MAN, you guys are missing the most sad movie part ever, mostly because it's a true story......... The scene where Julius shows up to the hospital and finds out that Gary is paralyzed from the waste down in Remember the Titans. Their friendship gets me every time. LEFT SIDE, STRONG SIDE!
Hands down winner
Up until the last 10 minutes, a Wonderful Life may be the saddest movie ever made. The druggist son dies and takes it out on George's bad ear; his father dies and he chooses the building and loan over college; his brother comes home married with a job offer, and he realizes his dreams are over ( the look on Stewart's face is heartbreaking); the economy collapses on his wedding day and he hands over his honeymoon money to the town to keep the building and loan afloat; etc., etc. The saddest scene is when George explodes on the family, yelling at his kids then destroying the corner of the room where he was keeping just a small part of his big dreams alive. When he turns to face his family... Wow. James Stewart was one hell of an actor. The scene in the bar when he is praying is incredible, too.
If you're not crying by the end of the movie when he opens the book and reads the message from Clarence, then you don't have a pulse.
Maybe not the saddest but possibly the most painful to watch scenes in film history - Mikey's phone calls in Swingers.
It would have to be a tie between the ending scenes of every single French film ever made.
smakooo wrote:
final scene of shawshank makes me tear up
But it is not a sad ending
This one just came to mind: the ending of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Damn...
Many of the scenes mentioned make us tear up but they are not sad. Jack Lemmon and meryll Streep are two of my favorite actors and Chaplin is my favorite writer/director. I'll go with those scenes
Twenty Four Eyes
When the kids accidentally injure the teacher and later scenes
The end of Cinema Paradiso when Toto watches the film clips from Alfredo of all the people kissing, and thinks of his former love Elena.
When the dog dies in Turner and Hooch.
Also in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the part from the beginning to the end.
Errol Flynn (as George Custer) saying goodbye to Olivia DeHavilland(Elizabeth Custer) in They Died With Their Boots On (1941), as he leaves for Little Big Horn and ensuing debacle. BTW: She faints as he walks out the door.
Saving Private Ryan when the medic is dying and there is nothing they can do for him but give morphine. The he calls "mama...mama..." and dies.
Earth Being wrote:
The end of Spirited Away when the girl and her parents drive away and she looks back, and you get this real sense of change and how life is this thing you can't hold on to (breaks me up just writing about this). Great movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdjUOYLBwd0
This is my favorite movie but I never read that scene as sad. Chihiro's blank face, normally so expressive, reflects a more complete knowledge of how vast and deep the world is, how little human activity matters to it. At least to me.
Saddest scene for me is in "Last Night" (1998) where Sandra Oh and Don McKellar kiss. If you've seen the movie you know why.
Old Yeller and Cooley High
The last few frames of the 1920ish version of "Alls Quiet on the Western Front". The butterfly...OMG.
theme from s-express wrote:
the scene in 'up' where the old widower is remembering his wife and comparing life then to now.
this definitely. and also the person that said it's a wonderful life. i always tear up in the second half of that one.
A walk to remember, I cried , then cried again.
Million Dollar Baby when Clint Eastwood has to euthanize Hilary Swank
Also Old Yeller - I remember being home sick as a kid and watching this movie and it really getting to me
Great thread and great responses.
Lots of great choices, but I'm still sticking with the last scene of 'The Days Of Wine And Roses.' It's pretty impressive that out of 120 replies only 5 or 6 are sarcastic.