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
Commodus was such a despicable character, and he died such a fitting death at the hands of Maximus, who then died an appropriately tragic death. “Are you not entertained?” Also one of my favorite movie lines.
Check out the death scene from the 1974 film Karate Girl. It's pretty famous.
Just watched it, AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
khan (from hell's heart i stab at thee) and spock (sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one)
wile e. coyote (any of 10,000 times)
greg nedermeyer (killed by his own troops)
yukon corrnelius and the snow monster (fake out!)
the shark in jaws (smile you son of a....boom!!)
Chrissy getting eaten alive in Jaws was pretty memorable too. Her stripping on the way to the beach, her entering the water, she was pretty memorable to me as a young kid period.
This one from 1938 has been considered a classic.
Most everything in the toxic avenger
Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove is pretty impressive!
I was going to say this.
Girl getting face smashed into the side of the rv in Friday the 13th 6
The Horse in The Godfather
Shocking
Wicked Witch of the West.
Bitch.
Kevin Spacey's character in LA Confidential
I probably enjoy all of the Death Wish movies a bit too much.
I love that Harry Dean Stanton is dressed in clothes you fully expect to see him wearing when you run into him at the grocery store.
Okay, yea, this is actually the answer. Ignore my post.
I prefer the Spaceballs version.
Alien?! Ooop Don just posted a much better version of this answer.
How about the wood chipper scene in Fargo?
Any kill in Zombieland.
The lawyer on the toilet in Jurassic Park. They have made Rexy a somewhat good guy in the newer ones but that was really the first time you actually wanted the T rex to win.
Maximus Decimus Meridius Gladiator
Jules Winfield - Anyone he took out in Pulp Fiction, like Brett.
By favorite, I mean cringey/memorable (as opposed to being satisfied a character died).
In no particular order:
Quint in Jaws—slow, deliberate, and just horrifying. Even more so when you remember his character survived the USS Indianapolis. This haunted me as a kid.
Mellish in Saving Private Ryan—another slow, deliberate, tough to watch one. Looked like he was winning the fight until the end. Made worse by Upham turtling and the German shit-talking him as he killed him.
Sgt. Elias in Platoon—magnificently filmed and acted. The desperation in his running, the panic on the unflappable Barnes’ face.
Peterson in The Green Berets. While a little campy now, young me was devastated.
The entire final shoutout scene in Unforgiven. Some of the best dialogue of all time. Clint walks in, dragging his gigantic balls, and asks “Who’s the fella that owns this shithole?” Then methodically eliminates the minor league posse...
...while saving Little Bill for last (unless you count the unfortunate fellow he casually dispatches on his way out)...all while calmly accommodating WW Beauchamp’s curiosities.
And Prince Oberyn Martell spiking the ball on the one yard line...
Gosh! Those are some good ones. I’ll go with Jaws and Platoon on your list.
Meet Joe Black...Brad Pitt going down.
Just a few random ones that come to mind...
Joker from the original Batman (the look on his face, the "laughing")
Cary Elwes character in Twister
The Six-Fingered Man
That Russian guy at the end of The Equalizer
Johnny Depp's character in Nightmare on Elm Street
Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
Leon in The Professional
Radio Raheem in Do The Right Thing
Nick (Christopher Walken) in Deer Hunter
Cape Fear when DeNiro stares down Nolte til the bitter end. Disturbing.
Disturbing, yes, but also deeply satisfying.
Love that movie!
Nitty in The Untouchables, which was capped by Ness' comment a few minutes later that, "He's in the car."
Wizard of Oz:
Wicked witch of the West ( I'm melting )!!!
Tony Montana in Scarface
"You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting, melting...ohhhhh, what a world, what a world. Who woulda thought that a little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness??"
Best liquidation ever.
The meltdown of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Bond, after having his way with a female adversary, making her get ready to go out, only to deliver her at the door to the police. Then he waits for his would be assassin: "That's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had you're six."
When the cat gets it in Christmas Vacation...
Have to add another one: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. “Blondie” sends Angel Eyes to his grave (along with his hat and pistol). Greatest movie ever.
The Mexican standoff at the end of GBU is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. No dialogue, just great music and cool editing with those tight shots of their faces tells such a compelling story so economically.
Leonard "Private Pyle" Lawrence - Full Metal Jacket
The Sergeant Hartman/Private Pyle death scene in the bathroom in Full Metal Jacket.
Pluto's death in One False Move. Because I think its the most lifelike death.
Underrated movie too. Good script and Paxton is excellent.
Quinn in Jaws was a good one.
Watching Michael Corleone get revenge as a non soldier in Godfather was pretty satisfying.
Niedermeyer’s Horse in Animal House was fun.
Charlie Sheen killing Tom Berenger in Platoon was the right thing to do.
Donny the Bear Jew Inglorious Bastards was a graphic baseball bat scene
All the Russians in Top Gun
Who wouldn’t like to go out like my boy Blue
All time best was a Dirty Harry “do you feel lucky punk?”
Kill Bill: Volume 1 has some pretty impressive deaths in the Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves.
Sean Bean character impaled in Patriot Games.
The shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho also deserves mention.
When Han Solo shot Greedo, original version where Han shoots first.
Not a better or more badass way to introduce a major character in the film.