***before we get started today, i’d like to officially welcome my homie panama, aka the panamanian, aka the arsonist, aka jiggaboo p, aka drake deez, aka giovanni eraser to the 30 club. happy birthday and sh*t, man***
***flashback to 2000***
the champ and several teammates are visiting an elementary school as part of their perfunctory bi-weekly “community give back“, a program enacted by his head coach requiring them to spend a certain amount of hours each month performing community service.
download real genius dvd although mandatory volunteerism is a bit of an oxymoron, they enjoyed doing this, as it gave them more of a sense of community, helped to instill the value of altruism, and first exposed them to the fact that women in social and/or community service occupations tend to be unadulterated freaks¹.
anyway, this particular morning happened to be movie day for the 4th graders and their uber-banging 25 year old teacher, ms. nelson, so the champ and four of his teammates sat in with the kids in their tiny-ass chairs and watched “the lion king”.
as you all know (unless you’re completely soulless, or from atlanta), “the lion king” is a great movie, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the entire classroom was quickly immersed in the film. it also shouldnt come as a surprise that mufusa’s death scene was particularly hard for the nine and ten year olds to watch, as muffled sniffles were heard around the room.
but, it would probably surprise you to learn that each of the adults in the room refused to make eye contact with each other, afraid that someone else would see how truly verklempt they each were. this includes the uber-banging ms. nelson and the champ, who you all know can be a bit of a pussy sensitive and sh*t
any death scene that can make a roomful of dimepieces, prepubescent project kids, and 6’6′ athletes in tiny chairs cry deserves the number one spot on the champ’s five worst on-screen deaths of all-time, and, without further ado, here’s the rest of the list.
****SPOILER ALERT!!! THIS ENTRY AND THE COMMENTS CONTAIN NUMEROUS SPOILERS FOR DOZENS OF MOVIES AND TELEVISION SHOWS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK AND SH*T****
2. preston “bodie” broadus, “the wire”
maybe stringer’s slaying carried more of a panoramic reverberation on the streets of baltimore and in the minds of and in-between the legs of hundreds of thousands of excessively thirsty female viewers. maybe wallace’s gut-wrenching murder pulled more at more heartstrings than lil kim’s face, and maybe omar’s unceremonious offing took the cake for sheer shock value and sentiment.
but, for a true wire fanatic, no ones death was as resonate as bodie’s, whose doggedness, cynicism, and world-weariness came to be a literal embodiment of the city of baltimore, and the show was never the same without him
3. adriana la cerva, “the sopranos”
last seen crawling through the woods in her filth mart jeans, begging her uncle not to shoot her, adriana’s last scene was a great reminder of how brutal the oft romanticized mob can really be and further cemented her status as the bangingest white chick on tv
4. gator purify, “jungle fever”
eerily (and, probably intentionally) reminiscent of marvin gaye’s murder, seeing the death of the hopelessly strung out gator at the hands of his father, the good reverend doctor purify, made the young champ swear to himself to never, ever, ever sample crack and always carry chapstick
5. carolyn carmichael, “crooklyn”
lets put it this way: when a characters death makes you refuse to ever watch a movie again, it deserves placement on the list. i havent seen crooklyn in over 15 years, and its still filed in my mental rolodex as “mom dies. can’t watch“
i’m sure i’m missing a few. people of vsb.com, what are the most heart-wrenching on-screen deaths you’ve seen?
¹no bullsh*t. i have no idea why though, but i think guilt has something to do with it.
—the champ
when Beaches came out in 1988 I was 10…it was so tragic to me (probably b/c even back then I realized friendships that tight don’t come round too often)
@maria,
HBO’s series the Corner…when Dre’s father’s dies, overdosing on heroin..
The Shawshank Redemption, when the old man hangs himself after being released b/c he doesn’t know how to exist outside of prison…
Terms of Endearment… old movie called The Champ w/ Jon Voight in it…ok I’m gonna stop now b/c I probably can keep going forever….
@maria, Terms of Endearment OH MY GOD yes….
that shyt was so sad…
I was trying to think of the name of that movie..
oh and lets not forget the DEER HUNTER…Damn Nick….
@maria,
“The Shawshank Redemption, when the old man hangs himself after being released b/c he doesn’t know how to exist outside of prison…”
This made me sad b/c it’s the reality of so many folks who’ve been locked down for years.
@iloVEGrits, I cried too when the old man hung himself. That was so sad.
@iloVEGrits,
It made me so sad, too. (Even convicts need hugs and sh!t.)
@maria,
U get mad points for remembering “The Corner”. I need it on DVD
@maria,
Dead Man Walking-after finally coming to terms with his heinous rape-murder and finding remorse/repentence etc…Sean Penn’s lethal injection
Boys Don’t Cry, when Hillary Swank’s character get’s raped and murdered…smh
Return of the Living Dead (1985) when dude gets mistaken for a zombie after having survived all that ish..
@maria,
“Boys Don’t Cry, when Hillary Swank’s character get’s raped and murdered…smh”
That whole scene was just madd disturbing.
@miss t-lee, “Boys Don’t Cry, when Hillary Swank’s character get’s raped and murdered…smh”
Yeah! that was a messed up death scene. Sad movie.
@maria,
“Return of the Living Dead (1985) when dude gets mistaken for a zombie after having survived all that ish..”
Never seen this, though this is how Night of the Living Dead (1969?) ends too. It just made me laugh.
@maria,
Boys Don’t Cry, when Hillary Swank’s character get’s raped and murdered…smh
That scene just tormented my being! Just terrible!
@maria,
“The Shawshank Redemption, when the old man hangs himself after being released b/c he doesn’t know how to exist outside of prison…”
I own the book and movie…both made me cry…
@miss t-lee,
me too.
it killed me to see the old man just not able to cope with life on the outside.
and for a second i thought Morgan Freeman’s character was going to go out like that too. I breathed the BIGGEST sigh of relief when he made it.
@blackberry molasses,
I didn’t breathe a sigh of relief until he made it to Zihuatanejo.
@maria,
The Shawshank Redemption, when the old man hangs himself after being released b/c he doesn’t know how to exist outside of prison…
rest in peace and sh*t, brooks.
@maria, i was ___yrs old when that movie came out and i’m with you girl. i was boohooing for the last 30 minutes. “you gotta laugh a little, cry a little, until the clouds roll by a little. that’s the story of, that’s the glory of love….” i could sing the whole song for you, but i’ll spare the regulars of vsb.
@Miss Patterson, girl I sang that song so much! I think I sang it to audition high school concert choir….
@shay_d_lady,
Steel Magnolias
When Brooke Shields character dies in the hospital.
I heart that movie soooooo much.
@mssmtaylor, Steel Magnolias
When Brooke Shields character dies in the hospital.
I heart that movie soooooo much.
excuse me m’am but i think that was Julia Roberts.
@simplyunique,
LMAO! She was so touched, she forgot who was in it
@maria, yeah Beaches was a tough one, even for an upstanding gangsta with beaucoup G-points like myself.
um…i hate the lion king. that was traumatic as hell.
@charli skipper,
I agree. I don’t like to watch it now.
And I know there was no death in Toy Story, but that’s another kid movie that makes me sad. Andy was a mean kid. LOL
@Selah, And I know there was no death in Toy Story, but that’s another kid movie that makes me sad. Andy was a mean kid. LOL
I love toy story!! but I could have sworn buzz was attempting suicide after he found out he was a toy and jumped off those steps…..
@shay_d_lady,
Toy Story 3 in June 2010! And yes I’m a grown as@ woman excited about it.
@luvtheshoes, don’t feel bad. i’m excited about it too. i grew up in a Disney household. i want to own everything disney ever makes so my daughter can watch them all.
@luvtheshoes,
I’m MAD excited. I’m a Disney Stan and a Pixar Stan. I was so geeked about the first Toy Story that I wanted to attend Disney and Pixar’s wedding. What a perfect pairing. I even almost died when there were plans for them to split. And Toy Story 3 in 3D?! I’m there. Did ya’ll catch the teaser trailer? True stans have already, of course. lol
@Cheekie,
Definitely caught the trailer. iTunes movie trailers are a stan’s best friend!
@charli skipper,
Just remembering the look on Simba’s face when he realized his Pops was gone makes me *wall slide*
iCan’t. Disney’s brutal
@Luvvie,
Pixar is brutal too. Have you seen “Up.” I don’t want to ruin it for those who haven’t seen it but that may count too.
@Deja,
I saw it. Heartbreaking.
@Luvvie,
Disney has always been brutal, lest we forget the mom from bambi. **cue scene** Bambi: Mother! Mother! MOTHER! MOTHER WHERE ARE YOU!?! **end scene** heart wrenching, but disney always kills off a parent usually the mother though, none of the princesses had moms and they killed off cinderella’s dad too, and remember Nemo’s mom. Oh the horror lol.
@PrincesMo,
and remember Nemo’s mom
wow. i forgot about nemo’s mom. i think im gonna go email my mom now
@PrincesMo,
oooh… Nemo’s mom was a rough one.
“Coral? Coral??” **Marlin softly sobs**
And hmmmmm, interesting on the fact that NONE of the Disney Princesses had mothers…
@blackberry molasses,
At least, for Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Disney can blame the original authors of the stories… (I guess orphan girls made for good storytelling back then)… but why didn’t Pocahontas have a mom?
Did Mulan have a mom or a grandma?
@Sula, Mulan had both, Disney really does hate moms. neither Aladdin nor Jasmine had mamas
@Sula,
Also Babar, I dont know who did Babar but I tried to play the movie for some 6 year olds on a field trip last year and it was Waaaaaaaaaaaay worse than Bambi. I mean they show like a a 10 minute death scene and you see babar’s mom go down on numerous body shots. Then babar crying and wailing n’ shtz. All I remembered from it was the green suited elephant with the crown part. Prolly my parents shielded me from cold blooded baby hunters.
@PrincesMo,
I never picked up on the motherlessness of the princesses. Someone at Disney clearly has mama issues!
@charli skipper,
Thank you. When I tell people I don’t like the Lion King they look at me like I have a 2nd head…lol
@miss t-lee, charli skipper
***things miss t-lee and charli skipper probably also dont like***
souls.
puppies.
babies.
medicine.
the sun.
showers.
laughter.
mother nature
@The Champ,
Mother nature deez.
@The Champ,
LMAO. You forgot rainbows & unicorns. They’re some dementors.
@The Champ,
Or air. Because The Lion King provides oxygen to the soul.
@charli skipper, you must be one of those soulless people the champ was referring too.
@charli skipper,
how can you NOT like this movie? geez!!!
I mean for real…. these scenes don’t touch you at all?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-g_nj_s6c4 (start at 7:35)
You must have stepped out of line when God was handing out souls. (I keed, I joke)
Happy Birthday Panama!!!
The Temptations movie. When Melvin (Blue) rolled into the kitchen and didn’t roll out. and then Smokey Robinson sang “Really Gonna Miss You” at the funeral. I shed a tear the first time I saw that.
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!,
girl my part was when Eddie is singing “its just my imagination” and he looks over and paul isnt there…..and then the motage before Paul kills himself in the car? girl…smh
@shay_d_lady,
Yeah…that, for me, is the saddest part of that movie. Eddie glancing over to some other dude.
@shay_d_lady,
girl, yeah. That whole Paul situation was sad.
@shay_d_lady,
This part always gets me!
@shay_d_lady,
“girl my part was when Eddie is singing “its just my imagination” and he looks over and paul isnt there”
This is my all-time favorite scene in that movie. Terron Brooks nailed that look. When he looked over at Richard all, “Ninja you don’t belong here. Where’s Paul?”. Wow, that movie is my love.
@Cheekie,
naw my fave scene was “look i been practicin nights like this i wish that raindrops would fallll” lol
@BLUNTBLAZER,
lmao! Is that aint even the right movie?!
No, its not, lmao!
@Me fail english?,
Aint that the Five Heartbeats? lol
I think those two are usually interchanged amongst Black folks. Probably because Leon is in both.
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!,
They just did Mr. Ruffin bogus, tossing him outta the car like that, with that wack ace “People’s Court Theme” type music playing….
“And the John Doe that nobody identified for 2 weeks was David Ruffin.”
Kiss my grits.
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!,
That was sad, and when Paul killed himself I cried like a baby! This is one of my favorite movies though.
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!, thanks homeslice.
and ya know, i hate to say this but, its hard for me to get too bent out of shape when everybody dies in that joint mostly cuz its so far from accurate (in a movie based on actual events and people) its ridiculous. melvin didn’t die like that. neither did David Ruffin for that matter. lol.
and that song was so effin’ horrendous i laugh every time I hear it. plus, Smokie sounds like an ass sandwich.
“i miss you my buddy…”
on a side note, i sang to that an ex-jump off once.
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!,
Ah, The Temptations. My long lost love. I literally wrecked the VHS watching that over and over. Then got the DVD and saw the extra scenes. Man, I stanned for that movie.
I always do the Smokey vibrato during that part and it cracks my sister up…I’m goofy.
But that death was hella sad. Aw, Blue. *sniff*
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!,
“The Temptations movie. When Melvin (Blue) rolled into the kitchen and didn’t roll out”
Why did this just make me snort? lol I mean it was sad but just the way you stated it was funny as hell.
al pacino in Carlito’s way…I wanted him to make it “out” that lifestyle…also, al pacino in Donnie Brasco…he got “got” by the kid he had treated like his son…
Sophia’s Choice-Scene where Meryl Streps had to choose which child she was going to scarfice-a complete mind f#ck moment…
also, for whomever has seen, The Hours…that movie had me feeling like life was, indeed, too full of heartache for anything to really matter…
Tom Hanks in Philadelphia…
@maria,
al pacino in Carlito’s way…I wanted him to make it “out” that lifestyle…also, al pacino in Donnie Brasco…he got “got” by the kid he had treated like his son…
Both of those movies got to me. but when Al put his jewelry and keys in the drawer before he went out the door b/c he knew he wouldn’t be coming back, and where he was going he wouldn’t need a watch or wedding ring…so so sad.
