What are your favorite movies that came out recently Hubski?
I couldn't find any ways to watch it though. So I guess I'll just watch a few more episodes of 30 rock. Sigh.
http://www.alluc.to/movies/watch-the-ambassador-online/517225.html If you're moraly fine with illegal streaming...
As many of you know, I have kids. We are pretty selective about what our children watch on television/film. Both my wife and I grew up watching the movie Mary Poppins quite a lot. I actually credit it and the Sound of Music for helping to instill a love of song in me. Recently, we watched "Saving Mr. Banks and I was very taken with the film. I know every line of dialog and music in Mary Poppins, so it was nice to be in that world in a new way. I recommend it to anyone that is a fan of the original film.
Those are the two films most responsible for my loathing of musicals. We pirated Mary Poppins off one of those free Disney Channel weekends. Had it on VHS. My sister watched it after school. Every. Day. From 1st grade through 4th. Sound of Music? Worked at a toy store, from 4th grade to 8th. After school, manning the register, cleaning up, etc. Toy store had a CD player. CD player had one CD. CD was the soundtrack to The Sound Of Music. Every day. On repeat. 4 days a week. 30 hours a week. For four years. For four solid years, my life was filled with Julie Goddamn Andrews. Just a spoonful of goddamn sugar will bring us back to Do oh oh oh. 'tis a deep trauma. And while I imagine Chicago is a fabulous film, fuck that shit in the neck. The fact that I can still like Cabaret and Fiddler are testament to their quality.
Ha. I cannot fault you for not liking them given those circumstances. I enjoyed them as a kid because I watched them with my grandmother. I associate the films with her kitchen, her fresh baked bread, her bird feeders etc. They have positive connotations. Now that my daughter watches them once a week and asks to listen to the soundtracks while we drive, I'm starting to have empathy for your way of thinking on this. Add to it that my wife walks around the house singing and humming the tunes and that she's on maternity leave and home all day, and that in my rental home I have no office doors and.... well, let's just say I feel ya. Still, "Saving Mr. Banks" was a good film. I enjoyed it.
Kind of amazing, isn't it? I was with some actors in Vancouver and somehow the subject of musicals came up. We all agreed they kind of sucked. "There's a good one, though," one of them said. "Fiddler on the Roof," I said. "Yeah," he said, kind of amazed. "that's the good one." Dunno. I kinda like Music Man. Cabaret, if done properly, is pretty damn poignant. Stop the World can be done with aplomb, but it's rarely done anymore.
I was watching scenes from the original Willy Wonka the other day and it struck me that it was technically a musical. For some reason, my child self never made the association... Edit: You know, I never noticed on first watch, but one of the many ways the remake sucked more than the original was that it left far to the instrumental track and voice-overs, rather than letting the characters sing for themselves on camera. Compare:
You're mocking me, but I still don't know what the reason is. Your boss had a weird fetish? EDIT: Wait, thought of a better one. It was a toy store, so you used a toy CD player (think those kid's plastic kitchenette things) and you couldn't actually open it or insert your own discs.