Seriously, Netflix thought I would love this movie, but it was pretty much unwatchable. It did not age well. (No, I don't know why it is in my queue, but it was and it stayed because of the fact that I was supposed to love it forever.) Except for the fact that I kept remembering that movie with Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie that was all shot in front of a blue screen and that was supposed to NEVER HAVE BEEN DONE BEFORE or whatever, and yet...Mary Poppins.
I have only vague recollections of seeing this as a television special when I was a child, and that was good enough.
Oh, wow, Mary Poppins one of my all-time favorites. Mom and I watched it on the TV last year and I sang along with every song, and she's like "How do you know the words?" and I'm all "I had the record, remember?" Apparently that was when I was like two years old and she can't believe I could remember. Like I was singing along to Sister Suffragettes or whatever the name of that song is, and she's like "Did you even understand what you were singing?" Of course I had no idea at the time, but why would that stop me?
I'm not a big fan of Mary Poppins, but I do like Sister Suffragette.
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I also didn't see Mary Poppins until I was an adult and was brought to a sing-a-long at a movie theater. It pretty much blew, and not chunks either (it was his idea).
Alexander. Qingdai and I tried to watch it the other night, it was from a friend giving away movies he didn't want to keep and either couldn't resell or didn't bother. Now I know why.
You know when you see some program that's going to be on discovery or PBS, but they spend way to much time on the intro and fluff? Okay take that and then find whoever directs the really shitty dramatic reenactments for Montel Williams or maybe a worse-than-usual Lifetime movie.
Now hire a bunch of mainstream actors, and get some top-end lighting and film stock. But take a hackneyed script written by someone who never heard of Alexander the Great and knows nearly nothing about nothing, then give him a lobotomy, and then throw that script away and just wing it on memory.
We watched up until the first battle finished, and we were done. My favorite scene in the parts we watched was Val Kilmer leading his son Alexander through what has to be the worst art gallery ever, ankle deep in water, striding through caverns to look at aboriginal cave paintings or some shit by torchlight, and give shitty lip service to mythology.
ETA: Mary Poppins sing-along was just fine and campy. Though I did make the mistake/ jackpot of bringing along my classy friend with a brown bag full of hooch.
Wanted. How the hell did that crap get in my queue?
Things were going so-so from me until
A LOOM GIVES THEM DIRECTIONS?
WTH, MR. TUMNUS AND SKELETOR JOLIE?
Just about got up and left, because, yes, we did see it in the theater. I hate this as much as I hate any movie whose mystery resolves into aliens. And I hate aliens A LOT.
Also, there is apparently going to be a sequel to this stupidity.
Actually, if they had done something, possibly anything, other than what I put in the spoiler tags, I would have been meh about it. It's just something about that particular development that makes me hate it.
I don't know why I hate mystery aliens either, but I do.
Sorry, but musicals suck like black holes going to town on donkey balls. If that means I have to turn in my Gay card, then so be it.
Of course, there are exceptions.
I like The Nightmare Before Christmas, but hell, it is an animated film.
I like Hair, but that one kind of makes sense to me. What could be more psychedelic than people suddenly breaking out in song?
All That Jazz. Since it is about dance and theater there has to be music and singing. I'm okay with that.
But in general...
Cats
Oklahoma
Mamma Mia
Et cetera.
Which leads me to this...
I saw trailers for a musical with an interesting concept, but, as is my want, I cringed at the thought of watching a musical. Then I began hearing that the musical was getting a huge cult following. It also featured some people that I actually liked. And finally, a straight friend of mine raved about it. So I decided to watch it.
I could only watch about ten minutes. Any more and I would have run out into the street and shot dead the first person I saw. Then there would have been a huge stand off with the police. Babies would have been used as shields. Puppies would have been kicked. Fortunately I ejected the disc.
Re: Seen any crappy movies?
Mary Poppins.
Though I did make the mistake/ jackpot of bringing along my classy friend with a brown bag full of hooch.
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