Sweeny Todd - Wait For The DVD

[Lee]

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

[Kushiel]

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.

[SPACE GLIDER]

It was the biggest waste of 2 hours ive ever spent in my life

I knew it!

[PornTeam]

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.

[SPACE GLIDER]

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.

[Kushiel]

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.

[SPACE GLIDER]

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.

[Lazer]

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.

[Kushiel]

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.

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....

Al la Bed knobs and Broomsticks, which was one of my favorite movies growing up.

[SPACE GLIDER]

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....

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.

[Kushiel]

Yessiree...

Quite the change-up, isn't it?

[IdolKnights]

I hear Juno is good but sad

[SPACE GLIDER]

Yessiree...

Quite the change-up, isn't it?

Sure is! That blew my mind.

[DonMike]

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.




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.

[luke preston]

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.

LP