We just finished watching "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" 2008. 

Synopsis:  "Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences."

Really has a sad ending

Just made me think. Not every movie ends with "happily ever after". What movies have you watched that have a sad ending?

Con Air
Frequency
The Notebook

Well, not a totally sad ending, but sad enough.

Life is beautiful.

-Premonition
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Cat

We just finished watching "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" 2008. 

Synopsis:  "Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences."

Really has a sad ending

Just made me think. Not every movie ends with "happily ever after". What movies have you watched that have a sad ending?



We've done this before but tge Boy w/ the Striped Pajamas was a really good, tragically sad movie.


The Champ with Ricky Schroeder always gets me.
Nightmare in Badham County
Imitation of Life (both versions) but I cry harder when I see the '59
Lady Sings the Blues (for obvious reasons)
Testament

What's that movie based on the Steven King story about the people trapped in the grocery store...the mist? Or something.

Night of the Living Dead

One Day (with Anne Hathaway)

Well, not a totally sad ending, but sad enough.

Life is beautiful.


I get ya..it is sad and happy.

-Pay It Forward


Cat


Good one.


We've done this before but tge Boy w/ the Striped Pajamas was a really good, tragically sad movie.


The Champ with Ricky Schroeder always gets me.
Imitation of Life (both versions) but I cry harder when I see the '59
Lady Sings the Blues (for obvious reasons)



Good choices there.



Night of the Living Dead


I was kinda rooting for the Zombies in that one...so maybe not for me  ;D

Forrest Gump when at the end his Mother died and then his wife died too.  :(

Brian's Song

Red Dawn was kinda sad ending...

Red Dawn was kinda sad ending...




Agreed

Schindler's List, too.  I know he saved a bunch of Jews but the scene where he realized how much more he could have done was heart wrenching.

Life is Beautiful is another one that gets me.

American History X
Saving Private Ryan
The Perfect Storm

All the ones off the top of my head...

Easy Rider (1969)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Green Mile (1999)
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Vanishing Point (1971)
Soylent Green (1973)
The Last Detail (1973)
Old Yeller (1957)
Dead Presidents (1995)
Looking for Mr.Goodbar (1977)
American Beauty (1999)
The Fly (1986)
Vertigo (1957)
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest (1975)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Love Story (1970)

Odd thing is that a lot of these are from the 70's (some of that are not are set in the 1970's). There was a definite trend in the 70's to have movies end on a down note, wonder why that was..or maybe its just me. :-\\

I get ya..it is sad and happy.Good one.
Good choices there.
I was kinda rooting for the Zombies in that one...so maybe not for me  ;D



well what about the poor brother who is obviously human but gets killed anyway (when he thought he finally survived the night?) 

Brian's Song


totally

Red Dawn was kinda sad ending...


Patty watch that movie I mentioned in the last movie watched thread (Tomorrow When the War Begins) I think you'll like it...

I've only seen bits and pieces of it, but hubby told me what happened - The morning after.

Brian's Song

Very sad.


All the ones off the top of my head...

Love Story (1970)


The classic sad ending.



well what about the poor brother who is obviously human but gets killed anyway (when he thought he finally survived the night?) 

To be truthful, I forgot that part. In fact I don't even remember it. Maybe there was a little alcohol involved when I saw it?

Odd thing is that a lot of these are from the 70's (some of that are not are set in the 1970's). There was a definite trend in the 70's to have movies end on a down note, wonder why that was..or maybe its just me. :-\\


There just might have been a trend beyond just film in the 70s, I know it's worthy of another thread but some fantastic "early to mid" 70s songs were a little depressing too.  Some that come to mind:

Alone again naturally, At 17, Without you, Run Joey run, Wildfire, If, All by myself, How can you mend a broken heart, Rainy days and Mondays, Seasons in the sun, Living without you, Even now, I'm not in love, Shannon, One, Goodbye To love, So far away, Sylvia's mother, Feelings, Everything I own...

King Kong  :\'(

Philadelphia.
A walk to remember.
Bonnie and Clyde  (I like Faye Dunaway...OK?)
Terms of endearment
The Champ.

