Sweeny Todd
Loved it.
This movie proved a few things:
1.) Nobody has a creative vision like Tim Burton (but we knew that already)
2.) GREAT actors who are decent-to-very-good singers (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman) will carry any musical and make it work tremendously better than great singers who are crappy-to-decent actors- See Zac Efron, particularly in Hairspray. Yes, he is a very good looking boy, and yes, he has a very pretty voice (though I wouldn't call it tremendous by any means), but the boy cannot act. He would look at Nikki Blonsky like she was his cousin, or an old friend, not like he was in love with her in spite of himself. You knew you would have to be in love with the fat girl when you signed up for the part, buddy. Pony up, or go work where you belong- in a boy band.
3.) Nobody understands both the beauty and humor of death like TIm Burton (final picture of the film, killing montage while singing the joanna song). Those guys dropping on their heads made me burst out laughing every time.
4.) It is impossible to make Helena Bonham Carter look unattractive. That hair, that costume, that makeup, and she was pregnant. Didn't matter.
In other news, Rudy Guiliani is a disgusting, slithering, lying, mother of all frauds.
Do I need to back myself up, or is it just as obvious as I think it is?
This movie proved a few things:
1.) Nobody has a creative vision like Tim Burton (but we knew that already)
2.) GREAT actors who are decent-to-very-good singers (Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman) will carry any musical and make it work tremendously better than great singers who are crappy-to-decent actors- See Zac Efron, particularly in Hairspray. Yes, he is a very good looking boy, and yes, he has a very pretty voice (though I wouldn't call it tremendous by any means), but the boy cannot act. He would look at Nikki Blonsky like she was his cousin, or an old friend, not like he was in love with her in spite of himself. You knew you would have to be in love with the fat girl when you signed up for the part, buddy. Pony up, or go work where you belong- in a boy band.
3.) Nobody understands both the beauty and humor of death like TIm Burton (final picture of the film, killing montage while singing the joanna song). Those guys dropping on their heads made me burst out laughing every time.
4.) It is impossible to make Helena Bonham Carter look unattractive. That hair, that costume, that makeup, and she was pregnant. Didn't matter.
In other news, Rudy Guiliani is a disgusting, slithering, lying, mother of all frauds.
Do I need to back myself up, or is it just as obvious as I think it is?