WWTBAM Bored

My sister and I are thinking about going to see it at the theater.

If anybody has seen it, is it more or less tearjerky than, say, Brian's Song? For example, if on the Boohoo Scale, Brian's Song rates an 9 and We are Marshall rates a 6, where does this one go?

I don't like to get overly weepy in public and one of us is going to have to drive home.

For more perspective, Bang the Drum Slowly is a 7.5 and Pride of the Yankees is a 4.

WheresFanny wrote:I don't like to get overly weepy in public and one of us is going to have to drive home.

Just sit somewhere out of the way and leave the theatre when you're good and ready. Most of our theatres these days have aisles on each side which empty to the bottom, so the back rows would be good places to sit incognito.

Estonut wrote:

WheresFanny wrote:I don't like to get overly weepy in public and one of us is going to have to drive home.

Just sit somewhere out of the way and leave the theatre when you're good and ready. Most of our theatres these days have aisles on each side which empty to the bottom, so the back rows would be good places to sit incognito.

It's not that I care about other people seeing the weepage, I just don't like getting all jacked up and then having to drive and stuff.

I would love to be able to help you out on this as it was on my list of movies to go see. But I chose "The Duchess" (very good, BTW) to see last week thinking it would be out of the theaters earlier than "Express". Sigh. I was wrong. It was gone entirely from the immediate Bay Area this week. So I saw "Morning Light" instead. A small movie about a sailing competition. I recommend seeing it and perhaps taking kids as there is nothing in it that is inappropriate for everyone. Young kids might be bored, but I would think pre-teens and up would enjoy especially if they are at all sports-oriented.

I saw The Express with my 17-year old son last week. I didn't find it weepy at all, and I don't think he did either (although at 17 he's not going to let me know if it is). It was very inspirational - not only about football, but it brought in a lot about the Civil Rights movement as well (which I'm really glad my son saw). The potentially weepy stuff was really downplayed at the end - the movie ends on a high note, with the "bad news" more of a scrolling epilogue.

For your reference, so you'll know I'm not weepy-challenged, my eyes do tear up at the end of Brian's Song and especially at the end of It's A Wonderful Life.

Winnamill wrote:I would love to be able to help you out on this as it was on my list of movies to go see. But I chose "The Duchess" (very good, BTW) to see last week thinking it would be out of the theaters earlier than "Express". Sigh. I was wrong. It was gone entirely from the immediate Bay Area this week. So I saw "Morning Light" instead. A small movie about a sailing competition. I recommend seeing it and perhaps taking kids as there is nothing in it that is inappropriate for everyone. Young kids might be bored, but I would think pre-teens and up would enjoy especially if they are at all sports-oriented.

We'll have to check and make sure it's still on here, then! They only had 5865048733 adverts for it before it came out but, now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen a single one since.

trevor_macfee wrote:I saw The Express with my 17-year old son last week. I didn't find it weepy at all, and I don't think he did either (although at 17 he's not going to let me know if it is). It was very inspirational - not only about football, but it brought in a lot about the Civil Rights movement as well (which I'm really glad my son saw). The potentially weepy stuff was really downplayed at the end - the movie ends on a high note, with the "bad news" more of a scrolling epilogue.

For your reference, so you'll know I'm not weepy-challenged, my eyes do tear up at the end of Brian's Song and especially at the end of It's A Wonderful Life.

If all you do is 'tear up' at the end of Brian's Song then you are very weepy-challenged! Heck, I tear up at the end of the 'where amazing happens' commercials.

It's a Wonderful Life, on the other hand, leaves me totally cold. I can't stand that movie, it's one of the top, if not THE top, movies on my least favourite ever list.

Football plus civil rights plus leukemia = me crying like a little bitch.

Btw, inspirational also makes me cry. Ha!