The thread where we anticipate Sam Mendes' "Sweeney Todd" movie

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As successful as the Baz Luhrmann Alexander the Great movie.

or the Oliver Stone Veggie Tales movie....

That's the one where the cucumber kills God, right?

I stand by my original comments! I wan't all that impressed with Depp, and Staunton would have been swell.

Shame about the thread title...

I was impressed by Depp acting wise. Vocally, yea, his voice was kind of tinny, but...that's Hollywood these days.

I'm kinda getting tired of it, too, even if I did enjoy that movie.

My solutions are...

1. If you need to have big names to sell the movie musical, cast them in the SUPPORTING roles, the 'character' singing roles....you know, like King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar. Nowadays they'd make Josh Mostel Jesus! They used this approach a bit in Hairspray and it worked.

2. Find celebrities who can sing. I mean if James Marsden can, there have to be plenty of others out there.

3. DUB. Yea, ok, it might be controversial, but they dubbed in the olden days, why not dub voices now? Only, don't be indiscreet about it like back in the Marni Nixon days...just put in the credits that the voices were dubbed. I'd rather hear this than Nicole Kidman's tinny, shit voice in Moulin Rouge!

I am now instead looking forward to George Miller's Justice League epic.

That's the one where the cucumber kills God, right?

No, it's the one where they spend three hours determining if the cucumber acted alone in killing God......

His Dork Materials

I can't tell whether you're joking, Simon, but that JLA flick is not gonna happen, last I heard (this morning.)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117979189.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

yeah, I was poking fun at my poor choice in projects to get excited about.

I don't care anyway, myself. The New Frontier cartoon is in the can, and that's what really matters.

watching the 1982 touring company dvd. Betty Joslyn has the most shrill singing voice on the planet. about cleaned the earwax out of my ears

Saw 1917 this week. Astonished that none of the five reviews I read pointed to its consistent portrayal of the Germans, collectively and individually, as sneaky, and better supplied, than the (diverse) tommies. The nationalist narcissism of the film is surely worthy of comment.

— David Edgerton (@DEHEdgerton) February 22, 2020

much better review from grumpy historian than P Badshaw's who gave this garbage 5 stars.

"Sam Mendes is a phony cunt" should be the only review for any of his shit

Mind you dunno if his Sweeney Todd would have been any worse than Burton's.

he's a talentless waste of space, and it garbage movie that should be attacked on multiple fronts. The hype about it being "a one-take masterpiece" is beyond risible. And the old boy is quite correct about the nationalistic narcissism. It's almost like The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp never happened, lets cosplay we are the good guys because people lap that shit up.

If you hate American Beauty (the world, basically), Empire of Light is a big piñata just waiting to be batted around: sometimes hysterical, sometimes saccharine, haphazardly checking off as many boxes as it can as it goes along. I liked the movie part of it, in part because it's set in 1980 and I spent 1979 as an usher in the first movie theatre we had in the small town where I grew up. Also because the Empire reminded me of two or three prestige theatres in Toronto I used to go to around that time: the University, the Fine Arts, the York. I'm glad they resolved Stephen's and Stephen/Hillary's stories, but I really wish the film had ended about seven minutes earlier: that would have been such a great final shot, and the film they chose was oddly perfect. Excellent use of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)."