My 'kind of' Sweeny Todd review

[xAgonyxScenex]

This was the most expensive movie I have ever seen. thanks in part to an $83 speeding ticket for going 54 in a 45. Fuck cops and your end of the year quota. anyways...

I really really really don't know what to think about this movie.

I knew nothing of the play, nor had I even ever heard of it. So I went into this fresh.

As soon as the credits rolled I was kind of speechless. As was the rest of the crowd. Usually on opening night when a movie is good everyone claps. Everybody was silent here. All I could hear was people going "hmmm"

The movie is incredibly depressing. There is no 'happy ending'. It is a revenge movie, flat out. I had no problem with it as a musical. the ending comes and you go "wtf" then your told nothing about the sub plot of the movie, so when the ending happens it's a double "wtf".

All these characters that have been fleshed out you either find out what happens to them and well it's never good. Or you don't find jack shit out about what happens.

One depressing, cock tease of a movie. I probably need to see it a second time or maybe someone who has seen it can tell me something I'm missing. A different way to view the movie.

[r-type]

honestly they lost me the moment they broke out in song when i first saw the trailer. i'm not a fan of musicals. its a shame, really, because visually it looked like another twisted, burton-esque style of film.

[moe]

Did Johnny sing good? LOL. I think movies like that should stay on the stage. When I saw dream Girls the only parts I liked where Eddy's parts other than that I was ready to get out of there. It was just too much sing. Yeah, yeah I know, I know it's a musical...well I don't care...I didn't need a song every 5 minuts...and especially in suround sound. If I'd known I wouldn't have gone to see it.

[xAgonyxScenex]

honestly they lost me the moment they broke out in song when i first saw the trailer. i'm not a fan of musicals. its a shame, really, because visually it looked like another twisted, burton-esque style of film.

ya...there is a LOT of singing in this movie. though it's probably not right....it felt like there was more singing then actual talking.

[xXRavenXx]

honestly they lost me the moment they broke out in song when i first saw the trailer. i'm not a fan of musicals. its a shame, really, because visually it looked like another twisted, burton-esque style of film.

Coming from the stage I love musicals... but it has to be done well. I can say this.. Legally Blonde the Musical... WTF?! Gershwin along with the many famous ones like Grease, Peter Pan, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and a few others. I didn't really care for Chicago until I saw the film.

I am tempted to see this but I haven't read the Musical. But, it should garnish some type of attention because it is so out of character for Tim Burton. But, just like Depp no matter what they do you can aways see that person's "stamp" or take on the flick. I want to know a bit more. Hell I've heard more about Enchanted and P.S. I Love You than this, Cloverfield, or any of the other 3 or 4 films I'm looking forward to seeing.

Oh, and AVP:R anything up about it? Christmas it starts I think. Is there no one to write trailer copy, so we don't get trailers? I never considered that one.

[Bumblebee1983]

Coming from the stage I love musicals... but it has to be done well. I can say this.. Legally Blonde the Musical... WTF?! Gershwin along with the many famous ones like Grease, Peter Pan, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and a few others. I didn't really care for Chicago until I saw the film.

I am tempted to see this but I haven't read the Musical. But, it should garnish some type of attention because it is so out of character for Tim Burton. But, just like Depp no matter what they do you can aways see that person's "stamp" or take on the flick. I want to know a bit more. Hell I've heard more about Enchanted and P.S. I Love You than this, Cloverfield, or any of the other 3 or 4 films I'm looking forward to seeing.

Oh, and AVP:R anything up about it? Christmas it starts I think. Is there no one to write trailer copy, so we don't get trailers? I never considered that one.

I saw a trailer for AVP:R before I am Legend. They played "Silent Night" with it. Damn, it looked cool.

And about musicals: I love them, am so looking forward to seeing Sweeney Todd but hello, it's not playing anywhere around here! *hmph*

Maybe next weekend in Nashville? Ehh...maybe.

And I read something about Spiderman the musical? I'm sorry...WHAT?!?

[xXRavenXx]

I saw a trailer for AVP:R before I am Legend. They played "Silent Night" with it. Damn, it looked cool.

And about musicals: I love them, am so looking forward to seeing Sweeney Todd but hello, it's not playing anywhere around here! *hmph*

Maybe next weekend in Nashville? Ehh...maybe.

And I read something about Spiderman the musical? I'm sorry...WHAT?!?

Spidey the musical... OK if I see Star Wars the musical (Think about the Simpsons episode with Mark Hammill in Guys and Dolls) **Luke be a Jedi toniiiiight** WOW, everyone really is writng for the screen now a days. What happened to the good olde days where people wrote and drank themselves into a coma causing a work of genius. Tennessee Williams anyone? blame is on psychologists.

[Bumblebee1983]

Spidey the musical... OK if I see Star Wars the musical (Think about the Simpsons episode with Mark Hammill in Guys and Dolls) **Luke be a Jedi toniiiiight** WOW, everyone really is writng for the screen now a days. What happened to the good olde days where people wrote and drank themselves into a coma causing a work of genius. Tennessee Williams anyone? blame is on psychologists.

Yes, Spidey the Musical, opens next year sometime.

Star Wars the musical would be hilarious. But long.

I happen to enjoy the classic musicals, such as West Side Story, and I'm pulling a blank on others at the moment....:o

Glad I'm not a psychologist. Seriously, listening to everyone's problems would depress me. I got enough of my own.

[xAgonyxScenex]

so i had my best friend whom i share almost everything in common with to a point of bizzare and creepy down to the almost exact detail. But he loved the movie and I had mixed thoughts. Gotta say he started explaining some shit to me. And I kind of view the movie for the better.

I'm guessing this will be one of those movies I have to see a couple times before I like it.

I did that with Hellboy. First time I saw it, I fucking hated it. Saw it a couple more tiems and grew to love it. So will see.

[Bumblebee1983]

I would REALLY like to see Sweeney Todd, but it's not playing anywhere near me except Knoxville or Nashville.

:mad:

What up with that?