I am disappointed to hear that HBC's version of Mrs. Lovett isn't zany and cheerful and batty.
I know? And the thing that grates is that in the zany batty version, she's THE PERFECT TIM BURTON CHARACTER.
You're not gonna jokey-rhyme your way out of this one.
Willow ,'Sleeper'
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amych - Dec 05, 2007 9:47:26 am PST #2562 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Atropa - Dec 05, 2007 9:49:34 am PST #2563 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
she's THE PERFECT TIM BURTON CHARACTER.
Wait, I thought I was the perfect Tim Burton character. What am I doing wrong? (Besides not making meat pies with questionable filling, that is.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2007 9:56:04 am PST #2564 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Can HBC really choose not to play "batty" at this point? I'd think it kind of like Clint Eastwood's characters always being gruff...
I have been put off P.S. I Love You by the ads with Hilary Swank chatting that guy up at a bar, asking if he's gay, and rudely huffing away without another word when he answers in the affirmative. I gather I'm supposed to sympathize with her character and want her to find Mr. Right, but I'm now rooting for Gerard Butler to have faked his death to get away from her.
juliana - Dec 05, 2007 9:59:20 am PST #2565 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
the ads with Hilary Swank chatting that guy up at a bar, asking if he's gay, and rudely huffing away without another word when he answers in the affirmative.
Huh - I thought it was the best friend doing the walking away from non-potential mates. At least, it wasn't HS in the preview I saw...
Ailleann - Dec 05, 2007 10:01:26 am PST #2566 of 10000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Matt, that's not the main character. That's one of the fluffy sidekick friends. (Played by Phoebe, whose real name is eluding me now.)
Unless you've seen an ad that I haven't seen.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2007 10:08:28 am PST #2567 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, this is what I get for half-watching. Well, if it's Hilary's friend who was into the guy and stalks away, then that's funny rather than insulting.
Glamcookie - Dec 05, 2007 10:11:25 am PST #2568 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Phoebe
Lisa Kudrow. I don't read all those entertainment mags and sites for nothing!
Jessica - Dec 05, 2007 10:21:23 am PST #2569 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wait, I thought I was the perfect Tim Burton character.
I did say I wished HBC's Mrs Lovett had been more Jilli-esque.
brenda m - Dec 05, 2007 10:25:47 am PST #2570 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Matt, I think it comes off better in the longer commercials, where they show the same character giving the third degree to another man in succession - Are you single? Yes. Are you gay? No. Are you working? No. t commence stalking off in a huff
Still looks like a crap movie, though.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2007 10:29:06 am PST #2571 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
PS, Anthony Stewart Head has a one-line cameo in Sweeney Todd that I forgot to mention.