Saddest TV or Movie Scenes Ever

[gorfias]

Another poster just reminded me of one of the most impactful shows I've ever scene. The ending of Scrubs.

Scrubs had some killer scenes.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSLxmZ-Gzo

Just a killer for me.

What TV or movies just smashed you (making you hope no one saw you sobbing). ?

Oooh, a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEIQSbul9Os

Nutty: awesome movie that moved me like you would not believe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9SeO7b79N0

 

[CrazyGirl17]

The only one I can think of off the top of my head:

Spoiler: Pokemon I Choose You

Confession time: ...I haven't seen the whole movie yet. I get that might be unprofessional... but I really want to talk about this one scene in particular.

Basically Ash is trying to protect Pikachu from a horde of brainwashed Pokemon, despite risk to his own life, to the point where he probably gets head damage and imagines Pikachu talking to him (or if you prefer, their souls are in harmony or something). Eventually he manages to get Pikachu safely in a Pokeball... just as the blast kills him (is this like the fourth time in the franchise? Poor kid can't catch a break...)

When I first saw this part, my reaction was pure shock, complete with hand over mouth reaction. Hand to Arceus, I'm not even kidding. It was bad enough in the first Pokemon movie that Ash was freaking struck dead and turned to stone, but this made me feel like I'd just been punched right in the childhood!

...Too bad his revival was incredibly underwhelming. He just... reappears from a parallel dimension? Couldn't they just have Ho-oh revive him somehow? Not that anyone would listen to me on that matter...

 

[gorfias]

The only one I can think of off the top of my head:

Spoiler: Pokemon I Choose You

Confession time: ...I haven't seen the whole movie yet. I get that might be unprofessional... but I really want to talk about this one scene in particular.

Basically Ash is trying to protect Pikachu from a horde of brainwashed Pokemon, despite risk to his own life, to the point where he probably gets head damage and imagines Pikachu talking to him (or if you prefer, their souls are in harmony or something). Eventually he manages to get Pikachu safely in a Pokeball... just as the blast kills him (is this like the fourth time in the franchise? Poor kid can't catch a break...)

When I first saw this part, my reaction was pure shock, complete with my hand over mouth reaction. Hand to Arceus, I'm not even kidding. It was bad enough in the first Pokemon movie that Ash was freaking struck dead and turned to stone, but this made me feel like I'd just been punched right in the childhood!

...Too bad his revival was incredibly underwhelming. He just... reappears from a parallel dimension? Couldn't they just have Ho-oh revive him somehow? Not that anyone would listen to me on that matter...

Was this the OG wide release movie? Some of what you describe reminds me. I hope you can provide links that might take me to youtube links to further remind me. Thanks.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

The only one I can think of off the top of my head:

Spoiler: Pokemon I Choose You

Confession time: ...I haven't seen the whole movie yet. I get that might be unprofessional... but I really want to talk about this one scene in particular.

Basically Ash is trying to protect Pikachu from a horde of brainwashed Pokemon, despite risk to his own life, to the point where he probably gets head damage and imagines Pikachu talking to him (or if you prefer, their souls are in harmony or something). Eventually he manages to get Pikachu safely in a Pokeball... just as the blast kills him (is this like the fourth time in the franchise? Poor kid can't catch a break...)

When I first saw this part, my reaction was pure shock, complete with my hand over mouth reaction. Hand to Arceus, I'm not even kidding. It was bad enough in the first Pokemon movie that Ash was freaking struck dead and turned to stone, but this made me feel like I'd just been punched right in the childhood!

...Too bad his revival was incredibly underwhelming. He just... reappears from a parallel dimension? Couldn't they just have Ho-oh revive him somehow? Not that anyone would listen to me on that matter...

Was this the OG wide release movie? Some of what you describe reminds me. I hope you can provide links that might take me to youtube links to further remind me. Thanks.

You could try YouTube... unless the Copyright Police got to them.

