Best Death Sequence

Fidelis

I know there's been a rake of 'Best...' in the Films Board but try this one for size.

Anyway, a favourtie would be from Die Hard 2 - marine guy gets sucked into the engine intake of a 747, ouch

EvilGeorge

CUBE:

Guy enters a room and gets cut into little square chunks by some wire mesh nets!!

Dont be at yourself

The Lost Boys.... Death by stereo!

Brilliant

Lex_Diamonds

I'd say one of the best death sequences is in Platoon, when Willem Dafoes(?) character gets killed.

Or, sticking with the same genre, the final "diddy mao" scene in The Deer Hunter. Very powerful stuff.

bonkey

Rutger Hauer in the original Buffy has to be one of my favourites, for its ludicrousness.

Alternately, the entire tomb-scene in Baz Lehrman's Romeo and Juliet for pure quality.

jc

Kali

that dead guy in the bathroom in clerks.

Lemming

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
I'd say one of the best death sequences is in Platoon, when Willem Dafoes(?) character gets killed.

William DaFoe's death in Platoon DEFINITELy ranks up there as one of the highest in my opinion. At once very powerful, and also instantly recognisable as being that film.

Die Hard one isn't bad ... with whats-his-name falling to his death. The best part is the sickening *Thud* that you hear when he hits the ground .. hehehe

The T-1000 in Terminator 2 .. that death scene was pretty f-*cked up when he just starts melting all over the shop

Victor

All of them in "The Way of the Gun" (2000), but especially the old guy in the car near the Mexican brothel.

Manach

2 spring to mind:
Grosse Point Blank, where Dan Arkyrod dies on telly
or
at the end of Gladiator, when Maximus was dying in the arena.

TwoShedsJackson

Ronnie Cox in Total Recall.

Karl Hungus

The double death of Leon & Stansfield at the end of LEON.
Talk about a death scene.

Or Ripley's Death in Alien 3. Totaly under-rated in my mind.

SantaHoe

Terminator 2 - death of the T1000, liquid nitrogen, pistol, 'hasta la vista, baby'... awww classic
Also the end where the T101 lowers into the molten metal *sobb*

The end of Saving private Ryan... death of Tom Hanks charictor... some very nice camera work there... slow, fading, dream-like.

Young Guns 2 - Where Billy and the gang are trapped in that ruin of a house... Doc sacrifices himself for his 'pals' by going out shooting while the rest escape... "let's finish the game..."

So many great ones, but that's all I can think of for now.

Shiminay

The "second in command" vampire in the Buffy Film - after all the credits it goes back to him still "oooooohing and aaaahing" with a stake in his chest - absolutly mental - totally daft.

That or Tyler's death in Fight Club - you knew it was coming, but you didn't expect it that way!

adnans

a bunch of deaths from Battle Royale is quite cool, the ones i can remember are the knife in the head, the exploding neck bracelet or the pure carnage of the tmp killing students. nice.

adnans

azezil

Well he didn't die but thought it still worth a memtion, 'The Mask' (scene when he gets shot), I thought it very funny lol...

and seriously:

Gladiator, I liked it! got to see his family again, happy n sad at the same time... awww
And when the emporer died, the look of shock on his face when he stuck the knife in his neck... class

jaarius

ghost dog: way of the samurai

saving private ryan when the german kills the american by stabbing him and saying "shhhh... shhhhhh" that was harrowing stuff.

the pricess bride - count rugen and inigo montoya are fighting

inigo: hello, my name is inigo montoya. you killed my father prepare to die. hello, my name is inigo montoya. you killed my father prepare to die.

rugen: stop saying that

inigo: hello, my name is inigo montoya. you killed my father prepare to die.

rugen: NO!

inigo: offer me money

rugen: yes

inigo: offer me anything i ask for

rugen: done!

inigo: offer me anything

rugen: whatever you want

inigo (runs him through): i want my father back you son of a bitch

excellent


j

GoneShootin

every simpson halloween death is a classic

like the time zombies roamed springfield

HOMER...."take THAT flanders" [shotgun thru head]
LISA....."dad u killed the zombie flanders"
HOMER...."he was a zombie ?"

mike65

John Cassavetes going bang and the end of
Brian de Palmas' "The Fury".

Colourful!

Mike

plastic membrane

Originally posted by Castor Troy
Ronnie Cox in Total Recall.

ahahahahaha......hehehehehehehe

pure cinematic genius.

The Untouchables :

Sean Connery : Well, isnt that just like a wop. Brings a knife to a gunfight..

Sean then proceeds to be pummelled into a thousand pieces by hot lead.

Lemming

Just remembered ...

The Running Man

the electricity guy (fat bastid) who gets the chainsaw up between his legs courtesy of the big man Arnie himself .. that brought a tear to my eye hehehe

Lex_Diamonds

That chainsaw between the legs thing is in Phantasm II aswell. Wonder who copied who

BEG*

Biddy in Glenroe. ( I jest...)
I'm going to be really soppy and name Dieter Brummer in Home and Away... Oh to be fourteen again. (My last five days as a teenager)

Cake Fiend

Roy Batty in Blade Runner:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time... to die."

Moriarty

Heh, my favourite has got to be the guy getting his head blown off in the back of the car in Pulp Fiction. Absolute fcuking class

mike65

Originally posted by Sico


"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time... to die."

And written by Rutger Hauer himself!

