Definitely *Not* "the saddest movie I've ever seen"

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2003)

The only thing I'd heard about this movie before seeing it was many people saying that it was the saddest movie they've ever seen. I finished watching it about a half an hour ago, and I can only conclude that the people who think so probably don't watch many sad movies.
It was very good and even sad, but it was far from the saddest movie I've ever seen. Perhaps it's the first five minutes of the movie that "ruined" that element for me. It was made perfectly clear what was going to happen by the end, so expecting it made it less sad. To me, anyway.
I guess I'll have to chalk this up to another "est" movie- saddest, scariest, funniest- that many have viseral reactions to that I simply don't get.