Conan the Barbarian: Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones)

Let's take another example like say: Saruman from the Extended Edition of LotR:RotK. He is stabbed repeatedly in the back, falls downs 5,000 feet and gets skewered on a spiked wheel. To be quite frank the stabs alone would kill him. Why? Just one stab to the back of the chest will severly wound someone. Two will definately kill them. Three he's already dead. Same basic thing: stabbing the heart is just as fatal as hacking the neck, he would've died on the first blow.

Sorry, but I disagree. It can take quite a while to die with stab wounds, and there is at least ambiguity when it happens in film. Personally, I'm pretty sure there is at least a chance Saruman would have been aware he was falling - and I'm pretty sure Thulsa Doom wouldn't!