Which film character's death moved you the most?

[HIjol]

Even when hacking up in the sink, folks.

After Scheider passed I saw it all for the first time. I'd seen the last 15 minutes before, but with Scheider gone, it put the ending in even greater perspective.

I know what you mean. I also remember thinking that he was cast perfectly for that role...man, now I gotta watch it again...

Plus, it's about time for another "Seaquest" Marathon!!!

 

[Maestro]

Spock. I cried when I first saw it at age 7. I still cry over 30 years later. Every time too.

 

[kirk55555]

Probably Spock in Star Trek II.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Spock's death never moved me to tears, probably because I saw the TOS films out of order. The first one I saw was TVH, taped off the TV by a family friend who had one of the premium cable channels (either HBO or PRISM), probably around 1988. I saw TUC in the movie theaters, and of course Nimoy's crossover appearance on TNG in November 1991, and didn't actually see TWOK until it was being aired on a local ABC affiliate one Sunday morning in 1992. So I knew going in that somehow (didn't see TSFS until later in 1992) that Spock would be back from the dead. That said, it's a beautifully acted scene by Nimoy and Shatner.

 

[maneth]

Snape in Harry Potter.
Spock in STII
Data in Nemesis
There are others too...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I know what you mean. I also remember thinking that he was cast perfectly for that role...man, now I gotta watch it again...

Plus, it's about time for another "Seaquest" Marathon!!!

I'd go with 2010, actually.

Not only is it better, but Scheider actually seemed to enjoy doing that film (unlike Seaquest, which he always hated).

 

[HIjol]

He and Dame Helen MADE that movie! Along with everyone else...in many ways, I found it equal to the Original.

 

[cultcross]

I'm more affected by TV deaths where I'm more invested in the characters, but "The Green Mile" gets me every time. Fantine in the recent film of Les Mis, and Ellie in "Up" both are tearjerkers for me too. I'm particularly affected when the characters face injustice or miss out on a future.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

He and Dame Helen MADE that movie!

Yeah, I thought they had great chemistry together. (I also thought that Helen Mirren was Russian because she was so convincing!)

"You have been drinking your whisky from Kentucky!"

Along with everyone else...in many ways, I found it equal to the Original.

It's certainly a worthy sequel to 2001. Pity that they couldn't actually use the sets from the original (Stanley Kubrick destroyed all of them, including the centrifuge ).

 

[HIjol]

Yeah, I thought they had great chemistry together. (I also thought that Helen Mirren was Russian because she was so convincing!)

"You have been drinking your whisky from Kentucky!"



It's certainly a worthy sequel to 2001. Pity that they couldn't actually use the sets from the original (Stanley Kubrick destroyed all of them, including the centrifuge ).

Sweet Obelisk Above!!! I have never spoken of this before, but in 2010, not only did I think she was Russian, I did not even recognize her! I remember thinking she was some new actress I had not seen before who was very good!

Yeah, too bad about the sets. But, they did ok with new ones. In many cases, IMO, the 2001 sets really held up to today.

On a different line (First Base) are you old enough to remember Jack Brickhouse, Cubs announcer?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Unfortunately, no, Brickhouse was a bit before my time.

 

[Evil Robert]

Helen Mirren's father is Russian (her birth name is Mironoff), so her ability to portray a Russian is probably a little bit more natural for her then you'd initially think

 

[gblews]

I'm not sure about that, Lazenby was able to project a sense of vulnerability that I don't think that Connery would have been able to do, assuming that he would of cared enough to do so. After all, at the time, Connery was burned out on playing Bond, openly feuding with Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman , and not at all happy with Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell. If Connery had somehow been induced to come back, I can't see him putting in any more effort than he did in Diamonds Are Forever, and probably much less, no matter how good the OMHSS script was.

