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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 10:51 PM
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Best death scene.......ever!
Roy Baty,Tony Montana are a couple. Whats one you liked?
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 10:53 PM
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1. Sonny at the toll gate...
That was gruesome, even for 1972!

Look how they masscred my boy...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:07 PM
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10. that's the one
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:25 PM
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14. In contrast to Michael's death in GF3...
...he just fell off a chair. GF3 sucked in many ways - this was one of them...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:41 PM
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22. But it was cool how Michael dropped the orange when he died...
since oranges were the Medici ball in all three films
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:44 PM
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24. That's right - Don Vito was messing w/ oranges when he died...
...although we know little Anthony whacked him. :evilgrin:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:58 PM
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30. Oranges show up as symbols of power all over the place...
in all three movies.
You're right, Little Anthony was a murdering SOB
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:03 AM
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41. "Godfather Movies gave me a pathological fear of citrus fruits"
Use this line only on very "awake" people.

For those less awake substitute "toll booths" for "citrus fruit."

I think only about 1 in 10 (or fewer) people are aware of the "Oranges of Death" theme in the Godfather Movies.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 10:54 PM
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2. Robocop
"Red" from that 70's show smashes his car into a massive tank of industrial acid, then as he's staggering down an alley, a speeding car cuts him in half. Classic.
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 10:56 PM
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3. Red was driving the car...The guy from ER was the guy melting in acid.
n/t
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:03 PM
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6. oh. well it was still cool no matter who it was
:7
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:03 PM
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8. He got another great death scene, when the helicopter dropped on his head
KABOOM!!!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:07 PM
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11. shit, I've gotta rent that movie, I've forgotten so much
doh!
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 10:58 PM
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4. Steven Seagal in Executive Decision
Unexpected and most welcome
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:20 PM
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12. I agree about this one.
Major action actor in an action movie killed VERY early in the flick. One of the last times a movie has caught me off guard. Loved it. (Not being a big Segal fan helped, too.)
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ermoore Donating Member (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:24 AM
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50. lol, but it's true.
His best movie yet.
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:00 PM
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5. Scanners
where the dude is on stage giving the speech when his head explodes.
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kixot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:03 PM
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7. Yoda in Return of the Jedi
"There is ... another ... Sky ... walk.. er"
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:05 PM
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9. Alien chestbuster
"Hey man slow down, it's like your eating for two!"
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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:24 PM
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13. Tony Montana?
Edited on Fri Dec-12-03 11:24 PM by Ready4Change
I know the Roy Baty one (it's what came immediately to my mind.) But what is the Tony Montana scene?

Also did ANYONE keep a dry eye during James Canns characters death in "Brians Song?" It's an older movie now, so it may not have the same effect on todays audiences.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:27 PM
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16. I still sob like a baby over "Brian's Song". So does my 13 year
old daughter...although I must admit it took me 5 watchings to finally hear what it was he was saying to Lynn.

sniffle
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 08:42 AM
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66. Hold on there, MrsGrumpy
Are you a closet Bears fan? The best line in the movie is when Gale Sayers says "I love Brian Piccolo." It's not the line, really, it's the way he says it.
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petrock2004 Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:27 PM
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15. MITCHELL!!!
er... mst3k reference, sorry

:D :D :D :D :D :D
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:32 PM
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17. Alec Guiness
in "Bridge on the River Kwai."
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:32 PM
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18. Godfather deaths...
Tessio's death was classic.
And hey, Moe Greene...
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:42 PM
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23. Man, seeing Moe's death still makes me cringe...
I get a sympathetic brain-freeze headache...

We never get to see Tessio's death, but if we did, would it look something like Det. Phil Fish's death? :shrug:

Don Barzini's death, however, was great cinema (Al Neri, dressed as a cop, guns him down and Barzini rolls down the court house steps) - it reminded me of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin - the scene on the steps...
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:57 PM
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28. I thought we didn't see Tessio die, per se....
But he kicked out the windshield, right? Garroted.
That was classic.
That was after Mike figured out who sold him out, right.

