and they actually thought the little criminals in training of today want to see a remake of times gone by???
Posted on 12/20/2018 12:38:59 PM PST by simpson96
“Mary Poppins Returns” scored only $4.7 million on its opening day yesterday. Projections for the five day weekend are $35 million, which is very low. Twice that should have been the result.
Disney has a problem on its hands because it planned sequels and has invested a lot in retooling its most prized film. Rob Marshall did an excellent job, and Emily Blunt is wonderful, frankly. The animation is terrific. Surprise appearances from Meryl Streep, Dick van Dyke, and Angela Lansbury just add to the thrill of it all. Lin Manuel Miranda is quite terrific, too.
But Rotten Tomatoes has “Mary Poppins Returns” at a low 78. The New York Times’s Manohla Dargis didn’t help, eviscerating the new movie in her review. The headline was a killer–
“A Truck Full of Sugar Can’t Make This Uplift Go Down”
Yikes.
Remember the movie “Saving Mr. Banks”? Somehow I think P.L. Travers, who wrote “Mary Poppins,” has jinxed this movie. Or maybe it’s just bad karma. Disney held a “private” opening of the movie in New York this week, didn’t invite press, and staged the whole thing at a not very glamorous theater. It was a sign of bad things to come.
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Remakes of classics never work. Next they’ll try to remake Casablanca.
When I saw that Dick van Dyke was in it, I actually wanted to see the film.
But then again it would be a pirated copy, so not like I would add to the box office receipts.
I’m still mad they replaced Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and ruined the Tiki room with snark.
Rotten Tomatoes has always confused me. The title alone makes me thing of something I don’t value, don’t want and don’t pay any attention to. I’m sure I missed the ‘joke’ of the title.
Back in the days of only live theatre, audiences would make their opinions known by cheering or by throwing rotten vegetables.
Oh, I know where the saying comes from.
I just don’t like that image in mind while I seek film advice.
I don’t know about the movie but the trailer I saw was awful and did not seem to fit the spirit of the story.
Then again, my Dad used to force all of us to watch the original with him every year, for reasons he never explained.
So everything is political, but if a leftist rag trashes it, it must be good.
In this case, the audience reviews are at 71 and lower than the critics’ reviews. That is unusual for the ones I check.
One of the two comments that stood out complained that the movie seemed more about Miranda’s character than Mary Poppins. The other: “less than a sequel than a muddled attempt to clone the elements of the original film. “
Meh.
Like with the remake of Willy Wonka, sometimes the original is so superior that it causes the remake to be far less watchable than it would be had it been presented to an audience unfamiliar with the story.
I’ve given up on guessing what the unfortunately named Pound Me Too movement is going to do at any given time.
How does a Nuyorican end up in 1930s London?
Sounds like it’s lacking in CGI effects, lots of gratuitous killing, same sex interracial relationships and SJWs.
Can’t have a winning movie without at least one of those four key elements nowadays.
I’m taking the grandkids to see it during Christmas vacation. This is finally a family movie that has real people in it. Tired of animated movies..
Looking forward to it. I’m wondering what kids would have been able to go on a school day yesterday.
and they actually thought the little criminals in training of today want to see a remake of times gone by???
If it is a family film why is it rated PG?
I think rotten tomatoes confuses a bunch of people because it has to be explained in every article how it works over and over again
Rex Reed is 80 now. It seems that he’s been around forever.
I recall Rex during the days of Mr. Blackwell. Remember him?
Mr. Blackwell would come out with a list of the 10 worst dressed women, and visit the talk shows with that list.
Liza Minelli was often on it.
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