Reign of Fire [2002] Scene: "Run like the wind!"/Van Zan's death.
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- While drawing out the male dragon, Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) makes his final stand in a Hail Mary attempt to kill the beast himself.
'Reign of Fire' - A Rob Bowman film.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott Moutter & Alice Krige.
The level of badassery surpassed in this scene is insurmountable. 🔥🐉
especially that parkour gap jump with axe. so much airtime
This stays badass from now forever.
It is! It’s so underrated this movie 🤩
McConaughey was a madman in this movie 😂😂
Complete nutter lol
I loved it
As she looks up to see him flying through the air towards his doom. That scene has stayed with me.
Flying to his destiny
“Come on big boy!!”
Love that. 🔥
The look of desperation in Mathew’s eyes when he realizes he needs to use his axe and most likely die is Oscar level acting 🎭
Never will there be a more badass moment in cinematic history.. EVER
That's a bold statement friend.
"Witness Me!!!!" Cmon Mad max fury road scene was more badass and atleast took out the enemy
Then I think you'll be proven wrong when Daemon and Aemond Targaryen have their final duel.
Riding the Bomb in Dr Strangelove was both hillarious and badass
Yeah I remember the trailer for the movie and they showed that gap jump and then cut it before he died. We all wondered what the entire sequence was until we saw the actual movie.
I'm surprised that he jumped so far with them balls of steel
Shìt he looked like Aries from Marvel when he did that
For some reason, when Van Zan leaps to his demise, I think of the line from 30 Days of Night.
"When a man meets a force he can't destroy, he destroys himself."
Nice
"For some reason" because the dragon was going to get him. If he jumps to the side, he's dead. If he hits the deck, the claws will get him.
This scene, unintentionally set the bar for how a viking should be. This insane scene, was Van Zan's berserker ancestors coming through. We should all be so lucky to die in such a glorious way. My man is drinking mead with Tor and Odin.
Its a fucking epic scene man, lets agree
Better to die om your feet than to live on your knees
Proud of my Norman ancestry💪🏻
The amount of plain, ordinary average guys who think they are vikings is hilarious.
@@chrism5487 nobody is claiming to be a viking. Could you have been more redundant?
This is when I knew Matthew McConaughey was actually a gifted actor. He went from being the Rom Com guy to ultimate bad ass in one movie.
Aghh...the pain of watching bad ass supporting characters bite the dust....guy was a frigging unit....
There will never be a more badass moment than a shirtless Mathew McConaughey jumping off a tower holding a giant axe into the mouth of a dragon.
Rest in peace, King
St George would be proud, he fought like a warrior poet, he fought like a dragon slayer.... and he won our world back
🗿☦️ (Same exact thought) 🤝
@@djz9584You bled with Wallace… now bleed with me.
Super underrated masterpiece of a movie! By far the best movie about dragons i ever saw! Period! Irreplaceable!
This movie is easily one of the most bad ass movies on the 2000s
Most badass death scene in film history. I love the look on his face before he jumps like " aww fuck it"
What nakes this so funny/tragic/badass is that I think a little part of Van Zan really believed he'd come out on top...and so did we.
It would have been funny if the dragon totally ignored him and he just fell to his death. 😂
😂
😅😅
This made me lol
😂😂😂😂😂 it would have been an epic fail.
Lololol
One of the greatest sacrifice in cinema history along with Billy in Predator, bishop in Aliens and the Yakuza guy in Predators.
Billy death in predator hurt me as a kid and so did bill paxton character, shit had me so mad
Got to the love the 'fuck you' attitude in the face of death
1:14 The most badass way to die..
Or the stupidest
Or the stupidest( boom)
@@jk-vo3hn more stupid to type/edit a word (stupidest) that doesnt exist. he would have died if he stood there at the top. The badass way to go was to jump big
1:12 the most badass moment in the whole movie. Oh you've got wings and spew fire, Van Zan don't care. I still believe he's alive. If Hannibal Chow is still alive at the end of *Pacific Rim* than so to is Van Zan in my book. It doesn't stop the moment from being any less badass, just makes it more.
This scene is badass. Also the final scene from THE CAVE. When he jumps on the creature and they both fall into the fire. :D
Somehow Van Zan returned...
@@Ronin3453Ohhh if only...
"Where is my goddamn axe?!"
