Comments on: Kick off your weekend with cinema's 100 most emotion-filled death scenes!

By: spiderking

spiderking — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:35:00 +0000

Mary and Max needs to be in there. Seriously.

By: cosmic01

cosmic01 — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:52:00 +0000

the ending of both of these still brings sadness – “my dog skip” and “where the red ferns grow” And let us not forget John Wayne in the “Cowboys”

By: gws

gws — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:21:00 +0000

I would have included the rabbit from “Rules of the Game,” Hal from “2001,” and sure, how about “Grave of the Fireflies” in its entirety.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:01:00 +0000

It made me want to run a virus scan.

By: RJ

RJ — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:12:00 +0000

There is a little-remembered movie Michael Keaton did in 1993 called “My Life.” It’s about a guy who’s dying from a terminal and inoperable brain tumor, knowing he will be gone before his pregnant wife delivers their son. So he makes a bunch of videos for the kid, of him reading stories and other fatherly-type stuff. At the end of the movie, we see the little kid sitting there, watching his father on TV. That movie tore me to pieces.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107630/

By: Grey Devil

Grey Devil — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:37:00 +0000

No Grave of the Fireflies? I am severely disappointed.

By: rtresco

rtresco — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:51:00 +0000

Really suprised to see the death of Lois Lane from the first Superman movie didn’t make the cut. When Superman screams, and it sounds like it echoes around the world? C’mon! He’s so distraught, he reverses the spin of the earth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCsHTNP2MaU

By: Steven Barrett

Steven Barrett — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:59:00 +0000

I had, apparently, managed to block out my memories of My Girl…but they have all come flooded back…along with copious amounts of dust. Yes, it is very dusty in here!

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:35:00 +0000

I’m doubtful that the primary takeaway from LOTR is that it was strikingly sad.

Gollum falling into a pit of lava?

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:24:00 +0000

Once I heard what the film was about I refused to watch it.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:29:00 +0000

LOTR would seem to defy that notion.

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Iron Giant cannot be surpassed.

Brad Bird said the problem with Iron Giant was that the market for movies that “make grown men cry” turned out to be very small.

By: pATREUS

pATREUS — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Why oh why do they block this content?? It tells us more about their products!

By: mcheshire

mcheshire — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:57:00 +0000

Where is Old Yeller, I’m getting misty-eyed just thinking about it. Oh, and this a weird one, the final scene in The FlyII where dude has to kill his mutated Golden Retriever, that scene tore me up inside. Maybe I’m just a sucker for yellow/golden dogs.

By: Eliot Phan

Eliot Phan — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:52:00 +0000

HAL in 2001 – incredibly sad & moving & haunted me for years, yet oddly didn’t make me want to cry

By: apoxia

apoxia — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:40:00 +0000

Reading this post I thought of the movie death which made me cry the most: Bjork’s character in Dancer in the Dark. It’s not on the list!

By: Teirhan

Teirhan — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:24:00 +0000

For me it was the stoner friend – the part where clive owen starts crying into a tree was like getting punched in the gut.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:09:00 +0000

It’s blocked in the UK as well:
“This video contains content from kiverdigital and Studio Canal, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.”

By: Chloramphenicol

Chloramphenicol — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:27:00 +0000

Now THAT’s dirty pool… That whole movie is remarkably tear-jerking and depressing…

Also, I’d put Ghim’s death from Record of the Lodoss War on that list.

By: Jeff Neima

Jeff Neima — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:21:00 +0000

This is not a list without the wolf, and his horse for that matter, dying in Dances With Wolves. Where’s my tissue.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:58:00 +0000

Exactly. That should be #1.

By: Egypt Urnash

Egypt Urnash — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:47:00 +0000

SU PER MAN

*sniff*

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:44:00 +0000

I’m surprised the death of Charlotte at the end of Charlotte’s Web didn’t make the list. No matter how many times I see it that moment still reduces me to a puddle.

By: machinelf

machinelf — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:34:00 +0000

What? No Grave of the Fireflies?

By: akbar56

akbar56 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:23:00 +0000

Not blocked in the US. Wonder if it is a region thing. Many of the supercuts I make get blocked in Germany.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:19:00 +0000

Wait, that’s christian bale? No wonder he turned into a vigilante.

By: sickkid1972

sickkid1972 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:19:00 +0000

If you want to blub like a little girl, then watching Jim and Hilda Bloggs at the end of When The Wind Blows will do it for you. That this scene isn’t mentioned on the list is a terrible omission.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:16:00 +0000

I disagree on that point, but he was lucky to kick the bucket long before the horror of The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:12:00 +0000

I’m not sure Charles Foster Kane’s death scene really counts as ”emotion-filled” or a “tear-jerker” since it’s literally the first thing that happens in the movie, long before the viewer has any chance to become emotionally invested in either Kane or any other character.

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:08:00 +0000

Here’s those that left me in a puddle of tears: Bladerunner, Terms of Endearment, The Notebook, The English Patient, Star Trek II, The Last of the Mohicans, Into the Wild, Milk, American Beauty, and Saving Private Ryan. Fierce love, love under fire, a passionate love for one’s life or the life of another.

I’m going to own up to having read a Dean Koontz novel and quote a passage from the fourth of the Odd Thomas books, ‘Odd Hours.’

Because Birdie seemed to expect me to elucidate, I fumbled out what I thought she might want to say herself: “Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it’s over and you’re alone, you begin to see it wasn’t just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can’t get off your knees for a long time, you’re driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”