Second best death scene?

[Storyteller01]

One of my favorite death scenes in the last few years was in Farscape.
IIRC, It must of been in season before the last one. When Criton and crew is on board the Peacekeeper battleship.

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They blow the thing to peices and as it's going down in flames you see Scorpius, at the same time defiant and defeated, in his room atop the stairs with destruction all around him...

Very cool imagry -- one of the best scenes on TV, better than many movie scenes!

Glad someone said Obi Wanin SW IV. That was a great scene, very powerful because you didn't really expect it in such a movie at the time.

You mean the death of Talon??

I personally like the scene at the end of the last episode of Farscape (before the soon to be aired Peacekeeper Wars series). he finally pops the question, on a lake, all romantic like... and then they both get disassembled by a passing flying craft (piloted by something with a folding head).

 

[D+1]

Can't believe I forgot Major Kong from Dr. Strangelove.
How about Manny from Runaway Train.
Brian Piccolo in Brian's Song
The big german aircraft mechanic from Raiders of the Lost Ark who eats the prop.
The other germans and Belloq who melt, explode or implode when the ark is opened in Raiders.
Bernie Lomax from Weekend at Bernie's (perhaps the whole movie qualifies as a death scene)
Mel Gibson's Hamlet was pretty good.
Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs who bled to death through the whole movie.
Kurgon in Highlander

 

[Dark Jezter]

Two words.

Jek. Porkins.

The man either too fat, or two stupid to know when to punch out.

Damn right!

How could you not include Jek Porkins in a thread about best death scenes?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Mel Gibson's Hamlet was pretty good.

I prefer Schwarzenegger's Hamlet.

"To be, or not to be...

... Not to be."

-Hyp.

 

[rbingham2000]

The scene just before the big church shootout in The Killer where

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Jeffery Chow has to finish off his buddy Sidney

is definitely sad as hell.

As is the scene where

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Jeffery finally dies after being shot and blinded himself by rat-bastard Johnny Weng, and he doesn't even get to say goodbye to his girlfriend Jenny because he's just as blind as she is

.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Dang, someone beat me to Ol' Yeller. I defy anyone to watch that movie (or read the book) without crying.

Where the Red Fern Grows is another tear-jerker, also involving dogs.

Re: Boromir's death. I agree that the movie version is not how I envisioned it. I would've liked to see something like the classic Michael Whelan painting, in which Boromir is pincushioned with numerous arrows and surrounded by a literal pile of orc bodies. Then the camera pulls back and you're like Holy crap, he killed three dozen of them!

Spock in Star Trek II is a great death. 'I have been, and always will be, your friend.' And then Kirk slumping down and saying just one word: 'No.' That gets me every time.

Not feeling the love for Roy Batty's death in Blade Runner. I mean, his death at that point is a forgone conclusion. But it is a great movie anyway.

Kudos to whomever mentioned the movie Ran. Abso-freakin'-lutely amazing movie. The scene where the king wanders down from the castle, with dead bodies lying everywhere, is incredible.

Not really a death scene, but still great: Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back. 'I love you!' -- 'I know.' Now that's classic.

 

[Elemental]

Another one I just remembered--in Battle Angel Alita (the manga),

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Jashugan's death, where with massive brain failure and a shattered cyber-heart, he impossibly comes back for just long enough to one-punch Alita.

Damn, but that's the way to go out--it's also one of the only fight scenes I've seen / read where I honestly didn't want either of them to lose.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Not feeling the love for Roy Batty's death in Blade Runner. I mean, his death at that point is a forgone conclusion. But it is a great movie anyway.

Sure his death is a forgone conclusion. He's basically a dead man from the begining of the movie. But when he saves Ford's life, then sits down next to him and laments how all he's ever experienced is going to just slide into oblivion as he dies, it's very moving. He's a man who has been trying anything he could, no matter who he killed, to stay alive. Then at the end he knows there is nothing he can do but save the life of someone who was trying to kill him, just becuase life means that much to him at the end. Maybe by saving Deckard's life he will live on, if only in memory and thought of another. I can't think of any more moving death scene in film history.

As for the title of the thread, Boromir's doesn't even come close.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

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Mani

, from Brotherhood of the Wolf. It's like, he figures out what's going on and *bam* he gets whacked.

Brad

 

[argo]

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Mani

, from Brotherhood of the Wolf. It's like, he figures out what's going on and *bam* he gets whacked.

Brad

Heh, all I could think of for the 10 minutes or so leading up to that was "never split up the party, never split up the party, never split up the party...."