Hannibal Chow is still alive in the mid credit scene. Only missing his badass shoes
I was 3 when I jumped with my toy axe 🪓 off of the arm of the couch scared my mom half to death 😂😂
did you get her?
@@AllfatherBlack lol and my child mind back in the early 2000s
Now that’s a FKIN HERO ❤
Holy shit bro the quality is amazing 😍🥹
Honestly, you can't believe it's the same Matthew McConaughey who appeared in great projects like Tropic Thunder, Interstellar, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club or The Wolf of Wall Street
Well, he is a good...actor. It is what he does.
@@heathb4319I mean how muscular and bald he was. He was a Viking before making romantic movies with Kate Hudson
How I would want to go
There's an alternate ending where the Dragon chokes with Van Zan's gigantic balls and dies. I think that was a better ending.
Bro jumped straight to Valhalla
Surprised if haven't seen this in a masculine urge to make a final last stand edit.
COME ON BIG BOY!!!
Matthew mcconaughey rolled a 1 for his
character.
When you think about he sacrificed himself for Alex/the cause brave af
At the time it seemed to me one of the most ridiculous deaths I had seen in a cinema. After 22 years it still seems that way.
This seen this as a kid and that jump will be engraved in my mind
The moment he decided to fight a dragon in the air, I knew bro was done for, but that death was badass asf
it is NOT about the DEAD
IT is about WHAT you DO.
I still laugh my ass off at this scene. The trailer made you think it was going to be a badass scene, but then he just gets eaten. I cracked up when I saw this in the theater.
For me it's the air time on his jump that gets me every time 😂😂😂
They dont make more movies like this.
This scene blew my mind!!! I was like the dragon ate him!!!????
Epic
Matthew McConaughey was a badass in this movie and went out as one.
The man simply had a death wish.
This clip is shown as a part of employee orientation week for the War Boys in Mad Max
Matthew's channeling his Viking ancestors badassery. He's got Swedish ancestry.
"Death smiles at us all, the only thing a man can do is smile back" Maximus (Gladiator)
My man .❤
*Good movie is a good movie*
Matthew mccohaghey was such a badass in this movie and he friggin lost himself in it….he jumped and said fuck it im going down im taking you with me…of course that didnt happen lol
WITNESS ME!!!!!!!!!!
Matthew McConaughey went full McConaughey in this scene
Gotta admire Van Zan's (Matthew McConaughey) hang time after he leaped off the tower......up until the dragon ate him as an appetizer...🤣🤣🤣
I think a most people get it but ive noticed some comments saying how stupid / pointless his death was other than looking badass. Van Zan says F*ck you after shooting a rinky dink crossbow bolt into the face of what is essentially Death Re-Incarnate. Their odds of winning were never good it was a suicide mission from the jump, so when you have no chance of winning (obviously they do win but nobody knows that. Van Zan is going to die, as we all do but very few can say they threw a screaming haymaker at death on the way out. I give this death 14 out of 22 Vahallahs.
That axe probably would hsve inflicted a decent wound too when you factor in momentum etc
Honeslty this and frailty are my favourite mccounghey movies. Van Zan was class man
1:10 😄
he was a Yankee but his got that Viking warrior in him.
Van Zan’s performance in this featured film was uncanny, to say the least.
In an alternate universe the dragon swerved at the last second letting McConaughey fall to his death. His last words were 'you ruined my epic deaaa....'
Idk what the fuck he thought he was gona achieve with that, but godamn that was BADASS lol
He knew the dragon was gonna come back for him and he was definitely not gonna run, even if he could. So he only had one option, face his death with a badass battle cry and axe!
He was on top of a small tower with zero cover and the dragon was heading straight for him.
His only options were to jump and likely break every bone in his body hitting the ground (and then dying anyway), stand there and be roasted alive, or at least try to give a dragon a last "F*** you!" before dying.
This movie was for the dudes!! Underrated.
Woman: I wanna go peacefully in my sleep
Men:
At 1:12 it doesn’t matter how fearless one is, this is a prime example of a mismatch! 😅
Cooper, it's not possible, no, it's necessary.
Van Zan went out like a boss
Magic hour.
Most badass hero's death after Bruce in Armageddon goddammit.
After watching Thor: Love & Thunder. I had to come back and watch what a real Norse God looks like.
