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I know I'm a Trekkie, but that's now why I'm going with this one.

I'm going to say Spock's death in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. I have to imagine that the Trekkies who saw that in theaters when it first came out had to be in shock that Spock would get killed. I get goosebumps when Kirk is on the bridge and gets the call from McCoy that he better get down to Engineering and hurry.

Kirk's face when he sees Spock and has to be restrained by McCoy and Scotty is one of the few cases where Shater's trademark overacting actually enhanced a scene.

Kirk: Spock.
Spock: Ship... out of danger?
Kirk: Yes.
Spock: Don't grieve, Admiral. It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh...
Kirk: ...the needs of the few.
Spock: ...Or the one. I never took the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?
Kirk: Spock...
Spock: I have been and always shall be your friend.
[Holds up his hand in the Vulcan salute]
Spock: Live long and prosper.

I'ma outnerd you.

HAL's death in 2001: A Space Odyessy

"Daisy . . . Daisy . . .
Give . . . me . . . your . . .
answer, do . . . "

I cry every time :(

Wash. Serenity.

Trinity: "Dodge this..."
*sticks a gun at the agent's head, pulls the trigger*
KABOOM!

Wash. Serenity.

Have not seen.
Am I old-school? No, just old.

And LOLZZORZ that everything so far has been sci-fi!!!1@1

Wash. Serenity.

"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar"

Man I loved that guy.

The death of Sgt. Neil Howie in the original Wicker Man.

Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!

Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu
Bulloc sterteth, bucke ferteth.
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes thu, cuccu.
Ne swik thu naver nu!

Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu!
Sing cuccu nu, sing cuccu!

Major Kong in Dr Strangelove

"Yeeeeh-haaaw!!"

The lawyer in Jurassic Park, of course.

"When you gotta go, you gotta go."

"Why-*kick*-won't-*kick*-you-*kick*-die?!" *kick, and Kroog or whatever his name was falls into lava*

-Star Trek III

*slaps own forehead*

I forgot about Donald Sutherland in Don't Look Back.

*shivers at the thought of it*

"Why-*kick*-won't-*kick*-you-*kick*-die?!" *kick, and Kroog or whatever his name was falls into lava*

-Star Trek III

Actually it was, "I-*kick*-am sick and tired-*kick*-of you!!*kick, and Kruge falls into lava*

I am a geek.

Hmmm. Boromir from LOTR 2.

Arnie in T2.

Title character in Braveheart.

Tony Montana in Scarface.

Bruce Willis in Armageddon

Actually it was, "I-*kick*-am sick and tired-*kick*-of you!!*kick, and Kruge falls into lava*

I am a geek.

...ohyeah. My bad. I guess I just have that quote from various NPCs in Oblivion stuck in my head and it overwrote my memory of the scene.

The first one I thought of was "Diplomatic immunity," right before getting shot by Glover in Lethal Weapon II.

Two references to a Glover role in the same day...hmmm


EDIT:OHOHOHOH!

"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 rain. Time to die. "

I mean, damn...

Just one? Selma Jeskovic, Dancer In The Dark.

There are more.

The father (forget the name of the actor) in Independance day.

"hey boys, remember me? I'm baaaaaaack!"

*flies nuclear armed fighter jet into heart of alien ship*

"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 rain. Time to die. "

I mean, damn...

Seconded. I love that movie.

Tony Montana in Scarface.

I Agree, but the fact that I'm watching the movie right now would help.

Tommie Lee Jones in Space Cowboys.

Denzel Washington in Training day.:mp5: :sniper:

How about Ricardo Montalban's death scene, as Khan in Star Trek II? It's right up there with the OP's citation of Spock's death in the same flick, at least.

The father (forget the name of the actor) in Independance day.

"hey boys, remember me? I'm baaaaaaack!"

*flies nuclear armed fighter jet into heart of alien ship*

Seconded.
God help me. I fucking love that movie.

Seconded.
God help me. I fucking love that movie.

That was Randy Quaid as the madcap pilot, wasn't it? Or was it Dennis... I get those two mixed up all the time.

Since we're doing memorable and not just poignant, Predator's death in the first Predator.
Arnie: "What the fuck are you?"
Predator: "Wha....the...*cough*..fuck....are..*cough*...you?" (then sets up a mini-nuke)

That was Randy Quaid as the madcap pilot, wasn't it? Or was it Dennis... I get those two mixed up all the time.
Randy.

Seconded.
God help me. I fucking love that movie.
God can't help you if you love that turd.
It shows that you have quite obviously sold your soul to Satan.
It's one of the signs y'know.

