# Best movie death? (Trying to box spoileres but no guarantee) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741 "2005-10-11T12:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/1 "2005-10-11T12:42:36Z")
What are the best cinema deaths you’ve ever seen? For me, one would be in _LA Confidential_, when Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is shot. No dramatic last words, no overdone melodrama. Just him falling dead. More? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/2 "2005-10-11T12:55:37Z")
The gold standard: James Cagney in _White Heat_ End of discussion. And top of the world to you, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/3 "2005-10-11T13:06:44Z")
Paul Reubens in the original movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a great death scene. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/4 "2005-10-11T13:25:05Z")
First, a comment on spoilers in the op. Just an aside really, but when you hover the cursor over the title, the first few lines of the op come up as a kind of sample. The text in the spoiler box comes up just like the rest. As for good deaths in movies, I liked Dennis Hopper’s end in “True Romance.” More the lead in than the end itself, but it was classic. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/5 "2005-10-11T13:27:17Z")
The cat in _Boondock Saints_. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/6 "2005-10-11T13:29:51Z")
The death of Steve Martin’s dentist character in the musical remake of **The Little Shop of Horrors** is pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/7 "2005-10-11T13:52:12Z")
Gerard Depardeu’s death in “Cyrano de Bergerac” is great. It goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/8 "2005-10-11T13:56:41Z")
Hungry Joe’s death in Catch 22: He gets unexpectedly cut in half by a low flying airplane; his legs just sort of stand there for a second or two, before toppling into the water. A metaphor for the senseless slaughter of war. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/9 "2005-10-11T14:11:52Z")
Wash’s demise in **Serenity** , just to piss off a bunch of people. 😃 Depends on how you define “best.” Paul Rubens gets the nod for funniest. Most violent goes to either \*\*Bonnie and Clyde \*\* or Sonny Corleone in the **Godfather**. Most accurate would be Nick Cage in **Leaving Las Vegas**. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/10 "2005-10-11T14:16:54Z")
Best known might be Alec Guinness in Star Wars ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/11 "2005-10-11T14:24:28Z")
**silenus** are you happy about pissing people off by spoiling that part of the movie or just happy that some people are pissed that that character died? Either way you should have put that in a spoiler box. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/12 "2005-10-11T14:41:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Wash’s demise in **Serenity** , just to piss off a bunch of people. 😃 I can’t decide who’s the bigger jackass; me for being in this thread, or you for spoiling that for everyone who hasn’t seen it yet. Oh wait, it’s you. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/13 "2005-10-11T14:46:47Z")
If I hadn’t see Serenity yesterday, I would have been really pissed. Now I’m just moderatly pissed. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/14 "2005-10-11T14:57:14Z")
My bad, guys. Posting quickly from work, but that is no excuse. Could a mod spoiler box that for me? ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/15 "2005-10-11T15:04:21Z")
Best? Needs further qualification, but I’ll go for: John Hurt’s chest-burster death in **Alien**. A _lot_ of dying happens in **Black Hawk Down**. RPG round -\> human body -\> red mist. Sheer body count: **Kill Bill** ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/16 "2005-10-11T15:04:33Z")
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/17 "2005-10-11T15:04:40Z")
Best SDMB death silenus - Torn limb from limb by Firefly fans. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/18 "2005-10-11T15:07:02Z")
Gene Simmons in _Wanted: Dead or Alive_. “Fuck the bonus!” ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/19 "2005-10-11T15:08:35Z")
Maj. Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster) in _Go Tell the Spartans_. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741/20 "2005-10-11T15:09:25Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > My bad, guys. Posting quickly from work, but that is no excuse. Could a mod spoiler box that for me? I already reported it and made the request, on the grounds that it’s still in the theaters and should therefore kindly be spoilered. Hopefully someone will attend to it shortly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-death-trying-to-box-spoileres-but-no-guarantee/325741.md?page=2)