Sad movie moments from your childhood that stuck with you

SuprSi

What movie scene from your childhood has always stuck with you? My first cinema experience was E.T. and I think maybe I was too young to remember the sad parts in it, but one that regularly replays in my head is this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ULg4RSy5Y

I could recite it word for word and the music note for note. I was gutted when I saw it for the first time and it's a far cry from the utter muck of the Michael Bay movies where I didn't care one iota about the characters or what happened to them. Funny how a cartoon can have such a lasting effect (must not mention Watership Down! ).

youtube!

The Lassie movies jesus I cried at every one of them!:o

Da Shins Kelly

Mufasa. End of.

Jogathon

My Girl.

Beestings... Cue huge loud sobbing noises from the sofa.

bnt

I never saw Bambi as a kid, but I did see The Fox and the Hound, which is pretty heart-wrenching in parts. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqroDf-xAiw

Inquitus

SuprSi wrote: »

What movie scene from your childhood has always stuck with you? My first cinema experience was E.T. and I think maybe I was too young to remember the sad parts in it, but one that regularly replays in my head is this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ULg4RSy5Y

I could recite it word for word and the music note for note. I was gutted when I saw it for the first time and it's a far cry from the utter muck of the Michael Bay movies where I didn't care one iota about the characters or what happened to them. Funny how a cartoon can have such a lasting effect (must not mention Watership Down! ).

This just makes me want to say Bah Weep grah nah weep ninibong, and I was evidentally a pussy as a kid, I do remember steel magnolias made me sad panda.

kingtiger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7NGJw0kR8

rednik

This one for me, sad ending to a great movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jc63OCK_Oo

dark crystal

For me, it's Kramer vs Kramer, when Dustin Hoffman and his son are making breakfast for the last time before he has to leave. It's just heartbreaking

Technocentral

Roy Batty's (Rutgar Hauer) death in "Blade Runner"

and especially Tom Conti's character visiting Sgt. Hara in prison just before he is to be executed in "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence",

had a big emotional impact on he as a young lad.

Duggy747

As irritating as he could be, Johnny Five didn't deserve that trashing from those goons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUQMvlH39XA

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Jogathon wrote: »

My Girl.

Beestings... Cue huge loud sobbing noises from the sofa.

Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!!

For me it's The Land Before Time. Littlefoot's mother dying, then when he thinks he sees her but it's just his own shadow And when his tree star gets stomped on

Carpenter

Very sad.

Tipsy McSwagger

The ending of Best of the Best,

Dae Han: To save a life in defeat is to earn victory and honor within. Your brother too, was a great fighter. I deeply regret your loss, and I offer myself as your brother.

johnny_ultimate

I love that a family movie contains the most intense, uncomfortable death scene in the history of cinema. If it wasn't for the third act reversal I'd probably still fill with a crippling sadness everytime I saw a horse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y688upqmRXo

Cool_CM

Turner and Hooch

I still can't believe that Hooch dies at the end!

Josey Wales

Cool_CM wrote: »

I still can't believe that Hooch dies at the end of Turner and Hooch!

This is the perfect example of how not to use the spoiler function. How is anyone supposed to know if this spoiler will be a spoiler to them.

tskk

Lost in the desert. A movie made in 1970. I remember seeing it on tv when I was 10 or 11. It has stayed with me to this day. A boy and his dog lost in the desert after a plane crash. I used to dream that it would happen to me and my cat!

I found it quite tramatic and I would not let my own kids watch it now.

The Gibzilla

I always found "Flight Of The Navigator" an emotional roller-coaster as a nipper!

Also the scene in T-2 where they're lowering Arnie down and he gives the thumbs up has always made me weep like a bitch!

Mickeroo

quickbeam

Where The Red Fern Grows:

when the dogs die.

Had a huge impact on me, I vividly remember the scene but could never remember the name of the film until recently when I Googled it. Still can't handle

when animals die on screen.

GTR63

Don't know why but I nearly always get upset when Dumbo is getting rocked in his mothers trunk after she gets locked up protecting him. Its more the music that gets to me than anything.

Galvasean

Its the music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ubIhAlF46g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzf0SFlicN8

tupac_healy

The Gibzilla wrote: »

I always found "Flight Of The Navigator" an emotional roller-coaster as a nipper!

Also the scene in T-2 where they're lowering Arnie down and he gives the thumbs up has always made me weep like a bitch!

The T-2 Scene for me also

Miguel_Sanchez

E.T.

First film I stayed awake all the way through in the cinema.

He dies. Then he comes back to life. Then he leaves!

How's a 4 year old supposed to handle that?

efb

Dumbo so sad

CastorTroy

youtube! wrote: »

The Lassie movies jesus I cried at every one of them!:o

Jogathon wrote: »

My Girl.

Beestings... Cue huge loud sobbing noises from the sofa.

Both of these still make me well up.
Lassie just for everything she has to go through just to get home/stay by her master's grave, etc.
My Girl - not so much the death but more Vada's reaction to it.

And I suppose 1 movie's emotional impact can be summed up in one word: Goose.

