Granted, Bedknobs and Broomsticks is better than you would expect for a movie trying to copy the formula of a classic like “Mary Poppins.” It was nice that B&B added another child, as the unnecessary third child made me believe I was seeing something original. I also enjoyed the overlong Portobello songs. After, what, 15? 20? Maybe 25 minutes of a repetitive and boring song with no relevance to the plot, I was beginning to think the movie would be an all time great. Then, perhaps the greatest song of all time “The Beautiful Briny” reared its ugly, but forgettable, head. Ah, yes, a fine movie indeed. Overall, I was impressed with the way B&B tried to stick to a previously successful formula, only taking time out for incredibly long and pointless deviations, but I still prefer Mary Poppins.
Yes.
Also, Diogenes said “fucking rebuttal.” <snicker>
Humph!
Although … :dubious:
Now that I’ve brought up that thread, perhaps I should re-examine my premise. I originally implied that Fenris was the devil. Now here he is, championing a movie where the main character is a …
… is a …
… is a WITCH!
And we know what they say about the devil and witches, don’t we? Oh, yes we do.
I think it’s obvious what’s going on here.
Fenris has had sex with Angela Lansbury!
J’acuse!
That’s such a fucking typical fucking bleeding-fucking-heart liberal fucking interpretation of that scene. [sub](Sorry, this is my first response to a pit thread and I got a little carried away.)[/sub] I can see how you’d be confused, but they’re saying "cockney."
There’s nothing at all gay about the chimney-sweeping scene. They’re chimney-sweeps who dance around in silhouette and do tricks with their broomsticks and whimsically shove themselves into tiny holes and okay I see your point.
I did notice in the other thread that Fenris the SATANIST, when he was listing the dull, lifeless songs in Mary Poppins he failed to mention the rousing Step in Time song, which is still one of the best Disney songs ever. But then,
Credit where credit’s due: that’s a good line.
yes! Yes!! YES!!!
I haven’t seen either movie, I hate sacharine musicals. But Euty as far as I’m concerned, marking your respective posts purely on the basis of what is important in this forum, Fenris wins.
Why?
You use “God” too many times. “My God”, “God fucking damn”, “My fucking God”. Enough with the deistic references already! I’m not religious, I’m not offended, I’m just bored.
Sheesh.
[sub]I liked Mary Poppins better.[/sub]
Just keep saying fuck, big daddy!
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I KNEW you guys reminded me of someone.
Mary Poppins is stupid as fuck. I have a huge collection of kids movies, and I swear that one will never go back in it. My boys (6 and 2) don’t even watch that POS.
On the other hand, bedknobs and broomsticks sucks ass too.
Sorry Fenris. While I agree with you for the most part, I got to the part where you make a reference to
And fell out of my chair laughing.
Mary Poppins >>>> B&B
Thanks! (But to give credit where credit is due, the line was from, and a tribute to The Simpsons.)
I am almost ashamed to admit that somehow in the course of my misspent yout’ I have never seen Bedknobs and Broomsticks (or possibly had suppressed any memory of having done so) and had always been a big fan of Mary Poppins, and thus had approached Fenris’s thread in CS with some degree of trepidation. Had I somehow neglected a masterpiece of childhood entertainment, thus warping my psyche forever? (While eager to jump on any excuse to explain my warped psyche, I somehow doubt this was actually the case. But I digress…)
When I saw this thread in The Pit I spent about three microseconds trying to figure out what Fenris could have said to arouse Euty’s ire* before opening it. Upon seeing the basis for his complaint, it was all I could do to keep from laughing so hard as to gain the unwanted attention of my manager and the subsequent discovery of my abuse of company time and equipment.
This is one of the reasons I joined SDMB.
*I was going to insert a smartass remark about the size of Euty’s aroused ire, but am restraining myself out of a sense of self-preservation. I’m sure there are others with more experience in these matters.
A pit-thread about the relative virtues of Mary Poppins V Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Wha?
You lousy pack of sorry-arsed sonsobitches need to get your heads read. How can you debate such a pointless issue? How can you waste your finger-energies and the bandwidth on these sorts of debatable non-events? All it takes is a spoonful of sugar to make the argument go down.
Of COURSE Mary Poppins wins this challenge. Sheesh…what sort of a moron would think otherwise?
A red cunt hair?
Anyway, as I see it, MP is vastly superior in music and dancing, weaker on story.
But what really puts MP over the top (besides the fact that Julie Andrews is much hotter than Angela Lansbury. Not that I don’t like A.L., but on a hottness meter…y’know) is the blending of the animation into the live action. I mean, the “Jolly Holiday” number, with the penguin waiters (and having penguin waiters is a plus, too, nothing like that in B&B), the Pearlies singing Supercaladstwstsjkdhmblsptrskgwdocious. It’s just more appealing; more atttractive; and the lighting effects are better, too.
While there’s nothing in MP to compare to the battle scene, keep in mind you have to wade through the entire movie to GET to the battle scene. MP delivers more consistently.
And anyone who doesn’t agree with me is cordially invited to bite me and die.
I haven’t seen B&B, but the T&A on MP was clearly the movie’s saving grace, IMHO.
Don’t ya just love drive-by pittings? Some no-name “moderator” pits a respected poster for no good reason, then flies off to make asinine comments in other threads. Anyway, B&B won an Oscar (best effects, 1972) WTF did MP ever win? Oh yeah:- B&B had David Tomlinson in it. Where was he when MP crawled from beneath the floorboards?
In regards to the OP:
I don’t remember seeing a Simpsons spoof of B & B, thus proving the superiority of MP.
However, Futurama did a spoof of Willy Wonka… - thus negating both B & B AND MP.
Thus spake the Movie Bastard.
I’m just wishing someone had dared post the ENTIRE lyrics to “Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang”.