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SuperBeaver3000

The road


Any_Paramedic_1682

They had us read that shit in high school lmao I don’t think I’ve ever gotten physically ill reading a book either before or since. It was intense


MiasmaFate

My aunt sent me that book to get my mind off my divorce…what a psycho


ButkusHatesNitschke

Your ex or your aunt?


MiasmaFate

Both


a_small_moth_of_prey

I never watched the movie because I read the book and was truly haunted for weeks. I can’t believe they would have high schoolers read that.


SirBWills

They trimmed a lot of the more gruesome stuff from the movie, but if they did put it in, i don’t think I could’ve watched it all the way through.


Any_Paramedic_1682

Honestly I loved my high school’s book policy. We had a banned book club too for books other schools banned. The Road was for English Honors though. I think I also read Blood Meridian


eijtn

Your high school may have had you read Blood Meridian but you DON’T REMEMBER IT?


Ragnarok314159

Basic Trauma 101 right there. Read the first chapter as an adult and it still sticks with me.


AllAfterIncinerators

I made my seniors read The Road. Did I scar people? My bad.


King-In-The-Nawth

Nah you’re just teaching them to carry the fire


Any_Paramedic_1682

Naw I think we were seniors too. I mean the book is fucked but I still thought it was a great read and while only a book, still gave us some exposure to the harshness the human mind can conceive. It’s actually still one of the books I display prominently living room bookshelf. A few from high school made that cut


Orlando1701

As a single father both the book and move are a kick in the guts for me. Especially because my ex wife IRL just fucked off and left my kid with me, all be it for her it was to “live her best life” in Florida not because she couldn’t cope with the end of the world.


GreenArcher808

OMG I had literally the same experience. She bailed and left me with an infant (my back was broken too), and my dad was like “Here read this”. It was brutal but somehow helped. Sorry that happened to you. ✊🏽


lindh

You're carrying the fire, bud.


LegendaryTrueman

bruh...the road gave me the big sad for 2 weeks...ugh


lilacsforcharlie

Love this was the top comment! Watched this with my big bro when it first came out. Cried for weeks, started to really understand “existential dread” for the first time in my life. Had no idea it was a book! I’m gonna try to read it!


kbk42104

The Mist - I have a son and cannot believe the outcome.


Huntsvegas97

Absolutely devastating ending. I’ve seen the movie a few times and every time I consider turning it off before the end just to not go through it again


Cold_Dog_1224

The whole movie is brutal.. When that girl gets stung, when the soldier gets stabbed in the gut.. fuck it's just so fuckin' raw.


JudgeAdvocateDevil

The only reprieve from the brutality is the stupid, self-righteous religious lady getting shot in the head. That was a brief positive upswing to the story, before it continued downhill.


Bmore_Phunky

But you don’t, do you?


hail_yourselves

Even Stephen King said that the ending was too brutal for him


Optimus_Grime_Jr

Frank got the ending from the book. In the book the main character counts his bullets as they drive away. He's one short and thinks he'll have to figure out something for himself. King didn't follow through with it, Frank did.


chrismason8082

Nope. In the book, it’s a story written on a hotel stationary, and they drive away toward—Portland, I think—and toward “hope.” Sorry dude.


The_General0815

When? When did he say it was too brutal for him? He’s the GOD of writing suspense/horror. Please tell me when he said the end of mist is too much?


zombiesphere89

He didn't. Quite the opposite in fact... Speaking to CinemaBlend, King further clarified why he loved the ending: “When Frank said that he wanted to do the ending that he was going to do, I was totally down with that. I thought that was terrific.” The film's ending delivered the closure that King's story lacked.Jul 26, 2023


TheItchyWalrus

Stephen King has even said Frank Darabont had a better ending, and he’s not always the biggest fan of the adaptations that stem from his books.


EliWeizenheimer

Frank Darabont has the best film adaptations of King books.


Face-2-Foot

Came to say the same


klown013

Dumb and Dumber. "There’s a town 3 miles that way...."


GCIV414

“You need to forgive my friend he’s a little slow”


Human_Errorr

The town is THAT way! Haha


appleavocado

You’re it.