@N.I.A. HappyHumpDay!!,
donnie brasco was sad from the first minute, lol. watching that movie was like watching paint die
@The Champ,
LOL!! you are so right…
@The Champ, yeah, i’m gonna have to go ahead and concur with you on that one there, kicko.
@maria, dang! you took it back with sophie’s choice. i watched that a few years ago and cried like a baby. i should make a list called ‘things that make ms. p cry like a baby’.
@Miss Patterson, ‘things that make ms. p cry like a baby’
i’m guessing this is either a really short list that includes the word: everything
or really long and specific with things like: finger foods.
i’m guessing there’s no in between.
@Panama Jackson,
*Cackles* Dammit. You VSBs are killing me this week
@maria,
OMG!!! Tom Hanks in Philadelphia just bout broke my achy breaky heart!!!
*rolling on floor all dramatic like*
@maria,
“Sophia’s Choice-Scene where Meryl Streps had to choose which child she was going to scarfice-a complete mind f#ck moment…”
Dayum…you’re remembering some good ones…
I still mourn the loss of Stringer Bell, but they ain’t have to do Bodie like that either… I remember being very disturbed by Radio Raheem’s death, too.
@MDP, Radio Raheem F!cked me up too! damn he aint do nothing to no body!
@shay_d_lady, shoulda turned down his damn radio.
@Panama Jackson,
LOL!
@Me fail english?,
dam i forgot bout radio raheem
thats the movie that i discovered Rosie Perez and ive been in love ever since
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Really, Please I was just having a discussion with my girls that no matter how hot rosie’s body may be that you HAVE to balance that against a voice that makes you want to throw yourself out of a 3rd story window in the hood without opening it. double glazing and concrete style.
@willnotbetelevised
“double glazing and concrete style.”
_______________________
Her voice is that bad huh? lol
when Janie (halle berry) had to kill Tea Cake (micheal ealy) in There Eyes Were Watching God because he had rabies and was trying to bite her =(
@ecoivo,
that was even sadder in the book
@addy, i agree. the death scene in the book was pretty intense.
@ecoivo,
Ummm…one of my fav book’s but the movie version. Blows chunks.
@ecoivo, yeah I never watched the movie cause I couldnt get over it in written form…….
@ecoivo, That was sad….
@ecoivo, i felt no way about it in the movie. in the
book however, it screwed me over. we’ve mentioned it here before, but that movie was the terrible terrible terrible.
if i was rich, i’d buy the rights to every possible great Black book that oprah might want to make into a movie just so she doesnt ruin the books for anybody else.
i’m thinking of the children here.
basically, imagine if oprah had made ROOTS. Shemar Moore would have been Kunte Kinte.
@Panama Jackson,
basically, imagine if oprah had made ROOTS. Shemar Moore would have been Kunte Kinte
LOL
@Panama Jackson,
basically, imagine if oprah had made ROOTS. Shemar Moore would have been Kunte Kinte.
the HORROR! that blinded my Third Eye.
@Panama Jackson,
Shemar Moore & his complicated teeth (rows & columns) as Kunta jus ruined my morn. Thanks.
@Luvvie, LOL at complicated teeth
@ecoivo,
welcome and sh*t.
and, ummm, i havent seen the movie (or read the book) so i dont feel bad when i say that this description…
“…because he had rabies and was trying to bite her =(”
…is funny as sh*t
bodie’s death was very traumatizing. i remember a friend of mine, every time tristan wilds (mike) came on tv, she would stand and scream “he killed bodie! he killed bodie!” and we would try to explain to her that it wasnt him, but she was not tryna hear it.
but i cried when omar died and when dukie got hooked on drugs. seriously, i miss that show so damn much. i need the box set.
anyway, to answer the question:
one of the alternate endings of tsotsi hurt my heart
carmen’s death at the end of carmen jones (the dorothy dandridge/harry belafonte jawn, not that hiphopera crap) hurt, even tho i knew it was coming
Manray’s death in Bamboozled, and sloan’s killing pierre
raheem’s death in juice (seriously, i think i was like 10 the first time i saw it and i refused to watch anymore after he died for damn near 12 years)
Ganga Zumba’s death in Quilombo pissed me off…trusting those lying a** portuguese i told him that he was messing up but did he listen to me…NOOOOOOO!!!! (yes i was talking to the screen)
@trin-trin, GIRRLLL. that montage on the last show of the series, when they showed dukie shootin’ up and essentially training to become the next bubbles, made me gasp in horror. why did michael just drop his a$$ off like that? why did prez give him that money knowin’ daggone well he wasn’t going grocery shopping? why didn’t someone cultivate his computer skills? why is my jaw clenched and why do i feel my eyes feel misty? clearly, i miss the wire. can we start a letter campaign to bring it back? my heart hurts.
@Miss Patterson,
i am right there with u…the last 20 minutes of the finale was all i talked about to anyone who would listen for the next week. and i am all for writing letters. heres’s mine:
dear hbo,
i know it’s been a year since the wire went off the air, but i need for you to bring it back. YOU CAN’T END A SERIES THAT WAY!!! especially one that had such an impact on the viewers, the way this show impacted me and my friends. Besides, no one’s career has been the same since then. Jamie Hector will always be Marlo, Tristan Wilds will always be Mike, Michael Williams will always be Omar, Wood Harris will always be Avon, etc etc. I need my weekly fix of these actors…and 90210 (that crap) ain’t cuttin it. So, i ask nicely and with all sincerity,
BRING THAT SHYT BACK ASAP!!!!
Thank you,
Trin-Trin
@trin-trin, i recently saw ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and there were two Wire actors in that movie: Beadie & Omar. They did a good job. Actually, I’ve seen Amy Ryan (Beadie) in a few movies and Law & Order episodes…she’s a d@mn good actress with a lot of range.
@Miss Patterson,
i have seen gone baby gone but i didnt realize amy ryan was in it…michael williams was in it for a second tho…i wanna see him do alot more tho, we all kno he’s talented enough for more challenging roles…i just want to see him get them…he was in miracle at st. anna’s as well
@trin-trin, in ‘gone baby gone’ amy ryan was the strung out mother of the missing child.
@trin-trin,
i have seen gone baby gone but i didnt realize amy ryan was in it
i think she was actually nominated for best supporting actress
@trin-trin, ur kidding???!!!! i didnt recognize her at all
@Miss Patterson,
She was on The Office too.
@trin-trin,
you know what, as much as i loved and miss the wire, i think the show ran its course. i’d rather see it end at its apex than drag on for 3 or 4 more seasons with shoddy writing like most other series do.
@The Champ,
i dont know…i got so emotionally attached to the show, esp during the fourth and fifth season, that i needed it to keep going…i needed the characters to still be there. i mean, even if they did a movie or something down the line, i’d be grateful.
i remember reading an article saying they would have done a sixth season about the hispanic community in bmore but the research would be too arduous. but, i just feel like if they would have put in the effort, they could have put together another good season. the only ‘miss’ they had was season 2, and even that season wasn’t that bad.
ps- i feel that way about the game too…somebody needs to pick that show up asap
@trin-trin, Manray’s death in Bamboozled, and sloan’s killing pierre
raheem’s death in juice (seriously, i think i was like 10 the first time i saw it and i refused to watch anymore after he died for damn near 12 years)
girl yes.. I thought Raheem was fine as hell.. it took me a long time to like Tupac after that….
Bamboozled got me too .. I think thats one of Spike’s most slept on joints cause he shows the artists side of just wanting to do what they do and how that can get them caught all up….I couldnt believe they shot him..that did catch me all off gaurd…
@shay_d_lady,
bamboozled is definitely slept on!!!! def one of spike’s best, in more ways than one!!! no matter how sad it is to me (I always cry at the end with the blackface montage), it is one i recommend EVERYONE to see.
and yes, i thought raheem was fine too!!! i think that’s what took me so long to finish the movie!!! khalil kain is another underrated actor
@trin-trin,
“khalil kain is another underrated actor”
Agreed. And oh so yummy. Was happy when he showed up as the new Darnell on Girlfriends.
@iloVEGrits,
wasn’t he the original Darnell that got temp. replaced and then brought back?
@maria,
I dunno. I just remember Flex first being in the role. And was happy to see Khalil.
@iloVEGrits,
iLove me some Khalil Kain, ever since he was Raheem in “Juice”! He’s on the “Would shame my ancestors with things I’d do to him” list.
@shay_d_lady, girl yes.. I thought Raheem was fine as hell.. it took me a long time to like Tupac after that….
I know. ‘Pac played that crazy role too well.
@shay_d_lady, you know, i think Bamboozled is one of the few times Spike got the end of a movie right, and even that’s a stretch really.
Spike must have missed those classes on “how to end movies” down in the AUC.
Bamboozled is Spike’s best movie, I think. aside from Malcolm X but that ain’t really a spike lee joint thru and thru…
@trin-trin,
Oh my…Dukie shooting up was just too much. I kept wanting Prez to adopt him like Bunny took in Naymond.
@trin-trin, Oh when I saw Dukie strung out I felt so bad, I cried on that one too! But you have to admit ol’ Snoop went out like a G! Talkin’ bout how my hair look!
@Ms. T,
“But you have to admit ol’ Snoop went out like a G!”
btw, this statement is also #16 on the list of “25 things people say that might reveal that they’re a closet lesbian”
@The Champ, HA! I am confident in my chexuality, but that ish was gangsta!
@The Champ,
And by the way, Lesbian deez! LOL I just always wanted to say a deez! LOL
@Ms. T, i have a buddy who used to call up and say ‘how my hair look mike?’ just for sh*ts and giggles. that was a great comedic line.
@trin-trin, yeah i was like 10 the first time i saw juice, and i was in LOVE with raheem. after he got got, i wouldn’t listen to a tupac song for like 3 weeks!
happy birthday Panama!!! welcome to the 30 club!
now, back to this list…Bodie is #1 in my book, then Adriana, then Beaches. Bodie was trying to get out. He just met with my baby, McNulty, in the park and sh*t. He was a good soldier. And I actually got choked up his last night on the corner. And where the he!l was Pookie? That’s why his a$$ was selling Reeboks the next season. What kind of boy is that, that doesn’t have your back? PUNK. And Bodie was cute too. Matter of fact, all the brothas on the wire were kinda fine….but i’m getting off the subject. Bodie’s death broke my heart.
Adriana’s death was a close first. Why? Because I really believed for a second they were getting out of Jersey. Adriana actually made money for the family unlike Christopher who blew it on H and bad movies. When she tried to crawl away…i was like noooooo!!!! don’t shoot!!!
Beaches…i think you have to be a girl to get this. Me and my girl watch this movie and cry like babies. we’ve known eachother forever (since preschool) and it gets us all choked up. just the thought of losing your best girl friend. too much. just too much. pass me a tissue.
p.s.- this whole post should be marked with *SPOILER ALERT*
@Miss Patterson, am i the only one who liked the way Bodie used to spit? it had good velocity and style.
@Miss Patterson, yeah his spits had me in awe. never met a ninja that could hock like that
@Miss Patterson,
am i the only one who liked the way Bodie used to spit?
i read somewhere that they’d actually write that into the script, because j.d. williams was so good at it
@Miss Patterson,
“p.s.- this whole post should be marked with *SPOILER ALERT*”
I agree! I haven’t seen half of these!
@Miss Patterson, thanks homie. for some reason, bodie’s death just didnt really hit me as hard as say Stringers. for one, Stringers was just so dramatic. plus i WANTED him to die but when he died, i wanted him back. lol. it was full of all kinds of confusing emotions.
Bodie, well, i mean, what other possible end was there for him anyway. he couldnt really get out the game and the game had no more room for him. plus he was finna snitch on east siders. seemed a fitting way to end a life well served to the west side of baltimore, though he was one of my favorite characters, hands down.
@Panama Jackson,
plus i WANTED him to die but when he died, i wanted him back. lol. it was full of all kinds of confusing emotions.
i felt the same way. it was one of those “careful what you wish for…” situations
I can’t front Mufasa getting killed (by his brother no less) messed me up as a young’n.
Others in no particular order:
1.) Manray (Savion Glover), Bamboozled – Only watched it once.
2.) Maximus/Leonidas (Russell Crowe/Gerard Butler) – I don’t know that they were traumatic, but I didn’t want them to die
3.) RIIIIICCCCKKEEEYYYYY! (Morris Chestnut), Boyz N The Hood – Self-explanitory
4.) Billy Roberts (Cuba Gooding, Jr), Tuskegee Airmen – It was harsh to me.
5.) The end of Glory – Just so sad between that and the Denzel whipping scene, its hard for me to watch.
@Madame Zenobia, yes all those movies on your list are great examples..
RIIICCCKKKY… I cant front that gets me every single time and you know its coming..
and then the clincher where you find out he made the test score to get into college? smh…..
they either dont know, dont show, or dont care about whats going on in the hood…..
@shay_d_lady,
True, true…..
Late edition that I don’t know whether on not it counts:
Steel Magnolias – Its not Julia Roberts’ death so much as Sally Fields reaction at the grave site – I cry every time.
@Madame Zenobia,
“It really does look like a brown football helmet”
That whole scene is one of the most intense emotional roller coasters evah.
@luvtheshoes,
The line she has “I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out.”
That thought hits me like a ton of bricks every time. That’s always what starts it – forget about when she starts crying “Why?”
@Madame Zenobia,
Agreed!
OMG, I cry EVERY time….sigh.
@shay_d_lady,
“they either dont know, dont show, or dont care about whats going on in the hood….”
*DEAD*
@Madame Zenobia, i actually think that Ricky dying in Bozy in The Hood was one of the most compelling death scenes, like ever (though the Lion King is definitely up there). for one, Ricky was finna make it out the hood. Doughboy died like most uberhood dudes do…in the hood on some hood related stuff. Ricky, though died because of something that had nothing to do with me.
and he died running, which was what was gonna get him out the hood. plus, they played the BESTEST possible music they could play during those scenes, “black on black crime” by stanley clarke. those horns man…they’re haunting. i can still hear them vividly right now.
mostly cuz i’m playing it on iTunes, but you catch my drift.
deep.
interestingly enough, i wouldnt have felt as strongly about Trey dying. even as a 12 year old, Ricky dying messed me up.
not as bad as optimus prime dying in Transformers, though. i was a boohooing baby b*tch up in that theater.
