News That Makes Me Cry

Not literally -- although sort of.

Everyone knows who Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, Dear John, Fighting) and Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, The Notebook, Sherlock Holmes) are, right? I'm not really a fan of Tatum but I've liked a lot of McAdams' work.

Anyway, so get this: they've signed on to star in a movie together called The Vow, based on a true story surrounding the marriage of two newlyweds. Basically, it's about this:

Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993, two months after their marriage, when their Ford Escort was hit from behind by a fast-moving truck. A massive head injury left Krickitt in a coma for weeks. When she finally emerged from the coma, she recognized her parents and everyone else-but she didn't know Kim. She had no idea who he was. The "Krickitt" Kim had married essentially died in the accident. The Vow is the true tale of the reconstruction of two lives and a marriage after an event so shattering that most others would have parted ways long ago. Though it was not easy, and it tested every fiber of who they were, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again.

Pretty emotional, right? And since both actors have been in Nicholas Sparks movies (him Dear John; her The Notebook) I'm thinking 1) a lot of women are going to see this film, which means I think it will make a lot at the box office, and 2) expect a lot of tears.

But back to the posting title. Doesn't that make you want to cry? No? Okay. Try this description of a movie (that I actually saw, and while I did cry through all of it it was not all that great):

"A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life."

Doesn't reading that make you want to cry? Just bawl your eyes out? I'm doing all that I can not to cry right now, since I have company over.

Anyhew, so what are your thoughts, blog-readers? Am I the only one who thinks they should change the names, Krickitt and Kim? I mean, how much sense does it make that Kim is the guy and Krickitt is the woman? Sound off!

Oh, and the description above is from P.S. I Love You, an awful movie (even though it has Gerard Butler and the Denny guy from Grey's Anatomy).