sadest scene in a film ever?

The Sweeper

The end of Million Dollar Hotel, Tom-Tom's speech about life.

Dar

Not really a film, but the last episode of the WW1 black adder, when they finally go over the wall. Brings a tear to my eye every time

galactus

Betty Blue when she pokes her eye out. Gotta hurt.

Sangre

I found the end of Léon quite sad.

I also agree with the Blackadder one.

GreenHell

Kurt Russell at the end of Vanillia Sky I felt sorry for poor ole Kurt.

I dunno if you'd call it sad, well I suppose it is Harvey, when Jimmy Stewart is telling the shrink and nurse about Harvey outside the back of the pub.

Med Junkie

The one that always always ALWAYS gets me in floods is One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.....i mean come on, Jack is the ****ing man and the ending.......i've said too much.........:(

Bicky

"Stand by me" The end is real sad.
"Fandango" with Kevin costner. Seen it once when i was young and i remember getting a lump in my throat when the gang split up at the end. Not sure why though.

vibe666

Stand By Me - Quite a few bits.
Shawshank - Scene at the end on the beach.
Green Mile - When he 'rides the lightning'. - couldn't speak for about 30mins after the first time I watched it.

Spot the common thread there? Stephen King really knows how to pull those strings!

Platoon - Elias running for the chopper (the bit from the front cover, barbers adagio for strings adding poignency to the whole thing) I know it's already been mentioned, but it was damn good.

The one that got me really badly, was the bit at the end of Seven where you find out what's in the box. I'd just fallen well and truly in love for the first time when I saw it, and all I could think about was what would that be like to find out something like that. very upsetting. I still can't watch that bit of the movie to this day.

misswex

Armageddon - always cry when I watch that
Gone With The Wind and Scarlett!! - you just have to cry at this movie!!
Titanic - because of the reality of the whole thing and at the end of the movie when you see all the dead people in the water, its just shocking!!! Actually I even cry when I hear the music to the film!!

I've even cried at the animated movie 'Tarzan' - I know I'm sad

Spiffing

Originally posted by Dar
Not really a film, but the last episode of the WW1 black adder, when they finally go over the wall. Brings a tear to my eye every time

galactus

Dumb and dumber - the bit where the lads take a wrong turn.


-I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little bit more rockier...

-..I was thinking the same thing...that John Denver full of **** man!


Made me cry

Spenguin

Donnie Darko was pretty sad at the end. Pay it forward was the saddest movie I've ever seen. The little guy got killed when he tried to save his friend from the bullies...:(

vibe666

thanks for ruining the end or those who didn't see it yet Spenguin. I'm sure they'll love you for that.

Do you fancy putting poiler tags on that bit to hide it?

dazberry

Silent Running - when the little Robot is left at the end watering all the flowers and they play that real hippy music.

Obi-Wan letting Vader kill him in SW, and Vader converting to the "light" side in ROTJ.

D.

Carnate

Originally posted by Spenguin
Donnie Darko was pretty sad at the end. Pay it forward was the saddest movie I've ever seen. The little guy got killed when he tried to save his friend from the bullies...:(

Aww thx for that was about to get it tonite to watch!!


Thx Dude.. NOT!

Naos

Aye, I can get REALLY into films, fill other persons shows so to speak..

Green Mile - Generally
Lion King - Amazing film, just sad but has great hope.
I Am Sam - Not mentioned yet (Sean Penn) but very sad, worth getting trust me.

Hmm cant really think of anything else, oh when I seen Cool Runnings and everyone started slow clapping at the end and ..

lodgepole

The scene where Selma sings from the Sound of Music in her prison cell in Dancer in the Dark. Also when she screams because she can't breath. And when she goes crazy after hearing about the money being used to hire a lawyer.

Ellen Burstyn's knockout scene in Requiem for a Dream.

bizmark

The end of star trek generations

Captian kirk dies and the Enterprise-D is destroyed (its more the enterprise being destroyed that gets me every time)

Err..

