'So I'm Watching "Mary Poppins" With The Kids

[Panther_99FS]

Why don't we make movies like this anymore :ques:

[Dangerousdave26]

The wife and I were asking the same thing earlier this year when we bought the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Now that is a classic great movie that does not age. :applause:

[Dain Arns]

Why don't we make movies like this anymore :ques:

Hmmm. I think they do, just in a different medium.
Maybe this one slipped by you?

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[Kiwikat]

Why don't we make movies like this anymore :ques:

Glad we don't. :barf:

Then again I don't like the movies we have today either... :toilet:

[Panther_99FS]

Fellers',
I'm partial to the 1930s-1970s Disney films....:mixedsmi:
--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_feature_films

[Rami]

The wife and I were asking the same thing earlier this year when we bought the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Now that is a classic great movie that does not age. :applause:

I couldn't agree more! :salute:

[gradyhappyg]

Since about half the movies they make these days are remakes (just saw a promo for the "NEW" Red Dawn) maybe they will make it again. Won't be a good as the original but it will have better special effects and more product placement.

[Naismith]

We areo on season 2 of ....... wait for it.........

Little House on the Prairie

and we're out of Kleenex. :applause:

Seriously though, what great wholesome viewing. Nothing comparable these days. We missed out on this in the 70's as we were always at work, now catching up big time on some great shows.

Last week finished with Tenko and have Secret Army awaiting attention.

We sgould be petitioning our TV stations to dump these reality shows and make great drama again.

[aircav1970]

I HATE TV anymore, the only things I watch nowadays are the Discovery Channels,Smithsonian etc.... Network television has no redeeming factors going for it at all,very disappointing......Even cable isn't very good anymore,Showtime and Encore play the same stuff over and over again...:icon_eek:

[luckydog]

I just finished watching "Lady and the Tramp" for the umpteenth time.......

[Panther_99FS]

I just finished watching "Lady and the Tramp" for the umpteenth time.......


Good one! :jump:
I went a bit more modern - watching Memphis Belle now.....:mixedsmi:

[Jagdflieger]

I grew up in the 50s and the 60s, so Disney Movies were always anticipated and attended. The Sunday evening Disney TV show as well as the Mickey Mouse Club were all on our black and white TV complete with rabbit ear antenna until I thought I was too old to watch 'em anymore. Thank goodness I got to see 'em again after the wife and I started our family.

[Panther_99FS]

I grew up in the 50s and the 60s, so Disney Movies were always anticipated and attended. The Sunday evening Disney TV show as well as the Mickey Mouse Club were all on our black and white TV complete with rabbit ear antenna until I thought I was too old to watch 'em anymore. Thank goodness I got to see 'em again after the wife and I started our family.

Jagd,
I grew up in the 70s but I sure as heck remember waiting for Sunday evening's Wonderful World Of Disney along with the periodic theatrical releases and showing of the 30s-60s classic on the tele! :jump::jump::jump:

[CG_1976]

I just love the Disney movie Herbie and the Disney take on Robin Hood with the animal characters.

[Daveroo]

sunday nights at my house,we had to have dinner at 5pm,my sister and i were showered and readied for bed before 7pm,thats when disney's wonderfull world of disney came on,and we allways had a small bowl of popcorn each and a glass of soda...we werent allowed much soda..so it was a real treat..i especailly liked the specail two hour movie nights,because i was allowed to stay up...bedtime for davey ws 8pm in those days...lol..

now-a-days i prefer "film noir"..i have a dvd set of 100 of the best of noir..movies from the heyday of the 40s and early 50s..good stuff..and then im a nut for anything from the early 30s.."pre-code"..TCM is starting to not only sell some on dvd,but also are showing some..been some great old Constance Bennentt movies from the pre-code days and just after this month.

and cant beat the thinman movies...have them all on dvd aswell....i watch them all in a row once a year..

and some great TV from 2000/2001...the A&E series of Nero Wolfe,staring Timmothy hutton and Maury Chakin....based on Rex Stouts stories....as good as the David Suchet Poirot shows,...good stuff..

[limjack]

Jagd,
I grew up in the 70s but I sure as heck remember waiting for Sunday evening's Wonderful World Of Disney along with the periodic theatrical releases and showing of the 30s-60s classic on the tele! :jump::jump::jump:

Ahhh yes, Sunday night Disney and a treated to a bowl of ice cream or chocolate pudding. Those were the days.

