Sad movies poll.

[Tuffsy]

"The Bridges of Madison County" always brings a tear to my eye. Although Meryl Streep is doing the right thing for her family, it is still sad that she can't be with Clint Eastwood. The ending is particularly moving when the truth finally comes out.

 

[Metalhead]

Well, I guess I won’t be linking to the Artax scene from The Neverending Story in this thread, even if he does come back to life at the end of the film.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I have actually watched the first part of a show that had a sad ending before, stopped it before the sad part, and daydreamed up an alternative ending that was happy. I have actually done things like that several times.

 

[QueenOfFrance87]

I have steered clear of sad films for years, but I have watched "Charlotte's Web" as a kid, and it definitely made me cry. About a decade and a half ago, my oldest niece (my stepsister's child) made us all watch the remake and it made me cry too.

Sometimes, out of curiosity, I would read the descriptions of certain films on Wikipedia and TV Tropes, and that alone would make me cry. One example is "Marley and Me". I did not have to see this movie to make me cry, just reading the description (yes, I am basically risking spoilers here) made me cry within seconds.

 

[Metalhead]

"The Bridges of Madison County" always brings a tear to my eye. Although Meryl Streep is doing the right thing for her family, it is still sad that she can't be with Clint Eastwood. The ending is particularly moving when the truth finally comes out.

Meryl Streep broke my heart in “Sophie’s Choice”.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I'm reminded of that scene in Gladiator when he shouts "Are you not entertained?"

People really do watch some somber and grim stuff in the name of entertainment.

I enjoy watching uplifting things.

Ed

As I've mentioned before, I daydream up my own alternatives to films to change parts that I don't like. Apart from names and faces, you seriously would not recognize that story at all. In my version, I single handedly rescued Maximus' wife and son. There is only one coliseum gladiator fight in which nobody dies because I somehow block all the swords arrows, ect. long enough to talk the two sides into not fighting and after notifying Maximus that his wife and son were ok, he helped me convince everyone not to fight each other. The ending was a comedy sequence of me sending a tyrannosaurus rex chasing after Commodus. He stepped down from being emperor so the tyrannosaurus Rex would quit chasing him. Don't ask how a tyrannosaurus rex even came to be in the story. I don't know. It's just what daydreamed.

 

[Lemon Zing]

Anyone find it sad in the second Rambo movie how Stallone and the Vietnamese lady kiss, with him promising to take her back to the USA, then seconds later the lady gets shot by a pursuing soldier?

 

[AGXStarseed]

Anyone find it sad in the second Rambo movie how Stallone and the Vietnamese lady kiss, with him promising to take her back to the USA, then seconds later the lady gets shot by a pursuing soldier?

Definitely; imagine how the series could have altered if she'd only been wounded but survived the film - with Rambo going back with her to the United States and maybe starting a family with her.

 

[FayetheAspie]

@Lemon Zing @AGXStarseed I have never seen the show, but I'm certain I'll imagine up a version where she lived if I do see it.

 

[Metalhead]

Anyone find it sad in the second Rambo movie how Stallone and the Vietnamese lady kiss, with him promising to take her back to the USA, then seconds later the lady gets shot by a pursuing soldier?

I laughed at how poorly done that scene was in that movie. Talk about obvious manipulation.

 

[Outdated]

@Metalhead , you might like an Aussie movie - Kenny. Sort of funny and sad and sweet all at the same time.

Kenny (2006) 7.2 | Comedy

 

[AGXStarseed]

I laughed at how poorly done that scene was in that movie. Talk about obvious manipulation.

I think it was meant to be deliberate, like how life offers people hope then can snatch it away so quickly.

 

[Judge]

Another one for this list. Just finished watching "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" - 2006

An Irish film about two brothers who fought in Ireland's war of independence against Great Britain, only later to find themselves on opposite sides of Ireland's civil war.

Another deeply heartbreaking story. Actor Cillian Murphy sure seems to age well!

 

[Lemon Zing]

The Land Before Time is extremely sad when Littlefoot loses his mother.

There were so many direct to video sequels to that movie.