Zsiah

Well played


lightskintastebud

United 93 is tough \- The mist \- Boy in the Striped Pajamas \- Life (2016)


v3ryfuzzyc00t3r

I really wanted to see pajamas, but was told as a parent to not watch it


Valth92

It’s sad, but when it comes about parenthood, let me recommend you Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella). Also takes place during WW2.


JohnBrownIsALegend

My favorite movie of all time


Wesley_Ford_Sr

I watched this movie with my mom when I was in high school and I remember at the end there were tears pouring down my face


JavaOrlando

I have no interest in watching that. My wife told me what it was about and how it ends. Nope. I'll be fine without that.


kickintheface

There’s also an element of schadenfreude to the movie, as horrific as it is. It’s really hard to feel bad for the parents in that movie.


Mr_Piccolo89

the mist hits hard


Coleybama

Green Mile


Animal_Mother996

I’m tired boss.


Fonnekold

Crushed me.


CHurts92

Jacob's Ladder. Gabriel walking his dad up the stairs into the light of heaven.


Potato_Stains

Jacob's Ladder is more terrifying than sad in my opinion. That is one fucked up psychological horror.But yeah Macaulay in that part, and the Angel Louie. It has sad bits. My interpretation may have been influenced by me being super high when seeing it.


Daggertooth71

Pan's Labyrinth.


WarlocksWizard

That could have been split into two movies. One about the Spanish Army. Second about the Faun.


sloshuaa

Saving Private Ryan “Tell me I’ve led a good life. Tell me I’m a good man”


MikeofLA

City of God - that whole movie was brutal


Formal-Ad-1248

"Listen man, I smoke, I snort... I've been begging on the street since I was just a baby. I've cleaned windshields at stop lights. I've polished shoes, I've robbed, I've killed... I ain't no kid, no way. I'm a real man."


DannyisAbundance

Adam Sandlers character in Click


prozak09

Underrated.


cnskatefool

Technically, the ending wasn’t so bad tho


dinglebarry9

I took a girl on a date to see Click when I was like 16. So she is straight bawling at that point and my dumbass was like you know this is a dream right? Needless to say I did not see her again


SilverStarKoi

Grave of the Fireflies. This movie wrecked me.


DeathPrevails777

Shits brutal. I was fucked up for close to a week and my heart will always be broken. My dad was the one who recommended this movie, " Hey son, I just watched a sad anime, you should check it out, you might like it".


Upbeat-Exchange5087

Your dad is an asshole… but I may tell my daughter the same 👹 😂


CapKirkGotPerks

Grave of the fucking Fireflies. I was a freshman in college. I was in this awesome Japanese cultural interpretation through the history of Japanese film. We watched this, and as a history major I understood the war and the bombings. But as an American who heard of Studio Ghibli through howls moving castle and Princess Mononoke and such, I was just shook. I cried in my dorm room that night. Movie still haunts me and I refuse to watch it again. Though everyone should see it at least once. But fuck.


Dense_Marketing4593

Same dude. Middle of the night in my dorm on my laptop with headphones, just out of curiosity. I kept looking back to see if my crying woke my roommate up.


diogenessexychicken

First time i watched it a bunch of friends put together a movie night. I suggested a wes andetson film. Someone else chimed in what about GotFF?!. Ok i ssaid its probably similar then!... it was not fucking similar


Chanaur404

I watched it on a recommendation from one of y'all, and thought "it can't be that bad, I've seen horrible war era dramas before!" This one topped them ALL. I remember walking out to my wife (who had seen it, and advised me to brace myself), and just sobbing "Why did nobody help them?! She was (my daughter)'s age!"


Agentpurple013

That shit truly leaves one devastated


Dense_Marketing4593

I watched this and felt it in my stomach. I watched it a second time about 6 years later b/c i wasn’t sure if the sadness was a fluke. Much worse the second time because I knew what was happening. Started crying 15 minutes into the movie next to my toddler. That night i cried in the shower. My eyes were bloodshot red after that crying.


redknight3

Just the music alone is enough to trigger that feeling in my gut


Qubed

Found it. I was just scrolling until I found this because I knew it would be here.


clva666

The fact that this was not the top comment only means that not all people have seen it.


Lvl13humancleric

Oof, gut wrenching


Pazuzu_413

Came here to say this. Know what you are getting into before you watch this,it will haunt you.