Happy thought

Jim

[limjack]

Come to think of it, on Thanksgiving day evening they used to always show Chitty chitty bang bang. I think "Home alone" replaced it. Always love that show but of course disliked that feller with the big nose who sniffed out kids.

Jim

[TeaSea]

We watched "My Fair Lady" on TCM last night, which is one of my 16 year old's favorite movies....along with "Mary Poppins".

So, now I'm out looking for the Blue Ray's of both. She is very partial to musicals.

Our choice (and debate) of theater this year is to either see "The Nutcracker" or "Mary Poppins" on stage at the Straz here in Tampa. I love going to the theater. It's a dress up event for me (well, suit anyway, maybe not tux) with drinks at intermission....the whole thing.

I think "Mary Poppins is going to win out....we've seen "The Nutcracker" on stage several times.

I'm like Panther though, I'm partial to certain Disney and R&H (Messrs Rogers and Hammerstein) from a certain period.

[OBIO]

I just finished watching "Lady and the Tramp" for the umpteenth time.......

Luckydog....we don't need to know about your porn viewing habits LOL!


I totally agree that there is little entertainment in the world of entertainment these days. Television is nothing but junk. Movies....the best movies to hit the screen the last several years have been animated features....there have been a few regular movies that Deb and I have liked, but not many. Remake after remake is what Hollyweird is doing......read that they have a remake of Dirty Dancing in the works...how the heck can it be Dirty Dancing without Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray? Horror movies aren't scary anymore....they are just excessively gory.

We ditched cable some years back and have NO regrets about doing so. Netflix and an every growing collection of DVD and Blue Ray movies is how Deb and I fulfill our movie watching needs. Just have to love those $5 movie tubs at Walmart!

Tim

[Rami]

Good morning,

Great entertainment? I gotta admit, the original Muppet Movie still does it for me.

[brad kaste]

I've gotta' go with the Muppet's "A Christmas Carol." Still makes me laugh and laugh after all these years. Especially Gonzo the Great and Rizzo the Rat.

[Rami]

Brad,

I LOVE the Muppet Christmas Carol! :salute:

"Oh wait, I forgot my jelly beans."

"You can fit through those bars?"

"Yeah..."

"You are such an idiot!"

[T Square]

In our house growing up it was Sunday night after dinner Mutual of Omaha "Wild Kingdom", The Wondeful World of Disney, and Bonanza, then bed.

[Panther_99FS]

In our house growing up it was Sunday night after dinner Mutual of Omaha "Wild Kingdom",

Ah yes.....I loved that one too!!!!
Man talk about memories!!! - They just don't make 'em like they used to!.....:frown:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZg2tE3xJDY

[gradyhappyg]

Wild Kingdom and poor Jim Fowler! While Marlin stayed in the blind Jim got to wrestle the gator,lion,tiger,big snake ETC. Then Sunday Mystery Theater where it was a rotating showing of McCloud,Columbo,McMillan and Wife and a couple of others I can't remember anymore. As bad as most theater movies are these days TV has gotten even worse.

[T Square]

One of my favorites was Fess Parker and Buddy Gibson, in Disney's Legend of Davy Crockett. Those were days when TV wasn't filled with blood, murder, gore and violance as it is now. Remember "Combat" you knew what was going on yet I can't remember having actually seen Vic Murrow kill a German on that show. Now many of the shows on TV our filled with Violence and killing for no justified or morale reason, an our childern our becoming more numb to it everyday. Very sad indeed, very sad.

[wombat666]

We really don't bother with 'Television' as it is today.
Even the so-called 'Pay TV Channels' are riddled with commercials and the FTA networks (ABC and SBS excepted) are run by idiots.
"Sigz munz ergo I cuden spil 'Telavishun Execatif', now I r wun."
Way back when we were kids the networks had strict quotas and had to toe the line, unlike today when anything goes and running 10+ minutes overtime is the norm.
I built up a PC that streams almost anything we want for nothing which I can save to a PVR to view at our leisure ........ without 'Advertising'.
:cool:

[wombat666]

Now many of the shows on TV our filled with Violence and killing for no justified or morale reason, an our childern our becoming more numb to it everyday. Very sad indeed, very sad.

