there’s just something about slow motion
that makes it Det seen all that much
better welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top ten slow motion deaths in
movies
[Music]
for this list we’re looking at our
favorite death scenes that incorporated
slow-motion we’re basing our picks on
the dramatic comedic or badass impact
that the slow-motion effect brought to
the scene the characters demise per se
doesn’t have to be in slow motion as
long as the technique is used in the
overall events of the death oh and
needless to say spoilers ahead now lurch
gert to number 10
Apollo Creed rocky for an Apollo seems
to be in great spirits tonight he’s
really putting on a show for this
capacity crowd in this fourth
installment of a series good old rocky
travels to Moscow in order to get
revenge on Ivan Drago for killing his
friend and mentor Apollo Creed oh and
two seemingly end the Cold War by
himself but that’s a whole other thing
what else
China says if I can change yet emotional
cars because it’s music and you can
change we’re more fifties minutes
[Applause]
Apollo’s death scene is perhaps one of
the few dramatic moments in this
otherwise goofy film that actually works
and it’s undoubtedly helped by the use
of slow-motion it’s used to great effect
in the final punch giving it that much
more oomph and lens dramatic wage to
Creed’s falling body
number nine the bomb goes boom The Hurt
Locker how about this you salad up
fertilize in 2008 director Kathryn
Bigelow took the world by storm with
this intense masterpiece about well
pretty much about disarming bombs but
damn did it do that well put your shop
two o’clock through danza phone in this
riveting opening sequence sergeant
Matthew Thompson played brilliantly by
Guy Pearce attempts to disarm a bomb
before realising that the explosion is
inevitable and runs away for his life
come on guys talk to me job the shot of
the bomb exploding in slow motion sends
the viewer into shock and off and
provides one of the film’s many gorgeous
and heart-stopping sequences future
directors take note this is how you make
a war movie number 8 Kim jong-un blows
up real good the interview before this
controversial film was released North
Korea issued a statement warning America
of imminent danger if they released the
film to the public as they believed it
would be a declaration of war
– I just uh
like the
while we wouldn’t go that far
there is no doubt that North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un’s death is especially
graphic and tantalizing when james
franco’s dave fires a tank shell into
kim’s helicopter the resulting explosion
is shown in glorious and detailed
slow-motion including his hilarious skin
wobble and subsequent incineration
it’s gloriously violent but pretty
satisfying
Oh
[Music]
number seven sarah falls to her death
cliffhanger ready for the best ride in
the park give me a second I’ll let you
know in sli’s second entry on this list
he plays Gabe Walker a rescue Ranger
that’s enlisted to help stranded
Mountaineers in the Rocky Mountains in
this mesmerizing opening sequence gabe
attempts to save sarah the girlfriend of
his best friend Hal Tucker since it’s
the opening scene you expect Gabe to
save her life in the nick of time
against the odds but the movie defies
expectations and drops Sarah to her
death in dramatic slow motion allowing
the viewer to relish the shock factor
that scream would screw us up for years
to come I tell you number six
Dumbledore’s death Harry Potter and the
half-blood Prince
snape kills dumbledore spoilers boom
while that particular spoiler may be old
news by now it was everywhere in the
late 2000s and this movie beautifully
captures the powerful Wizards death and
perfectly translated it onto the big
screen
after arriving back from his and Harry’s
trip to the zombie cave Snape uses the
avada kedavra curse and knocks
Dumbledore off the Clocktower
Avada Kedavra it’s a heart-stopping
moment and the slow motion is put to
perfect use to amplify the drama of the
scene we can only watch in horror as
Dumbledore falls away from the camera
and out of the story forever
[Music]
number five marquis killing them softly
nice and smooth there’s no denying that
marquise death is one of the most
spectacular slow-motion scenes in movie
history a little bit ahead fully right
up next to him at this moment Brad Pitt
carries out a personal hit against ray
Liotta’s marquis and the results are
show stopping the slow motion is used
beautifully and the shots are gorgeous
including the guns moving hammer the
falling shell and the raindrops if that
wasn’t good enough it’s also
surprisingly brutal with slow and
detailed moments like the bullet opening
a wound in marquis hand and the blood
splattering from his head never before
had murder looked so good and I kiss the
neck
but you saw number four mama inhale slow
mo and gets pushed out a window
Dred no crimes are multiple homicide in
the manufacture and distribution of
narcotics how do you plead we have to
marvel at what a good slow motion
sequence can do for a film while Dredd
was well-received by critics this final
scene is pure cinematic ecstasy after
pushing mama out a window
viewers are treated to a dazzling
sequence full of reflective shining
glass and divinely coloured shots the
slow atmospheric music helps to
flawlessly set the tone for the scene as
it proved to be a stunning sequence in a
