'Hell Bound'
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Oh, also.....
Did anyone else know that Hairspray, the culty little John Waters movie that got turned into a hit Broadway musical is being turned into......
a movie? With John Travolta in a fat suit and dress, playing the Divine/Harvey Feirstein/Bruce Villanch role.
No, I'm really not kidding.
Oh great, now I have to block out that memory again. Thanks Sean!
Always glad to help, Jess. Besides, this memory is burning through everything I'm throwing at it, so if I have to remember, I want some company.
If they can make an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical out of The Woman in White, they can do anything.
The third act is painfully drawn out, and depends on the audience not having figured out either trick to be interesting.
So, the answer is, I should be about half-drunk when I walk into the movie, and I will enjoy it. (Movies where I figure out the ending too soon tend to annoy the crap out of me.) For The Illusionist, I figured it out pretty early on, but was half-convinced that the how of it wasn't the point, and anyway there was Edward Norton being mournful and Paul Giamatti being fussy and all manner of fin-de-siecle Viennese confusion and who doesn't like that??
Also, bowler hats.
The John Travolta bit sucks. Other than that, I have no problem with it - Hairspray is more likely to make a better second movie than The Producers did, anyway.
Wha?
Huh?
Wha?
I'm totally kicking you the next time I see you.
LET HARVEY FIRESTEIN PLAY IT, GORRAM IT.
I loved the musical and I love the movie.
kicks whoever cast that shit
SO help me, if they get Gwenyth Paltrow to put her fat suit on again and be Tracy, I'll lose my ever loving mind.
And it looks like they've cast Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle. I can get behind that.
Why on earth would they re-shoot the movie? That's ridiculous. Oh well.
So Angier is Hugh and Borden is Bale? That's how I mentally cast it as I was reading the novel.
Frankly, the premise of "Ziggy Stardust helps Wolverine kick Batman's ass using THE AWESOME POWER OF ELECTRICITY" was never really going to live up to the version in my head.
What? Bowie's siding with Jackman against Bale? WAS VELVET GOLDMINE ALL FOR NOTHING?!?