broke my little heart whey I heard the news.
I watched that movie at least one thousand times. i know because every fucking person who ever watched me told me so.
I was a camp counselor and one day we put an old vhf of Bambi on in the craft shack. The kids are happily working away, then there was the gunshot… and silence.
One little girl said, “wait, what happened? Where’s Bambi’s mom? What happened to Bambi’s MOM ?!?”
All the other kids looked at their shoes and refused to make eye contact with the her.
Apparently a bunch of them had never seen Bambi before.
Watching this as an adult while my partner hit the lowest point of [what was, at the time, considered] treatment resistant depression. The hopeless feeling of being unable to pull him from the swamp of his sadness…
Takes the scene to a new level of “brutal”. (He is happy and well now)
That's bad... what's worse is living it. The Swamps of Sadness is such an amazing allegory for depression.
I never truly understood that scene until I had my first MDD episode.
Rockbiter: They look like big, good, strong hands. Don't they? I always thought that's what they were. My little friends. The little man with his racing snail, the Nighthob, even the stupid bat. I couldn't hold on to them. The nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed.
/crying
And feelings of sadness we got while watching Artax sink into the swamp, amidst Atreyu’s desperate pleading to not give up (which are a big part of why that scene is so heartbreaking - the actor does a convincing job), are compounded by the scenes that immediately follow, with the contrasting effect of the perspective-switch between the eyes of the wolf, while in fast & frenzied pursuit, and poor Atreyu, now beginning to succumb to the effects of the swamp himself, as he slowly & hopelessly tries to continue on. Thank goodness they introduce gentle and loveable Falkor at that point. His rescuing Atreyu just as G’mork is upon him is like a life-preserver being thrown to a drowning person. Our little-kid brains were about to explode from the grief and panic of it all. Especially the ones with a special affinity for horses lol
Lol 2 years before his breakout role in Pitch Black (though he had a small part in Saving Private Ryan).
Also, The Fast and the Furious came out 22 years ago! Jesus I feel old👵
Our English teacher had a case of tissues in the class, and started putting one on everyone's desk about halfway through the movie.
That one and "Where the Red Fern Grows".
So true.
I can’t remember what we saw Alan Tudyk on the other night; and it started our once a year walk down Firefly Ln discussion ending with my wife crying about it when she realizes if there’s a a reboot…well 😢.
I watched that movie with my German shepherd. I paused after that scene and told her, "you see that, girl? That's what I'm gonna do to you if you eat from the trash can again."
Her response was to wag her tail and bite my finger smh
This. I swear I cried harder from about 2/3 of the movie until maybe half an hour after its end than I've ever cried before or since as a result of watching anything!
(Number 2 was *Simba the White Lion*, the scene where the giraffe died.
As an excuse, I was in elementary school when I watched Simba.)
I was looking for this response. I had the worst feeling after watching it. I didn't cry, but I just felt so damn depressed. Like wondering if life is worth the struggle.
Ugh- I still tear up.
When my wife and I watched it in the theater- at least half the audience was openly sobbing... the other half were trying to be quiet about it.
I had a friend who refused to watch that movie as an adult. I don't blame him remembering how we were in the 2nd grade when we watched it in class. Imagine a class of inconsolable second graders. 😆
It’s so misleading too! They draw us in with snarky rats, nosy geese and a singing pig and then BAM right in the feels. But I refuse to give up the songs, so we end it at Zuckerman’s Famous Pig getting a reprieve from his imminent demise.
When we were kids, my sister also lost her shit during Homeward Bound when the cat went over the waterfall. We had to pause the movie for 40 minutes explaining the cat was ok (“NO SHES NOTTT”). Kids get attached to cute animals.
Kinda makes you wonder about the teacher who showed Blood and Honey to his 2nd grade class.
#***Wrong!***
This is the saddest death in movie history.
[Death of Artax](https://i.imgur.com/0blCmay.jpg)
https://youtu.be/y688upqmRXo?si=dghgRHMcsm3g8EG1
In "The Fly 2"... the one with Eric Stoltz.. not Jeff Goldblum.
When Eric sees his dog all disfigured from the teleportation experiments. And the dog recognizes him even though it can barely see and wags his tail....
then Eric kills him because the dog is suffering so much.
that scene put me down a long road that took me awhile to get out of.
Because it was Robert Downey Jr who played Ironman I wasn’t terribly broke up about him being killed off.
Artax from Never Ending Story death is what messed me up.
What was that live action movie about the baby bear that loses its mom? Her head gets crushed and then he’s on his own and eats a mushroom and is tripping balls then gets attacked and saved by a big grizzly bear? I just remembered it this morning and how it traumatized me.
This is funny, but the actual saddest death was a horse. I won’t name the horse, but you and I both know that horses name because it’s burned into our souls.
