You know, maybe I’m not as smart as some of the rest of the FReepers around here, but I liked the music, I liked the dancing, I liked the songs, I liked the MAGIC of it all.
And I will LOVE Julie Andrews until the day I die. :)
Maybe when I saw it first (as a kid) I was just enthralled that someone that MAGICAL could come into my life; not that I had a horrible childhood or anything, because I didn’t, but still - what a Kids’ Dream Come True!
I did not like it, and still do not, though I like both DVD and JA.
That is irrelevant. Enjoy what you enjoy, as long as it is not inherently evil. You are entitled, and it really of itself says nothing about your intellectual or philosophical propensities (and if it did, so what?)
I love John Wayne movies. I used to read comic books. Many have looked down on me for each, saying they are beneath a man of my intellect (genius IQ).
There is room for much more in life than many of us think: If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
I became a huge Tolkien fan around age 11. At 16 I was invited to a pastoral conference because I was being groomed for the ministry. I was both amazed and dismayed to hear both Tolkien and Lewis generally denounced as inappropriate reading fare for Christian adolescents.
As Tolkien might say to such critics: That is all right; I think the same way about what you like.