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Sun Tzu
10-06-2012, 08:48 AM
I don't know about the rest of you pansies, but I've been known to squeeze out an occasional tear while watching a sincerely sad moment in a movie. So, I'm wondering if any of you have been known to do the same. If so...which scene/s from what movie/s?

I think the number 1 scene for me is when Mickey dies in Rocky III. Stallone and Meredith absolutely nail that scene, in every possible way, and Bill Conti's haunting score only adds to the effect.

Another scene that comes to mind is from The Deer Hunter, when Michael (DeNiro) visits his friend Steven (Savage) in the VA Hospital. What compounds this scene for me, is that DeNiro said in an interview some years later that this particular scene was the most emotional one he's ever had to get through.

*edit* For those who feel like they may be giving away the end of some movies...please feel free to use spoiler tags.

Apathetic Lurker
10-06-2012, 08:49 AM
I cried when the Death Star blew up........

Damned terrorists !

MacroGuru
10-06-2012, 08:52 AM
In all seriousness?

One of the tougher scenes for me to watch is in the movie My Girl, when McCauley's character dies and she walks into the funeral home and sees his body and loses and starts saying he isn't really dead, he's just sleeping and yelling for him to wake up. I had lost a really close friend at this time and I basically thought the same thing and was thinking that when I was at the funeral home, so it struck a nerve.

Sun Tzu
10-06-2012, 08:55 AM
I had completely forgotten about that movie. Quality addition, Macro.

Honolulu_Blue
10-06-2012, 08:55 AM
A few that affected me the most while I watched them [SOME MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW]






The end of "A Perfect World" where Kevin Costner gets killed.

The end of "Iron Giant" "Superman...."

That first sequence in "Up"

Nogram
10-06-2012, 09:00 AM
That first sequence in "Up"

nod

Matthean
10-06-2012, 09:08 AM
The end of "Iron Giant" "Superman...."

I choke up every damn time. That movie didn't get near the love it deserved in terms of movie sales.

I'm pretty sure I'll never watch E.T. so I can skip on watching him being sick.

MacroGuru
10-06-2012, 09:16 AM
The end of "Iron Giant" "Superman...."

That first sequence in "Up"

Iron Giant we rented it and because of the impact of the movie...we bought it...and Up...I was in the Drive in with the family and had just lost my grandpa like 2 years earlier who was just like Carl and my grandparents relationship was just like Carl and Ellies.. Man did I lose it...

BYU 14
10-06-2012, 09:17 AM
Not even sad but I can never make it through field of dreams without crying and two scenes always do it.

When Moonlight Graham leaves the playing field to save their Daughter...

And then one simple line....... "Hey Dad......You wanna have a catch?"


The original Brian's Song always gets me as well when Pic is on his death bed.

NorvTurnerOverdrive
10-06-2012, 09:18 AM
there's a bunch. to this day i won't watch the fox and the hound because the ending fucked me up so bad as a kid.

the death scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHpYXIwYli8&feature=related) in the assassination of jesse james. i've watched it probably 100 times. i think it's the nick cave music. more melancholy than sad but one of the best scenes of the last 20 years imo

PurdueBrad
10-06-2012, 09:28 AM
Two films that get me:

The end of a Perfect World (I second that)

The end of Man on the Moon when Andy Kaufmann gets his "miracle" treatment and the irony hits him

And one from TV (sorry for breaking the rules): The death of Colonel Henry Blake from MASH.

BYU 14
10-06-2012, 09:31 AM
one from TV (sorry for breaking the rules): The death of Colonel Henry Blake from MASH.

Great call

Sun Tzu
10-06-2012, 09:32 AM
And then one simple line....... "Hey Dad......You wanna have a catch?"

+1

Groundhog
10-06-2012, 09:36 AM
Grave of the Fireflies... like, the entire 2nd half.

sterlingice
10-06-2012, 10:08 AM
People already hit my two right off the top of my head: Field of Dreams and Up

The odd things to me is that a couple of them that come to mind are actually on tv (Scrubs has a tremendous scene, for instance).

