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Post by Ryann on Apr 12, 2022 17:04:56 GMT
The Red Wedding in the Game of Thrones books. The whole scene was traumatic, but Kat's death wrecked me. Also, Hodor from the same books. Hodor! I sobbed when he died. That one gutted me. It was so well done.
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Post by luckyjune on Apr 12, 2022 17:12:52 GMT
Any dog in a book or movie. From Where the Red Fern Grows in 5th grade to Marley and Me as an adult. Dr. Mark Green on ER Rudy from The Book Thief (my 7th grade honors class read this book and during an individual reading period, I was on the chapter where Rudy dies. I get quietly teary, but of course the kids notice. One student asks, "Wait, is this the first time you've read this book?" I told them I've read it at least six times and Rudy's death gets me with every single read). Beth from Little Women Gus in The Fault in Our Stars
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Apr 12, 2022 17:16:10 GMT
Richard Geer in Sommersby with Jodie Foster. I'd forgotten about that one, but YES!
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 12, 2022 17:25:35 GMT
And speaking of crying when pets die, had anyone been following the horrific attack of Buddy the cat? Two kids urged their dogs to attack him and it was caught on camera. I was so upset I was gutted for the rest of the day. I couldn't even talk about it or post about it. I'm only able to now that there have been numerous updates that they caught the kids and Buddy lived and has been adopted by the vet who treated him, and is recovering well (I saw video of him playing with a feather wand and it just lifted my heart so much). I did see that on TikTok. It was disgusting, and I am shocked they turned themselves in. I hope they are punished big time, but since it was "just a cat" (who lived) I doubt they will.
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Post by kelly8875 on Apr 12, 2022 17:27:36 GMT
Some that come to mind for me: Old Yeller (we had a lab growing up) Noah & Allie in the Notebook (they reminded me of my Grandparents) Sybil in the Family Stone (she reminds me of my mom) Sybil in Downton Abbey Goose in Top Gun (my Grandpa was a fighter pilot in his early military career. I saw the movie for the first time with him)
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Post by oh yvonne on Apr 12, 2022 17:29:21 GMT
James Bond/Daniel Craig in No Time To Die - not sure I'll ever enjoy a Bond film so much now he's ended his reign. Does that count? Yes this counts!! Me too!! I was so sad and mad! Somehow the ending hadn't been spoiled for me and I was so surprised and upset. O M G...ME TOO! WTF! I left the theatre so mad and upset! HOW can you kill James Bond? Ugh, I'm still not over that!
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Post by mcjunkin on Apr 12, 2022 17:31:00 GMT
Neil-Dead Poets Society Mark Greene and Lucy -ER Nigel Murray and Sweets-Bones. Quit watching after Sweets City of Angels made me ANGRY. For some stupid sappy reason, Jack in Titanic slayed me. I was fairly newly-wed and that was horrible to watch. Kate-NCIS, so out of left field The sister jumping in Last of the Mohicans The wolf getting shot in Dances with Wolves
ETA: My daughter is an animal lover and so super sensitive about their deaths that Red Fern and Old Yeller were not even allowed in the house, on the off chance that she would try to read them. LOL. She could not handle it.
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Post by paigepea on Apr 12, 2022 17:33:55 GMT
Patrick in offspring. I had to stop watching the show. Recently went back to finish the last few seasons. Took a few year break.
Not really fictional, but Ritchie in La Bamba. I was young when I saw it and wasn’t aware it was a true story until my mom told me on our way out of the theatre.
Beaches
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Steel magnolias
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Post by Zee on Apr 12, 2022 17:34:49 GMT
Not a death, but I cried really hard when Mr Locke was betrayed by his father on Lost.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Apr 12, 2022 17:47:24 GMT
I'd forgotten about that one, but YES! Up until the moment Jodie Foster walked up the hill to his grave, I thought he would live. I cried ugly tears.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 12, 2022 17:47:30 GMT
this was not the thread for today, but Charlotte from Charlotte's web was my first literary bawl fest. Steel Magnolia's is the worst of the cinema gut punches. Although there's always the spot for Troy - absolutely stupid movie that I had to leave in the cinema when the father talked about wanting to bury his son. Yeah sometimes you just don't know how it's going to hit.