movie that critics and audiences were
willing to write off as just another
violent escapade at the cinema they were
wrong number three Boromir gets pelted
with arrows the Lord of the Rings the
Fellowship of the Ring
I would have gone dude you can’t have a
death-related lists without Sean Bean
the Lord of the Rings films don’t kill
off major characters very often when
they do the impact is heavily felt at
the end of this installment when the
Fellowship is traveling to parth gallon
they are ambushed by yokai and their
leader fires multiple arrows into
boromir’s chest the scene will bring
tears to your eyes due to its soft music
and stirring use of slow motion making
Boromir sacrifice and last stand that
much more powerful forgive me I did not
see I have fans you know you fought
bravely while he definitely had his
flaws his extraordinary send off more
than redeems him captain
week number two Happy Trails Hans die
hard Happy Trails Hans die hard is a
true action classic not only due to its
everyman hero and realistic approach but
also due to its marvelous villain Hans
Gruber played superbly by Alan Rickman
do you really think you have a chance
against us mr. cowboy when John McClane
finally arrived to rescue his wife Holly
he sends Hans tumbling out of a window
after John releases Holly’s watch we
watch in morbid horror as Hans face
slowly changes from confidence to fright
as he realizes that his death is
imminent fun fact this wondrous effect
was actually achieved by dropping Alan
Rickman on to the safety airbag on the
count of two instead of three when he
was expecting it before we get to our
topic here are a few honorable mentions
[Music]
number one Elias is gunned down platoon
one of the most parodied death scenes in
film elias’s demises both heroic
heartbreaking and entirely captivating
to witness thanks in no small part to
its use of slow motion after Barnes
tells the platoon that Elias has been
killed after shooting him himself
Elias dramatically emerges from the
trees and is gunned down in front of his
fellow soldiers
[Music]
the music swells to epic proportions and
we watch an astonishment as Elias gets
more and more wounded eventually
reaching to the heavens before
succumbing to his injuries it’s truly
one of the most memorable scenes in film
history he killed him I know that he
killed him I saw his eyes when he came
back in how do you know the Dinks didn’t
get him do you agree with our list what
slow motion death is your favorite
[Music]
for more fast-paced top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com it’s incredible
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
unforgettable
[Music]
to
[Music]
that makes it Det seen all that much
better welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top ten slow motion deaths in
movies
[Music]
for this list we’re looking at our
favorite death scenes that incorporated
slow-motion we’re basing our picks on
the dramatic comedic or badass impact
that the slow-motion effect brought to
the scene the characters demise per se
doesn’t have to be in slow motion as
long as the technique is used in the
overall events of the death oh and
needless to say spoilers ahead now lurch
gert to number 10
Apollo Creed rocky for an Apollo seems
to be in great spirits tonight he’s
really putting on a show for this
capacity crowd in this fourth
installment of a series good old rocky
travels to Moscow in order to get
revenge on Ivan Drago for killing his
friend and mentor Apollo Creed oh and
two seemingly end the Cold War by
himself but that’s a whole other thing
what else
China says if I can change yet emotional
cars because it’s music and you can
change we’re more fifties minutes
[Applause]
Apollo’s death scene is perhaps one of
the few dramatic moments in this
otherwise goofy film that actually works
and it’s undoubtedly helped by the use
of slow-motion it’s used to great effect
in the final punch giving it that much
more oomph and lens dramatic wage to
Creed’s falling body
number nine the bomb goes boom The Hurt
Locker how about this you salad up
fertilize in 2008 director Kathryn
Bigelow took the world by storm with
this intense masterpiece about well
pretty much about disarming bombs but
damn did it do that well put your shop
two o’clock through danza phone in this
riveting opening sequence sergeant
Matthew Thompson played brilliantly by
Guy Pearce attempts to disarm a bomb
before realising that the explosion is
inevitable and runs away for his life
come on guys talk to me job the shot of
the bomb exploding in slow motion sends
the viewer into shock and off and
provides one of the film’s many gorgeous
and heart-stopping sequences future
directors take note this is how you make
a war movie number 8 Kim jong-un blows
up real good the interview before this
controversial film was released North
Korea issued a statement warning America
of imminent danger if they released the
film to the public as they believed it
would be a declaration of war
– I just uh
like the
while we wouldn’t go that far
there is no doubt that North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un’s death is especially
graphic and tantalizing when james
franco’s dave fires a tank shell into
kim’s helicopter the resulting explosion
is shown in glorious and detailed
slow-motion including his hilarious skin
wobble and subsequent incineration
