Movies characters you hated to see die.

[alphafemale]

Quint. Jaws.

http://imgred.com/

[Mythsaje]

1. The little girl in

Oh, spoiler...
























Bridge to Tarabithia

REALLY bummed me out. She was the kind of girl I would've had as a friend when I was in Junior High.

[alphafemale]

3. Sad. But, that was one of the most "telegraphed" deaths I've ever seen though.

I really knew nothing about the movie or story when I got it from NetFlix.

But early on I said..."Oh, she's dead." Then..."Oh, she's really, really dead."

It was even obvious HOW she was going to die.

But those were astounding complex characters for a "kids" story.

And those actors were superb.

[Mythsaje]

99. *I* didn't see it coming...

And I'm usually pretty good at that stuff. :shrug:

[Radio_Lady]

116. My nine-year-old granddaughter told me NEVER to see that movie.

I'll have to find out what her objections were.

I didn't see the preview.

[AwakeAtLast]

56. That was my answer, too! n/t

[RebelOne]

2. Any animal.

[alphafemale]

7. Even Scar?

I kid.

[nadine_mn]

136. I agree - if it looks like an animal is gonna die...I quit watching

Like why the hell to people keep trying to get me to watch Old Yeller...and what the fuck is wrong with disney - Bambi, the Lion King - such unnecessary death

[Left Is Write]

4. Johnny in The Outsiders.

[alphafemale]

8. That was a tremendous story.

My boyfriend at the time was rather annoyed that I ignored him for it.

[acmavm]

5. Old Yeller. I was traumatized.

[alphafemale]

9. Everybody was. And now read..."Their eyes were watching God"

Holy SHIT!

[lost-in-nj]

6. Even though its a true story

I hated to see the whole troop die in GLORY....

so sad...


lost

and Quint is a good choice

[alphafemale]

10. That is a great movie. nt

[Aristus]

40. Well, if it helps, in real life, the 54th Massachusetts was not wiped out.

They did take about 50% casualties, but they regrouped under a new commanding officer, and fought until the end of the war, when they were disbanded.

[lost-in-nj]

46. Thanks for telling me this

I never knew that.....

but the end of the movie leads you to believe they all died....

lost
:hi: :hi:

[Downtown Hound]

52. Not only that

but Sgt. Rawlins (Morgan Freeman's character) survived the attack. The movie had to go for the most dramatic ending, and it was indeed very sad what happened, but it wasn't all doom and gloom.

[sarge43]

77. I like to think that some of the members of The Harlem Boy's Choir who did the sound track

are descendants of those soldiers. It would be meet and right.

Shaw's body was thrown in the common grave with his troops out contempt on the part of the Confederates. They believed it was demeaning for a white officer to bury with blacks. Shaw's father answered that he knew his son would be proud to rest with his troops.

[alphafemale]

83. It is amazing the things small-minded people consider to be insults. nt

[sarge43]

87. True, but that was one 'insult' that blew back on them. n/t

[sarge43]

11. Theoden, The Return of the King and Wash, Serenity. n/t

[alphafemale]

13. Yes to the first. Haven't seen the second. nt

[sarge43]

16. Serenity is worth a look.

In fact, it's even better at a second look. It does help to have watch the Firefly series.

[Rob H.]

63. Wash was the first one I thought of

I'd never heard an audience yell "No!!" when a character died before.

[sarge43]

75. Yeah, that was a kidney punch.

It was probably the suddenness.

[raccoon]

122. Elucidate, my dear Watson. The movie was..? nt

[Rob H.]

128. "Serenity" written and directed by Joss Whedon

of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly TV series fame. Well worth checking out if you haven't seen it, as is Firefly. I went into Serenity having only seen a few episodes of Firefly and still liked it enough to buy a copy of it when it came out on DVD. :)

[RedG1]

12. Macaulay Culkin in 'My Girl'

dying from bee stings

[alphafemale]

25. We don't see him die. But it isn't any less real.

The glasses on the ground. Oh key-riced.