SI

Crapshoot
10-06-2012, 10:12 AM
People already hit my two right off the top of my head: Field of Dreams and Up

The odd things to me is that a couple of them that come to mind are actually on tv (Scrubs has a tremendous scene, for instance).

SI

The Brendan Fraser episode? That one kills me.

SlyBelle1
10-06-2012, 10:16 AM
When the boxer dies in the movie "the champ" and ricky schroeder keeps asking him to wake up...gets me every time:(

sterlingice
10-06-2012, 10:36 AM
The Brendan Fraser episode? That one kills me.

Oh geez- I had even forgotten about that. The one at the funeral is just brutal.

No, I was thinking of another Dr Cox episode where he loses all the transplant patients to rabies

SI

PurdueBrad
10-06-2012, 10:43 AM
The Brendan Fraser episode? That one kills me.

+1

Scoobz0202
10-06-2012, 10:51 AM
The ending to The Green Mile

Sun Tzu
10-06-2012, 11:42 AM
The ending to The Green Mile

The first time I watched this movie, I was on a second date and in High School. I absolutely LOST IT at the end, like I was just completely inconsolable. I still remember the look or horror on my date's face...ugh.

Another movie/scene is Marley and Me. I couldn't finish the movie...I had to turn it off. To this day I still refuse to watch it for fear of being permanently scarred.

*edit* and if we're including TV shows...I have to include the final 5 minutes of "The Inner Light"

Julio Riddols
10-06-2012, 11:48 AM
Dear Zachary...

Matthean
10-06-2012, 11:56 AM
Dear Zachary...

Not as bad as I had thought but that's in vast part due to not being a parent. It still made me angry as hell though.

AlexB
10-06-2012, 12:08 PM
When the boxer dies in the movie "the champ" and ricky schroeder keeps asking him to wake up...gets me every time:(

+1, and also for Field of Dreams

Also the ending of Jacob's Ladder and when Johnny dies in The Outsiders

mckerney
10-06-2012, 12:29 PM
It's not really a sad scene, but I always cry during the, "We're gonna run the picket fence at 'em!" part on Hoosiers.

Critch
10-06-2012, 12:32 PM
When ET dies. He was such a innocent little fellow.

sabotai
10-06-2012, 12:33 PM
While I don't get to the point of actually crying at a movie/TV show, there have been times I started to get a little verklempt.

The ending to Saving Private Ryan, the two Scrubs episodes already mentioned and the ending to All Dogs Go To Heaven come to mind.

As for The Fox and The Hound, I remember dating someone in college who hadn't seen it. All I did was describe the plot to her and she started crying. When you think about, it's a pretty fucked up kids movie.

sterlingice
10-06-2012, 12:37 PM
Well, I don't recall ever crying at any movie but, yeah, "getting a little verklempt" is a good way of putting it

SI

korme
10-06-2012, 12:40 PM
I'll never forget the time me and my roommate saw Marley and Me in the theatre. We were both crying like a bunch of babies. It's hilarious if you think about it.

mauchow
10-06-2012, 01:00 PM
Titanic!

Sorry nothing to see here..

Don't let go Jack!

lighthousekeeper
10-06-2012, 01:02 PM
growing up, this scene always got me:
http://thumbs.anyclip.com/tP2haSDvB/tmb_6327_480.jpg

but here's the saddest moment in the history of everything:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6913798607_cc25b687ae_z.jpg

sterlingice
10-06-2012, 01:05 PM
Futurama has a good ability to do emotional moments. We talked about this a couple of months ago:

Seymour, we hardly knew ye - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=84418)

Luck of the Fryrish (the seven leaf clover ep) is the one that really gets me.

SI

stevew
10-06-2012, 01:07 PM
When Jimmy learned that Tommy "didn't make it"

heybrad
10-06-2012, 01:07 PM
A couple parts in Rudy get me.

Lathum
10-06-2012, 01:28 PM
The beginning of Up is pretty brutal.

