[MK Chris]

Dick Van Dyke's pseudo "english" accent in MP is amazing.

It's not even one of those "good because of how bad it is" things. It's just dreadful.

[kendra k]

this is what my partner tries to imitate when he goes for a british accent. it makes me want to dump him.

[Yudster]

Sorry to disappoint you S4B - the thing is, I accidentally saw the worst film of all time - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that is - and I have been careful to avoid Dick van Dyke ever since. And as for the Sound of Music - well, I've seen the first half hour of it, and for me there's only so much Julie Andrews I can manage in one sitting.

[Console]

I accidentally saw the worst film of all time - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

So much of that film is just ridiculous. The part where he's on stage and somehow joins in perfectly with the show singing 'Me 'Ole Bamboo' (after a few seconds of being out of step to show that he didn't know the routine) has got to be the worst part of any film, ever; especially considering all the other performers give all their earnings to Potts (or whatever his name is) despite him not being an actual part of the performance.

[Boboff]

That is Amazin Yuds, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a cool film, and Console why is that any more unbelievable than Aliens, or Time Travel or Doctor Who or Dungeons and dragons, yes I know they are all fiction but so is CCBB & MP, personally I think that SofM is rubbish, but I love the others and Annie & Oliver, when you see a small child watching these films, you can appreciate that they are simple escapism with some core values of Good versus evil, Family is important, and love will out.

bedknobs and broomsticks is another firm family favorite, and I think that a lion who is a king playing football is far more unbelieveable than Dickie boy doing a dance..... who's to say that Dicks Character wasn't a regular at the fair prior to his wife's untimely demise ?

*all point made a rhetorical l*

[Console]

Console why is that any more unbelievable than Aliens, or Time Travel or Doctor Who

Do you mean Aliens the film, or aliens in general?

It isn't more unbelievable than time travel.

Doctor Who's story lines are more than sufficient for me to suspend my disbelief; CCBB's story is not.

I think that a lion who is a king playing football is far more unbelieveable than Dickie boy doing a dance

You mean the cartoon lion?

who's to say that Dicks Character wasn't a regular at the fair prior to his wife's untimely demise ?

In that case, if he knew the routine so well, why was he so out of time at the beginning, and, more to the point, why did the other performers give him all of the money they earned?

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[Yudster]

I don't mind the plot being an exercise in fantasy, its a film, thats ok - I hate the simpering sickly children though, and Dick van Dyke is the worst actor I have ever seen, including Kesvin Costner. The whole film is so sugary I get toothache just thinking about it.

[Boboff]

Well, I like the film, and you guys don't, thats ok, your opinion of it will not spoil my future enjoyment of these classics, really who cares why he couldn't remember the dance to start with ?

I like sickly kids, and I like Dick van Dyke, I grew up scared of the Children Catcher.

We all have a choice as to when to suspend our disbelief don't we ? Whose to say what is unbelievable and what is engaging and entertaining. ( Well except Console of course, who to quote the great gas states his opinions as if they are facts)

[DemonHorse]

Were you a Nazi?

No, that was Prince Harry wasn't it?

[Console]

Whose to say what is unbelievable and what is engaging and entertaining. ( Well except Console of course...

I never said it was unbelievable, you brought up it's 'believability'; I said it was ridiculous.

[Boboff]

Right and now you want to debate the semantics of when something is ridiculous, or when something is unbelievable....... Really I don't care, it's childish.

Good God man, get a life, with drivel responses like that it's no wonder you get such rubbish replies from some others.

DON'T KNOW WHO I MEAN? *this is a clue*

[Zoot]

I can't believe you are having a discussion on the plausibility on a children's movie about a flying car...

[Console]

Right and now you want to debate the semantics of when something is ridiculous, or when something is unbelievable

No, but if someone is accusing me of something, I would, at the very least, like them to get the facts straight.

[Ballbag]

Console...... it's not like he's accusing you of murder.

[Boboff]

I can't believe you are having a discussion on the plausibility on a children's movie about a flying car...

Hey, don't get me wrong I know it's not plausible, it's just entertainment.

All I was saying was that to enjoy the film and not see it as ridiculous, or unbelievable, ( The words are really interchangeable) you have to suspend your disbelief, which others choose to do in other ways, and not really knowing what fictional films Console Likes I thought to compare it to Doctor Who, which I know he has watched and enjoyed previously.

To say MP is Pish as DvD does a dance without rehearsal is the same as saying that about when Doctor Who mutated into a human in 1912 and locked his "soul" in a pocket watch, and was looked after by a black maid in a public school until something landed in a field and took over the bodies of a farmer and his wife, and a Blaggard from the school, oh and there was also a pupil who could see into the future.........

And Zoot most of the film is a dream / story told sequence, thats when the car fly's ( well except at the end, but you could call that poetic license )

And console

Right and now you want to debate the semantics of when something is ridiculous, or when something is unbelievable

No, but if someone is accusing me of something, I would, at the very least, like them to get the facts straight.

I am, and was not accusing you of being anything other than a shallow pedantic self opinionated Moderator.

[Console]

ridiculous, or unbelievable, ( The words are really interchangeable)

Of course they're not interchangeable, they have entirely different meanings. To call something ridiculous is to call it silly or absurd, whereas to call something unbelievable is to imply it is not plausible, that the chance of it happening to incredibly remote or impossible.

I am, and was not accusing you of being anything other than a shallow pedantic self opinionated Moderator.

I never said otherwise, I simply said that you were accusing me. Is it really that difficult to read the words that I've written?

[Yudster]

Yes, sometimes it really is. But probably not for the reasons you think.

[DemonHorse]

Good God man, get a life, with drivel responses like that it's no wonder you get such rubbish replies from some others.

Same could be said for you harrassing Viv's threads.

[Ballbag]

Mr Horsey, you appear to have developed a great fondness for Viv and her threads....... I can't blame you, she is an interesting young woman.

[foot-loose]

I can't believe you are having a discussion on the plausibility on a children's movie about a flying car...

I was about to say the same.

It has a flying car. A car. That can fly. In the air.

But yea, lets argue about whither its real or not.

[Yudster]

Its not the car thats the problem with the film. The car is probably the best actor in it. Except for the old English bloke whose name I can't remember, the grandad. Or uncle, or whatever he was.

[kendra k]

i'm with the haters on chitty chitty bang bang. i don't dislike it because the of the implausibility of a flying car, but because it's overly hokey to me and i can't stand the faux-cockney dick van dyke. (i don't think he's done anything of note since the dick van dyke show.) the animation was a cool thing at the time, but the rest of the movie is just too saccharine.

[kendra k]

close, it was diagnosis murder. with scott baio i think. it was terrible and can be found on the old folks channel with matlock and perry mason of the 80s.

[Yudster]

I used to have a massive crush on Scott Baio, from when he did Bugsy Malone. Is he still alive?

[kendra k]

yeah and he has a new show: scott baio is 45 and single. in it, he has a life coach help him figure out why he can't commit and we get to watch him and is middle aged friends treat women like trash.