Saddest Moments In Film...

[Sun Tzu]

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]

I cried when the Death Star blew up........

Damned terrorists !

[MacroGuru]

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]

I had completely forgotten about that movie. Quality addition, Macro.

[Honolulu_Blue]

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]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

That first sequence in "Up"

nod

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

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]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

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]

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]

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 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]

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]

Originally Posted by PurdueBrad

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

Great call

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

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

+1

[Groundhog]

Grave of the Fireflies... like, the entire 2nd half.

[sterlingice]

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]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

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]

When the boxer dies in the movie "the champ" and ricky schroeder keeps asking him to wake up...gets me every time

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Crapshoot

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]

Originally Posted by Crapshoot

The Brendan Fraser episode? That one kills me.

+1

[Scoobz0202]

The ending to The Green Mile

[Sun Tzu]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

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]

Dear Zachary...

[Matthean]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

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]

Originally Posted by SlyBelle1

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]

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]

When ET dies. He was such a innocent little fellow.

[sabotai]

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]

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]

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]

Titanic!

Sorry nothing to see here..

Don't let go Jack!

[lighthousekeeper]

growing up, this scene always got me:


but here's the saddest moment in the history of everything:

[sterlingice]

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

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

SI

[stevew]

When Jimmy learned that Tommy "didn't make it"

[heybrad]

A couple parts in Rudy get me.

[Lathum]

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]

Daddy!

[sterlingice]

The end of Toy Story 3 is damned emotionally manipulative, too

SI

[Julio Riddols]

Originally Posted by Matthean

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]

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]

Philadelphia is a good one. The final scene was just so well put together. It felt very authentic.

[Dutch]

The introduction of Jar-jar-binks in Episode 1. Gets me everytime.

[PurdueBrad]

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]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

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]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

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

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]

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!!!]

There have been many sad moments in cinematic history. What George Lucas does with prequels and alterations has been widely documented. Truly sad.

[thesloppy]

I think most recently, War Horse got me, but that was no surprise. Spielberg and horsies, in a period piece? Done for.

[Crapshoot]

Originally Posted by Dutch

The introduction of Jar-jar-binks in Episode 1. Gets me everytime.

Well played.

[chinaski]

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]

Originally Posted by chinaski

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?