[cobalt1999]

14. Archy Hamilton

In the movie Gallipoli. First time I saw that movie I was ready to yell "Don't go!" when they were ordered out of the trenches into the machine gun fire. The pointlessness of the death was hard to take.

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. Dan Evans in the 3:10 to Yuma remake.

:cry:

[Tyler Durden]

20. YES!

SO and I said "NO!" out loud the same time Crowe did.

[SaveElmer]

65. Very good movie...

Even though I knew it was coming...it was done well so it still had impact!

[cedahlia]

66. Yes!

My heart broke for Evans from the moment Christian Bale brought him to life in the first scenes. But it broke all over again when that happened...*sigh*.

Christian Bale = ~*Love*~

[mcscajun]

69. GRRR...I'm going to see that *this* weekend.

Spoiler alerts on current films, Please!

[ronnykmarshall]

17. Bambi's momma.

:cry:

[alphafemale]

36. Disney had a thing for making characters orphans

Or at least separating children from their parents...as in Dumbo.

http://imgred.com/

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. I once made the mistake of showing that movie to a neighbor's child...

I felt SO stupid afterward. Poor kid. :cry:

[Catchawave]

85. It's still hard for me to watch

that scene.

I think the animal rights movement was born from that movie :D

[NaturalHigh]

18. John Wayne in The Cowboys.

I would also say John Wayne in The Shootist, but that movie was essentially about his character living out his last days and coming to terms.

[alphafemale]

38. When I saw City Slickers, it reminded me of The Cowboys. nt

[yurbud]

91. that was a great movie and one of his best

after the original version of the Birdcage when he played the Nathan Lane character.

[alphafemale]

109. Wait a minute...are you saying John Wayne did a version of "The Birdcage?" huh?

[yurbud]

112. Actually, he played the Hank Azaria part in the stage version PIC

[Heidi]

19. Tyler Durden.

Seriously, I just finally got around to watching "Fight Club" over the weekend.

[Tyler Durden]

21. He doesn't really "die"

I like the fact that he sort of re-assimilates into the narrator.

[Heidi]

24. I kind of understood that Jack

purged himself of Tyler, but I've gotta admit, I was pretty tired toward the end of the movie.

On the other hand, I'm glad to hear you didn't _really_ die, Tyler Durden. :hi:

[Tyler Durden]

27. Thanks!

Would sort of interfere with certain PLANS of mine, doncha know.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

50. Well, he kind of did in my eye,

He purged himself of his second identity, a man who had no true emotion. It seemed to me that when he realized what he had to do, he accepted Durden. He had been hiding from the facts that Durden kept presenting to him ("If you could do one thing before you die, what would it be?"), but he saw that he didn't need him to figure this out. I think the fact that he took Marla's hand and watched the work he had done, instead of freaking out, was his acceptance of his life and his subliminal thought-process.

But who knows?

[gmoney]

22. Sheesh, ignoring the first rule!

You're NOT supposed to talk about Fight Club!

Hope you're doing well. Miss you and CMW!

[Heidi]

23. YOU!

:hug: :hug:

:*

[Liberalynn]

26. Jim Hanson aka Julian Mcmahon in Premonition

Didn't even buy the DVD and only went to see it once, because I didn't enjoy at all watching him get wiped out by an 18 wheeler. What a waste of all that gorgeous, sexiness. :rofl:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

28. Boba Fett

Swallowed by the Pit of Sarlacc. Personally, I wouldn't wanna go out like that.

[Aristus]

42. In the book "Tales From Jabba's Palace", there is a short story, told from Boba Fett's

POV, that chronicles his escape from the Sarlacc.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

43. This is the happiest day of my life.

Thank you. :')

[Aristus]

44. Any time, buddy.

B-)

[sakabatou]

29. Godzilla in Godzilla 1989

Even though he never really died... I think...

[skygazer]

30. Donnie in The Big Lebowski

Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was... He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors, and bowling, and as a surfer explored the beaches of southern California from Redondo to Calabassos. And he was an avid bowler. And a good friend. He died--he died as so many of his generation, before his time. In your wisdom you took him, Lord. As you took so many bright flowering young men, at Khe San and Lan Doc and Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And Donny too. Donny who... who loved bowling.

