Ok, you know what I think every time I see those happy-sappy feel good previews for The Odd Life of Timothy Green?
Exactly that.
No. NO.
You are trying to trick me by showing me a smiley Jennifer Garner and an adorable the rapper named Common and make me think OH! THIS WILL PROBABLY END WELL!
But it won’t. I’ll get in there with my fucking kids and in four seconds I’ll be crying my face off because you’ll destroy everything happy to make some sort of POINT about life and how fragile it is, and I’ll hate myself for at least the next week or until I see a rerun of Bob’s Burgers.
Astroboy.
The Last Song.
Up.
Either prepare me for the face melting that’s going to occur or expect me to only spend my movie dollars on Fast & Furious movies.
CAN YOU LIVE WITH THAT ON YOUR CONSCIOUS, HOLLYWOOD!?
Okay so I am 6 months pregnant and my 7 year old talked me into taking him to see this.
During the whole movie, I was filled with a sense of impending dread, knowing that something bad was going to happen eventually. As the movie continued, it got worse. I was basically a mess before anything happened.
Then the thing DID happen and I sobbed uncontrollably. Not a few tears mind you, but full on snot running, breath heaving sobs.
Forget you, Timothy Green. Forget you AND your leafy legs.
Damn. It won’t let me paste in here but go to
Youtube and watch the video the reaction to the Odd Life of Timothy Green.
Seriously, this is how you want your kids to leave the movie like (and yourself)?
I hope those parents never let those kids watch On Golden Pond.
I’ve never even heard of this movie (I must be living under a rock??), but it sounds like exactly the kind of thing that will infuriate me. Thank you for warning me away!!!
Dont forget about that damn Marley and Me. I thought that was going to be a great feel good movie. We seen it Christmas day, I left the theater looking like I got punched in both eyes.
Oh, Marley and Me. I was heaving and sobbing so uncontrollably that my husband actually asked me if I needed to leave the theater. I was embarrassing him.
I hate when movie previews are so full of lies. They get me all geared up, and then WHOA, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHIT, I DID NOT PAY FOR YOU TO TURN ME INTO A CRYING MESS.
Because I’m quite capable of doing that to myself, thankyouverymuch.
I like to do my ugly movie crying in the comfort of my own home where there is emergency ice cream in the freezer if I need it and no strangers to judge me.
Word! As always….
do I need to see my therapist ASAP if only NOW I have a desire to see the movie?
Thanks for the warning! I took my daughter to see Remember Me because she loves Rob Pattinson boom water works. I was so infuriated when I left the movie theatre! Some people sat there crying once the movie was over, hello they should warn people about the subject matter!! Hollywood Jerks toying with our emotions!
As much as I love Disney movies, I have the same feeling about the Disney animated films of our childhood. I didn’t notice it as a kid, but as a mom, I realized that Disney kills off moms in the beginning of many of their movies. What did Walt’s mom do to him?
I successfully avoided the movie “My Sister’s Keeper” at the movies. I walk past it at the video store. The other day, my mom and sister were at my house and it was on tv, and my sister said, “Oh I’ve always wanted to see this.” I should have chosen that time to clean out my garage or wax my bikini area or SOMETHING. Instead, I sat on the couch blubbering. Thanks Sis!
Holy crap – Sister’s Keeper was the WORST. I was sobbing on the couch for the ENTIRE movie. My daughter kept coming out of her room asking me what was wrong. I wouldn’t let her watch it.
And of course she wants to see the Timothy Green movie. With a group of her friends. If all I’m gonna do is cry, then I need to send the girls in on their own. Although, they’re all a bunch of emotional hormones these days too. That’ll be awesome.
Ooookay. I thought this was just some happy feel good movie, and I was prepared to make The Man go see it with me, but it appears I am wrong. I’m going to assume this is some kind of Simon Birch make you ugly cry thing… and yet I still want to see it.
seriously…these movies kill me. The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, UP….geeze! The trickery when mashing up a movie preview…uncalled for. I know now that anything advertised as “feel good” is meant for the comfort and privacy of my own home.
See, and as someone who has spent the last four years battling infertility, I thought this was going to be an uplifting film based entirely on the trailer.
Thank GAWD for you, Brittany, for warning me away! I am like 10 minutes pregnant (finally), and I know this would have just killed me to see.
Screw you, Hollywood. When’s the next Bring It On sequel coming out?
I’m going to have to second Marley & Me. Fortunately I didn’t take my son to see it but when I saw parents bringing their kids in for the next showing, I wanted to scream: “THE DOG DIES! GET THEE AWAY!”
Yeah,m I cry enough as it is. No thanks.
Also….I love Bob’s Burgers.
I put on Astroboy for my at the time 3 and a half year old. Seriously. What the fuck was that? I was standing there with my mouth hanging open listening to my son ask me what happened.
I don’t know, kid. Looks like Hollywood is trying to ruin your childhood.
I’m still pissed. Fuckwads.
Yes! You forgot Mars Needs Moms. Hello! All these movies were so hauntingly sad. Thanks for the warning!
OK, can I just say I love you because of the Matt Smith photo!
And thanks for the warning, I will not be seeing this movie.
I went through a whole run of movies that I thought were happy that turned out horribly. I’ve blocked them out to the point that I can’t even remember which ones they were, but I know one was actually called Funny People. Spoiler alert: the people were not funny.
The leafy legs bug me out. Like chills and shuttering. I keep imagining someone pulling the vines. Do they come out? Are they attached? Does it hurt? Uhh, I can’t even.
Bobs Burgers AND Doctor Who in the same post?
Woman, you are after my own heart.
Freaking Happy Feet tore me to shreds. UP and WALL-E are horrible on my psyche too. Cartoons are supposed to be funny and uplifting, aren’t they? Feel-good movies are supposed to make you feel good (not in that way, you perv), aren’t they?
I can’t watch the beginning of Disney’s “Tarzan” cartoon even though my kids are obsessed with it. “Dumbo”?? The mother elephant has to cuddle her baby through the bars of a cage for trying to protect him?? There are some twisted mother-f’ers at Disney. What’s with all the emotional hijacking?
OMG. Remember “The Story of Us” with Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis? Saw it in the theater with a new boyfriend and cried my eyes out the whole time. Suffice it to say I disagreed that it was a “date-night” movie.
The kids and I rented “Up”. I had to stop it after the first how many minutes because I was sobbing uncontrollably and the kids were asking all those questions.
Wall-E just pissed me off with all its political “you’re fat and lazy and ruining the planet because you shop at Wal-Mart and CostCo” rhetoric.
And I second the “wtf was wrong with Walt?!” question.
How about Pay It Forward? I still refuse to watch that movie a second time around. I had the huge lump in my throat and then ugly cried my face off until the credits ended. That goddamn movie killed me.
Was it like this?
(um…spoilers.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-aFV1r45sAQ