Are you going to see the Mama Mia! movie?

[LibraLiz1973]

I'm all over it like a cheap suit.
I love any movie that has Abba music in it.
That's right, I said it.
Muriel's Wedding? Check. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? Check.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vO6B7YO8uNs&feature=related

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/mamma-mia/25931/trailer?trailerId=2038819

[Guava Jelly]

1. Gawd save us all!

:yoiks: I can't lie.. I have "The winner takes it all" on my Ipod http://youtube.com/watch?v=xK3mVxGfzPY :hide:
I just need my ABBA in very small doses. :crazy:

[trueblue2007]

2. I saw MAMMA MIA in London in July 2001

It was soooooooooooooooooo awesome!!!!


Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo it's gonna be a movie

[MorningGlow]

3. I'll go

I love ABBA and have about 10 of their songs on my iPod. Plus I'm a HUGE fan of musicals.

But I'm going to have to go by myself; I don't know of anyone in my immediate circle who feels the same!

[LibraLiz1973]

11. No way! There has to be someone who is just hiding it real well

:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

19. I'd bet anything there are PLENTY of closet ABBA fans out there

I wonder what kind of torture it'd take to get them to admit it...!
:rofl:

[elleng]

27. Sure don't understand

what people would have against such catchy and melodic music; maybe 'music-phobes?'

[MorningGlow]

32. Fear of being "uncool"

What people don't understand is that what they feel is cool is, then, cool!

[elleng]

47. Oh, I remember that!

That was High School, right? or Junior High???

[MorningGlow]

48. LOL!

And sometimes it continues forever...

[WinkyDink]

4. Coincidentally enough, a friend today suggested we go next week. So I likely will.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. our Sunday School Ladie's Night to Sex and the City was such a success we are seeing Mama Mia

it was a preview @ SATC along with 3 other chick flicks we all decided we want to see.

[LibraLiz1973]

7. Aww, that sounds like a blast!!

[yellowdogintexas]

20. it was. We met downtown at a local bar/cafe and walked over to the theater

it is nice having a lively downtown.

There were about 15 of us

[yellowdogintexas]

51. suggestion has been made for our group to do this on Sunday afternoon with

wine after. Sounding good to me. I hope our group can do this on such short notice.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. we went! There were 10 of us and we had a wonderful time, the movie is actually

quite funny and silly. We enjoyed it immensely then went to the 8.0 and sat around on their big comfy couch drinking wine.

[terrya]

6. Definitely. Opening weekend.

I'm looking forward to it. :-)

[LibraLiz1973]

8. Me too!

[LibraLiz1973]

9. dupe

[LibraLiz1973]

10. dupe

[sasquatch]

12. Um............HELL NO!!

x(

[Hippo_Tron]

13. The Dark Knight is a higher priority for me, but I will definitely try to see it

[LibraLiz1973]

21. I'm all over The Dark Knight too

Will be seeing both this very weekend

[Critters2]

14. Maybe. Maybe not. nt

[begin_within]

15. They don't even include ABBA's best song

"The Visitors" (1981)

[Iggo]

44. Oh, thank god!

I thought you were going to say they left out Dancing Queen. I was like, "How could they leave that one out? It's my favorite!"

Um...er...uh...what I mean to say is: ABBA sucks! Death Metal Rules!

:headbang:

[Taverner]

16. I would rather be waterboarded by Geraldo

[Fox Mulder]

17. Not in this lifetime.

[GCP]

18. I walked out of the stage production

I thought it was horrendous - and I like Abba music.

[stanwyck]

22. I know. I know

It's impossible for most people to understand. My family found out my guilty secret. (well, one of them.) ABBA songs on my iPod. And I love Meryl Streep. So, yeah, I'll go. We all have our guilty pleasures. They cannot be explained. They just exist.
Don't judge us.

[edbermac]

23. Not even at gunpoint.

:P

[mentalsolstice]

24. Meryl Streep

I'll go to see her looking more beautiful and freer than anything else she has ever been in. She's an American treasure!

[Midlodemocrat]

41. Yup. I'm going mainly to see her sing and dance. I LOVE her!!!!

Loved her ever since Sophie's Choice. :cry:

[jobycom]

45. Best actress, talent wise, in film history.

[MilesColtrane]

25. Perhaps I'll want to see it after I've been subjected to an involuntary lobotomy.

Otherwise, no...I have no desire to see Pierce Brosnan dancing to broadway covers of 30 year old, Swedish disco tunes.