And so, Theodore--Donald--Karabotsos, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well.

Goodnight, sweet prince.

[NewJeffCT]

31. King Kong in any of his movies

but, the first one especially.

[SoxFan]

32. Darth Vader

No modern villain had more panache..."you are in command now, ADMIRAL Piett".

The guy finally tells Palps where to shove it, and wham, he shuffles off this mortal coil.

[I Have A Dream]

33. John Coffey in "The Green Mile".

[GoddessOfGuinness]

59. That was such a sad story...

:cry:

[I Have A Dream]

79. Yeah...

:cry:

[alphafemale]

74. Great movie. One of my other favorite "Prison" movies is "Shawshank Redemption"

Both by Stephen King.

[I Have A Dream]

78. I couldn't make myself watch "Shawshank Redemption".

I can't watch anything that has explicit rape scenes, for some reason.

[tuckessee]

34. Pvt. Witt in The Thin Red Line n/t

[Westegg]

35. That's a good one. Mine is...

"Chef" in "Apocalypse Now." First of all, he was a saucier from N'awlins. You gotta love that. Second, he was just a stand-up gent thrown into the hell that was 'Nam. Didn't deserve having his head tossed into the lap of Marty Sheen, to be sure. On the other hand, if anyone's gonna toss your head, I suppose having Brando do it is some kinda reward. Now I'm blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction. But it goes back to Quint in "Jaws," in that I've always thought the great Robert Shaw shoulda won best supporting actor for that performance. Shaw was an exceptional actor/writer/adventurer, and it's sad that younger film fans (I'm 42) aren't hip to his genius in films like "A Man For All Seasons," of "From Russia With Love."

Or are you?

[mitchum]

49. Weep no more; that's not Chef's head...

that's the head of Colby (the Lt Col. who was originally sent on Willard's mission and had become a loyal follower of Kurtz)
Chef is still back on the boat.


However, my entry for this thread would be the death of Clean (Laurence Fishburne's character) His death is just heartbreaking.

[Westegg]

61. Sorry. That IS Chef's head.

Not sure why you think it's Colby's (played by Scott Glenn-- in an available bootleg version of the film there are additional scenes featuring Colby wher he actually has dialogue!). Peter Cowie's excellent "The Apocalypse Now Book" from Da Capo Press,gives much behind-the-scenes info about the film and its production.

[mitchum]

71. Y'know, you're right...and that means the movie is not as good as I thought...

that's even considering the dilution resulting from Francis Ford Cokeala putting that stupid plantation sequence in "Redux" :)
Every viewing, I have always assumed that was Colby's head. That, to me, would have been indicative of Kurtz's nature. Ooops...

[Bake]

37. OK, it's TV, but Leo McGarry in West Wing!

And John Spencer in real life.

Bake

[stuntcat]

39. Obi-Wan

I have to Represent for the good side of the Force O8)

[Connonym]

41. Hans Gruber

[Zavulon]

45. Mick in Rocky III, Apollo in Rocky IV

Mick: Classic character, and his remarks during the exhibition with Thunderlips cracked me up.

Apollo: you can't say enough about the guy. Coolest man ever to wear the belt.

[Jamastiene]

47. First and foremost, Nancy Spungeon.

I hated hated hated to see her die both in real life and on the screen. My dream girl dead. Not a good sign.

Next, I hated to see Sid Vicious die, in real life and on the screen. And yes, I'm one of those who honestly do not believe he killed her. A drug dealer did it. It's well known in the punk community that that is what really happened and that Sid was waaay too fucked up to have been able to kill her.

RIP Nancy
RIP Sid

[Mad_Dem_X]

48. Jack Twist

in Brokeback Mountain. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Initech]

51. Donnie from The Big Lebowski

"They were Nazis, dude?"

"Oh come on Donnie, they were threatening castration!"

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

53. Cmd. Data

in the last Star Trek Movie... i'd rather seen Picard die (allthough i loved a literate leader who was non-american)

[Chovexani]

54. Admiral Norrington in Pirates 3

I think it's a testament to how well that character was written that I spent two movies hating his guts, but he grew into such a sympathetic character by the end of it that I ended up bawling my eyes out in the theater when he died.