"Hey, do you like Independence Day?"
"Naw, it's crap."
"Oh, ok. Hey, do you like Independence Day?"
"Really love it! Awesome movie!"
"Heretic! Unbeliever! Satan-spawn! Kill the Devil-child! Kill HIMMMMMM....!!!"

Just one? Selma Jeskovic, Dancer In The Dark.

There are more.

I was going to mention that one. I also liked the murder scene, because it's so brutal and uncompromising. The cop telling her she can only get her money back by killing him and then she takes so, so long to batter him to death and there's no sound but of typewriter hitting flesh and her sobbing.
Awesome scene.


Also Beth's death in 'Breaking the Waves'.
"Is Jan better?"
"No, there's no change"
"Oh.....maybe I was wrong?"
(you need to see the movie to understand this exchange)


Say what you like about Lars von Trier, but there's no denying he knows how to make emotionally-wrenching scenes.

Misato in End of Evangelion.

"That was an adult kiss. We'll do the rest when you get back. *Shoves Shinji into an elevator and collapses in a pool of blood* Damn, if I'd known it'd end like this, I would have taken Asuka's advice and changed the carpet...Right, Pen Pen?..."

Yes I copied that from wikiquote. Wanted to make sure there were no errors.

Tony Montana in Scarface.


+1
thats how i want to go....say hello to my little friend....

Misato in End of Evangelion.

"That was an adult kiss. We'll do the rest when you get back. *Shoves Shinji into an elevator and collapses in a pool of blood* Damn, if I'd known it'd end like this, I would have taken Asuka's advice and changed the carpet...Right, Pen Pen?..."

Yes I copied that from wikiquote. Wanted to make sure there were no errors.

That movie sucked. Most overrated anime ever.

Another fave? Gloria Collins in Clay Pigeons.

Jet Li's death in Hero was pretty cool.

That movie sucked. Most overrated anime ever.

:eek: *Twitches violently as he represses his fanboyish rage*

Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Destroyer.

John Kennedy in that Zapruder Movie. I mean did you see how his brain splattered everywhere?! Dude! SWEET!!!!

....say hello to my little friend....
That line doesn't work so well as a pick-up line incidently.

trust me on this.

That line doesn't work so well as a pick-up line incidently.

trust me on this.

Really? You sure?

Say hello to my little friend. (http://everyschool.org/u/hillbrook/paris/puppy.jpg)

Really? You sure?

Say hello to my little friend. (http://everyschool.org/u/hillbrook/paris/puppy.jpg)
Ok. That might work. But it wasn't the 'little friend' I was implying.

Ok. That might work. But it wasn't the 'little friend' I was implying.


oh, you meant him (http://www.moonrover.com/mt-static/images/coleman.jpg)

My favorite death has to be when Patrick Bateman kills Paul Allen in American Psycho.

Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

[raises axe above head]

Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul!

[Allen looks...Bateman bashes Allen in the head with the axe, and blood splatters over him]

Patrick Bateman: TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!

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I always crack up during that scene, especially the "Yes, it is!" response to the raincoat question. :p

Major Kong in Dr Strangelove

"Yeeeeh-haaaw!!"

"We'll meet again..."

"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 rain. Time to die. "

A great choice from one of my two favorite movies.

My other favorite movie (Apocalypse Now) has two memorable deaths:
Chief Phillips dies on a spear and Kurtz's "the horror, the horror" death.

Some other classics:
Paul Baumer's death by sniper at the end of All Quiet on the Western Front

Spencer Tracey's death in Captains Courageous

The deaths of both the Wicked Witches in the Wizard of Oz ("I'm melting! I'm Melting!")

Charles Foster Kane's death in Citizen Kane

Several in Shane

The shower scene from Psycho

The gold paint murder in Goldfinger

The bikers in Easy Rider

Belle Rosen in The Posiodon Adventure ("I guess I'm not a champion of the Women's Swimming Association anymore")

The death of the title character from Charlotte's Web

The open death of the skinny dipper in Jaws

Chief suffocates McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Russian Roulette in The Deer Hunter

The exploding Mr. Creosote in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Pyle's suicide in Full Metal Jacket

The botched execution from The Green Mile

But the all time best was the death of the title character in Old Yeller (that scene is one of the few that still makes tear up)

Pyle's suicide in Full Metal Jacket

*smacks forehead*

How could I have forgotten that one??

"This is my rifle...there are many like it, but this one is mine!"

Classic.

Wash's death in Serenity was pretty awesome.

He was my favorite character... :(

While not in the same league as Tony Montana or Private Pyle, I would say that Susan Sarandon's death in 'Stepmother' is quite memorable. In fact, my wife just broke out into tears when I asked her what the name of that movie was...

(OK, NS community, please don't tell any of my real-life friends that I like that movie. I'll never live it down.)

