Good job Disney never did a number on Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” then.
/pet peeve
:eek:
interesting memories…which leads me to a somewhat deeper question:
Why is Chitty C.Bang Bang still in existence, and why do so many of us remember it?
I missed it as a kid, and have only seen it once, as an adult babysitting a 9 year old. I tried to find something enjoyable in the film but couldn’t. The kid also wandered off in the middle. That should be proof that it was a bad movie.
But here’s my point: I saw it 20 years ago, so why do I even remember the movie at all?
Most movies that you only see once, you forget completely. So there has to something special enough about CCBB which gives us Dopers reason to discuss it.
THAT sounds like it would make a great movie! Maybe even better than Casino Royale the only Bond flick (IMNSHO) that’s worth seeing more than once, or even once, for that matter.
I lke to think that if C-C/B-B had been a more successful movie, Fleming might have given us more stories about her, and abandoned the infantile Cold-Warrior.
Sadly, Fleming was long gone by the time they even decided to make the movie.
Right there you lose the claim to “absolutely no relationship”.
Shrug…whatever. By that logic “James and the Giant Peach” and “Dr. No” are the same story because both star characters name “James” who go for a long flight in the course of their respective novels.
He probably means “earworms,” which are songs which get stuck in your head. Mssrs. Sherman and Sherman have written a ton of catchy songs over the years, most infamously It’s A Small World.
I think you streched that logic so far that it snapped.
Heh. Me too 
Because it’s the first cinematic exposure a lot of us have to Transformers, silly.
Just give me the bits with the car; everything else is junk.
When in Keswick, England, visit two of the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cars at the Cars of the Stars museum. (Six cars were built, and two of those were destroyed in making the movie.)
View from Skiddaw’s nice too.
Christ! Almost forty years, and now that goddamn “Toot Sweet” song is bubbling up out of my childhood memory archive. Thanks a lot.
I remember that I liked the book better.
I think I’ll go home and watch it tonight. 