Most tragic deaths SPOILERS

D-FENS · 07-02-2013 09:25AM

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Giovanni Ribisi's death scene
in Saving Private Ryan - very upsetting but an amazing scene as well.

For different reasons, always found the death scene of Joe Pesci & his brother in Casino very shocking & hard to watch. A brutal way to go.

I always found

Pt. Mellish’s death

in Saving Private Ryan more harrowing,

the way he fought so hard to overpower the German, eventually realizes he has lost and begs for his life, and the German gloats as he sticks the knife in. And all the while Upham is right outside with a rifle, could have saved him but is sh*tting himself.

Made me very angry :mad:

D-FENS · 07-02-2013 09:31AM

marwelie wrote: »

THIS and
Combo vs Milky
in This is England, havent been able to watch it since.

Tragic for sure but no one actually died.

Easy Rod · 07-02-2013 10:49AM

A Perfect World, I've spoken about this movie before but it really had an effect on me as a child.

Vivid memory of balling my eyes out saying 'Bhy did he have to die?' to my Ma at the age of 8 when

Costner

dies.

TheIrishGrover · 07-02-2013 01:36PM

+1 for Grave of The Fireflies

The sister. No drama, no melodrama...... she just dies. It's the only film I can't bring to watch again. Heartbreaking. Bloody hell.

On a "lighter" note: In Alien3:

Hicks and Newt etc. Just discarded to get on with the story. As if everything they went through in Aliens was pointless. Made me angry at their mistreatment rather than sad maybe

JP Liz V1 · 07-02-2013 02:19PM

Pay it Forward

Haley Joel Osment's character's death and then the candles vigil with that song "Calling All Angels"

Your Airbag · 07-02-2013 03:36PM

e_e wrote: »

Grave of the Fireflies -
The sister.

+1 One of the saddest movies ever made. Right up there with Never let me go and its ending

The death of Andrew Garfield is further compounded by Carrey Mulligans character remembering him in the final scene when you know she has not long left before she begins her donations.

Wossack · 07-02-2013 03:44PM

I Am Legend:

Sam (the dog) - feel my gut wrenching thinking about it

man card revoked big time..

Playboy · 08-02-2013 02:39PM

The best death scene I have ever seen was in 'The Grey'

The Scene where Liam Neeson comforts a guy dying in the immediate aftermath of the plane crash

Turtyturd · 08-02-2013 02:48PM

MJ23 wrote: »

Talia's death scene in Dark Knight Rises was horrific. Horrific in the sense that it was done so bad. Id say it was the first take of the scene and the editor stuck it in for the laugh. Brutal.

That scene isn't helped by Batman standing outside the truck looking in the window exactly like this....

Hidalgo · 08-02-2013 02:59PM

tunguska wrote: »

Captain Miller(Tom hanks in saving private ryan). The "Earn this" line absolutely killed me.

Mc murphy(Jack nicholson) In cuckoos nest

Rambo in First blood - I know this didnt happen in the movie but his death in the book would make the hardest of hard men cry.

William wallace (Mel gibson) In braveheart. The death scene itself is pretty brutal but the following scene, where all the lads are lined up for a final battle with the brits and your man gives a short but great speech......brilliant.

AFAIR in the original cut, Rambo died, but during the initial test screenings that went down like a lead balloon so the storyline was changed.

That close to missing out on all those sequels :pac:

CastorTroy · 08-02-2013 03:03PM

Wossack wrote: »

I Am Legend:
Sam (the dog) - feel my gut wrenching thinking about it man card revoked big time..

Dog deaths are no reason to revoke a man card.

As for Dark knight Rises

Talia

, Batman looked more like a parody of himself while he and the other 2 stood there watching.

Tragic deaths for me would be in The Plague Dogs

The end when, although you don't see the deaths, you know there is no island and they're swimming to their deaths

And then we have Neverending Story

Artax in the swapm

Spot a theme here?

I suppose another one that genuinely got me was My Girl where

Macauley Culking died. Wasn't so much his death but Vada's reaction at the funeral

Hidalgo · 08-02-2013 03:06PM

Remember watching an animated version of Animal Farm as a small boy, the scene where

the horse is in the back of the horse box being driven to the factory

Cant remember his name.

Another one that I thought would already be mentioned is in Last of the mohicans

where the lady throws herself off the cliff after Magua kills her lover

Absolutely brilliantly filmed and acted out, the look on her face

Hidalgo · 08-02-2013 03:10PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

Dog deaths are no reason to revoke a man card.

As for Dark knight Rises
Talia
, Batman looked more like a parody of himself while he and the other 2 stood there watching.

