Anyone think of other movies where big name stars are killed off like Segal in this movie.
The two examples that spring to mind are Janet Leigh in Psycho and Drew Barrymore in the first Scream movie.
BTW: Think this was a great move, with so many folks expecting SS to work his Under Seige magic again. Totally changed the focus of the movie with Kirk Russell's novice finding his way as the unlikely hero
Jamie lee Curtis dies in the first five minutes of Halloween resurrection
shareChristian Slater buys the farm early on in a film. The movie was okay, but I kind of would have enjoyed seeing him live to the end. He makes good movies and it was a shame he went out early. Sorry, don't know the name of the film but it came out within the last five years.
BTW I also was SHOCKED when Seagal dies off early in this film. Fortunately I am also a Kurt Russell fan and the film all-in-all is quite solid and entertaining.
The film with Christian slater is 3000 Miles to Graceland
shareThat IS a fantastic film, but that is not the one I had in mind. The one I saw I cannot tell by looking at his credits because I saw it here in Germany. I have also never heard anyone talk about it, so I don't think it is well-liked film.
shareChristian Slater also died early in Mindhunters (2004), and pretty gruesome way, too.
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Ben Affleck in Smokin´ Aces (2006)
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Samual L. Jackson in The Deep Blue Sea
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Holy *beep* Samual L. Jackson! Dies? No!
Seriously I did not know that thanks for ruining it for me.
I will agree with the previous post that it's great seeing Ben Affleck being gunned down, just as he is about to engage in the pompous douchbag facade he calls acting. Best part of the entire movie.
Holy *BEEP* Erm, hey genius did not thread topic give away that there were going to be !!spoilers!!
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emilio estevez in mission impossible. i dont know if you would consider him a big star though. gotta love mighty ducks.
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He was a big star during that brief period of time when Young Guns 1 and 2 came out. Since then his star has faded some. His death in MI was a bit of a surprise.
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shareChristian Slater gets decapitated midway thru 'Windtalkers', by a samurai sword no less.
James Caan gets machinegunned in 'Godfather'.
Vin Diesel & Giovanni Ribisi in 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Angie Dickinson in 'Dressed to Kill' (obvious Hitchcockian ripoff).
Alec Guinness in 'Star Wars'.
Vincent D'Onofrio & R. Lee Ermey in 'Full Metal Jacket'.
Willem DaFoe in 'Platoon'.
Burgess Meredith in the Rocky sequel (II? III?).
Giancarlo Giannini in 'Hannibal' (ok, he's a big star in Italy).
David Cronenberg in 'Last Night' (Canadian end-of-the-world scenario).
Harry Connick, 'Independence Day'
Robert Loggia 1/2way thru 'Scarface'.
Jeff Daniels, 1/2way thru 'Speed'.
George C. Scott, 'The New Centurions'.
Technically, Bruce Willis in 'The Sixth Sense'.
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Christian Slater is not decapitated onscreen or is his head seen.
sharewrong. It's definitely in the uncut version 'Windtalkers' - this is a John Woo film, decapitations are like candy to him.
Rite after it happens, there's a shot of his head on the ground - the Navajo whom he was protecting looks into the decapitated head's eyes, before the Japanese take him away.
Jamie Foxx - He dies in Stealth
Van Damme - He Dies in Black Eagle
Was Vin Diesel really a big star when SPR came out?
shareNaah, he was completely unknown. Had some uncredited part in Awakenings and the lead in a movie he wrote and directed himself. Even after SPR he wasn't that well known till Pitch Black became a surprise cult hit and Fast & Furious made him a household name.
shareBIG STARS that DIE EARLY.
Just about everyone you listed is not or was not a BIG STAR at the time and/or did not DIE EARLY.
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I agree that it was a shame that Steven Seagal dies rather quickly in this film because when I first saw the previews of this movie I thought "Oh man is this going to be a good action movie with Steven Seagal in it!" Then when he dies I was like in shock about it. This movie was good to watch and I enjoyed watching it.
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technically, John Travolta in Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino in 'Reservoir Dogs' (Michael Madsen doesn't count - he goes late into the movie).
