Order by:

Add your comment

Do you want to let us know what you think? Just login, after which you will be redirected back here and you can leave your comments.

Comments 1 - 11 of 11

Darkgod's avatar

Darkgod

Throws like an aethiest might be my new favorite line.
7 years 7 months ago
fonz's avatar

fonz

The only good that came out of this is "Swinging on a Star" which was excellently used in the Best Picture winner of a 1991 parallel universe, Hudson Hawk.
8 years 3 months ago
greenhorg's avatar

greenhorg

Throw like an atheist?
12 years 3 months ago
DisneyStitch's avatar

DisneyStitch

It's more or less standard Crosby fare. There are some songs sprinkled throughout but nothing that jumps out and grabs you. It's also a bit long, at 2:10 it drags on a little in a few places. Bing is fine in the role but in the end it seemed a bit mediocre.
3 years 2 months ago
Punisher's avatar

Punisher

I teared up a bit in the end too.
But, sadly, i concur with both of greenhorg's comments below.
10 years 4 months ago
greenhorg's avatar

greenhorg

Double Indemnity obviously deserved the Oscar.
12 years 3 months ago
Public Enemy's avatar

Public Enemy

Another Bing Crosby movie where's he's the new, unconventional minister of a church with no money and someone else wants a parking lot built.

How many movies like this has he done?
13 years 1 month ago
LordKinbote's avatar

LordKinbote

chemosh6969: He's done, well, two movies like that. This one, and its sequel, "The Bells of St. Mary's." Since the character's job is basically to help out parishes in trouble, I think we can forgive the plot repetition. ;)
11 years 11 months ago
Siskoid's avatar

Siskoid

Looking at Going My Way today, it's a little surprising that it made so much money back in the day and won the Oscar for best picture in 1944, to the point where they had to go to sequel. It's just a little loose and slow for that, often more like vignettes about a progressive pastor (Bing Crosby) who comes to a depressed parish to get the church out of hock and improves the community with good works and songs. I don't love the title song, I'm with the music execs on that, but The Mule is a treasure. The film lives and breathes in the dynamic between Crosby and an older priest played Barry Fitzgerald; their story comes to a touching resolution. Another vignette I wouldn't part with is Alfalfa getting slapped silly. Now THAT'S peak physical comedy! Other subplots are more or less geared towards forcing musical numbers - it's the kind of padding the movie's going for - as there isn't very much of a plot. Ultimately, director Leo McCarey pushes the performances into a fun, semi-improvised place, and religion is shown as a community builder, not a strict off-putting doctrine. Crosby's Father O'Malley deserved a sequel and got it, or a TV show in which he saves a church every week, but that just wasn't a thing back then.
4 years 3 months ago
maarow's avatar

maarow

I enjoyed this movie very much and didn't find it "slow" at all. (Well, perhaps the sequence depicting a number from the opera Carmen could have been cut down.) It's a feel-good story that depicts religion in a positive light for once, which is refreshing. (And I'm not even religious! I just get tired of seeing Christianity depicted as shorthand for 'evil hypocrisy'--it's lazy writing.) And the ending is a tearjerker.
2 years 8 months ago
inhonoredglory's avatar

inhonoredglory

Such a heart-warming little story - and a wonderful message that happiness and joy can indeed be found in your faith. The songs are lovely and Bing Crosby's character is very sweet and caring. I actually teared up in the end! A warm watch, one for which I enjoy movies for.
12 years 5 months ago
View comments