Best Deaths in Movie history *will contain spoilers obviously*

[Axeknight]

The Movie - Dog Soldiers

The character - Pvt. 'Spoon' Witherspoon

I love that film. It's great because the squaddies make all the right decisions (unlike most horror films, they never do stupid stuff like separating, turning lights off etc), they really give the werewolves a fight (the bit with the Land Rover and the shed being a prime example), but by the end you can see they really never had a chance. Spoon's last act of defiance was brilliant, but my favourite bit is the last shot of the next day's newspaper.

I am sure there are better ones, but the death of Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner is memorable:

"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 the rain. Time to die."

He wrote that speech himself, you know. Very poignant, especially since he's been portrayed as pretty much the bad guy right through.

A few more favourites [SPOILERS: have put the titles in bold in case anyone doesn't want them spoiled] -

Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in Apocalypse Now - it's a cliche, but it's still pretty powerful, with Martin Sheen rising out of the swamp with a look in his eyes like he's possessed by a demon.

Daniel Craig in Layer Cake - just when it's over, just as he's finally won, he's killed by a nobody character he stole Sienna Miller from about 20 minutes in.

Sonny Corleone (James Caan) in The Godfather - for how the guard at the tollbooth drops to the floor and he suddenly realises he's been set up, and for the (quite literal) overkill of the assassins. And the way one kicks him afterwards, just to make sure.

Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in Scarface - another cliche, but nobody's mentioned it yet. The zoom out shot of the fountain is great (Al Pacino had to hold his breath for a ridiculous amount of time for that one).

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

"On this, Brian, the occasion of your martyrdom, we would like to extend to you our most sincere thanks for what you have done for us and our organization, and can only offer our condolences on what must be, after all, a very difficult time."