'Time Bomb'
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.
Ugh, that sounds terrible, Jilli. It sounds like Wicked is a MUCH better gothy musical, with good music and intelligent plot and character development.
Oh, Wicked is the One True Musical for me, absolutely. The images I've seen from The Addams' Family musical look good - they got the image and style right. But the plot, oh G-d, the plot. I want to find the writers and ask them if they knew anything about the property before they started writing the musical.
Re your whitefont: That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
That is seriously not any iteration of that particular character that I would ever, ever have recognized in a million years. It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Same with the whitefonted subplot, JZ. It sounds like they used La Cage aux Folles as the template which is totally wrong.
It's in fact an iteration of the character that I'm fairly sure would have the original chanting, "Kill it, kill it with fire."
Pretty much, yes. And I was so giddy with hope when the news of an Addams Family musical was first announced! But alas, no. And when it was here in Seattle last month, everyone kept asking me if I was going to go, if I was excited about it, and so on. I felt like such a killjoy (and not the MCR kind, dammit) for Holding Forth about the wretchedness of it.
Oh my God, Frank, you're completely right. I KNEW I knew that plot already, but the title kept slipping away.
The guardian movie--anyone have a first (or maybe second, amateur) hand opinion?
Wow, those commenters did not like your DH not liking it. His explanation seemed pretty simple, though. Not sure why it went over any heads.
You don't have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas and Easter! @@
You don't have to be Christian to celebrate Christmas and Easter!
It's more than a little rude to insist that anyone who isn't does, though. If you are backing things up to the the events they're co-opting, you're still excluding a fuckload of kids.
And if I'm to believe Ethan, the premise seems to be that if you do not believe, you're fucking the world over.
I'd flip the movie the bird too.