The Pursuit of Happyness made me mist up this time, and We Are Marshall does it to me every time.

Has anybody heard anything about the Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith's new movie? The trailers are breaking my heart. It would o0nly be more broken if the movie turned out to suck.

The trailer I saw in the theatre was much better than the one I've been seeing on TV, and, yeah, it made me sort of want to see it.

But having seen the trailer I got the distinct impression that seeing the longer film would now be redundant.

But there's that, too.

When that Keanu Reeves baseball movie (I'm pretty sure I have the actor and sport right) was in previews, I was really glad to be dating a musician, who explained in detail precisely how the music in the preview was making me misty. It's not our fault!!

precisely how the music in the preview was making me misty.

This was a BIG part of why I was getting misty at the Pursuit of Happyness trailer. I was aware of at least that much.

I gritted my teeth and hunched my shoulders and swore silently at every earnest, racial minority, devoted dad, just plain good second of that trailer.

It's really designed to stop you (read, ESPECIALLY ME) from thinking and just go to that (inherently perfectly reasonable) part of you that feels bad for people whose lives sucks for no apparent fault of their own.

I won't let it get me.

(read, ESPECIALLY ME)

Is it wrong that it makes me giggle when you react so contrarily to certain types of emotional manipulation, ita?

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Strega, did you think the guy in glasses at the end was Le Chiffre? He was just another random villian who looks villianous.

Oh, right, because he's killed earlier. I had to think that through. But why give that guy a wonky left eye, too? It seems designed to cause confusion. For me, anyway.

I just saw Closer. I know I'm supposed to like it, but I wanted to punch everyone in the face except Alice, and not just because it was Natalie Portman. She seemed to be the only one with any sense of decency.

The whole movie makes me feel kind of dirty.

I'd never heard of parkour either. Very cool. I guess I've done it, in terms of completing military obstacle courses.

We watched Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone last night. It wasn't as bad as I remembered, although man were the effects bad. Mostly we just kept exclaiming, "They're babies !!!" Even Alan Rickman looked really young, although he was wearing a ton of makeup so maybe they were trying to age him down. Sean Biggerstaff still has the best accent ever.

Proving that he's our child, Mallory about died during the Hogwarts reveal as the first years boat to it. He was reaching for it and exclaiming "WANT!"

I stopped watching after a half-hour, P-C, for the same reason.