My suspicions about Mary Poppins validated...
Courtesy of RockinBrian, via Bookmole...the truth about Mary Poppins.
Often, whenever I mention my hatred of Mary Poppins, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Disney movies starring Kurt Russell or Jodie Foster, and all of the claymation characters in the Christmas movies like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- yes, even the little red-nosed reindeer with the deviated septum -- and The Year Without Santa Claus, people's mouths fall open. Their lips quiver as they try and find the words suitable enough to express the dismay they feel at this Scroogely opinion. Then pity enters their eyes, no less intense than the pitiable gazes they would cast upon lepers and people who don't have cable or dish.
Maybe this little video will convince you of the demonic undertones that exist in Mary Poppins.
One day I hope to educate the world on the evils of clowns.
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What am I going to do with you? I'm going to have to work on getting you over here to the I Hate Mary Poppins side.:)
Wasn't that great editing, though? It's very funny.
So tell me, from what does your hatred stem?
Mediocrity. Most - not all - of the movies produced in the 60s and the first half of the 70s are, in my humble opinion, trite and mediocre. The child stars were not memorable - except for Hayley Mills in her early years - and the plots were not interesting. When my grandparents took me to see Mary Poppins in '64 or '65, I was bored to tears, and later, when Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang came along, it set my teeth on edge to see Dick Van Dyke, comic genius, act look like an English goober.
I also don't like The Sound of Music.
"Hatred" was used strictly for comedy. This is how I really feel about those movies.
Hilarious trailer. That just goes to show that it's all about editing and music.
"loathe entirely"...okay yes, much better choice of words Maureen
I'll join the force friends! What in the heck does "chim chiminy, chim chim cheree chim charaoo" mean anyways?
Makes you want to shove a "spoon full of sugar" right down Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke mouths, eh?
Okay, I'm really not that cruel and I do have to admit that as a child I did enjoy having the word
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in my vocabulary. (did I spell that correctly?)
At the risk of being ostracized.... I love Sound of Music..... scenery is beautiful and it has a couple fun songs, IMHO. Still sing them today. Maybe that's what's wrong with me.
I never watched Mary Poppins all the way thru. Guess it wasn't my 'cup of tea' er, 'spoonful of sugar'. Is that a redeemable quality in your estimation? :-)
Amanda, we'll get you in the end, my pretty.
Mz B, THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! It's like a cult code or something...
Susan, yes, being unaffected by Mary Poppins is a good sign. In fact, since you aren't affected by it in any way, you will probably be a good candidate for secret missions, if you know what I mean.
Then may I humbly offer up this in hopes if furthering the research for your anti-clown thesis. :)
Thanks, Kirk. I enjoyed your essay and I'll try not to steal every word of it when I write my Nobel winning prize paper.
It's all about education.
Now the Wizard of Oz is a movie that disturbed me. I, however, loved Mary Poppins.
That video was seriously funny though. Thanks for the hearty laugh.
Have you read the book on the life of the Wicked Witch of the West?
If you're talking about Wicked, yes. Everyone kept talking about how good it was, so I caved and read it. It was interesting, but I enjoyed the last chapter the most, where she finally starts acting...well, wicked.
All of them, GP? Even the *hitty-*hitty one?
crossposted from the video
This is a guilt-induced comment. Maureen, I feel I must come clean with you. I've not been perfectly honest. I wanted to be a wierdo like you but I need to come clean for now. Maureen, I know you would have never suspected this but I am a collector of Mary Poppins stuff. I've got a doll from the 60's, books, a thermos, a giant disk, ...a record... I thought you should know so that you could properly evaluate the value of your neighbors. I should've told you in December but....
I think this is a case of you not having enough to do and sitting there stewing in your own guilt juices (ick). You are absolutely right, I would never have pegged you for a Mary Poppins shrine. I can just see you, walking to school with your evil-icon thermos and book covers, singing about some spoonful of medicine making the sugar impossible to tolerate, or something like that.
Where's Mz. Butterworth? Did she know this? Hmmmm?