Sentimental movies

As I was out 'Norming it up' (new term for hitting the bars, just came up with it....I like it) we got on the topic of movies. Movies that are good, movies that suck, award ceremonies that suck (Academy Awards?), etc. It's what you do when drinking. We started talking about sad movies and emotional movies. I came up with three movies that have made me shed a tear, or more. I am sure that every guy has shed at least one tear in one movie, if they say they haven't they are lying. Okay, my three movies....

1.) The Perfect Storm. I could have cared less about the guys on the boat. Yeah, big wave. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Boat sinks. I dealt with it. And then Diane Lane gets up and makes her eulogy. I have seen the movie on many occasions, but that still gets to me.

2.) Joyeux Noel. Bagpipes are the one instrument that when played right and proper, sends shivers up and down my spine. Every time. No matter what the circumstances. Include those pipes with some heart felt lyrics, and I come close to losing it. Scotsmen in the trenches singing the song 'I'm Dreaming of Home' with those pipes just ripped my heart out.

3.) Bloody Sunday. I don't really see myself as a political activist, but feel close to the strife in Northern Ireland in the 1970s (and today still, just not as prominent). What right does one country have to influence and occupy another? After the incident involving the marchers and the paratroopers, the character Ivan Cooper reads off the name of the thirteen slain. The way that the director shoots this scene with the families reactions, the actual events that occured afterwards and the fact that majority of the people that were killed that day were younger than twenty can just catch you off guard, just like it did to me.

There you have it. Me at the most vulnerable.