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The last time I teared up in a movie was back a couple of years ago. I think I was waiting for the Matrix Revolutions, and the Trailer for LOTR: Fellowship came up, and Instant Waterworks. Smile ear to ear and tears streaming down my face. I waited 20 years for that movie and they Nailed it.
Booty Call made me laugh so hard that I cried. Ditto the South Park movie.
Now, I know, like Will said, that it's a cheap trick. I've taken ethnopoetics classes, and I know how a really good speech can press your buttons. The one in Independance Day does it for me. The presentation scenes in The Lion King are meant to do the same thing.
Ratatouillie, when the Critic tastes the food - that is one of the few times I have managed to sink into the skin of an animated character and I was right there with him. (Fantastic movie, that.)
And I think I may be forgiven by the male cred committee for tearing up the first time I watched the Grinch with my daughters (as I was remembering the first time my dad watched it with me.)
/ Off to eat some Testosteroni (TM) Pasta For Men (TM)
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