Tragic deaths for me would be in The Plague Dogs
The end when, although you don't see the deaths, you know there is no island and they're swimming to their deaths

And then we have Neverending Story
Artax in the swapm

Spot a theme here?

I suppose another one that genuinely got me was My Girl where
Macauley Culking died. Wasn't so much his death but Vada's reaction at the funeral

I think that a lot of it myself, not so much the character dying, but the reaction of the other characters i.e the reaction of the

kids to Marleys

death

Raekwon · 08-02-2013 03:18PM

FirstinLastout wrote: »

Brooks was here

I find some suicide scenes very hard to watch.

Brooks is a very good example as he was a character that was very vulnerable and had a strong emotional connection to the audience. When I first saw Shawshank I was absolute heartbroken when he died.

Another couple of on screen suicides that I found really tragic and emotional were

a facial deformed Tom Cruise overdosing on sleeping pills in Vanilla Sky, Sean Harris (playing Ian Curtis) hanging himself in 24 Party People, Vincent D'Onofrio (Pvt. Pyle) & William H. Macy blowing their brains out in Full Metal Jacket & Boogie Nights.

Honourable mention to an attempted suicide when

Luke Wilson's Richie Tenenbaum slits his wrists to the haunting song Needle in the Hay in The Royal Tenenbaums

.

Hidalgo · 08-02-2013 03:35PM

Raekwon wrote: »

I find some suicide scenes very hard to watch.

Brooks is a very good example as he was a character that was very vulnerable and had a strong emotional connection to the audience. When I first saw Shawshank I was absolute heartbroken when he died.

Another couple of on screen suicides that I found really tragic and emotional were
a facial deformed Tom Cruise overdosing on sleeping pills in Vanilla Sky, Sean Harris (playing Ian Curtis) hanging himself in 24 Party People, Vincent D'Onofrio (Pvt. Pyle) & William H. Macy blowing their brains out in Full Metal Jacket & Boogie Nights.

Honourable mention to an attempted suicide when
Luke Wilson's Richie Tenenbaum slits his wrists to the haunting song Needle in the Hay in The Royal Tenenbaums
.

For me what makes the Brooks scene so worthwhile is the copying of the etching of his name in the wood by

Red, for a moment it looked like it was Brooks MK2, not being able to handle life on the outside etc

Tombo2001 · 08-02-2013 03:38PM

The end of My Name is Joe

Ellian · 08-02-2013 04:07PM

Platoon

Elias getting shot and then left behind

Blue850 · 08-02-2013 10:51PM

Das Boot

The fate of some of the crew in the final scenes in the air raid

The King of Moo · 08-02-2013 11:26PM

George Kirk in Star Trek:

The combination of the sheer heroism and selflessness of his actions combined with the agony of hearing the cries of his firstborn being cradled by his wife, knowing he'll never see him while also knowig he's saving his life, is powerful stuff.

hefferboi · 09-02-2013 06:10AM

Haven't seen it mentioned, The Green Mile. John Coffee. Gets me everytime

bnt · 09-02-2013 08:50AM

This thread is about tragic deaths, not shocking deaths, but there's one which is tragic because it's not tragic, if you know what I mean. In Michael Haneke's Caché (Hidden), Georges and his family are apparently being stalked, and he thinks he's tracked down one of them.

Majid invites Georges in to his flat, says he wasn't doing it, calmly slashes his own throat, and drops dead in front of Georges. So, Majid is someone Georges has known for only a few seconds, and then he's dead, and how are you supposed to react to that? He's just one more person Georges in Paris that Georges doesn't know or care about.

shadowcomplex · 09-02-2013 04:11PM

I found Captain Kirks death hard to take but its all ok because it probably doesnt happen now, data dying was tough too

GerB40 · 09-02-2013 05:00PM

Wilson in castaway. I know its not technically a death but its definitely as sad as one.

764dak · 20-02-2013 06:01AM

One of the most tragic deaths was that of Michael Newman

in Click.

Galwayguy35 · 20-02-2013 06:10AM

Darvich wrote: »

The death of Kong at the end of Jackson's version gives me a lump in my throat. Strange given that he's a CGI creation with no dialogue! Maybe it's testimony to the work done by Weta and Serkis, or maybe it's knowing the story in advance causing a horrible sense of helpless inevitability... Either way, gets me every time.

+ 1

Rabidlamb · 20-02-2013 02:44PM

SYDEWYNDER wrote: »

Talia al Ghuls/Miranda Tates
death in The Dark Knight Rises was ****ing tragic. Tragic acting.

Dozen Wicked Words · 20-02-2013 07:41PM

Not sure it really needs spoiler tag but still,

Albert Finney dying through the whole film more or less

in Big Fish is very moving. Great film generally.

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