Am I the only one who despises “The Sound of Music?”

[KansDem]

OK, let me explain. When I was in the sixth grade, “The Sound of Music” came out. Now, there was one movie theater in the general area that I could walk to. One. And that was the “Lakewood” located at Carson St. and Lakewood Blvd. in Long Beach, California. ONE. All other theaters we had to have someone’s mom drive us there and pick us up. Not an impossible task, but it certainly required long-term planning and diplomacy. Now, the movies changed their features on Wednesday, so I would run to get the paper and see what movie was showing at the Lakewood, in hopes of rounding up a pal or two and going.

Well, for some reason, TSOM came to the Lakewood and stayed…and stayed…and stayed…and stayed.

Throughout the whole year, I would run and fetch the Press-Telegram and quickly open it up to the movie section, only to see…

HELD OVER 3 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
HELD OVER 11 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
HELD OVER 19 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
HELD OVER 24 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
HELD OVER 36 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
HELD OVER 47 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”
HELD OVER 52 GLORIOUS WEEKS—“THE SOUND OF MUSIC!”

That’s right—it was there FOR OVER A YEAR!!!

I would rip the paper open and there would be a picture of Julie Andrews, dancing through the Alps with a guitar in one hand and a line of urchins trailing her.

I didn't want to see this movie! The Lakewood might have just as well closed for that year for all I cared.


WHA...???

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[quip]

1. Nice post, Rolfe

Yes, you are. Why do you hate America????? :shrug:

[KansDem]

5. Yeah? "Hate America" do I?

You think maybe it might be that someone who lists "guitar" as a hobby would be offended by someone who would criticize a picture of someone carrying a guitar? You think? Maybe? Hmm?

[quip]

11. I'm not offended in the least. Fondness for TSOM is one of the Deckard questions.

You fail, REPLICANT!

[MrCoffee]

2. Oh lordy no...that movie makes me want to kick puppies

I cannot stand Julie Andrews.




Yeah, I said it.

[Fox Mulder]

3. No, you are not the only one who despises it.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Murdock]

4. Bandersnoot?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CaD9Ozdthg8

[KansDem]

12. How could you??!!!

I almost some most of this! The closest I've ever come to seeing any of this movie was back in 1986 when I was visiting my fiance's family. We were watching a football game on TV that was followed by a showing of TSOM. When the game ended and the movie was about ready to begin, someone in the room asked "Anyone care if we watch the movie?" I sternly replied "I DO!," but no one got up to turn off the TV. I managed to make it up out of the chair and to the TV in time. I switch it off just as the overture was beginning. Man, that was close and now I have less-than-happy thoughts about my wife's family...:grr:

[Shakespeare]

6. First footnotes in your emails, and now this??

:scared:






:P

[KansDem]

8. Think there might be a connection?

:hide:

[qb]

7. Aww... surely The Lonely Goatherd brings a tear to your eye...

"High on a hill lived a lonely goatherd. Lay-ee ode lay-ee ode lay-hee hoo. Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd: Lay-ee ode lay-ee ode-loo.

"Folks in a town that was quite remote heard: Lay-ee ode lay-ee ode lay-hee hoo. Lusty and clear from the goatherd's throat heard: Lay-ee ode lay-ee ode-loo..." :puke:

:hi:

[KansDem]

9. Man, the only thing worse than hearing it is reading it!!!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sequoia]

10. Tears!? No...beers!!

Where's my lederhosin!!! I'll be that poster's real name is......MARIA!!!

[gbate]

14. This post makes me wonder about your sanity.

Just kidding! Love that song, thanks for posting. This is the reason I watch.

[stuntcat]

34. .

I love it, thank you! :loveya: :headbang:

(On the subject of hating TSOM- I totally understand people hating it, I think I've hated it before too, then I re-watched it last year and it made me cry :blush:)

[stuntcat]

35. hehe

I downloaded it :blush:

[applegrove]

13. I still watch it. I've seen it probably every two years.

[qwertyMike]

15. The Lead Actor

Christopher Plummer called it

"The Sound of Mucous" even during filming it

Mike

[Bake]

16. The suckitude of TSOM knows no bounds.

I couldn't sit through it if you put a gun to my head.

Bake

[joeybee12]

17. My God...all that beautiful scenery of Salzburg!

Salzburg!!!!!!