T-K-O

At the end of Empire of the Sun when the kid (bale) can't find his parents

krudler

Land Before Time is a good shout.

It wasn't a childhood movie but it's something every kid should see, The Iron Giant. One word: "Superman"

parttime

krudler wrote: »

Land Before Time is a good shout.

It wasn't a childhood movie but it's something every kid should see, The Iron Giant. One word: "Superman"

I think everyone should see that movie, child or adult. Its just magic.

_Kaiser_

SuprSi wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ULg4RSy5Y

I could recite it word for word and the music note for note. I was gutted when I saw it for the first time and it's a far cry from the utter muck of the Michael Bay movies where I didn't care one iota about the characters or what happened to them. Funny how a cartoon can have such a lasting effect (must not mention Watership Down! ).

The whole first 25 minutes or so of that film was pretty brutal (as in hard, not bad)

Most of the original Bots and Cons get killed off including the 2 leaders.. ok Megs is recreated as Galvatron but he (nor the rest of the film/series) wasn't the same after that.

Bit harsh after watching them blasting each other for 2 seasons beforehand (and post-movie) with hardly a scratch to show for it in most cases, or back to normal by the end of the episode.

Personally I think the movie/G1 series died after this (some great dialogue in this too for a cartoon):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUE0f7j_T2s

bigwormbundoran

The only thing I recall making me cry properly was The Wrong Trousers, when Feathers McGraw

The Bástard

comes to live in the house, and Gromit gets kicked out of his cozy room into the rain, then leaves, with Feathers smugly looking out the window as he walks off. I remember crying out of remorse for poor Gromit, and my older brother making fun of me for doing so, which certainly didnt help matters.

Bipolar Joe

krudler wrote: »

Land Before Time is a good shout.

It wasn't a childhood movie but it's something every kid should see, The Iron Giant. One word: "Superman"

That's my pick, too. It was on television a while ago, and I still started crying. Gets me every damn time .

SebBerkovich

like Simon Pegg...
"I cried like a child at the end of terminator 2"

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

All Dogs Go To Heaven.

I suppose it's kind of a happy ending as Charlie is dead from the start but he actually gets into heaven at the end, but it still makes me weepy when he has to leave

randombar

White Fang, I'd nearly cry now watching it!!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I watched a fairly recent kids film with my little cousins not long ago, Ramona & Beezus. There's a bit in it where their cat Picky Picky dies while their parents are out and they bury him in the back yard and do a little speech about him.
Not going to lie, it was very very sad. I was thinking to myself this will be their (my cousins) My Girl bee stings moment. They'll weep when they think of Picky Picky for the rest of their lives!!

Da Shins Kelly

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!!

For me it's The Land Before Time. Littlefoot's mother dying, then when he thinks he sees her but it's just his own shadow And when his tree star gets stomped on

That bit really got me. He runs up to the wall where his shadow is and licks it, thinking it's her and then realizes it isn't. Then the narration comes in:

"And then Littlefoot knew for certain that he was alone."

Tears everywhere.

Cool_CM

Josey Wales wrote: »

This is the perfect example of how not to use the spoiler function. How is anyone supposed to know if this spoiler will be a spoiler to them.

Yup, that was fairly idiotic on my part. Changed it. Apologies.

fish fingers

The 1954 cartoon version of Animal farm definetly upset me as a nipper.

thebullkf

The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound.

Prefect_1998

The worst one I remember was the scene in the FLY 2 when the boys dog is transported... wow its a tough one to get through even now... 20 years later:rolleyes:

DazMarz

Most of the ones I'd think of have been mentioned already. But here's some that I don't think were:

In Babe when Ma, the old friendly sheep, gets mauled and killed by wild dogs and Babe gets blamed and nearly is put down for it.

Also from Babe, the final lines of the film following the victory;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjQtzV9IZ0Q

In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, the final scenes after the Rebels destroy the Death Star and the heroes are being presented with medals for their valour. That always got to me.


And admittedly both those scenes get to me, even now. I swear, it's a bit of dust that got stuck in my eye....:o

Marty McFly

Lady and the Tramp for me as a kid was gut wrenching,

the scene were Trusty has just chased down the dog catcher and the wagon has fallen on him, with Jock crying over his limp body.

Tried finding a youtube link but damn Disney and copyrights :cool:.

Technocentral

fish fingers wrote: »

The 1954 cartoon version of Animal farm definetly upset me as a nipper.

Was it the realisation, even as a young kid that its a metaphor for a monolithic, totalitarian, soul destroying dictatorship crushing the spirit of man or because the little piggy dies?

krudler

danielle_door wrote: »

The worst one I remember was the scene in the FLY 2 when the boys dog is transported... wow its a tough one to get through even now... 20 years later:rolleyes:

Oh god, and that it's still alive years later, that's horrible

the_monkey

A lot mentioned here allready, but also for me The Untouchables when

Jim Malone (played by Sean Connery) dies

Prefect_1998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJX2ex_6m_k


fly 2 dog scene ^^^^^^^^:(