was thinkin about this today when i found out a lad i know hasent seen snowman OR watership down! :o

my vote goes for watership down...such a sad ending. sniffle.

ive put 4 for a vote, i cant think of any other really sad ones.


come on...who's gunna admit they bawl at cartoons ;)

Got to be bambi.
When I saw when was a kid,I sat in the cinema with my mum and cried.

I've never managed to get to the end of watership down yet...after twenty something years I just can't bring myself to watch it again...
:cry:

My vote went for Watership Down.. A childhood classic, just a sad ending :help:

i might pick up watership down on dvd if its out. but i better not watch it with any1 else lol.

`bright eyes........' :(

ive never seen bambi. it never appealed to me.

Had to be Dumbo.
I eat rabbits and I can't get emotional about a potential meal.

Watership Down.....sob sob

And it;s not suitable for children either if you ask me - super-disturbing!

Dumbo is the only one that actually made me cry - the bit when his mother was locked up and taken away

I actually went out a few years ago and bought the video of one particular film, it makes me cry with sadness at one part and makes me cry with laughter at another. I like to remember the laughter bit, and that is of course Bambi on the ice.

bambi on ice? how strange

ive never even seem a clip of `on ice' things... sounds very strange to me i just cant picture it.

is it lots of people in big costumes trying to skate? and they DONT fall over a lot?

no silly, when Bambi and Thuimper step out onto the frozen pond and go skidding about. It is, even now in the days of CG, an exquisite movie.

Funny thing is how many people remember seeing Bambi's mum die.

Watership down was awful, not so much sad as totally tragic. The worst part was the British Board of Bowdlerizing Censors, who looked at it and saw "cartoon feature - bunny rabbits - for kids". And then Stamped it with a U certificate. Whole cinema was blubbing and screaming at some points when I saw it.

It's a grim book, who's bright idea was it to make a cartoon and sell it to kids? And don't, just don't get me started on the soundtrack.

who thinks watership down is not suitable for kids then? i admit it was most upsetting thing i saw as a child...but im ok....(gibber gibber, dribble)

a lad i know hasent seen it and has two small kids...ermm 5 & 3 ish i fink....would you say its too bad for them then?

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
no silly, when Bambi and Thuimper step out onto the frozen pond and go skidding about. It is, even now in the days of CG, an exquisite movie.
Thank-you ever-so much otherwise I'd of had to say this and I may not of been as concise.
Just a brief question about Dumbo, was he an indian or an african elephant, I know he had big ears like an african but his mother and the other bitchy females had reasonably small ears and their head gear looked more indian [at least that's what i think]

Of the ones i've seen, it has to be Bambi. I watched it shortly after my nanna died and I cried my heart out :(

I voted Bambi... I dont think I've seen the watership down before... unless its one I vagely remember about some bunnies trying to escape to some forrest or other piece of land or something? I really cant remember it :(

another piece of my childhood deprived! lol

Not on the list, but for some reason as a kid i found 'When the Wind Blows' rather sad. Also Plague Dogs, at least thats what I think it was called, about 2 dogs that escape from an animal testing facility. Correct me if I've got the name wrong.

Finding Nemo has a couple of sad bits in it, when his mum gets killed and when he thinks the other fish has been killed.

Not that I cried obviously.

anyone remember "Charlotte's Web" I remember watching it in hospital. Lot's of the parents were crying

Oh yeah that is sad, the book is too. But Watership Down still wins paws down.

Barra beat me to the punch, over Raymond Briggs' "When The Wind Blows" (RB was also the author of "The Snowman") i found that one sooo sad!

I have to say I am hard pressed to choose between that one, Watership Down, and Dumbo. I cannot choose one, over the other.

They are all such sad films.

PT

have to keep eyes out if watership down is on at christmas.

anyone who hasent seen it must watch!!

:)

im just glad i never had pet rabbits or i prob would have cried for weeks haha

Found another


Has to be Watership Down, those poor bunny rabbits, I might watch it again next week.

Another vote for 'When the wind blows'

I recently got hold of a copy, but can't bring myself to watch it.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Watership down was awful, not so much sad as totally tragic. The worst part was the British Board of Bowdlerizing Censors, who looked at it and saw "cartoon feature - bunny rabbits - for kids". And then Stamped it with a U certificate. Whole cinema was blubbing and screaming at some points when I saw it.

It's a grim book, who's bright idea was it to make a cartoon and sell it to kids? And don't, just don't get me started on the soundtrack.

Watership Down? I am still in trauma over that feature!

It is such a dark story and darker film. Yes there is beautiful English countryside and silly moments with a Seagull, but there is also the image of a thousand rabbits trapped under a bulldozer, turning into a river of blood. Nowhere to go. Nowhere left to hide...

ooooh.

