Lone Wolf and Cub
Posted on 06/04/2005 9:16:18 AM PDT by churchillbuff
40 years ago, "The Sound of Music" was not just the summer movie of 1965. It was the spring, fall and winter one, too, and in inflation-adjusted dollars, it remains the third-biggest-grossing film of all time at the domestic box office, according to Box Office Mojo.
It hit the Billboard Top 40 video sales chart shortly after it became one of the first movies ever released on home video in 1979 and still holds the chart's longevity record, of more than 300 weeks and counting.
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A Classic!
Absolutely love this stuff.
NOTHING of this quality could ever come out of today's Hollywood.
I love The Sound of Music. I know it's cheesy, but the location shots of Salzburg are gorgeous, Julie Andrews is a wonderful singer, and the songs are great. In fact, I'm humming "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" as I type this.
Salzburg is gorgeous!! I love that movie.
It sure is. I've been there a couple of times, once on a perfect summer day. I used up several rolls of film.
There's only one movie that Andrews was in that was better....Mary Poppins.
Has anyone ever gone to the SING ALONG SOUND OF MUSIC!!! It's a version of the movie where you go, dress up in anything that has anything to do with the movie. When the songs come on, the words come on the screen too and everyone in the theater sings along with the actors. It is such a hoot!!!
I love that "The Sound of Music" is #3 in all-time domestic box office, even
after 40 years of supposed works of great cinematic art from the Clinton
generation.... guess that shows once again that the docile masses just don't
have the discerning taste of their betters at the NY Times.....
I've always loved this movie and its music, only saw it on TV growing up,
and I saw it on the "big screen" for the first time in the '90s (maybe it was for the 30th anniversary?) -
the effect of seeing it in a theater is so much better than just seeing it on
TV. Any movie with the kind of great scenery and color featured in this one,
not to mention the soundtrack, really needs to be seen on a theater screen.
I'm glad that the snobby, elitist types (apparently even including Christopher
Plummer, whose quote in the article below only makes me think less of him, not
of the movie) don't appreciate such a lovely, delightful movie - it only shows
their crabby narrow elitism in clearer perspective.
Lone Wolf and Cub
I adore both movies!!!!!!!
"Nothing beats Three Ninjas, though Three Ninjas Kick Back was almost as good as the original."
Never saw it nor heard of it from others.
I'd bet 40 years from now very few will have much to say about it as compared to The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins - 40 years later.
/s on my part. My bad.
I need to get a copy of The Sound of Music. And I have Mary Poppins and my daughter loves it. She knows the story of the Sound of Music, but has never seen the movie.......I think I'll pick it up this afternoon.
Has anyone else noticed that all really pretty girls have beautiful voices?
The opposite is not true tho, because I have seen some very plain girls who also could sing.
"A wise person would take note and produce more of this kind of entertainment instead of the filth they churn out."
Isn't it incredible that even though leftists think that Hollyweird is TOO driven by commercial interests, yet they are all so tightly in the grip of their depravities that they can't see the obvious: that there is an enormous unserved market (mostly unserved) for such delightful, joyous, refreshing and endearing stories, rather than all the "dark edgy" crap they turn out. Has someone done a study of the financial successes of all the movies like SofM that are most successful yet condescendingly disparaged by the snotty elites?
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