30 Movies We Love to Hate

For today’s blog I welcome my dear friend, Lori Richardson, as a guest contributor. Today we bring you our definite list of 30 of the saddest movies that we have love/hate relationships with. Guaranteed to make you cry, to be there for you the next time you need to wallow or even when you’re feeling sentimental. ⚠️ Warning: Spoilers ahead! ⚠️

Category 1:  Childrens’ Films

• Dumbo
  • Dumbo’s mom reaching through the circus cart bars to hold baby Dumbo.  I still can’t watch this movie, guys.
• Up
  • The first 8 minutes of Up is guaranteed to make you cry.  Carl & Ellie grow up, get married, want a baby, find out she’s infertile, will never have a baby, and then she dies.
• The Fox & the Hound
  • The widow that raises the fox, Todd, leaves Todd alone in the woods and he just sits there not understanding as she drives away.
• Meet the Robinsons
  • Lewis travels back in time to watch his mom drop him off at the orphanage. And he almost, almost stops her. But he lets her leave him behind.  Happy tears later in the film:  He gets adopted by all the best people.
• Monsters, Inc.
  • “Kitty?” Boo looking for Sully.  Also, Mike rebuilding the door for Sully, & the reunion.
• Inside Out
  • “Take her to the moon for me.”
• Bambi
  • Bambi’s mother is killed by a hunter.  He goes searching for her & calling out for her.
• Homeward Bound
  • When Shadow falls into the hole & lays his head down, essentially giving up.  Oh, my heart!
• The Brave Little Toaster
  • Confession:  TBLT scarred me for years.  It has themes of abandonment, worthlessness, psychotic breakdowns…those poor appliances.  I’m 75% sure this is why I have separation anxiety at the ripe old age of 28.
• The Land Before Time
  • After saving their lives, Littlefoot’s mom dies.  “Mom, get up, please get up. Please, mom.”

Category 2:  Books Turned Films

• Charlie St. Cloud
  • His little brother dies because of a car accident he caused.
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
  • After going back & forth in time, trying to have a baby, the time traveler dies.
• The Vow
  • Boy meets girl, boy loves & marries girl, boy & girl want to have a baby, boy & girl are in a car wreck, girl loses memory, boy spends entire film trying to help her remember, she never remembers.
• P.S. I Love You
  • Husband finds out he’s going to die from a brain tumor, writes his wife letters & provides gifts to send to her postmortem.
• The Fault in our Stars
  • You spend the whole film thinking the girl is about to die.  The boy dies.
• Me Before You
  • We all think she’s going to talk him out of euthanasia.  She doesn’t.  He still commits assisted suicide, even after falling in love with her.
• A Walk to Remember
  • Popular boy unwittingly falls in love with dorky girl, even though she told him not to.  She has cancer.  They get married.  She dies.
• A Little Princess
  • A little girl ends up in an orphanage because her daddy dies.  She is treated horribly.  Happy ending.
• The Last Song
  • A girl is mad at her father for many reasons, but he ends up dying around the same time she forgives him.
• Marley & Me
  • The dog dies.  Enough said.
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • Don’t even watch it.  You don’t have enough tissues.

Category 3: Deadly Sad Films

• Raise Your Voice
  • Terri is in a car accident with her brother, the brother dies.  She goes to art school & write a song about him.  Sings it for her final.
• The Family Stone
  • When they hang up the photo at the end, after she dies.  BRB getting a tissue.
• Sweet Home Alabama
  • When the dog dies & they’re talking in the cemetary.
• Titanic
  • “Jack?  Jack?  Jack!” *whistle blowing*
• Armageddon
  • Aw, Harry, your sacrifice was epic.
• Atonement
  • I actually hate this movie more than love it.  Probably the only one on the list I’d say that about.  Let me break it down for you.  A younger sister doesn’t understand what she sees, tells a lie, sends a boy to prison, he never gets to reunite with his true love, everybody dies.
• My Girl
  • & this my friends, is why people with bee allergies always carry their epi-pens in 2017.
• Moulin Rouge
  • They fight so hard to make things work.  Nicole Kidman still dies of consumption.
• Life As We Know It
• As a new parent, I don’t think I can watch this one now.  A couple die in a car accident, leaving their child to their 2 best friends.  The little baby asking for mama and crying might just kill me now.

Do you have any other contenders? Weepy films? Let us know. BRB, hiding films from myself to avoid cryfest 2017.