Ordinary People - the discussion between Donald Sutherland & Mary Tyler Moore when she finds him crying in the dining room

Chad ghostal

end of hana-bi
end of grave of fireflies
sympathy for a vengeance.. pretty much the whole movie but the river scene in perticular

thats all i can think of off the top of my head. ..

and obviously one flew over the cookoos nest..



note:
DONT FORGET SPOILER TAGS!!!

mang87

Shyte I've not cried at a film since I was about 10...
But a real tear jerker was that film beaches, when you find out her mother has cancer and she has go and live with BETTE FUGGIN MIDLER... man, what a sad end, I'd rather die!

angeldelight

In A Beautiful Life (Italian film) when the dad gets shot and then the little boy gets reunited with his mum. Oh and of course Black Beauty!!!

Elessar

I remember trying to hide the tears watching certian films when i was a kid, like E.T., the Lion King, and a few others.

More recently though I thought Gandalf's "death" and sacrifice in The Fellowship Of The Ring was pretty sad. Cudos to Peter Jackson for making it so sad relatively early in the film.

elivsvonchiaing

When I first saw it: Schindler's list. The collection of the gold - climaxing in the issuing of the ring that was made. Schindler broke into tears.

You started with hating the guy. And the movie bought you his redemption.
This really moved me at the time - alas Emelie - before her death soured this- probably because it was needed. And he was just a greedy businesman with a humanitarian streak and a sh1te husband - not the saint he was portrayed in the movie.

Think he did more good than most and deserves the recognition. Emelie - I just don't know?

I just feel that this has to be one of the top five best
examples- I really feel real-world event movies will only qualify here.

mang87

Elessar wrote:

More recently though I thought Gandalf's "death" and sacrifice in The Fellowship Of The Ring was pretty sad. Cudos to Peter Jackson for making it so sad relatively early in the film.

That was bloody amazing. VERY well done. Gave me a lump in my throat.

mad m

Kramer Vs Kramer.....sniff well not really but its all i could come with at this late hour...hey but come to think remember Gregory Peck in the THE YEARLING ,ah the poor young deer!!

michaelpwilson

Thought the scene where the wedding ring rolls on the floor in "The Sixth Sense" and Willis "finds out" was quite sad...

Etain

Frodo saying good-bye when he and Bilbo are leaving with the Elves. I know I wasn't the only one in the audience crying.

kraggy

starring Jon Voight as the boxer. the end when he dies on the table after the fight, in front of his son (the blonde guy from silver spoons who is now in nypd blue)

we watched this when we were kids and my neighbour paul took the piss out of me when he heard i was crying at the end of a film. then we made HIM watch it and he left our sitting room sniffling saying he had to go home for dinner!!

we haven't let him live it down since!!! te hee...

OfflerCrocGod

E.T. the first time I saw it I was like 10 and I cried when he went home. Schindlers List the whole movie is full of terribly sad scenes...one of the best was at the end with the car

"I could have saved one more life"

God that's sooo sad. Shawshank Redemption when the old librian...well anyone who has watched it knows ( if you haven't then watch it!! ) and when Andy ( dont read unless you have already watched it )

gets out "crawling through 500 feet of sh1t"...brilliant!!

. Also Gladiator when

Maximus dies and you see his home and family and the african slave buries the statuettes

Pugsley

I cant believe no1 has pointed out that Mear revived a thread from 2003??? Noone ntoice that 4 pages of this ocnversation just popped out of nowhere in 1second?

Anyway, Saddest has to be the after the final battle of 'The Last Samurai', when he's talking to the emperor, and the death of Katsumoto, excellent stuff. The Execution in Braveheart was also excellently done. The Green Mile, the last execution also definately up there with one of the saddest scene's in a film.

gandalf

Field of Dreams

When Doc walks off the field to save the little girl and everyone realises that he has forsaken his dream and then the bit where Kevin Costner plays catch with his Dad

Gets me every time !

John

the entire second half of Requiem for a Dream left me in bits for the rest of the day

Johnny_the_fox

Ill sound like a big girl here.. 2 films come to mind..

In Michael Collins - when he gets shot ("I dont know anything anymore" is the background music)

Also

In Veronica Guerin - when she gets shot..

mwnger

I also cried at E.T. when I saw it for the first time about 7 years ago and I've refused to watch it since because I think it's a very manipulative film. Speilberg was trying his damnest to get the audience to cry, which I think is very cynical.

A recent one was In America, when the eldest daughter says "Say goodbye to Frankie, Dad", that just floored me.

