Depressing children's movies
 

...so I was bored the other day and started looking up old Peanuts movies on youtube. I found this one:

YouTube - Snoopy Come Home 1
(it's in twelve parts; the link is to part 1)

If you've never seen Snoopy Come Home, you really need to; it's not your average happy-go-lucky Peanuts movie. If you have seen it, you know how depressing it is. The sappy songs, the melodramatic story, the too-cute-characters...but it's perfect. I must have seen it literally several hundred times as a kid (yes, literally; my dad taped a version off of TV and I watched it every day for several summers. There weren't many other kids in the neighborhood) and probably cried every time (still do, actually, though I probably shouldn't freely admit that).


Two other depressing kid's movies; The Iron Giant and The Brave Little Toaster. I saw Toaster at least fifty times.

Was anyone else attracted to depressing stuff as a kid? Cheery cartoons never did much for me.

Oh my god I cried EVERY time I watched The Brave Little Toaster. Also The Fox and the Hound.

Has anyone noticed in just about every Disney movie they killed off one if not both the parents?

OMG, I forgot about that one! I broke down everytime the lady leaves Todd at the nature reserve. Sometimes I couldn't even finish watching the tape after that. The ending is just as sad.

Ugh, exactly. And she's singing that song...
I would seriously be sobbing uncontrollably. My parents tried to take it away from me, but I refused. I loved it too much.

It's kind of depressing but more horrible for me really but my mum showed me Watership Down really early on in my life and i think that messed me up a bit :s

YouTube - Fox & Hound (Tod & Copper / Cap & Capper) ... sad scene


...most depressing clip ever? :(


I gave my copy away a while ago...it was too hard to watch. I'm watching that youtube clip with the sound off and it's still unbelievably painful.

Oh yeah, that one too. I still get the chills everytime I think about it.
I still get nightmares.

Nope. I can't do it.

The cunning ploy in these movies is that heartache makes you stronger and instills a better backbone early on in life. Ever seen 'Night of The Hunter'? One of the most warped fairy tales you will ever see.

The Plague Dogs, written by the author of "Watership Down"

just as sad :(

I also cried my eyes out when Alice was lost in Wonderland.

Something tells me you were a bit fragile as a child.

I'm still jealous. I wish I remembered more of my childhood.

:laughing: I got very emotionally attached to the characters.

I saw more "grown up" movies as a (young) child that made me cry, such as Titanic (though my Grandparents skipped most of the adult parts), Shackleton, and some others.

The Disney movies were tearjerkers, though, especially Fox and The Hound, like you said. Really, I don't know why they make those movies like that for little kids, but jackhammer has a point.

have to share this

Top 11 Saddest Moments

old yeller gets me

dumbo when his mother gets taken away

and where the red fern grows
to name a few

That happens to me a lot too. Gladiator made me twitch.

Oh also, Artificial Intelligence when the roboboy gets left in the woods by his mother. That movie would have been awesome if there weren't any aliens.

"WIILLLSSOOON"

It's not really a childrens movie, but I was pretty young when I saw Cast Away and that was devastating. They had been through so much together...

couldn't get through that. when he got to the drowning of Artax i turned it off. it's really too much for me.

and that GOD DAMN FOX AND THE HOUND VIDEO!!! WHAT THE F*CK!!!!
i completely forgot what that movie was like, the last time i watched that movie i was 3. Jesus Christ.

Oh yeah. Agreed.
Also when Mufasa died in The Lion King. Utterly tragic.
And when Mary Poppins left the children. :(
I was never the kid to cry when I didn't get my way, but I sure cried for everyone else.

I guess that explains why so many fairy tales involve death, ogres, children in peril (Hansel & Gretel, anyone? That story made me paranoid about hanging around ovens until I was about twelve), etc.



I'm not a complete sucker for heartache, though. I didn't feel bad at the end of Old Yeller, mainly because I've always been terrified of dogs (damn the neighbors!).


The first time I saw that was about two months after my dad died. It really hit home.

IRON GIANT! I still love that movie... :o: I might watch it when I get home tonight...

Charlotte's Web was kinda depressing too, now that I think about it. But still a good movie (and book).

The movie was ok, but the book's absolutely beautiful. Actually, I always found Stuart Little (the book, not the god-awful movie) to be a very sad book, maybe even more of a downer than Charlotte.

when I was little I used to get depressed after watching "The Wizard".I don't even remember the reason really, it was a film about video games...

Not really depressing, but Who Framed Rodger Rabbit scared the **** out of me as a kid.

The Fox and the Hound still makes me weep.

Other sad children's movies:

Homeward Bound, the one where Shadow get's stuck in the ditch and you don't know if he'll make it home or not. The ending when he comes staggering up the hill makes me sob.

Bambi, of course, but that's a cliche choice.

All Dog's Go To Heaven. There were mobsters in this, drug dealers, prostitutes, sad situations, heartbreak... but it's animated and told through dog's point of views. It'd make a great gangster film if like, Tarantino rewrote it and shot it with the usual suspect cast... Maybe Scorsece'd direct it. And renamed it.

Watership Down

I never saw The Iron Giant as depressing, since the ending was so optimistic. I just hope Disney never tries to pull another piece-of-sh*t straight to DVD sequel.

That was really ****ed up, also one of the kids looked like Bud Cort.

I am still waiting for this to be released on DVD. It was released briefly before disappear again AND the music is by Van Morrison too.

Lamb (1986)

QFT. I don't think I was ever able to finish watching it.

Haha. I watched that movie recently, too, with my little brother. He was laughing at me while I was sobbing at it.

There is some movie where the Home Alone kid is an evil little **** and tries to kill his family, and the ending is his mother saving some other kid's life and letting Culkin fall off a cliff. I wish I could place the name of it. That always upset me even though he deserved to die.

^ The Good Son

Wasnt frodo in it too?

Ha thanks. I have to say though the whole 1 cliff, 2 lives thing is a bit played out.

Iron Giant wasn't a Disney movie so you can rest soundly.

Heh. I saw that movie in the theater on a "let's try to be friends" date with a long term girlfriend I had just broken up with. I think a comedy would've been a better choice.

drop dead fred ;(

oh, and does anyone remember the scene in NEVER ENDING STORY where "Atrael?"'s horse is caught in quicksand/a muddy bog :'(