The post in which I reveal that I am, in fact, a ridiculous sap and will be single forever and ever, world without end, Amen.
We’re watching Stepmom on TBS.
This means that:
- It’s a really hot Sunday, and we don’t feel like moving or touching the remote, which MIGHT BE GIVING OFF HEAT, WHO KNOWS.
- We’re abundantly aware that TBS SUCKS, what with the bleeping out swear words and editing major portions of the film and showing the same damn ads for Atlanta over and over and over.
- We’re caught up in classic, manipulative, star-powered Hollywood melodrama.
I’ve never even seen this movie (I always knew it would be manipulative), and I missed whole parts of it when I was blissfully in the shower, but somehow?
Sucked in.
THERE IS OTHER STUFF TO DO, SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE ME WALK AWAY FROM THE TELEVISION.
Oh, well.
Tell me:
- What was the last movie that made you cry (or get emotional, or have something in your eye, or have allergies — whatever your classic excuse might be…)?
- What is the most embarassing movie that made you cry?
- What was the best movie that ever made you cry?
- What things in movies always make you cry?
- How much of a schmuck am I for crying at this movie?
Maybe I’m just crying about the fact that *I* can’t marry Ed Harris…
July 23rd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Sunscreen always seeps into my eyes during the scene in Romeo and Juliet where they meet at the Capulet wing-ding. Always. Happened in the Zeffirelli film, happened in the Luhrman film, happened both times I’ve seen it in Ashland. It’s not the actors or the situation, I don’t think, it’s the words:
“If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”…etc.
It’s happening again now. I’ve got to quit using suncreen on my forehead.
July 23rd, 2006 at 4:19 pm
I think I cry at almost every movie I every see. My daughter calls me a sap. Shoot, I cry at Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, except when the people screamm alot when they see the new house. That just irritates me.
July 23rd, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Oh, and my husband loves me even though I am a sap. So, there’s still hope!
July 23rd, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Meg! Wake up! Snap out of it! Not out of watching the movie… it is melodramatic, but still satisfying.
No, I’m talking about Ed Harris. He’s waaay too old for you, Girl! Not that he’s not good-looking in an older man sort of way, but, Good Grief! He’s older than I am (I think) and I’m old enough to be your mother! [sigh– tho’ I might be able to pass for your aunt.]
July 23rd, 2006 at 7:33 pm
1. Prairie Home Companion
2. Finding Neverland — I knew it was going to be a tearjerker, so I went in bound and determined NOT to cry, but I did anyway.
3. Casablanca. I always cry; it never fails. And I love it.
4. Tender, tender moments; happy endings; poignant endings.
5. Never a sucker for having a heart that’s open.
July 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 pm
#1. “The Dirty Dozen”, when Jim Brown got shot, that was too much, sniff.
#2. “The Village”, I was so upset that I spent $9 to see it.
#3. “The Big Lebowski”, that funeral scene was priceless!
#4. When the dog dies.
#5. Major schumkatude!
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:25 pm
1. Brokeback Mountain. I finally got around to seeing it, and felt a little shortchanged until the ending.
2. Saving Private Ryan, the scene when they land in Normandy. Oh lordy, those poor men! Everyone else cried at the beginning or ending, when Old Matt Damon visits the graveyard.
3. Eye of the Beholder: the scene in the bar when Ashley Judd tells Ewan McGregor about everyone she’s lost.
4. Hormones. Or little kids getting hurt.
5. It’s OK to cry over TBS when it’s really hot and you don’t have air conditioning.
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:46 pm
1. A particularly predictable movie on the Hallmark Channel. I don’t know how they do it, but those dang Hallmark people wring me like a sponge.
2. Pooh’s Grand Adventure. Yep. I caught me son crying out of the corner of my eye and then, I was toast.
3. Tie between “Life is Beautiful” and “Schindler’s List”
4. When the good (but seemingly much less spectacular) guy wins the girl; people overcoming terrible heartache to finally find happiness.
5. I’ve never seen the movie but, hey, I think it’s abundantly clear that you’re no schmuck.
July 24th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I did the same thing yesterday…same movie, station and reaction.
September 2nd, 2006 at 3:51 am
i am a big sap any movie based on true story i come out bawling. any sad movie i cry rivers ;ile i am sam and i am always crying over extreme home makeover.
September 4th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
yep same movie same channel made me cry just wondering if that was just me caz i nva do cry