10 Most Unnecessary Movie Deaths Ever

Prometheus When people die in movies you want it to be for a good reason. If the person is on the wrong side of good and simply has it coming, again, you want them to die in a realistic and karma driven manner. This list is complied of those who have died needlessly as victims of baffling writing or exposition, those who croaked in the name of pulling on the ol' heart strings and finally there is the number one. The top of this pile contains the most unnecessary death ever committed to film, one that is only apparent in it's preventable nature to us the viewer, with the benefit of hindsight, it is a death that will make one feel physically ill just from thinking about it. Here are 10 people who died in the name of the pointless, the avoidable and the unnecessary. This list is reserved for life€™s losers, who paid the ultimate price with their needless demise... This article is filled with spoilers...

10. E.T - E.T (1982)

ET Why did ET have to die? When you think about it logically, in terms of plot, the government bad men could have simply just arrived to do tests on him anyway. He really did not need to die and come back to life like a modern day JC did he? Many people would argue that his death was a motivation for driving the plot forward, showing that E.T could not stay on our planet. But if this is the case why does he need to actually die? They could just show him becoming weaker, thus making the plot a little more tense- will they make it to the woods on time, will he make it home? To be quite honest, the only reason he does die, is to pull on the heart strings of the audience and to emotionally scar a generation of 80s children. Seeing the little fella all white in a ditch, slowly dying as scientists try to bring him back to life and Elliot smashing his metal coffin with his tiny fists are easily the most emotionally heartwrenching moments of my childhood, and for what? To make it all the sweeter when he comes back to life some moments later? To make you laugh with relief through the snot as you get over the pain you have just endured thinking the little chump was dead? Cheap tricks Steven, cheap tricks.
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Shaun does not enjoy writing about himself in the third person. The rest? I will tell you in another life, when we are both cats...