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post #91 of 116
8/19/05 at 3:01pm
Ditto on the NYPD BLUE death.

One of the most effective film deaths for me was the one that occurs in Peter Jackson's HEAVENLY CREATURES.

Also two from the TWIN PEAKS TV series:

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Laura's cousin Maddie (also played by Sheryl Lee), in what may be the most brutal murder ever depicted on network TV, and the death of Leland Palmer two episodes later, with Agent Cooper "guiding" the dying Leland into his daughter's arms in the afterlife.


There's a death towards the end of LONGTIME COMPANION that's very wrenching, too.

Also two Lars Von Trier film deaths:

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Bess MacNeil's death in BREAKING THE WAVES, along with Bjork's in DANCER IN THE DARK


Oh, and one that distrubed me to no ends and really stayed with me from Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING:

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When Max Von Sydow kills the little boy- who essentially was an innocent- towards the end.


Vincent
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post #92 of 116
8/20/05 at 11:35am
For me, it's without a doubt these...

The Toxic Avenger...
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When the gang of punks runs down the kid on his bike, and then backs their car over him and crushes his head, then they all get out to take polaroids of the mess.


To this day, I am traumatized by the very thought of that scene.

Kill Bill Vol 1...
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Go Go's death. So young, so soon, so hot!


The Green Mile...
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Del's execution. One of the most horrific, and extended, scenes i've ever seen!


Also from that one...

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Percy stomps on Mr. Jingles.


I swear that I want to reach into the screen and rip his heart out everytime I watch that scene!

The Shawshank Redemption...
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Brooke's sad and lonely suicide.


A Time to Kill...
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The description by McConauhey to the jury of the rape and murder of the little girl.


Sometimes word's are enough, the images it conjured in my head stayed with me for a while.

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial...
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The death of E.T. of course. I reacted the same way Gertie does as a kid watching that.


Predator...
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The death of the Predator. He came, he kicked human ass, he died with honor, just like a good Yautja should.


The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King...
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Gollum's death. Poor Little misunderstood fellow.


Air Force One...
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When Gary Oldman executes that woman while she pleads for her life.


Damn!

Wrong Turn...
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When the hot brunette girl get's half-capped in the tree by an axe through the jaw.


What a waste.

Death by beheading. Decapitations just freak me out in any film, it's a humiliating way to go, to have your body's command center severed. I heard that you crap and pee yourself simultaniously. Aweful.
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post #93 of 116
8/20/05 at 2:53pm
Surprised no one mentioned Brian Song. Gets' me misty every time and also Honey I shrunk the Kids Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
(the baby ant)
. Ditto on FOTR Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Boromir
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post #94 of 116
8/20/05 at 3:02pm
A death that got to me was from Less Than Zero when Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Julian dies


For some reason that had me really weirded out for a long time. In fact I was happy to see his next film just "to make sure he was fine"
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post #95 of 116
8/20/05 at 7:18pm
I don't know why but this one in Face/Off stuck with me when I watched for the first time.

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When Nic Cage is on the plane getting ready to take off near the beginning and the hot stewardess lets him come on to her. Then after it's revealed that she's an agent, he brings her to the door to face Travolta who's in the car speeding alongside the plane down the runway, when he shoots her in the head and lets her body drop to the tarmac, where it hits like a rag doll. Ouch.


I don't know why. Watching the movie now, I don't really like it, but that scene stuck with me.

Also in the same vein, in Road Warrior:
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The girl on the top of the truck gets dragged down to the street


I don't know, maybe it's a thing I have about cute girls getting dropped in streets from speeding things.
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post #96 of 116
8/20/05 at 7:47pm
Vincent_P already mentioned the death from Twin Peaks that really stuck with me.

So I'll mention On Her Majesty's Secret Service:
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Traci's death at the very end. It wasn't her death that stuck with me so much as that it ended on that note. I was expecting Bond to start up his car and hunt down Blofeld then and there. I was 8 or 9 when I first saw this, and having seen many of the other movies, I couldn't believe the credits started rolling when they did. Bond never lost! To make matters even worse, Diamonds Are Forever did such a piss poor job of tying up all the loose ends from OHMSS.


