What Makes You Puddle Up?

[honeychile]

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[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by agzg

Anyone who doesn't cry to this one has no soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2bk_9T482g

I guess I have no soul. I really didn't like Up, and I found scenes like that manipulative (as in "we're going to make you get teary-eyed now") rather than genuinely moving.

Originally Posted by honeychile

I had no idea that puddling up wasn't a national phrase! My daddy used it a lot, but he got a LOT of phrases from his mother (Swiss heritage). Maybe that's its etymology? It doesn't seem to have a definition outside honeychileville.

LOL. I knew what you meant. I was trying to get a "not me" denial across. Sorry that my facetiousness didn't come through.

And since I've admitted the sports movies trigger, I might as well admit my other trigger—musicals. Not every musical, of course. I'm not tearing up over The Music Man, and unlike some, The Sound of Music doesn't do it for me at all. But the final scene of Carousel, on the other hand, gets me every time.

[VintageKey]

In the movie Mamma Mia!, the song, Slipping through my fingers, where Meryl Streep is helping her daughter get ready for the wedding. I still puddle up even though I've probably seen that movie 20 times!

The song that gets me every time, and my kids know to change the station when it comes on the radio, is The Christmas Shoes, where the little boy wants to buy some shoes for his Mama so she can look pretty when she meets Jesus later on. Thank goodness that Christmas songs are limited to November and December!

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by VintageKey

In the movie Mamma Mia!, the song, Slipping through my fingers, where Meryl Streep is helping her daughter get ready for the wedding. I still puddle up even though I've probably seen that movie 20 times!

I saw "Mama Mia!" with my eldest daughter the week before I took her to college for her freshman year. I cried buckets.