-conspirator. I'm sure they could at least communicate back and forth using that green screen you mentioned. If you remember the scene where Neo first comes up behind Cipher when he's on the night shift, Cipher jumps and turns off some of the display before describing how he reads the code. I always figured he was chatting with Smith at that point.
What if the Matrix is like Inception? The best way to keep you in the Matrix is thinking that you already left it That would explain why Neo's powers works in the "real" world
Simon, I love that I watch "whatculture" and see you doing a top 10 list AND then I'll flick over to your youtube channel and piss myself laughing when you do a list top 7 gym guys you have to deal with or call out "V-shred ". Keep up the tips and the laughs! Much loved and appreciated!
God yeah, capt MIller ends up going to...whatever that place is. As Dr Weir says "Hell is just a word, this place is much worse!!" or something like that.
Hey Simon!! Another great SyFryday!! I really love watching your videos you make them really fun & entertaining. You're my favorite WhatCulture host, you're just really awesome!! 😊 😊
Pandorum: when they tell the story of that captain that jettisoned the entire crew into outer space. Stuck in a pod floating through space seems pretty bad.
Wait did Pax kill you immediately? I thought it either turned you insane or made you not want to do anything to the point you just sat down and didn’t move until you died over time. 2 extremes, have all your inhibitions removed or ramped up.
If you listen to the host, rather than watch him twitch around, you realize he either hasn't watched the movies or his comprehension/retention is very limited.
In the movie, "The Mist," the protagonist killed the survivors to avoid a more painful death from the monster and right when he goes to sacrifice himself to the monster, help shows up so he basically killed a bunch of people including his son and lets out a broken scream. i honestly would have told the rescuers, "please shoot me good,"
10. 0:44 Learning the truth - They Live 9. 2:15 Not knowing who you are - Dark City 8. 3:26 Trapped in a world without knowing if it's real - Inception 7. 4:47 Being exiled to Manhattan - Escape from New York 6. 6:08 The ''Ludovico technique'' - A Clockwork Orange 5. 7:11 Everything that happened to Anakin - Star Wars: Episode III 4. 8:45 Faulty stasis chamber - Passengers 3. 9:59 Being transformed into a cyborg - Robocop 2. 11:00 Becoming a victim of the pax - Serenity 1. 12:09 Becoming a human fly - The Fly
For Clarity: 10 They Live - Learning the truth (0:40) 9 Dark City - Not knowing who you are (2:15) 8 Inception - Trapped in a world without knowing is its real (3:25) 7 Escape From New York - Being exhiled to Manhattan (4:47) 6 A Clockwork Orange - The Ludovico Technique (6:08) 5 Revenge Of The Sith - Everything that happened to Anakin (7:11) 4 Passengers - Faulty Stasis Chambers (8:46) 3 Robocop - Being transformed into a cyborg (9:59) 2 Serenity - Beoming a victim of the Pax (11:00) 1The Fly - Becoming a human fly (12:10)
All of the things that happened to 'The Family' in Doctor Who. Bonus is they had to live it forever! Got to see the really dark side of the Doctor there.
Entry #8: "Trapped in a world without knowing if it's real." - Sooo, just our regular everyday life then? Because we may not have the technology to infiltrate other peoples dreams, but we also can't know for sure if our "reality" is the real deal or a simulation/dream/fantasy.
If there is ever a TV version of this, I nominate Black Mirror, White Christmas with having your consciousness transferred to that egg like thing where you experience time at 1,000 years per minute, with the song "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday playing on loop. That is freaking torture.
It wasn't that he learned the devil owned it - remember, he'd TRADED it for continued life. The 'host' Rourke inhabited was already dead, or 'dead' so it was already a fate worse than death. At the end, Louie caught him out on it and he was just Rourke again and fucked. But by his own doing so not too much sympathy there. At least that's how I saw it.
The One. At the end of the movie, Jet Li’s character is sent to what is basically Hell, where, being practically immortal, he is doomed to defend himself against the most violent people in the universe, in the most epic never-ending King of the Hill scenario imaginable