@Panama Jackson,
” i can still hear them vividly right now.
mostly cuz i’m playing it on iTunes, but you catch my drift. ”
Lmao. I was wondering how you knew the name of it. Cheater!
@Panama Jackson,
Happy Belated Birthday!
@Madame Zenobia,
The end of Glory – Just so sad between that and the Denzel whipping scene, its hard for me to watch.
the music really makes this scene as well
The death and the funeral of the mother in the colorized version of “imitation of life”
it gets me every time….
@shay_d_lady,
GOMH! lol.
@shay_d_lady,
Yes Lord, with Mahalia Jackson singing at the funeral. I completely agree and will add I really wanted to slap her daughter.
@Madame Zenobia,
Didn’t you wanna beat her? All the times she rejected her hard working, devoted momma. Then she wants to throw herself on the coffin and cry “I’m sorry”. Little too late for all that.
@shay_d_lady,
OH Shay_D you are on the money with Imitation of Life! I wanted to go through the tv and beat the mess out of her daughter! The Troubles of this World always gets me choked up.
@shay_d_lady, OH MY GOD YES!! How could I not name this. One of my favorite movies.
Annie’s death in Imitation of Life, American version. I preferred the British version of the movie but Annie, in the U.S. version, her death bed speech about going home to glory got me.
Kay’s death in Last King of Scotland. Though the facts surrounding her death were dramatized for the film, seeing her dismembered form twisted my stomach.
@iloVEGrits, Kay’s death in Last King of Scotland. Though the facts surrounding her death were dramatized for the film, seeing her dismembered form twisted my stomach.
girl yes.. I was like gotdayum I aint never gone cheat!!
also the death of the queen in the other boleyn girl.. you knew it happened and you dont actually see it but it still got me…
@shay_d_lady,
“girl yes.. I was like gotdayum I aint never gone cheat!!”
LMAO. Why did I have the same thought when I saw that shyt?
@iloVEGrits, ya know, its not the same, but in The Good Shepherd, seeing Matt Damon’s son’s fiancée getting tossed from the plane has to go down as one of the most gangsta ways to off somebody’s future marriage partner, in Africa, after a storm.
@iloVEGrits,
“Kay’s death in Last King of Scotland. Though the facts surrounding her death were dramatized for the film, seeing her dismembered form twisted my stomach.”
Whoo, that tore ME UP. Wait, no bad, pun.
That disturbed me greatly!
I love that movie, though.
the Death of Bambi’s mother was also EXTRA traumatic as a child……
and Casualties of War…oh my god….that shyt…
Oh and the psychedelic death of the school teacher in looking for mr goodbar scared me away from (most) ho shyt for life!
Obi Wan Kenobi’s death in the first star wars……
@shay_d_lady, bambi was my generation’s lion king. not that my heart didn’t go out to mufasa.
@Miss Patterson, Bambi’s mom dying was waay sadder than Mufasa’s to me… idk… the whole premise was the same but Bambi just struck me as far more heart wrenching
@shay_d_lady,
Casualties of War…oh my god. I actually cringed and looked away during that death scene.
Pookie’s death in New Jack made me sad, as did the little boy’s death (Macaulay Culkin) in My Girl.
Pyle shooting himself in Full Metal Jacket really jacked me up, too.
@iloVEGrits, FMJ -what a hell of a way to START a movie. dang.
@Miss Patterson,
Leave it to the master of movie f*cked upness, Stanley Kubrick to do that. He definitely hung on that fine line between genius and insanity. A Clockwork Orange is just jacked all the way up
@blackberry molasses,
Yeah, Clockwork is some truly unsettling ish. It’s one of my fav movies
@iloVEGrits,
“as did the little boy’s death (Macaulay Culkin) in My Girl.”
When she started yelling at him to wake up—awww, it was over for ya girl…lol
@iloVEGrits, i used to be absolutely in love with macaulay. when he died in my girl, i wept.
damn bees
@iloVEGrits,
Pookie’s death in New Jack made me sad
i actually had this on my list before i edited down to five
@The Champ,
I still don’t get Pookie’s death. Was he beat to death or what? He BEEN dead before the bomb was disabled, eyes wide open and everything.
Also, Keisha’s death kinda sucked
@Me fail english?,
Was he beat to death or what?
i think he was shot
@iloVEGrits, C0-sign on “My Girl.”
Ada yelling at the funeral “he can’t see without his glasses,” made me weep.
@iloVEGrits, thinkin bout Thomas J. dying in the woods makes me a little sad right this second…
can we also give honorable mention to
Requiem for a Dream
for being a movie that was so traumatic I WISH they would have just killed the characters…GOTDAYUM that movie leaves you with a feeling that wont go away…
@shay_d_lady,
out of everyone in that movie I felt the saddest over the mom who went crazy taking diet pills to fit in that dayum red dress, all b/c she was tryin to relive the moment of a better time when she wasn’t so lonely and felt like her life was meaninful…
scene where dude wake’s up in that hopsital realizing his arm had to be severed…scene when ol’ girl reverts to selling her body just to get high…scene when dude is stiring the food? and going threw withdrawal and he’s cryin w/ snot running down his nose, escapin into his memory of his mama’s love…that movie is so w.t.f!!! and it’s crazy cuz that sh#t actually exist and happens…dayum…this post is killing me…I need a hug and need to go to my happy place now…
@maria,
There’s a movie called “Happiness” came out in 98…it equally messed up, comparable to Requiem but doesn’t revolve around drug use…just personal demise/destruction/crazy stuff
@maria, this was a twisted flick.
@maria,
Happiness is so good. It has the best last line ever: “I came”. *DEAD and Ressurected*
@maria, out of everyone in that movie I felt the saddest over the mom who went crazy taking diet pills to fit in that dayum red dress, all b/c she was tryin to relive the moment of a better time when she wasn’t so lonely and felt like her life was meaninful…
exactly…when she had that hallucination about the game show….I was like dayum…
@maria,
“Ass to ass. ASS TO ASS!”
Hahaha. I knew a guy that used to say this isht randomly to be funny. Sometimes I’d join him.
And that mom annoyed the isht outta me.
@shay_d_lady,
Requiem is one of those movies where you just sit in stunned silence when it’s over. I didn’t know whether to take a shower to wash the feeling off or hug somebody or what.
@luvtheshoes,
totally agreed…I was like WTF? for a good three days after I watched it. I tried to recommend it to my friend but after explaining it to her she was like ‘damn,i’ll pass’…lol
@shay_d_lady,
Requiem is my favorite “Just Say No” movie of all time… The “A$$-to-A$$” scene had me dumbstruck!
The score was on point though… After that movie, I think Clint Mansell sold everybody the rights to Lux Eterna
Yeah, I definitely think I would show that movie to my kids as a preventative measure against drug usasge…but I wouldn’t be able to sit and watch it with them..that movie jacked my whole mind up, yo.
@ChocolateGirlWonder,
Loves that Lux Eterna song but I have to block out my memories from that movie. It gets in the way of the song to me. Otherwise, all I picture is J. Connelley bumping as@es with that other chick and J. Leto’s arm rotting off.
The final scene in NJ Drive left me all kinds of broke up. You just knew from watching that it would end badly but still.
Most of the hood flicks had me in a bad way.
I would also go the sci fi route some of those movies had horrible deaths.
Sunshine..when the commander sacrifices himself fixing the sunshield.
Also Darth Vader….he finally got through to his father and now he’s dying.
I also watched The Kingdom again today and the Saudi officer Al Ghazi’s death was horrible as well. They had just found the terrorist Abu Hamza and Al Ghazi gets popped by a kid. WTF!
@Stank-0, hood flicks –just made me think of ‘menace to society’. back then it seemed like there were a lot of flicks with jada hoppin’ on a bus getting away from some hood sh*t.
p.s.- cane’s lips were yummy lookin’.
@Miss Patterson,
Y’all are all in my head tonight.
And co-signing on the Jada thing…she was in a lot of those types of movies; always the girl who wanted to escape.
@iloVEGrits,
When Queen Latifah got got in Set It Off….that sad sad song that was playing and her gangstaness always brings a tear…
@SxyScientst,
I felt so bad for Queen because there was clearly nothing she could do but be killed and she knew it. That must be a hard way to go…
@Stank-0,
oh yea nj drive thas my shiiiiii yea thas was a bad scene
Million Dollar Baby. I cried hysterically when she became a quadriplegic, and up until he pulled the plug.
Steel Magnolias. You probably have to be a girl to get this, but I thought Shelby (Julia Roberts) was gonna pull through.
PS Happy Bday Panama!
@Queensqrd, how could i forget shelby. i didn’t cry until the funeral scene and sally field started going off on weezer and the crew. “why?!”
@Queensqrd,
Steel Magnolias.
@Queensqrd,
Million Dollar Baby. I cried hysterically when she became a quadriplegic, and up until he pulled the plug.
Yep.
@Queensqrd, thanks…
Isabel Two getting shot in Legends of the Fall was a tear jerker as well. She waited all those years to get Tristan, married him, birthed his children and then takes one to the chest.
@iloVEGrits, wow. i forgot about that. legends of the fall was an all around sad movie. at least brad’s looks were there to comfort me.
@Miss Patterson,
He was delish in that movie. First time I saw him as hawt. lol. Funny: my then boyfriend wanted to see it and I was all “I don’t wanna see that ish”. I loved it! Bought the DVD. lol.
It was sad, all around. Susannah killing herself teared me up a bit, too. Perfect movie for boys and girls.
@iloVEGrits,
Yeah this whole movie had me choked up til Tristan got mauled by a grizzly bear. Then it just became comical. WTF?
@Me fail english?, i couldn’t agree with you more. that grizzly bear scene was the worst example of special effects EVER. did the director get lazy at the end. i mean c’mon!
@Me fail english?,
reading this reminded me of the funniest, most “wtf” death scene ive seen: samuel l jackson getting murked by the shark in “deep blue sea”
@The Champ,
I was going to mention that. I thought that shiznit was HYSTERICAL. Sam Jack got MUNCHED like a carrot stick.
And I just KNEWED Cool James was going to die. Black folk never survive these movies…. and he MADE IT, with his irrelevant self!
Get outta my head Champ! Unless you gon’ start paying rent.
@The Champ, I still CDFU everytime I watch it. It was just on TVOne not too long ago, I think.
@The Champ, deep blue sea…i remember that sh*t!!! i thought i was the only one. that was hilarious. it was like an snl skit.
talk about spoiler alerts…I have become a true gangsta and I can make it through beaches but steel magnolias gets me every time.
aaaaaaand…
yay pj! *special limited addition ’3′ engraved shooting gold stars* happy birthday!!!
@SouthernGirl, i want of those special edition engravings too…puhlease.
@my d@mn self…
this is what happens when you’re on vsb and you should be sleeping. ‘edition’ turns into ‘addition’. lol.
@Miss Patterson,
throws *special limited edition ‘miss p’ engraved shooting gold stars* at pattiecakes.
@SouthernGirl, steel magnolias
good one!
@SouthernGirl, thanks for the shooting stars. i lost my last pair.
Caine biting the dust in Menace II Society.
@iloVEGrits, how about when Odog killed that crackhead for offering to suck his dyck after O refused his offer of the cheeseburget and then O turning around and offering some1 else the cheese burger…..just cold blooded…
@shay_d_lady,
Not only did I laugh my ass off at that. But me and my sisters still quote that scene at random and inappropriate times.
@Me fail english?,
In what universe is it ever appropriate to randomly quote that scene? That’s the universe I want to live in.
@shay_d_lady,
Anybody want some cheeseburgers! LOL
@iloVEGrits, that one still hurts! Whenever I watch it, I stop watching right before the final driveby!
@iloVEGrits, Co-sign on Caine dying… dang. I forgot all about that! I’m going to have to have oldschool movie night
@iloVEGrits, being as Menace II Society is one of my favorite movies, ever, that scene did resonate with me…especially the way it blacked out into MC Eiht’s “straiht up menace”
MC Eiht made some great songs back in the day…
“i’m in too deep, i done killed a muthaf*cka and i just can’t sleep/one time’s trying to do a smooth creep/and on top of that, ninjas after me for f*cking with one of they hood rats…”
@iloVEGrits,
this movie breaks one of the most tried and true rules of a story: that the narrator always ends up ok. i mean, if he’s telling the story, he has to turn up alright, right?
wrong, lol.
i think i sat in the theater in shock for like 5 minutes after the credits rolled
@The Champ,
i thought caine survived they neva showed if he lived or died afta the drive by
Happy Birthday Panama!!!!!!
@shay_d_lady, thanks, homes.
Sad deaths:
*When Raheem’s fine *ss died in “Juice”. Him & that inclined fade. *weeps*
*2 words: “Cooley High”. *singing* “It’s oo hardd to say goodbyeeee, to yesterdayyyy
*When Ricky died in “Boyz in the Hood”
THESE were all tragic in my book
@Luvvie,
Him & that inclined fade.
somebody needs to start rockin throwback hairstyles. seriously, if the mohawk can come back, why not the rakim or the gumby?
@The Champ,
Let’s not forget the Kwame.
Cochise. Cooley High.
@iloVEGrits, ya know, its hard for me to feel bad about that one mostly cuz i feel like he shouldn’t have died. i mean i know he hit his head and all but man…that just seemed like, it shouldn’t have killed him.
i keep waiting for cooley high 2 where he shows up and says he faked his death and moved to Romania to study cooking and poodle grooming.
@Panama Jackson,
_____________________
@Panama Jackson,
*dead and gone* poodle grooming, though???
@iloVEGrits,
dam hell yea
Jennifer, Love Story
@iloVEGrits,
I’m tearing up now thinking about that one.
The book AND the movie kill me…sigh.
what about the alien coming out of dude’s stomach in the first alien movie? ughhhhh!!!
raiders of the lost arc when he took dudes heart out of his chest and sent him into the fire pit and the heart burst into flames in his hand? smh….
oh whatever rocky that was wear apollo creed dies in the ring with dolph lundgren
Goodfellas when Joe Pesci kills dude at the card table and then when he is shot…
The fly… the jeff goldblum version..everything about that joint was creepy…especially when she had to kill him at the end…
@shay_d_lady,
“The fly”
Naw…she needed to kill him a lot sooner. He was turning into a fly and she knew it. How you gone try to make that work? He needed to die.
