That's where we got, "Ohhhhhh!" s from the audience we saw it with, too, Suzi.
Every. Time.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
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DebetEsse - Dec 27, 2007 5:46:10 pm PST #3040 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Gris - Dec 27, 2007 5:54:59 pm PST #3041 of 10000
Hey. New board.
That was the most disturbing part for me too.
Mostly, I enjoyed it. Except for the bits where HBC sings. My favorite "My GOD why was she cast (as if I don't already know razzin' frazzin' married or whatever to the director grumble grumble)" moment was when she and Toby sing together and the 10-year-old had a stronger voice than she did. Like, obviously and painfully stronger.
Say what you will about Patti's performance in the recent Broadway revival, at least you can't say THAT.
Otherwise, it was pretty, awesomely dark, and as well-adapted a musical movie as I've seen. 1.8 thumbs up. The other thumb got cut off and is bleeding. Profusely.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2007 6:26:18 pm PST #3042 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tom, let's steal Megan and go see a movie Saturday night maybe.
juliana - Dec 27, 2007 7:32:13 pm PST #3043 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Movie??
Speaking of, I am 25 minutes into Troy, and have already burst out laughing at the sheer godawfulness of it all three times. Brad Pitt is currently looking heroically into the middle distance, contemplating his Doom. But they are all extremely pretty. Especially in the midriff shirts.
juliana - Dec 27, 2007 7:38:23 pm PST #3044 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
(And of course, because I'm me, each time Helen appears onscreen, I think to myself, "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?")
Kevin - Dec 28, 2007 2:47:22 am PST #3045 of 10000
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I don't get not knowing Sweeney Todd is a musical but what people don't know often baffles me.
The subject of Sweeney Todd has just never come up in my life. But I don't care - my life has been great. And I know what Blackadder is.
Fay - Dec 28, 2007 3:16:50 am PST #3046 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The subject of Sweeney Todd has just never come up in my life.
Heh. Conversely I first heard of Sweeney Todd via The Two Ronnies back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. They did one of their musical spoof things about it. It was many years before I realised that there actually was a musical about the Demon Barber, mind.
Ah, Troy. I liked that they incorporated some of my favourite moments from the poem, and I liked the way they handled Achilles' conversation with Thetis - so that an audience member who knows she's a sea goddess will see her in that light, whilst one who doesn't won't. Mostly, though, my memory is of that whole "Cousins! They're cousins, okay? COUSINS, damn it!!!" thing.
Jessica - Dec 28, 2007 3:18:56 am PST #3047 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My favorite "My GOD why was she cast (as if I don't already know razzin' frazzin' married or whatever to the director grumble grumble)" moment was when she and Toby sing together and the 10-year-old had a stronger voice than she did. Like, obviously and painfully stronger.
Yeah. She was just not good at the singing.
And I know what Blackadder is.
I know both! I win!
[eta:
Mostly, though, my memory is of that whole "Cousins! They're cousins, okay? COUSINS, damn it!!!" thing.
Heh, yes. Cousins. Wink wink. Suuuuuuuure.]
lisah - Dec 28, 2007 4:12:23 am PST #3048 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Except for the bits where HBC sings. My favorite "My GOD why was she cast (as if I don't already know razzin' frazzin' married or whatever to the director grumble grumble)" moment was when she and Toby sing together and the 10-year-old had a stronger voice than she did. Like, obviously and painfully stronger.
See, I liked her voice. It was rough and real. But I have a big soft spot for non-professionally trained singers who sing (in public) being one myself.
§ ita § - Dec 28, 2007 4:23:47 am PST #3049 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?"
Paris was so much prettier.