radiumgirl: (chuck bartowski)
radiumgirl ([personal profile] radiumgirl) wrote2011-02-21 07:40 pm

Wind Beneath My...Wait...WHAT?

 Ok. So. When Chrissy and I lived together, we would get drunk and watch movies. It was practically a weekend ritual. Audrey Hepburn and Alfred Hitchcock flicks were favorites.  We had a Heath Ledger marathon when he died. And a Brat Pack marathon just because. But inevitably, I would get sloppy and demand that we watch Beaches.

Yeah. I don't know. Chrissy would cave to my demands maybe once a semester, come home from one of her campus ambassador meetings to see me halfway through the movie and a bottle of Chardonnay maybe three times a semester with a "You have a problem" and a "For the love of god, don't start reciting lines."

One of the prompts from the Island of Misfit Prompts is heavily influenced by Beaches and after I posted that list, I decided to watch the "Wind Beneath my Wings" music video because I'm a fail. Then I stumbled across the original theatrical trailer.

Tell me what is wrong with this:





Look. I totally think that Beaches is a feel-good movie in it's own screwed up way, but more than anything else, it's one of those movies that makes you bawl like a bitch. Or, in my case, flop down on Chrissy's lap and blow my nose in her hair while drunkenly telling her I "wuv" her and she's totally my Hilary and if she gets some incurable heart condition I will end her.

"Wait. Why am I the one who dies in the end?"

"Because you're a repressed brunette and I'm a tacky diva with a drinking problem."

"I...hate you a little." But she'd pat my head while she said it, so I knew she was lying.

Yeah. I'm classy. I can't believe that girl willingly shared an address with me for four years and continues to answer my phone calls after the fact.

Anyway, that trailer makes my brain melt. I feel like the women who saw Beaches in theaters in 1988 probably left the theater rubbing their cheeks and looking for welts and wondering if there was, in fact, a god.

[identity profile] thinlizzy2.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh Bette! Last of the great divas!

[identity profile] radiumgirl.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
<3 Bette! XD