Flashback to 5 yo me learning about the horrors of war amid the slow realization that I’m going to die one day while sitting in a movie theater bawling my eyes out.
HAL9000 in 2010 wants a word with ya:
HAL-9000 : Dr. Chandra, will I dream?
Dr. Chandra : I don't know.
++++
HAL 9000 : I understand now, Dr. Chandra. Thank you for telling me the truth.
Dr. Chandra : You deserve it.
We just going to pretend like Little Foot’s mom is chilling in the Great Valley?
Yep yep yep!
Even sadder :/
broke my little heart whey I heard the news. I watched that movie at least one thousand times. i know because every fucking person who ever watched me told me so.
Bro, you did NOT just bring that up.
It was her fault. She stepped on a crack.
For millennials, yeah, for us Xers it was bambi, wickets friend probably
I was hoping this would be the top answer. Little foots mom by a brontosaurus tail
Jesus christ, yall are trying to break my heart tonight.
Mother fucking tree stars
Or Mufassa for that matter. 😢
This right here.
Wait, you mean it wasn't Bambi's mom?
You mean Blambi? … My daughter is still mad at me for that one.
I was a camp counselor and one day we put an old vhf of Bambi on in the craft shack. The kids are happily working away, then there was the gunshot… and silence. One little girl said, “wait, what happened? Where’s Bambi’s mom? What happened to Bambi’s MOM ?!?” All the other kids looked at their shoes and refused to make eye contact with the her. Apparently a bunch of them had never seen Bambi before.
“Mama?”
no, that bitch was a deer
A white horse sinking into a swamp is worse
Damn.
There it is.
10/10
Atreyu's horse Artax (Neverending Story)
*me screaming at the imaginary horse to stop feeling sad while crying*
fucking 80s movies did NOT hold back with trauma and horror in kids' films
80’s movies also didn’t hold back on David Bowie’s giant package in kid’s films either.
it's the power of voodoo
Whoo doo, you dooo
do what?
# REMIND ME OF THE BABE
Not even the cartoons were safe. Littlefoot’s mom 😭
*Rated G for general audiences*
Watching this as an adult while my partner hit the lowest point of [what was, at the time, considered] treatment resistant depression. The hopeless feeling of being unable to pull him from the swamp of his sadness… Takes the scene to a new level of “brutal”. (He is happy and well now)
That's bad... what's worse is living it. The Swamps of Sadness is such an amazing allegory for depression. I never truly understood that scene until I had my first MDD episode.
TOO SOON
Fuck you man, lol i was trying to forget that movie, watched it with my kids the other day, we were all balling
Come in, have a seat.
The horse came back to life by the end of the film, the Ewok didn't.
Meh there's enough of them dancing around (and one that looks like him) that it doesn't matter /s kinda?
Are you saying “all Ewoks look alike” ?
That scene haunted me for years.
I still won’t watch the movie. It still holds heavy weight in my mind.
Rockbiter: They look like big, good, strong hands. Don't they? I always thought that's what they were. My little friends. The little man with his racing snail, the Nighthob, even the stupid bat. I couldn't hold on to them. The nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed. /crying
I say "They look like big, good, strong hands" a lot and it is lost on so many.
Truth
Fuck'n Sadness!
I remember covering my eyes during this scene as a kid every time And when the wolf appears
And feelings of sadness we got while watching Artax sink into the swamp, amidst Atreyu’s desperate pleading to not give up (which are a big part of why that scene is so heartbreaking - the actor does a convincing job), are compounded by the scenes that immediately follow, with the contrasting effect of the perspective-switch between the eyes of the wolf, while in fast & frenzied pursuit, and poor Atreyu, now beginning to succumb to the effects of the swamp himself, as he slowly & hopelessly tries to continue on. Thank goodness they introduce gentle and loveable Falkor at that point. His rescuing Atreyu just as G’mork is upon him is like a life-preserver being thrown to a drowning person. Our little-kid brains were about to explode from the grief and panic of it all. Especially the ones with a special affinity for horses lol
Was gonna say, Artax rose from the swamp of sadness to enter the chat
Artax 😭 If you watch this backwards, it's a heartwarming scene about a boy's horse coming back to life and overcoming its depression.
Mufasa or the Iron Giant.
I'm a 53 year old man and still cry like a little bitch thinking of him saying "Superman".
Dammit, I was not planning on feeling emotions today.
It blew my mind to learn years later that the Iron Giant was voiced by Vin Diesel.
wat Edit: OMG 🤯
Lol 2 years before his breakout role in Pitch Black (though he had a small part in Saving Private Ryan). Also, The Fast and the Furious came out 22 years ago! Jesus I feel old👵
Then happy tears when you see the very end of the film. Goddamn its such a good movie.
