Eh. I've seen worse. I have seen better, but honestly I've seen worse... *looks at the Predator*
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Honestly, as someone who deeply loves the original movie (and the books, though they are quite their own thing) I'm looking forward to this. Julie Andrews has given it her blessing, and it looks like a good mix of new stuff and a nostalgia trip. While yes, we are in the era of too many reboots/remakes/sequels I trust it could be fun.
(Also I really liked Christopher Robin and so if they got that right, I have hopes this one will be good too.)
DQ,
I never saw that Christopher Robin one but I have some degree of belief that this will not suck.
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DQ,
I never saw that Christopher Robin one but I have some degree of belief that this will not suck.
I strongly recommend Christopher Robin, and not just because Obi Wan is married to Agent Carter. It is very good, and it's delightful to see how they realized Pooh and co. Mind the plot is almost entirely predictable, but sometimes that's okay (same for Mary Poppins Returns--it's clear what the story will be but that's okay).
Yeah now I HAVE to see that just to see a time lost/Infinity Stone sent Agent Carter meet with a less powerful Obi-Wan. :)
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Yeah now I HAVE to see that just to see a time lost/Infinity Stone sent Agent Carter meet with a less powerful Obi-Wan. :)
Years ago you served my boyfriend in the Infinity War. Now he begs you to help him in the struggle against the Secret Empire.
I regret that I am unable to present the Captain's request to you in person, but my helicarrier has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to bring you to the Triskelion has failed.
I have placed information vital to the survival of the Avengers into the memory systems of this Christmas Android who talks like my friend Edwin. The Captain's friends will know how to retrieve it. You must see this android safely delivered to him. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
I hope Mary Poppins Returns has a Michael Rooker cameo.
They really need to.
I would TOTALLY watch the hell out of that movie, DQ. :)
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I hope Mary Poppins Returns has a Michael Rooker cameo.They really need to.
Wait, which reality am I in right now: Berenstain Bears or Berenstein Bears?
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I always thought it was utterly weird there are apparently people who think there was a 3rd "e" in "Berenstain" to the point of insisting they changed the name.
But I'm pretty sure Yondu was always Mary Poppins.
I always thought it was Berenstein to be honest, but then I am dyslexic and left handed, so.
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I did a whole thread on the berenstain vrs berestein phenomenon. Its the Mandella effect.
Oh and I revised my theory I think we are constantly on a day to day basic walking around in different universes they are just all so similar its hard to tell the difference. The theory on how that makes some sense is if you view the universes on a spectrum it makes since that the most similar ones would be closer and easier to access then drastically different universes.
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Could be worse. Somewhere, somewhen, a couple generations of kids are growing up developing fond childhood memories of the Ben Stein Bears. The worldwide epidemic of childhood narcolepsy and comas is devastating.
Vidmaster7, do you watch USA Network's Mr. Robot by any chance?
I only walk into other dimensions in my closet... Never my kitchen.
Could be worse. Somewhere, somewhen, a couple generations of kids are growing up developing fond childhood memories of the Ben Stein Bears. The worldwide epidemic of childhood narcolepsy and comas is devastating.
Vidmaster7, do you watch USA Network's Mr. Robot by any chance?
I watched half of the first season I keep meaning to go back and finish it.
I hope Mary Poppins Returns has a Michael Rooker cameo.
Because...?
Apparently I'm the only one who doesn't get it.
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*gasp* MANTIS LOOK OUT!
(Was I a little late?)
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I always thought it was Berenstein to be honest, but then I am dyslexic and left handed, so.
The issue is not that some folks might misread it, which is completely understandable, it's that apparently there are hordes of people who not just misread it, when the correct spelling is pointed out to them, they insist the spelling was changed and that they didn't just misread it. There's this whole weird alternate reality thing Vidmaster 7 is talking about, where people INSIST somehow they existed in a world where it was always "Berenstein" and the change in spelling is a sign of a reality shift.
I don't think it's alternate realities I think it's just a bunch of people not wanting to admit they made a mistake.
Am left handed and a good speller, so. (Though when I hand-write I often write letters in the wrong order and have to correct it.)
*wonders why no one asks about his closet...*
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and this
That explains why I'm alone on this. I didn't see GotG 2.
No. I can honestly say I doubt IHIYC wants to be in this particular closet.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and thisThat explains why I'm alone on this. I didn't see GotG 2.
I haven't seen Guardians either, and from what I saw of them in Avengers Infinity War, I doubt I ever will ...
Personally Infinity War did a bad job with most of the guardians.
I liked both Infinity War Guardians and their own movie ones.
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Okay, I just saw this and it was just lovely. Is it the exact magic of the first one? Of course not (and the first one is just one of my favorite movies ever). But they did a really good job.
It's interesting--yes, they do follow a LOT of the beats of the first movie. We have the nursery fantasy scene, the travel into a painting scene, the lowly streetworkers dance scene, etc., and lots of other similar smaller echoes--and in case you don't notice when they're paralleling the original movie, they play bits of the old Sherman score just to drive it home (which, mind, is woven beautifully into Mark Shaiman's score).
And YET there is also its own plot and characterizations and driving narrative that is its own. There's some key, good differences too that I liked. There's more tension and build up and tighter plotting, including some villainy and foreshadowing that makes it work better as a film narrative, even if it isn't much like the episodic nature of the books. Still, there were other things from the books I recognized and thought hit the beats of those well.
And, like the original, it made me cry about four times so it's a worthy successor in the heart-tugging.
I really liked the characterization of grownup Jane and Michael. Michael is still sensitive but has taken some notes from his father when stressed; Jane has taken after her mother's activism but without the flightiness. The three kids were delightful and really well performed and written. They were realistic takes on kids that have lost a mother and had some great moments. I also enjoyed Julie Walters playing an older version of Hermione Baddley's Ellen.
Emily Blunt was fantastic. I appreciated very much that she was playing Mary Poppins, not Julie-Andrews-as-Mary-Poppins. It is not the same performance and it shouldn't be. The character is recognizable (both from books and movie) and yet her performance is her own, which had to have been hard to pull off.
And of course I was delighted to see Navckid Keyd reprise his role, and he was everything I hoped he'd be. I clapped like a goofball when he appeared.
My only mild critiques... the score, as fantastic as it is, just does not quite match up to the original. It tries to recreate what the Sherman Bros did with leitmotif and it crosses the line into weird repetitiveness. It is not as... crystalline and evocative... it tries too hard to be the Sherman score but isn't. Mind, it's still great... it just wasn't quite grabbing me in the same way--maybe they would have done better to deviate more. And, somehow the panoramic London shots (with some CGI) do not match the wonderful magic of the matte paintings in the original (which they in fact reference at the beginning and end, which is lovely but I think only makes the contrast more noticeable). Finally, well... Lin Manuel Miranda was fine? And his cockney accent was... well, better than Bert's in the original, but that's about it. But everyone talks about him like he sings like silk and walks on air and so I was expecting some sort of knockout, blow-me-away scene stealing performance and he was... well, a guy who was there and sings. Really, he performed fine, and yet I feel disappointed due to expectations that were set too high (which perhaps is only my own fault). I don't understand the hype over him. (I get that IRL he's a good person and a good writer, but that has nothing to do with performance.)
All and all quite lovely. Money at the theater well spent.
Truly delightful from start to finish. Perhaps not quite as prolific in style as the original, but it never promised to be. It instead conflates much of what made it's predecessor great with it's own cute and chirpy little narrative. Good stuff!