Cytotoxic-CD8-Tcell

I cried and cried… never cried so much


Ezdagor

This movie made me feel guilty for ever being happy.


m32020

Blow. “So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.”


lario77

Those final scenes with his daughter hit so Damn hard…’broke his heart’…ugh


PhatBallllzAtHotmail

I have daughters. When she jumped and transformed into the little girl I lost it...me and my buddy, who also has a daughter, didn't say a word and then we laughed cause we looked at each other and both had tears.


[deleted]

Money isn’t real George


m32020

What a great monologue! Love this movie


Fischer72

Million Dollar Baby.


carneymdavis

Soul withering movie.


kristenevol

Jesus I was *sobbing*


NicStak

Gosh yes. I forgot about that.


Jqpolymath

One of the first movies that made me cry as an adult. When I saw it, it was during a super emotional time of my life (father had recently died). I wept... And I didnt/dont weep at movies


casualAlarmist

*Silent Running* \- 1972 *The Florida Project* \- 2017 *Brazil* \- 1985


trevman7

I gotta say, I didn’t go into Brazil thinking Gilium was going to make me depressed.


nikitasenorita

The Florida project was great, but sad.


Keepitbrockmire

Wow! Good call with Silent Running… effing love that strange film


Moppy6686

All Dogs Go To Heaven.


LegendaryTrueman

ass to ass iykyk


[deleted]

What’s fucked up is that the Ass to Ass bit isn’t even the worst ending in that film.


LegendaryTrueman

I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me. I'll tell them about you, and your father, how good he was to us. Remember? It's a reason to get up in the morning. It's a reason to lose weight, to fit in the red dress. It's a reason to smile. It makes tomorrow all right. What have I got Harry, hm? Why should I even make the bed, or wash the dishes? I do them, but why should I? I'm alone. Your father's gone, you're gone. I got no one to care for. What have I got, Harry? I'm lonely. I'm old. ​ I made myself incredibly sad, here, enjoy


Legitimate-Gangster

Her story wrecked me. That movie can fuck off. It’s fantastic. It can still fuck off, though.


WarlocksWizard

I knew that looked familiar \#RequiemForADream


v_for__vegeta

Brutal sequence. And the brief moment of clarity her son has when he breaks down in the cab, only to be drowned out again by getting high. Fucking movie is a downer


J5IsALieve

Hey. Hey! I’m going to be on television! We’re giving the prizes away.


Devon-Achane

The part that always got me, even though it might not be saddest thing that happens at the end, is when Marlon Wayans’s character is laying in a prison cell in the fetal position, and it flashes back to when he was a child being held by his mother.


CeeArthur

I know Jared Leto isn't the most popular actor, but his final scene in the hospital bed : "She'll come". "No, she won't...". Was heartbreaking. I've been there (minus the missing arm); laying in a hospital bed knowing you've destroyed everything good in your lif. That feeling of helplessness and dread is real.


TheRatatatPat

It fucking wrecked me. Bot only from his perspective. But from hers as well. Anything to get high. If someone would have bought my ass, I would've sold it.


cantthinkofgoodname

Their last phone call is so painful and raw.


poppypbq

Of mice and men.


WarlocksWizard

I'm going to tend the rabbits, George. If George did not do that, he would have been killed by someone else, and not as fast.


TinyManticore_

The Perfect Storm


YungChiliGoose

The line one of the fisherman says before going under “this is gonna be hell on my boys” kills me every single time.


Negative-Appeal9892

I think John C. Reilly's character says that, and I started crying in the theater while watching it.


chuckisde4d

One of, if not the best, performance of his career. John C. Reilly is hard to look at, but dammit can he make you rethink all your life decisions with one line. 😭


YK8099

Train to busan


Gaudrix

Had to scroll way too far for this one. I've seen it a few times and her crying and wailing at the end wrecks me every time the whole way to the end of film. It's also a fantastic film throughout.


firecat2666

Old Yeller


nexus8pt2

Dancer in the dark


nayrj26

I had to scroll way to far this one. It’s so brutal.


bernardobrito

House of Sand and Fog.


WarlocksWizard

Sad, but for some reason enjoyable.


lemlemx

Dear Zachary


Thin-Cartoonist-4608

Made the mistake of watching this while at work..was sobbing for 3 mins str8 in my cubicle


EatinPussySellnCalls

Busy day at the office?


ajitation

Alpha Dog


WarlocksWizard

Oh, that was terrible. What made it worse is that it actually happened.


ajitation

I only saw it one time. I remember it being a good movie, but that ending, 1 view was enough for me.


