I don't know why this topic came up, but everyone's talking about movies that made them cry/laugh. (Everyone being all the cool kids in my blog world, that is, including Shakespeare's Sis, Roxanne, Terrance, and Lauren.)
The movie scene that always, always, makes me cry is the remake of The Parent Trap, where Natasha Richardson discovers the twin she has is the twin she hasn't seen in years. I guess because I'm a mom that scene chokes me up every time. (It's not just movies; I walk into the high school gym for an awards ceremony and I cry. I see a school bus, I cry. I told my daughter I won't go to school functions anymore unless she tells everyone I'm blind and have to wear sunglasses.)
The scene that makes me laugh is in one of the few movies I'll bother to watch again, About a Boy, when Hugh Grant sings. I won't spoil it by divulging why or what he sings, but it's absolutely pants-wetting funny. I reviewed the film here, when I had a half baked idea of doing regular movie reviews. That never happened, since blog ideas tend to come and go like clover in a mine field. Plus there's the fact I don't go to movies very often—I find the noise and special effects way too stimulating. I can't sleep after a movie, and if I see a film in the afternoon, it stays in my head the rest of the day.
But despite that, and despite the outlandish expense of going to the cinema these days, I still love good movies, the kind where I don't rewrite the dialogue in my head.
Which reminds me: Channel 4 showed back to back episodes of West Wing last night, followed by Fahrenheit 9/11. I haven't seen WW in a couple of years, so I had no idea what was going on, but I was struck by the idea that they should send Josh and Toby and that girl Kate to settle things in the Middle East. They make it look so easy.
Now I gotta run. My daughter just told me Zoolander's on, and that's the other movie that makes me laugh.