@iloVEGrits, I agree but her waiting that long and forcing me to have to see that disgusting transition ….I can never watch that shyt again..
@shay_d_lady,
omg, yes when Joe Pesci has to watch his brother get beat to death, and then he himself get’s buried alive…wow!!!
and yes, in rocky when apollo got hit and died, I was screaming, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@maria,
The Pesci scene you’re talking about was from Casino. That was sad too though
@Me fail english?,
yeah, I was thinking Casino too. I lurved that movie.
@Me fail english?, No the pesci scene Im talking about was in Goodfellas…when he thought he was getting let into the mob and they shot him in the head…..
the scene Maria describes is from Casino but hell it deserves a mention as well….
@shay_d_lady,
Right. I was replying to Maria. Both good scenes tho
@shay_d_lady,
I was scared of The Fly! I had nightmares about that movie when I was a kid.
oh and seven…that shyt the end with brad pitt….when he opened the box….OH my
and when Edward Norton killed dude by making him bite the concrete in American History X?
John Coffy in the green Mile…. and Ving Rhames again in Holiday Heart…singing Baby love at the funeral when his lover died and then when wanda died….
@shay_d_lady,
That movie had me seeing Edward Norton in a whole another light…that scene was hard to bear/watch…
Lord of the Flies, when they kill the fat kid…b/c they’ve gone crazy and need someone to “blame” and the boulder just splat…terrible
@maria,
“That movie had me seeing Edward Norton in a whole another light…that scene was hard to bear/watch…”
I think I started hating Edward Norton after that fukken movie. That scene just made me nauseous! Infact, I’m getting nauseous just thinkin about it.
@shay_d_lady, “seven…that shyt the end with brad pitt….when he opened the box”
I concur! Even after watching the other deaths, the last one messed me up. That was too much…
@shay_d_lady,
hmmm… Green Mile messed with me overall.
@shay_d_lady,
oh and seven…that shyt the end with brad pitt….when he opened the box….OH my
and when Edward Norton killed dude by making him bite the concrete in American History X?
if i had a separate list of “most disturbing scene” both of these would make the cut, as well as the 2 hour long rape scenes in “the accused” and “casualties of war”
@shay_d_lady,
“and when Edward Norton killed dude by making him bite the concrete in American History X? ”
*holds teeth in pain*
Ed Norton scared the hell outta me and turned me on simultaneously in that movie. He PLAYED that.
“John Coffy in the green Mile…. and Ving Rhames again in Holiday Heart…singing Baby love at the funeral when his lover died and then when wanda died….”
Aw, snap, that reminds me of one of the most evil villains evah: Percy. Short, mousy, heathen mofo. I wanted to lock him up in Wild Bill’s cell so bad.
I almost wanted to choke the actor who played Percy in I Am Sam, but then realized his character was so hilarious. He’s a good actor.
@Cheekie,
“Aw, snap, that reminds me of one of the most evil villains evah: Percy. Short, mousy, heathen mofo. I wanted to lock him up in Wild Bill’s cell so bad.”
This lil mufukka was EVIL!!! I’ve never been that scared of a munchkin before!
I said it upthread but.. “the deer hunter” Nick’s death deserves its on post…
@shay_d_lady,
you’re right
@shay_d_lady,
I really didn’t care for that movie and was only surprised that Nick hadn’t killed himself sooner. That was probably his baby Mark’s wife had, hence sending the money. He was a scumbag
Happy Birthday Panama.
@JamaicanGirl, thank you kindly
also the end of “like water for chocolate” and When Leonardo Dicaprio’s character was killed getting off the elevator in the departed…The departed
Charlies death in “all dogs go to heaven” ….after he thought he was going to he.ll….
i love and hate these lists..cause once I start.. I can try to do something else and then I think Oh I gotta add this one and have to come back and re post….it be calling me man.
which reminds me
Pookie’s death in New Jack City and when Nino had to kill G money.. Am I my brother’s keeper? smh….
@shay_d_lady,
and When Leonardo Dicaprio’s character was killed getting off the elevator in the departed
this one surprised me. i didnt expect him to go like that.
@The Champ,
I was more sad about Martin Sheen. He literally went SPLAT!
And he kinda looks like my grandpa. Double
@shay_d_lady,
“Charlies death in “all dogs go to heaven” ….after he thought he was going to he.ll….”
Oh, wow! You brought me BACK. Great movie!
oh and the end of brokeback mountain…..when Heath finds out about Jake’s death…
@shay_d_lady,
awww, yes…that movie was sooooo on point as a love story (no need for hater comments)
@maria, awww, yes…that movie was sooooo on point as a love story (no need for hater comments)
EXACTLY..that was probably one of the best love stories I have seen.. that movie really touched me..and when heath see’ s those shirts hanging in the closet and dayum near breaks down? gurrrllll….
@shay_d_lady,
Yeah. That was soooo sad. I choked up.
@shay_d_lady, That was a great love story and very sad ending.
@shay_d_lady,
YES! One of the best love stories evah.
That ending is one of my all time favorites. So poignant.
Well I had no sympathy for Adriana because she was foolish and deserved to die. Same thing for Bodie. I mean its hard to get mad when someone gets bodied for snitching, when they in fact are snitching.
To me the harder death to watch was Tony killing Chris. Before that scene I always was sympathetic towards Tony viewing him as a decent guy, who had to do what he had to do, but damn to murder your nephew, you’re the only person in this world that he truly loves, when he ask you for help? That just was too much for me. I had to turn off the TV when he did that.
@Dorian G., but Bodie didn’t snitch. McNulty just picked him up from the jail, and somebody just assumed that he was snitching. They sat in a park and ate lunch. That’s it.
@Miss Patterson, naw, he was about to snitch. he specifically said that he wouldnt snitch on anybody from the West Side. but he said that b/c marlo f*cked up the game, he needed to be taken down so he’d help them take marlo down.
@Panama Jackson,
so.
the death of Shaka in Shaka Zulu…
why dont they show that mini series any more?
@shay_d_lady,
‘Cause Ted Turner got that ish locked in a vault somewhere…lol
Kidding…I don’t know, but that brought back memories.
@shay_d_lady, co-sign!!!! I have it on DVD….Oooh, remember the scene when his mother died and he made all them people get in the grave with her!
@Complex Simplicity,
He was brutal. He also cut open a pregnant woman’s tummy so that he could see what was happening in there!
Mufasa: “Scar! Brother! Help me!”
Scar:”Long. Live. The king!”…
Simba: “Dad. Get up. Dad. Come on, we gotta go home.”
Just WRONG! I hated Jeremy Irons for a loooooong time after that.
Yoda’s death in Return of the Jedi. It was funny and cheesy, but sad too.
Yoda was supposed to live forever. “Look I so old to young eyes? Sick have I become. Old and weak. When 900 years you reach, look as good you will not!”
@blackberry molasses on her Crackberry,
Yoda’s death made me misty-eyed too. He was too cute.
@blackberry molasses on her Crackberry,
I’m really upset u just replayed Mufasa’s last moments. Why did tears just well up in my eyes? OMG!!! Like for real.
iHate u all for taking me down this dark path! My thug is lost and nowhere to be found.
@Luvvie,
Luvvie… about the only thing thuggish about you is how you abuse your debit card in the name of fly shoes.
Happy Birthday Panama!
Co-sign on The Lion King! That scene gets me everytime.
Seven – 7 deaths and they were all gruesome. The last death was the worst though.
The Outsiders – Death of Johnny got me. He was the young and innocent one. (Read the book too and that was the only book that made me cry as a kid)
@Leila,
“The Outsiders – Death of Johnny got me. He was the young and innocent one. (Read the book too and that was the only book that made me cry as a kid)”
OMG. You took me back!!!!!!!!!!!
@iloVEGrits,
“Let’s do this for Johnny!!!”
LOL-loved that book and the movie.
@Leila,
Now you got me reciting that Robert Frost poem- “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
“Stay gold, Ponyboy.”
*weeps for humanity*
@Leila,
Not The Outsiders. I haven’t thought about that movie in forever.
@Leila, the outsiders.. I have it on DVD..LOL
The end of “The Notebook.”
Every time I watch that movie I cry like a baby.
Now that’s what I call real love.
@Right Her,
i watched that for the first (and last) time a few months ago. that movie was like emotional terrorism
@The Champ, LOL!
@The Champ,
Dead @ emotional terrorism. How accurate though!
@Right Her,
I had to comfort my roomate after she watched that d*mn movie…it’s NOT allowed in our home anymore!
@Right Her,
I think I’m the only person on earth that was not touched by that movie. In theory Alzheimer’s and lonely old people should make me sad but… nothing
I just wanted to add Brian’s Song to the list. It came on over the weekend, and to this day, I still cannot sit through the whole thing without crying like a baby – full on runny nose and all.
And one other:
Soul Food – when the mama dies. That one didn’t really make me cry, but it definitely gave me a big ole lump in my throat.
@RedBeanzNRice,
I just wanted to add Brian’s Song to the list
this is another movie i refuse to watch because i anticipate how sad it’ll make me and sh*t. tragic sports movies do that to me
@RedBeanzNRice,
When Big Mama died, so did the glue that held the fam 2getha. Irma P. Hall IS Big MAMA and nothing else. She could play a modern day spaceranger, and I’d still call her Big Mama.
Happy Bday Panameezy. I hope your 30th year is a great one!
on to the list:
Bernie Mac’s boyfriend getting himself shot for crossing that line in Life! I forget his name. But it was sad. He didn’t want to be on the outside as a gay man. I loved that movie!
The little boy being dead in Gone Baby Gone – there was no scene. They just flashed his little body on the screen and that was enough. That movies fcuks me up. Watching it once was plenty for me.
Co-Sign on Crooklyn… so sad!!
Kate Winslet’s death in Revolutionary Road. Sad… this was an interesting movie altogether.
Imitation of Life
Whoever it was that died in Cadence. I forget but it was sad and I have loved that movie for years. I’m going to have to watch to revive my memory.
@pgh muse, “Imitation of Life”
YES… Just you mentioning this movie is enough to make me tear up. It is thee best movie
@pgh muse,
“Bernie Mac’s boyfriend getting himself shot for crossing that line in Life!”
This choked me up too. The whole damn movie had me more emotional than I should have been. Racist cops, disproportion of black men in prison. Black folks know how to laugh at ANYTHING
@pgh muse, thank you .
@pgh muse,
Revolutionary Road was great. I think it should have received more support, but I think Kate and Leo being cast together again made some people feel like it was Titanic pt.2.
I thought it spoke volumes about relationships, work, marriage, and life in general. What’s crazy is that the book/story was written/set in the 50′s and it still has so much relevance today. Masterful.
Bond.
@BlkBond,
I believe Revolutionary Road just came out at the wrong time… In a recession, people don’t take too well to watching very real movies… The movie was so real, it might have reminded them of their own lives.
1. Queen Latifah in “Set it Off.”
2. Chris Brown, “Stomp the Yard.”
3. Ryan Phillip, “Cruel Intentions.”
4. Dorothy Dandridge , “Carmen Jones”
I agree with Crooklyn and the Lion King.
@Nicki Sunshine, 1. Queen Latifah in “Set it Off.”
YESS! This movie was the BOMB! Queen La played the he!! outta that role too!
@pgh muse, Exactly!
@pgh muse,
You know she wasn’t acting…
*sniggling*
@miss t-lee,
I know right. hahaha
@miss t-lee,
we right here—-><— on that one
@miss t-lee, Don’t talk about the Queen like that she is just misunderstood! LOL
@Ms. T,
Misuderstood meaning g.a.y? NTTIAWWT
@pgh muse,
What role? Herself?
See others who play themselves in movies: lisaRaye (a sassy black woman in EVERY role), Gabby Union (also a sassy black woman).
*side-eye o_0*
@Luvvie, you forgot Vivica A Fox
@Luvvie,
Gabby Union (also a sassy black woman).
you forgot to add “with man issues” which supposedly also mirrors real life
@Nicki Sunshine,
3. Ryan Phillip, “Cruel Intentions.”
Aw man…I loved that movie. And Ryan..lmao
@miss t-lee, My first boyfriend cried when he died. lol
@Nicki Sunshine,
lol, is this why he’s the “first” bf and not “current”?
Happy Bornday to Panama, I disagree with the Lion King, Mufasa was an OG
@J. McFly,
I disagree with the Lion King, Mufasa was an OG
lol, what exactly do you disagree with?
OOOooooo! I have a good one! Jesus in The Passion of the Christ!!! now that was a NOOOOO!!! death scene!
@pgh muse,
“now that was a NOOOOO!!! death scene!”
I think it was especially bad because we all knew it was going to happen, being Teh Greatest Story Evahh Told. I was all weepy then too, like, he done went and did that for me! Little ol’, simple ace me!
@Beez,
co-sign. Man… watching the whole thing was heart wrenching. I always run and repent for something right after watching.
@pgh muse, I was in the theater crying my little heart out during that scene…snot and everything.
@pgh muse, I can never watch that movie again….like 4real. Once was enough.
Once was definitely enough. I could barely keep my eyes on the screen the FIRST time!
I agree with Crooklyn. If you know my story…it’s a bit too close to home. I think I’ve only seen it once.
Steel Magnolias~Shelby!!!!
Charlotte’s Web (the original old school cartoon, not that remade crap from a few years ago)–when Charlotte died OMG!!!~also one of my favorite books.
Titantic-when Jim died…aw mayne!!!
@miss t-lee,
Forgot about Titanic! That was a really bad scene.
He didn’t even know her and he gave his life to keep her safe…and caused millions of gfs, wives and unintentional jumpoffs ask “Would you do that for me?”
*standing ovation*
@miss t-lee,
Steel Magnolias was sad.
@miss t-lee,
“Charlotte’s Web (the original old school cartoon, not that remade crap from a few years ago)–when Charlotte died OMG!!!~also one of my favorite books.”
You are my best friend for this.
