Sadest ending to a tv series or film?

How Soon Is Now · 26-08-2013 4:01pm #1

Was just thinking there ive gotten threw loads of different tv series and films so many with different kinds of endings ups and downs but what does everyone think was the sad ones that stood out the most for them??

It came into my head after seeing the last episode of Father Ted again last night on telly.

Always get shivers watching the ending knowing how things turned out in real life in the end......

frag420 · 26-08-2013 4:02pm

Glenroe...........I'm still shaking from it!!

allibastor · 26-08-2013 4:03pm

Quantum Leap was a ****e ending, I actually felt sad for poor Sam Beckett.

Bacon and Cabbage · 26-08-2013 4:03pm

Frasier

padraig.od · 26-08-2013 4:04pm

Shane + family in The Shield

How Soon Is Now · 26-08-2013 4:05pm

Probley gonna be a lot of spoilers in here actually now i think of it :pac:.......

lkionm · 26-08-2013 4:05pm

Morbegs

Jarren · 26-08-2013 4:05pm

Spartacus (tv series):(

Birneybau · 26-08-2013 4:06pm

"Six Feet Under"

Wow!

How Soon Is Now · 26-08-2013 4:06pm

Fringe and Lost even though a lot of people hated the endings !.

Films first one i can think of is Planes trains and automobiles!!!.

vitani · 26-08-2013 4:06pm

Blackadder - 'Good luck, everyone.'

splashthecash · 26-08-2013 4:07pm

padraig.od wrote: »

Shane + family in The Shield

+1 ^ - that really hit me...really felt bad for them all, especially his little kid

gazzer · 26-08-2013 4:07pm

Quantum Leap (Poor Sam)
Angel

eddhorse · 26-08-2013 4:07pm

Lost !! Not a sad ending, more a poor effort to tie up all the loose ends !

Sopranos.

Spartacus, already mentioned.

BillyMitchel · 26-08-2013 4:07pm

Freedommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Braveheart

DoozerT6 · 26-08-2013 4:07pm

The last 10 mins or so of Schindlers List. Jesus I cry buckets every time.

For those who haven't seen it, it's the actors from the film, and the actual survivors they portrayed (all very elderly now) both going to Oskar Schindler's grave together and placing a stone on top of it, which I believe is a Jewish custom. It's a very touching scene.

And don't even get me STARTED on Marley and Me!!!

lkionm · 26-08-2013 4:08pm

Jarren wrote: »

Spartacus (tv series):(

I shed one single man tear. excellent ending but so emotional.

MJ23 · 26-08-2013 4:08pm

Birneybau wrote: »

"Six Feet Under"

Wow!

The best end to a series ever. Brilliant.

allibastor · 26-08-2013 4:08pm

Jarren wrote: »

Spartacus (tv series):(

How did it end, I actually got sick of watching it.

Karl Stein · 26-08-2013 4:08pm

When Tony Soprano got shot while sitting in the diner with his family.

efb · 26-08-2013 4:09pm

Philadelphia

Crooked Jack · 26-08-2013 4:09pm

Battlestar Galactica. It actually had a great ending but I loved the series so much that I was just sad to see it end.

lkionm · 26-08-2013 4:09pm

allibastor wrote: »

How did it end, I actually got sick of watching it.

If you got sick of watching it, you dont deserve to know.

allibastor · 26-08-2013 4:09pm

Now that I think of it, The cartoon film the Iron Giant alsways gets me worked up at the ending.

allibastor · 26-08-2013 4:10pm

lkionm wrote: »

If you got sick of watching it, you dont deserve to know.

I just got stuck into Game of Thrones. I found Crixus constant stone face a pain to watch, Plus it has never been the same since Andy Whitfeild Died, your name Liam whathisname sounds like he has a cold all the time.

dj jarvis · 26-08-2013 4:11pm

Blackadder , about to go over the top "good luck chaps"
such a mad program ended with such a touching scene

Ruu · 26-08-2013 4:14pm

MacGyver, buckets of cheese!

lahalane · 26-08-2013 4:15pm

Million Dollar Baby ending was very upsetting if not a little bit comforting??

I thought Lost was a great ending too. A sort of beautifully sad feeling.

gazzer · 26-08-2013 4:17pm

lahalane wrote: »

Million Dollar Baby ending was very upsetting if not a little bit comforting??

I thought Lost was a great ending too. A sort of beautifully sad feeling.

I loved the ending to Lost too. Thought it was a perfect way to end it though loads of my mates hated the way it finished

How Soon Is Now · 26-08-2013 4:17pm

lahalane wrote: »

Million Dollar Baby ending was very upsetting if not a little bit comforting??

I thought Lost was a great ending too. A sort of beautifully sad feeling.

It was the dog lying down beside Jack at the end that really finished me off :pac:.

I have this thing about dogs ive cried watching The Simpsons and Futurama cause of it!!!

moochers · 26-08-2013 4:17pm

I cry a river every time I watch the ending of the Shawshank Redemption.
It's such a fantastic and harrowing film, you are rooting for them the whole way through and then Red makes it through the border to see his oul pal Andy. Pure class !

