death scenes

[TammyL]

All good movies have a great death scene in it, or at least what could be perceived as a great death scene. It is in my oppinion that it should consist of a little violence, a little gore, and a little dramaticism that put together equal something magnificent.

However there are some death scenes that leave a lot to be desired. They may be too quick or just plain boring, but at least unmatchible to the preset I had listed.

Assault on Precinct 13...... The little girl who begs her daddy for ice cream and goes up to the truck, only to find the ice cream driver pre-occupied with a car of thugs who has driven past rather suspiciously. She asks for ice cream he hands it to her and she goes. The thugs come back and do there thing, but the little girl dicovers her ice cream is all wrong and goes back. The moment she opens up her mouth to comment the thug shoots and straight back she falls--and I do mean straight back. They could have done a little more originality with it. But it the end it all works out I guess......

Maybe after watching enough movies in my lifetime I find the silliest of pleasure out of something so morbid.

[john]

The HBO movie Shot Through the Heart, which was set in Bosnia. Young girl goes to sit on the steps of her building to wait for her mother (who is still getting ready), and gets shot in the head. All you hear is a pfffttt sound and she falls over with a hole in the side of her head.

[J.R.]

There's a scene in Black Hawk Down where a Humvee driver gets hit with a rocket, and it doesn't detonate, and the other soldiers pull him out, his body charred to a crisp, impaled in the rocket. I thought that was pretty cool.

[Neville]

One of my favourite death scenes of all time is Sean Penn's in "Carlito's way", another underrated Brian DePalma film.

Penn lies in a hospital bed after an attempted assasination, and is completely paranoic. Then his old friend Al Pacino enters the room, only to be confronted by Penn, who keeps a revolver under his pillow. As they talk, Pacino toys with the gun, and they talk about why Penn had betrayed Pacino earlier in the film.

As Pacino leaves, he notices a strange looking cop, but he keeps on walking. As he does so, we see the cop entering the room and killing Penn, who tries to stop him with his gun only to find it empty. Next image shows Pacino throwing the bullets to a trashcan as he mutters a farewell to Penn.

[Neon Noodle]

Going on the aforementioned list for great death scenes, there's always one of my faves from the movie 'Hard Boiled'.

When the trigger-happy "Mad Dog" character was trying to kill "Alan" by running hog wild through the hospital, they eventually come to a standoff with about 8 hospital patients between the two of them. Both Mad Dog and Alan agree to let the people go so they can kill each other like civilized men.

Well, "Johnny" (Mad Dog's boss) comes into the room and wants to cut to the chase - he proceeds to mow down the patients and Alan gets away. Mad Dog tries to kill Johnny for going after the innocent patients, but alas, his gun is empty and Johnny uses a shotgun to make hamburger out of Mad Dog.

Highly recommended, of course!

[john]

Wanted dead or Alive - Rutger Hauer is promised a bonus if he brings Gene Simmons in alive. At the end of the movie he finally catches him, handcuffs him and stuffs a grenade in his mouth as a gag. He plays with the ring for a few seconds, then says "f**k the bonus!" and pulls the pin. Simmons runs arounds for several seconds until the grenade goes off.

[J.R.]

There's a Chuck Norris film where he shoots a guy in the jewels with a bazooka.