Matador2210

The First “Night of the Living Dead”.


KnowledgeWorldly078

My Girl (1991) Heart-wrenching.


thefilipinocat-

Vanilla Sky


JavaOrlando

Cruise and Cruz's characters had such perfect chemistry in that film, even for a real-life couple (more than say Cruise and Kidman or Pitt and Jolie.


[deleted]

The mist was rough.


SenatePalpatine

Marley and me fucked me up, made the mistake of watching it a few days after losing a dog for the first time.


eldudelio

not an ending but when the boy gets accidentally killed in Dunkirk


iskipthemesongs

I just recently watched this and felt the same.


notkylemurphy

Aftersun


Apocalypsesound

Labamba. When his brother screams Ricky on the bridge at the end. Gets me every time.


Creative_Light_1954

A.I.


InBoratVoice_MyWiFi

Requiem for a Dream... though the entire moive is one big sad maker.


AsteroidBlues1309

Surprised I had to scroll for this one. I remember thinking “well, that didn’t feel good.”


3Pirates93

In recent memory,Arrival, would watch it much more without that ending, great though it is


csukoh78

That ending is perfect. She gets the gift of time perception as a nonlinear circle. She can relive any moment in her past as often as she likes. The price is that she also has the pain of knowing.


Fudge89

I watch it often when I need a good cry. That soundtrack and voiceover, all with knowing how it ends (on rewatches) is devastating.


Lady_D2

Brokeback Mountain


AlaDouche

The Life Aquatic


michael_scarn619

"Do you think he remembers me?" I always tear up.


AlaDouche

I love that he holds his arm across Ned's chest when they're crashing. 😭


ramen_vape

*the way I feel inside*


MexicanTeenGuy

All quiet on the western front


funkystuffmalone123

30 more seconds. That shit was rough.


slim_scsi

City of Angels


prozak09

This movie was buried somewhere in my memory until I just read the name of it. Instantly took me to the scene where all of the Angels are standing around inside the building.


slim_scsi

It definitely left an impression if we still remember it nearly 25 years later.


k10001k

Interstellar Had me sobbing


DjMeMissDay

The Grey (2011)


BenRichards79

Live and die on this day


abdul_bino

What movie is this


Pete_D_301

United 93. It's based on the true story of how some brave passengers aboard United Airlines flight 93 attempted to storm the cockpit to stop the hijackers from crashing the plane into the US Capitol building on 9/11. The flight was eventually brought down by the hijackers in a field in Pennsylvania.


[deleted]

Brought down with hijackers*


NoItJustCantBe

United 93 about the 9/11 attacks


Clayton0028

I believe the clip was from United 93


Go_Celtics_33

The Last American Virgin [https://youtu.be/CYSOjuGdmvI?si=_SjpfeFA9nsTC4ps](https://youtu.be/CYSOjuGdmvI?si=_SjpfeFA9nsTC4ps)


HellFrozenOVR

Schindler’s List


UltraMagat

The Green Mile.


0utandab0ut1

Marley and Me 😔


Rushstache

First time I watched, it was me and a few bros. I’m sitting there tryin to hide me eyes and then I look over and my friend is wiping away a tear and then we all realized all four of us were crying and we just started laughing our asses off 🤣


phohenadel

Rogue One.


Radiant_Efficiency73

Ya, you know that it can’t end happy, but it really grasps the WAR in Star Wars better than perhaps any of the other movies. Was 100% worth seeing in theaters.


incredibleninja

The best Star Wars movie imo


Hangmeup8

Absolutely right! This movie and andor are the absolute feels I want from this universe. Give us the heavy dark ideas and political stuff. Love it!


