Favorite Death Scene

[grim_fist]

Well, I'm sitting here dying from the flu, and up popped this thought of what my favorite death scene in a movie has been.
For me it has to be when Steven Seagal died in that movie with Kurt Russel. Damn, I can't remember the name of that movie, but when that A-hole got killed off halfway through the movie, I actually cried tears of joy!
Well, what's your favorite death scene from a movie?

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"One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only truth."

[Blofeld]

John Cassevettes from The Fury
Not due to any emotional content, but the first time I said 'Oh, Shit!' at a special effect...

[Nick Nunziata]

Brad Pitt-Meet Joe Black

[LowShot]

In addition to my first choice which is Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, I would have to say the flunkie in Thunderball. The one where Bond is lying on the beach with Domino and she sees the flunkie approaching with intent to kill and James, noticing her apprehension, spins around and shoots the harpoon in the guys chest and says...

"I think he got the point"

Priceless.

[Faust]

Linnea Quigley in Witch Trap. Naked in the shower, she takes a shower head in he throat. Made a REALLY big hole, I was impressed. It is more tasteful than it sounds, really.

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Look upon me, for I am the beast

[John Makarewicz]

In Zombie one of the undead slowly and methodically pulls a really hot girls eye slowly into a jagged piece of broken wood on the door he just broke through.

I like it Mr. Banavanstancheano.

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John Makarewicz by name, Duron Jackson by reputation - in effect in the year 2000 running on the strength of the doo rag
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[Steve Murphy]

The death of Darth Vader in 'Return of the Jedi' is my favorite death scene. Very classily done. Also equally classy was the death of Nuclear Man in 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. What a tearjerker!

[MOX]

Tim Roth in Res Dogs. 2 hr death scene= great

The undead in Day of the Dead that walks into the helicopter blades and any head exploder from scanners.

That dudes brother in "very bad things" that gets smushed into the van

Holly Hunter in A life less ordinary stuck tothe hood of that car

Last but not least....Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black.......that was just great

http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif MoX

[grendel]

Recently, BOTH of the death scenes in Run Lola Run. Previously, the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Melting flesh makes me hungry.

[MOX]

this topics has a special place in my heart

all of the deaths in Saving private Ryan...especially Ribisi and then that guy with the knife up in the room at the end, gut wrentching trully.

that one guy sliding down the impalement stick during the opening scenes of Bram Stokers Dracula..hes like holding the stick and still sliding down it...woo hooo http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif

I am a sick puppy


more to come as I think of them

MoX

[Darth Bigglesworth]

Hey Faust, that reminds me of Linnea Quigley's death scene in Silent Night, Deadly Night where she's impaled, while topless, on a pair of deer antlers mounted on a wall by the killer Santa Claus. Good ol eighties misogynist slasher fun!

Also, in the interests of equality, I always liked Crispin Glovers death scene in Friday the 13: The Final Chapter with the corksrew through the hand and the meat cleaver in the face. Ouch!

[grim_fist]

I almost forgot about that scene in Pulp Fiction where Travolta, Jackson and that guy from Mad T.V are in the car and he gets his head blown apart by Travolta.
I also have to agree about Brad Pitt's death-scene in MJB.


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"One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only truth."

[Johnny Leche]

doh! i bought the wifey meet joe black for christmas and never watched it. now i goota check it out

[Blofeld]

I hope I don't ruin the movie for you when I say, "Pitt dies in it."

[Lucky37D]

Hey Grim that movie you were thinking of was Executive Decision. One of my favorite death scenes was also in Pulp Fiction, when Bruce Willis walks in to his apartment and starts making the pop tart then sees the gun sitting on his counter. Travolta walks out of his bathroom and when the pop tart comes up its bye bye for John.