And that is just the 7:00PM News!
:icon_eek:

[KellyB]

Wild Kingdom and poor Jim Fowler! While Marlin stayed in the blind Jim got to wrestle the gator,lion,tiger,big snake ETC. Then Sunday Mystery Theater where it was a rotating showing of McCloud,Columbo,McMillan and Wife and a couple of others I can't remember anymore. As bad as most theater movies are these days TV has gotten even worse.

Ah yes. "While Jim takes care of the python, I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about Mutual of Omaha" was one of my favorite phrases.

I do recall the Zoo Parade episode (live tv) when Merlin got squeezed by the python. All you could see was him, still talking about what the snake was doing, and all these hands suddenly appearing and pulling the snake off him. I believe he sustained a couple of cracked ribs. What a man! The show must go on! So he could take it as Fowler could.

[brad kaste]

Ah yes. "While Jim takes care of the python, I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about Mutual of Omaha" was one of my favorite phrases.

I do recall the Zoo Parade episode (live tv) when Merlin got squeezed by the python. All you could see was him, still talking about what the snake was doing, and all these hands suddenly appearing and pulling the snake off him. I believe he sustained a couple of cracked ribs. What a man! The show must go on! So he could take it as Fowler could.




Speaking of snakes,.....Marlin Perkins got bit by a Timber Rattlesnake during a pre-show rehearsal for the Zoo Parade. We felt Marlin was one of ours since he was the director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Eventually,...he went back to his roots of Missouri and became director of the St. Louis zoo.
What this country needs,...and badly lacking,....are persons of integrity and moral character such as a Marlin Perkins, Roy Rogers,....and Neil Armstrong.

[Daveroo]

tidbit about Mr Perkins from his wikipedia page,

Because Walt Disney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney) had fabricated footage of a mass suicide of lemmings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming) in its film White Wilderness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)),[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Perkins#cite_note-5) then CBC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_News) journalist Bob McKeown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_McKeown) asked Marlin Perkins if he had done the same. Perkins, then in his seventies, "firmly asked for the camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown in the face."


gotta love him for that...

[aircav1970]

Speaking of nature shows I loved "Wild Kingdom" and recently Discovery HD Channel has been running a holiday marathon of a show called "Speed Of Life" that has a photo crew,using state of the art camera gear that is capable of extreme slow-motion capture visiting all the most intense areas for wildlife/insects on the planet and they have gotten some of the most unusual and beautiful footage I've ever seen on video.On one episode the crew set up in an area frequented by a troop of Baboons,when they first got there the Baboons were suspicious and a bit aggressive but after a few days the Baboons accepted the crew into their troop and actually started "grooming" the crew when evening came around.Very cool stuff,I highly recommend the series if you see it in your area,well worth watching!:cool:

[Odie]

Luckydog....we don't need to know about your porn viewing habits LOL!


I totally agree that there is little entertainment in the world of entertainment these days. Television is nothing but junk. Movies....the best movies to hit the screen the last several years have been animated features....there have been a few regular movies that Deb and I have liked, but not many. Remake after remake is what Hollyweird is doing......read that they have a remake of Dirty Dancing in the works...how the heck can it be Dirty Dancing without Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray? Horror movies aren't scary anymore....they are just excessively gory.

We ditched cable some years back and have NO regrets about doing so. Netflix and an every growing collection of DVD and Blue Ray movies is how Deb and I fulfill our movie watching needs. Just have to love those $5 movie tubs at Walmart!

Tim

Tim, the purpose of cable or satellite TV is not to provide quality, enjoyable entertainment, but to provide hundreds of channels to surf through! As SEINFELD pointed out, "men don't care what's on TV, they care what else is on TV!"

Seriously, outside of History Channel, Military Channel, Military History Channel, Discovery & NatGEO, it's a wasteland out there. If it really gets bad, I'll throw in a disc of Ozzie & Harriet episodes or some Ma & Pa Kettle films. When my son was 25, he had never seen an episode of Ozzie & Harriet, and sat down and had a hoot watching a few with me. He turned to me and said, "Why can't they make shows like that today?" The great thing about the set of O&H DVDs that I have is that they left the commercials intact. Talk about memory lane!!