it’s gloriously violent but pretty
satisfying
Oh
[Music]
number seven sarah falls to her death
cliffhanger ready for the best ride in
the park give me a second I’ll let you
know in sli’s second entry on this list
he plays Gabe Walker a rescue Ranger
that’s enlisted to help stranded
Mountaineers in the Rocky Mountains in
this mesmerizing opening sequence gabe
attempts to save sarah the girlfriend of
his best friend Hal Tucker since it’s
the opening scene you expect Gabe to
save her life in the nick of time
against the odds but the movie defies
expectations and drops Sarah to her
death in dramatic slow motion allowing
the viewer to relish the shock factor
that scream would screw us up for years
to come I tell you number six
Dumbledore’s death Harry Potter and the
half-blood Prince
snape kills dumbledore spoilers boom
while that particular spoiler may be old
news by now it was everywhere in the
late 2000s and this movie beautifully
captures the powerful Wizards death and
perfectly translated it onto the big
screen
after arriving back from his and Harry’s
trip to the zombie cave Snape uses the
avada kedavra curse and knocks
Dumbledore off the Clocktower
Avada Kedavra it’s a heart-stopping
moment and the slow motion is put to
perfect use to amplify the drama of the
scene we can only watch in horror as
Dumbledore falls away from the camera
and out of the story forever
[Music]
number five marquis killing them softly
nice and smooth there’s no denying that
marquise death is one of the most
spectacular slow-motion scenes in movie
history a little bit ahead fully right
up next to him at this moment Brad Pitt
carries out a personal hit against ray
Liotta’s marquis and the results are
show stopping the slow motion is used
beautifully and the shots are gorgeous
including the guns moving hammer the
falling shell and the raindrops if that
wasn’t good enough it’s also
surprisingly brutal with slow and
detailed moments like the bullet opening
a wound in marquis hand and the blood
splattering from his head never before
had murder looked so good and I kiss the
neck
but you saw number four mama inhale slow
mo and gets pushed out a window
Dred no crimes are multiple homicide in
the manufacture and distribution of
narcotics how do you plead we have to
marvel at what a good slow motion
sequence can do for a film while Dredd
was well-received by critics this final
scene is pure cinematic ecstasy after
pushing mama out a window
viewers are treated to a dazzling
sequence full of reflective shining
glass and divinely coloured shots the
slow atmospheric music helps to
flawlessly set the tone for the scene as
it proved to be a stunning sequence in a
movie that critics and audiences were
willing to write off as just another
violent escapade at the cinema they were
wrong number three Boromir gets pelted
with arrows the Lord of the Rings the
Fellowship of the Ring
I would have gone dude you can’t have a
death-related lists without Sean Bean
the Lord of the Rings films don’t kill
off major characters very often when
they do the impact is heavily felt at
the end of this installment when the
Fellowship is traveling to parth gallon
they are ambushed by yokai and their
leader fires multiple arrows into
boromir’s chest the scene will bring
tears to your eyes due to its soft music
and stirring use of slow motion making
Boromir sacrifice and last stand that
much more powerful forgive me I did not
see I have fans you know you fought
bravely while he definitely had his
flaws his extraordinary send off more
than redeems him captain
week number two Happy Trails Hans die
hard Happy Trails Hans die hard is a
true action classic not only due to its
everyman hero and realistic approach but
also due to its marvelous villain Hans
Gruber played superbly by Alan Rickman
do you really think you have a chance
against us mr. cowboy when John McClane
finally arrived to rescue his wife Holly
he sends Hans tumbling out of a window
after John releases Holly’s watch we
watch in morbid horror as Hans face
slowly changes from confidence to fright
as he realizes that his death is
imminent fun fact this wondrous effect
was actually achieved by dropping Alan
Rickman on to the safety airbag on the
count of two instead of three when he
was expecting it before we get to our
topic here are a few honorable mentions
[Music]
number one Elias is gunned down platoon
one of the most parodied death scenes in
film elias’s demises both heroic
heartbreaking and entirely captivating
to witness thanks in no small part to
its use of slow motion after Barnes
tells the platoon that Elias has been
killed after shooting him himself
Elias dramatically emerges from the
trees and is gunned down in front of his
fellow soldiers
[Music]
the music swells to epic proportions and
we watch an astonishment as Elias gets
more and more wounded eventually
reaching to the heavens before
succumbing to his injuries it’s truly
one of the most memorable scenes in film
history he killed him I know that he
killed him I saw his eyes when he came
back in how do you know the Dinks didn’t
get him do you agree with our list what
slow motion death is your favorite
[Music]
for more fast-paced top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com it’s incredible
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
unforgettable
[Music]
to
[Music]
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