10 Unintentionally Hilarious Movie Deaths

In the legendary stage musical Les Misérables, Inspector Javert's suicide is one of its most unforgettable and tragically devastating moments, as a despondent Javert flings himself into the Seine.

It should've made for a brilliantly operatic moment in the big-screen Hollywood adaptation, then, and it got pretty close, save for one howlingly misguided sound design choice.

Sure, Russell Crowe's singing isn't the most technically proficient, but he's giving everything he's got to imbue the scene with the requisite sadness, yet all that effort is categorically undone once Javert flies through the air and hits the fountain below.

Rather than tastefully keep the visceral sound effects to a minimum, the sound team decided to accompany the swelling musical score with a cartoonish bone-crunch sound effect that'd sound more at home in a Mortal Kombat game.

You can basically picture the foley artist enthusiastically snapping a celery stick in two when Javert collides with the side of the fountain, which probably wasn't the intent. The joke's evidently on us, though, as it didn't stop Les Mis from nabbing a Best Sound Mixing Oscar nomination.