Glory
The Skeleton Key
Empire of the Sun

The Last Samurai.

Deformed kid movies --

The Elephant Man (1980)
Mask (1985)

Underrated film: The Parallax View
Also, the first Godfather (actually the whole trilogy)
Psycho (only because we find out Norman's abuse by his late mother contributed to his madness)
Romeo and Juliet, and West Side Story, both dealing with the same premise
Joe (1970)
Imitation of Life

The American (starring George Clooney)

The American (starring George Clooney)


Clooney gets a lot of leading roles in these modern tragedies (Syriana and The Perfect Storm for example).

Paranoia 2.0

Somewhere in Time (1980) had a sad ending. I can tell that James Cameron was influenced by it when it wrote the ending to Titanic (another sad ending).

Underrated film: The Parallax View


Underrated song: A Split Second, The Parallax View.

There's better audio out there, but this video appears to be a NYC DJ's copy of his own video remix from 1992 salvaged from ancient videotape. 

(Linked, not embedded, because the guy sampled everything from political speeches to commercials to the Hindenburg disaster to Heavy Metal to SNL skits to Superman to old civil rights era films to MTV trailers to Gulf War I footage, to Daffy Duck, to From the Earth to the Moon to... well, if you throw all that in there, there's bound to be a couple of scenes in it that probably aren't safe for work.  I don't even want to know if there was an official video, as of today, this is the official video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYlOn3da-M

Lay back, enjoy!  (Max, is that you at 2:10 and 2:13?)

Underrated song: A Split Second, The Parallax View.

There's better audio out there, but this video appears to be a NYC DJ's copy of his own video remix from 1992 salvaged from ancient videotape. 

(Linked, not embedded, because the guy sampled everything from political speeches to commercials to the Hindenburg disaster to Heavy Metal to SNL skits to Superman to old civil rights era films to MTV trailers to Gulf War I footage, to Daffy Duck, to From the Earth to the Moon to... well, if you throw all that in there, there's bound to be a couple of scenes in it that probably aren't safe for work.  I don't even want to know if there was an official video, as of today, this is the official video.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYlOn3da-M

Lay back, enjoy!  (Max, is that you at 2:10 and 2:13?)


I couldn't get yours to play, but I did find this one on the side bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrFj2zR0mdI&feature=related
Thanks Republican senator guy! Your advice is sure gonna come in handy!
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01349/leeharvey_1349859c.jpg

Anyway, back on target, uh, topic:

OLD YELLER
:\'(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hB9NTYD0E

Old yeller  :\'(

Beaches is another one
Thelma and Louise.

Spiderman (w/ Tobey Maguire) & Superman II


At their core they are really just unrequited love stories  :\'(

Oh, and 2 more:

Midnight Cowboy
Awakenings.

Somewhere in Time (1980) had a sad ending. I can tell that James Cameron was influenced by it when it wrote the ending to Titanic (another sad ending).



Um...Titanic was based on an ACTUAL event. There is only one way it could have ended.



Cat

Um...Titanic was based on an ACTUAL event. There is only one way it could have ended.



Cat



But the characters of Jack & Rose are fictitious so there could've been 3 possible endings.
Um.  4.




The one they had.
One where rose dies and jack lives
One where the both live
And one where they both die








I'm still holding out for a directors cut where they both die..... By tidal wave when their dumb asses are standingat the bow and pretend to be flying.

I'm still holding out for a directors cut where they both die..... By tidal wave when their dumb asses are standingat the bow and pretend to be flying.


Or Darth Vader comes in just before they make love  "Rose, Jack...I am your father"
Or like "The Final Countdown", a Kirk Douglas film, this time the ship goes forward in time & they are caught in the Gulf War..or Pearl Harbour.., or they get beamed abord the Starship Enterprise and....
Never mind...

Or Darth Vader comes in just before they make love  "Rose, Jack...I am your father"
Or like "The Final Countdown", a Kirk Douglas film, this time the ship goes forward in time & they are caught in the Gulf War..or Pearl Harbour.., or they get beamed abord the Starship Enterprise and....
Never mind...




