Thursday's Ways Not To Die

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

You just know the Grail Knight had been sitting on that zinger for a few centuries. He probably had arguments with himself over what he'd say when he got the opportunity. "Okay, what about 'That surely went down the wrong tube!'? No no no. What about, 'Your mother warned you to drink slowly!'... argh. Blasted fool! What are the kids saying these days anyway? I wish I had a newspaper or something. Is that a zit I feel coming in? Goddamit."

And yeah, this death, like most of Indiana Jones and His Greatest Hits the Last Crusade, kind of feels like a repeat of the whole face-melting-off schtick from the first film... but I still like it. I like that this movie was top-dollar at the time and it still resorted to the first couple of steps in aging this fella by cheap cuts in the editing room. And it's good old fashioned dummy work.

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Previous Ways Not To Die: Fried Alive Due To Baby Ingenuity -- A Good Old-Fashioned Tentacle Smothering -- Eepa! Eepa! -- Gremlins Ate My Stairlift -- An Icicle Thru The Eye -- Face Carved Off By Ghost Doctor After Lesbian Tryst With Zombie Women -- Electrocuted By Fallen Power-Lines -- A Mouthful Of Flare -- Taken By The TV Lady -- Bitten By A Zombie -- Eaten By Your Mattress -- Stuffed To Splitting -- Face Stuck In Liquid Nitrogen -- Crushed By Crumbling Church Debris -- Bitten By The Jaws Of Life -- A Machete To The Crotch -- Showering With A Chain-Saw -- In A Room Filled With Razor Wire -- Pod People'd With Your Dog -- Force-Fed Art -- Skinned By A Witch -- Beaten With An Oar -- Curbed -- Cape Malfunction -- In The Corner -- Cooked In A Tanning Bed -- Diced -- Punched Through The Head -- Bugs Sucking On Your Head
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