"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 rain.

Time to die."

*smacks forehead*

How could I have forgotten that one??

"This is my rifle...there are many like it, but this one is mine!"

Classic.

"What is this Mickey Mouse shit? What are you two animals doing in my beloved head? Why is Private Pyle out of his bunk after lights out? Why is Private Pyle holding that weapon? Why are you not stomping Private Pyle's guts out?"

Joker's killing of the wounded sniper at the end was memorable too.

"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 rain.

Time to die."

Finally I beat someone to the punch...

The first one I thought of was "Diplomatic immunity," right before getting shot by Glover in Lethal Weapon II.

Two references to a Glover role in the same day...hmmm


EDIT:OHOHOHOH!

"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 rain. Time to die. "

I mean, damn...

"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 rain.

Time to die."

What film is it?

What film is it?

It's the final monologue of the replicant in Blade Runner.

Zomg, clearly the death of Leon :D

Tony Montana in Scarface.

Shay Hello to ma li'l friend!!!
thunk!BOOM!TATATTATTATATATATAT

Tony Montana in Scarface.

Uhh, yeah, beaten to it. :(

Darth Maul in Star Wars I. Nothing beats being cut in half and then falling down a bottomless pit.

The Farmer in Men in Black

"If you want my weapon, you have to take from my dead, cold hands!"

"Your proposal is acceptabel."

;)

Tony Montana in Scarface.

Say hello to my little friend!

Arnie in T2.


Makes thumbs-up gesture will immersed in molten steel.



Title character in Braveheart.

Frrrreeeeeeeddddddddoooommmmmmm!!!!

Bruce Willis in Armageddon

"We win, Grace!" *depresses nuclear trigger*

It's the final monologue of the replicant in Blade Runner.

Ah, I've never seen that film. I'll have to watch it one day.

Wilson being taken by the sea in Castaway

Frank's death in Once Upon A Time In The West. Frank (Henry Fonda) has this unbelieving look on his face, plus how he tries to put the gun away and falls on his face.

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in her dream-sequence in T2. Poof! Gone.

The person who gets hit by the bus in Final Destination. You think everyone's fine. Turns around, walks. Bam! That was quite a surprise.

Here's another one: Marvin (Phil LaMarr) gets shot in the face in Pulp Fiction. :eek:

The final death in 'The Last Broadcast'

A long agonising, drawn out death.


Pvt Mellish's death in Saving Private Ryan. That one disturbed me for quite a while. Their brutal hand to hand fight ends with the German soldier pinning Mellish down, and the German soldier tells Mellish to stop fighting back as he begins to to plunge the knife into Mellish- "shhh, stop, it will soon be over, give up." or something like that.


Man Bites Dog The killer breaks into a house and suffocates a boy with a pillow while at the same time engaging in jovial conversation with the camera crew making a documentary about him.


A man having his head crushed *spliat* like a melon by a falling lift in The Fly 2


As someone has already mentioned, the policeman's death singing a hymn amid the squealing of pigs and other animals in the original The Wicker Man "Chrrrrrrrrrisssst! Noooooo!"

The death of the King (Yul Brynner) in The King and I. By his passing, the King knows that all the changes his country needs will come to pass, and the protections against the changes he rejects will come into being; a new dawn arises for his nation, a new day he has fathered, but will never see. So he meets his own death with quiet dignity, in the company of the woman he has come to love as a friend and equal.

Howard Beale, Network

"This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because of lousy ratings."

Hmmm. Boromir from LOTR 2.
Boromir died in LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring.

and it was a good death.

The father (forget the name of the actor) in Independance day.

"hey boys, remember me? I'm baaaaaaack!"

*flies nuclear armed fighter jet into heart of alien ship*not nuclear armed fighter, just a regular fighter.


Other memorable Deaths.
Spock (Star Trek II)
Roy Fokker (both Macross the series and Macross the movie)
The crew of the shuttle in Deep Impact.

there are more, but my mind just shut down for the evening... :D

The death scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie of that vampire character.

"Ah, ah, ah. Oh, ooh, ah."

:D

The lawyer in Jurassic Park, of course.

"When you gotta go, you gotta go."

Hard to argue.

Eddie in the Lost World getting tag teamed by the Rexes.

Also, Quint form Jaws.

Wilson being taken by the sea in Castaway

You're definitely random. Amazing what a broken, bloodied volley ball can do for a man's mind.

Howard Beale, Network

"This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because of lousy ratings."

Nice.

Ah, I've never seen that film. I'll have to watch it one day.
No. You have to watch it right friggin' NOW, not 'one day'!

Try to find the Directors cut. It's better.

I am proud to say that I own both the director's cut AND the original release.