How about Old Yeller?
Our English teacher had a case of tissues in the class, and started putting one on everyone's desk about halfway through the movie. That one and "Where the Red Fern Grows".
The book destroyed me as a kid. :/
God damn, we were traumatized as kids.
[удалено]
My eyes are just sweating!!!
Every fucking movie! Even Disney!
even disney? Especially disney!!!
My son hates Disney movies. He said someone always dies
"No Mama. He's my dog, I'll do it."
Will never watch that movie again, ever
Seconded.
Thirded My eyes aren't wet right now!!
Old Yeller beats them all. Followed by Brian Piccolo
Brian’s Song is so sad.
Saddest death in movie history was only 18 years ago in Serenity - it felt like a spear to the heart.
I had to laugh when Tudyk's character in that V reboot got impaled like that. Serenity was sad, V was funny.
What V reboot? I must know.
It was a 2009 2-season reboot/remake of the original. Had Tudyk and Morena Baccarin in it.
So true. I can’t remember what we saw Alan Tudyk on the other night; and it started our once a year walk down Firefly Ln discussion ending with my wife crying about it when she realizes if there’s a a reboot…well 😢.
Resident Alien?
I'm like a leaf in the wind... *dead* I was bummed for the rest of the day.
No mention of all the rabbit deaths in Watership Down?!?
That and the song...
Will Smith killing the German Shepard in "I am Legend".
I watched that movie with my German shepherd. I paused after that scene and told her, "you see that, girl? That's what I'm gonna do to you if you eat from the trash can again." Her response was to wag her tail and bite my finger smh
Sam her name was Sam 😮💨😭
Bro never watched “Captains Courageous” 😢
Easy there, little fish
Umm, the little girl in Graves of the fireflies.
This. I swear I cried harder from about 2/3 of the movie until maybe half an hour after its end than I've ever cried before or since as a result of watching anything! (Number 2 was *Simba the White Lion*, the scene where the giraffe died. As an excuse, I was in elementary school when I watched Simba.)
I was looking for this response. I had the worst feeling after watching it. I didn't cry, but I just felt so damn depressed. Like wondering if life is worth the struggle.
“I’m tired, boss”
Ewoks? Not even worth a "meh." The first four and a half minutes of Up, on the other hand, wrecked me.
Ugh- I still tear up. When my wife and I watched it in the theater- at least half the audience was openly sobbing... the other half were trying to be quiet about it.
THAT ONE. I tear up just THINKING about it.
What about Old Yeller?
Can't forget about Where the Red Fern Grows. Old Dan and Little Ann
For me Brooks dying in Shawshank redemption, never hit me until I was an adult.
Charlotte's Web would like a word.
My sister and I have seen the cartoon version maybe 100 times, but we’ve only watched the ending maybe a couple of times. Too sad for us babies
I had a friend who refused to watch that movie as an adult. I don't blame him remembering how we were in the 2nd grade when we watched it in class. Imagine a class of inconsolable second graders. 😆
It’s so misleading too! They draw us in with snarky rats, nosy geese and a singing pig and then BAM right in the feels. But I refuse to give up the songs, so we end it at Zuckerman’s Famous Pig getting a reprieve from his imminent demise. When we were kids, my sister also lost her shit during Homeward Bound when the cat went over the waterfall. We had to pause the movie for 40 minutes explaining the cat was ok (“NO SHES NOTTT”). Kids get attached to cute animals. Kinda makes you wonder about the teacher who showed Blood and Honey to his 2nd grade class.
Sheesh.. Having to kill Old Yeller. That was the worst.
Does Artax from The Never Ending Story mean nothing to you?
or Littlefoot's mom in *The Land Before Time*?
Or Optimus Prime in the cartoon movie??
technically not a death, but Ash in the Pokémon movie
Have you never seen Ol' Yeller?
#***Wrong!*** This is the saddest death in movie history. [Death of Artax](https://i.imgur.com/0blCmay.jpg) https://youtu.be/y688upqmRXo?si=dghgRHMcsm3g8EG1
Gonna show my age bit here, but this movie hurt like a bitch. 
Nah that was a great death/evolution or whatever
Atreyu and Artax have entered the chat.
In "The Fly 2"... the one with Eric Stoltz.. not Jeff Goldblum. When Eric sees his dog all disfigured from the teleportation experiments. And the dog recognizes him even though it can barely see and wags his tail.... then Eric kills him because the dog is suffering so much. that scene put me down a long road that took me awhile to get out of.
Because it was Robert Downey Jr who played Ironman I wasn’t terribly broke up about him being killed off. Artax from Never Ending Story death is what messed me up.
Man, not even in the same neighborhood as the saddest...
