30. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Waring Hudsucker

After hearing all the great news that his company is making more money than anyone could ever imagine Waring Hudsucker decides that it’s time for it to all end.  So he brings attention to himself, mounts the massive boardroom desk and starts to sprint towards the glass window.  It’s a thing of beauty and brings more than one gag throughout the movie.

31. The Lion King (1994) – Mufasa

Scar puts Simba, Mufasa’s son, in danger by creating a stampede.  After Simba is saved Mufasa is thrown to his death by Scar himself.  For me what I remember the most is Simba pushing his father telling him he has to get up not realizing what’s really happened just yet.  It’s tear jerking and to think that this was a film I saw in the theatres and I was under ten years old at the time makes me realise how long ago it really was.

32. Léon (1994) – Léon & Stansfield

In the end with Stansfield finally finding where the hitman and the one girl that can identify him as the murderer of Mathilda’s family.  So the entire SWAT team and whatever else he can muster are at his door.  Leon decides to make sure that Mathilda will always be safe by sacrificing himself in order to kill Stansfield.

33. Braveheart (1995) – Freedom!!!!

William Wallace has finally been caught by the king of England and must be made an example of.  So he’s strung up, stretched, beaten and then cut into four pieces and places them at the four corners of Scotland to try and make sure it doesn’t happen again.  Watching Wallace shout freedom like that is so inspiring it makes you want to just hurt someone English.

34. Goldeneye (1995) – Boris Grishenko

He’s the nerdy computer guy in the movie that’s been playing games all the way through the film.  He’s an annoying asshole, but you like him because he makes you laugh and he’s invincible.  Well eventually at the end he gets his and is frozen by liquid nitrogen.  There are so many deaths in this film that are worth nominating, but Boris is just classic.

35. The Quick and the Dead (1995) – The Kid

I don’t know why it is I love this film so much, it has all the makings of a bad western but somehow it takes the tournament genre and ads gun fighting and I just want to watch it whenever it’s on TV and the fight between Herod and The Kid, who is supposedly Herod’s son, always struck me the most.  A very young Leonardo DiCaprio thinks that he’s faster than the old man and pays the price for underestimating his dad.

36. Scream (1996) – Opening Scene

Casey is home alone and the phone rings, a man on the other end is asking her creepy questions and soon enough we find out that the guy on the line is watching her.  Soon enough they meet face to face and she’s chased down and stabbed in the middle of her driveway.  It’s the scene that everyone will remember every time that someone mentions the Scream franchise and they still need to rehash with every entry into the franchise.

37. Life is Beautiful (1997) – Guido Orefice

For the entire second-half of this film Guido is playing this game with his son who now resides in a Nazi death camp.  He must keep his son hidden so when he hides his son from the Nazis, who’re now killing every member of the camp since the war is coming to an end and they’re retreating, he’s found by the officers.  He has to keep up the ruse that this is still game to his son who is watching and we’re forced to watch this man smile as he walks with big strides with a gun pointed to his back just so that his son will remain hidden.  It’s one of the saddest moments in cinema that I can think of.

38. American History X (1998) – Bite the Curb

We’re taken back into Derek’s past as to why he ended up in jail.  One late night two African Americans decide to break into his house and steal his car.  Derek catches one of them and tells him to ‘bite the curb’.  The rest is kind of obvious and best viewed on a really dark day.

39. American Beauty (1999) – Lester Burnham

Lester is murdered by his neighbour, Col. Frank Fitts, because Lester refused to reciprocate Frank’s feelings for him when earlier he kissed him.  It’s one of those moments that I probably will never forget.  It’s the first film I can remember that the protagonist was our narrator and also died at the end of the film.

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