Did it end the same? Left you with

Unpossible.



 

I havent watched it , yet....



Alzheimer's runs in my family , badly. My dad has it , as well as Parkinson's and heart valve issues .



So did his mom....and both her parents .



Im screwed . It's almost like I can feel it coming on when my brain doesnt function like it should . Not sure I want to watch any more suffering.

My HS graduation song.

My Life

Starring Michael Keaton

This thread reminded me of that scene in The Naked Gun where Leslie Nielson and Priscilla Presley are walking out of the movie theater laughing their asses off and the camera pans up to to the marquis and it's Platoon.

http://youtu.be/ZrXrZ5iiR0o

Agreed.  Great book.

I cant watch sad movies about dogs...  I don't even watch the aspca commercials.

Leaving las Vegas and the road were equally depressing. .

I visit my parents regularly and I'm watching something like this happen with my step dad.

I will always remember him as being brilliant. His contributions to the Apollo missions at Cape Canaveral were notable as were the technical challenges he undertook at Los Alamos for more than 30 years. It seemed his symptoms first began right after he retired as he was putting the finishing touches on an airplane he'd built. Having worked on U2's and been a crew chief on a Canberra in the Air Force, he had a fascination with flight, but his plans for such adventures later in life diminished as did his sense of desire for much of anything when the doctors gave him the news. He had just done battle with cancer the year before and was seemingly clear for take off. There came a point when I had to take his guns after he shot a hole through the bedroom wall and he couldn't remember why he had the pistol out in the first place or even shooting it or where he had put it afterward. He tried to patch the hole himself and got side tracked. My mom wasn't there when it happened and she feels that she can't leave him alone anymore. He forgets why he got up from his chair and will panic if someone is not around. He will search through all the pockets of coats hanging in the closet for something which he cannot name. He can read an electrical circuit but can't diagnose anything. He knows his name, he knows he loves my mom, his political views are intact and he still can hold up a few minutes of light conversation. He remembers details from long ago, but not from one hour to the next. When he forgets having already eaten dessert after dinner, I like to think it's an act. He once told me if he ever lost his mind and couldn't make decisions for himself that he would rather not live, but he continues to have moments when he really does appear to enjoy being around and we enjoy his company too (in whatever form we can still have that).

eta:"The Diving Bell And The Butterfly" is one of those movies that can stir up a bit of dust in a room. In a word, it is poignant.

I haven't watched Grave of the Fireflies in over ten years, and really don't want to ever again.  

I' will say that Where the Red Fern Grows is up there as well and, recently, the Fault in our Stars sorta rattled me.

Million Dollar Baby was sad in the sense that the protaganist tried so hard yet still failed, and eventually committed suicide, but it was wilfull.

In Still Alice, Moore's dementia foils her suicide plot that she had planned months prior. Then it becomes evident that she eventually dies a slow horrible death when the last scene is her in a hospice, unable to even open her mouth or use her vocal cords

Charlottes web got me choked up

Guardians of the Galaxy and that poor guy's leg?

TearJerker disagrees with all these offerings.

Murder In The First is probably the saddest movie I've seen.

What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams was the saddest movie I've ever seen.  Still brings me to tears when I watch it.

The Little Prince

Old boy was one messed up movie. I mean strange. It was almost as bad as that Antonio Banderas movie where he is a plastic surgeon that gives his daughters rapist a sex change, then has sex with that tranny in mexico somewhere.

Antonio Banders mexican tranny thread. Wooo.

Interesting take on the message of the movie....apparently Japanese see a very different message than westerners do.

DAS BOOT

The Fisher King was rough too


Robin Williams was a damn good actor

Speaking of sad dog movies - the Richard Gere movie called Hachi
IMDB for Hachi

Not a big fan of his, but the dog in it was so awesome. Story was both heartwarming and yet so sad. I think it was based on a real life Japanese story/(movie??).

This

Also this!

Nothing could be as sad as the Dirty Dozen.

Papa papa papa,

annoying movie

I wanted the characters to finally die.

This.

"Seeking a partner for the end of the world" is the most depressingly horrible movie at the same time.

One of the saddest "movies" I have ever seen was 4 Little Girls.  I absolutely abhor Spike Lee, but it was really really deep...

It was about the church bombing in 1963 where the 4 little girls where killed...Absolutely wrecked me...Shows how truly far we have come in this country...

Everyone who posted in this thread so far only "think" they know what a sad movie is.  Watch Dear Zachary available now on netflix. Do not bother watching the trailer do not read the synopsis,  guaranteed life changing documentary.  You can all hate me later for it.

Aliens.

Poor Bishop

Empire of the Sun

I was tapped by my extended family to take care of my 100 year old great-grandmother after it was decided ththat the home she was in was unable to provide the level of care she needed. She was normally what I'd classify as "happy demented", it was great (honestly). I had the opportunity to ask the same line of questions to her and I'd get different details each time.  I learned a lot about the family and their immigimmigration from Italy. Once the dementia has passed the point they don't recognize you it becomes your job to learn as much about their lives as possible, when else do you get to ask the same thing over and over and not get treated like an idiot?

I had forget all about Brians Song. Thats a sad fucking movie right there.

 

I found the movie "Jacobs Ladder" very sad for some reason - not crying sad, just extremely depressing

+1 and kinda scary all at the same time...

Saddest movie that most people haven't seen: