I never really got Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Apple Dumpling Gang, on the other hand, and Benji (until the bad guy kicked TIffany!), and Mary Poppins, I was totally there.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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Amy - Jun 28, 2010 11:18:15 am PDT #9362 of 30000
Because books.
Aims - Jun 28, 2010 11:21:17 am PDT #9363 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ha!! I love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but am bored to tears during Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
tommyrot - Jun 28, 2010 11:22:46 am PDT #9364 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Written by Ian Fleming.
"My name is Bang Bang - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
Dana - Jun 28, 2010 11:25:01 am PDT #9365 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
megan walker - Jun 28, 2010 11:33:45 am PDT #9366 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Written by Ian Fleming.
Except the book is nothing like the movie. I couldn't believe it when I finally read it and I have no idea how they came up with most of it. The child catcher freaked me right out, but I adored that movie and had a toy CCBB car that had folding and unfolding wings.
For some reason, Willy Wonka never bothered me, but I used to hide behind my dad's chair when the Wicked Witch appeared on TV.
Dana - Jun 28, 2010 11:34:32 am PDT #9367 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I'm pretty sure I read the book, but I obviously didn't find it as memorable as the movie.
Kathy A - Jun 28, 2010 11:36:47 am PDT #9368 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I was just thinking about The Apple Dumpling Gang a week ago! I was trying to remember which Disney films I remember seeing in the theaters in the '70s, and that one was near the top of my list. Totally innocuous, but very funny schtick from Don Knotts and Tim Conway, and the little romance between Bill Bixby and the female lead (whose name I can't remember offhand, but she was a great semi-feminist character) was well-handled, and the kids weren't overly cloying.
megan walker - Jun 28, 2010 11:43:04 am PDT #9369 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm pretty sure I read the book, but I obviously didn't find it as memorable as the movie.
Because it's terribly boring. Essentially, none of the Neuschwanstein stuff happens. There is no romance plotline. The family picnics on the coast and end up sailing to the French Coast and there are spies or gangsters that kidnap the kids and take them to Paris.
Connie Neil - Jun 28, 2010 12:00:52 pm PDT #9370 of 30000
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And there's a plot involving chocolate, and I think counterfeiters, and I liked it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 28, 2010 12:17:44 pm PDT #9371 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The first movie I saw in the theater was Where the Red Fern Grows at age four, with my parents completely ignorant going in that the doggies die by the finish. This did not end well.
I don't know that I've really been freaked out by a movie in the theater as an adult, although Sunshine gave me such a claustrophobia/agoraphobia cocktail when I was already queasy from a migraine that I walked out halfway through. And I had a weird moment after seeing Ju-On when the stall door in a restaurant bathroom made the exact same noise as Kayako did in the movie when attacking one of her victims in a restroom.
The movies that disturbed me most, like Eraserhead and The Ring, were all home video experiences.