Steve Buscemi - The Gray Zone
Bill Paxton - U571
Larry Hagman, 1/2way thru 'The Eagle Has Landed'
Griffin Dunne - American Werewolf in London
Jimmy Smits & Robert Loggia - 'The Believers'
Bernie - 'Weekened at Bernie's' cinematic classic :-)
John Hurt in AlienAndy Garcia in Black Rain
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yeah he is pretty much exploded...basically...nothing left
shareThough he wasn't big yet, Laurence Fishburne in "Apocalypse Now."
Christopher Lee died at the beginning of "Revenge of the Sith."
Gabriel Byrne around the beginning-middle point of "Dead Man."
Jason Scott Lee died pretty early in "Enemy of the State."
Michael Biehn died past the half-way point of "The Abyss", but it wasn't at the end; there was still a lot more to go.
Andy Garcia also got killed off pretty early in "Black Rain;" it seemed way too early for someone like him.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Jennifer Lopez in Jersey Girl.
shareRobert de Niro is brutally kidnapped and killed midway in 15 Minutes
shareRobert de Niro is brutally kidnapped and killed midway in 15 Minutes
Bill Cosby in Ghost Dad
It is pretty damn obvious though.
Michael Bein and Carrie Henn in Alien 3.
Doesn't really count because he survives in the end by reentering his body, basically showing that he was never really dead in the first place.
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Biehn had more of a surprisingly early demise in 'The Rock'
Yeah but he had a blast doing it didn't he? ;-)
share::Bernie - 'Weekened at Bernie's' cinematic classic :-) ::
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Technically, Travolta died in the second half of Pulp Fiction. Putting the story in order, he died even later, since Bruce next went to escape, only to run into Marsellus and both of them run into Zed. Of course now, Zed's dead baby. Zed's dead.
Bruce Willis died at the beginning of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, but then his wife was the bad guy in that.
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"Russians...so many Russians."---Col. John Casey, Chuck
At the time Young Guns was made, Charlie Sheen was probably the most popular actor in the movie.
He is the leader of the group and gets killed early on in the movie.
Will Ferrell in Austin Powers 1
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity"
-Gladiator
And Owen Wilson in Anaconda
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity"
-Gladiator
Oh and sorta Matt Damons 3 brothers in saving private ryan, cuz, there like, related....
LOL and then owen wilson also bought the farm in armageddon
but the big one i was gonna bring up has only been brought up once, emelio esteves in mission impossible, that took me totaly by surprise
Whats happening to our hood!! - Jack Black, Be kind Rewind (2008)
Julianne Moore in Children of Men, can't say I saw that coming.
shareDenzel Washington in Cry Freedom
shareNot a movie but in the TV series The Shield, Reed Diamond's character was killed at the end of the pilot which was unexpected especially since he'd been a major character on Homicide life on the street.
Also, Liam Neeson in Gangs of New York and Michael Caine is killed at the halfway point in Children of Men.
"Walk down the right back-alley in Sin City, and you can find anything...."
You know, most of you are citing big stars who weren't that big in the movie they were in at the time.
shareGood point.
Just because a star is hired to play a minor part or plays in the opening moments strictly to die (like Barrymore or Carmen Electra) doesn't make it a surprise they died early. That was their role.
Kevin Bacon in Sleepers
shareJanet Leigh in "Psycho" -- very shocking at the time the movie was released.
shareDid anyone mention Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Grudge 2?
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Oh, Michael Madsen in Boarding Gate
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Dina Meyer in SAW III
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Val Kilmer in Mindhunters
shareVal Kilmer died half-way through the movie. Not exactly early. Besides, Christian Slater dying first was the bigger surprise and takes away the shock factor from Kilmer's death.
shareLiz Hurley, Austin Powers 2. :) Sort of. And to the guy that bitched about ruining movies with this thread...uh...der?
shareBrad Pitt in the upcoming film 'Burn After Reading'.
shareMany great actors like Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson and Dennis Hopper (not very early, but pretty early) died in the first part of True Romance.
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