100 Movie Challenge #19: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
100 Movie Challenge #19: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Finally getting back to this after taking a week off due to feeling like death. And this is why I watched all those movies day after day, to get ahead of the game, so I'd be covered in bad weeks like last week.
This was one of those movies that I knew I probably wouldn't enjoy that much, but I just watched out of curiosity. So I took advantage of it when it came up as Vudu's 99 cent rental of the day. Sweeney Todd was a barber who was unjustly locked away, so he swore vengeance on the judge. And of course, he got carried away, slitting throats of all his customers, while his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, used their flesh to bake meat pies. Yeah...not a pretty plot.
What made it weird was that it was a musical. I'm not too crazy about musicals, but this one was certainly unique. It wasn't your happy ending kind of thing. Somehow, I had hoped that Todd would have some kind of happy ending, but given all he's done throughout the film, it wasn't realistically possible. There was no way he wouldn't be found out. I at least hoped for a happy ending with Anthony and Johanna, and I can only assume they did. It would have been nice to actually see Anthony arrive with the coach to get her out of that town and to start a new life together. That was perhaps my biggest disappointment.
Finally getting back to this after taking a week off due to feeling like death. And this is why I watched all those movies day after day, to get ahead of the game, so I'd be covered in bad weeks like last week.
This was one of those movies that I knew I probably wouldn't enjoy that much, but I just watched out of curiosity. So I took advantage of it when it came up as Vudu's 99 cent rental of the day. Sweeney Todd was a barber who was unjustly locked away, so he swore vengeance on the judge. And of course, he got carried away, slitting throats of all his customers, while his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, used their flesh to bake meat pies. Yeah...not a pretty plot.
What made it weird was that it was a musical. I'm not too crazy about musicals, but this one was certainly unique. It wasn't your happy ending kind of thing. Somehow, I had hoped that Todd would have some kind of happy ending, but given all he's done throughout the film, it wasn't realistically possible. There was no way he wouldn't be found out. I at least hoped for a happy ending with Anthony and Johanna, and I can only assume they did. It would have been nice to actually see Anthony arrive with the coach to get her out of that town and to start a new life together. That was perhaps my biggest disappointment.