When Brom dies in Eragon movie.
It’s not that sad, only when he’s riding on Saphira

Saddest movie moment – in the new musical Mamma Mia, when Meryl Streep sings ‘The Winner Takes It All’. I cried like a baby.
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Muppet Baby, holy shit I forgot about My Girl. One of my absolute favorite movies and yet one of the saddest. I know people here are gonna laugh but I used to cry when Tim Curry gets killed at the end of Rocky Horror.

But getting back to other sad movies scenes….hmmm…OH I used to cry when I watched Cocoon when the old guy (the one who was on Golden Girls alot) his wife died and he takes her to the pool with the life power trying to revive her but the idiots at the retirement home sucked the life out of it. The way that poor guy is cradling his wife in his arms begging to Brian Dennehy to help him. Also when the open up the cocoon and the alien is dying inside made me sad.

I also used to cry at Edward Scissorhands when Vincent Price died and the scene where Depp says he can’t hold Winona Ryder and she goes over to him and hugs him anyway.

Glad to also see lots of people who were devastated by the death of Jim Henson as much as I was. I used to intern for the Jim Henson Company and had my first interview in his old office, when I left the building I cried in the cab on the way home. I met his daughter Cheryl a few years back at a book signing and she wrote inside my book “Melissa, keep the dream alive” and I tear up everytime I read the damn autograph.

Holy crap, I forgot Nestor, The Long Eared Christmas Donkey…That should have been number one on my list. That was the most damaging thing I’ve ever seen.

I just saw the Season 4 Lost episode that focuses on Jin and Sun. I could see the ending coming but it still left me in tears, which is very rare for any TV show or movie to do.

“The episode of Today’s Special where Jeff
sacrifices his wish to become a real human
to help out his friends. I hope somebody
else remembers that.”

I remember that show and episode. It was a show meant for pre-schoolers, but that show did have alot of heart. I remember the poignant last episode of the series. Jeff sits alone and sings “You Make My Memories” as he reflects and remembers the experiences he, Jodie, Sam and Muffy had together.

I still like that song.

Pretty much any episode of St. Jude (on the Inspire channel, I think).
It’s basically a documentary of St. Jude’s Children’s Cancer Research Hospital.
They actually show the kids’ stories, alive and well, and then right at the end of the show you find out that they died.
I can’t bear to watch it anymore.

The christmas episode of Happy Days…when The Fonz lies to everyone saying he has an awesome Christmas planned, but Ritchie finds him eating raviolli out of a can…it aint Christmas in my house until I am crying while watching that episode!!!

Matt Groening makes me cry like no other person can, so the usual tear-jerker suspects from Futurama and the Simpsons get me easy. Second place goes to J.K. Rowling. Especially when Dobby dies. I was reading that part at my fiance’s mother’s house and I had to hide in the bathroom so no one would ask why I was bawling my eyes out. *sniffles*

I reread the whole thread…. and didn’t see any mention of
“OLD YELLER”. How could you NOT cry at Old Yeller? I remember a teacher showing us this before the Christmas holidays in elementary school and the whole class just bawled. I still cry when I watch it.

“The Velveteen Rabbit” when the boy gets sick and his stuffed rabbit is thrown in the pile of toys to get burned, and the stuffed rabbit cries a real tear. This just tore me up, because it made me think of all of my stuffed toys I had as a child and how many of them were left to rot like that. So much love… for nothing.

SONGS –
Elvis – “Love Me Tender”
My parents used to sing this to me when I was little. It makes me cry now.

Vandenberg – “Burning Heart”
Their soulmate moved on, and left them in saddness. Such a touching song. The guitars are so mournful, it just stabs me at the soul.

Angel Dust – “Still Im Bleeding”
There are few songs more heart slaughtering than this one. It makes me just freakin’ bawl. And I’m not one given to such weak frailities as outright bawling but this one does it to me. It’s about someone trapped in a war and thinking of his love and mortality.
“I feel your tears
Dropping slowly down on my skin
I can taste your lips on mine
Let me kiss you before I must die”
ARGH!

