Second everything you just said, Tinsel.

"Les Miserables," the musical version anyway, is an interesting one for me. "Do you hear the people sing" will get me all choked up, but other numbers, especially the sentimental tripe sung by the female characters on their deathbeds, both infuriate and disgust me.

@La Sirena

oh, n8, his name is easy to remember: Paul Potts. Geddit? It sounds just like that genocidal Cambodian tyrant!

Susan Boyle has a nice voice, but damn does she have shitty taste in music. First she sang that Dreamed a Dream crap and next she did some Celine Dion song for Larry King. So…. you lost me there, Susan.

@ Mogumbo

The movie that made me cry, well, more than I ever cried over something that wasn't happening to me, is a Chinese movie called To Live. It is really, really good and utterly devastating. My old boss, who grew up right in the middle of all that shit, recommended it as a realistic depiction of Maoist China. It is…

Dr Wally, that is my favorite quote from the movie. Fuck you for beating me to it.

Gonna have to disagree with you on Black Hawk Down, ZMF. I thought it was pretty disappointing. If you read the book you can see all the ways in which the movie fell short. Which is a pity, because it's an awesome story.

Fortunately I was too old to care when the movie came out, but I don't see how it could be anything but awful.

I loved it too… not sure how I feel about admitting it. There were 2 younger ones that were kinda too young to babysit but were apprentices or something. Was it Jessica and Mallory?

Yeah, 14th century I think you could start selling your daughters into matrimony at age 12. Not being snarky, I'm pretty sure that was the law, at least in England.

That movie traumatized me. I only remember the part where the horse dies in, what, quicksand? and is calling out the kid's name. Unbearable, no matter how old I am.