[Faust]

John: You forgot to mention how after she gets the splinter in the eye, the zombie jerks her head and breaks the damn thing off in her eye socket http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif

Darth: Lets not foreget Linnea's naked deaths in Return of the Living Dead, Creepazoids, and Pumpkinhead 2 (while she was straddling R.H. Milahoff [sp?] aka Leatherface). She is the reigning queen of the naked death http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif

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Look upon me, for I am the beast

[chill-o-rama]

The girl swimming naked out in the ocean at the beginning of Jaws and John Hurt's chest bursting open in Alien. Those are two champion ways to get your ticket punched.

Oh, and James Earl Jones in Conan the Barbarian -- my first decapitation.

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[grim_fist]

Oh yeah, thanks Lucky, I've been racking my brain trying to remember the name of that movie.

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"One owes respect to the living. To the dead, one owes only truth."

[generalzod]

All of those are great mentions, but how in the name of james T. Kirk could u movie geeks forget Spock's death in "Star Trek 2"? Every time i watch it, a lump gets in my throat and well,... its just Trek at its finest.
Darth Maul getting hacked in two.
Tom hanks in "Saving Private Ryan"
Gary Busey in "Lethal Weapon"
John Wayne in "The Cowboys"
ET in "ET"
Robert Shaw, Cap'm Quint in "JAWS"
The Ark being opened at the end of "Raiders..."
Sigourney Weaver in "Alien 3", lousy flick, but great scence.
Klingon Captain Kruge in "ST3"
Ben Kenobi in "Star Wars"
more later......................

[generalzod]

Hey Grim, that flick was "Executive Decision". Didn't see Segall getting wacked in that movie at all!!!!!!!!!

[PsychoThespian]

Powder in "Powder"... was that really a death scene though? I dunno if turning into an energy field counts

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[Carl Cunningham]

Gotta agree on Brad Pitt in "Meet Joe Black". I own the DVD for that scene alone http://www.chud.com/board/ubbhtml/smile.gif



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[S-Mart Ash]

I love the sceen in that movie where DJEvil is sitting in his beanbag chair, hese got his laptop in his lap you know, but he doesnt see the wierd guy come in the back door, ya know, so the wierd guy like cuts the phone wire to DJ's laptop and it crashes his download so DJ turns around and is like "what the fuck" just as the wierd guy slashes his throught from ear to ear.

Man that was a cool sceen, I love that movie.... umm..... ooops.... heh heh.... ahhh.....

[DJEvil]

hese (n): very admired person
wierd (adj): obscenely bloated person with a large forehead
throught (n): Daniel Clayton's throat

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[matt]

De Niro in Heat is pretty cool.

"Told you I'm never goin' back..."

Matt

[Micah Robinson]

Jean Reno and Gary Oldman at the same time in The Professional......

[Coyote]

Practically ANY scene with Death in it...oh, we're talking film, not Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman?

TV: John Sheridan's death in B5.
Londo's death in B5.


Film: Death by Shrubbery in Evil Dead.
Death by bus collision in Cemetary Man.
The Green Knight in Monty Python & The Holy Grail.
Boba Fett in...oh, wait... he's not dead.

[grendel]

Michael Corleone's death in Godfather III, and DeNiro's gunning down of the low-rent godfather in Godfather II.

Travolta buying it from the silenced machine gun in 'Pulp Fiction'...

Leon at the end of 'The Professional'...

And last but not least, one of the best and most suspenseful death scenes of all time...

Mr. Blond.

'Nuff said.

[grendel]

Oh, and 'Amadeus', composing his last symphony with F. Murray.

[GhostInTheMachine]

Tony Montana in Scarface.

[Johnny Leche]

ok, just checked out meet hank black. that was really well done. i hadda watch it over and over again. the wife finally left cause she couldn't take anymore.

[Kinjo]

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[james tiberius kirk]

When Spock dies in Star Trek 2 is the best death scene followed closely by Darth Vader's. Spock was more emotional at the time. As you look back at "Return of the Jedi" you realize the end of an era. I was a little naive to that when I was ten years old. Now, it is more emotional when I watch it.