I'll add pretty much any time an animal dies. I can watch purple die all day in movies but animals get me. 8 below, old yeller, charlottes web , etc. I refuse to watch Marly and Me for this reason.

sovereignstar v2
10-06-2012, 01:33 PM
Daddy!

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sterlingice
10-06-2012, 01:40 PM
The end of Toy Story 3 is damned emotionally manipulative, too

SI

Julio Riddols
10-06-2012, 02:04 PM
Not as bad as I had thought but that's in vast part due to not being a parent. It still made me angry as hell though.

What brought me to tears was actually the happiness I felt that people can keep strong and go on living even after so much horrible shit happens to them. It was an uplifting film to me after all the dust settled.

Qwikshot
10-06-2012, 02:10 PM
Yeah that ending of Inception gets to me, since I only get to see my daughter occasionally and I would like the character do everything within my power to get time to see her.

The Bambi's mom moment, saddening and shocking.
Tom Hanks memorial in "Philadelphia", we know it's coming but Neil Young's song playing over it, got me upset, especially the shots of Hanks' character as a kid with his family.
Hanks does it again pretty well at the end of "Saving Private Ryan", the "earn this" line really tugged at me.

More recently, the ending of "Warrior", if you watch it and don't get misty eyed at the end, you have no heart. I don't care how predictable it was, you saw both characters and the reasons for winning and you could have gone either way (though one was far more sympathetic).

"Schindler's List" probably as a whole is a downer, but when you realize the little girl is dead (the only color in the movie), it's a heartbreaking moment.

Again, my own personnel emotions probably got the better of me, but Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, when the dad of the kidnapped girl (who drowns), standing at the steps and she's wet (it's clear she is an apparition) and she holds out her hands to him for a hug or to be picked up...it was a rough moment for me.

Scoobz0202
10-06-2012, 02:12 PM
Philadelphia is a good one. The final scene was just so well put together. It felt very authentic.

Dutch
10-06-2012, 02:24 PM
The introduction of Jar-jar-binks in Episode 1. Gets me everytime.

PurdueBrad
10-06-2012, 03:24 PM
OH, how could I forget. I'm still not sure it's a great movie but I watched Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close this past week and cried through a great deal of that.

AgustusM
10-06-2012, 03:30 PM
In all seriousness?

One of the tougher scenes for me to watch is in the movie My Girl, when McCauley's character dies and she walks into the funeral home and sees his body and loses and starts saying he isn't really dead, he's just sleeping and yelling for him to wake up. I had lost a really close friend at this time and I basically thought the same thing and was thinking that when I was at the funeral home, so it struck a nerve.

in my 20's with my buddies at a Casino and I had lost all of my money - so I was upstairs in the hotel room with my buddies mom and girlfriend (no, this is not that kind of story) so they were watching this movie and I with nothing else to do (this is the early 90s - no internet, phone,etc) I started watching and got sucked in. Of course right at this moment of the movie was when my buddies came back from the casino and I was balling my eyes out with the girls, needless to say my friends have laughed at me for that one for years.

Crapshoot
10-06-2012, 03:34 PM
Futurama has a good ability to do emotional moments. We talked about this a couple of months ago:

Seymour, we hardly knew ye - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=84418)

Luck of the Fryrish (the seven leaf clover ep) is the one that really gets me.

SI

I can never, ever watch Jurassic Bark again. I was bawling like a schoolgirl in college watching that, and just absolutely refuse to try it again.

MacroGuru
10-06-2012, 03:35 PM
Another one...My Life, with Keaton and Kidman...he is filming his last few months on earth for the baby that is on it's way he won't see the birth of. Yeah...I lost it....

M GO BLUE!!!
10-06-2012, 03:36 PM
There have been many sad moments in cinematic history. What George Lucas does with prequels and alterations has been widely documented. Truly sad.

thesloppy
10-06-2012, 03:38 PM
I think most recently, War Horse got me, but that was no surprise. Spielberg and horsies, in a period piece? Done for.

Crapshoot
10-06-2012, 03:47 PM
The introduction of Jar-jar-binks in Episode 1. Gets me everytime.