Otherwise, try this: https://serebii.net/movies/pokemon20/

 

[gorfias]

You could try YouTube... unless the Copyright Police got to them.

Otherwise, try this: https://serebii.net/movies/pokemon20/

Thanks! Nope, not what I recall bringing my boy to many years ago. Look great though.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The ending to The Tale of Princess Kaguya. It's not just terribly sad, it hits you with a big ol' case of depression due to what it implies about your own life.

Also this;

 

[Kyrian007]

Until it got retconned by "Bender's Big Score" the ending to Futurama's "Jurassic Bark" was the saddest ending to a television episode I had ever seen. What is most annoying, is by retconning the ending... yes it is less sad but the emotional impact of that ending was ripped away. It is less than it was and that is not a good thing. The other one that gets me is Trigun's "Paradise." Not because of the major character death that takes place in that episode, that is sad... but the scene that get to me is Milly's reaction later. She is always so optimistic, upbeat, happy... seeing her devastated and weeping just destroys me.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

The Ending of Synecdoche, New York really stuck with me. That movie in general had me stare at a wall for 20 minutes afterwards.

 

[Trunkage]

Irreversible. Pretty much the whole movie

Endings of Grave of the Fireflies, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Life is Beautiful and Boy with the Striped PJs

Rabies in Scrubs
Brooks was here
In the Pale Moonlight DS9
Not Penny's Boat
G'Kar freedom speech
Avacato hugging his son back on Galaxy 1 in Final Space
Jurasic Bark
All of the Strike teams endings in The Shield
Jane in Breaking Bad
The human becoming insurgents in BattleStar Galactica. Probably more what happened to those who wouldn't be an insurgent.
Maes Hughes

 

[Baffle]

The bits in Whitefang where Whitefang wasn't happy.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

No contest:


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[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

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[Thaluikhain]

Artax! And later on, the bit about "good strong hands".

Also, yeah, Jurassic Bark.

 

[gorfias]

/thread:

OMG. Are you trying to kill me???? *reaches for tissues*.

Irreversible. Pretty much the whole movie

Rabies in Scrubs

Not Penny's Boat

Jane in Breaking Bad

Reviewing other stuff you reference but dang. Those are some good additions.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

The Al Pacino Trilogy of Saddness.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

The Death of Wade:

 

[the December King]

Artax! And later on, the bit about "good strong hands".

Yep. That was hard on me, back in the day.

One for me, for some reason - The death of Ophelia in Mel Gibson's Hamlet always makes me tear up.

Also, the poetry as Depp channels Thompson reminiscing about the 60s in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, alternately called 'The Wave Speech' or 'The High Water Mark monologue'. It makes me feel I was born in the wrong time.

I dunno, they hit me in the feels.

 

[Agema]

I think the thing that usually gets me are where characters have been struggling so hard against a tragedy (even if self-inflicted), and the point finally comes where they can't contain the force of it any more and they break. So for instance when the guilt eventually cuts through the amnesia in The Machinist, the revelation of the trauma of the mentally ill man in Spider, or the first season of Fleabag as her defensive facade of fun woman-around-town finally collapses under the strain. I suppose this idea might include that most shameless of tearjerkers, Cinema Paradiso, although that's a little sentimental for my tastes.

Other than that, the start montage from Pixar's "Up!" summarising the old guy's life is one of saddest moments you'll find in a film.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

The ending of toy story 3

Dang, beat me to it. Part of why I don't believe Toy Story 4 should exist.

Even now that the cast has mostly recovered from the trauma, the finale of Volume 3 in RWBY.

Agents of SHIELD, the last 1/3rd of Season 4. Technically this means the team all have two lives' worth of memories in them, souls grown old before their time, with Fitz having it the worst of all. If they don't give him further conflict with this and [CLASSIFIED] in the coming seasons I'll go around town for a week saying nothing but 'Hail Hydra'.