Darkman: Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels)

650 feet can be anywhere from 50 to 70 floors, my guess. If it was 65 exact, then each floor would be 10 feet. The empire state has 102 floors and stands 1250 feet- but it doesn't have 125 floors, so the height on each floor must differ. Plus there are only around 5 skyscrapers in the world over 100 floors- Empire State, Taipei 101, John Hancock Center, Sears Tower and the destroyed WTC.

I just saw this death on youtube. What a rip. I hate it when we only see them drop and hear them scream all the way down. The least they could done was some kind of optical effect and drop a dummy or even a matte painting like the Joker in Batman. Alas, we only get to see the guy fall for about 3 floors than Darkman's face for the rest of the fall.

I'd personally rate this death as unsatisfying

I don't have any big problem with not seeing the full fall, I actually found it pretty creatively done.
I would only have a problem with this if, ya' know, the baddie was really an ass. Jr. is by no means not an ass, but not as much to warrent a ton of hate in my eyes.

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I figured he would land on those spikey things and get impaled, cuz when it zooms down the construction site full way, we see this bed of spikes.

That's a possiblity, but it won't fit in the impaled catergory because we did not get to see him impaled.

Well, he got dropped off the side rather than down the middle, unlike the henchman who probably did land on those spikes since he fell down the middle.

What about "Tempting Fate"?

Possibly. He does dare Darkman to drop him, more or less.

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dude, i don't think skip was killed. i think he got away, cuz i've watched many times and i don't see how he died.

Yeah he isn't killed. Once Darkman discovers who the real big bad behind Durant is (i.e. Strack) he pretty much forgets about the remaining little fish and goes after the big one.

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I received my copies of the three-issue comic adaptation in the mail today. Good read. Strack's demise in the comic is more elaborate. Whereas in the film it's a nameless henchman who is dropped down down the middle of the building and impaled on the rebars (offscreen), and Strack dropped over the side, in the comic, Darkman lifts Strack over his head and throws him down the middle, and we actually get to see Strack skewered by the rebars (bloodlessly, but he's still visibly impaled).

And whoever it was on here who said that in the comic, Darkman doesn't kill Rick, you're right. It's implied he does, but later Rick is shown wandering aimlessly, out of his mind from his encounter with the burned avenger.

And, re: what I said above, Darkman roughs Skip up to learn where Strack is taking Julie, and it's implied he kills him, but, as with Rick, it's possible he just drove the guy insane.

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