Finally –
Harem Scarem – “If There Was a Time”
“if there was a time, for mercy in my life, its right now…”

1. Ok. Definitely Adaptation. But get this… when I saw it, I’d rented it from Blockbuster, and they had it in the comedy section. Biggest mindfuck of the earth. I hope those execs that arranged the genres…( the ones that put movies like ‘Conan: The Barbarian’ in Drama – ever wonder if they do that shit on purpose to get their kicks?) Well, I hope the people responsible for that genre placement die in a fire. Seriously. Therapy, ahoy. It’s like taking a drink of something you’re sure is sprite, and it’s rail vodka. EERRRRK!

I was like… “Um… when does this get funny? Oh, God. That’s not funny. Oh… God. I want my mommy. I’m calling my sister right now. I need a box of Ho-ho’s and a hug.”

I have a sister, obviously – not a twin – but if anything ever happened to her, I’d fucking lose my mind. I sobbed for forty minutes. The funny/not-so-funny thing is, she called me sobbing after she saw it a few months later.
It made my happy and sad at the same time. I promised her we wouldn’t go to any swamps, ever, ever.

Now, a friend of mine insists that it’s a dark comedy, and that the main character’s brother doesn’t really exist, so I should watch it again, and quit my whining, but… holy shit. That movie made me want to whine like a dog shot and abandoned in 100 degree weather.

*SPOILERS* (Basically from now on, in every example. % O )

2. The death of Liev Shrieber’s character, Detective Mike Keppler on CSI destroyed me.

All in the same episode, ‘Law of gravity’, his character finds out he shot an innocent man years before, thinking the kid raped his girlfriend; the rape eventually caused her to kill herself – or so we think.

Her father – a retired detective & Keppler’s mentor – comes to Las Vegas to demand a ‘favor’ from Mike… and long story short, it was Mike’s deceased love’s father – keep the mentor/Obi Wan thing in mind, here – who had been raping Keppler’s girlfriend all along. (!!!! His own daughter, & I was like, ‘holy shit! My favorite character besides Nick doesn’t need to go through this! Mulligan!) Charlie Brown ARGH!

At some seedy hotel, where I think a girl witness was holing up – one who’d seen the bastard incriminate himself in the murder of a retired fellow officer – the final act begins; he has his gun up and is about to plug her when Keppler bursts in, confronting his almost father-in-law about what he’d done.

Seconds later, just before Katherine arrives to help him, Keppler shields the girl from being shot as she’s running out the door, taking the bullet himself. Katherine dashes in… and Keppler shoots his now nightmare father figure, unloading his weapon to save her.

Katherine and Mike – in Schrieber’s short like, four episode run – had really taken a liking to each other. All he can say is ‘I’m sorry,’ and you think for a second, he can just die in relative peace, or in her arms, or something nice and personal after all the bullshit he’s just gone through… but…? No.
‘Oh, no,’ I thought.
And I got that sheet of ice in my gut, to be perfectly dramatic about it. (I’m a Leo, that’s how I roll. Meow. Roar. Growl.)

There’s a ray of hope as paramedics cart him off, lifting him, semi-conscious into the ambulance, and you’re thinking, ‘He’ll make it! He’s gonna make it, I know he will! He’s Liev Shrieber! Yeah!’ But he suddenly goes into cardiac arrest, and Katherine is just screaming his name… “MIKE! MIKE!!” And he dies. Right there in the ambulance, next to the goddamn clueless EMTs; they act as actual EMTs act sometimes, if you’re unfortunate; like they don’t give a shit about who they’re pronouncing dead. I felt sick, and over-protective as Mike laid abandoned, given up on, tubes and wires in his throat, across his chest. And they called it, unconcerned. I don’t know if that was on purpose, or a skewed observation on my part. It didn’t really matter, the result was the same.

