One of the key elements of the crying wife videos is Hollie's unintelligible ramblings.  I'll ask her a simple question like, "Are you happy for the dad?" and she'll go off an a speech that Sharon Osborne would have trouble interpreting!  If you listen carefully, you might be able to register a few bits and pieces, but anything more than a fragment of a sentence would be rare.  

With such hard-to-understand commentary, it would be natural to have subtitles.  That would all fine and dandy, but in most of the videos, I have no idea what she's saying either!  In fact, I called in the expert, Hollie herself, and she had no idea what she was saying!  I hate to say it, but whatever's going on in her crazy mind is going to remain a mystery :)  

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I just posted our latest video, "Wife Crying After K-PAX" and the reaction has been pretty awesome!  A YouTuber left a comment with a really good question: "hey i have a question,why do u tell us to request a movie if u dont even pick them?"  

My response a bit too long for a comment response, so I decided to write a quick blog post with an answer.

Logistically, we can't pick every movie that's requested.  For one, we don't watch movies all that often (maybe once a month).  We both work and have lives outside of the website.  It's hard to find the right time and mood to get the best reaction out of Hollie.  So, when we do pick a movie, I have to make sure that it's going to be worth it (Where the Wild Things Are was a fail.  No tears at all!).

Secondly, we get about 500 movie requests a day. 90% are the same 5 movies (Titanic, Grave of Fireflies, the Notebook, Schindler's List, and Dear Zachary).  Great movie, but here's why we're probably never going to watch them for the site:

1.  They're too easy.  Everybody cries after those movies.  Hollie's reaction will be warranted and therefore not as funny.  It's almost as if you were to say, "This man will eat almost anything!" Then a bunch of people suggest pizza and tacos.  There's nothing amazing about that.

2.  This is my opinion, but it's not funny to watch someone who is sad.  Think about it; with the exception of Marley & Me, Hollie is crying tears of joy for the characters.  She's not sad, she's happy.  That happiness is what is making everyone smile and that's what I want to stick with.

3.  I have to watch these movies too.  With the exception of Schindler's List, I have no interest in watching (or rewatching) any of the top 5 suggested movies.  The Notebook and Titanic?  Nope! :)

So, does that mean that I'm ignoring the suggestions that people are submitting through our site?  Not at all!  In fact, I find the time to read each and every email that we get.  Trust me, I see the same movies suggestions over and over.  When I see a good one, I mark it down and pass it by Hollie.  It took some intense negotiations to get her to watch Dawn of the Dead!

Keep sending your suggestions and try to stick with movies that aren't tear jerkers :)  

Thanks to everyone for all the awesome support!!!  It's cliche, but we wouldn't be doing any of this without the fans!  You guys rock!

Parker

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A lot of people have been asking why we haven't made a new video in over a month.  Good question!  Simple answer: We're pretty busy.  We recently moved to South Carolina and we're currently house shopping.  Fun!  We tried to watch "Where the Wild Things Are", but we both thought it was dumb (no offense to the fans of the movie.  We just didn't feel like it lived up to the hype).  We also watched, "Serenity" (after watching the entire FireFly series), but I got sick and started puking towards the end of the movie and ruined it.  I got some footage, but not enough for a full video.  

So, what's the future of CryingWife.com?  I'm going to get her reaction to Bicentennial Man (another "dumb movie about robots"), Teen Wolf, Rudy, Click, and Independence Day.  I'm also going to make mini-vids with Hollie crying after watching things like Pam & Jim's wedding on The Office, the new Gerber commercial, and a few other YouTube videos.  Oh and T-Shirts :)  We know some people who run a t-shirt press out of their house.  So those will be coming soon!  

In other news, we're big in Japan right now!  The best part is that a big Japanese entertainment website wrote an article on us and the translation into english is hysterical :)  http://tinyurl.com/yc2qve5

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