Movies with sad endings. (SPOILERS maybe)

Cloud · 06-26-2007, 01:24 PM

I don't like them, and they've been intruding in my life recently. (Go away!)

Things like Pan's Labyrinth, which we already mentioned. Million Dollar Baby. Braveheart. Brokeback Mountain, for God's sake, was awful because the ending was so heartrendingly sad.

Waaah! I always feel cheated at such an ending.

Happy Monkey · 06-26-2007, 02:02 PM

Grave of the Fireflies is the saddest movie ever made.

Flint · 06-26-2007, 02:34 PM

Ouch. Concur.

Clodfobble · 06-26-2007, 04:23 PM

My stepdaughter was so busy being pissed off and sad at the "sad" ending to "The Iron Giant" that she completely missed the part where it turned out it wasn't a sad ending after all. We had to back up the DVD to prove it to her... and then we laughed at her.

barefoot serpent · 06-26-2007, 04:36 PM

Charlotte's Web *sniff* Julia Roberts dies!

jester · 06-26-2007, 05:01 PM

The Hitcher - hated it - ticked me off.

City of Angels(?) the one with Nicholas Cage & Meg Ryan - stupid!

Undertoad · 06-26-2007, 05:17 PM

Oh yes on that last one. It was a very interesting, very good film for the first 3/4ths.

richlevy · 06-26-2007, 08:55 PM

Well Braveheart had the disadvantage of having to be historically accurate. From Wikipedia

Quote:

On 23 August 1305, Following the trial, Wallace was taken from the hall, stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to Smooth Field. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts — at the Elms in Smithfield. His preserved head was placed on a pike atop London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of his brother, John, and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Aberdeen.

I heard Disney was working on a version where Wallace, realizing that Edward is misunderstood, manages to find the stuffed rabbit that Edward had lost as a child. A grateful Edward frees Scotland, knights Wallace, and invites him for tea. The last scene is of the two of them laughing together as the screen fades to black to the strains of "Scotland the Brave" sung by Elton John.

Ibby · 06-26-2007, 09:13 PM

Would the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch be a sad one or a happy one? I'm not entirely sure.

Cloud · 06-26-2007, 11:23 PM

happy, as such things go.

freshnesschronic · 06-26-2007, 11:54 PM

The Matrix. Sad cause it made me hate the Wochowski brothers.

Ibby · 06-27-2007, 12:02 AM

Happy? Why?
SPOILERS:
She ruined the life of the boy (man?) she loved, and, after she had a nervous breakdown, he sang her a pretty song and left, assumedly forever.
Her husband started crossdressing again, taking over as diva of the band.
She (well, with the wig off, I guess 'he' now) left, naked and penniless, alone, to the street.
Sounds pretty rough to me.

Hopeful and kind of a, like, good sort of melancholy ending, maybe... but not happy.

Cloud · 06-27-2007, 01:13 AM

optimistic, I would call it, but with the hero/ine alive; a positive note in contrast to most of the ones I'm thinking of. Alive counts for a lot.

Cicero · 06-27-2007, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Grave of the Fireflies is the saddest movie ever made.

Yes, very well made and a heart-breaker. I made of my friends watch it and she never forgave me for it. I just told her it was really good..........

jester · 06-27-2007, 01:51 PM

Beaches

06-26-2007, 01:24 PM	#1
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Movies with sad endings. (SPOILERS maybe) I don't like them, and they've been intruding in my life recently. (Go away!) Things like Pan's Labyrinth, which we already mentioned. Million Dollar Baby. Braveheart. Brokeback Mountain, for God's sake, was awful because the ending was so heartrendingly sad. Waaah! I always feel cheated at such an ending. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

06-26-2007, 02:02 PM	#2
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Grave of the Fireflies is the saddest movie ever made. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

06-26-2007, 02:34 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Ouch. Concur. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

06-26-2007, 04:36 PM	#5
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Charlotte's Web sniff Julia Roberts dies! __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

06-26-2007, 09:13 PM	#9
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Would the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch be a sad one or a happy one? I'm not entirely sure. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

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Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	My stepdaughter was so busy being pissed off and sad at the "sad" ending to "The Iron Giant" that she completely missed the part where it turned out it wasn't a sad ending after all. We had to back up the DVD to prove it to her... and then we laughed at her.

06-26-2007, 05:01 PM	#6
jester why so serious Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,712	The Hitcher - hated it - ticked me off. City of Angels(?) the one with Nicholas Cage & Meg Ryan - stupid!

06-26-2007, 05:17 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Oh yes on that last one. It was a very interesting, very good film for the first 3/4ths.

06-26-2007, 11:23 PM	#10
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	happy, as such things go. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

06-26-2007, 11:54 PM	#11
freshnesschronic Professor Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,555	The Matrix. Sad cause it made me hate the Wochowski brothers.

06-27-2007, 12:02 AM	#12
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	Happy? Why? SPOILERS: She ruined the life of the boy (man?) she loved, and, after she had a nervous breakdown, he sang her a pretty song and left, assumedly forever. Her husband started crossdressing again, taking over as diva of the band. She (well, with the wig off, I guess 'he' now) left, naked and penniless, alone, to the street. Sounds pretty rough to me. Hopeful and kind of a, like, good sort of melancholy ending, maybe... but not happy. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

06-27-2007, 01:13 AM	#13
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	optimistic, I would call it, but with the hero/ine alive; a positive note in contrast to most of the ones I'm thinking of. Alive counts for a lot. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

06-27-2007, 01:51 PM	#15
jester why so serious Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,712	Beaches

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