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September 1st, 2003, 10:12 PM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
"Cockily" is a word.
I don't think there is a "best ever" death. There are many very good deaths, though. I feel the best deaths are those that are not only dramatic and/or amazing, entertaining, or humorous, but that also have uniqueness and personality, so that they make a great epitaph for the person. The uniqueness of a great death makes it impossible to directly weigh its worth against a different great death.
Some other great cinematic deaths:
The end of The Wild Bunch (a great western film).
The A-bomb-riding pilot in Doctor Strangelove.
Various faked deaths in Harold and Maude.
Pretty much all the many deaths in The Abominable Doctor Phibes, and related films. I think my personal favorite is the man impaled by a bronze unicorn head catapulted from across the street.
Monty Python offers heaps and heaps of great comic deaths.
There are so many...
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September 1st, 2003, 10:38 PM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
What about crushed to death by a giant wood rabbit thrown out of a castle in Monty Python's Holy Grail ?
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Various faked deaths in Harold and Maude
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Holy S..T !!! It has been an eternity since I read a comment about that wonderful movie !
[ September 01, 2003, 21:39: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]
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September 1st, 2003, 11:39 PM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
guess boba fett will not be making this list 
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September 1st, 2003, 11:59 PM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
I have another candidate :
"At such range they could not even hit an elep..."
Last words of General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864
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September 2nd, 2003, 03:30 AM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
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The A-bomb-riding pilot in Doctor Strangelove.
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September 2nd, 2003, 04:31 AM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
Call it corny, but I still find Kirk's "Bridge on the Captain!" death scene in ST: Generations a riot
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September 2nd, 2003, 04:50 AM
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Re: [OT] The best ever death...
My favorite cinamatic death...Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's death at the hands of the Bolivian Army.
Talk about overkill...!
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