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How often...?

posted 19 years ago by thoroughly_modern_hillry
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How much is too much?
I just have to ask all you other V/V devotees if this film never gets old for you? I bought the dvd this weekend, and it's just run a constant loop for days now, the latest in my utter devotion to Blake Edwards' films. I can't get over how charming, poignant, clever, witty, aesthetically-pleasing and lushly-filmed this movie is. Just that beautiful score can do it - 'Crazy World' at the beginning, sung in the middle, and at the very end :tear:
I initially saw it on the big screen and was just in awe of the color, the lighting, the camerawork, the musical numbers, and JULIE ANDREWS...I was totally blown away. The small screen definitely minimizes the impact, but I still love this movie just the same.
Still, I am a busy college girl who is barely ever home, yet I've just about memorized this movie. It's on while I get dressed, study, do laundry, make dinner. I truly adore it. This is gonna have a negative impact on my social life, isn't it? ;)
For those of you who own it, how often do you pull it out for a viewing?

Also, baby, le jazz hot may be, what's holdin my soul to-geth-er...

[–] galileo0285 18 years ago

Oh, yes i really love this wonderful film. It was my first right film with julie i saw as fan. and it was my film to bring me back to the real live. Julie is my hero.

I saw this film more than 150 - thats not exaggerate!
and the musical V/V about the same time.

i don´t find really the right words, how much this film means to me. My new Live. But i can say that this take me to a big fan from julie - on all ways.
She is so great, so nice, her wonderful voice in this film and the musical, too, if she sang "Crazy World" or in the musical "Louise says" are my heros.

yes, julie is my hero,she bring me back to my live.
...

[–] hilljayne 18 years ago

This is one of those rare movies that I never tire of seeing and I have been watching it religiously since I was 11 years old!

Professional Jayne Mansfield fanatic/lover™ since 1980.

[–] Emiabambinacara 18 years ago

I have the same opinion of hilljayne. :-) It's a true classic.

[–] m-mcashan 18 years ago

I got the Dvd for Christmas last year and I watch it a lot (not on a loop, but around once a month). Well, that's not totally accurate--I put it in often, but I don't always sit down to watch the whole thing. I usually go about my business and come in and watch for my favorite parts (Victoria's opening number, Gay Paris, the cockroach, the final scene, etc.). It is SUCH a great movie! I never had the luxury of seeing it on the big screen, as I am only 24, but it was one of the first movies I ever remember seeing (my sister used to play it on a loop, I assure you) and it's always been one of my favorites.

[–] Miss-M 18 years ago

I watched the DVD again yesterday and I just ADORE it! I'd probably watch it two or three times a year and I never tire of it. Julie Andrews is simply fantastic! Aside from Harold Hill in "The Music Man", I think Toddy is Robert Preston's greatest role. He brings so much warmth and humour to the character and I doubt anyone else could have done it better.

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[–] phanatic272 18 years ago

It's funny someone brought this up. I was wondering if I was crazy b/c I watched Sound of Music this weekend, which got me in a Julie Andrews mood so I got our V/V and watched it in full over the weekend and now I am watching little bits before I go to bed each night.

I seriously do not get tired of it! It's such a fantastic movie. LOVE IT!

~H*
Mr. Mozart needs to cut back on the caps lock though. Finger-happy bastard
~SensenoMaking

[–] movieluvr4 17 years ago

I probably watch this movie twice a month (in bits and pieces over a few days when I have spare time)! It's so entertaining and funny! Consequently, though, I find myself injecting the lines from the movie in my everyday life! "Like a coconut!" "COCKROACH!" "I like my jazz HOT!" I want to go home right now and put it on...

[–] dalxzzx 15 years ago

mate, i know exactly what you mean.
its ok, your not alone lol.
i once gave the dvd to my friend but she lost it so i bought another and iv been almost completely hooked. its probably the one of the best movies iv seen.
i work very hard and when im feeling lazy, Victor Victoria is perfect with a good cup of tea.
i love classic movies just like you and now im really finding those really special movies that are pure soul and VV is no doubt one of my keepers.
thank you Blake and Julie

[–] riskchris82 15 years ago

Hmm, I bought the dvd in November 2009 and I think I watch it once a week on average (and the Broadway version which I bought a month later).

I think I better stop at some point or I will probably get sick of it, but it is just so wonderfully witty, hilarious and th MUSIC, wow and finally I just love a good romance story:-)

[–] Strausszek 15 years ago

I like some of it very much, but with some things the stylization gets in the way. It's as mannered and baroque as a Greenaway film and that's something one just has to take I guess, because it's part of the theatricality of the film and of the cabaret culture where it takes place.

On tv it comes out very red - too red, everyone looks like they are washed in deep red light or drunk - and compressed. TCM shows it regularly and always in letterbox, which is almost painful in a film with this much movement. I need to see it in a theater, really requires that.

At the audition I had to karaoke to "Smoke On The Water". I was 45. A very lonely experience.

[–] hachmom-1 15 years ago

I dont know if i could watch the whole movie over and over....but i never get tired of Robert Prestons scenes....

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