Did anyone else feel sorry for Bottom?

I felt that way too, and he didn't even feel mad, just sad... what a interesting character.

Yes I felt sorry. I was dumbfounded.

To me, Nick Bottom was the best character of the film. I have not read the play for decades, but I had remembered him as a braggart boasting that he was able to perform every role in the play. The film seemed to have given an additional layer to his character that was either not intended by Shakespeare or I might have overlooked it. When the children poured wine on him, he realized that people were treating him as a joke. At that moment he saw the hurt look of his wife. Later when he returned home they locked eyes again but neither spoke. That was a very powerful scene, and really made me feel sad for him. It was clear that Bottom knew his life was sh*t and his wife looked upon him as a loser.

Then for one night in the forest, he was the center of affection of the queen of the faeries, and for a brief moment he was made to feel important - that he never felt before. When he woke, he only half-remembered what had happened and like the two couples, he was not even sure that it was not a dream. But he found a small ring that looked like the faery queen's crown.

Then at the end of the scene, he looked at the fireflies and they again reminded him of the previous night. His eyes transfixed on one that glowed especially bright and imagined it to be the queen of the faeries. Or perhaps it was really the queen? I think that was one of the most poignant scenes in the film.