What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby quickman » Fri May 17, 2019 11:23 am

I've been thinking a lot lately about a scene that should have been made in any number of old cheesy sci-fi flicks. In the scene a couple of astronauts are exploring another planet when one of them steps into some extraterrestrial quicksand. It is very loose and he sinks down into it. The camera would show not only the angle of him sinking but also the view from inside his helmet. As he is going down, you'll see the quicksand creeping up the face shield on his helmet. All the while he is screaming for help but his fellow astronaut doesn't dare go in to help him. Because he is in a space suit with a head set, you continue to hear his screams after he has completely submerged. And you know he will be alive until his life support runs out. The scene would fade away with his screams.
Since the type of movie I'm thinking of would also have been during the heyday of quicksand used as a plot device, it seems like this would have been a real obvious scene to have done.

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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby Boggy Man » Sat May 18, 2019 8:13 am

I have imagined scenarios similar to this one, but ending with the person increasing the air pressure in the suit to inflate it to its maximum, making it buoyant so that the person rises back up to the surface again to escape the deadly trap!
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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby quickman » Sun May 19, 2019 10:41 am

Like something Macgyver would think of

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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby rhinodynamo » Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:40 am

Thought of some more.-
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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby PA Jack » Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:37 pm

Low hanging fruit answers: Adrienne Barbeau in Swamp Thing, Bo Derek in Tarzan the Ape Man, the movie Sheena with Tanya Roberts, any other Tarzan movie that didn’t have a female scene. Anaconda was another bad movie I sat through that failed to have a scene (wasting a Jennifer Lopez opportunity).
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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby Fred588 » Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:33 pm

Flip answer: Any movie that did not have one. ... Second flip answer: Any movie with a quicksand scene would be improved by a second one.
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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby PA Jack » Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:35 pm

Fred588 wrote:Flip answer: Any movie that did not have one. ... Second flip answer: Any movie with a quicksand scene would be improved by a second one.


The movie Lure of the Swamp (certainly not a classic film) does have two scenes in it: a male scene with Jack Elam and a final female scene with Joan Vohs. Neither scene was particularly good, although the final one does have a nice looking actress in a nice white dress. Maybe if I search my aging memory, I can think of more two-scene films.
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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby Quicksand-Lover-7 » Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:45 pm

Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, with Karen Gillan. Big missed opportunity! :!:
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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby beachbum » Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:21 am

Quicksand-Lover-7 wrote:Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, with Karen Gillan. Big missed opportunity! :!:


And she was in a sinking hole before in Dr. Who which was a really good scene. This is the missed opportunity of the century!

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Re: What movie(s) could be better with a mud/quicksand scene?

Postby Black Clay Lord » Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:31 pm

I'm gonna pitch in & say Kong: Skull Island.
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