Well played. :D

chinaski
10-06-2012, 03:50 PM
few off of the top of my head:
the beginning montage from pixars Up.
the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
the end of Dancer in the Dark
i hated the Notebook for the most part, but the ending really killed me.
and I blame E.T. for my perpetual sappiness with movies.

Sun Tzu
10-06-2012, 04:11 PM
i hated the Notebook for the most part, but the ending really killed me.


You know...I'm actually kind of surprised it took 48 posts for this movie to get mentioned. Sure, it's a chick-flick, but...it's hard to deny the intense chemistry between those two during that movie. Speaking to Gosling and McAdams, not Garner and Rowlands.

The thing about "Up" that got me was the story, sure, but I think part of the reason it's so gripping, is that you don't really see it coming. When else have you sat down during an animated film and immediately been swept away in such a beautifully well-crafted piece of story telling?

cuervo72
10-06-2012, 04:26 PM
The end of Toy Story 3 is damned emotionally manipulative, too

SI

I actually have a tough time in Toy Story 2 when Jessie is remembering her former owner (and that damned song! :( ).

MrBug708
10-06-2012, 04:29 PM
Schindler's List
Last of the Mohicans

Draft Dodger
10-06-2012, 04:56 PM
let's just say that I never showed Bambi to my kids.

CrimsonFox
10-06-2012, 05:40 PM
Toy Story 3 and the grasping hands riding to "hell"

CrimsonFox
10-06-2012, 05:40 PM
Sophie's Choice when she chooses the soup instead of the salad.

mckerney
10-06-2012, 05:46 PM
The first episode of season 5 of NewsRadio, the episode after Phil Hartman's death where the staff has a memorial for his character Bill McNeal following his funeral.

Bill Moves On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTeRQl16yNM&feature=player_detailpage#t=610s)

CrimsonFox
10-06-2012, 05:56 PM
The first episode of season 5 of NewsRadio, the episode after Phil Hartman's death where the staff has a memorial for his character Bill McNeal after his funeral.

Bill Moves On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTeRQl16yNM&feature=player_detailpage#t=610s)


oh wow yes.

CrimsonFox
10-06-2012, 05:58 PM
End of S.O.B. when Julie Andrews is singing that beautiful haunting song at the funeral for Richard Mulligan but WilliaM Holden, Robert Webber, and Robert Preston had already stolen his body and giving him a viking funeral.

And then the dog on the beach whimpers as it sees the smoke....

*cry*

Grover
10-06-2012, 06:32 PM
I can admit to crying at the end of Toy Story 3 when Andy gives away the toys.

CrimsonFox
10-06-2012, 06:36 PM
First 15 minutes of Up

moriarty
10-06-2012, 07:16 PM
Terms of Endearment ... when she comes down with cancer.

PineTar
10-06-2012, 08:08 PM
Kramer vs. Kramer gets me every time.

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Autumn
10-06-2012, 08:43 PM
I can admit to crying at the end of Toy Story 3 when Andy gives away the toys.

It's hard to imagine a parent not crying at that. Well, not even a parent, I think it reminded me of my childhood too.

one that pops to my mind is Schindler's List, particularly the part towards the end where Schindler is talking about how many more he could have saved, how many lives the watch he still had would have saved, etc. Damn.

Cap Ologist
10-06-2012, 08:48 PM
The ending of Age of Innocence gets me every time.

sterlingice
10-06-2012, 09:14 PM
There's a 15 minute stretch at the end of Toy Story 3 that, as I said earlier- it's just emotionally manipulative from the giant claw and fire through the end of the movie

SI

Matthean
10-06-2012, 09:31 PM
There's a 15 minute stretch at the end of Toy Story 3 that, as I said earlier- it's just emotionally manipulative from the giant claw and fire through the end of the movie

SI

It's why I rate the movie lower than Toy Story 2. The claw/fire part just felt poorly done.

cartman
10-06-2012, 10:05 PM
When Sera tries to wake up Ben at the end of Leaving Las Vegas.

StLee
10-06-2012, 10:49 PM
Some of the movies that really got to me:
My Girl (good one for those who mentioned it) - I had asked a girl on a date, and boy am I glad she didn't watch that with me!