Charlotte? CHAAAARRRLOTTE!!!!
*chokes on tears*
@Cheekie,
“Charlotte? CHAAAARRRLOTTE!!!!”
Aw man…don’t do that to me. I’m in public, I might start crying…lol
@Cheekie, *wall slides*
Thanks Cheekie
*runs off to find more Kleenex*
@miss t-lee,
When Charlotte died, I wanted wall-slide right off the jungle gym…
@8th Wonder,
*DEAD*
@8th Wonder,
iHate you.
@8th Wonder,
I feel ya 8th…it was THAT serious!
Road to Perdition: The very end. If you haven’t seen it don’t read this but you really thought they were safe and Tom Hanks was out of the life for good and then bam he takes the L. Gets me every time.
Esther Rolle in Rosewood – this was some BS
(Nerd Entry) Boromir in Lord of the Rings – because dude slipped up first trying to big-body the ring from Frodo and then he turns around and goes out like a G trying to protect it. Can’t forget Gandalf.
Optimus Prime in the Transformers animated movie back in the day – Come on now.
@Shaka Shaw,
“Optimus Prime in the Transformers animated movie back in the day.”
Yo, I was traumatized by this as a child! I had actually brought my OP toy with me to the movies and when Prime died I lost it, son!
I still remember my moms telling me “It’s just a movie, baby…you’ll see him on tv when it comes on tomorrow.”
…d@mn.
***Now searching ebay to find it on DVD***
@Shaka Shaw,
Cosign my nephew’s playmate on Esther Rolle. But that whole movie was, “2 black guys kidnapped me in a caddy, but I’m really on this identity theft vaca in FL!”
@Shaka Shaw,
Road to Perdition: The very end. If you haven’t seen it don’t read this but you really thought they were safe and Tom Hanks was out of the life for good and then bam he takes the L. Gets me every time.
***nodding head***
welcome and sh*t, btw
@The Champ,
Thanks for the welcome. Let me also add Armageddon…when Bruce Willis had to tell Liv Tyler he was about to sacrifice himself so the asteroid wouldn’t hit. Nobody else ever agrees on this but I thought this sh*t was realer than real. Got all kinda misty-faced.
Shaka Shaw, real name no gimmicks lol
@Shaka Shaw, OMG! Rosewood and movies like it just have me on some “Fuck Whitey” type shit after I watch em.
They didn’t have to do no-neck like that!
-Sonny from the Godfather. So he was a racist prick? It still made me sad
-Tom Hanks in Philadelphia. That isht was just heartbreaking. I cry everytime they show the post-funeral scene
-Miranda’s mother on SATC. Even though I dont remember her ever having screen time smthg in their interaction reminds me of me with my family. I cry every time here too.
-Ricky dying in Boyz in the Hood. Even worse, was Doughboy. Yes, I know I’m corny.
I’ll think of more…
@Me fail english?,
They did jack Sonny up though…
@Me fail english?, “Ricky dying in Boyz in the Hood. Even worse, was Doughboy. Yes, I know I’m corny. ”
Yeah, that hit me in my heart.
@Me fail english?,
-Miranda’s mother on SATC. Even though I dont remember her ever having screen time smthg in their interaction reminds me of me with my family. I cry every time here too. .
OMG I watched this episode the other night and was sitting up in bed crying my eyes out. From her being in that dressing room trying on bras, to the funeral, to Samantha crying, to Steve and Aidan showing up. That whole episode was sad.
@Me fail english?,
-Miranda’s mother on SATC. Even though I dont remember her ever having screen time smthg in their interaction reminds me of me with my family. I cry every time here too.
That one fucked me up too… My fam lives far away from me, so any scene where I am somewhat reminded that I can be here and it could happen just has me in friggin’ tears… We get so caught up in the everyday… *sigh*
***books flight to go visit soon***
Jenny from “Forrest Gump” even though that heffa mighta gave Forrest THE AID.
Nah, what got me is when he was talking to Jenny at her grave site, talking about their son…man, my eyes had got a little humid.
@AkShone,
That scene is devastating. I went with a group of friends to see Forrest Gump but they had already seen it once. So my sorry as@ is sitting there sniffling through the whole dang thing…from Bubba dying in his arms to his momma to Jen-nay to the daggone grave scene…and they were prepped and dry-eyed.
@AkShone,
That part gets me too. Especially that letter.
When he says, “And he’s so smart, Jenny”
Whew…A lone lil tear just fell off the strength of me typing this
@8th Wonder,
YES!!!!
See…we e-twins for a reason!!!
@AkShone, That movie got lots of them moments. Like when Forest found out he was a father…..
@AkShone,
That’s why I was sad she died cuz Forrest had finally “found” her again and she was ackin right.
@AkShone,
Yeah I was sad for Forrest. But smthng about dead hookers sticking their bastard kids of questionable paternity on unwitting Cap’ns….
…just doesn’t get the eye juice flowing. I was more sad for Lt. Dan fallin out that wheelchair. I got a soft spot for injured Vietnam vets.
@CreoleInDC,
“…even though that heffa mighta gave Forrest THE AID.”
i always suspected this too. i mean, if she stopped ho-ing before she slept with forrest, that means she was already sick.
1) Optimus Prime in the Animated Transformers the Movie
(All the kids were sad in the movie theater when this happened)
2) Apollo Creed in Rocky IV
3) Goose in Top Gun
4) Sean Connery in the Untouchables
@Humble_One,
4) Sean Connery in the Untouchables
Aw man…with him crawling on the floor the whole and the music…whoa.
@Humble_One, co-sign @ Goose from Top Gun!
Thelma and Louise…..man, I tell ya, when those two headed for the cliff with all that po po behind them, that does it for me!
@MommyMel,
welcome and sh*t
How could I forget Life is Beautiful?! That death march while his son sits in the bushes giggling killed me.
Also, American Beauty was pretty effed up.
@Me fail english?,
Ok also the end of Anne of a Thousand Days. Yes we all knew it was gonna happen but damn…
-The end of West Side Story
-When Big Red killed Jimmy (Heartbeats! Front and center!)
-Full Metal Jacket. The whole damn thing
@Me fail english?, “How could I forget Life is Beautiful?! That death march while his son sits in the bushes giggling killed me.”
I love this movie! Oh em gee. I can’t believe I’ve found someone who’s seen it!
@Nicki Sunshine,
I can’t believe ppl didn’t see that! Holocaust movies make me so angry. I’m already a raw ball of emotion before anything actually happens.
@Me fail english?, Girl, yes. My teacher showed it at school, in I forgot what grade.. and then I saw it again on my own.
Have u seen Valkyrie? I am prolly butchering the spelling. But it is very interesting.
@Nicki Sunshine,
Haven’t seen Valkyrie. I heard it was boring but I still wanna give it a shot. Just so can I get pissed off all over again!
@Me fail english?, The accents made it hard for me and plus I started mixing up faces, but in all, it’s worth a shot.
@Me fail english?,
Have you seen The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
Holocaust movies make me angry too.
@Sula,
Haven’t seen it but this will go on my list
@Me fail english?,
Life is Beautiful effed me up for like 7 years. Haven’t seen it since, and i want to, it’s a great movie but damn. So sad.
@Me fail english?,
Life is Beautiful was heart-wrenching… Man… I can’t even comment.
That was some real agape right there!
@Me fail english?,
Let’s not even talk about Life is Beautiful… That movie is so effed up on so many levels… I am a cryer… but that movie takes it to another level… Ugh.
In the same vicinity, you have a new one “The boy in the striped pajamas”… Rent it if you can. Boy!
I’m a big ole bottle of water when it comes to movies so here we go…
When Thomas J dies in “my girl” and veda runs to the casket and says “he needs his glasses, he can’t see without his glasses”
In “set-it-off” after everybody has died, and stoney is in the hotel- w/ all the money, crying her heart out.
The main character in “stepmom” didn’t actually die but you can’t deny how heart wrenching it was to hear her tell her children how they could remember her when she dies.
@melekaj,
When Thomas J dies in “my girl” and veda runs to the casket and says “he needs his glasses, he can’t see without his glasses”
yeah, this one hit me as well. from that moment on, i refused to eat honey
@melekaj,
Man, totally so-sign Thomas J. That movie was on just the other day, and i just happened to catch the funeral scene.’he can’t see without his glasses, his face hurts.’
Yo – I was just having this argument with my boy about whether it was Bodie’s death or Stringer’s that resonates more.
Great minds, eh?
Anywho, I’m still unsure how I feel. Bodie’s had a more immediate, visceral effect on me, but Stringer’s arc as a character was so compelling that I find myself coming back to his death when I talk about The Wire. I’m torn. I think it’s a tie, man.
@Tyler, i think bodie’s death was more of a surprise to me. i knew either stringer or avon were fittin to get got, the game wasn’t big enough for the both of them, and then the way omar felt bout stringer…..so when stringer got got, i was just like “oh, yeah, damn”
but when bodie got got, it was like “damn, damn, damn james!”
@Tyler,
you know, i think d’angelo’s death represented alot too. more than anything other scene, it basically showed that the game really has no place for decent, good hearted people.
it also felt predetermined, like, he was destined to live that life, and he didnt have any other choice
@The Champ,
Absolutely.
In a way, all three deaths present a triumvirate of “life is beastly, brutal and short for black men” whether you are decent (D’Angelo), smart and enterprising (Stringer) or totally disillusioned (Bodie).
Again, I’m torn.
@Tyler,
“life is beastly, brutal and short for black men”
if you add “in that life” to your statement, i agree 100 percent
@The Champ, Stringer’s death changed the show more than anybody elses. The streets seemed more down for whatever when he died. And the show itself changed without his wit and calculating
I co-sign many of the above…
I have to add “The Mist” to the mix too. In the end, dude kills his son and his remaining family members/friends to prevent the “creatures” from eating/killing them…only to find that sound he heard and thought were the “creatures” was actually help arriving to come save them….
complete sadness.
@Star,
welcome and sh*t (i think)
@The Champ, LOL…I’ve been here before- I’m just a bit random with my comment posting.
I’ve never gotten an official welcoming though so thanks!
@Star, but the other 100 minutes of the movie was complete garbage! Did you see the “creatures” LOL!
@SxyScientst, LOL, yea it was a pretty lame flick overall… they got me with the little boy though…he didn’t have to go out like that!
other heart-wrenching screen deaths not mentioned yet:
ofelia (the little girl) from “pan’s labyrinth”
rachel dawes, “the dark knight”
trinity, “the matrix”
bubba, “forrest gump”
dr. neville’s family (wife, daughter, and dog) “i am legend”
wilson the volleyball, “cast away”
dave (tim robbins character) “mystic river”
knockout ned, “city of god”
@The Champ,
Not Wilson…lol
@miss t-lee, iCRIED…and then I was ashamed. ::lowers head::
@SxyScientst,
Don’t be ashamed…Tom had us feeling his pain.
My eyes mighta leaked a bit too.
@The Champ,
Mystic River was a good one. I hated Sean Penn and his whole suckass family for that one.
How did Wilson die? Couldn’t he just be reinflated? That movie always reminds me of The Cay when the old black man dies
@Me fail english?,
How did Wilson die? Couldn’t he just be reinflated?
he floated away into the deep nothingness of the ocean
@The Champ,
Bubba: “Hey, Forrest.”
Forrest: “Hey, Bubba.”
Bubba: “Why’d this happen?”
Forrest: “You..got shot…”
Voiceover: “Then he said something that I’ll never forget.”
Bubba: “I wanna go home.”
Forrest: “Okay.”
Why’d they have to kill his best good friend?!?
*punching air like Cuba in “Boyz”*
@Beez,
Okay this just had me super weak cause I can so envision it – *punching air like Cuba in “Boyz”* .
@Beez, punching the air like Cuba…*dead*
@Beez, LMAO *punching air like Cuba in “Boyz”*
@Beez,
*punching air like Cuba in “Boyz”*
LMFAO! I also hope you’re screaming in that awful dubbed way he was too. lol
@Beez, I ain’t wanna laugh, but this ish hurre?
punching the air like Cuba
Made my head hurt
@Mz_Nikki,
hey at least he got some punchin the air made nia long hella wet lol
@The Champ,
even though ofelia was shot, i like to think that she was rejoining the existence that was going to bring her happiness.wholeness.sense of belonging… *i wanted to movie to end when she was welcomed back home and commended for making the right choice by sacrificing herself instead of her baby brother
@maria,
even though ofelia was shot, i like to think that she was rejoining the existence that was going to bring her happiness.
good point. i guess your feelings about her death depend on whether you thought the dreams she was having were real
@The Champ, yea, thats we’re i just couldn’t co-sign with the movie. Normally I’m down with fantasy and imagination. But that was heart wrenching, she didn’t become a princess, she just got shot.
@apres moi,
“she didn’t become a princess, she just got shot.”
lol. This post has got to take the prize for the most unintentionally funny comments EVER
@The Champ, city of god broke my heart in so many ways.
i’m mad at you for mentioning wilson. i almost wanted him to take the boat back just to scoop him back up. but losing his wife to another man, that really hurt.
@The Champ,
dr. neville’s family (wife, daughter, and dog) “i am legend”
when his dog died, i was so hurt. he was such a good dog. but, the entire movie was sad. everybody is either dead or a flesh eating zombie…
@The Champ,
I’d cosign the bad little kids that pulled the fire alarm @ my house on Ofelia, Rachel Dawes, Dave, Knockout Ned, Wilson…
@The Champ,
“rachel dawes, “the dark knight””
Even though it don’t take nothing to make me cry during movies, this one didn’t resonate with me AT ALL. Maybe it’s because I wasn’t particularly interesting in Rachel as a character. At first I thought it was Katie Holmes sucky acting (it was), but then when Maggie G(I refuse to butcher her last name) took over and did a better job, I still couldn’t care less.
Harvey Dent’s reaction made me care more, actually. I hurt for him.
@The Champ, yeah dave in mystic river was very heartwrenching…that whole damn movie was really
and yeah, i liked knockout ned. but ol boy had to avenge his father’s death, i woulda done the same
how bout li’l ze in city of god though. got got by them lil kids. i actually kinda laughed at the irony of all that.
