Selkie on 16/4/2006 at 18:44
Quote Posted by piln
THRONE OF BLOODQUOTE]
Say it, Preacher!
Road To Perdition - [SPOILER]Scene in the rain, with the Tommy gun, and the final scene at the beach house[/SPOILER]
Big Lebowski - [SPOILER]Donny. 'Nuf said :cheeky: [/SPOILER]
Alien 3 - [SPOILER]where *it* 'splodes outta the chest[/SPOILER]
ROTJ - [SPOILER]Vader. Cheesy I know, but without the frickin' Ewoks butting in every 2 mins it'd have been *so* moving[/SPOILER]
Goblin on 16/4/2006 at 19:12
Nobody*'s mentioned it yet, because amongst we nerds it may seem trite to do so, but fuck. Darth Vader gasping his last words out just after tossing the Emperor into a bottomless pit.
Aeris getting stabbed in Final Fantasy 7. That could well have been the biggest "moment" in videogame narrative like, ever.
*Okay fair enough, someone did
ZylonBane on 16/4/2006 at 19:32
The Blues Brothers: "I've always loved you."
Police Squad!: "My father died the same way."
Enchantermon on 16/4/2006 at 20:09
I haven't seen Star wars IV-VI in the longest time, so I'm not sure which it was in, but
Yoda's death..... :( Quote Posted by liquidfear
Terminator 2.
Terminator 2!!!!
Yes, yes. I heartly agree. How it happened was bad enough, but John being there made it even worse..... :(
Dia on 16/4/2006 at 20:25
Thirded on Terminator 2! I cryed real tears at that one, even if Arnie's acting was a little mechanical. ;)
Komag on 16/4/2006 at 20:40
Yeah, but if he "can't self terminate", then he can't just let himself die either when he could physically prevent it. I don't buy it
Jenesis on 16/4/2006 at 21:47
T2 could really do without the Sarah Connor voiceover at the end. The end of the steel mill section should really be it.
Tocky on 16/4/2006 at 21:56
Saving private Ryan had several. The sound Tom Hanks made when he discovered he was dragging half a man, the subsequent taking it in stride when he pulls the radioman around and discovers he is talking to a hole, the medic saying (about himself this time) "more morphine" because you know what that means, and of course the knife death. Brutal shit.
There is this little old guy who lives a few houses down from me and tends to his flowers. I see him in the yard and we wave as I go by. Once I saw him helping his wife up the front steps, his frail palsied hand steadying her. A really nice guy, always smiling, always upbeat, quick witted and quietly confident in that get it done with no fuss country way.
Once he stoped his walk around the neighborhood and talked a bit as I raked leaves. I don't remember why I brought it up, maybe it was veterans day, but I asked him had he served. Yep. Which battles? Omaha and then he named a few more that I wasn't paying attention to because he said OMAHA and I was stunned to be in the presence of one of the luckiest bastards on the planet for simply being able to stay alive. A charming little guy you wouldn't think twice about. Movie shit kinda pales.
oudeis on 16/4/2006 at 21:57
* Last of the Mohicans: when you get down to it, the whole movie was about the passing of a people and their culture, but the last 15 minutes of the movie was one long death scene, and utterly beautiful and heartbreaking. Major Heyward substitutes himself to be burned alive in place of Hawkeye. Hawkeye shoots Heyward as he burns to save him the agony. Magua guts Uncas and throws him from a cliff, and when he reaches, yearningly, for Cora, she throws herself after her murdered love. Hawkeye just blows through Magua's warriors in vengeful pursuit, and when Chingachgook catches up to the man who murdered his son he goes to work on him like a pitbull savaging a rabbit. The look on his face before he crushes Magua down was just "You fucking cunt!!" Then, at the end, Chingachgook stands on the precipice and delivers the eulogy to his diminishing people and their vanishing way of life.
* Alien: The first appearance of the larval alien. This was what made the movie famous: the newspapers and tv of the time was filled with stories about people vomiting and fainting in the theaters, and I was almost praying that I wouldn't embarass myself by barfing. When the creature chewed its way out of John Hurt's chest I came through with flying colors but damn was that a scene. Even though you barely knew the character you really liked him. Seeing him go out that way was a shock.
* Star Wars: Obi-wan gives himself up to Vader's lightsaber.
* The Omega Man: the ending.
* The Deer Hunter: Christopher Walken's final game of russian roulette, against Robert Deniro, his best friend.
* Seven Samurai: Toshiro Mifune gets shot by the bandit chief.
* Lost Boys: Keifer Sutherland is impaled on a rack of antlers.
* Gattaca: The final montage. Jude law commits pyro-kiri as Ethan Hawke ascends to the stars, never to return- "You want to know how I did it?! THIS is how I did it, Anton! I never saved anything for the swim back!".