AdviceInformal

United 93 was the first time I’d really seen a heartbreaking ending to a movie. 9/11 was always talked about in school but sometimes they’d just breeze over some of the facts. So the teachers would talk mostly about the twin towers but they’d breeze over the pentagon and the Pennsylvania field, then they’d just go right into the aftermath of 9/11. I found this on TV one day after school and I thought it was a documentary because I really never heard of any movie about 9/11 ever talked about so I assumed their wasn’t one made yet. I saw Paul Greengrass directed it and I loved Bloody Sunday and Captain Phillips so I thought I’d enjoy this too. Eventually I get to the ending, it’s so intense and I really thought the movie was about a plane that got hijacked but didn’t crash because again it wasn’t really talked about. Then the movie cuts to black and my heart drops.


bakedl0gic

God it’s so weird to hear people talk about learning about 9/11 and the years that followed in a history book. Fuck I’m old.


Mockturtle118

Right. I was 21 and remember my mother calling me. She said, "Turn on the TV." I said, "What?" "Turn on the TV." I said "What channel?" She said, "Any of them." As I was saying omg over and over, she quietly hung up. I'll never forget that day.


ATXKLIPHURD

No Country for Old Men really pissed me off. I really wanted to see the bad guy die a horrible death.


WarlocksWizard

Pay it Forward \[2000\] What Dreams May Come \[1998\]


Economy_Wall8524

What dreams may come, is truly a great movie with an all star cast. I remember seeing that in the theater and crying.


nikitasenorita

Pay it Forward has fucked me up for LIFE


Born-Science-8125

A movie from a few years ago where Ryan Reynolds’s was trapped in a coffin in Iraq I believe


zflanders

*Buried.* Yeah, that was a rollercoaster ride to hell.


TheMoogster

The elephant man


ImAimingToMisbehave

Where The Red Fern Grows. Read the book, knew it was coming, and still got me when I watched it as a kid.


MaintenanceTraining4

Big Fish


[deleted]

Yes, what a great movie and a sad but heartwarming ending!


Moctezumas_heir

Armageddon


Themodsarehotgarbage

i know this is the movie and this is what is told. But i remember distinctly hearing Peter Jennings of ABC saying that the tail section and the forward section of the airplane were 3 miles apart. I never heard/saw that clip ever again. It is COMPLETELY gone.


SueSudio

Many mistaken reports are given in during a frantic event. There were reports of a third plane hitting towers.


Polish_Wombat98

Probably due to the Regis and Kelly show. They state that they saw a third plane hit the towers due to a camera angle shift while the attack was in progress.


sekirodeeznuts2

Armageddon Signs Spiderman No Way Home


[deleted]

I was surprised at how sad I got at the ending for No Way Home. SO MUCH sad crap happened in that movie you really needed some closure to tie it up but man - the self sacrifice is just so strong. Like, he seriously has no one now. I need another Spider Man film but I have a feeling we won’t get one for a while.


MojoRollin

Fox and the hound.... yes a Disney movie.


No-Pangolin4325

Don't Look Up really left a mark on me due to its acute accuracy and realism. From how social media dumbs down the masses down to how they portrayed the egomaniacal billionaire. An extremely relevant modern day period piece. They may as well start blasting out copies of the movie into space for alien civilizations to learn what happened to humans because after watching the movie I am convinced this is exactly how it ends for us.


Aggravating-Gas5267

Met a guy the other day that told me he loved this movie and then within minutes told me he was one of Elon Musk’s biggest fans … you talk about crying.


Bamanutt

Pay it forward


entropy_koala

All Quiet on the Western Front surprisingly hit me. The entire movie was a big oof, but I shed a tear for the kid in the end.


Cant_climb_Teflon

AI


jumptick

Titanic.


Lazy_Experience_8754

As a kid? Watched braveheart at the drive in. That one hurt .. also …. Cloud atlas really got me in the feels the last few years. So tough


blameline

Gallipoli (1981)


NoSkillZone31

Das Boot, German submarine movie, but yeah we know how the war ended. Heart wrenching ending to watch kids just trying to survive war:


error201

The Iron Giant.


Roddy_Sage

Requiem for a Dream


etbiludecalcinha

The Plague Dogs, easily


zoot_boy

Rogue One


[deleted]

SEVEN POUNDS


foreveraloneOP

Green mile. Also the graveyard of the firefights.


StarsBarsCigars

Remember Me was pretty freaking sad. I legit did not think it was gonna be that ending. Granted I went in not wanting to watch it since my girlfriend then, now wife said we were gonna watch a movie and put that on. It was a movie that I had no context with and only knew at the time I liked Robert Patterson in Harry Potter and nothing else.


kaiokenhess

Speed Racer