<shudder>

Can't vote in this poll! :sad:

Haven't seen Watership Down (that awful theme tune put me off going to the cinema), and didn't cry watching any of the other films.

Am I hard-hearted or unemotional? :suspect:

Originally posted by redrobbo
Am I hard-hearted or unemotional? :suspect:

You vile robot you!

How can you be in touch with your emotions if you have never watched Bambi????

I suggest you go away and think about your direction in life... and get a Disney Channel subscription.

(Harsh but fair).

I say 'When The Wind Blows' but 2 people got there before me:mad:

im afraid im goin to pick summat that wasnt on the list and it has to be .................................................. ....


All Dogs Go To Heaven


omg its so sad i cried for like two hours after watching that it was so upsetting. :(

Has nobody else here seen Grave of the Fireflies?

Perhaps the most moving and powerful animated film of all time.

Got to be Dumbo for me. The bit where he is swinging on his mums trunk when she is locked up still makes me cry!

Originally posted by noseyrosie
Watership Down still wins paws down.

Never found it disturbing.

Did cry my eyes out of their sockets nearly.

When I watched it, took it as a good tale of truth.

I bet if I watch it as an adult, I will blubber just as hard :(

I totally agree that Watership down is disturbing.

All the predictions Fiver [have i just made that name up?] had and the general rabbit with the white eye!! How can anyone say it didn't mess them up as a kid??

BUT these were all forgotten about when the seagull says "**** off". Hilarious and still cracks me up.

I haven't seen watership down, but I don't think I want to now.

Bambi was extremly distressing for me

Originally posted by xafier
I dont think I've seen the watership down before... unless its one I vagely remember about some bunnies trying to escape to some forrest or other piece of land or something? I really cant remember it :(

another piece of my childhood deprived! lol

That could have been the animals of farthing wood!! lol, another cartoon that distressed me....once these nasty birds killed mice by sticking them on the thorns!

Get a grip on reality people, life is not always sugar and sweet.

Check out some Manga sometime perhaps ?

Cartoons are just another format.....

my vote of those options would be Watership Down.

The saddest anime I'm seen has to Be Grave of Fireflies. I don't think I've ever cried so much.

go and rent it.

Originally posted by CherryNicole
I haven't seen watership down, but I don't think I want to now.

Bambi was extremly distressing for me



That could have been the animals of farthing wood!! lol, another cartoon that distressed me....once these nasty birds killed mice by sticking them on the thorns!

you haven't seen Watershiop down? :confused: :o

what did you watch every Christmas?

Originally posted by robbie
you haven't seen Watershiop down? :confused: :o

what did you watch every Christmas?

Probably joined his Nan in watching The Queen's speech.. :hihi: :P

Either that or the repeat of some James Bond film everybody's seen umpteen times before.. :loopy:

Why is it ITV never show anything original at Christmas?! Even the soaps don't have a Christmas break, if Christmas day falls on Coronation St or Eastenders days you can garauntee they;ll still put them on even though it's Christmas, and nobody wants depressing old Walford on the box when they're trying to celebrate Christmas and keep the kids entertained at the same time, thank the Lord for Sky and the cartoon channels!

On topic of the saddest film, it's not in the poll list but my vote would be the bit where Mufasa dies in the Lion King.. Had me wailing like a babby that did.

i voted for watership down to this day i still cry when i hear bright eyes by art garfunkel , bambi used to upset me but that was years ago

right eyes makes me cry... or at least it used to. In the light of Simon and Garfunkel's Rock Profile it might not any more. I also cried at Bambi a little bit when i were a nipper.

However the 3 saddest animations are:

3. all the stuff in HeMan abuot Teela and her search for her mother - the sorceress - and the sorceress' distress at not being able to tell her...

2. 'Somewhere Out There' from An American Tail

1. Don't know what it was called but it always used to be on TV - this cartoon film thing about a little mole who loses his glasses and there's a scene in it where he sees a trash heap but cos he can't see well, he thinks it's a palace - and lagter the reality hits him. That cartoon always used to gut me. But I still watched it a lot!:sad:

I'm surprised at those of you who said they saw Watership Down as children and weren't disturbed. Have you forgotten it maybe? Need I remind you....

* Bigwig getting caught in a snare trap, the veins on his neck start bulging out all red and his eyes go all bloodshot and then he starts foaming at the mouth.

* That nasty big black rabbit bites and scratches (drawing blood) all the others and kills them

* The rabbits in that evil warren are all skinny and crazy and have that mark thing

Gives me the creeps just thinking about it...