What is the saddest movie you've seen?

[Up4anime]

The saddest movie ive ever seen was All My life.I wasant even going to watch it because I thought it would be dumb it was a movie from a diffrent country that they didnt think was good enough to come to America.
I cried my eyes out on that movie! :animecry:

[Claire]

[FONT=Arial]The saddest movie I've seen would probably be Big Fish. I rented it one day because it was a Tim Burton movie, and I remembered wanting to see it when it first came out (however, my mom thought I was probably too young or something). The story was amazing, regardless of a semi boring start, and the end made me cry like Edward Bloom was my own grandfather or something.

Also, Life is Beautiful is very sad, yet hopeful. I think most movies about the Holocaust would be tearjerkers, though. I might've teared up during Tea With Musselini, even though that's not directly a movie about Nazi Germany. [/FONT]

[Sara]

[color=#b0000b][size=1][i]Grave of the Fireflies[/i] is pretty tragic. It's hard to even enjoy the happy parts of the movie, because from the very start you have the beginning of the film overshadowing everything.

[i]Doctor Zhivago[/i] also left quite an impact on me, although that may have been largely a result of its length. It's hard to walk away from a three hour epic without some kind of reaction. It's a pretty grim film, all things considered.

And on that note, [i]Cabaret[/i]. Oh my goodness. There's nothing quite like foreknowledge of historical catastrophe to darken the mood of a story, is there? (This seems to be a trend in my list...) I saw a theatre production up at school, and I was nearly ready to jump of a bridge by the end of the musical. I loved it, though. The music kills me, but I love it so.

Oh, and I'll throw [i]Serenity[/i] in there, simply because of the deaths. [spoiler]Although I have to admit that it had me on the edge of my seat as I tried to convince myself that [i]surely[/i] they wouldn't kill [i]everyone[/i] off...[/spoiler]. It certainly left me with an empty feeling.[/size][/color]

[AzureWolf]

[COLOR=maroon]I would have to go with [i]Grave of the Fireflies[/i] simply because nothing else comes ot mind. If you asked about the saddest book, I'd have an answer for you with no reservations! Even video game I could do, although M. Night Shylaman (sp?) blatantly ripped the ending off of the game for his [i]The Sixth Sense[/i] movie (wtf mate? And it was done better in the game).

Saddest movie I've ever seen in the sense of being pathetic has to be [i]The Devil's Rejects[/i]. It was either part 1 or 2 that I saw, because my cousin was like, "It's a horror flick! It'll scare you." Through the sex scenes and all the other simply stupid and gross (but not scary or even "freaky"), she kept reassuring me that it'll get scary. Needless to say, she never saw the movie either, just read a synopsis that said it was a scary movie.

Yeah... that was the saddest attempt at movie-making possible. It's an effin' milestone.[/COLOR]

[DaSilva]

Well, for one, I can't even think about The Notebook without crying. [SPOILER]Why...oh why the eternal sadness?[/SPOILER]

And then of course there is The Shawshank Redemption. [SPOILER] Sure, the ending is happy, but when the old man that finally gets out (sorry, don't recall the name) hangs himself, I couldn't stop. He was so nice. [/SPOILER] :animecry:

[Karma]

um 4 me it would be eight below because [spoiler] when all of the dogs died, i was crying my heart out and i really like dogs!![/spoiler] it reminds me of when i put my dog to sleep

[Guest LilyBebeboo]

[quote name='xRiku Fanx1256]um 4 me it would be eight below because [spoiler] when all of the dogs died, i was crying my heart out and i really like dogs!![/spoiler'] it reminds me of when i put my dog to sleep[/quote]

I agree, 8 below is really sad. But, its also cute and very interesting to see how the dogs work so well together!

I think City of God is the saddest movie I have seen lately. It is sad mostly because its a very true depiction of life in the slums of Brazil. To me, when a movie is based on reality, it makes me even more sad. :animecry:

[Zen]

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Probably [b]Double Dragons[/b]. The raddest video game-based movie ever filmed. It made me wanna stab myself in the eyes and cram evil-worms into my ears.... wait. You mean emotionally?

Eh. For me it'd be [b]Saving Private Ryan[/b]. The movie hit me on an emotional level, not just for all the death, but for the reason all the people died.The relationships and the personalities each characeter had, made it mean all the more when they were offed. I was a bit crushed at the end.

War is a terrible thing, and I find it weird that I'm more scared by a good war film than by any horror flick. War, if you think about it, is terrifying. And to watch people beside you, you know personally die in such ways would be awful and deeply saddening, as it apparently is.

So yeah. [b]Saving Private Ryan[/b].

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[Shinmaru]

I hate to parrot everyone, but yeah, [i]Grave of the Fireflies[/i] definitely goes on the list, though by the end I didn't really feel sadness so much as... appreciation for life, I guess (not that nobody else who has mentioned the film didn't feel that as well). It's hard to see how much suffering that Seita and Setsuko go through and not cherish what you have at least a little bit more.

[i]Magnolia[/i] is a pretty sad film. By the end of the movie when everything is breaking down ([spoiler]Frank is at his father's deathbed, the pressures of the quiz show crush Stanley, Donnie almost throws away his life, Claudia finally begins to turn hers around, etc.[/spoiler]), it's just... wow. Incredibly emotional stuff; it's a long film (a little longer than three hours), but it's definitely worth seeing.

