Best Film Deaths

Post by **danlo** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:23 am

Wasn't it one of the first classic "revival" films by Coppolla or Sorcesees?

Post by **Marv** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:00 pm

Syl wrote: Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in Fight Club (you knew that was coming)

For sheer comedy value I prefer Bob's death.

"In death a member of project Mayhem has a name. His name was Robert Paulsen"

Post by **[Syl]** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:38 pm

That was good, of course, but I gotta say the smoke ring trumps it.

Post by **matrixman** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:33 am

My #1 pick would have to be Boromir's death in FotR. Every THUNK! of the arrows into Boromir's chest was devastating.

danlo also mentioned another all-time favorite, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Not only a great final death scene, but one of the greatest movie endings ever.

Lord Foul wrote:My favorite: Roy Batty's death in Blade Runner

Boromir's was the more visceral death scene, but Batty's death affected me just as much in its own way. It's a more "poetic" death I guess.

Fist and Faith wrote:That lady drowning in The Abyss. *shudder*

I'm trying to remember that scene but can't. Haven't seen that film in a long time...

Menolly wrote:the "death" of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey...

...and the second death of HAL in 2010 is great, too. And it's a far "nobler" kind of death. He truly went out with a bang. (Oops, did I spoil the movie? Heh.)

Gunslinger wrote:Spock in STII

The Detective falling down the Stairs and being killed in Psycho!!!

Toth in RotLA...the BEST EVER

Great choices!

Although...how can you mention the detective in Psycho but not the SHOWER SCENE?

Okay, even though I hate Alien 3, I have to admit that Ripley's immolation was a great moment.

I also thought Neo's death in Matrix Revolutions was a good one, even if many felt that the movie itself was DOA. (I also hated the film at first.)

Post by **balon!** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:38 am

Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

Post by **Cail** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:31 pm

Balon wrote:Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea

Post by **The Dreaming** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:57 pm

Now I think I actually want to see this movie. There is another thread entirely. Who can watch a bad movie and think it's fun? Are some movies terrible and fun and some just terrible? Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and The Creeping Terror are so aweful you just can't help but enjoy them.

Could anyone have fun watching Gigli?

Post by **Marv** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:14 pm

Sgt. Alias in platoon.

Post by **balon!** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:01 pm

Cail,

Excellent.

Post by **ItisWritten** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:55 am

The Dreaming wrote:Now I think I actually want to see this movie. There is another thread entirely. Who can watch a bad movie and think it's fun? Are some movies terrible and fun and some just terrible? Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and The Creeping Terror are so aweful you just can't help but enjoy them.

Could anyone have fun watching Gigli?

Never seen that one, but my wife watches bad movies on SciFi because they are. She does draw the line, but I couldn't tell you where that is.

Post by **The Dreaming** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:10 am

Hehe, I kinda wanna see "Mansquito". Sounds JUST like the movies they lampoon on Mystery Science Theater 3000. (One of my favorite shows ever)

Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:36 pm

Gandalf the Grey

Post by **Orlion** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:51 pm

Hmm...it's a shame I don't remember names of characters in film, but here we go:

-Romero's Day of the Dead, towards the end where the guy gets his head torn off by zombies. Proof that CGI is not needed for an awesome head ripping off scene.
-Same movie, but with the over-acting commander's legs getting torn off and his last words being, "Choke on it...choke on it...."
-Romero's Dawn of the Dead, when the blonde character succumbs to the zombie bite and his friend needs to shoot him in the head. A very touching scene...
-Zombie 2 (are we seeing a theme, yet?)- when that one chick is dragged through a door by a zombie and her eye gets impaled by a piece of wood in the process.
-Romero's Night of the Living Dead:

Spoiler

When Ben gets shot in the head at the end by the redneck, what an ending!

Spoiler

Also, when Barbara gets it has always been haunting to me...

And now for some non-zombie films:
Sunshine: When the captain stays behind to fix the shielding and accepts his fate with dignity.
Same movie: Where the engineer is trying to fix the mainframe and is constantly emerging himself in the coolant to do so, but gets his leg caught and crushed in the process.
Gran Torino: "Anyone got a light? Well, I got a light..."
Predator: All the deaths were awesome.
Hang 'Em High: The scene where the young men are hanged is very moving.
High Plains Drifter: Any scene involving a whip killing a guy... (*shiver*)

That's all I can think of right now...

Post by **Montresor** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:06 pm

Awesome picks, Orlion!

Day of the Dead has to have one of the greatest film climaxes ever, from the moment the zombie horde pours over the loading platform to the death of the Captain.

Zombie 2, like most Fulci movies has a mix of superb gore, and really lame deaths. The one you mention is just gold, though.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:21 pm

The Russian in Snatch.

Post by **aTOMiC** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:41 pm

Everyone (literally) in On The Beach

Post by **danlo** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:46 pm

True...now I'm going to have "Waltzing Matilda" stuck in my head all day."

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:31 pm

The pet dog in National Lampoon's Vacation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Wc92bFiZk

Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:48 pm

Anju in Sansho the Bailiff

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:34 pm

danlo wrote:John Goodman's death in Raising Arizona-priceless.

The death you're referring to is of the biker/bounty hunter Leonard Smalls, who was played by Randall 'Tex' Cobb, not John Goodman. I do agree the scene was priceless, though!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWnsDgiSrs

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