Sad movie moments from your childhood that stuck with you

SuprSi · 29-03-2013 07:57PM #1

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! · 29-03-2013 08:01PM

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

Da Shins Kelly · 29-03-2013 09:51PM

Mufasa. End of.

Jogathon · 29-03-2013 09:56PM

My Girl.

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

bnt · 29-03-2013 11:11PM

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 · 29-03-2013 11:13PM

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 · 29-03-2013 11:15PM

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

rednik · 30-03-2013 12:04AM

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

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

dark crystal · 30-03-2013 12:10AM

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 · 30-03-2013 12:24AM

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 · 30-03-2013 12:33AM

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 · 30-03-2013 02:37PM

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 · 30-03-2013 03:52PM

Very sad.

Tipsy McSwagger · 30-03-2013 07:56PM

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 · 30-03-2013 08:49PM

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 · 30-03-2013 08:57PM

Turner and Hooch

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

Josey Wales · 30-03-2013 09:47PM

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 · 30-03-2013 10:12PM

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 · 30-03-2013 10:18PM

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 · 30-03-2013 10:21PM

quickbeam · 30-03-2013 10:25PM

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 · 31-03-2013 01:24AM

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 · 31-03-2013 08:55PM

Its the music

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

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

tupac_healy · 31-03-2013 09:26PM

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 · 31-03-2013 09:48PM

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 · 31-03-2013 09:51PM

Dumbo so sad

CastorTroy · 31-03-2013 09:54PM

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 · 01-04-2013 04:26AM

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

krudler · 01-04-2013 10:00AM

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 · 01-04-2013 12:05PM

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_ · 02-04-2013 07:07PM

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

Sad movie moments from your childhood that stuck with you

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