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Post by finsup on Apr 12, 2022 17:49:36 GMT
Besides many of the ones mentioned, I was traumatized by that ER episode where the pregnant woman dies since I was very pregnant myself at the time. Luckily I had an OB appointment the next day and she talked me down haha.
Edith Bunker died offscreen but Archie found her slipper under the bed and I ran from the room crying as a little kid.
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Post by snugglebutter on Apr 12, 2022 18:00:46 GMT
George from Grey's Anatomy
Also a recent book I read called Night Road. It wasn't the death that was the worst but the very realistic depictions of grief afterwards.
Not deaths, but two other scenes that really do me in are in Hope Floats when Bernice is screaming for her daddy and Downton Abbey when Ethel gives her little boy to his grandparents.
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Post by Gennifer on Apr 12, 2022 18:08:07 GMT
I’m kind of surprised to see so many mentions of Goose. That one has never gotten to me, and I just rewatched the movie a few weeks ago.
I was really young when it came out, so by the time I watched it it was always more of a “Look at little Meg Ryan! And young Tom Cruise!” and I didn’t ever get as invested? Because, seriously, I cry at them ALL. (Except, apparently, Top Gun.)
I haven’t seen anyone mention Les Mis. I cry through that whole movie… Fantine, Éponine, Enjolras, Jean Valjean, and especially Gavroche! (I haven’t ever seen it live, but I’d imagine I would be the same there!)
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Post by bethany102399 on Apr 12, 2022 18:20:20 GMT
as a kid I read A Summer to Die and I cried super hard. LOVE that book, it's been years since I read it. Jim Butcher's latest novel has a significant death. To the point where I stopped and re-read the sentence more than once to be sure I wasn't missing something. Another series I read is set in Alaska, the Kate Shugak mysteries. There is a major character death in that one that literally made me stop reading the series for awhile. It's never been the same.
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Post by putabuttononit on Apr 12, 2022 18:22:06 GMT
The movie "Me before You", the scene when Lou is with Will, before he passes. Heart wrenching. Yessss
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Post by ~summer~ on Apr 12, 2022 18:23:12 GMT
I also really cried in Steel Magnolias. Same! And also the plot twist death in Mare of Easttown killed me. I'm sure there are plenty more but those two jump out at me. ETA: oh, scanning through the thread, Bobby Simone also. And Mark Greene. yes, Sally Field’s speech just killed me. I actually sobbed in the movie theater I remember.
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Post by busy on Apr 12, 2022 18:28:49 GMT
Same! And also the plot twist death in Mare of Easttown killed me. I'm sure there are plenty more but those two jump out at me. ETA: oh, scanning through the thread, Bobby Simone also. And Mark Greene. yes, Sally Field’s speech just killed me. I actually sobbed in the movie theater I remember. I've seen that movie dozens of times and I still tear up, even though I can pretty much recite every line.
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Post by padresfan619 on Apr 12, 2022 18:31:11 GMT
Mufasa in The Lion King. Such trauma to put on six year old me in the movie theater!
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Post by ~summer~ on Apr 12, 2022 18:32:08 GMT
as a kid I read A Summer to Die and I cried super hard. LOVE that book, it's been years since I read it. Jim Butcher's latest novel has a significant death. To the point where I stopped and re-read the sentence more than once to be sure I wasn't missing something. Another series I read is set in Alaska, the Kate Shugak mysteries. There is a major character death in that one that literally made me stop reading the series for awhile. It's never been the same. I LOVED it too. I read it multiple times. That book and the book “Second Star To The Right” just gutted me and really stuck with me as an adolescent.
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Post by angieh1996 on Apr 12, 2022 18:35:53 GMT
Shelby in Steel magnolias gets me every time. I ugly cry. Hershel from the walking dead. I swear I mourned for a good 2 weeks after that episode. Mark Green from ER. Dr. Sweets from Bones.
I can't watch the vet shows when they have to put an animal down.
