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elleng

(130,865 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:47 PM Feb 2014

Saving Mr. Banks or August: Osage County?

What say you???

I have a chance to see one or the other tomorrow, and wonder which it should be.

Thanks

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Saving Mr. Banks or August: Osage County? (Original Post) elleng Feb 2014 OP

August Osage is excellent but very dark. redwitch Feb 2014 #1

Thanks, good info. elleng Feb 2014 #2

Loved Philomena! redwitch Feb 2014 #3

Ditto, I rarely go, elleng Feb 2014 #4

I am going to pass for now. redwitch Feb 2014 #6

August: Osage County. Marie Marie Feb 2014 #5

She was brilliant. redwitch Feb 2014 #7

I found both of them dreadfully depressing as well as boring. Scuba Feb 2014 #8

regarding Osage, see here: DebJ Feb 2014 #9

One is an almost complete fabrication. The other won a Pulitzer CBGLuthier Feb 2014 #10

Saving Mr. Banks LWolf Feb 2014 #11

redwitch

(14,944 posts)

1. August Osage is excellent but very dark.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 10:57 PM

Feb 2014

I wanted to see Saving Mr. Banks but was outvoted. I wouldn't compare the two, just wanted something lighter.

elleng

(130,865 posts)

2. Thanks, good info.

Reply to redwitch (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 11:02 PM

Feb 2014

Saw Philomena and 12 Years a Slave last week, so we'll decide whether we want dark or light.

redwitch

(14,944 posts)

3. Loved Philomena!

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 11:41 PM

Feb 2014

But it was heartbreaking. I hardly ever go to the movies and that was the one I saw before August:Osage. Next time definitely something lighter!

elleng

(130,865 posts)

4. Ditto, I rarely go,

Reply to redwitch (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 11:46 PM

Feb 2014

and loved Philomena, but heartbreaking, and THEN, 12 Years a Slave made Philomena feel LIGHTHEARTED!

redwitch

(14,944 posts)

6. I am going to pass for now.

Reply to elleng (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 12:00 AM

Feb 2014

I need light! Plus, I have been to 2 movies in two months I am way over my limit!

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

5. August: Osage County.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 11:50 PM

Feb 2014

Just for Ms. Streep's performance. She was amazing.

redwitch

(14,944 posts)

7. She was brilliant.

Reply to Marie Marie (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 12:02 AM

Feb 2014

I knew she would be, she always is.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

8. I found both of them dreadfully depressing as well as boring.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 07:30 AM

Feb 2014

Maybe you could just walk around an antique mall or visit some friends. Or re-arrange your sock drawer.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

9. regarding Osage, see here:

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 08:40 AM

Feb 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1270428

Banks brings back nice memories from my childhood.
But it made me cry also.

Apparently no one is making happy movies anymore.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

10. One is an almost complete fabrication. The other won a Pulitzer

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 09:01 AM

Feb 2014

I prefer my fiction totally fictional and find the Disney company's portrayal of its founder to be a steaming load of misogynist revisionism. Kindly, saintly Uncle Walt vs. that mean old biddy makes for a "greater" fantasy than any of the the firm's more fanciful products.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

11. Saving Mr. Banks

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 10:11 AM

Feb 2014

I don't know anything about the other, but I saw Mr. Banks recently with my teen-aged grandson; he thought he was humoring me, but ended up loving it. So did I.

I think you can't have been raised on Mary Poppins and not like that one.

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