Christ. I saw it for the first time last week, and it was thunder storming out… the instant he died – no kidding – it started pouring buckets. Mother nature was as upset as I was; we sobbed together. I still like to think Keppler’s undercover somewhere, you know, like in the Million Dollar Man (’We can fix him!’), as I like to be in denial and write characters back onto shows in my head; these things are painful. These instances of grief take us out of our day, but they also drag us into moments of frustration & empathy. Righteous indignation. ‘If only I had a pen, and a brain, I could fix this. Oh…wait!’ Canon denial is a psychological disorder, I’m certain, but hey… I’m a writer. It’s my burdern to bear; ‘chefs do that’. (if you know what movie that quote is from, you get a mental cookie.)

3. Duh, ‘Jurassic Bark’. ‘Nuff said.

4. Charlie drowning on ‘Lost’. I threatened that I would never watch Lost again if they killed my favorite character. And I haven’t.
I am diseased in the fact that every favorite character I ever have… dies. It sucks.

5. ‘What dreams may come.’
If you haven’t seen this movie, get a big box of soft, lotiony tissues, a bottle of bourbon, and keep the shots coming. You will be hysterical by the time the credits roll. Warning: put away all sharp instruments and weapons of destruction BEFORE pressing play. Please.

5. The VERY original Little Mermaid from like… 1980. At the end, Marina – that’s actually the name from the Hans Christian blah blah – watches the evil witch marry the prince, having fooled him into thinking she’s his princess. Marina, then so distraught over having to return to the sea and lose her ‘humanity’, literally stabs herself with a knife and flings herself overboard. Le Fini.

I was like, four when I saw this. Us 80’s kids are tough bunnies, lemme tell you. Cartoons could say ‘kill’ and ‘die’ in the teenage wasteland of the 80’s.. and if a character wanted to commit suicide in front of her little dolphin friend as he screamed in horror… well, she could, dammit. What did we care? We didn’t know what death was, yet. It was all about Ninja Turtles and Skip-its. Parents get SO bent out of shape about these things, PSSHHH.
Who wants to live under the sea, any goddamn way? Take that, Sebastian. This is why I look at shows like… ‘The Wiggles’, and I just shake my head; when the Apocalypse happens like, twenty years from now, all the little Barney droolers and Wiggles worms are gonna be brain trashed, and us geezers raised on Sesame Street, G.I. Joe, and Transformers are gonna be like frickin’ Ash in the Evil Dead movies. ‘Come get some.’

6. Stone dying on General Hospital.
Mobster’s teen brother dates girl with HIV. They’re safe, they do all the right things. He gets AIDS, deteriorates rapidly – it’s a soap, we’re on a time frame, here – goes blind, and is bed ridden Well, on said deathbed, the last thing he says to her is ‘Robin… I can see you.” And he’s crying, and she’s crying – half the 18-36 demographic is probably still in therapy… it was gut-crushing.

*ALL APOLOGIES* ( I read my Thesaurus until it fell apart when I was a child)

(I’m on a roll, and I had a bad 4Chan posting experience last night where a gang of like, 7 people flamed me to death for making a three sentence post about ‘Pho’ that was apparently the spawn of the devil. I need to vent. This is good stuff to vent about. 4Chan Pho fuckers. I hope they die in a fire. A big one. Eating Pho)

7. ‘Not in the face.’ ( Honorable mentions )

-Artax (which the horse in Sony’s PS2 game, ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ clearly based off of). You poor equine bastard. Just wasn’t your day, baby. Just wasn’t your day.

-Little Foot’s mother. Jesus. I STILL cry. And I’m 28. Although, I can still spot a tree-star at 20 paces.

-Wolfwood. Ouch. And, I had someone spoil it for me, too. I was like, “WHAT?!!” They ran out of the video game store I worked in so FAST, lol. Before I could take a swing at them, too. Guess they didn’t want a copy of that year’s Madden up their ass. Their loss. Cause I was REAL close, friends. Reeeeal close. ~ # D

-Unico. Christ, those wooden people. ‘Little wooden boys!!!’ (another cryptic reference) These are things the Japanese make that you just get in your head every so often, and you’re like ‘AAhh. WTF?!” Oh. It’s just Unico. … …Huh. Huh. What the hell was with all that, anyway?

