OT: Your favorite movie deaths
Having just come back from an office team building screening of John Wick 3, and watching him dispatch of Boban in a fairly unique fashion, I started thinking about great movie deaths.
I have always been personally partial to the campier deaths of the Bond series. The Kananga balloon complete with pigeon double take has always ranked highly with me. Mostly for the incoherently campy glory of it
Original predator had some good deaths.
When the dude blew up in scanners.
I dunno if it was the best, but I didn't sleep that night (I was a kid).
Michael Ironside gets it coming and going...
Scanners is hard to beat, but Richter’s demise in Total Recall is nearly as indelible.
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easy. Hans Gruber off the Nakatomi Plaza
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Ditto
When Edward Longshanks throws his son's boyfriend out the window after telling him he's "skilled in the art of war and 'militry' tactics". Classic.
Let me know what you think of this situation. You win. That was the best death. Not important to the plot, and didn’t bother longshanks in the slightest. Great point sir. Well done
Sonny Corleone went down quickly and brutally, exactly how he lived. There are a few good ones in the GF series.
Dude absorbed about 200 rounds before he went down. It was brutal, but it sure as hell wasn't quick.
Moe Greene's death was a model of efficiency. One shot to the eye, but waited for him to put on his glasses first. That's class.
Honorable mention is Barzini, for making the most out of all the steps in front of the church.
“Quickly” was a bad choice of words. Abruptly. Brutal and abrupt.
Probably Moonlight Graham. Had it coming.
#2: Maizen
Wut?
My dignity, that died while watching some Katherine Heigl Rom com
Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea. May be the biggest “WTF just happened death” I’ve ever seen in a movie.
Randy Quaid in Independence Day. May be one of the most badass deaths ever. HELLO BOYS!! I’M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!
William Wallace in Braveheart. Woefully inaccurate movie, but a great scene.
Lastly, while not a famous scene, Boromir in FOTR. Well done scene. “Would’ve followed you, my brother. My captain. My king.”
Haha- yes that was fantastic.
Joffrey from GOT. Most satisfying death I can think of
Ramsay was far more satisfying, in my mind. Roose even warned him about his brutality coming back to bite him. “If you acquire a reputation as a mad dog, you'll be treated as one. Taken out back and slaughtered for pig feed.”
I suppose he was more dog feed, but Ramsay’s death was very much poetic justice, given how many of his victims died from being eaten alive by his hounds.
Yes, also a very satisfying death. ‘The Bolton’s eat their own’ was my takeaway after seeing how the story of that house played out.
While I loved the dispatching of Joffrey and Ramsay, I didn't count them since the question was about movies.
Jason X
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
My Girl
any of the deaths in those movies
funniest death is the Aunt in national lampoons vacation
"A dead person breathed on me!"
Raiders when that Nazi dude's face melts. HANDS. DOWN.
You win the internets today.
That’s probably it. I did like Goose’s ejection death in Top Gun.
The melted guy in RoboCop that drove into the nuclear waste. Clarence Boddicker knows him.
The guy who could cut thru his arm with time to spare or cut thru handcuffs a minute after the bomb goes off in Mad Max.
"Say hello to my little friend!"
Also the less appreciated "Choot dat pizza chit" when he orders Manny to kill Frank.
Messala (Stephen Boyd) in Ben-Hur.
I had it rough when I bit the dust
You got it way worse in Casino than Goodfellas.
Awww man—that was tough to watch. Making him watch his brother get piñata’d, then buried in the same hole alive.
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner was an amazing movie death.
His death soliloquy is a favorite and so well delivered.
Any death associated with the Wilhelm Scream gets a major bump in the rankings.
Never knew this was a thing. Amazing how often that has been used.
The warden taking himself out in "Shawshank".
Magua getting it at the end of "Last of the Mohicans".
These are excellent choices.
I'd add Mike killing Sollozzo and McCluskey was one of the greatest assassination scenes of all-time, because it showed you just how badly a novice killer can screw-up a simple plan.
Marvin's death in Pulp Fiction is one of the only killings that made me laugh almost uncontrollably.
Not technically a death, but Eminem killing that dude in the last rap battle of 8 Mile was one of the most satisfying defeats of a villain in movie history.
Opening scene in Scream. Horror at its finest.
Terminator 2 when that bastard melts and cycles through all of the characters.
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man explosion...he was clearly no longer smiling.
Road House, when Swayze rips that dude’s throat out.
A few decent deaths.
Oh, Leia choking out Jabba was satisfying. So were the next couple clips of her running around in that metal bikini...
Eowyn taking out the Witch King.
Michael Biehn in The Abyss
John Lithgow in Ricochet
The German soldier in “Saving Private Ryan” who reappeared after being set free halfway through the movie.
Wrong. Band of Brothers (AWESOME) was an HBO series. Soldier you're referencing was in Saving Private Ryan.
Yep. I was moving too fast tonight - prepping for the drinking thread - thanks for the course correction.
1. Woody Hayes punching a kid
2. Tressel cheating
3. Meyer lying
Wait, this isn't the "Best coaching career deaths" thread?
I wanted to upvote this, but I didn't know who to go to with the information.
The only time my mom ever paid attention to football when I was a kid is when Woody Hayes was choking that player.