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cloneswereall said:
Of Mice and Men always gets me depressed. I mean, between Carlson shooting Candy's dog, Candy, Crooks, and George being within a few weeks of being able to buy their farm, finding out Curley's wife gave up her dream to become property of an ******* and dying because of it, and George shooting Lennie while Lennie hears about how he's going to get to tend the rabbits it's like Salinger just kept going "well, you think that's depressing? How's this make you feel?" and tried to one-up earlier events.
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Steinbeck, but I totally agree. Keeps kicking you in the junk.

My Girl and The Notebook both killed me. Purposeful tear jerkers are ridiculous usually.
 
Angie said:
Steinbeck, but I totally agree. Keeps kicking you in the junk.

My Girl and The Notebook both killed me. Purposeful tear jerkers are ridiculous usually.
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I had a roommate in college with a copy of My Girl that he utilized on women like it was his job. Essentially, he asks a girl out on a date or picks someone up in class/bar, gets them back to our place, they watch the movie together, he pretend gets into the movie (because he's watched it 30 times and it really isn't that great) and talks all deep about it, they do their thing, morning after she leaves usually to never be seen again. We tried talking with them casually in the mornings but they usually weren't overly conversational and were looking for the door.

The fact that it worked so often just blew us all away. To us he just appeared to be some massive tool that no one would have interest in...
 
This actually happened to my wife's grandfather...

Man works hard his whole life and does not want to retire. Finally, once he realizes his wife is showing early signs of Alzheimer's/dementia, he decides its time. He retires, with his last day on a Friday, and that night he has a heart attack and dies. Not the saddest movie I can think of, but a pretty ****** situation all together.
 
I don't know about saddest but the one where Hugh Jackman's daughter is kidnapped and JakeG is the cop is one dreary and depressing piece of work.
 
I've made ex girlfriends cry because I'm so good at making up stories.

Beginning scene: Woman is raped.

Plot: Raped woman has a baby daughter. Daughter grows up in life with a single mother who works as a waitress because her rape messed her up so bad. Daughter is awful in elementary school. Bad grades, no friends. Gets in fights all the time. Daughter realizes the crap shoot that is her life and decides to do something about it. She has grit and determination unlike anything anyone has ever seen. She picks her grades up in middle in high school. Gets a better social life. Works 40 hours a week providing just for her mom, understanding that, in a way, changed the course of her moms life, and was an accident. An accident that her mother grew proud of, because she loved her daughter very much. Daughter gets a perfect score on her ACT's. Full ride scholarship to Harvard. Mom dies. Slows her down. She can't do this, she can't go on. But wait, she's a tough SOB. Her mom would want her to go to college. Goes to college and plans on becoming a lawyer. First week of college went great. Loves the professors. New friends are awesome. Everyone is so welcoming. Friends decide to go to a party her first weekend.

Final Scene: On way to said party, daughter gets raped and dies.
 
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Cyclonetrombone said:
I had a roommate in college with a copy of My Girl that he utilized on women like it was his job. Essentially, he asks a girl out on a date or picks someone up in class/bar, gets them back to our place, they watch the movie together, he pretend gets into the movie (because he's watched it 30 times and it really isn't that great) and talks all deep about it, they do their thing, morning after she leaves usually to never be seen again. We tried talking with them casually in the mornings but they usually weren't overly conversational and were looking for the door.

The fact that it worked so often just blew us all away. To us he just appeared to be some massive tool that no one would have interest in...
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I bet the girls saw him as sensitive, different than most college guys, etc. I'm not surprised it worked - but that's really pathetic.
 
cyclonedave25 said:
My girlfriend made me watch The Fault in our Stars. That movie was sad as hell. Took all my man power to not cry.

Now, back to the OP's question. If I were to make a really sad movie it would go a little something like this.
Little Timmy is 16 years old. He has an older sister, Lucy, who's 18 years old. Their parents are very wealthy, live a great life. Nice house, lots of friends and a great job. Timmy is a great athlete, great student and is already getting looked at by D-1 coaches for basketball scholarship. Lucy was prom queen and is on her way to being a model with a full ride to Stanford. Everything is going just so fine and dandy. Until one day, they decide to go on vacation. They will be flying to Florida on their private jet. Well that jet crashes and both the parents die. Good news, both kids live. However, Lucy suffered 3rd degree burns over 99% of her body. Timmy had to get both legs amputated at the knee and both arms amputated at the elbow. Both wake from a coma after a week or so and asked for their parents. The Doctors break the news that both parents died in the crash. After weeks in the hospital the two kids move in with their Aunt and Uncle. Their Uncle is an alcoholic and their aunt is a *****. During the kids' recovery phase, the uncle sexually assaults both Timmy and Lucy. The children are helpless as the Aunt is always working the corner and they can't get out of bed. One day the Aunt comes home and catches the Uncle raping Lucy. She grabs a shot gun and shoots the Uncle and kills him. She then turns the gun onto herself and commits suicide. The two kids are left in bed unable to help themselves. Lucy rolls off the bed and tries to get to her brother, unfortunately their drunk uncle's pit bull attacks her and eats her alive. She dies. Timmy is now alone in his bed unable to move and get help. He tries to get to a phone to call 911. Unfortunately, in the process of getting a phone he knocks over a candle and starts a fire. Timmy now burns to death in this house fire. The house burns to the ground. 2 family's are wiped off the earth.
.........
*Gasps for AIR*
Lucy wakes up from a bad dream. None of the bad stuff happened. She sits up in her bed at night, breathing heavy and in a deep night sweat. Lucy continues to have these horrible lucid dreams every night so she goes to the doctor with her mom to see whats wrong. The Doc does a Scan and they find a tumor in her brain stem and give her 1 month to live. In full on panic mode they go home and tell the family whats going on. Their family decides they need to a bucket list of Lucy before she dies. She has one wish and that is to get married to her boyfriend on top of a mountain. So, her fiance and his family and Lucy and her family head for the mtns to get married. On the way up to the mtn peak, the car her fiance and family were in blew a flat tire and causes an accident. Lucy watches as her fiance and his family burn to death. Lucy's family calls 911, but no cell service. So they get into their car and go for help. Their car now slips off the road and rolls a couple times. Nobody dies but their car is totaled and everybody is bruised and beaten from the accident. Minutes later a grizzly bear finds them and eats their family. One at a time, the bear eats this family. The screams and yells for help. Blood all over. One person managed to get away. Lucy. With a broken leg, she crawls for help. Lucy just witnessed her fiance and his family burn to death in a car accident and her family get eaten alive by a bear. After about 1 mile of crawling for help, she falls into a pit of rattlesnakes and is bitten over 25 times. She dies.
The end.

Sad enough mtown?
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Please step away from the fork and seek help! Dude, that was seriously twisted, and far outclasses my simple sad plot about the young Persian girl who escapes to the US for educational freedom, only to end up in a trailer court living with a Hawkeye family...
 
urb1 said:
Leaving Las Vegas.
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This movie was actually a pick me up for me. I was in college when I saw it. There was a little part of me that I thought I had a drinking problem, then I saw this movie....... I felt sad but better about myself.
 
I don't know if it's the saddest movie plot, per se.

But I was never more ****** after watching a movie than I was after watching "Seven". There was no satisfaction at the end of that movie.
 
welp, Dave is interesting.



I've never seen Old Yeller. Did he get rabies or something and they shot him? Think I read the story one time.

Didn't cry at Bambi or the Lion King.


Maybe I have no soul.
 
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