tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post3522618178310889767..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Spit-SpotSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-17972641301628994722013-10-14T18:19:57.909-05:002013-10-14T18:19:57.909-05:00My kids are welcome to watch this whenever they wa...My kids are welcome to watch this whenever they want. They can just expect that I won't watch it with them. <br /><br />I may not have been clear on my use of "realism." The term "verisimilitude" is more what I meant by this. I'm not expecting the real world for a musical. What I am expecting is a world that is internally consistent with what it expects me to believe and understand. I didn't find that here. It's why I don't take something like <i>Love Me Tonight</i> or <i>Singin' in the Rain</i> to task for not being realistic. It's also why I gave a film like <i>The Umbrellas of Cherbourg</i> a very favorable review. <i>Mary Poppins</i> doesn't hold together for me. There are too many places where I see the strings and the glue.<br /><br />I've seen the re-edited trailer. My favorite version of Mary Poppins resides here:<br /><br />http://www.cheshirecrossing.net/SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-665039937741590462013-10-14T14:57:02.604-05:002013-10-14T14:57:02.604-05:00Man, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed. ...Man, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed. :-)<br /><br />You know, if you tell your kids they can't watch it, they'll just sneak over to a friend's house to see it. <br /><br />"I understand how a child could watch this film and be entranced by it, but I do not for the life of me understand how an adult could have the same reaction."<br /><br />Well, I never saw this film until a few years ago - well out of my childhood - and while I was hardly entranced, I liked it. Why? Because it's a happy film and I liked the songs. Frankly, why would that be dislikable? Because it's not realistic, you say? We've had that conversation before; I no more expect realism from a musical than I do from an action film.<br /><br />I think this version of Mary Poppins would be more to your liking:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic<br /><br />(It's a re-edited trailer done as part of a contest to prove the point that movie trailers can be quite misleading. In this case it presents Mary Poppins as a horror film.)Chip Laryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00787403805554027107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-1129117284202205622013-10-14T10:05:13.820-05:002013-10-14T10:05:13.820-05:00All true. This is something that seems to happen f...All true. This is something that seems to happen frequently. I wasn't forced into watching <i>Mary Poppins</i> as a child, so the magic passed over me.<br /><br />And, Luke was a whiny bitch. And <i>American Graffiti</i> has some pretty good dialogue, and not all of it in <i>Star Wars</i> was bad ("wretched hive of scum and villainy" springs to mind). Luke was always a whiny bitch--him and his power converters. <br /><br />For what it's worth, this is a phenomenon I'll be looking at with one of today's films--I missed the "I'm enchanted by it" cutoff.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-35725365915877116022013-10-14T08:40:44.586-05:002013-10-14T08:40:44.586-05:00"I understand how a child could watch this fi...<b>"I understand how a child could watch this film and be entranced by it, but I do not for the life of me understand how an adult could have the same reaction."</b><br /><br />I think I can understand an adult's enchantment. If a child who had been entranced by "Mary Poppins" years ago were to see the movie again as an adult, it's quite conceivable, I think, for the adult to experience a regressive moment, and find him-/herself back in his/her childhood.<br /><br />I know this is possible because it happened to me: back in my sophomore year of college, a bunch of us were in the dorm lounge, flipping around random TV channels. We lit upon a "Sesame Street" retrospective and stopped flipping. All of us watched avidly. At one point, the show talked about how "Sesame Street" dealt head-on with the death of the beloved Mr. Hooper (Will Lee). One girl saw my face and said, "Kevin! Your eyes are so <i>wide!"</i> I guess I was really into that segment. Totally regressed.<br /><br />Anyway, my point is merely that such a revisiting of the past is <i>possible,</i> not that it's inevitable. The opposite reaction is also possible: one might feel shame, for example, upon watching "Star Wars" as an adult and realizing that George Lucas's inability to craft good dialogue extended back at least as far as 1977 (were "THX-1138" and "American Graffiti" exceptions?). One might also realize that those awesome special effects no longer look quite so awesome, and that Luke Skywalker was a <i>really</i> whiny bitch back then.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-43609168480248068882013-10-13T22:58:10.337-05:002013-10-13T22:58:10.337-05:00Not really my style. Anyway, according to the film...Not really my style. Anyway, according to the film, that word is supposed to make everything better, and this film doesn't deserve it.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-67739304980886582692013-10-13T22:51:37.949-05:002013-10-13T22:51:37.949-05:00You should have just done this review in one word ...You should have just done this review in one word and left it at that: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092564511948736386noreply@blogger.com