It was the biggest waste of 2 hours ive ever spent in my life.
I so should have gone to watch AVPR instead.
Regards,
Lee
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It was the biggest waste of 2 hours ive ever spent in my life.
I so should have gone to watch AVPR instead.
Regards,
Lee
I went to see AVP2 the night before last...
It was great! Although, perhaps it exceeded my expectations because I generally have low ones for sequels.
Lots of great surprises, lots of humor, and a fair amount of gore... though not on a Kill Bill scale.
All in all, we loved it.
I knew it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee
Well I have to say I rather enjoyed the film. Way different than I thought. but enjoy Barbara Streisand's songs. I guess she sang a couple of the song for main stream release at some point, was kind of cool.
Just hate the way they mislead everyone. They presented it as a unique looking horror movie and never showed you folks SINGING in the ads.
Well... it -was- originally a musical.
There've been a few other movie adaptations... One of them in the 8-'s had Angela Lansbury in it.
Hard to see a movie like that with her in it. I mean, you'd just automatically expect her to hop on her ten-speed and solve the murders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushiel
WAIT. Angela Lansbury's NOT in this one? oh fuck it then.....She always has been and always will be Mrs. "poppin' pussies into pies" Lovett.
Or on her magical bed, gallivanting about cartoon worlds and using auto-ambulatory suits of armor to defend herself and the children she's in charge of....Quote:
Originally Posted by SPACE GLIDER
Al la Bed knobs and Broomsticks, which was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Hey! I just realized that Murder She Wrote lady is that SAME lady from the old Bedknobs and Broomsticks movie I saw as a kid! Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushiel
Yessiree...
Quite the change-up, isn't it?
I hear Juno is good but sad
Sure is! That blew my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushiel
Yeah, when you're used to Angela Lansbury as the tough but sweet nanny in Bedknobs or the mystery solving granny in Murder She Wrote you'd be quite shocked to see her as the human meatpie cook in Sweeny Todd. She's comical as well as sinister.
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theate...sweeney3xy.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/sta...ury_a_pic2.jpg
I remember going to New York City when I was a kid and seeing an advertisement at the train station that intrigued me enough to want to see it. Of course, my parents wouldn't take me to something as gory and bloody as that. While not quite as harsh as the Burton movie, the barber did use a straight razor on stage that squirted blood as he drew it across the throats of his victims, giving the appearance to the audience that the throat was indeed sliced open. Pretty gruesome for a stage play at that time. Here is the artwork that was on that poster. It's still one of my favorite drawings ever.
http://www.blogwaybaby.com/Sweeney%20Todd.JPG
I ought to know more about this but it hasn’t hit Greece yet. I’m assuming it’s Sondheim’s Sweeny Todd? I’ve seen the Angela version on video years ago and also caught a British version at the National with Julia McKenzie and Dennis Quilley – fab. The last time I saw the show Jason Donovan was singing Sweeney – sort of. You need to have a big voice to carry of either part. So who is taking the lead in this new version? Am I right, Johnny Depp? Or is that a myth?
Meanwhile: my favourite line from Bedknobs and broomsticks: “what’s that got to do with my knob?”
I’m looking forward to finding the Sweeny DVD when it’s available.
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Luke, it is Johnny Depp with Helena Bonham Carter. It's trimmed down a lot from the stage musical but I thought it was wonderful. They had a really good sinister vibe to it, and both sang really well. Not quite the booming operatic style of the stage version but still enough to send chills down your spine.
Thanks for that info. I'm a bit of a musicals junkie having written a few, directed some (inclduing Sondheim's Assassins and Into The Woods for pro-am companies) and even appeared in some so it will go in to my collection as soon as I can get it.
You directed Into The Woods. Wow, that's awesome. That's one of my favorite stage musicals.Quote:
Originally Posted by luke preston
Now you have me thinking about musicals. My favorite screen musicals are the Grease Trilogy. Grease, Grease 2 and Hairspray. Yes, I'm convinced that Hairspray is Grease 3. Except that the Pink Ladies and T-Birds are now the Corny Collins council and Tracy takes on the Sandy Olsson/Michael Carrington role of being the outsider who wants to become one of the cool kids and win the heart of the greaser who's stolen her heart. And you can even go so far as to say that Danny Zuko had a sex change and became a Baltimore housewife and Stephanie Zinone went on to manage a TV station, but that might be pushing it. If only they could have gotten Didi Conn to do a cameo it would have all been solidified, sigh.
That's an interesting idea and one I'd not thought about before, Grease 3... Hairspray... hmm. :)
As for Into The Woods, it was only a local but big amateur company with some pros called in to cope with the big parts. Great fun though I enjoyed Assassins more even though I did have to play Sam Byk (forgotten how to spell it!) myself - at least he doesn't sing much.
Of course now living in the middle of nowhere I rely on DVDs for my theatre going and the last things I saw live were Jerry Springer in the West End and Sweeny with Jason Donovan in Brighton, a few years ago. Completely out of touch! Ah well, back to trying to track down a region 2 version of the original Sweeny (can only find region 1) and Woods.......