In *my* version he made it back to The Empress with Elizabeth and became her First Mate. :)

[Broken_Hero]

55. A couple...

Qui Gon from the Phantom Menace, and Darth Maul....

Deniro, in Heat(man I was so pissed)...

Trinity, Matrix III

Leonidas, 300...

Maximus, Gladiator....

Zod, Superman II

[FredScuttle]

57. Tommy DeVito in GoodFellas

you knew it was coming, but damn!

[mitchum]

72. That greasily annoying little prick richly deserved his reward

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. Maggie in City of Angels

Dammit! Why was she riding her bike like a ditz, with her eyes closed and her hands off the handlebars? And why didn't she hear the freakin' truck? Poor Seth. :cry:

[Blue Belle]

62. Bob Barnes - Syriana

Everyone - The Perfect Storm.

[alphafemale]

107. Yeah. That sucked. Until that last few seconds I thought he might pull it off.

That movie rattled me for several days.

[Blue Belle]

111. Me too...

That was a great movie though... very poignant.

[ThatsMyBarack]

64. Selena.

J-Lo played her in the 1997 biopic about her life which was cut short 'way too soon. :(

[CBHagman]

67. One spoiler, one non-spoiler.

First the non-spoiler: Polonius (Richard Briers) in Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet. Briers was amazing.

Major spoiler: Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) and Mayor Testerman (Josh Mostel) and Hillard (Jace Alexander) in Matewan. :cry: Ironically, all three of them have the best of intentions.

[tigereye]

68. possible spoilers here (unlikely, but you never know)

Alfre Woodard in Crooklyn.


oh, and Maude in Harold and Maude.

[pokerfan]

70. Here's a treat for Jaws fans

A never before seen version of Quint's story of the sinking of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis:

http://www.youtube.com/v/MJDAWEoNHas

[yurbud]

92. that's a more realistic version of guys have a deep moment. the only thing missing was a fart

[yurbud]

93. Tom Cruise at the end of FAR AND AWAY

his character died and they panned up toward the sky like his soul was leaving his body, and I was so happy--until the camera panned back down and it turned out he wasn't dead.


That was really sad.

[mitchum]

73. Francisco Manoel da Silva aka Cobra Verde in Herzog's "Cobra Verde"...

but it is a GREAT death scene

[alphafemale]

76. Artax dying in the swamp of sadness.

The entire theater was weeping I think.

[Qanisqineq]

114. oh dang

that was horribly sad. I was so distraught that I couldn't enjoy the rest of the movie. I bought the DVD a year or so ago, it was really cheap and I hadn't seen the movie in YEARS. Still made me sad.

[redwitch]

80. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Two deaths that were devastating but I won't say because if you haven't seen it ya just gotta!

[nytemare]

101. Great film.

Wonderful cast, one of my top 5, if not my favorite film. I cried so hard.

[redwitch]

110. I saw it at the theater, the audience was as moved as I have ever seen.

People stood and cheered as they wept at the ending. Amazing film.

[nytemare]

120. My favorite moment in that film

Is when Chief said "thanks" to Randall for giving him the gum.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

81. Spock, "Wrath of Khan".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hFyl4GxBzEw

It always kills me when he says "What do you think.. of my solution?" :cry:

[Bucky]

134. Or Kirk's son in "The Search for Spock"

I mean, why even introduce the character if they're just gonna kill him off midway through the sequel? By the 4th movie Kirk doesn't even seem to be slightly bothered by the loss. Makes the character quite unlikeable.

[LostinVA]

82. How about a TV show character?

Cherry, the ARC girl, during the Tet Offensive on "China Beach." It hit me almost like it was a real person.

[alphafemale]

84. Plus that was so unexpected.

It was like getting kicked in the stomach.

[LostinVA]

86. EXACTLY

It took my breath away.

[alphafemale]

103. She was so god-damned sweet and out of place there,

Wasn't it one of the first episodes she was in where some battle weary guys come in, and this one really hardened looking guy, (Dodger?) happens to say he's 19.

