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I’ve never been financially sound enough to keep up with films, my whole life. Same with music vinyl, CD’s, and MP3’s, DVD’s, and all that.

Although I can’t keep up, I have gone to movie theaters and every movie makes me cry when I reflect on how much I blew to see that film.
 
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I’ve never been financially sound enough to keep up with films, my whole life. Same with music vinyl, CD’s, and MP3’s, DVD’s, and all that.

Although I can’t keep up, I have gone to movie theaters and every movie makes me cry when I reflect on how much I blew to see that film.
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Blair Witch Project affected me similarly - I got free tickets but it was still, IMHO, such a stinker of a film that I felt like demanding compensation for the 2-odd hours of my life I had just wasted.
 
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Blair Witch Project affected me similarly - I got free tickets but it was still, IMHO, such a stinker of a film that I felt like demanding compensation for the 2-odd hours of my life I had just wasted.
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That easily ranks among the films I find to be the most overrated. So many people talk of how scary it is, but I found it aggravatingly boring.
 
This is why I stick to matinees since the ticket is a lot cheaper.

I saw the Crimes of Grindelwald and made the mistake of buying some food in the theater. A hotdog, a bag of strawberry jelly, a Diet Coke. Almost $20.00 for the lot. Almost made me cry but then I realized I didn’t have to buy food to watch a movie. Moral of the story? Don’t go to a movie hungry.
 
Have you seen “Yellow Dog, Far from Home”. It’s from the early 90’s I think, and I loved it.
 
First of all, I’m a 51 year old man. I. Do. Not. Cry.

Did anyone mention “The Good Ship Lollipop”? 😧
 
Here is a musical which has excerpts of the Japanese movie titled Hachiko.

 
Speaking of dog movies - the Australian classic Red Dog gets the waterworks going at times.
 
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“Bambi”
“A Walk to Remember”
“The Five People you meet in Heaven”
“North Country”
“The Ultimate Gift”
“The Shack”
“Tuesday’s with Morrie”
“Armageddon”
 
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First of all, I’m a 51 year old man. I. Do. Not. Cry.

Did anyone mention “The Good Ship Lollipop”? 😧
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You mean “Bright Eyes”, the movie in which Shirley sang that to a bunch of pilots?

My mother was a huge fan of Shirley all through her own childhood - they were about the same age - so I watched Shirley movies from time to time when I could find one on TV, because I wanted to see the movies my mom had watched. I always thought that was the most tear-jerkingest of all Shirley’s films, also it was one of the first ones I ever watched, I was about 7 when I saw it the first time. The scene where the cake “crashes” gets me every time.

A few years ago I happened to find “Bright Eyes” one night on Youtube on my birthday, and thought I would watch it again. While watching I got a call from my mom who was trying to wish me Happy Birthday but did not sound like herself and I had to tell her to please hang up and call 911 and go to the hospital because I was afraid she had had a stroke and I was 7 hours away at the time. It turned out she hadn’t had a stroke, but another serious condition that caused temporary affectation of the brain and that night was the beginning of her long downhill slide ending up (hopefully) in Heaven.

Haven’t been able to watch “Bright Eyes” since.
 
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