And don't get me started on the film 'Life is Beautiful'.

gazzer · 26-08-2013 4:26pm

Actually the sadest ending (now that I have had more time to think) is Fry's dog in Futurama waiting for him and then dying. Its just the most heartwrenching thing ever. I actually wont watch the episode of Futurama if it ever comes on.

Corvo · 26-08-2013 4:28pm

The mood I'm in lately, I'd cry at the end of The Simpsons or Xpose.

Terminator 2. When he raises his thumb as he enters the steel.

DON'T LEAVE ME ARNIE!

DoozerT6 · 26-08-2013 4:29pm

gazzer wrote: »

Actually the sadest ending (now that I have had more time to think) is Fry's dog in Futurama waiting for him and then dying. Its just the most heartwrenching thing ever. I actually wont watch the episode of Futurama if it ever comes on.

I'm exactly the same, and I know it's been mentioned on the thread already.

I deliberately will never watch that Richard Gere film 'Hachi' for the same reason. Something about dogs faithfully waiting for someone who never comes.... *runs away to get a tissue...*

allibastor · 26-08-2013 4:29pm

gazzer wrote: »

Actually the sadest ending (now that I have had more time to think) is Fry's dog in Futurama waiting for him and then dying. Its just the most heartwrenching thing ever. I actually wont watch the episode of Futurama if it ever comes on.

That is actually very sad also, since Fry thought he must have lived a full and happy life, then it shows the poor thing waiting for Fry all its life.

The actually made a different version of this in Benders big score where the dog is frozen when bender tries to kill fry.

Legs.Eleven · 26-08-2013 4:31pm

Dancer in the Dark. I'm still sobbing gently now 7 years later.

Poor Bjork.

Meangadh · 26-08-2013 4:32pm

The Green Mile.

Band of Brothers.

Can't watch the end of either of those without becoming a great big red eyed snotty mess.

MurdyWurdy · 26-08-2013 4:35pm

Forrest Gump - when he's talking to Jenny at her grave telling her he had her fathers house torn down and how smart the kid is

I also can't watch that episode of Futurama with Fry's dog. Breaks my heart.

Other episodes (but not ends of series) that make me cry are the episode of Cold Feet when Rachel dies and in ER when Mark Greene dies. I just watched all the seasons of ER again and I was sobbing watching that one.

Vito Corleone · 26-08-2013 4:37pm

Life is Beautiful is fairly sad I suppose, Requiem For a Dream I also found pretty bleak. Mean Creek (great film) has quite a sad ending as well, and is a film that would be overlooked a lot.

Starscream25 · 26-08-2013 4:40pm

When Laura roslin dies at the end of battlestar galactica, bloody sad stuff

mickstupp · 26-08-2013 4:42pm

The ending of Gallipoli always did it for me. Great movie, terribly sad ending.

But on the mostly non-serious end of things, a couple of years ago I had a few weeks off and nothing to do so I watched all 90-odd episodes of Chuck. Which was a very silly show. Sort of a 21st century Get Smart. I liked it. But the ending was really sad. I probably wouldn't have felt it was so sad if I'd watched it over 5 years instead of two weeks, though.

spankysue · 26-08-2013 4:44pm

The end of Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan when Spock dies always brings tears to my eyes.

Tiddlypeeps · 26-08-2013 4:45pm

On the theme of dogs Marley & Me is a movie that had me sobbing buckets. It didn't look like a movie I'd ever watch but it just came on the tv in my folks house so I ended up watching it. I was expecting a rom com from the look of it, sweet jesus how wrong I was

A movie I'd highly recommend if you love a good sob is Grave of the Fireflies by Studio Ghibli. Don't let the animation throw you off, a movie designed for kids it is not.

barone · 26-08-2013 4:45pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUo-roVVfk

fryup · 26-08-2013 4:49pm

butch cassidy and the sundance kid

weldoninhio · 26-08-2013 4:53pm

Pay It Forward and The Notebook. Heart-wrenching!!

Pighead · 26-08-2013 4:54pm

Nidge's death at the end of the third series of Love/Hate. Heartbreaking.

Crooked Jack · 26-08-2013 4:55pm

Pighead wrote: »

Nidge's death at the end of the third series of Love/Hate. Heartbreaking.

I dont watch love/hate but do you not think you should use spoilers if you're going to give that level of specific detail

weldoninhio · 26-08-2013 4:55pm

Pighead wrote: »

Nidge's death at the end of the third series of Love/Hate. Heartbreaking.

Must have been so heartbreaking they didn't show it or mention it???

Yearning4Stormy · 26-08-2013 4:57pm

vitani wrote: »

Blackadder - 'Good luck, everyone.'

Dammit, vitani beat me to it! A beautiful piece of television.

Duff · 26-08-2013 4:58pm

Corvo wrote: »

The mood I'm in lately, I'd cry at the end of The Simpsons or Xpose.

Terminator 2. When he raises his thumb as he enters the steel.

DON'T LEAVE ME ARNIE!

Just about to post that. Watched it with the OH last weekend and had floods going down my cheeks which she of course, thought was hilarious.:(

Sadest ending to a tv series or film?

Comments