@The Champ,
I was mad sad when Wilson floated away. Only Tom Hanks can sit there on screen by himself for 2.5 hrs and STILL keep my attention. And how did he give Wilson such a personality that we cared for it?
That man’s got some kinda Acting VooDoo. Just talented!
@The Champ,
“wilson the volleyball, “cast away””
Yeah, Tom is a BAD Leroy Brown for making me cry for a volleyball. My already-there respect for him as an actor shot through the roof for portraying a realistic relationship with an inanimate object.
I remember when I saw that movie for the first time I started crying…then pausing all, “Wait a min. I’m crying for a ding dang volleyball.”…paused again…then kept on crying.
@Cheekie,
I remember when I saw that movie for the first time I started crying…then pausing all, “Wait a min. I’m crying for a ding dang volleyball.”…paused again…then kept on crying.
@The Champ,
Pan’s Labyrinth was just wrong… That little girl went above and beyond to save her mother and that baby and they way she died was so sad!
I didn’t really feel Maggie Gyllenhal as Rachel so when she died I was indifferent.
Same for Trinity.
Out of the rest, I think Wilson’s “death” was probably more heartbreaking than all of the others.
Tom Hanks was really contemplating turning around to go get him. You could see it on his face! He was heartbroken. Just sad.
@The Champ, When the dog died in I Am Legend and he went and talked to the mannequin after…I was in the theater crying like a straight bitch! *SMH*
@The Champ,
Knockout Ned is a very good one… City of God is in my top 3 fave movies.
Happy Birthday Panama!! May the day be as good to you as the good one was for Cube- please don’t use the AK.
I’ll do it…
*deep breath*
Cedric Diggory on “Teh Goblet of Fire.” Why did old Moldyshorts have to take him out like that?? He had so much to live for!! And for those of you yet to read “Deathly Hallows” I won’t spoil it, but I’d say about 42.6% of the 7 hundred *mumbles* pages had me compromising my gangster.
@Beez,
OMG!! When Cedric died in “Goblet of Fire”, I lamented and found the nearest wall to slide down.
D*MMIT VOLDEMORT!!! D*MN U TO THE PITS OF DEREON HELL!!
@Beez, Co-sign. I was MMMAAAADDD at that man!
Braveheart
Sommersby
The Prestige – the twin’s death. Not Hugh Jackmans’.
There should be alternate lists about deaths meant to shock and sadden but did no such thing. I’m seein way too many Deer Hunters, Radio Raheems and the likes. Did I really fill my soul void with cream of wheat and styrofoam? Does the Champ only eat breakfast, thus only making references to toast and cream of wheat? I need answers.
@Me fail english?,
“Did I really fill my soul void with cream of wheat and styrofoam? Does the Champ only eat breakfast, thus only making references to toast and cream of wheat? I need answers.”
first of all, you throwin’ too many big words at me, and because i don’t understand them, I’m gonna take ‘em as disrespect
Movies with sad deaths that I don’t know the name of: (ok, I remember now…sort of)
-City of God, Benny’s death, also Benny’s big brother while his girl gives birth.
-The movie with bikers and one has a brain tumor and they bike competitively on the sides of mountains. American “smthg or other…”
-I was sad the first time Randy Quaid killed himself in Independence Day. Now the whole movie is just funny to me.
-Not sure exactly what happened in Vanilla Sky but it sucked seeing Tom jump to the musical stylings of some of my fav 80′s soft rock bands
@Me fail english?,
“-Not sure exactly what happened in Vanilla Sky but it sucked seeing Tom jump to the musical stylings of some of my fav 80’s soft rock bands”
That whole movie sucked…LMAO I still want that time back that I wasted watching it.
@miss t-lee,
LOL! Tell us how you really feel!
@Me fail english?,
You just don’t understand…I mentioned this in a previous VSB post. I still can’t get past the fact that Vanilla Sky had all that talent, yet managed to suck azz tremendously. It’s almost inexcusable.
@miss t-lee,
I feel you. That’s exactly how I feel about “Deer Hunter”
@miss t-lee, the only thing i hate more than vanilla sky is when people try to tell me that it was just too deep and that i didn’t understand it. no, i understood it and i understand that they need to do better!
@A Plus,
Yep…it’s like trying to put a ribbon on bullish.
In the end, it’s still bullish…lol
I feel the same way about “Eyes Wide Shut”.
Maybe I just don’t like Tom Cruise…lmao!
@A Plus,
Yes, it sucked tremendously. The premise was sorta good… but it attempted to be something and FAILED as in EPIC fail.
Another one of those is The Fountain with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Utter nonsense!
@miss t-lee, I agree, that was the most boring movie I ever saw in my life. That and IQ.
@miss t-lee,
That whole movie sucked…LMAO I still want that time back that I wasted watching it.
i still maintain that this is the worst movie ive ever seen. it was a psychedelic train wreck
@The Champ,
Yeah I think it was you and I that discussed exactly how bad that movie was in a previous VSB post.
@The Champ,
I thought it was a bad acid trip personally
@Me fail english?,
Benny’s death was a gottdamned tradgedy! The coolest hood in Ciudad de Deus.
@Me fail english?,
“Not sure exactly what happened in Vanilla Sky but it sucked seeing Tom jump to the musical stylings of some of my fav 80’s soft rock bands”
I saw this hot lava mess at THE SHOW and it’s probably made me the most bitter of anything that I’ve experienced.
@Me fail english?,
Tom Cruise STILL owes me 3 hrs of my GOOD life for “Vanilla Sky”. That movie was awful and afterwards, I sat there stuck somewhere between extreme confusion (WTF was it about??) and unadulterated rage for wasting my time.
*shakes tiny fists*
@Luvvie,
I literally sat there after it was over for a good two minutes and then I said WTF was that?!?!?!?
Seriously…talking about it has me heated right now…I think I need some lunch.
ok shouts out to all the aforementioned flicks-
1. set it off- queen went out like THE g but vivica getting shot in the back when she almost made it…damn
2.everything that happened in rosewood
3. bucket list- i know this movie was designed to make you weep but still…
4. the talented mr. ripley- at the end when matt damon finally finds a dude to love him and then strangles him cuz he’s so crazy
5. the patriot- omg from start to finish: killing his kids, burning heath’s preggo wife and family alive IN A CHURCH….ugh
6. woody harelson in the thin red line- talk about taking one for the team
7. big mama in soul food- the relationship with my great-gma mirrors the one between big mama and the lil boy so when this happened i damn near died myself
“as you all know (unless you’re completely soulless, or from atlanta), “the lion king” is a great movie,”
– ummm….what the shell?!?
@Me fail english?, Seeing Benny die was really tragic. I saw a lot of myself in that character. Nearly all the deaths in City of God got to me. I was even sad when Li’l Zé got his comeuppance.
The most memorable for me are E.T., Cooley High, Beaches & the ending of Glory (I knew the story but seeing it really touched me!)
@Yaa, Beaches, Steel Magnolias and Imitation of Life f*cks me up every.single.time
*grabs box of Kleenex*
If we’re going to mention “The notebook” then you can’t forget “A walk to remember” when his girlfriend dies a few months after they get married. *Cries hysterically*
Nicholas Sparks knows how to write books that will eventually become epic romantic- heart breaking movies.
@melekaj,
I LOVE A Walk to Remember! Especially that “Only Hope” singing scene. Ol’ dude was sprung!
@melekaj, A Walk to Remember *sigh*
I don’t even like Mandy Moore’s ole nonsingin’ azz and I boohooed when she died… damn you Nicholas Sparks!!!
Um I forgot dudes name but lil ze’s friend who gets killed in CITY OF GOD which is prolly one of the best movies ever
The entire family in FUNNY GAMES (sean penn, naomi watts and random 10 year old)
@rockstar718,
City of God is a GREAT movie!!!
@rockstar718,
that wasn’t sean penn, it was tim roth…i just saw that movie on hbo on sunday…it reminded me of a modern spin of a clock work orange
@rockstar718, benny
Wow! I’m choked up!!
I’ll add:
Achilles(brad pitt) and when they accidently. Killed his nephew thinkin it was him
The wife and kid in Gladiator.
Mekhi pfeifer-Paid in Full at the hands of punkk asp Cam!!
Co-sign on the Notebook, Imitation of Life and Set it Off! Man the song they play when Queen is hittin the switches…getting misty just thinking about it! The box opening in 7…man…wasn’t she preggers too?!?! I had personal issues with Kevin Spacey after that.
@treble,
“Mekhi pfeifer-Paid in Full at the hands of punkk asp Cam!!”
Aw man, the scene when Mitch and Ace are sitting in the car and he tells him he needs the connect to get the bricks to sell to get his little brother, Sonny back…
“I don’t know what to do Ace, I don’t know man…I feel naked out here, B…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLjCOS2bQrk
@AkShone,
Another thing we knew was gonna happen but was said when it did. I honestly didn’t care about the death of Rich Porter, but his little brother…that isht was heart-wrenching.
How could I forget one of my fav movies EVAR?!
-The Good Shepherd: the gay professor/secret agent getting thrown into the river, the guy they used LSD on who jumped out the window naked, the bride (even though she was a Russian spy seeing the son cry like a baby hurt)
-The Kite Runner, when we find out Hassan died, or even worse when Baba died. The whole damn city of Kabul looked dead when Amir returned.
-Malcolm X
-Bronx Tale – seeing Chazz Palminteri get shot. It was even kinda sad watching Lillo’s friends car explode
-Sleepers- finding out two of the four died tragically and Rizzo’s death after the football game
(Even tho the book was a total fabrication!)
@Me fail english?, THE BRONX TALE is one of my FAVORITE of all time movies , Im going to watch it tonight
@Me fail english?,
“-The Kite Runner, when we find out Hassan died, or even worse when Baba died. The whole damn city of Kabul looked dead when Amir returned.”
I LOVE that book/movie. (and Hosseini’s A Splendid Thousand suns is the ISH. Can’t wait for that movie).
“-Bronx Tale – seeing Chazz Palminteri get shot. It was even kinda sad watching Lillo’s friends car explode”
Man, that was messed up. I loved when C did the 3-finger salute at his grave. Man, I love this movie.
@Cheekie,
“A Splendid Thousand suns is the ISH. Can’t wait for that movie”
You and me both. That ish was deep!
@Me fail english?,
And I just realized I jacked up the title in that comment. Switch ‘splendid’ and ‘thousand’. Tee. Hee.
@Me fail english?, yeah, malcolm x got me too, even though i knew damn well it was gonna happen like that. just seeing it and seeing his family there to see it got to me
@Me fail english?,
“-Malcolm X”
Oh, I felt this was definitely apt to add:
I was boooorrrrrrrrrn by the rivah!
That whole sequence was brilliance.
@Cheekie,
The only thing that ruined that sequence for me was watching Spike’s signature “man on treadmill” shot.
I hate that isht more than T-Lee hates Vanilla Sky. I really hate it.
@Me fail english?,
lol Yeah, you know he always has to do that. I was cracking up when he randomly thew it in The 25th Hour. This mofo won’t quit.
@Me fail english?,
-The Kite Runner, when we find out Hassan died, or even worse when Baba died. The whole damn city of Kabul looked dead when Amir returned.
I was going to write the Kite Runner… That movie had me balling my eyes out… My sister came into the room like “what’s going on?” I was boo-hooing for real… Especially that rape scene. Lawd!
I would have to say that I was pretty pissed with Hector (Eric Bana’s character) in Troy got killed by Brad Pitt… Brad was an asshole throughout the whole movie and Hector was such a good dude! It’s still hard for me to watch that scene…
Also, I was kinda salty about Leonardo DiCaprio’s character being unceremoniously offed in The Departed. I mean, he went through all of that just to get gunned down w/out words as soon as the elevator door opened? ! No.
@MissJ82,
Brad was an asshole throughout the whole movie and Hector was such a good dude!
…and the brother was such a little b*tch too
Gerald Levert – I still can’t believe he’s dead. Everytime I remember I get sad all over again like it was my first time hearing it.
Aaliyah- Bless her heart.
Pimp C aka Sweet James Jones – AWWWWWWWWW MAYNE. His death tore me up. It’s hard to listen to UGK knowing he’s not here
We went from Free Pimp C to R.I.P Pimp C.
Oh wait we’re talking about movie deaths. My bad.
Ummmmm Ill take Beaches for $700.
Happy Bday PJ!!! Your buckeye card should be arriving in the mail any day now.
@V Renee,
Pimp C aka Sweet James Jones – “AWWWWWWWWW MAYNE. His death tore me up. It’s hard to listen to UGK knowing he’s not here We went from Free Pimp C to R.I.P Pimp C.”
You know I love ya for this…
*goes back to listening to “Overstand Me (S&C)”.
@V Renee,
“Oh wait we’re talking about movie deaths. My bad.”
iCan’t w/ u
Oh yeah, the last fight in 300.
Will Smith in 7 pounds, and I am Legend. Anytime he dies,even for play, I’ll be sad.
And sorry, can’t feel ya on the brokeback bit. Dude was cheatin on his woman with a man…couldn’t get into that one.
@treble,
“Will Smith in 7 pounds”
Welp.I was gonna watch that movie but I guess not now.
VSB: Where you can find spoilers for 2009 flicks. o_0
hmph!
@Luvvie,
*whispers* 7 lbs came out in 2008, Luvviekins. Oh, and PJack did a whole post that was basically a spoiler anyway…
@treble,
“Will Smith in 7 pounds, and I am Legend. Anytime he dies,even for play, I’ll be sad. ”
Aw, man, and when he had to kill his dog?! His ONLY friend (besides the mannequin he was trying to hit on)?!!
*ugly Oprah cry*
@Cheekie,
DEAD and GONE at ‘ugly Oprah cry’
iCan’t with you today and quit you forthwith.
@blackberry molasses,
HAHA! She kilt me too
The Women of Brewster place, when the lesbian was raped and the old man tried to help her and she beat him in the head with the 2×4….they never really said if he died or not but the way he slid down that wall…he was gone…I cried…
The Wire, Booodie….NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I loved him, and wanted him to live, to get out the hood….and I actually shed a tear when Omar got it too…was not expecting that AT ALL!!!!! Oooh, when the Union guy got it….from the Greek…..it was expected, but still not expected…..THE WIRE IS THE BEST, EVER!!!!!