-The Last Unicorn. OK, class! Who else still has nightmares about the world burning all around you, and Mia Farrow’s shrill-enough-to-break-glass voice screaming in horror at her human appearance? Okay, then. That’s what I thought.

-Sam Beckett never goes home. Bullshit! Fuck that finale with an acorn. (insert inappropriate, misdirected rage HERE.) There were clearly official books released where he not only got home… but got to come and go as he pleased. They were awesome! And if anyone was irrevocably scarred by that ending, go ahead and read them. They’re cheap, endearing, fun with a dedication that went something like, ‘For all the people who wouldn’t believe Samuel Beckett never returned home again.’ That author lady rocked. http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/novels/index.html
My mom read every last one of those things. It was adorable. Never got home, Ziggy’s ass.

-ADA Clair Kincaid, Law & Order (played by the lovely Jill Hennessy, of ‘Crossing Jordan’ fame). Ordinary day. One of the only episodes of Law and Order that revealed the personal lives of the characters. Detective Lennie Briscoe has a drink with the young ADA, talking about a case, the day. He offers to drive her home. On the way, they continue to talk; the camera pans sideways, and with only about a second to spare, we see a vehicle coming from the path on Clair’s side of the car. They are broadsided, and the crash is horrendous. Briscoe gets away with minor injuries. Some explaining to do, as he’s a recovering alcoholic. Clair? Well, let’s just say… if there are chains of lawyers at the bottom of the sea? I hope there are some doing daisy chains in the big courthouse in the sky. Fast and tragic… none of us really saw it coming.

8. ‘Cold Mountain’. You watch the whole fucking movie, and it’s like… 3 hours long. And the entire movie consists of Jude Law trying to get back to goddamn Cold Mountain, a.k.a., NicoleKidman. And what happens at the end? He gets shot. And there you are, crying. And Jude Law’s character – you feel so attached to Inman by the end of the movie, when he dies, you’re like.. why the fuck am I still HERE?! You left me all alone! With Nicole KIDman! But it is a fantastic movie.

9. Another General Hospital death. But… so sad.
-Georgie, the police Commish’s daughter is strangled to death – mercifully off-camera – by the text message killer in the park.
The town geek squad, Spinelli – a love-lorn, awkward sheik nerd computer hacker kid – is walking past the entrance to the park.

It’s snowy and cold out, and he looks upon the stone steps… only to see Georgie just… lying there. There’s no music that I recall – you only get one shot to watch soaps, usually – She’s pale, and stiff, and bears this horrible look of sadness literally frozen upon her face (yay, acting). The young Spinelli proceeds to freak out; he tries to wake her up, he shrieks for someone to help her, but there’s no one. He calls 9-1-1, and starts crying, begging them to help her. But, they can’t help her.

Usually shy and reserved, we’ve never really seen Spinelli a.k.a., ‘The Jackal’, uber computer hacker raise his voice at all… until now. And it’s in horror. I was a wreck for 2 full days. I won’t even go into the body bag scenes. Oh my God. So Sad!

10. Terra gets shot on Buffy.

Okay. If you saw it, you know what I mean. We all had the same reaction. Some prick named Warren actually gets it in his head after fighting and losing to the Buffy gang that he can just roll up to Buff’s house… and shoot her. And, the sad part is… he’s right.

Buffy’s just chilling out in her back yard, Warren walks up to them, and shoots twice – once point blank into Buffy’s chest, once randomly in her andXander’s direction as he flees the scene; Buffy drops like a stone, bleeding on the ground, back to the earth… and well… what about the other shot?

Cut to the upstairs of Buffy’s house; Terra and Willow are talking, I don’t remember what about. Just girlfriend witchy-poo talk. They hear shots. Pan onto Willow’s face; she’s suddenly splashed with red. It crests her cheek. She looks down, it’s on her shirt. She looks up. And Terra has just one, nickel sized hole in her heart. She stares at Willow, seemingly fine. Confused. Terra looks concerned then.

“Your shirt,” she says. And she drops to the floor, probably dead before she hits the wood panels.

