Counting down

[yendi]

Just over eleven months until Joel Schumacher's Phantom Of the Opera. You will believe a tortured, singing, masked psychopath can have a nipple suit!

Yeah, Lloyd Webber's getting what he deserves.

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[xforge.livejournal.com]

That, plus Halle Berry as Catwoman, this is gonna be a GREAT year in film. GREAT year.

I read the article in Entertainment Weekly about Catwoman - they're saying "this isn't the Batman Catwoman, but a completely unrelated character."

Oooooooooo-kay. Well, that plus this movie mean that much less time I'll have to spend in theaters this year. Bleh!!!!

[amokk]

"Although we took the name, character idea, background, motives, design, and everything else from the Batman Universe Catwoman... this isn't that Catwoman."


What the hell is the point, then? Just so they don't have to explain Catwoman changing from Michelle Pfieffer to Halle Berry? They didn't explain Harvey Dent changing from Billy Dee Williams to Tommy Lee Jones...

Bleh. I'll just wait for the next X-man movie to come out, Schumacher already ruined anything Batman for me anyway. ;)

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of "this is a shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's original Psycho."

::blink blink::

So, pray tell, what would be the reason for me to cough up 8 bucks to see this one instead of just popping my DVD in the player at home???? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm???? Oh wait, it's in color. Snerk.

[experimentego.livejournal.com]

So they took out the money for the license for WHAT reason again? That costume looks like they got a tiger to rape it.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Right there? That image? Definitely didn't need it.

*twitch*

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Schumacher is the Antichrist. By the way. Why hasn't someone smitten him down yet?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Thank GODDESS, somebody else who has seen The Truth. Why IS he still working? And they're still paying Verhoeven to use up oxygen too, aren't they?

[yendi]

I'm with you on Schumacher, but I actually think that Verhoeven is underappreciated. Seriously. Not that he's a genius, but Robocop and Starship Troopers are damned fun (and hey, ST2 is coming out in like a month! Straight to video, with no one anyone has heard of involved).

Uh-oh. Adam hit the [rant] button!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Auuugggghhh! Robocop was a freak occurance.

All of the other movies of his I've seen until my stomach realised what my mind didn't have soulless characters with no motivation except for 'What's in it for me,' a habit of using sex as a weapon and for nothing else, an unwillingness to become anything better and with hardly a single intelligent thought-function during their whole existence.

And I'm talking Flesh & Blood through Showgirls, which I only saw by accident, and then it was like a car wreck. I couldn't keep it on for long, but kept coming back in horrified fascination.

S.T. (it doesn't deserve the title it wears) is one of the worst offenders, because aside from the Pervert's usual little joys, his 'writer' also ripped off his own Robocop script, filed off the character names and made it into a cinematic Mad-Lib. The fascist 'parody' shoehorned in there was just plain inexplicable -- it had no relevance to modern events at the time of filming, nor to the original material.

I went to see it with friends; we discussed it at Friday's afterwards. The more I started to pick it apart, the more offended I got by its existence -- then Showgirls just clicked the pieces into place. ST's terminally stupid characters -- literally -- offend me as a movie-watcher (I'm thinking of the Navy formations in orbit).

The only thing I liked at all were the Bugs... but then, I can appreciate real art when it's showed to me. The rest of the movie was not.

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[shellefly.livejournal.com]

... well, at least it's not Antonio "I'm cute but I sure as hell can't sing" Banderas.

but, um, why didn't they just do the intelligent thing and get Crawford. He IS The Phantom.

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

I agree completely - and why the heck did they cast Minnie Driver as Carlotta? Last I knew she didn't have an opera-quality soprano. Guess that on will require a dub.

[experimentego.livejournal.com]

Because Moulin Rouge and Buffy* proved that you don't need to know how to sing to carry a musical.


* But can I just say: Jim Marsters, Amber Benson and Tony Head were hot in that one.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Can we hear it for Joss's words & music, too? :)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Oh, my.

I think that may just be so bad, that it's awful.

[crystalline.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Lloyd Webber's getting what he deserves.

But he's not dead yet!

Although, frankly, I'm not even sure death could stop him from churning out mediocre musicals. :(

[yendi]

He's actually managed something mediocre in the last twenty years? Who knew?

[crystalline.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot in my heart for a few of his older ones that prevents me from thinking that everything he touches turns to crap.

However, I agree that recent trends indicate that he must be stopped. I did suggest that death might be the most appropriate thing for him, at this point. :)