Best death scenes in movies

Telly Savalas as Maggot had the best death after he went (even more) nuts and Jefferson had to take him down.

Supposedly Trini Lopez's character was to have had a heroic death but went a bit overboard with his demands on the set, so he wound up dying off-screen while parachuting into France.

An even better death -- Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr in "Blazing Saddles."

"Wow, you killed the bad guy."

 

I have to agree with Brad Pitt's death in "Meet Joe Black". Also, if you ever get a chance to see the horror film "Jack Frost" there's a really cool scene where a kid gets decapitated by a sled. It made me laugh for nearly half an hour.

 

How about when Christian Bale offed Jared Leto in American Psycho, the speech he gives before he nails him with the axe is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie




Bale: Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

Leto: Uhh, well, they're ok...

Bale: 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, commercially and artistically...The whole album has a crisp, clear sound, and a whole sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs, a big boost...He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

Leto: Hey Halborstam

Bale: Yes Allen

Leto: Why do you have copies of the stlye section taped everywhere, do you have a dog, a little, chow or something haha.

Bale: No Allen

Leto: Is that a rain coat?

Bale: 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 its not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, its also a personal statement about the band itself, hey Paul, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORCIA NOW, YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD.

 

If you're going Mel Brooks.. two better deaths than that were those of: Dr. Wentworth and Nurse Diesel in "High Anxiety".

 

Forgive the duplications, please:

Apollo and Mickey in the "Rocky" flicks...
The RB who was clotheslined and produced the great "I think I broke his fuckin' neck!" line in "The Longest Yard" (the original, of course)...
Patrick Swayze holding his bro, C. Thomas Howell, as he fades in the classic "Red Dawn"...
Old Yeller...
Jon Voight in "The Champ"...
John Wayne in "Cowboys"...
The guy sitting at the table when the creature breaks out of him in the original "Alien"...
The guy Wilford Bremley is attempting to save when his chest cracks and chomps off Bremley's arms in "The Thing"...
Kevin Klein in "Life is a House"...
The little dude in "Simon Burch"...
Skip in "My Dog Skip"...
Debra Winger in "Terms of Endearment"...
Michael Keaton in "My Life"...
John Travolta in "Phenomena"...
Carl Weathers and Jessie Ventura in "Predator"...
Charlton Heston in "Midway"...
Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan"...
Russell Crowe in "Gladiator"...

How about a few from TV?

James Caan in "Brian's Song"...
Peter Horton in "Thirtysomething"...
Gary Cole's former love interest in "Midnight Caller"...

 

The greatest I'm-In-This-Turkey-For-The-Benjamins career choice in movie history!

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but Warren Beatty in the shootout in the snow in McCabe and Mrs. Miller is my nominee.

 

"The guy Wilford Bremley is attempting to save when his chest cracks and chomps off Bremley's arms in "The Thing"..."

Since I know the movie back and front, it wasn't Wilford Brimley trying to save him. At that point Brimley had been locked outside after going nuts and samshing the radio.

It was Doc Copper who was trying to save Norris who got waxed. GREAT SCENE though!

 

How about the dude in "Lethal Weapon 2" who got decapitated by the surfboard?

 

David Warner goes headless in the original Omen via plate-glass.

 

TD... thanks for the correction!

 

No problem, I own the collector's edition of the movie, seen it countless times and widely consider it to be the one of the Top 10 horror movies of all time.

That and I'm a huge John Carpenter fan

 

How the hell old are you? It was in Die Hard: With a Vengeance (3) where that happened. It came out in like, 1996. Are you even 18?