"You can't be nineteen," she gasps "I'm nineteen." :cry:

[LostinVA]

104. Yup -- and the "clean," "nice" Embassy dude tried to rape her

And, LOVED her friendship with KC.

[alphafemale]

105. She was the personification of those people who drift along believing the world is a safe place.

Who the rest of us adore. And we can usually protect them.

But not always.

[Left Is Write]

90. This is going to sound so stupid...

but I cried real tears when Isabella Toscano died on Days Of Our Lives.

[LostinVA]

97. No, it doesn't sound stupid

I've done that, too.

[yurbud]

88. JFK (I hope I didn't ruin it for people who hadn't seen the movie)

[pitohui]

96. you bad son :-) EOM

,

[yurbud]

89. Quint was like half the barbers I went to as a kid--they had all been on the Bataan Death March

and still hated the Japanese.

[alphafemale]

95. I was in middle school before I learned that Macarthur's first name wasn't really Sonnuvabitch.

:D
Yeah. Some of those guys held a grudge a long time.

But they went through some shit.

That's for sure.

[yurbud]

100. I hadn't heard the Macarthur part before but it makes sense.

[yurbud]

94. ET in ET--because he wasn't really dead. The little scrotum came back to life

[Mad_Dem_X]

124. "the little scrotum"!

:spray:

[yurbud]

126. that's what I thought the whole movie: somebody put a pair of briefs over that nutsack

[sarge43]

98. OK, it's tv and not all the deaths were regrettable, but HBO's Rome - yow.

27 people are on the major character list; 14 of them have gone bye-bye at the end of the series.

Reminds of one of the snarky lines in Blazing Saddles

"They lose me after ..

the Senate scene

the arena scene

the palace scene

the battle scene

the street scene

the house scene

the dinner scene

the river bank scene

the sea shore scene

..."

[nytemare]

102. Frank-n-Furter

Tragic. Simply tragic. :cry:

[Canuckistanian]

106. Gareth in "4 Weddings and a Funeral"

"He was a splendid bugger"

[bullwinkle428]

108. Jean-Pierre Sarti (played by Yves Montand) in the 1966 film "Grand Prix"

The storyline was a little cliched (okay...ALOT!), but the cinematography and technical brilliance that went into the making of the film was sheer genius. Even so, it was sad to see his character die in the climactic final scene of the movie...probably would have been more appropriate if James Garner's (one of my all-time favorites) character had bitten the big one in the end.

[Kutjara]

113. Roy Batty in Bladerunner.

"Like tears in rain."

[Radio_Lady]

115. Bambi. My mother carried me out of the theater kicking and screaming.

I don't remember it because I was a very young child.

I do remember a similar reaction in The Lion King many decades later. Teared up completely.

[Drum]

117. "Susan" in the end of Open Water

It really upset me. :cry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374102/

[yurbud]

127. that was a great movie, and good use of knowledge of sharks--like the shot from above when you can

see sharks swimming under them....

[krispos42]

118. The father in "Life is Beautiful"

I was crying like a baby at the end of that movie.

[KT2000]

119. Lancelot - King Arthur (2004) n/t

[Maine-ah]

121. Cold Mountain - Inman (Jude Law)

oh, did I cry.....:cry:

One of my favorite movies.

[MissMillie]

123. Boromir

sure he was flawed, but brave... and repentive.

[Beausoir]

125. Oh yeah. Sean Bean was great as Boromir.

[EstimatedProphet]

129. Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ

[Hand]

130. Dang! Now you've spoiled it for me!

:dunce:

[Capn Sunshine]

135. it's ok- he comes back in the sequel

:nuke:

[angel823]

131. Leon

in "The Professional".

I love Jean Reno.

[Bucky]

132. "Dead meat" in "Hot Shots"

I was totally unprepared for this loveable sidekick's demise.

[MrScorpio]

133. All the main characters in Alien 3

Plus the ancillary characters brought over from Aliens

What a downer

[nadine_mn]

137. Willem DeFoe's character in Platoon

I cried like a baby