Practically Perfect in Every Way

I have no idea why I have not posted about this yet but Disney's Saving Mr. Banks is one of my top top top movies that YOU need to watch and I am always down to watch.  I have no idea why it was not nominated for more Academy Awards because it is Awesome! Not just because it's Disney and not just because Tom Hanks plays WALT DISNEY ...but it definitely helps

So for those of you that don't know first off, Saving Mr. Banks is based on the process Walt Disney went through to convince P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins (played by the lovely and amazing Emma Thompson), to get the rights to make the movie.. drum roll please... Mary Poppins!

As tale comes to tell as portrayed in the movie, P.L. Travers was not very easy to convince and she had to have it HER WAY in making the film adaptation OR ELSE NO RIGHTS, but because Walt too was a stubborn man and would LOVE to have Mary Poppins join his ensemble of characters he considers to be his family, the conflict between the two gets to be pretty good as Mrs. Travers just about shuts down every idea they have while making the movie.

You can imagine how bad THIS LINE is when creating the movie adaptation because of a certain other word that is so iconic in Mary Poppins ... Spoiler Alert...it's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Emma Thompson KILLS IT as P.L. Travers and you basically wanna give her a piece of your mind throughout the entire movie as she rips apart just about every song they come up with, every detail in the script, and what seems to be every remaining detail in the story.  Did you know she did not even want there to be any hint of attraction between Mary Poppins and Bert?

Please, those two are perfect for each ... practically perfect in every way

But the movie is not just some Disney movie with a bunch of sing-along-songs throughout and dancing animals (that ends up being in Mary Poppins, duh), this movie is actually a drama with A LOT of depth and emotion which is probably why I love it so much (I like those types of movies)

I mean just LOOK at the movie poster! You just know the movie is gonna be good and magical and everything everybody needs and would enjoy so you need to go along now and watch the movie.

Furthermore, I wanna talk a bit more about Mary Poppins.   I made my roommate watch Saving Mr. Banks a few days before my birthday and he liked it a lot too and so did my other friend and it just reassured me that the movie is great... but I mean, even if they didn't like it I still would have loved it because it is good and no one can tell me otherwise.  Anyway, for my birthday, he got me the original book version of Mary Poppins

I read the book ASAP and thought it was a lot of fun and definitely an easy read, you should go read it.  Like really, if you can read my posts, the book is gonna be a piece of cake.  The book is however very different from the movie, whether or not that was what Walt wanted or what, I like both definitely.  They're both different but they are both pleasing, enjoyable, and can teach you a lot while having a lot of fun.

Now my apartment-mates and I have been itching to rewatch Mary Poppins and basically complete the tri-fecta of Mary Poppins goodness.  Book, Movie, and Movie is great and just about as perfect as Mary Poppins ... but not completely ..

(Now you understand the title of this post?)

But yea, so whether you want to relive your childhood (Watch Mary Poppins), watch a good drama with a great cast and good humor (Watch Saving Mr. Banks), or have a good easy read that anyone in your family could enjoy (Read Mary Poppins), Mary Poppins can be there for you at any time of the day at any time of the year.

Any of those three are really just as sweet as a spoonful of sugar

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Mother Knows Best

Need a new TV Show to binge watch that not only is on Netflix but is coming back for its second season on Monday March 3rd and is really good?

BATES MOTEL

Done.

But seriously, this show is awesome, it is super intense, has some crazy twists and turns you would never expect, and the actors/actresses completely sell me on being in the mind of their characters... who actually are out of their own mind.

In case you don't know where "Bates Motel" comes from, here's the low-down.  Basically the thriller drama is a prequel to the 1960 Hitchcock Classic Psycho but told in modern day so theres iPhones and such!

But seriously doe, it starts off with Norman Bates, played by Freddie Highmore (the kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and his mother [if you watch the show, you will know why I say "mother" and not mom], played by Vera Farmiga, (starred in Up in the Air) who buy a motel in a new town to START A NEW LIFE.  Little do they know that, well, to put it simply, sh*t goes down incredibly quickly.  I can't say much without giving it away but there is a lot of plot twists and incredible subplots that all tie up nicely at the end.

And Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga are incredible actors in this show and you honestly never know who is more sane ... or if either is actually sane at all...

Max Thieriot, Olivia Cooke, Nicola Peltz, Mike Vogel, Nestor Carbonell, and Keegan Connor Tracy also star in this series and I just HAD to mention them all even if you don't know them because all the characters are super important and just when you think you understand on of them... HOLY CRAP ARE YOU WRONG

The lack of understanding the intentions of each character though I think is perfect since it is a prequel to Psycho.  I just watched Psycho actually the other day, crossing off another movie from my list of 250 movies to watch [Shameless Plug-In: go check out my tab Just Add Popcorn] and it was really good!  It may be in black and white and the acting may not be completely the best to today's standards but it is still really good.  Like honestly, a part of me wishes I could have been in the theatre when this movie first aired in the 60's because I really feel like people were flipping out and this movie really was groundbreaking.

I definitely recommend not only starting to watch Bates Motel, but watching the original movie ESPECIALLY since just about everyone knows about the iconic scene ... Somewhat Spoiler Alert but the girl gets stabbed...

Anyway, I had always wondered what the context of this stabbing scene was all about and now that I saw it I GET IT! And theres A LOT more story behind it.

Basically, the whole Psycho franchise is blowing up, and for good reason, so watch this awesome series before its got a lot more seasons and everyone else tells you to watch the 7th season of it.