I flipped the fuck out. I mean, I never really loved Terra, but I loved Willow, and to see her in such anguish… it was rough.
‘Seeing Red’ was probably one of the better episodes of the series, though. Before all the ‘I work in a fast food place & I’m not the only Slayer’ crap.

11. ‘Grave Danger’ CSI
You might think seeing your favorite character buried alive sounds exciting. Well, add 2 back to back episodes where he’s ethered, carried, stuffed in a truck, buried… and then filmed by a sadistic crazy madman McMad’n’stuff and broadcasted to his dearest friends. Yup. We have dinner and a show.
I realize if anyone was going to kidnap and torture me, I probably would have had Frank Gorshwin high on the list in all his classic Riddler-dom, but… jeez man. Quentin Tarentino penned this one, but… Jesus.

If you happen to be claustrophobic, look away. Tight shots of Nick being half smothered with dirt, eaten nearly alive by fire ants, and holding his gun at the ready to fire away are all frustrating and saddening.

The scene where – against all odds – they finally find him, and the coffin he’s in is rigged to explode, so… they can’t get him out right away? Heart pummeling. As they’re all digging, once more, Katherine is yelling in fear of her friend’s safety. “NICKY!,” she yells. It’s very hard to watch as Nick is freaking out, screaming in panic as his team mates have to back away from his so the thing doesn’t explode.Grissom calling Nick ‘Poncho’ to try to calm him is amazing. And it works! I was the one in tears by the end of it, so great was my relief after 2 scary weeks. After all… Nick is my favorite original show character… & for a second, there… I thought I had damned him to the same fate as all my other favorite characters. Well,OK… not ALL. Just… a LOT.

Poor Speedle on CSI: Miami. If David Caruso puts his sunglasses on, then plants his hands on his hips ONE more time… just for reference… when his character’s wife died on the show, and he was standing in her hospital room just like that, portraying all the emotion of a sack of cacti… I wanted to cry a little then, too. Just… for different reasons. I think they were philosophical.

Well, I hope I don’t get moderated! Reeeeally long post! Thanks for listening and helping me rant! Hope someone enjoys!
Awesome topic! I got to spread my well-worn emoting wings!
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~>~>’>’Q’

Goose in Top Gun…I was 6…I cried. Oh yeah…and Ritchie in the La Bamba movie.

The scene in the movie Superman: Doomsday where Lois Lane is talking is talking to Martha Kent after Superman dies is really sad.

When Goose died in Top Gun, I died a little inside.

Man, I can’t believe only one person mentioned Old Yeller. I’m not a crier, but my mother allowed me to watch that like a week after we’d put our dog down when I was like 8 and I think I nearly drowned myself with the crying.

Also incredibly sad:
-Homicide: The Movie — The last act is incredibly well-written and sad. Between the Bayless-Pembleton scene on the roof, the bar scene it’s interspersed with, and the final squad room scene, I still get chills and a bit weepy.

-The Pedigree ad voiced-over by David Duchovny – Also known as “I don’t know how I got here, but I’m a good dog and I just want to go home.” I could give a damn about what people do to other people, but nothing depresses me more than when they turn in a dog to an SPCA for no real reason. Pedigree did a nice follow-up to this one though, with the dog getting adopted.

-When the Levees Broke, a documentary in four acts by Spike Lee – I think I cried through all four hours of this. I still live in disbelief that we, as a nation, allowed what went on New Orleans after Katrina to happen. I’m even more appalled that we’re almost three years after that, and parts of the city don’t have power.

When Phil Hartman left SNL, sitting on a darkend stage singing goodbye goodbye goodbye and cradlng Chris Farley. What really did it for me was that he was clearly crying.

Torgo34,

What part of WV are you from? I’m originally from St. Albans, 20 mine west of Charleston. I went to Marshall from 2003-2005.

I guess I was the only devastated child when Ted Dibiasi(The Million Dollar Man) purchased Sweet Sapphire for a WWF duffle bag of fake money and a cheap fur coat….Poor Dusty Rhodes…..first that, then your son turned out to be a freakazoid!