'Lineage'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Don't get me wrong, there are parts of the Mary Poppins movie that I am very fond of. But I re-read a bunch of the books in the past few days, and the movie is NOT Mary Poppins.
Aw, he's charming, Jilli. He just has an execrable accent.
I couldn't get past the accent last night. I also couldn't get past my "But but but Bert is a minor character! Why is he getting so much screen time? Noooo, not another overly-long song and dance number!" reaction.
I enjoy the movie by pretending it has NOTHING to so with the books. On its own, it's a lovely confection with a great score. The books are deeper and darker.
My favorite parts in the Mary Poppins movies are the chimney sweep dance on the rooftops and when they go into the sidewalk painting. Both feature a lot of Bert.
As Scrappy notes, it is one of the best Disney scores ever with many very lovely and plaintive tunes. "Stay Awake," "Feed the Birds," "Chim Chimeree" - all those minor key melodies.
I enjoy the movie by pretending it has NOTHING to so with the books.
That's what I ended up doing. I think the glass of absinthe I was drinking helped with that, tho'.
On its own, it's a lovely confection with a great score.
Oh, I love a lot of the songs. Not to mention I spent a very long time when I was young teaching myself how to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards.
Prosthetics on Keith Richards? Talk about redundancy in abundancy.
I recently learned that there is a biopic of Beatrix Potter coming out soon. Starring Renee Zellweger.
There is not enough NOOOOOOOOO in the world.
From what I've heard, Miss Potter is mostly just boring, not awful. (Since she had a pretty uneventful life, and no huge obstacles in the way of her writing career, making her an odd choice for a biopic.)
Hey, who here has seen Nanny McPhee and can answer a question for me? My parents loaned me the DVD ("You'll love it!" says dad), and there's a tarantula on the cover. I have vague memories of watching the trailer and seeing a Spider As Plot Device. Could someone tell me how frequently the tarantula shows up?
Thank you from your resident arachnephobic goth!
Jilli, I've seen it, and I certainly can't remember it being a major plot point. You may want to wait for someone else to weigh in, though.