Schindler's List - The little girl and the end when the real people were visiting the real Schindler's grave were tearjerkers. I've never seen so much running mascara after leaving a theater.

My personal top is Big Fish - the last scene with Will and his dad just ripped my heart out.

TroyF
10-06-2012, 10:50 PM
This may sound silly, but what gets me in movies is something where I place myself in the persons shoes and think of the anguish it would be to go through something.

An example: In Air Force One where Harrison Ford is at the bottom of the aircraft and listens to one of his staff members get shot while the terrorist is telling him to come out or he's going to do it. Even in an idiotic movie like that, my brain starts racing and I can get emotional.

As far as being on point, the last 20 minutes of Toy Story is brutal. And while I despised the movie, some of the scenes in AI were gut wrenching.

Peregrine
10-06-2012, 10:52 PM
For me it's the Iron Giant, as others have mentioned - ending gets me every single time.

stevew
10-06-2012, 10:59 PM
Iron Giant is awesome but at the end you can clearly surmise that the robot will eventually rebuild itself

Matthean
10-06-2012, 11:02 PM
My personal top is Big Fish - the last scene with Will and his dad just ripped my heart out.

This one gets me as well.

mckerney
10-06-2012, 11:02 PM
From The Royal Tenenbaums.

"You know, Richie, this illness, this closeness to death... it's had a profound affect on me. I feel like a different person, I really do."
"Dad, you were never dying."
"But I'm going to live."

cartman
10-06-2012, 11:03 PM
The ending of The Last American Virgin is a tough one.

mckerney
10-06-2012, 11:05 PM
As hard as it is to feel bad for Kenny Powers, the end of season 1 of Eastbound and Down.

CrimsonFox
10-07-2012, 05:35 AM
Futurama has a good ability to do emotional moments. We talked about this a couple of months ago:

Seymour, we hardly knew ye - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=84418)

Luck of the Fryrish (the seven leaf clover ep) is the one that really gets me.

SI


Just now watched that one and sure nuff, teared up when Yancy names the baby. That, Jurassic Bark, and The Sting when Leela breaks down in her bed crying are all good moments of sadness.

CraigSca
10-07-2012, 08:27 AM
First 15 minutes of Up

Yep!

Saw "The Elephant Man" as a child and remember going to the bathroom and just crying for the way the Joseph Merrick was treated. The way he died was tremendously sad.

CraigSca
10-07-2012, 08:35 AM
dola

This one will be out of the blue, but it's turned into a family joke.

Whenever I'm feeling nostalgic, I watch some of the old Schoolhouse rock videos. Definitely a reminder of childhood, our own mortality, etc. The one that really gets me are the ones about the founding of America - especially the one called "No More Kings" - gets me choked up every time. "Shot Heard Round the World" is a close second.

Cap Ologist
10-07-2012, 09:54 AM
The only t.v. show that has affected me was season 7 of west wing when Leo died. Even though I knew it was coming at some point in the show, it still got to me. He was one of my favorite characters of all time.

Dr. Sak
10-07-2012, 10:35 AM
The end of Field of Dreams gets me every time.

I am going to throw in an episode from a TV show here. Not sure if anyone ever watched American Dreams, about a family who grew up in the 60s. Well the son JJ went MIA in Vietnam and was assumed dead. On Christmas Eve they got a call saying he was found alive and would be home soon. That whole scene brings waterworks.

Scoobz0202
10-07-2012, 10:37 AM
The only t.v. show that has affected me was season 7 of west wing when Leo died. Even though I knew it was coming at some point in the show, it still got to me. He was one of my favorite characters of all time.

Just remembered a TV show that did me in.

I used to watch ER religiously with my mom when I was a kid. I remember when Dr. Greene died and it was announced to his former coworkers being a little baby.

Surtt
10-07-2012, 01:44 PM
Perhaps this is a little dated, but Old Yeller?

JPhillips
10-07-2012, 02:29 PM
The execution in Dead Man Walking.

