'Out Of Gas'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
So I'm 20 minutes into Phantom of the Opera. My first thought, if I were making a movie out of a famous musical, would have been to find people that could actually sing, since they're not only in a *musical*, but half of them are playing opera stars or Angels of Music.
This must be why they don't pay me the big bucks.
Yup.
Or, in the good old-fashioned Holllywood way, DUB WITH STUNT SINGERS. Really. All of us thank you.
Is the Christine bad? Or the men and Minnie?
The Phantom strains on the high notes instead of tossing them off effortlessly. Raoul is the only really competent one, as well as all the small roles.
Emmy Rossum isn't good?
P.S. being able to act might have helped too kthanxbye.
Emily Rossum, so far, is ranging from inoffensive to not very good. I'm kind of surprised. I don't really like her voice -- she can hit the high notes, but there's nothing really pretty about it.
Raoul's kind of a babe, though. And Minnie Driver is clearly dubbed, but neither she nor the stunt voice can act.
That's dissapointing, Dana. She was trained at the Met for heaven's sake.
Inteviews with Gerard Butler have him saying he wasn't a singer but he learned for this specific movie. I had a hard time listening to him because of his accent while singing. Emmy Rossum has a pretty voice but it doesn't hit me as "spectacular", although it's a good contrast to the singer for Carlotta.
She was trained at the Met for heaven's sake.
Yeah, I remember reading that. I find it kind of surprising, because she doesn't really have what I think of as an operatic voice. There's not much substance to it. It may just be that she's still young -- isn't she something absurd like 19? I'd expect that her voice will keep changing for a few years.
As far as Gerald Butler goes, I think he's kind of hot, so I'm going to try and ignore him as much as possible in this movie, so as to preserve my affection.
Hmm. She's much less annoying with Raoul during "All I Ask of You" than with the Phantom. That song is a cheese-fest that still gets me a little every time.
I'm sorry for inflicting a Phantom watch-n-post on the thread.