I’m very partial to Sonny Corleone’s death or Jim Malone’s in the untouchables.
Sonny’s is an icon of death scenes and has probably been referenced more than any others except King Kong’s.
Jim Malone’s was over the top and yet fit the movie so well.
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
Greta Garbo in Camille
Another vote for Sonny Corleone in The Godfather.
This question has come up before, and I always answer - Boromir’s death in “The Fellowship of the Ring”. Perhaps the most powerful scene in the entire trilogy.
Wash DIES?!? Screw you, too! :mad: 
Uh, guys, a favor here- yes, I’m extremely pissed off at silenus as well, but the mods are going to have to edit every single entry that makes reference to his spoiler. So can we please not keep giving them extra work, and stop mentioning said spoiler without a spoiler box?
And yeah, thanks a whole bunch, silenus… I haven’t had a chance to see the movie yet, and was avoiding all spoilers. :mad:
Didn’t get the character’s name in John Carpenter’s The Thing, but that guy who was having a heart attack, then when they started doing chest compressions, he opened up his ribcage and bit the other guy’s arms off at the elbows, then he stretched his head out so far that his neck snapped in two like a piece of Play-doh[sup]TM[/sup], until his head fell onto the floor, then he sprouted spider legs from his face and scuttled under a table, where Kurt Russell incinerated him with a flamethrower.
That was some awesome acting, and the second best death scene I have ever seen (the first one being Vampire Pee Wee).
Look, I know that the question of spoilers is always difficult. When is it OK to reveal a surprise? Is there someone who hasn’t seen PSYCHO? It might ruin the surprise to learn in advance of seeing the movie that Janet Leigh’s character gets killed. However, there’s obviously some sort of time limit. I don’t know what it is, probably the death of Hector in the Iliad isn’t much of a surprise to any reader nowardays. And a thread like this one is sure to have spoilers, there’s not much choice.
But when you’re dealing with a current movie in release, it’s a fair bet that plenty people who would like to see it, haven’t yet… so, please, use spoiler tags.
If you blow it and forget, please, DO NOT just post in the thread. It is likely that no moderator will ever see it. We do not read every thread, looking for calls for help. If you want a moderator’s attention, use the REPORT BAD POST button (the little exclamation point in the red triangle in the upper right corner of each post.) That will work. (Technical problem: you can’t report your own post, so report the one above or below it, and be specific in your REPORT about what you’re reporting etc.)
Just to emphasize the point: Almost a dozen people reported this. Much appreciated; the surprise got spoiled for lots of readers, but at least we stopped the leakage.
Penultimately, let me echo bobkitty’s comment. Everyone else quoting the spoiler meant that my workload was doubled. That’s NOT nice.
And finally, may I suggest that in a thread of this sort (lots of movie deaths from different movies), format should be:
That way, folks will know whether to open the spoiler or not. That make sense?
Riding the “Steel Mare” in “The Long Ships.”
I’d say(recent and old movie spoilers below):
Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner
Paul Ruebens - Buffy the Movie
Wash - Serenity
Boromir - Fellowship of the Ring
I thought Darth Vader’s death in Return of the Jedi was rather well done, with the Imperial March being played as a funeral theme instead of a military march (I’m a music geek).
In Reefer Madness: the Musical:
Mary Lane’s death scene, with the reprise of the song about her and Jim’s love being “Just like Romeo and Juliet” (The two of them didn’t know before, and at this point she still doesn’t know that Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy where largely everyone involved died)
I am also fond of Ra’s death in the original StarGate movie.
And who can forget the death of Billy Bones in Muppet Treasure Island?
“But I thought this was supposed to be a KIDS MOVIE?!”
He died?
In case you’re interested, Gene Simmons plays a “Middle-Eastern”-type terrorist. Rutger Hauer is a bounty hunter (related to the one from the TV show of the same name). If Hauer brings Simmons in alive, he gets a $50,000 bonus. Simmons is such a sleazebag that:
Hauer puts a hand grenade in Simmons’ mouth, pulls the pin and says “Fuck the bonus”. We see the upper half of Simmons’ body explode, leaving only the part from the waist down.
Jim Brown in the Dirty Dozen
Sonny’s Death… That was one angry dude.
Spock’s Death… well pseudo death… If there were no Star Trek III.
Cheif from Appocalypse now
A spear
Another Nomination for Sir Alec but for Bridge on the River Kwi.
Cagney for White Heat… great final words.
Regarding the original post:
Actually, as I recall, Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) does have some dramatic last words: “Rolo Tomassey.” (sp?) The police captain who shot him (James Cromwell) repeats this to Det. Exley (Guy Pearce), alerting Exley that the police captain is the “bad guy” (which is what Vincennes intended).
But, I agree that it was a good death.
Yeah, the Sonny death was a great one. But i just rewatched Braveheart.
I assume I don’t need a spoiler box for the following:
William Wallace’s death was well done. It wasn’t done gratuitously, but still effective.
Some I like : ( spoilered just in case ) :
[spoiler]The Terminator in the first move. " You’re terminated motherfucker !", and it keeps clawing and glaring at her with those red eyes as it’s crushed.
The Arnie Terminator is Terminator II, who calmly looks up and gives the thumbs up as he’s lowered into the steel.
The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse being blown up by his own grenades was fun ( * Raising Arizona*.
The scene in Aliens where the two cornered soldiers wait till the Aliens are near, then trigger a grenade; holding it together as it goes off.
Another vote for Borimir’s last stand.
While we never actually saw it, the death of Mr Morden in Babylon 5 was good because of the way Vir’s little prophecy about his head on a pike came true.
[/spoiler]
Ok, I realize this is cheesy, but (old movie, probably doesn’t need box)…
Ming’s death in Flash Gordon.
"You pitiful fool… my life is not for any Earth man… to give or take…