And in The Hitcher:
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Jennifer Jason Lee being ripped in 2 by Rutger Hauer. Especially seeing that after having seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High many times.
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post #97 of 116
8/20/05 at 7:54pm
Britton,
regarding The Hitcher, I always thought that Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Jennifer got her arm's or leg's ripped off, considering how she was tied to the truck at the wrists and ankles. I figured that either her shoulder's or hip's would give way before her mid section.


A morbid observation to be sure, but that was always my take on it, but who really knows for sure?
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post #98 of 116
8/21/05 at 10:37am
Both from when I was a kid.

Neverending Story
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Artax in the swamp


My Girl
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Thomas after being stung by bees.

Never saw that one coming.
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post #99 of 116
8/21/05 at 10:59am
And in The English Patient
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Katharine dying in the cave before Almásy could get back to her
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post #100 of 116
8/21/05 at 12:21pm
I haven't seen this movie in quite a whilte but the version of Mutiny on the Bounty with Marlon Brando when:

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Fletcher Christian dies. He's been burned and he's laying on the ground. One moment his eyes have life and can see, and the next, they are lifeless and staring into a void. Really got to me.
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post #101 of 116
8/22/05 at 9:03am
From Dusk Till Dawn: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
When the young boy is being eaten by the vampires and is begging to be killed. This always freaked me out.


Not sure how many even know of this, but...
O'Hara's Wife (with Ed Asner): Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
When he finally wakes up in the end and realizes she's gone for good.
Oh MAN! Just typing that has got me all choked up...plus, add the "I'm Never Gonna Say Goodbye" song and...
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post #102 of 116
8/22/05 at 2:15pm
Attempted Murder:
“The Village”
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When Noah stabs Lucius, shocking in its quietness.


Bambi
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You must learn to walk alone


Sophies Choice
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Not Sophies death which seemed (of sorts) a release, but literally the moment in the film which reveals the choice she had to make. I can’t stand it.


“The End of the Affair”
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When Marice starts the film with the line which leads the viewer into the account of the history prior to Sarah’s death,
“This is a diary of hate”.


“Lonesome Dove”
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Augustus McCrae


“Penny Serenade” 1941 with Cary Grant
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Total tearjerker intended to be and does it very well. The scene with “Applejack” taking over the bath for the nervous new mom is an utter classic.


“The Green Mile”
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the executions mentioned stuck with me too. And ‘jingles’ getting stomped, tore my heart out!


“The Ghost & Mrs Muir”
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not so much her death, although I used to cry a river. But The Captain, saying goodbye (the death of their current relationship), leaving her alone in "life" to ‘steer her own course” whether she meets “fair winds or foul”
Freeze the scene when his lips almost touch hers, as he leans over her bed; one of best looking single frames in B&W history.


Northfork; bizzare movie I love, most viewers have to play the DVD extras’ to even ‘get it’.
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..the whole movie, revolves around death & letting go. and in the extras when Nick Nolte explains what he learned during his own mothers death.


White Squall
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when Sheldons wife is looking up through the port as the vessel sinks, and the boy trapped underdecks is talking himself out of panic as the electricity shorts


"Rob Roy"
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I thought the death of Rob's man in the forest as he is being robbed very well done, his last death strecth to hide the gold in the tree with the chilling Tim Roth showing him he has it in his hands, before he digs the blade deeper interposed with the ballad of "Ailein Duinn." Flipping between the death chase and the group at fireside listening to the plaintive lovesong very effectivly done. The morbid translation of Alilein Dunn making it an all the more suitable and underappreciated choice. Most realistic swordfights of any movie filmed.


Lots of movie deaths shock me during their launch : Aliens, Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
(really Murron’s throatcutting was bad)
etc, but few stay with me.
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post #103 of 116
8/22/05 at 7:28pm
Boys Don't Cry
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When Brandon gets killed. Simply disturbing.
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post #104 of 116
8/22/05 at 7:42pm
My Dog Skip
Godzilla vs Destroyer
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post #105 of 116
8/23/05 at 12:20am
The Fly

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Brundlefly slowly placing the barrel of the shotgun to his forehead, indicating what he wants Veronica to do.
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post #106 of 116
8/23/05 at 2:54pm
The fly scene always got to me... I think it has more to do with the music that is playing in the background... Very very sad...

For me:

Foxes

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When the blond dies, can't remember her name,,,, She is in the hospital after the car accident and you see her spit up blood into the oxygen mask... Man that scene is still with me....