[i]The Hours[/i] is also very sad. When everything comes together at the end and it's revealed that [spoiler]Richard (who comitted suicide like a few minutes before) is Laura's son who never really recovered when Laura left the family to overcome her depression and feelings of monotony concerning her role as a wife and mother[/spoiler]... it comes down on you pretty heavily, to say the least lol. See this, too, all of you!! :P

[i]The Boondock Saints[/i] had me bawling, too... mostly over how absurdly overrated and terrible the film is. How so many people fell in love with it is beyond me.

[Guest Haganeiru]

I have to agree, Grave of the Fireflies is definately the saddest. [font=Verdana][color=blue][/color][spoiler]Especially when that little girl (can't remember her name) died.[font=Verdana][color=blue][/spoiler][/color][/font] :animecry: Also, The Eye was also sad.

[font=Verdana][color=blue]When posting anything which could possibly ruin something for someone else, always use spoiler tags ([*spoiler]...[/spoiler] - just remove the *). I added them for you this time.[/color][/font]
[font=Verdana][color=blue]- Petie[/color][/font]

[celestialcharm]

[FONT=Book Antiqua][COLOR=DarkOrchid]The only movie that I remember was really depressing was [B]I Dreamed of Africa[/B].

I felt so sorry for that poor woman! After seeing that movie, I am always near tears when I hear the song 'Rivers of Babylon.'

I don't think I'm going to go to the isolated parts of Africa anytime soon...[/COLOR][/FONT]

[jigglyness]

I'd have to agree that [i]Grave of the Fireflies[/i] is definitely the saddest movie I've ever seen. I remember watching it as a child and was weeping all night. I think i cried myself to sleep. Then about a year ago, we found the cantonese version of the movie, and yet again I weeped myself to sleep that night again. I mean if you watch it yourself, it's pretty sad. And then we watched it again for my animation class and almost everyone in my class cried. HARD. I know I did. [spoiler]The tears came bursting out when setsuko died and seita is burning her body. T.T [/spoiler]. ByFar the saddest movie I've seen.

[Lava Lamp]

[COLOR=SeaGreen][B][FONT=Tahoma]I would have to say "Edward Scissorhands" is one of the saddest movies I've watched. I felt like I was there, in the movie, and when [spoiler]everyone in the town turned against Edward and wanted to get rid of him,[/spoiler] I kept yelling at the t.v. screen in anger and frustration.

Another movie that made me sad, was "V For Vendetta".
I was exetremly sad when Evey was [spoiler] in the prision, and started getting the letters from the woman in the cell next to her.[/spoiler] I was so depressed when that happened, that I was lying on the couch hugging my laptop and trying not to tear up.[/FONT][/B][/COLOR]

[Dragonboym2]

[COLOR=Blue]For me it was, "Life is Beautiful." Wow. I was deeply moved by the plot and characters in the film. The poor guy and his kid get hauled off to a death camp in the '40s, and during the entire time, the man keeps an positive attitude about everything, and convinces his son it's all a game their playing to protect his innocence.
I've seen it in it's orginial Italian version with subtitles. I love the italian lanuage, it's so poetic. (Look who's talking. I'm half-Italian, and I don't know a word of it.).

"KAMEHAMEHA!"

Dragonboym2[/COLOR]

[Boo]

[size=1]Ehm... how about 'Bambie'?[/size]

[Shiros_Hime123]

I dont really watch sad stories! Nor love stories...just comedy and horror/suspence....hmm...what does that say about me? :animeswea

[Papa Smurf]

[quote name='Boo][size=1']Ehm... how about 'Bambie'?[/size][/quote]
Bambi wasn't sad. I felt the best part of the movie (apart from Thumper's mental insufficiency and speech impediment) was when Bambi's mother died. She had it coming, the dirty whore.

With that said, I find some of these choices amusing. I can understand Big Fish and Saving Private Ryan, but even then, the overall message at the end is positive. [spoiler]The father and son become closer by the end of Big Fish, and in Saving Private Ryan, while most of the crew is dead, they've succeeded in their mission, and I think that's extraordinarily positive given the circumstances of World War II.[/spoiler]

So that's why I don't really consider those films to be sad, per se. I think they're more heart-warming than sad, because of those positive elements at the end of the film. Those tears are tears of joy, which you don't find in truly sad films.

A truly sad film is The Deer Hunter. I challenge anyone here to watch that film and not be thinking about suicide by the end. Or to not sob uncontrollably when the main characters sing God Bless America at the very end of the film. The entire end of the film is deeply ironic in a deeply disturbing way, because unlike Big Fish and Saving Private Ryan...[i]there is no hope[/i].

Hands down, the saddest film I've ever seen, and quite possibly the saddest film in the history of cinema. I haven't seen anything that's ever achieved the same type of absence of hope, the same sense of complete and total depression that The Deer Hunter achieves.

[Boo]

[size=1]Of course Bambie isn't the saddest movie ever. The Lion King was much sadder, but we can't just forget to mention a movie that every hollywood production uses as the-saddest-movie-ever-that-makes-everyone-cry.

Now, depression isn't necessarily sad, it's just depressing. :<[/size]