Jim

"Don't grieve Admiral, the needs of the many outweigh."....."The needs of the few".."Or the one. I have been and always shall be....your friend. Live long and prosper."

[PsychoThespian]

when brad pitt kills the guy at the end of seven... not because he killed him but because of the box.

[Spike Marshall]

"klaatu barata niktu"

Just thought I better resurrect this thread.... just cos' I could...

Anyways....

The yakuza boss in Gozu who gets impaled on the spatula wedged in his ass...

The captain from Event Horizon who rips out his own eyeballs.

Franks second death in Hellraiser.... "Jesus Wept"

[Dragon Ma]

Hans Gruber in Die Hard

Shaun's stepdad in Shaun of the Dead. For a movie that's supposed to be a comedy, it's actually quite touching.

Doc Ock in Spiderman 2.

The lady assassins complete mutilation of a Yagyu in Lone wolf and cub 2.

[Matt Ocallaghan]

ROBOCOP:
Murphy getting the piss shot out of him by the gang of no-goods.
One of those very same no-goods getting smooshed by a car after being tainted by radioactive waste.

Big Trouble IN Little China:
The Elemental (earth?) who blows himself up in a puff of vegetables.

The Thing:
The dude on the operating theatre table whose chest collapses, and head removes itself.

That guy in Saving Private Ryan who gets shot in the helmet which saves him, removes the helmet in utter amazement, then gets shot in the head again and dies.

The Shark in the first Jaws.

John Lennons death in "Imagine". I honestly didnt see it coming.

[Milkyway]

Murphy in Robocop ya.

David Caruso getting both barrels in the face in King of New York.

All the kills in Miller's Crossing.

You guys have come up with some great ones so far.

Oh also, that guy flying head first into the coffee table in Lost Highway.

Slater shooting Oldman in the face in True Romance, and in the deleted scenes a dog getting shotgun'd by Oldman, man i wish they would have left that in the movie.

[Jon_Snow]

From the greatest Western ever, Lonesome Dove, the death of Augustus McCrae (played by Robert Duvall) is the best I've seen. The interplay between two longtime partners, Tommy Lee Jones and Duvall, is pure magic.

[Jim Pappas/Jabba]

Dizzy's death in "Starship Troopers, " especially her last words "I got to have you." Tears form everytime I see it.

[Sour Lemon Pie]

all of the deaths in Saving private Ryan...especially Ribisi and then that guy with the knife up in the room at the end, gut wrentching trully.

MoX

These two were good.

I have to add....

The photographer's decapitation in "The Omen", and father Brennan's death in the same movie.

[Gabriel Williams]

Most farcical death scene:
Gerard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac: for christs sake DIE!

Most ridiculous:
Death by corn on the cob: Sleepwalkers (1992). Cornholed! Has to be seen to be believed.

[Kriegaffe]

I thought Boromirs death in FOTR was good. Sean Bean rocks, so I was sad when he died.

[BobClark]

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[Dragon Ma]

For some reason, at the end of Switchblade Sisters where the woman with the eyepatch gets knifed to death, I always found that scene disturbing, it's stayed with me ever since.

Fonda's death at the end of Once upon a time in the west.

[xbutterx]

I think I would vote for Denethor in ROTK
First you're set on fire,
Then you realize you are crazy,
Then you jump off a 1/2 mile high castle...still on fire...
THEN you land on an army of evil orcs with weapons and spikes and shit....

I love Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malick) on a missle, through a building, into a helicopter, in True Lies, aka "You're Fired"

Death by Tree Rape in Evil Dead

Ditto on Murphy in Robocop

Friday the 13th (i forget which one) Girl in Sleeping Bag slammed against a tree = Happy :)

[TheCynic]

Well, I'm sitting here dying from the flu, and up popped this thought of what my favorite death scene in a movie has been.
For me it has to be when Steven Seagal died in that movie with Kurt Russel. Damn, I can't remember the name of that movie, but when that A-hole got killed off halfway through the movie, I actually cried tears of joy!

executive decision.

some that spring to mind are ned's death in life aquatic, detective vincennes death in la confidential, ripley's death in alien 3, and of course, lance henrikson's death in hard target.