[Kutjara]

18. My family sent me to watch it the night my grandfather died.

I came in from playing in the park and was met at the door of my house by a neighbor (a big, remote man who I feared greatly). He informed me that he was taking me, along with his kids, to the local cinema to watch TSOM. This was the weirdest thing I'd ever heard of in my five years on earth, because hitherto the neighbor had never so much as acknowledged my existence. It was at that moment I knew my grandfather had died.

I sat through that dreadful movie thinking about nothing else but how much I loved grandpa. When I got home, his body had already been removed from the house. I never saw him again.

That movie can rot in hell.

[KansDem]

19. I'm sorry, Kutjara

:(

Makes my distaste of TSOM rather shallow...

[Kutjara]

20. I couldn't watch it again for years.

Then, when I finally saw it as an adult, I thought, "Well, I'm glad it's this piece of crap I have such sad memories about. I'd hate it if a really good movie had been ruined for me."

[Adsos Letter]

21. "Give me the gun, Rolf."

...:puke:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. Put down the ducky, Rolf.

[youthere]

22. My daughters LOVE that movie. I cringe every time it's on....

If I had been "Maria"I would have bitch slapped each and every Von Trapp until I broke my hand.

[Firespirit]

23. One of my favorite things....

would be to lock a hardcore fan up alone in a room with this turd playing in a repeat, no access to power or volume control, and leave them there for a week.

Screw waterboarding; THAT is torture.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. Despise would be too harsh a word, but I'm no fan.

And that's saying something because I adore Julie Andrews.

[LisaM]

25. Yeah - it cost Pauline Kael her job as a film critic at McCall's magazine

for calling it the Sound of Mucous.

I think it used to be more typical for movie theatres to show movies for a really long period of time, though. I remember when our town got a mall! We had a half day off of school, so we all went (I don't think the two were connected, but it is suspicious, no?) They had a Twin Theater, and BOTH movies were there for a solid year. Thus, I've seen "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 17 times.

I have seen "Anne of a Thousand Days" less frequently, but only because it reduced me to such a snivelling mess I couldn't take seeing it as often. Also, I couldn't find anyone to go with me that many times.

[Adsos Letter]

26. Don't feel alone...

at one period during my callow youth I worked as an usher in our local theatre...to this day even the music from the "Bad News Bears" will send me into convulsions :scared:

[alphafemale]

32. I remember Godfather played for about forever. I never saw it in the theater.

I was about eleven I think so that's a good thing.

Hell Jaws rocked my world and "most" of the violence in that is imaginary and perceived.

I say "most" because the Quint death is pretty gruesome.

But it was the death of the girl at the beginning that gave me nightmares for weeks.

[TrogL]

27. PUHLEEZZ I just ate

Everything Julie Andrews has done is sicky sweet sickening crap.

[Quantess]

28. Wow. That is teenage hell.

Teens of today have too many conveniences. They wouldn't know what to do if they were teleported in a time machine to Lakewood, CA in 196*

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. It should've been called 'The Schmaltz of Music'

To be fair, though, I don't care much for musicals, period — except for a few musical comedies, like "Bye Bye Birdie." And I like about half of "West Side Story" — the half where Tony and Maria aren't pretending to sing to or about each other. It's like, "Oh, yes you will stop saying 'Maria,' right about the time I strangle you."

[KansDem]

33. Have you seen "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying?"

That's one of my favorites!



The final ensemble number where the corporate suits sing and dance as if in a revival meeting is particularly entertaining!

But other than that one and the ones you mentioned, I'm not too fond of musicals either.

[KT2000]

30. Thank You

I cannot stand The Sound of Music!

[alphafemale]

31. Yeah...any movie that makes you secretly pull for the Nazis....just - this - once.

Is obviously wretched.

And in the end the upholstery wearing brats escaped over the mountains.

fuck

[bmbmd]

36. The von Trapp family

runs a ski resort in Vermont. You can go if you want.

http://www.trappfamily.com/

[alphafemale]

40. And on Wake-Up Calls they burst into your room in Lederhosen yodeling about some fucking goatherd.

"I'M UP!!! I'M UP!!!"

"FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD!!!"

"GET OUT!!"

"GO AWAY!!!"

[kwassa]

37. How about Gwen Stefani's version of "Lonely Goatherd"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHtkWyNvgU

Christopher Plummer called the original movie "The Sound of Mucus"

[Ava]

38. i hate the movie

just because it isn't my type of movie at all and i just don't like it.. simple as that :lol:

plus they forced us to watch it a million times in elementary school

[Orsino]

39. I have a cousin who's the biggest groupie in the world.

She's visiting next weekend from out of state for a concert by a gen-yoo-wine von Trapp granddaughter.