The video of Johnny Cash singing Hurt.

lighthousekeeper
10-07-2012, 03:09 PM
I'll also second Charlotte's Web

chinaski
10-07-2012, 03:20 PM
this is the first movie i ever remember crying over.. Mickey Rooney at his best.. Bill
Bill (TV 1981) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082075/)

Blackadar
10-07-2012, 04:29 PM
A lot of people have mentioned some great moments. I'll add a few:

Shane - Perhaps someone else mentioned this, but I didn't see it. It's a classic Hollywood tearjerker. I couldn't find a good version on the web.

Steel Magnolias - Sally Field's performance was incredible. steel magnolias - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EjNa8Ukg_0)

Castaway - The scene where Wilson is lost. scene from cast away,.....wilson !! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-zaO-hUYag)

Awakenings - the scene where Robin Williams was watching the film after Robert Deniro's character had relapsed. "He was your friend..." (couldn't find this one either)

The Champ - Ricky Schroder's performance was remarkable for a 9 year old kid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7NGJw0kR8

And a couple of weirder ones...

6th Sense - The very end of the final scene. The closing shot of the wedding ceremony gets me every time. Sixth Sense ending - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0JDnQIZf0)

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - I always choke up with the house crumbling down as the last memory is being erased. "Meet me in Montauk"... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (8/11) Movie CLIP - Meet Me in Montauk (2004) HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy7YnrVXudg)

Crapshoot
10-07-2012, 04:40 PM
My personal top is Big Fish - the last scene with Will and his dad just ripped my heart out.

Great, great call. That last scene kills me.

Draft Dodger
10-07-2012, 08:54 PM
Perhaps this is a little dated, but Old Yeller?

had a coworker once who had a young kid who loved old yeller and wanted to watch it every day.

Draft Dodger
10-07-2012, 08:58 PM
by the way, I am pretty bad and choke up easily. but I don't just get misty-eyed at the sad stuff listed here (to which I could add Of Mice and Men and the wolf scene in Dances with Wolves) but I also get emotional at things like wedding proposals or just all around inspirational stuff like when Jimmy Morris gets the call in the Rookie. it's pretty ridiculous, to be honest.

Scoobz0202
10-07-2012, 09:03 PM
by the way, I am pretty bad and choke up easily. but I don't just get misty-eyed at the sad stuff listed here (to which I could add Of Mice and Men and the wolf scene in Dances with Wolves) but I also get emotional at things like wedding proposals or just all around inspirational stuff like when Jimmy Morris gets the call in the Rookie. it's pretty ridiculous, to be honest.

How about this.

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Maple Leafs
10-07-2012, 09:03 PM
The Disney mini-movie "Small One". Not one scene. The whole thing.

That movie is fucked up.WHY DID YOU LET ME WATCH THAT MOM???

Matthean
10-07-2012, 09:18 PM
Shane - Perhaps someone else mentioned this, but I didn't see it. It's a classic Hollywood tearjerker. I couldn't find a good version on the web.

Where I got my middle name.

Julio Riddols
10-07-2012, 10:56 PM
..And where I got my first name.

Dreghorn2
10-07-2012, 11:52 PM
The last scene of Plague Dogs.

CrimsonFox
10-08-2012, 05:04 AM
The dirty dozen

(This thread reminded me of this scene...;) )
Sleepless in Seattle - " affair to remember VS dirty dozen" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aZl-uBcufM)

CrimsonFox
10-08-2012, 05:06 AM
How about the end of every episode of THe Incredible Hulk?
(TVshow)

CrimsonFox
10-08-2012, 05:13 AM
The end of Bridge to Teribithia! Holy crap that floored me! Especially the running through the forest scene when Robert Patrick chases down and catches the kid.

Izulde
10-08-2012, 05:46 AM
Seven Pounds. I cried so hard at that movie I'll never be able to watch it again.

MacroGuru
10-08-2012, 08:36 AM
The end of Bridge to Teribithia! Holy crap that floored me! Especially the running through the forest scene when Robert Patrick chases down and catches the kid.

Oh hell yes!

