The toy battle in Toys makes me sob. You know that the soldiers in war movies aren't being killed, but it's OK to blow up a teddy bear. And, god, the one dancing toy circling aimlessly around the wreckage of its partner as the tinny music plays . . .

And I thought The Fisher King was brilliant.

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I have never seen Old Yeller, Red Ferns or Yearling...for all the reasons mentioned.

Same here. I don't feel I need to put myself through that, for movies that I probably won't be that interested in anyway.

Besides, if I feel that I need to watch a movie and cry, I've got loads of other choices. Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Lilo and Stitch ...

(I LOVE Big Fish. It's one of my favorite movies ever. But I don't watch it very often, because it turns me into a weepy mess.)

Lilo and Stitch is a safe cry-trigger because it ends well. So I can wallow in emotion knowing I'll get to snicker and smile as I leave the theater, instead of in a melancholy haze. I don't drink enough absinthe to properly appreciate melancholy hazes.

Lilo and Stitch is a safe cry-trigger because it ends well. So I can wallow in emotion knowing I'll get to snicker and smile as I leave the theater, instead of in a melancholy haze.

Yep, same for me. And the same goes for Big Fish.

I don't drink enough absinthe to properly appreciate melancholy hazes.

I suppose I do, but I still don't really appreciate melancholy hazes.

Confession: Bolt made me weepy. I knew I was being manipulated, damn it, and I still got weepy.

But The Boy did, too, so it was okay.

Lilo & Stitch, on my list of all time favorites.

So, what Oscar-ish movie should I see tomorrow? Benjamin Button? Doubt? Revolutionary Road? Something else?

I really like the stage show of Doubt, and they seems to be cleaving closely to it. It is not, however, happy-fun or terribly uplifting.

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