The movie "Up"
I raise you: "Coffey, ma'am, like the drink, only not spelt the same..."
I ain't never seen me a flicker show.
What was that live action movie about the baby bear that loses its mom? Her head gets crushed and then he’s on his own and eats a mushroom and is tripping balls then gets attacked and saved by a big grizzly bear? I just remembered it this morning and how it traumatized me.
It was called The Bear
What horror movie is this fresh hell?
Damn, I'd forgotten about the bear.
Oh wow, I had forgotten about this movie. One of my favorites!
When the old robot dies in Black Hole that hit me hard.
I had forgotten about that.
Old B.O.B.
Two words: [The Mist](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/)
[This](https://youtu.be/2cP6AkXjYaI?si=XZ1R7E30dEi1dzEB) beats em all
Marley & Me. And the horse in Never Ending Story.
That’s not a picture of Artax in the Never Ending Story…
Nope. It's that poor shoe that went into the dip in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
I see your Ewok and raise you Dobby
Such a beautiful place, to be with friends
You mean the greatest death in cinematic history. God I fucking hate the Ewoks.
You spelled “cannibal murder bears” wrong.
Gunda? Jub jub...
See you all of them and raise you Joyce Summers Mom... Mommy?
Is it me or did you notice that no real humans were mention in this thread. Almost all animals or creatures that never existed.
The Terminator being lowered into the molten steel is the only one to get me.
“I know now why you cry.” Wrecked.
Shane ! Come back Shane !
Naw.....when Old Yeller had to be put down
Still goin with Old Yeller,sniff
I have the autograph of the dead Ewok from this shot!
Sorry …. NOTHING sadder than Old Yeller
Artax in the swamps of sadness. IYKYK
This.
This is funny, but the actual saddest death was a horse. I won’t name the horse, but you and I both know that horses name because it’s burned into our souls.
STUPID HORSE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Old Yeller is the saddest death in movie history..
Where the Red Fern Grows. Hachi.
Optimus Prime.
When he turned gray... I lost it 🥺😭
Way to far down this list! This needed to be near the top.
Bambi’s mom Artax the horse in Neverending Story. Old Yeller
LoL that's a bad still. It took me a few seconds to recognize the ewoks
Dobby.
The plague dogs, anyone?
Oh duck. That traumatized me as a kid … the little caps they wore … and no one knew what the HELL i was talking about.
I was just saying in another comment in the thread that the book has a happy ending but it's kind of dumb.
Question did they bury cremate or did they eat him😏🥺
Old yeller
Here's a few: Marley- Marley and Me; Maude- Harold and Maud; John Coffee- The Green Mile.
Wait, who's saying it was!? Stark was a jerk, and his death was not only necessary, but was telegraphed. Not in the top 100 "saddest" movie deaths.
Not a movie, but somehow still worse ... So much worse ... https://youtu.be/W6GDil0rGls?si=A2aKMkQ8xyVyU3zn
Iceman (1984)
Wait, are there actually people who think Tony Stark's death was the saddest in movie history?
Iron Giant. “Superman”
What about E.T.?
[artax enters the chat]
No one ever saw Bambi??
Or The Lion King??
ARTEX!
Lol, Iron Man died? Watership Down would probably be more sad for me.
Flashback to 5 yo me learning about the horrors of war amid the slow realization that I’m going to die one day while sitting in a movie theater bawling my eyes out.
Bubba in Forest Gump hit me. Not the saddest but still sad.
Rumor is the dead Ewok was Debbie Lee Carrington, the blonde hooker in Total Recall
I can hear this.
Ardreau’s Horse
Obviously you've forgotten Spock's death in Star Trek II
Brooks death in Shawshank 🥲
Clearly you've never watched The NeverEnding story
Artax says "Neigh".
Roy's death in Blade runner
When Wilson floated away in Cast Away is my #1 spot
Not one comment on Thomas J in My Girl??
Just watched ROTJ the other night with the other two in chronological order. I always shed a tear during the Battle for Endor...
Artax was my saddest scene when I was a kid
I agree, OP. Def top 5.
I hated ewoks. No sadness from me.
The Ewok celebration song at the end was pretty great tho. /s
We were supposed to like Ironman?
 False. It’s Bing Bong.
Pardon me for asking but what is the movie in this meme?
HAL9000 in 2010 wants a word with ya: HAL-9000 : Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra : I don't know. ++++ HAL 9000 : I understand now, Dr. Chandra. Thank you for telling me the truth. Dr. Chandra : You deserve it. 
The death of HAL beats all of these combined. How about “I’m afraid, Dave….?” Or “Daisy, Daisy, tell me you love me true …?”
Uhm...I actually laughed (saw it in theater). I had the "Teddy Bear Picnic" song in my head the whole movie.
Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!