Effective, not graphic.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 12:00 AM
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31. That was Carlo, Connie's husband...
And just when he thought he won a free trip to Vegas...
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 12:05 AM
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32. Gotcha...
Tessio took a ride. Time to whip out the boxset. :thumbsup:
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:36 PM
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19. Ronnie Raygun in "The Killers"...
Edited on Fri Dec-12-03 11:36 PM by Hand
Lee Marvin blows his sorry ass away with a silenced pistol. Lousy acting, of course...



B-)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:38 PM
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20. Greta Garbo in Camille
The doctor? If you can't make me live...how can he? She was gorgeous in that movie.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:40 PM
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21. Spock
Nicely done, especially at the time. The death in the simulation was meant to throw fans who heard the news that Leonard Nimoy wanted to quit off. One hour, 40 minutes later, Spock dies for real and everybody tears up... Man, if only John Logan was even 1/10th as good of a writer to pull off Data's demise...
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:45 PM
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25. John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A lyrical movie (his last, and one of his best), with a death scene that was as true as it was moving. Don't like Wayne? He did some really good stuff, and not knee jerk right wing, either (watch "The Searchers," then complain). Memorable.
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xcentrik Donating Member (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:58 PM
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29. Good pick!!
Despite the man's politics, it was impossible not to admire the way he went down swinging (or, as Richard Pryor put it, "Awwwright, just get the f*** outta here, Death!")
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:50 PM
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26. Boromir ( FOTR). Juliet (Romeo and Juliet) zefferelli directing the latter
both made me cry.
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 07:05 AM
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61. OMG, Boromir's death was like an early Christian martyr
Gruesome and cold-blooded and those arrows....

Horrible. Good choice.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 08:55 AM
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67. I cried for Boromir, too....
None of the LOTR "purists" have complained about that scene. In the book, he's just found dead, killed by orcs. But his heroic fight and the parting exchange with Aragorn were so affecting that nobody could object.

(I must confess that my snarky inner self noted a resemblance to a certain scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail.)
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-12-03 11:55 PM
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27. Tyne Daly in the Enforcer
Officer Moore: Harry....get him.

Harry: Oh, you can count on it.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 12:14 AM
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33. Roy in Blade Runner. Sean Connery in The Man who Would be King...
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:11 AM
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45. yeah, ditto for Roy
that was brilliant. People so devoid of empathy that their machines are more capable of it than they are. Heartbreaking. Still the best sci-fi movie in the history of the genre.
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:12 AM
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46. Manny in Runaway Train
shut it down.
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DerekG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 12:42 AM
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34. Robert Shaw in "Jaws"...
The leviathon jumps onto the end of the Orca, and Quint slowly slides into its mout--screaming all the way. I could think of a thousand better ways to die than that.

The most gruesome death in a PG film...ever.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 12:44 AM
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35. Not before bed! Hope I can sleep.
Good call, though. Yecch! Here's hoping for better dreams than that.
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 12:45 AM
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36. I like Pacino's in Donnie Brasco.
We don't see him die, but we know he is. It's sad and pitiful.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 01:31 AM
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37. Casino--Joe Pesci, meet the baseball bats
The most violent movie I'd seen in a long time, and I enjoyed every moment of it. Kill Bill I think has superceded it though, albeit with campy-cool violence.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 01:41 AM
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38. Oh, yeah, the baseball bats...
And being forced to watch his brother being beathen first, then buried alive together...brrr!