[elleng]

26. Prolly go this weekend

with daughter, who will visit me and grandparents in Florida, but just for 3 days; daughters and I love it, saw it in DC ## times. Will prolly go alone, if doesn't work for this weekend. Need a lift!

[av8rdave]

28. Only if someone can assure me that there's not a lot of singing and dancing in it

[LibraLiz1973]

29. Uh oh......

:rofl:

[MissHoneychurch]

30. Oh yes!!!

Main reason: Colin Firth and ABBA music :D

[Darth_Kitten]

31. I like ABBA, but the whole premise of this movie annoys me.....

every girl just wants her daddy at her wedding! :puke: Yeah, we live and die wanting somebody we's never met at our wedding.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Mama Mia? Perhaps.

Mamma Mia? NWIFH.

[bigwillq]

34. No

I have no interest in seeing that movie..I am not a huge movie-musical fan, although I did like Chicago.

[LynneSin]

35. I don't know about you but I want a list of former lovers that include

Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Colin Firth.

What three dreamy men!!!

[ThatsMyBarack]

36. Other:

I'll wait for it to come out on DVD (prolly in a month or so!). Then I'll "steal" it from my office (library) before I process it for patrons to check out. ;)

[petronius]

37. I don't plan to - nothing I've seen or read about it has inspired the slightest interest

However, to put this in the context of my movie tastes, I am quivering with excitement about Hellboy II...

[dembotoz]

38. saw abba live--liked abba, movie no

kind of like seeing the bastardization of Tommy by the who
with the likes of Elton John.

a pox on them i say
a pox!!!!!

[Symarip]

39. Sometimes, I bite my tongue on DU

Sometimes, it's to spare feelings or other times, I realize I'm being a dick and I need to shut up.

This is not one of those times.

I may not be old enough to appreciate Disco (whatever that means) but oh lord, do I remember ABBA. My parents must've snogged to it on a regular basis because their 8 tracks were everywhere in my house. So the weeks leading up to Mamma Mia, I started hearing the sounds of a Symarip toddler past. I've been sort of curious because in the back of my mind, I swear I know all of these songs. To which, I do, just as a vague memory. So, I've been doing some youtubing lately to find out what all the buzz is about this movie and I realize two things:

1. ABBA sometimes did some things interesting musically

2. But typically, they did not and their music is pretty much complete shit

Seriously, ABBA makes Disco seem edgy, which is sort of a two punch insult since Disco is the whitebread version of Funk. They're equal to the modern day Backstreet Boys or Nsync or other pop flavor. Which leads me to wonder, just why the hell did they make a production based around their music? (Besides to rake in a shit ton of cash) I'll relay musicals aren't necessarily my cup of tea. But I do know typically within one, you need a plot and songs that reflect mood and change. All ABBA songs kind of, sort of all sound alike. Additionally, am I the only person that thinks it's pretty weird to retrofit a plot around songs already written for the radio some decades earlier? Weird.

I love Streep and even Brosnan has impressed me with some of his past work. So again, I youtubed a few clips of the movie just to make sure my assumptions were at least on the map. They were. This movie is going to suck. Big time. I'm sure my mom will like it.

[Midlodemocrat]

40. Definitely going, but probably not this weekend.

A friend wanted me to go at 12:01 this morning, LOL. No way could I do that and function today.

[Zavulon]

42. I'd sooner chew broken glass.

That is all.

[derby378]

43. Sorry, but I'm saving my pennies for DARK KNIGHT

And possibly a viewing of Mongol while it's still in town.

[LibraLiz1973]

49. Saw The Dark Knight today

WORTH EVERY CENT!!

[Boojatta]

46. You omitted the option "Maybe when it's on TV."

[RoyGBiv]

50. Where's the "hell no" option?

Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep singing?

No. Just, no. Fuck no.

I've seen other productions, and I liked them a lot, so it's not a complaint against the movie, per se. It's the people they have in it and what they've done with it.

No.

Hell no.

[bikebloke]

53. Mamma Mia is coming to me.

When it's released on DVD and my turn in the Netflix queue comes up.