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Post by katiescarlett on Apr 12, 2022 18:50:01 GMT
George from Grey's Anatomy Also a recent book I read called Night Road. It wasn't the death that was the worst but the very realistic depictions of grief afterwards. Yes to both of those. That book was gut wrenching. Another book like that was Every Last One by Anna Quindlen. OMG There is also a scene at the end of the movie The Champ where a very young Ricky Schroeder is screaming for Champ to wake up. I also recently watched My Dog Skip for the first time. I was a bawling mess. Same with the Art of Racing in the Rain. I had seen it before but I didn't have a pet at that time. I watched it again recently with my dog curled up in my lap and sobbed.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 12, 2022 18:57:36 GMT
I not usually a crier when it comes to human deaths, but I cannot watch anything that depicts animal deaths-that always brings on the tears.
As for books the last book that I remember reading that made me cry was "The Time Traveler's Wife" when the husband dies.
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Post by 950nancy on Apr 12, 2022 18:59:06 GMT
Matthew Cuthbert is Anne of Green Gables. YES!!!!!
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Post by birukitty on Apr 12, 2022 19:00:26 GMT
Also the movie with the dog that would go to the train station to wait for his owner every day while he was at work, and then the guy suddenly died. The dog continued to go to the station to wait for the guy every day hoping he would come back. And then the dog finally died too. Hachi. OMG. It’s a true story. Now that one - gut wrenching. That movie always brings me to tears. When I went to Japan the last time (I've been twice) I made it a point to find the statue of Hachi near the train station in Tokyo, since I'd heard of the story prior to that trip.
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Post by chlerbie on Apr 12, 2022 19:09:49 GMT
The first time I remember crying in a movie was Mighty Joe Young (even though he didn't die). I just couldn't stand the cruelty inflicted on him.
I agree with SO many that others are saying.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Apr 12, 2022 19:12:05 GMT
Book character: Owen Meany in "A Prayer for Owen Meany" TV: Mark Greene on "ER" Movie: Shelby in "Steel Magnolias"
The earliest movie death I can remember having such a serious effect on me was Brian Piccolo in "Brian's Song." I was only 9 when it aired on TV, and I sobbed at the end. I think it hit a little harder because it was right around the anniversary of the Marshall University plane crash that had been covered heavily in the local news. I know he wasn't a "fictional character," but that movie makes me cry at the opening credits now.
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Post by smalltowngirlie on Apr 12, 2022 20:20:51 GMT
For some reason, the death of Marshall’s father in How I Met Your Mother really hit me. The look on Lily’s face when he got home and she was waiting to tell him hurts my heart. Another one where they did not tell him what was going to be said, he had no idea it was the death of his TV father. I really give credit to actors that can be in character so much, you just really feel it.
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Post by jenr on Apr 12, 2022 20:23:56 GMT
Yes this counts!! Me too!! I was so sad and mad! Somehow the ending hadn't been spoiled for me and I was so surprised and upset. O M G...ME TOO! WTF! I left the theatre so mad and upset! HOW can you kill James Bond? Ugh, I'm still not over that! ME NEITHER!!!
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Post by GiantsFan on Apr 12, 2022 20:42:55 GMT
Or book. I literally cried for 45 minutes after reading the first few pages of The Art of Racing in the Rain. For everyone who gets upset at animal deaths you should utilize the website "does the dog die". It will detail as much as you want it to about whether an animal is harmed but lives, if the animal actually dies,.whether it's shown on screen or off screen. I find it invaluable when watching movies. The other thing that gutted me was Nestor The Long Eared Donkey. Just typing that out is making me cry. That movie traumatized me. I still can't even say it out loud without choking up. There was a Garfield cartoon when Odie was taken to the pound that was really upseting to me as a child as well. Obviously I am much better about having someone screen things for me now. I cannot handle animal stuff. Oh, and the scenes where Aslan is shaved in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Yes, I now know and use that website, but not in 2009 or whenever the book came out. Plus our old dog was on his way out at the time. And for others here, it's not just for dogs. There are lot of categories you can check.
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