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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Best film I have seen this year
My daughter gave me the Sweeney Todd soundtrack for Xmas. I admit my only exposure to Sweeney Todd up til now was thanks to Jersey Girl (though I have unknowingly loved Sondheim's music most my life). Anyway, Johnny Depp and Helena Carter were awesome and I would gladly watch this movie again and again and will own it when it gets to DVD. I am no expert (just a fan and a humble member of the audience) but listening to Johnny D, Ed Sanders, Jamie Bower, Helena Carter and Alan Rickman thrilled me and gave me goosebumps for 1 hour 57 minutes. And I found Tim Spall and Sacha Cohen very entertaining as well. (My daughter: "Mom! Three of the main characters are from Harry Potter!!") Well, unfortunately I live in Jackson Mississippi and the audience at Tinseltown was packed w/very young children (R rated movie remember?) that obviously couldn't get tickets for the Chipmunks movie and older kids that had no idea what they were in for (I heard teenagers in the parking lot debating whether to see Sweeney Todd or Waterhorse), so next time I go to this movie I want to sit among a sophisticated intelligent audience that will appreciate and enjoy a great story as well as wonderful music, directing and acting. Yes it was bloody but campy and exaggerated like Kill Bill. My daughter and I just closed our eyes whenever we knew something scary was coming, as I did the first time I saw Jaws in a theatre a million years ago.
My question for the day: why do people treat movie theatres (and restaurants) like they are in their own homes. Hey rude selfish obnoxious people! Just stay home! I am paying to see, hear and enjoy the movie! Why do you pay money to NOT watch the movie but to just talk to each other or be on the phone? You parents are responsible for not teaching your children how to act appropriately in public and you are doing them a great disservice. And yes this inappropriate moronic behavior happens in other places besides Tinseltown, Jackson, Mississippi.
Happy New Year!
King Kong (2005)
Too Much Too Long Too Bad Part 2
I totally agree with Andrew Irwin.
When the a**hole talking thru out the film finally got on my last nerve (I could hear him even with all the screaming and roaring from the screen) I looked at my watch and was dismayed that two hours had passed and we weren't even back in NYC yet. Since neither the little assistant theatre manager nor I were able to convince the a**hole to shut up I got a refund and plan to take my daughter back some other time to see the last hour of the King Kong film. But while she is watching the last hour of King Kong, I will be next door watching The Family Stone.
I am usually a great audience, but this King Kong was too long. It was boring me. Even with all the noise, battles and crazy natives I was beginning to nod off. Yes the special effects were great. Yes I think the actors are talented. But the lengthy and/or unnecessary scenes ruined it for me. I think I would have left the theatre even if there had been no a**holes talking.
Hope Springs (2003)
It is not the worse movie ever made . . . .
cause this morning I saw the worse movie ever made. Empire Records. Oh my gawd! What's hilarious is that I just read the IMDb comments and some people raved about that silly, stupid film giving it credit where credit was NOT due. If I were Renee Zellweger, Liv Tyler, Robin Tunney or Anthony LaPaglia, I'd be embarrassed to have it on my resume. But hey, I'm not an actor. I am only the audience.
So y'all, at least Hope Springs was cute with some good acting. The getting naked and jumping around scene was stupid. The driving fast thru town cause she's drunk was stupid. But those scenes where the golfers are hassling Minnie about her smoking and the people in the town knowing way too much about Colin's business gave me deja vu big time.
Breaking Up (1997)
I love Salma Hayek but . . . .
The guidelines of this website state that the minimum length for comments is 10 lines of text. My last three paragraphs is all I wanted to say. So here goes:
Salma is one of my favorite actresses, she has great talent, while Russell Crowe is my least favorite actor next to Tom Cruise. I decided to watch the movie in spite of Crowe. I saw him on James Limpton and he was such a pompous ass, totally in love with himself. I've never understood why he's considered a great actor. He has, though, been in some good movies.
What I did like about this movie (besides watching Salma) was the style and editing. I liked the way the director filmed the sex, the arguments, the trashing of the apartments and the black and white thing.
Perhaps I would have enjoyed this movie if it hadn't reminded me of a couple of stupid relationships I had a million years ago.
But the characters in this movie should just stick to having great sex and quit wasting time trying to communicate with each other in any other manner.
They annoyed me so much I wanted to smack 'em!
I am sorry I wasted my time watching this movie and I advise you not to waste yours.
Falling Down (1993)
SPOILER Re: Policeman's Looney Wife
I just saw Falling Down this early this morning for the first time on HBO. I then read 40 out of the 251 comments on this site about the movie and saw a few comments about the wife of Duval's character (mostly that Tuesday Weld looked like hell and one wrote that what went on between the cop and his crazy wife was basically a waste of film time) but did not see anything about what the Duval's character said about his wife and the death of his daughter.
I can't remember if it was when he was talking to Bill's paranoid mom or when he was on the pier talking to Bill, but anyway he made a comment that his daughter died of SIDS but added that it was strange since she was over 2 years old. Then he offhandedly commented that his wife wasn't comfortable being a mother anyway. (Also remember his comments to his female partner about how his wife had handled losing her figure etc.?)
Was he implying that his wife killed his daughter? Many SIDS children just stop breathing and no one can figure out why. Perhaps that crazy Tuesday Weld suffocated the child.
Perhaps it was just too early in the morning.