I remember the end of Return of the King (when they're sailing into the west), a lot of the audience were in tears in the cinema - i thought that that was the worst scene in the trilogy. The one scene that did get me however, was in the Two Towers when Smeagol gets beaten up by the Gondorians and Gollum takes over again. I was in bits cos you knew he was doomed from then on. And he came so close to redemption too. Actually Gollum throughout the entire trilogy was very tragic - didn't you just want to give him a hug and say everything was gonna be alright? ...err maybr not.

Wacker

Here are two that haven't been mentioned (Warning: I have not put on Spoiler protection) :

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. When Spock dies in the radioactive chamber. The "live long and prosper" line choked me up.

The Outsiders. First Johnny then Dallas?!? Is there no justice in the world?!?

Wacker

Seeing as someone else mentioed it the last episode of Blackadder was the saddest thing ever. And on the subject of non-films, anyone ever go to Les Miserables? Not a dry eye in the place, I swear.

NeoSlicerZ

Armageddon is the only movie that made me cry..

nadir

So many
'Dolls' the whole lot of it was damn depressing, and 'Hanabi' to a lesser extent.
The rutger howard bit at the end of 'blade runner'
The end of 'Platoon' with sheens voiceover.
Valarias Funeral in 'Conan the Barbarian'
End of 'Leon'
End of 'Hero'
Last of the Mohicans
and the list goes on and on.

Kain

Um.... Micheal Collins when he got shot.

Can't really think of anything else right now.

ixoy

Hmm I'm normally not moved by these because the films are generally too manipulative by putting on a swelling score and trying to get you to feel, rather than the story/characters/acting doing it for you. However, there a few that - if not left me sad, left me emotionally drained:

* Dancer in the Dark - End scene. Where's she singing her song and then

She drops through the floor and has her neck snapped[/quote]. Holy crap, I had to sit down for a few minutes after that.

* Requiem for a Dream - The final act, but - in particular - Meltdown. The scene almost left me shaking.

* In America - Yeah, I'll go with this one too. When he's saying goodye to Frankie. Also when he's trying to win the game at the fair - very well done.

* Lord of the Rings - Not the final farewall in RotK which was too soppy by far, but the fall of Gandalf and Frodo screaming "Gandalf!" from FotR.

* Veronica Guerin - When she gets shot. I blame that stupid kid singing the song...

* Threads - For sheer emotional gutting, as per the first two movies. The sheer and complete hopelessness of everything....

I find though in general TV shows to be far more affecting as I'll generally have invested far more hours with the characters. Futurama was one of the worst recent offenders as anyone who's seen the likes of 'Luck of the Fryish' or 'Jurassic Bark' will testify!

Hello Kitty

I cried at the end of the Lion King
When i watched ice age because of what happens to the lion and basically the rest of the end!

Cactus Col

I'll repeat what I said before (as the thread is from last year) ... The end scene in Elephant Man where he commits suicide by lying down

and

Darryl (probably not spelt right there) ..... you know the scene cause you cried at it too

MrBigglesworth

The last few seconds of The Green Mile. I had to urge myself to breathe again.

CaptainHilts

the bit where steve martin finds out that john candys wife is dead in trains plains and automobiles.... wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Duckjob

Both been mentioned already I think, but:

Gladiator - the scene near the start between Maximus and the Emperor is I find very moving: "tell me about your home". Also, the end scene especially with the music score comming in, brings a lump to me throat everytime..

Brooks letter in The Shawshank Redemption. The combination of funny ("maybe I should get me a gun and rob the foodway, I could shoot the manager, kinda like a bonus") and extremely sad at the same time does it for me.

elivsvonchiaing

Another one has come to mind: Dr Zhivago. Scene when Alec Guinness mentions the baloilycka (no idea how to spell this), how Yuri used to play - the "supposed" daughter has no idea if he's just a crazy old man or even if Yuri was really was her father...

LegacyUser

was 'champ, wake up champ mentioned', always got my sister in tears anyway

DapperGent

Final scene of Donnie Darko with madworld playing over it. I had the sad.

CyberGhost

Makaveli wrote:

The death of Optimus Prime.

lol!

Lucky fluke - man! I always cry during that movie! always!
American beauty - when Spacey speaks of life - makes me very sad!
Iron Giant - the last scene, when he saves the town!
Armageddon - the last scene!
12 monkies! when Bruce get's shot! while the young Bruce watches! - now that is an infinate loop of a failure! and he can't do anything about it!

forgot to add, the end of Leon! ah man! how sad! he is almost out! but bam lights out!