Most hostage situations - not funny...sorta serious. Some hostage situations? Laughable, ridiculous, involve long-haired Brendan Frasers or Nicolas Cages, use nose jobs as a threat to retrieve a code to an air shield. You know? Who are they kidding. I guess some on this list are actually shooting for 'ridiculous' but all entertain nonetheless. Here are the top 8 movies with ridiculous hostage situations. You can make your own vid mashup/playlist using Searchles TV here.
1. Airheads (1994). Brendan Fraser, Steve Busceme and Adam Sandler have a band called The Lone Rangers and take radio station employees hostage with fake Uzis filled with hot sauce to get their demo played on air. Now there's a plan. Forget the old fashioned way of making it big in the music industry by not playing sucky music or having Brendan Fraser as your front man.
2. Con Air (1997). A good man is released on parole and arranged transport to be flown back home on the same flight as fellow prisoners bound for a Supermax prison. Technically hostage on this "Con Air" flight home to see his Baby and his Baby's Mama, Nicolas Cage will play no victim. Steve Buscemi makes a second appearance on this list.
3. Speed (1994)**. Wow, there's so much to say about Speed...and it's hard to pick a favorite hostage moment. When he says 'shoot the hostage?', the elevator incident?, when the 'bomb on bus' sign smacks against the windshield? I'm gonna go with the 'jumping the gap'. For it is a scene truly ridiculous enough that it was parodied in the Spice Girls' feature film...Spice World.
4. Spaceballs (1989). So I unfortunately couldn't find an exact clip of Dr. Plotkin threatening to give hostage Princess Vespa back...her OLD NOSE, but I was at least able to catch the "ransom" being given - the code to the air shield of Planet Druidia...which may be even better.
5. The River Wild (1994). Kevin Bacon's in it which adds a slight element of ridiculous to the matter...cheesy acting rounds out the deal. Mr. Bacon takes Meryl Streep and her family hostage to guide he and buddy down through "The Gauntlet" - a murderous stretch of Class 5+ rapids. Adventure and suspense ensue.
6. Blazing Saddles (1974). Blazing Saddles can find its way onto nearly any movie list. A hostage situation develops as the new (and black) Sheriff of Rockridge takes himself hostage in order to get out of a sticky situation with the townsfolk. He is able to pull this off...because they are two thumbs up short of a "this guy" joke.
7. The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966). A Soviet submarine accidentally runs aground near a small New England town and a family is taken hostage by faux-Russian Alan Arkin (plays the part quite well) in order to use their car to get to town.
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). Most things about this movie sucked. I don't even know if this really counts as a hostage scene but since two people are tied up and hanging upside down, I'm gonna go with it. A bunch of pirates argue and point guns at each other while shoving phrases like "Davy Jones Locker", "Shiver Me Timbers" and "Shipwreck Cove" down our throats.
** Sidenote: Jeff Daniels starred in American Civil War epic Gettysburg in 1993...then went on to star in both Speed and Dumb and Dumber in 1994. What versatility as an actor.
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