h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm guessing with a title like that, this should garner a pretty good response.

Odo thinks the The Sound Of Music is a lovely, daft, warm-glowy, silly film with 'nice songs you can sing along to'.

I think it is the biggest load of maudlin, saccharine tripe that has ever been set to celluloid and anyone who remotely enjoys watching it should be beaten repeatedly over the head with an edelweiss. Or something that hurts more.

Who is right?

B

You are. Sorry Odo.
Although the film is culturally important blah blah blah these days... *rolls eyes*

I agree with the Admiral and say 'it's alright, it's quite good but it's not the best film in the world'!!!

I don't know. I've (gasp, shock, horror!) never seen it!

RF

Its alright. I mean, if it were a choice between watching it, and say, having a large amount of molten larva placed into a bath which I were in, then it'd probably seem a rather good option.

It's tripe.

The only problem with tripe is there is always someone who likes it.

Then again, many of the songs from it have been covered, B-sided and improved by punk, rock and alternative bands. Who could forget Me First and the Gimme Gimme's cover of My Favourite Things, or the Bonzo's cover of The Sound of Music theme?

I quite like tripe, actually. I hope I have self-defeated my own argument.

B

Haven't! Haven't!

B

Depends on the mood you're in/how much voddie you have consumed. My opinion of this pile of stinky old codswallop has fluctuated greatly over the years. Liked it as a kid, despised it as a teenager, was strangely drawn last time I caught a glimpse of it. Yet the thought of it still makes me want to vomit. It's the curtain clothes that do it. Bleugh.

Blimey. I never thought I'd incite as many as three people to say positive things about it.

Plus Freddy's extremely salient and useful comment about not having seen it, of course.

B

Incog takes Master B by one ear and Odo by another and knocks both heads together with the suggestion that you each accept each other's vageries with a further rider that there is no accounting for taste but we all should respect each other's differences.

Now have some and find a film you can both agree on.


Incog wanders off in search of and

Ha! Fat chance!

An excerpt from my DVD collection:

The American Pie trilogy
Back to the Future Trilogy
Bill & Ted box set
Crimson Tide
Con Air
The Dish
Gregory's Girl
Hot Shots (& Part Deux)
A selection of James Bonds
Memento
The Naked Gun box set
The Rock
Sneakers
All five Star Wars films
Yes Minister, and Yes Prime Minister


An excerpt from Odo's DVD collection:

Annie
A Knight's Tale
Lord of the Rings trilogy ()
Oliver
Pride & Prejudice
Rocky Horror Picture Show
School of Rock ()
Shrek ()
Ten Things I Hate About You
The Sound of Music

Other than the fact we both alphabeticise, I can't see a lot of crossover potential there.

B

Hi Incog , please leave my ear alone, we're not arguing about it as such, I'll just dissapear upstairs and watch whatever when the dreaded season kicks off again.

In the meantime an evening spent with and Johnathan Creek is in order.......

What you need to do is go along to the Singalong version of TSOM.

I won a prize (dressed up as a brown paper package tied up wiv string....) last time I went.

But there should be elements there to suit you both - you can sing along with gusto, knowing that you are taking the piss out of it. And you can dress up as a Nazi,nun, or Alpine child in a pair of curtains, whatever pushes your button

Sorted

And please, please get it on video I want to see Master B dressed up as a nun.

I think the Sound of Music is OK, but the stage version is much less vomit-inducing than the film, which removes all the interesting sub-plots. 'I Have Confidence', written for the film version, is one of my least favourite songs in the world, and certainly my least favourite by the vrry talented Richard Rodgers. It makes me feel . I do love 'Edelweiss', though.

Master B dressed as a nun!!! A truly horrifying thought. Mind you he'd need to be drugged, handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded before he'd go anywhere near a viewing of the SOM.

At least I know how to get him out of the house for a bit if I ever want to....

*goes off to hunt for the video.*

Odo is right.

It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but TSOM is an important part of our popular culture and deserves respect. You can't deny that Julie Andrews had a great voice too.

Has anyone been to the Tiroler Hut restaurant? (in Bayswater, I think) - good for TSOM-themed Xmas parties. Dirndl & lederhosen-clad staff and fun with cowbells. You'll be whistling "Lonely Goatherd" for months afterwards .

Err, surprisingly, given my reputation as a grumpy bugger, I actually quite *like* Sound of Music . Okay, so he brats can drive you crazy, but you get to slaver over a nun for Heaven's sake . Well, a trainee one anyway. Plus, without it, you'd lose the best ever answer to 'do you know when I first fell in live with you'.