;D


In a weird way some of your suggestions would be more plausible.

But the characters of Jack & Rose are fictitious so there could've been 3 possible endings.
Um.  4.




The one they had.
One where rose dies and jack lives
One where the both live
And one where they both die








I'm still holding out for a directors cut where they both die..... By tidal wave when their dumb asses are standingat the bow and pretend to be flying.



True, true.



Or Darth Vader comes in just before they make love  "Rose, Jack...I am your father"
Or like "The Final Countdown", a Kirk Douglas film, this time the ship goes forward in time & they are caught in the Gulf War..or Pearl Harbour.., or they get beamed abord the Starship Enterprise and....
Never mind...





;D


In a weird way some of your suggestions would be more plausible.



;D ;D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

Um...Titanic was based on an ACTUAL event. There is only one way it could have ended.



Cat


I thought he meant the scene where after Rose dies, young Rose goes up the grand staircase and Jack is waiting for her.  I thought that was a sweet moment.

Or Darth Vader comes in just before they make love  "Rose, Jack...I am your father"
Or like "The Final Countdown", a Kirk Douglas film, this time the ship goes forward in time & they are caught in the Gulf War..or Pearl Harbour.., or they get beamed abord the Starship Enterprise and....
Never mind...


OR... the car that they make love in is the grandfather of Herbie the Love Bug (why do you think he was called Love Bug? ;-) ) and anyway, the car drives out of steerage and into the ocean, the the ship sinks.  And then the bad guy (Rose's boyfriend) and Rose's mom hop on the iceberg and it hits the Carpathia or whatever ship ignored the distress call...  :D

The World According to Garp

Um...Titanic was based on an ACTUAL event. There is only one way it could have ended.



Cat


I think you misunderstood me. Sorry, I should've been more specific. I was referring to how Titanic had the main character reunite with her lover after death like how Somewhere in Time had the main character reunite with his lover after death. I believe I read somewhere some time ago that James Cameron was influenced by Somewhere in Time when he wrote that scene in Titanic.

OR... the car that they make love in is the grandfather of Herbie the Love Bug (why do you think he was called Love Bug? ;-) ) and anyway, the car drives out of steerage and into the ocean, the the ship sinks.  And then the bad guy (Rose's boyfriend) and Rose's mom hop on the iceberg and it hits the Carpathia or whatever ship ignored the distress call...  :D


and right after that, that's when Darth Vader comes in just before they make love  and says  "Rose, Jack...I am your father" ;)

I cried like a little baby at the end of Into The Wild.

Has anyone seen the movie Monster with Charlize Theron? What a tragic life that Aileen Wuornos had, although she is a murderer. But the final scene in that movie is pretty sad.

And it's cliche...but the ending of Titanic is another one of my favorites. And it works...this isn't the kind of movie I would watch expecting a happy ending out of (well, considering the facts...)

But the characters of Jack & Rose are fictitious so there could've been 3 possible endings.
Um.  4.




The one they had.
One where rose dies and jack lives
One where the both live
And one where they both die








I'm still holding out for a directors cut where they both die..... By tidal wave when their dumb asses are standingat the bow and pretend to be flying.


http://www.youmoron.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/3742899_700b.jpg

http://www.youmoron.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/3742899_700b.jpg



;D  O0

The Mist.  If he had only waited one more minute  :(

Carrie
Forrest Gump
Stand By Me
The War of the Roses

Some of these have already been mentioned-

Of Mice and Men
A Beautiful Mind
Charley (Flowers for Algernon is the book)
Carlitos Way
Any of those Disney-made animal dies movies-Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows
Glory
Green Mile
Philadelphia
Terms of Endearment
Million Dollar Baby

Carrie
Forrest Gump
Stand By Me
The War of the Roses



Ugh, The War of the Roses. What was sad about that movie was it had great talent and it totally sucked. What a waste of talent. I hate movies like that.



Cat

Ugh, The War of the Roses. What was sad about that movie was it had great talent and it totally sucked. What a waste of talent. I hate movies like that.



Cat



funny....I was very happy when that movie was over.  ;)