[Ravi]

The Nazi's end in Raiders; Belloq, Toht and Dietrich melt before our eyes.

The Arab swordsman shooting as well.

The Thuggee getting hanged by the fan in Temple of Doom.

Emperor in Return of the Jedi.

Second John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.

- Al Pacino in Scarface.

- Yappet Kotto exploding in Live and Let Die; it's just hilarious seeing his obvious dummy double go exploding out of the water

- J.T. Walsh in Breakdown

- the orchestra of deaths in the climaxes of all three Godfathers

- the villain from The Dead Pool; forget his name since the movie it'self wasn't good but it was awesome when Clint harpoons the fucker to the wall.

[Greg Clark]

Fonda's death at the end of Once upon a time in the west.

It took over five years for someone to mention this one? For shame! ;)

[moovyphreak]

Kevin Spacey in L.A. Confidential

Joe Morton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Jack Nicholson in Batman

Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Al Pacino in Carlito's Way

More as I think of them...

[Lee Harvey Cobblepot]

Cyrus the Virus in Con Air.
Blonde girl in Final Destination catches a bus. "You can all DROP FUCKING DEAD!" *WHAM!*
I also love Brando's death scene in Godfather

How does Pitt buy it in Joe Black? I don't rightly recall.

[Randolph Carter]

lance henrikson's death in hard target.

Is this the one where Jean Claude van-Damme shoves a handgrenade in his pants?
Funny!:D

[xbutterx]

I forgot to mention:

Chris Kattan in Undercover Brother: falling from a helicopter from pretty high up. Then, just when you think "awe, he just falls off," a giant cgi shark jumps out of the water and swallows him whole.

Oh and speaking of shark deaths, what about the death of the shark that attached itself to Adam West's leg in Batman?

[Sharpel007]

not mentioned

when Alice Monroe and Uncas fall of the cliff, helped by one of great scores of the 90's, then Mugua shortly after

actually Michael Mann has two more already mentioned Deniro and Cruise

not really a death scence but a prelude, the scence of Bella with the flower in Ed Wood

surprised Mufasa hasnt been mentioned, The Lion King

when Pesci gets its in Goodfellas, more becuse of DeNiros reaction

also not on screen but when Duvall in THX 1138 sees LUH 3417 on the new fetus

also Diana Rigg in OHMSS

My top three

#1 Jean Reno taking Oldman out in Leon

#2 Spock Wrath of Kahn

#3 Deniro in Heat

[Grace]

"Corn Nuts!"

[Dragon Ma]

Pesci in Casino, good christ was that brutal.

Bill McKinney in Outlaw Josey Wales mainly because of how it was built up.

William H Macy in Boogie Nights mainly because it was so sudden and the movie completely changed after that.

Chow Yun Fat at the end of The Killer.

Robert Prosky at the end of Thief, so glad to see that old bastard get it.

Clive Owen in The Bourne Identity "Look at what they make you give"

[Samurai Mike]

Bad Taste: The alien leader's gruesomely hilarious death at the hands of a chainsaw-wielding Derek (Peter Jackson). "Suck my spinning steel, shithead!!"

[Grofield]

The most spoiler-heavy thread on this site. Proceed at your own risk.

WALTER HILL JERK-CABLE DEATH SCENES
If you've seen a Walter Hill movie you know what I'm talking about. When someone gets shot, flies ten feet in the air and two miles down the road...only to crash through three panes of glass.

The Best:

Ed O' Ross, Brion James and the biker dude who plays Cherry Ganz - ANOTHER 48 HRS.
Ice-T, William Sadler and Bruce A. Young in TRESPASS
That idiot posse looking for the James/Younger/Miller gang in THE LONG RIDERS
The moron Bruce Dern shoots on the train in THE DRIVER
Almost the entire supporting cast of EXTREME PREJUDICE, including Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe, Matt Mulhern, Larry B. Scott and Tiny Lister (no glass here, but it's still hilarious)
Patrick Kilpatrick, R.D. Call and most of the extras in LAST MAN STANDING

[Dragon Ma]

Forgot one:

The death of Conan's mother in Conan the Barbarian. That scene is just perfectly shot and edited.