So, you're saying that Connery could not have been a professional and put his personal feelings aside in order to properly play Bond in OHMSS. I HIGHLY doubt this would have been the case.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Connery's personal beefs with Broccoli, Saltzman, Lee, and Maxwell aside, I agree with comsol, I don't think he would have properly played Bond in OHMSS because he was bored with the role. He wanted to move on to other things, and only came back to do Diamonds because United Artists gave him a large payday (by 1971 standards) and promised to bankroll two non-Bond films for him.

 

[Trek Survivor]

I'd go with 2010, actually.

Not only is it better, but Scheider actually seemed to enjoy doing that film (unlike Seaquest, which he always hated).

No, he didn't always hate seaQuest. He liked it very much when it started - he made it clear in subsequent interviews he had issues with it when they started bringing in aliens, time travel and the like. He positively wanted out at the end of season 1, but stayed for season 2...and THAT'S when he really started to express his displeasure...!

 

[Doom Shepherd]

One of the first episodes of the TV animated G.I. Joe, Slaves of the Cobra Master.
They're in the Arctic, after a radioactive component of the macguffin, and as they're escaping a cave-in, Snake Eyes pulls a Heroic Sacrifice, sealing himself in the cave with the radioactive gas before it can engulf them all. Cue silent hand on glass, slow walk back into the cave.

Only half counts because he's saved in the next episode.

Jamila, a monster from an old Ultraman episode. It wasn't his fault he was mutated, or that they covered it up.

Marley, Marley & Me. Brought back the memory of the passing of the first dog that I considered "Mine," and not my parents'. It was painful. I'm not too proud to say I bawled.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The most gut-wrenching utteration of the word "mother" you will ever hear.

Spell check tells me that utteration is not a word, but I like the way it sounds, so I am going to use it anyway.

Hey, if making up new words is good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for the rest of us.

Spock's death never moved me to tears, probably because I saw the TOS films out of order. The first one I saw was TVH, taped off the TV by a family friend who had one of the premium cable channels (either HBO or PRISM), probably around 1988. I saw TUC in the movie theaters, and of course Nimoy's crossover appearance on TNG in November 1991, and didn't actually see TWOK until it was being aired on a local ABC affiliate one Sunday morning in 1992. So I knew going in that somehow (didn't see TSFS until later in 1992) that Spock would be back from the dead. That said, it's a beautifully acted scene by Nimoy and Shatner.

Agreed. I also saw the first six or seven Star Trek movies out of order, so I couldn't be too broken up about Spock. As for Star Trek: Generations, I was more distraught by the destruction of the Enterprise-D than I was by the death of Captain Kirk. Data's death in Star Trek: Nemesis probably would have made me cry had I not been spoiled on it 18 months in advance.

If we can count deaths erased by time travel, I'd like to nominate Lois Lane in Superman (1978). Jonathan Kent's death in that one is a bit of a tearjerker too. "Jonathan?... Jonathan!"

Although we never saw his death on screen and it was ultimately erased due to time travel, I cried a lot when I saw Jim Caviezel talking to his dead father over the CB radio in Frequency.

Wash's death in Serenity really pissed me off. And since it was at an advance preview screening, I feel sorry for the poor Universal rep who had to bear the brunt of our anger & grief.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Data's death in Star Trek: Nemesis probably would have made me cry had I not been spoiled on it 18 months in advance.

For me it wasn't the spoilers -- there's movies where I know a certain thing is going to happen, and even though i've seen the film ten times, I still have the same reaction (cry, laugh, get pissed, whatever) every time -- it's that Nemesis was so damn mediocre. It wasn't even Final Frontier bad, it's like they just weren't even trying.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

For me it wasn't the spoilers -- there's movies where I know a certain thing is going to happen, and even though i've seen the film ten times, I still have the same reaction (cry, laugh, get pissed, whatever) every time

That is a point. Fred's death on Angel still gets me every time.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Shelby in Steel Magnolias. Never fails to make me cry.

Spock, of course. Ellie in Up. Emma in Terms of Endearment. Scottie and Mary Liz in Testament.