Damn You Nicholas Sparks...

The Title of this entry really should be "How I Spent My Saturday Evening"...

I didn't really feel like going out this evening (ME?! wha??). It's been a very busy past couple of weeks, and I am trying to conserve fundage that I know I will eventually spend on concerts. I went to the gym almost every day this week, running a total of 25 miles, so I went and rewarded myself by getting a scoop of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream from Baskin Robbins, then returned home and faced my DVD library and picked out a flick.

Tonight I settled on "A Walk to Remember". Don't roll your eyes at me. Yes, it is a sappy bordering on saccharine movie. But dammit if I don't love it. Nicholas Sparks gets a bad rap for being overly sentimental, but isn't that heightened sentiment why we choose to read or watch things like that in the first place? I know I do. Sometimes you just need a sappy movie, a box of tissues, and a good cry. "A Walk to Remember" will never be in the pantheon of great movies, or even very good ones. But man, it makes me want to find a love like that. It makes me want to believe that kind of love is possible...and that's why I watch. And oh did I cry...especially cause I hadn't watched this movie in awhile.

And because I am a masochist/emotional cutter, once that movie ended, guess what movie I put in next? If you guessed "The Notebook", then gold star for you. I heart this movie something fierce. It rides the border of almost too saccharine and cliche, but what kept it from doing so is the unbelievably real performances by Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. Wow did that casting director catch lightning in a bottle when he/she cast those two in those roles or what? I have quite a girl crush on Rachel McAdams, and I really wish she worked more, cause I freaking love her as an actress. And the story is right up there in the best movie love stories for me. I will say it again about Sparks...say what you want about him, but the man writes a damn good love story. I laughed. I cried. I felt my heart swell with love. It made me forget for a few hours the cynicism I have increasingly grown accustomed to in that area in my life and believe once again in soulmates. Really, what more can you ask for in a movie? Not too much, and that's why I keep coming back for more. It's funny, cause at the beginning of my evening, I wouldn't have told you that I was in the mood for a sappy romance night, but apparently I was. Always trust your first instincts when picking out a movie to watch :)

So that's how I spent my evening...crying my eyes out (they are gonna look lovely in the AM) and wishing I could be in love in the movies. Good times.

Maybe I'll continue the crying jaunt and pop in Titanic next... ;-)