I don’t know if anyone watches or watched Prison Break….but Michael Scofield….I did not see that coming at all…and the jacked up part is they never even showed how it happened….*heart broke*…..
Finally, 300 had me at the end when Leonidas stood up and said, “My Queen, My Wife, My Love”….instand wetness….at the eyes and other places…
@Complex Simplicity,
“The Women of Brewster place”
Aw mayne, when that lady’s daughter died…agony!!!
@miss t-lee, I always, always skip that part….it hurts me to my core…DAMN COCKROACHES!!!!!!
@Complex Simplicity,
Lynn Whitfield had that grieving scene down.
@miss t-lee,
I don’t think I’ll ever watch that movie again because of that scene.
@V Renee,
This is how I feel about Crooklyn…
@Complex Simplicity,
OMG @ brewster Place women’s story.
@Complex Simplicity, I cried when Scofield died. He didn’t even get to meet his son
I was a total goner when Linc placed the swan on the headstone. Whhhhyyyy?
Meg Ryan’s character in City of Angels.
Dude fell from heaven just to be with her and she DIES. Tha eff?
@blackberry molasses,
I completely forgot about this movie. That was effed up.
Like a cruel joke.
@blackberry molasses,
That movie EFFed me up!!! He gave up immortality and his boo just up and dies??? Didn’t she die while going on a bike ride or some silly ish like that?
I’d been PISSED! like “Big Man Upstairs, for real? That’s what we on? you got mad jokes!”
@Luvvie,
Didn’t she die while going on a bike ride or some silly ish like that?
It was so random too.
@Luvvie,
I’m sayin though! She went on a bike ride to go get them some dinner and she dies on some ol’ boosheet.
@Luvvie, yeah, i feel like she was riding her bike and got hit by a mack truck.
so.damn.random
@blackberry molasses,
Yeah, City of Angels was Hollywood flicking its audience off for real.
That was messed UP to the nth degree.
@blackberry molasses,
yea i think that’d go under the category of ‘Most Effed up Movie deaths’ I was just pissed.
This ish is entirely too depressing for a Wednesday. I’ll be back tomorrow.
@Dom, LOL! I was just sitting here trying to figure out why I got depressed all of a sudden. Yeah…I need to put on the IPOD and go for a walk now.
@Dom,
lol, im sorry. in hindsight, i probably should have titled this entry “the wet blanket”
Ricky – Boyz N the Hood. The Good Ones always gotta die.
Glory – Prolly the only film that got ole CPT choked up.
The black Space Marines “Apone” and “Frost”in Aliens. The only brothas in the film and they get ixnayed
Optimus Prime in the first Transformers Movie (the Real deal) – nobody liked when we begged our parents to take us to the theater to see the Autobots triumph and within the first battle scene, our fearless leader dies. F*ck Rodimus and that other fake replacement.
@CPT Callamity,
Optimus Prime in the first Transformers Movie
you know, as big of a transformer geek as i was back in the day, i dont remember this at all
@The Champ,
Moms took me to the theater to see it. I was all amped cos they were playing “You’ve got the Touch, you’ve got the power.” Kick ass rock song…all I saw were Autobots and Decepticons gettin it on ultra-violent style. A lot of transformers died in the beginning of the movie. Ratchet, Brawn…I was saddened. They brought Optimus back in the cartoon series though.
@The Champ,
Could you have blocked it out because it was so sad?
@Sula,
lol
I just want to send a thank you out to everybody wishing me a Happy 30th b-day and all that good sh*t.
It took me 30 years to get to this point, but through perseverance, I made it. Those last few years were some doozies, and what with being a Black male and all, there were definitely some close calls (possible fed time, narrowly missing a murder, crazy ex-girlfriends with too much time on their hands and a vendetta), etc.
*raising Champagne glasses up*
Toast.
btw, 30 feels nothing like I thought it would, and yet, I had no idea how I thought it would feel.
At least I don’t feel…old. LOL.
Anyway, I’d also like to make sure that we send a special birthday shoutout to Liz (a few days early) since her b-day is on Saturday and we’ll be here in DC kicking it like the old school at Panama’s Palace BBQin’ it up.
@Panama Jackson,
Have a good b-day. Enjoy your 30th year…I’m couting down the days til mine is over…lol
@miss t-lee,
I am living every single bit out of these 365 days…
@Panama Jackson,
Joyeux Anniversaire!!!
**Special Edition Masculine Styled Diva Dust ™**
coming up with that formulation was hard work. Enjoy it, dude.
@Panama Jackson,
Happy Birthday Panama!
@Panama Jackson,
Yeah Happy Birthday Playboy Jackson!
Hm I have heard that the Kellz remix of birfday ceckx is aight…
@Panama Jackson, thanks pal! sorry for forgetting ur birthday earlier today. oops. LOL.
Happy Born Day Panama!!!!! welcome to the 30′s aka where you really feel like an adult
Pay it Forward – Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment)
Alpha Dog – Zack (I knew how it would end but it still made me cry)
Boyz in the Hood – Ricky
Love Story – Ali MacGraw’s character
Sparkle – Sister
That’s all I have for now. Sorry for any duplicates.
@Voiceofreason,
Oh, and the dad in Barnyard. He was killed tryna save hens while his irresponsible son was shuckin’ and jivin’.
@Voiceofreason,
A few more…
Juice – Raheem
Cornbread, Earl, and Me – Cornbread
Hard Ball – G-Baby
@Voiceofreason,
cornbread hella yea thas my shiiiiii
@Voiceofreason,
Oh I hate when Sister dies! And when Stix was willing to die to not let the investors punk him was my favorite part.
@Ms. T, cosign on Sister.
@Voiceofreason,
“Pay it Forward – Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment)”
OMG, NOOOOOOOOOOO! That was so sad. I LOST it when the city gathered in memoriam outside Helen Hunt’s house. What a great film and a theory that should be done everyday.
@Cheekie,
Yeah, when the credits were rolling I just sat on my couch in tears.
I’m just glad that Mufasa is the pictorial embodiment of this post. Brings tears to my eyes, it’s that incredible.
The Lion King is the best movie evah and I still know that joint word-for-word from start to finish. It always reminds me of this real cool chick in high school who randomly wrote in my yearbook “You are my son, and the one true king”. Like, that was straight outta nowhere. Best message in my yearbook ever, and she wasn’t even my best friend.
And still, I
risedigress.I think I’m just gonna respond to everyone else’s movies/tv show deaths probably because there’s something strange about talking about Panama’s day of birth and talking about death in the same post and it’s hindering me from thinking of a list.
Happy B-Day Panama! Enjoy!
@Cheekie,
“You are my son, and the one true king”. Like, that was straight outta nowhere. Best message in my yearbook ever, and she wasn’t even my best friend.
this is hilarious to me for some reason. i just imagine your yearbook filled with random non sequitors from people you dont even know
@The Champ,
LOL. If only.
IMO Disney has the market cornered murdering character’s parents since the 50′s
the Lion King (Hamlet in disguise): enough said about that already
Finding Nemo: That baracuda was gangsta (and within the first few minutes of the movie you were thrown into SHOCK) he ate the momma and all 200 plus of Nemo’s syblings
Bambi: Momma got shot
MOB movies
The Godfather (cant remember which one): when Fredo gets it, its hard cause you know damn that order came from his own brother
Scarface: when Tony Montana gets it in the end and they shoot up Julio Iglesias house (Scarface was filmed at Julio Iglesias house)
Drama:
The Perfect Storm: a movie that I have not been able to watch more than once. But to think that those fishermen were swallowed up by a wall of water and to this day none of their bodies have been found. It took my breath away to watch
Braveheart: they dismembered William Wallace in public and buried his four parts in undisclosed locations in four corners of the country. That was gangsta
already mentioned; Terms of endearment, beaches, gladiator, imitation of life, Do the Right Thing, 300
@Intellectual Hedonist,
The Godfather (cant remember which one): when Fredo gets it, its hard cause you know damn that order came from his own brother
Part 2. He had already got the Sicilian kiss of death. Fredo knew what time it was…lol
@miss t-lee, even though he knew it was still *SMH* harsh
@Intellectual Hedonist,
You don’t go against the family…lol
WB BTW chick.
@miss t-lee,
I was glad they killed Fredo’s loudmouth punkass. He was worse than the sister!
@Me fail english?,
*laughing loudly*
Yeah from the Godfather to Rocky Talia Shire couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag. She’s up there with Sofia Coppola.
@miss t-lee,
I’m pretty sure they’re aunt and neice. It’s like they poured all the family’s talent juice into Francis and had none left for Sofia, Talia or Nick Cage.
@Me fail english?,
They are…Talia is Francis Ford Coppola’s sis, and Sofia of course his daugther…lol
Let’s not even talk about Nick.
@Intellectual Hedonist,
The Perfect Storm: a movie that I have not been able to watch more than once. But to think that those fishermen were swallowed up by a wall of water and to this day none of their bodies have been found. It took my breath away to watch
***nodding head***
yo when Kermit passed in that movie or was knocked out. Okay Moms always tells the story of how I a baby WuDaMan was there and my bro was irrate w/ worry n terror @ the thought of his hero being on the other side and not w/ him. I too weep for the little boy…
@WuDaMan, have you eaten yet? or did you miss a dose of your meds again?
@Intellectual Hedonist,
Wait did you say you have some iced cream toast for me?
Two things:
Today is my 25th Birthday! Rejoice! Geminis stand up!
And I when my Dad took me to see The Lion King, neither one of us knew that Mufasa was gon die. As soon as it happened, I started out and out bawling. I’m talking about wailing, clutching my chest, chair sliding – the whole nine. I was inconsolable and had to be escorted out of the theater. My Dad was mortified, and never took me to the movies again. My Mom was pissed cause I had a track record of being way too emotionally invested in films (see: Bambi. Nightmares. For 3 WEEKS).
Sidenote: I also thought that Cooley High was a mockumentary about my Mom and Dad. Def a future post for my blog.
@Kindred Smile,
Happy Birthday
@Kindred Smile,
HAPPIEST BIRFDAY!!!!!! Love you, homeskillet! *throws confetti*
*takes swig of Bailey’s*
Onward… the story of u wailing in the theater has me CACKLING. I wouldn’t have taken ur *ss nowhere with me either
@Kindred Smile,
Happy Birfay!!!
**Special Edition Kindred Smile Diva Dust ™**
@Kindred Smile, happy birthday to you too. you must be brilliant being born on june 3 and all.
go you.
@Kindred Smile,
Happy B-Day Kindred! Quarter century B-Day! Mine is this year too. You doing it big?
My Ma went to Cooley High, too!
@Kindred Smile,
Happy Birthday!!! May all your adventures be slightly tolerable today! I raise my glass to you.
@Kindred Smile,
happy birthday and sh*t
@Kindred Smile, Awww thanks for the accolades folks – it’s been a very interesting day indeed
@Kindred Smile,
i hope that means ‘fun’ interesting and not ‘wtf/this is some bullsh!t’ interesting.
happy birthday!!! *special limited edition chuck norris shooting gold stars*
@Kindred Smile,
Happy Birthday!!!
You now what got me? Do you know what REALLY got me???? Chris Brown’s character’s death in “Stomp the Yard”. Traaaggeeedyyy! He literally danced his life away!!
*wall slide*
@Luvvie, I hate your guts
@Luvvie,
Yeah he “runned it” to heaven. *sniff*
@Luvvie,
I quit.
@Luvvie,
traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagedy lol rip comic view
@Luvvie,
“It’s not always all about you – we’re a team” Yeah, his death came a lil too quick, but after the Rihanna debacle, I can no longer properly mourn his cinema passing.
But damn, didn’t Columbus Short look good in that movie? I spent half the movie tryna find a biscuit to sop him up with.
@RedBeanzNRice,
Yeah there was lots o’ eye candy in that one. But that whole made me choke on vomit. 36 year-old college freshman?
GTFOHWTBS!!
@Luvvie, you have slain me with that one lmao
Oh, snap, I forgot one of my favorites:
When Sam’s ghost returns to heaven in Ghost.
“Unchained Medley” is my jam. I remember I saw that when I was like eight or 9 and BAWLED at the end. Demi Moore and her perfect waterwork tears, Patrick Swayze and his bright line shining. When I first saw that movie as a kid, I remember going to my neighbor’s crib drowning in tears and she asked what was wrong and I lied and said I missed my dad (divorced parents). I don’t know why I felt the need to cover up the fact that it was just a movie that made me cry. They bought me a Barbie to cheer me up. I was a sneaky little imp.
But for real though, it never fails…I KNOW what’s going to happen, yet I still cry like I’m seeing it for the first time. It’s a great movie-watching experience.
@Cheekie,
I own Ghost and I haven’t watched it yet. It’s been shrink wrapped for 2 years sitting on my entertainment center. And, I’ve seen it before…I just don’t think I can watch it again…lol
@Cheekie,
look at Cheekie pimpin’ the neighbors on some ol’ waterworks game…. my heart smiles.
@Cheekie,
Great one!! I love that movie. Whoopi with her no eyebrows and all!!
@V Renee,
“Molly—you in danger girl!”
*giggling*
@miss t-lee,
HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I love ya’ll.
@Cheekie, I remember being scared at the devils coming to get ole boy.
@ChiChi,
LMAO. Me too! That ish gave me nightmares. Eff Freddy Kruger. It was those black shadow demons.
@Cheekie,
you gots a guilty conscience, don’t ya? They only came for the baddies.
Ooooh… what u done did?
@blackberry molasses,
I’m a good girl
gone bad.*blinks*
@Cheekie, “But for real though, it never fails…I KNOW what’s going to happen, yet I still cry like I’m seeing it for the first time. It’s a great movie-watching experience.”
“…singing my whole life,with his words..” LOL I’m the exact same way. I’ve seen “My girl” 100 ‘leven times and i will still cry my eyes out like it was the first time
And I also cry at “ghost” every single time. “Ditto” *cries like a fool*
@melekaj @ work,
“And I also cry at “ghost” every single time. ”
It’s that line at the end that gets me erry freakin’ time–when Swayze’s like “…It’s amazing…the love you have, you take it with you…”
*folds up like origami*
@miss t-lee,
“*folds up like origami*”
*snort*
The visual of this is heaven.
