Spyderco and Payback Movie

lbwheat · May 27, 1999

My wife and I went to see the Mel Gibson Movie Payback yesterday and I noticed he used a Spydie to cut the gas line on the bad guys car. It was fast but it looked like a worker model.Has any one seen it? I always get a kick out of watching people in the movies or television use Spydies to extricate themselves from situations where the serrated blades are the best choice.

James Y · May 27, 1999

I thought it was a Viele. If you like quick scenes of serrated Spydie utility use, check out the movie Entrapment and don't blink your eyes at the beginning!
Jim

Jedi Knife · May 27, 1999

Hey how about in "Cliffhanger" when the bad guy gets stabbed in the leg with the Endura? Or "Strange Days" when the female bodyguard flicks out the yellow handled Rescue?

JK

Robert Monteux · May 27, 1999

Or the movie Exposure, where the killer uses a plain edge stainless steel Endura several times?

Rob

TimmyTheTalkingToilet · May 27, 1999

I thought that it was a buck used in payback

TimmyTheTalkingToilet · May 27, 1999

I thought that it was a buck used in payback

by the way most movies have bad guys using spyderco knifes

Dirk · May 27, 1999

Don't forget Needful Things. If I remember correctly, a Police model was used.

lbwheat · May 28, 1999

I've seen Spydies show up on Babylon 5 from time to time. Fact is I thought that is why Sal had the Natives stamped Golden Colorado USA Earth,because he figures they will end up off planet some day and he wants it known where they came from.

lbwheat

Nakano 2 · May 28, 1999

In a recent Dean Koontz novel for TV aired in the east coast, one of the lead roles played by one of the Baldwin brothers (forgot which)show him producing and opening a Mariner (stainless)but he never used it!! Oh well. And yes, he played a baddie. Actually, it was his clone(?)

L8r,
Nakano

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James Y · May 29, 1999

In Anaconda , Ice Cube opens a Delica several times in preparation to use as a weapon, but losed it in the Amazon before it can dispatch the bad guy (Jon Voight).
Jim

ekaagan · Jun 1, 1999

In payback it looked like a Delica. Small but efficient.

Check out Daylight with Sly, he uses a Endura (I think) to cut away his gear just before the fan gets going.

How come they always have to add that whoosh...SNAP sound to knives in the movies? I used to track what knives appear where, but stopped for a while. Neat topic though.

EK