[xbutterx]

Forgot one:

The death of Conan's mother in Conan the Barbarian. That scene is just perfectly shot and edited.

I can't believe I didnt mention it, or did I?
I guess it was another thread but you are right, THIS is my #1!
What makes it so great?
First, the circumstance. His father just died, his mother was the only adult left in the village.
Second, the set up of Thulsa Doom's men looking on and the fact that Thulsa looked so friendly and forgiving as he holds Conan's father's sword, turning slowly... The (best ever) soundtrack swells in anticipation, and then slice!
Cut to the perfect angle shot of Conan holding his mother's dead hand as her head falls and her body follows, with Conan staring into his empty hand and then Conan's POV shot while Doom looks at how well constructed his father's sword is with irreverence towards the orphan he has just created.
Then the chanting choir filled soundtrack settles softly showing Conan's confusion and realization the he is alone and Thulsa is the reason for this. This murder plants the seed of revenge that will culminate in the similar execution of his pseudo-psycho-surrogate father.

I think the soundtrack adds more to this scene than any other factor, since there is no dialog. But yeah, this is my favorite scene ever. thanks for the reminder i guess i was looking at more funny deaths than dramatic deaths.

[Graham]

The death of 'The Tapeworm' in Irreversible; best fire extinguisher to frontal-lobe action ever put on celluloid...
And the appreciation factor rising ten-fold on watching the film a second time, and realising that the guy having his head reduced to pancake thinness wasn't 'The Tapeworm' in the first place.

[phoenix6296]

-Uma Thurman scalping Lucy Lui in Kill Bill.
-The end of Tears Of The Sun when the Navy SEALs where getting killed
-The SWAT team in The Relic

[Nexus-6]

Gary Oldman is State of Grace...
Very sad and Oldman falls great too.

[AngoraSweater]

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I always thought Kristy Swanson decapitating the 'OWEN!' lady with a basketball in DEADLY FRIEND was a great death scene... even if the movie wasn't.

beebee?

I can't believe how awesome the JOE BLACK'S MEET death was. A small group of girls left crying when that hit. Never heard an audience laugh so nervously. It actually looked like they hit a real guy.



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[teledork]

Some damn fine choices here. I can't argue with MJB, because it's one of my faves, too. Same with Se7en. But my number one has got to be Bruce Dern shooting John Wayne in the back in front of young boys in "The Cowboys". Damn....that made me insane the first time I watched it.

You just don't shoot the Duke in the back. It's not done.

The fucker.

[Daimajin]

I got three off the top of my head:

1. Death of Timmons--Dances With Wolves You've got a great character set up as both comic relief as well as the World's Most Disgusting Human Being. He gets attacked by an angry Wes Studi in warpaint, and instead of pleading for his life, he begs his attackers not to hurt his mules. I don't know if it's because of the writing, or Robert Pastorelli's performance, or whatever, but the line gives me shivers every time I watch this scene.

2. Death of Malone--The Untouchables How do you win an Academy Award? Simple, you get the best lines in the script, and then give your character a great, operatic death. Also, you have to be Sean Connery, who is 500% more man than any of us mere mortals.

3. Death of Braz--The Core Delroy Lindo needs more love, and I'm embarassed to say that I enjoy this stupid movie. Still, I love the quiet dignity Lindo gives to his character as he meets his end.

Just thought of another one...

4. Death of Everybody--Glory Because this movie is better than you or me.

[El Topo]

Steve Buscemi's heart attack in Big Lebowski. "Donny was a surfer...."

Johnny Depp in Dead Man. The longest agony in the history of cinema.