Greatest 'Death Scene' in Cinema History?

Journeyman · May 25, 2004

I am stealing this question from a radio show I listen to here locally...there were some good ones...

One that comes to mind for me was the way Bonnie and Clyde were taken out in that classic 'Bonnie and Clyde' movie...

What in your opinion was the alltime 'death scene' in movie history?

Many good ones

packer2012 · May 25, 2004

Love Story

OMNIVOROUS FROG · May 25, 2004

Carrie, the gymnasium. Hell on Earth...OF

TheGeneral+ · May 25, 2004

The beginning of that war movie a couple years ago. Was it Ryan? The beach invasion was brutal.

hymanroth+ · May 25, 2004

GODFATHER.WHEN SUNNY WAS GUNNED DOWN AT THE TOLL BOTH

bulldog77 · May 25, 2004

I agree with Hyman on this.
Also, in Ben-Hur when he destroys his rival in the chariot race though the guy lingered a little bit.

bulldog77 · May 25, 2004

Also, in Godfather 2 when the young don(DeNiro) offs Fanucci using the towel as a silencer.

Journeyman · May 25, 2004

General- I never could watch the movie because I could not get past that opening scene...

Frankly , I wish you hadn`t mentioned it...horrible grim reality...

hymanroth+ · May 25, 2004

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REMINDS ME ALSO OF THAT SCEEN IN BRAVEHEARTH

crudebar · May 25, 2004

the baseball bat scene at the end of the movie CASINO. brutal

wilheim · May 25, 2004

While Sonny getting whacked at the toll booth was a great scene - no death scene in history rocked the movie world more than Tony Perkins' slaughter of Janet Leigh in the motel room shower of Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Psycho".

wil.

Journeyman · May 25, 2004

That had to be the alltime death scene!!!

Wil, you have an ucanny knack for always delivering the right ...uhhh well almost always lol!

Bravo Wilheim!

rpscoins · May 25, 2004

I suppose there were two memorable ones.....In "Gladiator" the death of Commodus at the hands of Maximus....and who could forget the shot that "Benny Blanco " fired at point blank range at Al Pacino in the closing scene of "Carlito's Way"...."remember me? Benny Blanco from the Bronx...BANG!!"

wilheim · May 25, 2004

The movie "Jaws" had three very famous death scenes most notably the beginning when ill-fated Crissie meets her doom:

Tell me that wasn't scary dum dum dum dum dum.

Then there was the Kintner boy getting eaten by the shark right in front of chief Brody sunbathing on the beach. Finally Quint getting eaten on the sinking shark hunter "Orca" while he stabs the rampaging shark with a machete and blood flows from his mouth.

That was some shark.

wil.

hymanroth+ · May 25, 2004

chainsaw sceen in "scarface"

wilheim · May 25, 2004

One of my all time personal favorites;

Slim Pickens as Major T.J. "King" Kong rides to his death on an atomic bomb he himself launched from a B-52.

Yeeeeeehaaaaaw wil.

theswami · May 25, 2004

Gangs of New York.....

the rumble scene in the beginning of the movie where the natives fight the irish and the butcher kills the priest.

bulldog77 · May 25, 2004

Great one, Wilheim, on Slim Pickens' Dr. Strangelove scene. Such a great moment almost didn't consider it a death scene. Maybe best scene period.

Marco · May 25, 2004

Journeyman....you need to get through that opening scene in Private Ryan....that's a pretty violent scene but the violence tapers off compared to that scene.....awesome movie you're missing out on...

I watched that movie in a friend's basement....he had surround sound and during that bloody beach scene there were bullets ricocheting all around us around the room...

SportsBettingTrivia.com · May 25, 2004

All great scenes from the history of cinema..

I like long drawn out scenes..In "FACE OFF"..with Travolta and Cage..John Woo directs the final 20 minutes with incredible action and wonderful editing..The 2 battle to the death..

When Cage finally gets killed, the crowd I was watching with roared with approval..

Great death scene..America..What a country..

Just on the side..the scene on the roof where the child is listening to the walkman, and the bullets are flying everywhere..Great scene..Great movie..