"Kicking It, New School": Entertainment Weekly gets it (mostly) right

Entertainment Weekly online has a new article that lists the 25 top new classic death scenes. In this case, "new" means '80s on up, and while I haven't seen all of the movies on the list, a few of the picks are completely justified. Here are the ones that made me say "YES!! Of course!" when I saw them on the list:

• Mufasa's death at the hands (er, paws) of his brother in The Lion King. This was the scene in which Disney scarred me and the rest of my generation for life. Seriously, this is the one moment in a Disney movie that most people will admit to crying to.
• Jack's death in Titanic. Jack tells Rose to "never let go" of her promise to not only survive, but to live her life to the fullest; later, when Rose must decide between being saved by the lifeboat or staying with Jack's frozen body, she says a heartbreaking goodbye by telling Jack that she will never let go of the promise she made. And while it is a sad and terribly beautiful scene, there is one thing that has always bugged me. A Facebook flair says it best: "Surely there was room for one more on that door, Rose?"
• Cedric Diggory's death in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." I remember the shock of Cedric's death when I read the book for the first time. It marked the first major death to occur on the page in the Harry Potter books and on screen in the Potter movies. For the first time, we believed that death was a real possibility in the Potterverse, and that none of the characters were safe.
  
• Westley's "mostly" death in The Princess Bride. Because who didn't feel the need to shout "NOOO!!" when they saw wonderful Westley tortured and killed by that machine?

To read the entire list, check out the article at Entertainment Weekly.