Okay, so you would have gotten the next installment of Super Viagra and Vagina Girl today (I had over 20 of the panels competed!) but Dad got a margarita maker for Father’s Day, and you know how that goes. So instead you have a review of the movie me and Michelle saw this weekend — Up. It was so good! But man, oh man, was it heavy! I was pretty much crying the entire time starting from the amazing and adorable pre-movie short Partly Cloudy, to the end credits. Michelle compared it to The Notebook and I couldn’t agree more!
What are they trying to do to us? More importantly, what are they trying to do this generation of kids! The girl behind us was hysterical crying for about 75% of the movie before her Mom (finally!) took her out of the theater. You know how kids movies have scary moments that last for about 30 seconds before they start throwing pies in faces again? Well these scary moments were lasting for 15 minute stretches! But just because it was sad doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun, silly, and adventurous just like other Pixar movies because it certainly was.
But have I mentioned how sad it was?
I was trying to think of other tragic movie moments in children’s movies (the cliché being Bambi’s mom) and I have to say, I think the most tragic for me was the Swamps of Sadness scene in The Neverending Story. “Come on Artax! Don’t let the swamps get you down boy! Artax! Artaaaax!” Seriously, that was ridiculously sad. Or maybe it was when they killed Optimus Prime. I still haven’t gotten over that one. Now I know it was just to sell more toys, but that doesn’t ease the pain, in fact, it might even make it worse. What’s your saddest children’s movie memory?
Oh, and as a final note, this is the first post written on my shiny new 13″ MacBook Pro. Yup, that’s right, I’m a Mac user now! It’s a good thing I’m so superficial because right now I absolutely love it — solely for the fact that it’s so shiny and pretty — even though I have no idea how to use it. It took me about 20 minutes to make the top header you see there. And why does my delete key think it’s a backspace? This is gonna take some serious getting used to.
Enrico! My mother loved “Imitation of Life” and we watched it together all the time! The end always got to me, the daughter running up to the horse drawn casket and crying “I’m sorry, Mama! I’m Sorry!”. Always made me choke up and and the tears would start. Great film…SAD, but well done.
Haven’t seen Up.
Old Yeller was a sad kid’s movie. I remember tearing up at some of the Little House on the Prairie episodes. Irons freak me out thanks to that Good TImes Penny episode.
Movies that made me cry… Somewhere In Time and Terms of Endearment.
I have not seen Up. I will have to check it out some time. I like it when a movie moves me, whether it makes me sad or happy. A great movie can make me both happy and sad. I have not seen a really great movie in a long time.
Charlotte’s Web made me cry when I was a kid. I am pretty sure that The Last Unicorn may have made me shed a tear. An animated version of Oscar Wilde’s short story The Happy Prince also made me cry, and moved me deeply. The end of Total Eclipse got me choked up as well. The “Tear drops in the rain” scene in Blade Runner also moved me (of course Craig likes to make fun of it
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Chis – this version of Wilde’s The Selfish Giant is one of my favorite animated movies – and is also sad:
http://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Wildes-Selfish-Giant-VHS/dp/6301405153
Chris D.: Just went and watched the link you provided, and somebody left a comment about Craiggers as follows:
“i think i’ve seen him in West Hollywood wearing a thong and? a boa….. LOL”
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh i just wish they had gotten pictures!!!
HUGS…
I’ve been considering taking down the Blade Runner video. The overwhelmingly negative comments really bother me.
Well, Craiggers, as some people there have said, making fun of that scene is almost blasphemous to some people. I say, Eh, whatever. You didn’t put it up there to get comments, right? It’s you, baby! Leave it up. Who cares what the world thinks, eh? “sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you”!
HUGS…
I didn’t get to see the show because some of the 3-D showings didn’t have it. Boo! Otherwise, this one was up there for me with Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Toy Story 2.
Did you see that Pixar sent someone with a DVD of UP to the home of a dying little girl whose last wish was to see the movie? She died 7 hours after the movie.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show
Craig, saw UP as well, loved it but you are right, sad sad sad during parts of it.
Dave S: I stayed away from commenting while you were gone just because the silence was so nice….You make going back to Heroin not such a bad option…
I love Jennifer Lopez. Badly she is not my Girlfriend
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