Boo Hoo Hoo!
Aug 07 '02
The Bottom Line This list is comprised of the saddest movies in my own opinion. If you are for chick flicks, look at this list.
These are the saddest movies in my opinion: the weepies. The ones that make you cry so much that you don't know what to do. Here they are.
1. Philidelphia-Now, it may seem if Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas hooked up, that it would be the biggest mistake of their careers obviously, but in this movie, they played gay men dating. Unfortunately, Tom's character is a lawyior that has AIDS (HIV Desease) that happens when you are active in your own sex, or by passing on blood from another person. Well, Tom is gay. He's dying. Since he only has a little time left, he's making the best of it. But, after he gets fired because his bosses found out that he was a homosexual with AIDS, he decided to sue them. He finds a lawyior (Denzel Washington) to sue, even though he is a lawyior himself (he has AIDS and can't move around much obviously). But then, when he has an attack from his desease in a courtroom, he has to be rushed to a hospital and can't participate in the courtroom anymore. Denzel won the case for him. He visited Tom in the hospital. Everyone was saying "I'll see you tomorrow, buddy." and "Get a good night sleep, and we'll come see ya' later."
But unfortunately, he died right then and there in the hospital that night. This is the saddest film I've ever seen. If you can't stand weepies, don't see this film.
2. Terms of Endearment-This is an Oscar winner. It got Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actress (Shirley Maclaine), and Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson), and some of the other film stars include Debra Winger, Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito, and John Lithgow. It begins as a woman has a child that she can't stay away from after she's born. (Years Pass By) Now the child is almost adult. The mother and daughter don't get along as much now. The daughter finds a husband, the mother then finds that she's a grandmother. She would also have 2 more children with the man. Then, the cheating sets in. The husband (Jeff) cheats, and the daughter cheats as well (with John Lithgow). Then, during a flu shot and checkup, a doctor notices something under the arm-pit of the daughter. A bump. She would later find out she has cancer. So she bids her farewell to everyone emotionally, her husband, her mother, her girlfriend, and the saddest part of the movie is when she has to say goodbye to her own children. This will keep the tears rolling from the start. It's about the relationship of mothers and daughters over periods of years. James L. Brooks did a great job bringing the book to life in his own words, and this is a great film all-around.
3. Schindler's List-To me, this is more horror than sorrow, or more sorrow than horror, or something like that; about the same. Schindler's List is about a man named Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a Nazi business-man and a married womanizer that saves 1,100 Jews from certain death in Holocaust camps, after he sees the horrible way they are treated by his colleagues. It really get's your heart at the end, when Schindler breaks down crying, but the whole film lifts you up and makes you feel good, as if just one person can do alot by himself. As Ben Kingsley said, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." It won 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Director (Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan, E.T., Jaws, Jurassic Park), and it's also my favorite film. A superb film achievement.
4. Forrest Gump-Well, I think everyone has seen this film, being the #6 Box Office hit of all time, coming around at about $600, 000, 000 (Six Hundred Million Dollars). And, I think that everyone knows the familiar story, about a mentally challenged man telling his whole life story to whoever he meets. And next to that, it turns out that even with his disability, he has achieved unbelievable goals in his lifetime. This has the best performance by an actor that I've ever seen (Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump), and this is a great movie. The ending is especially sad with Jenny and little Forrest. But as Schindler's List did, it lifts up your soul and makes you feel good. I like movies like that, and most others do too. Sad, but a great film.
5. Saving Private Ryan- Ha ha! Here we are at SPR, another one of Spielberg's films, and the greatest war movie ever made. Another movie with Tom Hanks as well, this is a sad movie because of the extreme Drama in it. The parts of the D-Day invasion, the part where the young medic died, all of the movie basically just made you feel sad for your fathers and grandfathers; it made us look at them in a whole new perspective. SPR is about 8 soldiers sent behind enemy lines to save a Private James Ryan, who has lost 3 brothers in the war as well, and to send him home to his greiving mother. This has the best cast I've ever seen of a movie, and is incredible piece of masterpiece as far as I am concerned.
Theres my list!
Honorable Mentions
Stepmom
The Green Mile
The Color Purple
Titanic
and...Steel Magnolias
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