Typical black humour of Scorscese was the fact that all the aging gangsters were all winded and leaning on their bats for support after their workout!
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Blade Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 01:42 AM
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39. Towards the end of "The Omen"
guy goes after sacrificial knives, and his head gets chopped off by a big pane of glass. It was great, even though it looked fake as hell.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 01:47 AM
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40. Jason Robards in "Magnolia"
It's not violent or spectacular, but very human and emotional. My wife can't even watch it, after seeing her dad go the same way.
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:08 AM
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42. Untouchables had some cool ones + last sec save of the baby in carriage
Edited on Sat Dec-13-03 02:10 AM by alphafemale
Untouchables is a guilty thrill of mine

On edit...

meant to post to original message. Sorry
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:10 AM
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43. Emperor in Return of the Jedi
One of the only two brilliant things about that movie (the first being the lightsabre fight between Luke and Vader), and probably the last brilliant moment the series will ever have.
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:10 AM
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44. The first one that died in "The Cube"
Edited on Sat Dec-13-03 02:14 AM by VancSouthpaw
Cut up with a razor screen.
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:15 AM
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47. yep
got a few seconds to think about it before gravity did the rest.
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:19 AM
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48. death of the Hive in Dark City
a great and oft-overlooked film with an incredibly satisfying ending. My second-favorite performance by Kiefer Sutherland, the first being Reese Witherspoon's debut in "Freeway."

Also, all of the Crow killings in The Crow.
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:21 AM
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49. First appearance of the Overfiend
in Urotsokudoji.

Top THAT!

(Note: Do Not Watch Urotsokudoji. Just don't. If you haven't already seen it, God doesn't intend that you do.)
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:26 AM
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51. spartacus, mercy killing his friend Antoninus
great film all around, Thanks again Stanley
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 07:53 AM
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63. How about the Mercy killing in "...Waldo Pepper"--tragic!
n/t
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:35 AM
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52. Jimmy Cagney as Cody Jarrett in "White Heat"...
This mother-centered psycho goes out (and up) in a *big* way!

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" :nuke:
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 02:35 AM
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53. For the best death in film history...
you'll still have to wait a week.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 03:21 AM
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54. R.P McMurphy
killed by the Chief.

I much prefer the book, though, over the movie.
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 04:33 AM
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55. Casino...Pesci
The scene near the end where they killed Pesci and his brother. Amazing scene, in my opinion.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 04:35 AM
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56. Jimmy Durante in the Its a Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild World. He 'kicks the
bucket'. Truly. :)
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 04:36 AM
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57. Bonnie & Clyde
or Scarface
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codebled Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 05:42 AM
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58. when Michael Clark Duncan
or John Coffey was electrocuted...bawled my eyes out.
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 05:51 AM
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59. The Hillbilly...
....that Burt Reynolds skewers with an arrow in Deliverance. Took that guy forever to die.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 07:04 AM
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60. Boy, this is a morbid subject.
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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 07:26 AM
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62. Hired Hand, The Conformist
I dunno about "best" but two I remember
for how awful they were. Hired Hand was
with Warren Oates and Peter Fonda (who
directed) and another kid who got shot in
the neck in bed with some woman and he comes
running into the bar where Fonda & Oates are,
calling for his mother as he dies.
And in The Conformist
some guy got stabbed about a hunderd times while
he was standing up spinning around.
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 08:25 AM
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64. The Absolute best death scene ever...
Paul Rubins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the Movie). I still laugh my ass off everytime I see it.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 08:40 AM
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65. "True Romance" Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken
Hopper plays Christian Slater's father and mobster Walken pays him a visit to find out where Slater has taken his briefcase full of cocaine that Slater mistakenly took from pimpster Gary Oldman.

Walken (sorry I forgot the characters' names) offers Hopper a cigarette and Hopper declines, he's given up smoking. Then Hopper realizes that he is going to die anyway and asks for the cigarette. As he smokes what he knows is his last smoke he proceeds to tell Walken, a Sicillian, that since the Moors invaded Sicilly that he is surely part black. A great scene as the nobody nowhere character gets the last laugh and smoke.
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 09:04 AM
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68. Pulp Fiction
The hit scene at the beginning where John and Samuel kill the idiots in the apartment over the briecase.
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