V near the end of” V for Vendetta”. The death itself wasn’t suprising or even overly viceral, but what his character represented (the ideals of freedom, justice,fairness,democracy and such) mad the death kind of sad for me (especially since it came out when the government was enacting “the patriot act”) smh…..
@ESQuared,
yeah, that kinda got me too.
I did a whole series with a group of students I mentored. I had them read Nineteen Eighty Four and then we went to go watch V for Vendetta on IMAX. They loved it and were creeped out at the same time that much of what went on in the book and movie exists today.
I successfully created the most cynical 14 year olds the Illadelph has ever seen.
What’s really good, e-boo?
@ESQuared,
One of my favorite movies as well. How the idea of terrorism can be (and often is) misrepresented… One man’s terrorist is another man’s hero!
Natalie Portman is a great actress.
@Sula,
OMG I just watched V for Vendetta last weekend. GREAT GREAT movie.
YALL CRAZY all I gotta say is
1) RICKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boyz in the hood ricky gettin shot in the back come on. gotta be #1 or at least 2
dat hit hella close to home
2) Juice
2pac blasted the light skinned cat then came to tha dude funeral hella scadalous
3)X
the spike lee movie i know yall eyes got wet whem he got shot and they played “change gone come” Sam Cooke. Malcolm X ? ever heard of him
4) Im bout it
When P brother Kevin gets blasted
5) Scarface
Say hello to my lil friend
@BLUNTBLAZER,
“1) RICKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
…Morris Chestnut shot inna back looka boy.
@Cheekie,
i got more
1) jason’s lyric – jason get blasted bookeem is a serious actor
2)higher learning- tyra “6head” banks dien that hurt me
@BLUNTBLAZER,
“4) Im bout it
When P brother Kevin gets blasted”
LOL! I knew you’d come thru with this! And you havent even been posting that long!
@Me fail english?,
then they played tha song “ride for you homie id die for you homie ill ride for you homieeeeeeee” lol i love that movie ima havta watch it again this weekend.
Radio Rahim ‘Do the Right Thing’
To this day…I have never watched The Lion King.
@ChiChi,
WHAAAAA? Blasphemy!
Exiled from Earth. Go. Now.
@Cheekie, I just …never got around to it. LOL
@ChiChi,
Ya know, actually, this isn’t as bad as saying you hate it. And there’s a lot of movies I’ve should’ve seen but havent.
Hopefully you love it when you see it because The Lion King pisses unicorns and rainbows.
@Cheekie,
“Hopefully you love it when you see it because The Lion King pisses unicorns and rainbows.”
no.
But then again, according to The Champ, I hate sunshine.
@Cheekie,
Yes, I agree! Be off with ye wench! To the rack you go!
I’m gonna go with:
1. Optimus Prime in Transformers the movie. Imagine a shocked and (almost) desensitized Bond in a theater with a bunch of 2520 kids crying their eyes out.
2.Apollo Creed in Rocky IV (the roman numeral looks better). This set off probably the greatest montage in movie history. (Sings: There’s no easy way out!)
3.Jimmy in the Five Heartbeats. Eddie King Junior would’ve got more than a couple of kick up side the head…
4.Tom Hanks character in Saving Private Ryan. A man searches for yo’ dumb arse all over Europe then you choose to stay to defend a bridge wherein he and most of his platoon die…yeah, you BETTER earn it.
5.Carlito Brigante in Carlito’s Way. Changing of the guard. You try to change, but the game pulls you back in, and some young’n who hasn’t done 1/4 of what you have thinks he’s fit to share the stage with you. You check him, he comes backs to murk you in front of your girl. Just Damn.
6. Chris Moltisante from the Sopranos. Damn Tony.
7. Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing. And the saga continues to this day…
Bond. BlkBond.
@BlkBond,
3.Jimmy in the Five Heartbeats. Eddie King Junior would’ve got more than a couple of kick up side the head…
I don’t know how I forgot about that one but I wasn’t expecting Jimmy to get killed by a garbage truck.
@ Panama:
Happy BDay my dude.
Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea really got me… wait, I think that was one I really wanted to happen. Like Austin Powers, “Why… won’t… you… DIE??”
Really, Miss May in The Secret Life of Bees made me sad too. Ol’ emotional, hummin’ ace. I think everyone’s reactions really hit it for me, too. I was sobbing like it was my special sister, for reals.
*this was an installment from “The Secret Life of Beez,” which may turn into my new title, now that I just thought about it!*
@Beez,
“Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea really got me… wait, I think that was one I really wanted to happen. Like Austin Powers, “Why… won’t… you… DIE??””
LOL. The shark eating Sam Jackson was probably thee best way to say STFU.
Tony and Riff from West Side Story. It’s pretty much my favorite movie ever, and i know it’s a Romeo and Juliette thing so i should have known who’s gonna die. But that rummble and sh!t. Got em right in the gut.
Also, i know it’s mainly movie’s we’re talking about but blowing Eddie up in New York Undercover, great tv show. That had me messed up for like 5 years. That show was my sh!t.
@Captain Morgan,
“Also, i know it’s mainly movie’s we’re talking about but blowing Eddie up in New York Undercover”
Yeah that was fcuked! The show was going downhill anyway but I had a lil crush on Eddie’s funny looking self
@Me fail english?,
I did too, then later I realized he was on the pink team.
Dayum it mayne!
For the real New York Undercover fans, how about when Ice-T killed JC’s fiancee?
@miss t-lee,
Maaaaaaaaaan, Ice T on New York Undercover was one of the best tv villains ever. That was so messed up.
@Captain Morgan,
Yep Danny Up was cold as ice…then he went all Law & Order SVU on us…lol
@miss t-lee, “For the real New York Undercover fans, how about when Ice-T killed JC’s fiancee?”
How about just reading the quote above brought a baby tear to my eye. New York Undercover was a great show. Malik Yobe w/ his sexy ashy self
@melekaj @ work,
It was.
@miss t-lee,
He’s gay?! Damn. You know I got a thing for those Nuyoricans.
And yes, when they killed Michael Michelle it took my breath away.
Also, when Aaron Hall’s baby mama died in “I Miss You” Sadness.
The saddest death I remembered as a child was:
1. The dude with the mohawk in “Sarafina”- The joint was deep cuz she loved him
2. The ending of “Glory”- Black and White fighting and dying together
3. The Black Boy in “Across the Universe”- The music was powerful
4. Drago(Sean Connery) in Dragonheart- I was caught off gaurd!! As, a man the part that made me cry is when homie ask them where he was going…(Scottish accent)”To the Stars” last time I cried like a baby
@Toussaintthefree,
i seriously think that “can you watch the end of glory without feeling emotional?” should be a litmus test. for what, i have no idea
@Toussaintthefree,
3. The Black Boy in “Across the Universe”- The music was powerful
That movie was real cinematic genius. Beautiful!
ok ok ok …… Now Deep Blue Sea…… yes Sam Jackson getting eaten by that damn shark mid sentence…. I’m mad they couldn’t let him finish…..
@The_Eighth_Hokage,
what really shocked me was the fact that he was eaten right during his perfunctory “we’re gonna kick these sharks asses” sam jackson movie speech
@The Champ,
I was kinda hoping he’d die during his “…all the se motha-effin snakes on THIS! MOTHA! EFFIN! P!L!A!N!E!” speech.
Sadly, he survived
@Me fail english?,
“I was kinda hoping he’d die during his “…all the se motha-effin snakes on THIS! MOTHA! EFFIN! P!L!A!N!E!” speech.”
I didn’t even see this movie (God is good), but it would’ve been hilarious if this random snake jumped outta nowhere and bit his ear or something.
@Cheekie,
“I didn’t even see this movie (God is good), ”
LMAO!!!! I see we’re both whylin today…
*I haven’t seen it either. One of my homeboys says this movie is probably played on the tram as you are on the way to hell. That right there convinced me I wasn’t missing much.
@Me fail english?,
I gotta say, that sad face at the end of “Sadly, he survived” did me in.
bodie is definitely atop my list. i got in an argument just the other day with someone about who shot bodie. if you don’t know 1. who bodie is/was and 2. who shot him, i can’t deal.
but marley in “Marley and Me” is a close second in my book. saltwater is dropping all on my keyboard just thinking about it.
@GiGi,
“but marley in “Marley and Me” is a close second in my book. saltwater is dropping all on my keyboard just thinking about it. ”
I’m STILL mad at the movie for making me full-on cry 3 times during the whole thing. Damn Labradors.
@GiGi,
seriously, if a person who claims to be a wire fan can’t tell you who shot bodie, then all wire fan privileges need to be immediately revoked
@The Champ,
All joking aside, when somebody upthread said their friend always screams about Michael killing Bodie all I could think about was slapping the friend. I really want to fight.
Oh, not necessarily a traumatic one, but more like honorable.
Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) in Armageddon.
I mean sacrificing yourself and dying alone on an asteroid (by blowing yourself up with a NUKE, no less) for the ENTIRE WORLD.
@blackberry molasses,
I’ve never seen the movie, but I’m always curious why they can’t use a guided missile for stuff like this. I mean, all they need is an explosion, right?
*Awaits answer in corner*
@Me fail english?,
the logic in the movie had to do with the composition of the asteroid and the fact that shooting a missile at it would just turn it into a bunch of asteroids. they needed to blow apart from the inside so that the two halves would fly past Earth.
besides… there would be a lot less ‘movie’ if they just pointed a missle at it and fired…
but I wonder. Do world governments have a contingency plan for something like this? Because it is ENTIRELY and ABSOLUTELY going to happen one day. As many near misses as we’ve had that they never tell us about.
@blackberry molasses,
As many near misses as we’ve had that they never tell us about.
if they dont tell us about em how do you know they happen? do you just be staring up at the sky and sh*t, looking for random asteroids?
@The Champ,
yes, Champ. That is exactly what I do all day long.
Now go SAT.DOWN.
@blackberry molasses,
“Do world governments have a contingency plan for something like this? Because it is ENTIRELY and ABSOLUTELY going to happen one day.”
Short answer: NO. There is nothing that can be done for a lot of the near earth objects that miss us by 500K miles or so but we can monitor them with our space telescopes. Scientists have their eyes on what they believe is an asteroid coming from the Kuyper belt that is inbound to our solar system, however it is still decades away and not an immediate threat yet. With the newly released information on high powered lasers, you’d see human ingenuity at their best (which might be in vain) just in case it approaches our orbit.
not sure if someone already mentioned, but when the young “harp” player in Cadillac records died in the arms of Gabby and dude had to run to the bathroom and wail…breaks my heart to see a grown man hurt like that.
I apologize for the lack of character names…early onset alzheimers
I know the movie isn’t out yet * DON’T READ IF YOU HAVE NEVER READ ANY HARRY POTTER BOOKS* but in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince when Dumbledore dies I was crying like a baby.
I cried when Nicole Kidman (Sati) dies in Moulin Rouge.
I know there are other movies but I can’t think that well right now lol I’m supposed to be working
Mu-FAH-SAAAH. Ooooh, do it again!
Has anyone seen Up? If not I won’t ruin it for you. It belongs on this list tho
Sorry I’m late to the party, hope there some chips left and not just the crumbs. As for worst on screen death, Bambi much? I mean the dear deer’s mom gets killed after the first moments of the movie. Damn dirty humans. I agree with you on Gator Purify, has the Good Reverend Doctor never heard of rehab? Just because Amy Winehouse say no, no to it doesn’t mean Gator would have.
@pinksghetti,
Gator was incorrigible. This ninja smoked the TV!
*grabs 40 of Old-E, starts to pour…*
One time for the screen deaths mentioned like:
Bodie
Yoda
Mufasa
Malcolm X
Cochise
Bambi’s mom
Rickyyyyyy
Blue from the temptations
Shymeek from 212th
When they take Patrick Swayze away in Ghost
The mob deaths don’t really fuck me up because that was the life they chose. Fredo was a traitor, and Adrianna was a snitch, so yeah.
*taking 3 shots for P-Jack for making it to the 3-0*
WHAT?!! How did noone mention Last of the Mohicans? Like every single death was horrifying. Even the people I couldn’t stand
hey i’ve got no idea where my previous comments went but…oh well.
1. monster- where charlize kills dude with a grandkid. and when her girlfriend sells her out to the cops. damn.
when they killed flip in above the rim. i hope i dont ever see a death scene like that again
they should make actors watch Denzel’s death scene in man on fire and training day that dude was bananas in both
I think The Reader has to rank amongst the best heart wrenching death scenes in recent memory.
@kamakula,
I *heart* that movie.
My Girl, when Thomas J. gets stung by the bees in the woods. Sad, sad, sad…
you can ignore my previous comment…or just refer to my ditto to the other My Girl comments.
and Wallace dying hurt me more than Bodie. Omar would have hurt but before I could watch it somebody told me what happened. smh.
Ok, i’m back. I’m surprised that nobody mentioned thee most heart-wrenching death scene of them all “Passion of the christ.” The whole movie theater was in tears, except my friend (who now happens to be my gentlemen caller). I still ask him if he has thorns and ice where his heart should be…
My bad if somebody mentioned it and i just didn’t catch it.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe any version where Aslan gets up on that rock and dies. The way Lucy is there crying and petting where his mane used to be……..lawd somebody get some tissues cause dem tears is finna come
Champ is a former English teacher who never read “There Eyes were Watching God.”?
Is that even legal?
No one mentioned the death of Jimmy in The Five Heartbeats. If I see the actor that played Big Red on the street, I would probably two-piece him for GP.
The entire movie “American Crime” was an emotional rollercoaster. I’m still pimping this movie out to every woman I know a year after watching it.
I don’t know if anyone has seen it, but when the little boy dies of bee stings in My Girl. And when Selena dies at the end of “Selena”. You know it’s coming and you don’t see it, but I can’t take it.
late as hell fire with this, but had to add…..mary corleone in the godfather 3.
wretched.