Mike.

bashibazouk

Apologies for nominating an arguably pretentious load of twaddle but the last scene in Godard's Pierrot Le Fou is pretty funny. The lead male, Ferdinand, after knocking off his girlfriend, decides to paint his head blue and wrap several sticks of dynamite around his head. He lights the fuse, realises that he doesn't actually want to have his head blown to a squillion pieces and tries to extinguish the fuse but to no avail - KABOOM - we hear the explosion but don't see it, thank goodness. A ridiculous ending to a ridiculous movie.

Goink

Goodfellas.......joe pesci knifing yer man in boot of the car when hes tied up inside a sack.

Some quere realistic sound effects, made me wince anyway.

Lemming

Just remembered a few more ....

the death of that black guy in "American History X" - anyone who has seen that film knows EXACTLY which sequence I'm talking about. The sound is the worst part - that sickening *crunch* - gives me shivers everytime I think about it

Also .. that guy that gets the ball to the face in "RollerBall". Actually .. that film has several classic deaths in it (well .. one of them isn't a death per-se but he gets reduced to the level of cabbage)

"Hamburger Hill" - the vietnamese guy that gets his head disintegrated by an M60 at point-blank range.

Unicron's death sequence in "Transformers:the movie" (I am SUCH a kid at heart )

Winning Hand

Definately the blade runner scene.
Also:
Dogma (In the bus)
Matt Damon : Excuse me sir, are you married
Guy (sticks up his ring finger): YEAH
Matt: Is she your wife?
Guy: NO
Matt blows the guys head off with the desert eagle

Speaking of desert eagles, boris's death in Snatch

Short Circuit: How can man be so cruel to machines.

All the main characters deaths in Usual Suspects. 'Strangest thing............'

Bridget Fondas death in Jackie Brown.

Theres loads if you think about it

Twilight Dawn

The scene in Buffy that they said before with the guy taking ages to die it's cool.
Finally someone actually knows the film the Lost Boys. No one I talk to seems to.

Lemming

Hmmm .... anyone remember the final sequence in "Titus"??? Where 3 main characters get killed in the space of 2 mins.

Anthony Hopkins kills the evil queen in revenge, then her sap of a husband kills hopkins, then andrew mcFadden sticks a knife or something (could bea spoon) into the king, and whislt he's convulsing, pulls out a pistol and blows his brains out

OR

The general getting splatted by a flying bug in "StarShip troopers" ...

"Oh my GOD!!! We're all gonna die! We're all gonna d...*SPLAT*"

orangerooster

The German sniper in saving private ryan.Its a one in a million shot but still Gerry lost and eye and most of his brains.Some of the guys on the beach in saving private ryan aswell the guy getting dragged along harrowing stuff.The candyman in candyman 1 is a good ending

alb

How about reservoir dogs, it certainly must count as one of the longest, since more or less the whole movie is just one big long death scene

c0y0te

A really good death sequence isn't about blood, gore and splatters... it's about how believable the scene, character and acting is.

In this respect, the best 'death scene' I can recall has to be from the Abyss. The male and female leads are trapped in a sub deep below, rapidly filling with water, and only one oxygen tank remains.

The decision is taken to allow the female lead to die by drowning, based on the concept that the water is so cold that she will freeze, and as long as the male character can drag her frozen body back to base in time, there might be some chance of reviving her. The argument leading to this decision is a pure tension builder.. and superbly built. He is the better swimmer, so logically she should be the one to die.

That scene where the two characters stare at each other, one wearing facemask, oxy tank and gear.. the other desperately holding her breath as the water fills the sub and the air pocket is expunged, until at the last gasp she drowns, slowly, ugly and nasty.

It has to be one of the best 'death scenes' I've ever seen, because there is no blood, no mad explosions, no crazy crap at all.. just an ex-husband and ex-wife staring at each other as one of them dies by drowing inches away from the other... twitching...

If you haven't seen this film.. get it. You will not be dissappointed.

The Abyss, directed by James Cameron.

c0y0te

koneko

ouch ouch ouch. Love the deathscenes that make your knees ache. You know the kind.

American History X, someone mentioned it already. Eat the curb. How painful must that be? So painful to watch. I remember the first time I watched that, I hadn't heard about that scene. So real, still sick.

Joe Pesci seems to get great death scenes. Remember Casino? Ouch again. That's a bone breaker for ya.

My all time fave has to be John Travolta (Vince) in Pulp Fiction. Main character throughout the film, then suddenly, bam, he gets shot walking out of a toilet. Brutal or what.

Mr.Applepie

Originally posted by Lex_Diamonds
I'd say one of the best death sequences is in Platoon, when Willem Dafoes(?) character gets killed.

Uh i agree with you on this one! Absolutely brilliant death!

Also the fat nerdy guy in the simpsons in the classic battlestar galactica death pose:

Best death ever!

smoke.me.a.kipper

Dr. Strangelove. riding the bomb out of the plane. classic!

Jaden

Platoon is good, but I think overplayed.

What about the death of Kevin Costner in "A Perfect World"? Quite good, I think.

Coyote is right on. The Abyss scene is bloody good.

Lindsey: You got the suit on and you're a much better swimmer than I am, right!?
Bud: Yeah, maybe. But...
Lindsey: Right? Yes! I got a plan.
Bud: What plan?
Lindsey: I drown, you tow me back to the rig...
Bud: No... No, No!
Lindsey: Yes. This water is only a couple of degrees above freezing. I go into deep hypothermia... My blood go like icewater. My bodysystems will slow down, they won't stop!

Classic stuff.....