JohnMor
Senior HTF Member
Wait! Are you guys saying movies like The Conjuring, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Funny Girl and JFK may not be the unvarnished truth?? Next you'll have me questioning 1776 or Shakespeare's history plays!
My wife and I went to see this last night with my daughter and son-in-law.Jason_V said:I wasn't at all concerned that the story as presented wasn't 100% factual. This kind of thing happens in every single movie made...show me one based on a true story where the facts are perfect. You're not going to find one.
The yardstick I used was if I was entertained and moved by the movie. That answer is yes. Do I want to see it again? Yes. Were Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks superb? Yes. Did I care about those characters at the end of the day? Yes.
If this was a documentary, then I'd be more inclined to rake it across the coals for the facts being incorrect. But here? Nope, not going to happen.
Or the Disney folks giving 1961Travers a stuffed plush of a character who wouldn't appear onscreen till 1966.Mike Frezon said:anachronisms such as the brushed stainless ticket gates that wouldn't have been in use in the 1960s...
(Oh, thought that was PInocchio's Village Haus restaurant, or am I thinking of the East Coast?Tommy R said:Saw it and loved it, VERY moving and emotional. Here's my favorite historical inaccuracy: In the Disneyland scene, you can see the Pinocchio's Daring Journey ride, and that ride did not open until 1983!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I usually dread seeing Giamatti simply because he's in freakin' EVERYTHING (and I never even saw Lady in the Water, although I saw the John Adams series), and I cringed when I first saw he was going to play the Chirpy 60's-American Hollywood Person to torment Travers, but I never expected the script to give his character a little sympathy and depth. That helped me conquer my Neverland/Depp fears much more than Hanks and Thompson ever could, not that they didn't do so badly either.Ronald Epstein said:The best part of this film is Paul Giamatti as the driver. Another one of the very best actors of our generation.
Speaking of the movie's performances, I thought the people in the smaller roles (like Colin Farrell, Bradley Whitford, Jason Schwartzman, B.J. Novak and Melanie Paxson [I think that's her name, the lady who played Walt's secretary]) were also pretty good too.Brandon Conway said:Thompson does a wonderful job, and Hanks is admirably strong as Disney, who has a persona perhaps too disseminated into our consciousness to ever be encapsulated by any actor; but Giamatti in very few scenes delivers a performance of depth for a man that is, as Tolkien would say, "simple folk"...
Hanson, you really ought to do something about that...Hanson said:I have never watched Mary Poppins,...
If the HTF has taught me anything over the decade plus I've been here...it's your never too old to dive into something new. You don't have to be "young" to appreciate anything Disney. Just be open to a new experience.Hanson said:I think that ship sailed when I hit my 30's. And that was a while ago.
A well made movie will always be waiting at the dock for you. Get on board and then it will sail.Hanson said:I think that ship sailed when I hit my 30's. And that was a while ago.
I might have seen Mary Poppins once as a kid so I don't have the love that some here have for it but having seen it a few times as an adult, I still find it to be an enjoyable movie and well worth watching. It's not as if someone will see it and have a new favorite movie but I'd be surprised if they really disliked the movie either.Hanson said:I think that ship sailed when I hit my 30's. And that was a while ago.
I had the advantage of seeing this movie back in the 80's with a first-time (for them) mostly teens/adults audience with a reasonably (about 80%) clean slate of my own, and we were knocked back on our seats by the intelligence of it--Every time you think you know where this movie is going, it pulls another script, effect, humor, art-direction, or otherwise Walt-era surprise out of its hat literally until the end credits. We're talking an actual "Never a dull moment" movie, and when that's 138 minutes, that's pretty impressive.Hanson said:I think that ship sailed when I hit my 30's. And that was a while ago.
Ask people who hadn't seen it since a kid to name the first scene that springs to mind, and they'll probably make some joke about Julie Andrews prancing around a Victorian children's bedroom singing about a spoonful of sugar. Come to think of it, so did PL Travers.TravisR said:I might have seen Mary Poppins once as a kid so I don't have the love that some here have for it but having seen it a few times as an adult, I still find it to be an enjoyable movie and well worth watching. It's not as if someone will see it and have a new favorite movie but I'd be surprised if they really disliked the movie either.