Musings of a Loquacious Mind

Why do movies do this to me?

I am testing an ability to email my posts in. Since this blog won't have so many pictures, I thought it was good ability to have.

I caught the end of The Princess Diaries on TV as I was waiting for my internet connection to log on. Dagnabbit if it didn't make me tear up a little. It's crazy!

The other day the same thing happened as I was working on a craft project with what was apparently the series finale of Charmed was on TV. Charmed! I was sitting there, with my duct tape in front of me, feeling all misty and muttering "Stupid Charmed with your stupid cliches and stupid sappy stupid music that's just so... stupid". When I get emotional I loose vocabulary, obviously.

Every time, EVERY TIME, I watch Armageddon I am practically boo-hooing by the time Bruce Willis rips off Ben Affleck's patch and says "Tell her yourself." And then I get doubly mad that something that's such a big nacho cheese-fest as Armageddon can do that to me. It's not like it's Schindler's List. This is a movie that lets Steve Buscimi be an astronaut. With Ben Affleck. And you know how much I dislike Ben Affleck.

Toss in a sappy score and I'm just a big baby. Pretty much half of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King I had damp eyes. I seem to remember a few moments in Vertical Limit that made me wipe my eyes - a movie so sucktastic that most of the other moviegoers (90% of whom I was with) were openly heckling. Television shows, movies, Hallmark commercials, it doesn't matter. My brothers and I used to make fun of my dad, who routinely tears himself up when praying, let alone the professionally contrived situations of Hollywood.

So I come by it naturally, but that doesn't mean I don't get just as mad when an Adam Sandler movie can make me weepy.

Darn my empathy!

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