It's official: more actors need to die. Debra Winger figuratively kicking the bucket in Terms of Endearment, or Jimmy Durante literally kicking the bucket in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World ... Harold Sakata reaching for his unfortunately uninsulated derby in Goldfinger, Bugs Bunny grabbing for Oscar gold after being mortally wounded by Elmer Fudd in Tex Avery's short "The Wild Hare" ("It's gettin' dark, Doc ... gasp, choke"). One of my favorites: James Mason making it until daybreak during an entire movie-long death scene in Odd Man Out, or the death by, eh, inspiration in Hot Fuzz. The list goes on at Gawker.com, where a poll got a lot of people talking. Male posters aired out plenty of excuses for crying in movie theaters like whipped little girls. One correspondent has a likely explanation for shedding his unmanly tears at the end of Armageddon: "a piece of meteorite got in my eye." I know how he felt. Ambient radiation made my eyes run when Spock got broiled at the end of The Wrath of Khan. And all that Middle Earth pollen played hell with my sinuses right when Boromir keeled over, begging apology with his last breath. What's your own favorite demise? Cinematical's Monika Bartyzel lists her 7 best here, from an '07 column, mentioning one time Steven Seagal didn't pull through. Incidentally an outfit called movie deaths.com insists on that the one 100 percent rating is the demise of the pugnacious black knight (above) in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Get out the kleenex and weigh in ...
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6-29-2008 @ 4:12PM
indiedaughter said...
Tyler Durden in Fight Club, death of multiple personality
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6-30-2008 @ 2:42AM
eugene said...
+1
6-29-2008 @ 4:24PM
Premaximum said...
Honestly, I loved Billy Costigan's (DiCaprio) death in The Departed.
I loved the visceral feeling of, in that moment, realizing that everyone's life was at stake. The whole movie you kind of expect Costigan to succeed. The odds have been stacked against him the whole time, and he's just been getting beat down the whole movie. You expect there to be a moment where he gets back up from it all and triumphs.
He gets right to the brink of that success, and it's just ended abruptly and violently.
I loved it.
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6-29-2008 @ 4:42PM
D Records said...
Paul Reuben's death scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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6-29-2008 @ 5:03PM
Linda said...
Leo DeCaprio in Titanic...what a tragedy... (cinematic)
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6-29-2008 @ 5:13PM
Jonathan Kuhn said...
Only thing is...the Black Knight doesn't actually die.
http://www.slowclapchildren.blogspot.com
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6-29-2008 @ 5:15PM
Chris W said...
Paul McCrane in Robocop ftw! - hit by a car after being covered in toxic acid waste, and explodes
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6-29-2008 @ 5:16PM
AJ Wiley said...
A certain death near the end of Serenity crushes me every time.
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6-29-2008 @ 5:16PM
JOE said...
Without a doubt, some guy who got an icicle shoved in his eye iand nto his brain in Die Hard II-Die harder.
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6-29-2008 @ 6:36PM
Roy B said...
Most enjoyable death is what I like to call "Brad Pitt Pinball" in "Meet Joe Black". His being bounced back and forth by cars, trucks, vans cracks me up each time. "OMG, they killed Brad Pitt". lol
Best tearjerker death, "The Elephant Man", John Merrick (real life, Joseph Merrick, the movie had it wrong). His decision at the end of the movie to finally sleep laying down instead of while sitting up brings me to tears.
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6-29-2008 @ 7:22PM
Chupacabra said...
The Black Knight always triumphs!
Also, the best death ever is the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man.
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6-29-2008 @ 7:59PM
totoro said...
1)The shootout at the beginning of "Once Upon A Time in the West" The shootout at the end of it.
2) Arthur's death in "Excalibur".
3) Roy Batty's death in "Bladerunner".
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6-29-2008 @ 8:00PM
aaron said...
Al Pacino in Scarface..........Nuff Said!!
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6-29-2008 @ 11:26PM
Kelsey said...
I could see the saddest, most depressing film ever made and not feel sad. However, Rocky's death at the end of RHPS always gets me.
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6-30-2008 @ 3:59AM
Myles said...
both death scenes in Suspiria are great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCygUOUa4n0
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6-30-2008 @ 10:11AM
Mr. R said...
Roy Batty in Blade Runner is my favorite ever but I have a thing for Alan Rickman in Die Hard.
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6-30-2008 @ 10:11AM
10001110101 said...
Not a movie, but the suicide of Julie Warner's character in the first season of Nip/Tuck. A pill overdose, plastic bag over the face, set to "Rocket Man" with her lover looking on. Heart wrenching and acted out to perfection.
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6-30-2008 @ 10:30AM
Adam said...
The death of Mrs. Karmady in The Mist- Suffice it to say, I now consider Toby Jones a badass.
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6-30-2008 @ 8:54PM
Gary said...
The saddest death scene I have seen for a long time was
Bianca's (the sex doll) death in 'Lars and the Real Girl'. No lie, I cried lots. Very very sad.
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6-30-2008 @ 11:22PM
Paul said...
I would be remiss if I failed to mention the extended, excruciating death scene in Mel Gibsons',
The Passion of the Christ.
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