This is on par with Independence Day sacrifice scene.
Come on big boy!!!
I'm baaaaaack!!!!
;)
He saw the dragon coming and said “ well alright alright”
Goddamn! Badassness comes to town!
When you play too much monster hunter
Can confirm as a hammer user, I always leap off ledges for an aerial hit so I can mount the monster.
younger Kratos
Never bring axe to a dragon fight
slowly desolved by dragon gastric juices, what a way to go
He definitely died instantly lol
@@kigrey3994 he went straight down the dragons throat so im not so sure about instant
@@millennium677look again. You can see him in the dragons mouth chomped with his limbs hanging out 1:22 🐉
Os olhos verdes testemunhando o inacreditável ficou memorável
Matthew was fucking epic in this movie
I think he suvived this attack, and soon we will get Part 2 of the Epos!
redbull gives you wing. badass gap jump
alright alright alright !
1:15
Seems to me that had he maintained cover a bit longer he could have had the shot to take down the beast. Brave for sure but got clouded in whats worked before.
How could this have possibly ever worked before 😂
The issue is they needed a clear shot at the dragons mouth to ignore the chemicals in it's throat
The dragon however, shoots fire too soon and explodes the c4 bolt before then
If he did the dragon would've killed Alex. The whole point was to get its attention by being higher up, as if taunting the dragon for being at a higher level and yelling at it.
I always wished he at least managed to swing the axe into the dragon at the same time as getting chowed on in this part, kinda like a thing where as crazy as it was he did a speck of something
Yeah the axe could have somehow been to deep in the dragon mouth and as he bit down it got VanZant but busted or tore one of the fluid tracts that it uses to spit fire.
Then as the dragon tried again it wouldn't spit in line enough to ignite or it caught itself on fire so it couldn't do it anymore. and then that gave the others the real chance they needed to finish him off.
lol this scene forever confused me as a kid
1:14 you're here because of this
Gotrek and Felix Dragonslayer vibes
Max Testosterone.
Van Zan = Quint
Quinn = Cheif Brody
Alex = Hooper
Cool and versatile as Swords are, Spears/Javelins and Axes should get more attention than they do. Swords were not very common until the knightly age, even then, only higher ups were allowed to wield them. Bah! One of the things I don’t miss about medieval times, the class conscience!
I agree about spears. Axes have never really been satisfactory weapons.
@@richardgoss4777 In close quarters paired with a center grip shield? And up against plate armor? Coming from me, axes are pretty flexible.
@konigeurichderwestgoten4460 It's the weight distribution, and it lacks versitile attacks. A one hander doesn't have much reach, and it's only got one side of the weapon you can hack with. I'm not sold on them it's a lumberjacks tool.
@konigeurichderwestgoten4460 Also, another thing about swords is that the Roman Empire was built with the sword. It's been around for a long time for a reason.
@@richardgoss4777 Well, my bearded axe and Francisca axe handles are 30-28 inches with leather wrapped grips, very comfortable. The blades aren't so heavy that they disallow quick slashes, thrusts with the top end (I can easily break someone's face), or slash and come up with the backside. I can hook enemy weapons, shields, limbs. Other than being less time-consuming and expensive to forge, I'm doubtful so many people would've used them for millennia if they weren't effective.
WITNESS
Why does he jump into the dragons mouth? Is he stupid?
Kratos
"Onky thing worse than dragons, Americans."
Only Americans coulda beat the dragons
Men are brave....
Should've given him the w and have him slay the dragon then falling to his death
He killed himself by hollering around smh
Just think about it..not only do you shoot the dragon to distract it, you then decide to grab your f***** axe, and jump dive into the dragon like a mofo on crack, all shirtless and above a 5 storey building. I mean...imagine reading that script, sitting back on your chair and for a moment, and then going "when do we start?"
I honestly think it's one of the greatest death scenes in cinema history. Extremely powerful and savage.
@@HellRaider19 the definition of a mad man.
Meh, Birgir from God of War Ragnarok did it better, at least he survived.
Shit so god damn dope
All I see is someone who got eaten by a dragon lol
Wtf was he going to do if he killed the dragon was he going to hang on for dear life also this entire part reminds of the ending of Beowulf but he succeeded in killing the dragon while he um didn’t 😂
Oh no, Van Zan would've gleefully died from the fall if he knew he killed the dragon.