That Sinking Feeling - WARNING, SPOILERS WITHIN

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This is a thread for moments in films and TV that just give you that sinking feeling. When something terrible happens to one of the characters, either something you know was coming or something that was a surprise. It's difficult to describe, but it just feels like the pit of your stomach is dropping out.

I've put a spoiler warning in the title already, but just to be a little more safe, please put the title of the film or TV programme on its own, several lines above the moment or scene in the movie of programme you're talking about. For example:


Goodfellas



Tommy is just about to get made after years of hard work but as he enters the room where the ceremony is supposed to take place it's totally empty and he realises he's going to get whacked just before he gets shot.




Road To Perdition



Near the end of the film when Michael Sullivan has killed off all of the crime family he was working for he gets to his sister's house to start his new life with his son after the rest of his family has been murdered. His son is outside playing on the beach with the dog and Michael is looking out the window at the sea when he gets shot twice from behind by the assassin who he thought he had killed earlier in the film.



Saving Private Ryan



Three moments for this one.

Firstly, when Mellish is fighting with one of the German infantry and the German pins him on the floor and slowly stabs him through the heart with his dagger/bayonet.
Secondly, when Jackson is sniping from the bell tower and the German tank lines its barrel up with him. He realises what's coming just before it hits him.
Lastly, when Capt. Miller is shot right at the end of the film, after making it through all the rest of the film unscathed.
 
Errh... the end of "The Notebook"? I absolutely hate that movie, asbolutely predictable, unbelieveable and over-sentimental piece of crabcake. But the end (honestly, man, you can see it coming a mile away) still gets me, even though I know it's coming.

Spoiler: They die. Not surprising, actually.

Good date movie. It'll make your girlfriend bury her head in your chest and cry. Otherwise, stay far, far, faaaaar away.... but wosshername is really cute.

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In guy movies and guy-safe movies, the end of Leon is kind of gut-wrenching.

Spoiler: Leon (I love Jean Reno), the "cleaner" has sent Matilda away to escape. He's fought off nearly a dozen SWAT team members, survived an RPG attack and has managed to walk right out the apartment building past hundreds of cops, disguised as an injured SWAT operative (they're from so many different precincts that none of them find it odd that they don't recognize him...). He's walking out of the next building when the corrupt cop (Gary Oldman) shoots him in the back. As he's lying there bleeding, Gary Oldman turns him over. With his dying breath, Leon says: "For Matilda" while holding out his hand. Gary takes it, and it's a dozen grenade pins. Boom. Touching and violent at the same time. :lol:
 
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood

Opening credits. And then that bad feeling doesn't go away until it is over, finally over. Thank God it's over, until she wants to watch the DVD AGAIN. :nervous: Why God? :(
 
The beginning and ending of "Arlington Road"... And when you know the movie - All of it...
 
No way out

After all that time where Kevin Costner has been trying to prove his innocence and the KGB sleeper that's being tracked, and he starts talking in Russian on the phone.

24

The end of season 5, just when you start to think they'd forgotten about the whole Chinese plot from the season before, Jack get's kidnapped by chinses secret service and taken to China in a tanker.
 
I've got a new one.

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest: SUPER SPOILER ALERT - when you get to the end of the movie and realize that you've basically wasted the last three and a half hours watching a movie with no beginning and no ending. In other words, the longest campy TV movie episode ever.

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Another sinker (not stinker): Deep Impact. Last scene on the beach. I know, I know, I'm a sucker for girlie movies, but that one always gets me.
 
Man on Fire

At the end when Creasey is in the car and he drops the chain and dies after saving Pita.
 
Contact

When you get to the end and never see a single alien.
 

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