E.R. I think it was E.R...

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The one where the lady was robbed and shot... and the husband comes in and says "she just went to get us some coffee.."... man that scene always gets to me.... She ends up dying of her injuries but the husband tears me apart...


Better luck tomorrow

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When ben goes off and beats the hell out of the one kid in the garage..... Brutal


NYPD Blue

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When Det. Sipawits (Sp?) is after the serial killer and they find someone who can testify against him, and the killer ends up cutting the witness in pieces and is stuffing the pieces in a bag in the bathroom when sipawits comes in and arrests him... That is a freaking brutal scene for T.V.


R~
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post #107 of 116
8/23/05 at 4:13pm
John, I think I'd have to agree with your observation about The Hitcher.

I'd also like to add from The Godfather Part III
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Michael Corleone's death. The way he just slumped down in his chair and fell to the ground stuck with me.


And finally from The Godfather Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Moe Greene getting one in the eye.
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post #108 of 116
8/31/05 at 11:22am
The Serpent and the Rainbow

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Cristof's death, first he was paralyzed but still left concious. Then he had a needle stuck in his eye and finally culminating in being buried alive. jeeezzz..
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post #109 of 116
9/1/05 at 7:43am
Some death scenes that have stuck with me.

Braveheart (My all-time favorite movie):
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Just before William Wallace dies from getting his head cut off and while he is being gutted alive, he screams "Freedom!"


Million Dollar Baby:
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From the moment she breaks her neck right up to when 'Clint' takes her out of her misery, was really rough for me to watch.


City of Angels:
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He comesback to earth and then she dies right after, getting hit by a car!
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post #110 of 116
9/1/05 at 11:59pm
The Untouchables
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when Malone gets shot at his house and grasps onto life before dying
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post #111 of 116
9/2/05 at 12:18am
I remember a lot of things from re-viewings over the years, but I will mention those that stayed with me from the first time I saw them. Ones that would have stayed with me even if I only saw the movie once.

Tina's Death in a Nightmare on Elm Street. While by today's standard it's a little tame and I can see the fake skin in the one shot, it stayed with me from the mid 80's when I saw it on VHS. It was scary back then. The movie did give me nightmares before sequels came along. I wont lie. Johnny Depp's also stayed with me. Some of the ones from Elm Street 3/4 also stayed with me from being so over the top.

The Death of Bambi's mother. I only saw the movie once as a kid.

The Shower one from Psycho. Though film in general doesn't seem to allow one to forget it. It's shown like 100 times on tribute shows, movie awards shows, bla, bla, bla.

Die Hard. Whats his face falling at the end. I don't remember the name. It's been a very long time since I have seen it.
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post #112 of 116
9/2/05 at 1:08am
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Die Hard. Whats his face falling at the end. I don't remember the name. It's been a very long time since I have seen it.

Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman (a.k.a. Sheriff of Nottingham, Severus Snape amongst other roles). Nice one, it's a hell of a great shot/effect.
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post #113 of 116
9/2/05 at 6:31am
definitely My Girl
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post #114 of 116
9/2/05 at 10:16am
One I don't think was mentioned and got to me when I saw it,

Casino:

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when Nicky (Joe Pesci) and his brother are beaten, stripped, dumped, and then buried alive.


On TV the death that surprised me the most was:

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer:

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In season 6, "Villians", Warren. I knew from spoilers that Dark Willow was going to burn him up in fire, but it never said anything about her ripping the skin off of him first. Being distracted by her saying "Bored now", it totally caught me unawares and I just sat in disbelief for 10 or so minutes.
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post #115 of 116
9/3/05 at 1:52am
Here are some (not sure how to do a spoiler tag, so will mention title only)

SCORCHY
episode of MIDNIGHT CALLER
WARLOCK ARMAGEDDON
BLACK RAIN- japanese movie
THREADS
GRAVES OF FIREFLIES
DAY AFTER
LONGTIME COMPANIONS
PERFECT SON

and a episode of a show that forgot which one, which had vincent onofrio as a man crushed/stucked by a subway train, waiting to die.
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post #116 of 116
9/3/05 at 6:16am
The episode with Vincent D'onofrio was from "Homicide" set in my hometown, Baltimore.
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