Jas_lov
10-08-2012, 09:31 AM
When old Brooks hangs himself in Shawshank Redemption.

spleen1015
10-08-2012, 09:42 AM
From when I was a kid...

The end of Old Yeller. My daughter loves dogs. She will never see this movie.

Kodos
10-08-2012, 09:44 AM
When Dr. Green dies in ER. Damn it, Goose!

When Adrian says "Win, Rocky, win."

When Han Solo dies in ROTJ.

Kodos
10-08-2012, 09:50 AM
When Kevin Arnold doesn't get Winnie at the end of The Wonder Years, and we also find out his dad died.

spleen1015
10-08-2012, 09:50 AM
When Dr. Green dies in ER. Damn it, Goose!

When Adrian says "Win, Rocky, win."

When Han Solo dies in ROTJ.

I love that Rockey scene when Adrian wakes up from a coma. Mick is awesome. "What are we waitin' fer!?!!!"

Autumn
10-08-2012, 09:56 AM
How about the end of every episode of THe Incredible Hulk?
(TVshow)

Hah, yes! Just thinking of that music makes me sad.

Qwikshot
10-08-2012, 11:08 AM
When Dr. Green dies in ER. Damn it, Goose!

When Adrian says "Win, Rocky, win."

When Han Solo dies in ROT
J.

When Han Solo dies in ROTJ?!?

The scene in "Minority Report" when Cruise corners his son's "murderer" and instead of killing him, fighting every fiber in his body, arrests him. Just a solid scene of emotion.

Last night I watched "Kung Fu Panda 2" with my son, and I started to mist up when Po remembers what happened to his mother and family and finds his state of grace.

I. J. Reilly
10-08-2012, 11:11 AM
Like several others have said, at the end of Big Fish I completely and utterly lost my shit.

It doesn’t really fit as “saddest” but the other movie that never fails to put a serious lump in my throat is Apollo 13. “Gentlemen, it has been a privilege flying with you.”

Kodos
10-08-2012, 11:12 AM
When Han Solo dies in ROTJ?!?



Harrison Ford wanted Solo to sacrifice himself in ROTJ.

That would have been sad.

NorvTurnerOverdrive
10-08-2012, 11:30 AM
Harrison Ford wanted Solo to sacrifice himself in ROTJ.

That would have been sad.
would have added some much needed gravity to that muppetfest

Kodos
10-08-2012, 11:53 AM
So you didn't sniffle when the Ewoks get knocked down, and the one gets up and tries to rouse his friend, only to discover he's dead?

NorvTurnerOverdrive
10-08-2012, 11:58 AM
no. but i do remember slave leia evoking some strange new feelings in young norv

CraigSca
10-08-2012, 12:14 PM
In Saving Private Ryan when the medic gets shot and realizes the bullet went through his liver. When he's calling for his Mom...ugh, heart-breaking.

Qwikshot
10-08-2012, 12:15 PM
So you didn't sniffle when the Ewoks get knocked down, and the one gets up and tries to rouse his friend, only to discover he's dead?

I just didn't know if Lucas had tinkered more with ROTJ than I had imagined.

Izulde
10-08-2012, 01:43 PM
When Kevin Arnold doesn't get Winnie at the end of The Wonder Years, and we also find out his dad died.

This. I expected Kevin wouldn't get Winnie in the end, but I felt like somebody punched me in the stomach when I found out his dad died.

spleen1015
10-08-2012, 02:28 PM
Kenard shooting Omar.

Izulde
10-08-2012, 02:37 PM
Kenard shooting Omar.

That, too.

And yeah, Big Fish as well which a bunch of people have mentioned.

...Damn, I need a fluffy romcom now.

korme
10-08-2012, 03:02 PM
The end of Big Fish is a great one.

OldGiants
10-08-2012, 03:22 PM
Old Yeller epi from FRIENDS

Friends Season 2 Episode 20 The One Where Old Yeller Dies (http://www.cucirca.com/2011/01/04/friends-season-2-episode-20-the-one-where-old-yeller-dies/)

Frontier Fun!