Best Deaths in Movie history *will contain spoilers obviously*

[Ronin]

In movie history we have been witness to some great death scenes......some have made us cry....some have made us laugh when a particularly dastardly villain met his end....and sometimes even the hero met his end in a death moment that defined badassery!!!

what I want is for everybody to say what is their favourite death in film, give details, movie, character and of course why it is your favorite


My pick:

The Movie - Dog Soldiers Dog Soldiers

The character - Pvt. 'Spoon' Witherspoon

Why this death - This movie is an English horror flick about a squad of English soldiers out on a training mission....little do they know that the Scottish woods that they are being sent into are actually the home of a pack of Werewolfs....what follows is one of my favorite horror movies of all times....as the squadies that would rather just had stayed home and watched the soccer match fight to survive the night inside an old isolated house....
Things soon go from bad to worse as the werewolfs manage to enter the house....our man spoon is caught in the kitchen with a werewolf...looking death in the face spoon decides he ain´t going down without a fight and using knifes, pots, and his own hands and feet procedes to fight the werewolf mano-a-mano .....but all to no avail....as second werewolf enters the room just as the first one revives.... ... grabbed by the throat and pinned against a wall our man has time to give the furries one last piece of his mind: "I hope I give you the *****, you ******* wimp" he then gets devoured (off-screen)

That´s it spoon! when you have nothing left.....give them attitude!!!

[Whacker]

This is how I'd like to die.

Hands down. If you're gonna go, why not take a 19km long super star destroyer with you, and a good chunk of a man-made planetoid for good measure?

[Conradus]

'V's death in "V for Vendetta"

After killing 12 men who emptied their entire clips on him, he kills them all with his knives before they reload. (Just as he said he would)
Then he dies and Evey (Natalie Portman) puts him on the metro he build to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. And so goes V, with fireworks in the sky and on the ground. Truly a spectacular moment.

This isn't my preferred death, but the one I remember most fondly now.

[Samurai Waki]

Sir Bors, Monty Python and the Holy Grail;

Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up! ...

[Bijo]

Gladiator: when he dies at the end.

The Untouchables: when the cop dies in his house.

[GeneralHankerchief]

When Gen. Armistead bites it in Gettysburg.

[Togakure]

Miryea Mendez' death in Revenge (1990). Anthony Quinn plays her jealous, powerful, and corrupt husband Tibby, and Costner plays Tibby's friend. He falls in love with Tibby's wife, crosses the forbidden line, and gets caught.

I think it's the music that makes this scene so powerful for me (Maurice Jarre did the soundtrack). That, and she reminds me of a cherished "ex," with whom I've lost contact and wonder if she's still alive.

[Privateerkev]

By far my favorite death is when the soldier in "Saving Private Ryan" explodes from his own sticky bomb. It is still very amusing to watch the reactions of people who have never seen that scene before. It might not be as "epic" or "heroic" as some of the other choices on here. But, I would argue that, that scene has emotionally reached many people due to its abrubt and raw power.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The death of Maximus in Gladiator.

[Bijo]

By far my favorite death is when the soldier in "Saving Private Ryan" explodes from his own sticky bomb. It is still very amusing to watch the reactions of people who have never seen that scene before. It might not be as "epic" or "heroic" as some of the other choices on here. But, I would argue that, that scene has emotionally reached many people due to its abrubt and raw power.

A far better death scene would be with the Captain in this movie. His death was glorious, heroic, etc. The Sergeant before him was also a good death scene, but not as dramatic as the Captain's.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

-Sergeant Elias in Platoon. The scene where he throws up his arms in slow motion as Adaggio for Strings plays is a classic.

-Mr Big's death in Live and Let Die. He gets literally blown up by Bond using a compressed gas pellet gun.

-The eponymous Leon in Leon/The Professional. Utterly tragic, yet Gary Newman's wonderfully slimy portrayal makes it deliciously satisfying to see his character get his just deserts.

-The Terminator in Terminator 2. Who'd have thought Arnie being lowered into a vat of liquid metal would be such a tear-jerker?

-Apollo Creed in Rocky IV. This one's got both ridiculous slow-motion and sinister Russians.

[Martok]

I believe I already stated so in one of the other movie threads here in the Frontroom, but I'll say it again: Spock's death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. It *still* chokes me up, even though I've literally seen the movie at least 100 times.

Saving Private Ryan has another death scene that really affected me, but I've not seen it mentioned here yet: When the medic is shot and dies after assaulting the radar station. When he starts crying for his mom in his death throes, I always want to bawl and vomit simultaneously. A very well done, very affecting scene IMO.

[Bijo]

-Sergeant Elias in Platoon. The scene where he throws up his arms in slow motion as Adaggio for Strings plays is a classic.

That was a good death scene. I saw this movie the first time at a fairly young age and recall it was a very (emotionally) powerful play.