Best Deaths In Cinema: Spoilers Tagged
Submitted by grandpa_chum on Mon, 02/07/2005 - 02:56
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- Once Upon A Time... The Revolution
- Coburn's big bang death
- Conan The Barbarian
- Conan's Mother's head being chopped off by James Earl Jones no look turn around strike
- Cross Of Iron
- Slow motion operatic massacre of steiner's entire platoon, who were shot by none other than their own soldiers, and it was intentional
- Cross Of Iron
- When Steiner shoots the man responsible for the death of his whole platoon, also a captain of the army steiner himself is fighting under... he fills him with about 100 bullets from an automatic
- Once Upon A Time In The West
MY FAVORITE:
Morton's pacific ocean/mud puddle death- Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
- Warren Oates death
- Hard To Kill
- A henchmen's death by half a cue stick to the throat, "that's for my wife, now f**k you and die" and a kick to the head by Seagal
- Red Dawn
- Charlie Sheen, mortally wounded, being carried off in the snow by his brother
- Mystic River
- Dave Boyle's(tim robbins) death
- Quien Sabe?
- El Gringo's death "why must you kill me?"... "quien sabe"
- Adventure
- Mudgin's starry death
- The Cowboys(don't remember it that well, just remembered it was good)
- John Waynes death
- Traffic
- Luis Guzman's exploding car death
- A Reason To Live, A Reason To Die
- Major Ward's death
- Keoma
- Keoma's Father's execution, best use of slo-motion by anyone not named peckinpah
- Easy Rider
- The end
- Once Upon A Time In America
- Dominic's "I Slipped" death
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Frank's shootout death
- Network
- When Howard Beale is gunned down at the beginning of his final show, he was "the first man ever killed because he had bad ratings"
- Saving Private Ryan
- When Mellish(the jewish guy) gets stabbed with Upham scared stiff on the stairs
- Ride The High Country
- Steve Judd is gunned down just as the music blares and the credits roll
- Touch Of Evil
- Sargeant Menzies shot by Hank on the bridge
- Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
MOST MOVING:
_Slim Picken's death by the waterhole to Dylan's "knockin on heavens door"(i actually prefer the version on the director's cut without the lyrics present)- Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
- The man with the knife, who falls backwards in a chair, in slo-mo
- Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
- The preaching deputy get's blown away by billy's dimes
- Goodfellas
- Tommy's being made "oh no" death
- The Great Escape
- Guy trying to climb over the fence and through the barbed wire
- Day Of The Dead
- Captain Roads(Joe Pilato)'s death, all the way from bub shooting him a few times, walking, side to the wall, screaming NOOO! all the way to being literally ripped in half by zombies with actual human organs being used as the special effects(the story goes the fridge they were kept in for weeks got unplugged, so the look on his face is pretty genuine)... but the best part is when he screams "CHOKE ON EM!!"
- Dawn Of The Dead
- Roger's death, then resurection, then death all perfectly playing out with the completely sane lunatic screaming about how to solve the problem on the television in the background... "We are down to the line, folks, this is down to the line!"
- The Night Of The Living Dead
- The hero survives, then gets mistaken for a zombie... "get him in the head, nice shot"
- Day Of The Dead
- Rickles going crazy hooting and hollering, enjoying being ripped apart by zombies way too much
- Navajo Joe
- Joe gets taken down just as he throws a tomahawk into Duncan's skull, followed buy a touching scene where he sends the horse back to town with the cash.
Even though the title makes it obvious there are spoilers, you might want to consider using the SPOILER tag anyway, for when your updates show up on the "recent activity" page. It also makes it possible for those of us who want to see which movies contain your favorite deaths without actually having any movies ruined to look at the list. For example, I don't want to look at this list because I don't know what's on it.
i see... good point, never thought of that... sometimes I forget i'm the only one who thinks spoilers are stupid and people are paranoid.
You mean to say you really don't mind when somebody gives away key plot points to movie you haven't seen yet?
Thanks for making the updates!
no i don't mind... a movie that is only good when you don't have a clue whats going on is a movie not worth seeing.
I loved this particular death scene in LOTR:The fellowship of the Rings... Towards the end as the army marches in search of Frodo, there's this bearded guy (Sorry to all...I DONT KNOW ANYTING ABOUT THE TRILOGY AT ALL. Least of all the characters) who comes to rescue at the end moment and starts valiantly killing everybody but then gets shot by whom I am going to call the Boss (My apologies again, my knowledge of LOTR sucks)(hes this ugly ugly looking guy with tons of Hydra-like hair popping out, with a bow and arrow) with the help of the bow and arrow. It's actaully quite moving how he gets repeatedly shot at and continues to fight. (though it sounds bloody ridiculous). And oh, its not Aragon :)
P.S.- Can anyone help me out with the characters?
yeah i remember liking that too... i'll have to see it again to add it though... it's sort of like that braveheart guy who keeps getting up... although that particular one was funnier than it was moving.
That would be Lurtz (the leader of the Uruk-hai), and the one who dies is Boromir. I truly believe this is one of the best dying scenes in cinematic history. Of course, I'm a big fan of the novel as well as the movies, though not in the fangirl "OMG Legolas is so hot!" kind of way. In any case, even thinking about that scene and the way he says "My brother, my captain, my king." Makes me choke up a bit.
Thanks :)! Now maybe I can show off my LOTR trivia...
Most of the LOTR fan following fall exactly in the category you just described. I loved the movie too... because of the strong story but.
Wait how can this list be complete without Tony Montana's death in Scarface, sure OTT it may be, but it was cool.
Oh and i was thinking maybe to inlcude Tyler Durden's Death in Fight Club
never seen scarface, and i don't recall any deaths i liked from fight club.