Abs, I'm not surprised that you liked it. 
Like with you, the "Lay Your Love on Me" number worked for me...
Like with you, the "Lay Your Love on Me" number worked for me...
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So I finally bit the bullet and rented Mamma Mia
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Mamma Mia made me want to slit my throat. Or maybe it was my depression making me want to slit my throat, and that gagworthy heterofest just happened to be playing at the time.
Either way, my tolerance level for romantic comedy has hit rock bottom; but to try and make a bunch of hokey but fun songs (I'll admit I enjoy dancing to the ABBA, but I don't own any of their albums) fit into an unbelievably trite plot (I'm pretty sure the whole "which one is my father" scenario has been done more than once... by Disney, even), without changing either the song to fit the plot nor the plot to fit the song, struck me as sheer laziness. That last-ditch gay love interest inserted at the very fucking end made me want to hurl, and all the beefcake (Dominic Cooper is simply divoon), while pleasant to look upon, eventually just made me feel fat. The DVD went into the Goodwill box the next day.
To address the other modern-day musicals mentioned above...
Sweeney Todd was grim and rather unpleasant but very interestingly put together... Tim Burton and his stable of regulars were perfect for the creepy part of the story, but they really missed the bubbly if dark humor Sondheim infused into it. "A Little Priest" is supposed to be a comic song, ghoulishly funny... but Depp and Bonham-Carter just made it merely ghoulish, no funny about it. The whole movie was like that, and I wanted to go crawl in a hole and weep afterward.
RENT didn't make any sense to me... maybe I'm not far enough away from the 90s for the nostalgia to have kicked in. Everything looked dirty and poorly-lit, except for the montage scene in the middle that was simply obscene. And none of the actors struck me as particularly attractive. "La Vie Boheme" was about the only part of the film that made me tap my feet, the rest was just ho-hum.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is one of my favorites. It's disjointed and senseless with a little dash of horror (for me, anyway... I have an irrational fear of mutilation), but the music is wonderful (the kind of rock a showqueen can get into) and the performances fascinating. There's a weird magic in it, drawing you into a story that pushes a lot of fear-and-loathing buttons, but somehow works anyway.
I haven't seen Repo! and haven't heard of Across the Universe, so (unlike many professional critics) I shall refrain from commenting.
I didn't make it all the way through Hairspray. The DVD started malfunctioning in the middle of "Run and Tell That," and I was so uninspired by the film thus far that I didn't bother to get a new copy. I think John Travolta sort of ruined the whole thing for me, all that prosthetic fat and the bizarre Minnesota accent. The pretty but strangely impersonal Disney kid stars filling out the cast did the rest (I'd like to see Zac Efron actuall act someday... or just stand around naked... but this inbetween shit of looking pretty and mouthing words as if they were on a teleprompter isn't doing it for me).
I'm trying to remember other recent movie musicals, but I'm failing... and I have to shut up and go to work now.
Either way, my tolerance level for romantic comedy has hit rock bottom; but to try and make a bunch of hokey but fun songs (I'll admit I enjoy dancing to the ABBA, but I don't own any of their albums) fit into an unbelievably trite plot (I'm pretty sure the whole "which one is my father" scenario has been done more than once... by Disney, even), without changing either the song to fit the plot nor the plot to fit the song, struck me as sheer laziness. That last-ditch gay love interest inserted at the very fucking end made me want to hurl, and all the beefcake (Dominic Cooper is simply divoon), while pleasant to look upon, eventually just made me feel fat. The DVD went into the Goodwill box the next day.
To address the other modern-day musicals mentioned above...
Sweeney Todd was grim and rather unpleasant but very interestingly put together... Tim Burton and his stable of regulars were perfect for the creepy part of the story, but they really missed the bubbly if dark humor Sondheim infused into it. "A Little Priest" is supposed to be a comic song, ghoulishly funny... but Depp and Bonham-Carter just made it merely ghoulish, no funny about it. The whole movie was like that, and I wanted to go crawl in a hole and weep afterward.
RENT didn't make any sense to me... maybe I'm not far enough away from the 90s for the nostalgia to have kicked in. Everything looked dirty and poorly-lit, except for the montage scene in the middle that was simply obscene. And none of the actors struck me as particularly attractive. "La Vie Boheme" was about the only part of the film that made me tap my feet, the rest was just ho-hum.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is one of my favorites. It's disjointed and senseless with a little dash of horror (for me, anyway... I have an irrational fear of mutilation), but the music is wonderful (the kind of rock a showqueen can get into) and the performances fascinating. There's a weird magic in it, drawing you into a story that pushes a lot of fear-and-loathing buttons, but somehow works anyway.
I haven't seen Repo! and haven't heard of Across the Universe, so (unlike many professional critics) I shall refrain from commenting.
I didn't make it all the way through Hairspray. The DVD started malfunctioning in the middle of "Run and Tell That," and I was so uninspired by the film thus far that I didn't bother to get a new copy. I think John Travolta sort of ruined the whole thing for me, all that prosthetic fat and the bizarre Minnesota accent. The pretty but strangely impersonal Disney kid stars filling out the cast did the rest (I'd like to see Zac Efron actuall act someday... or just stand around naked... but this inbetween shit of looking pretty and mouthing words as if they were on a teleprompter isn't doing it for me).
I'm trying to remember other recent movie musicals, but I'm failing... and I have to shut up and go to work now.
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You know.. it's funny. I did kinda feel like that blink-and-you'll-miss-it gay sub plot felt tacked on for the gay audience. They used to throw in gay subtext for the homos in the audience all the time but this is the 21st century and it's time for gay characters to stop hiding in the closet and just dropping subtle hints for people looking for it.
(for those who saw the movie and still don't know what I'm talking about, one of the potential fathers is gay but although the two straight ones get a full song and production number as they run around through the Greek moutain side as they hook up, the gay one just winks at a cute boy and they smile at each other in a 3-second exchange that nobody will see unless they're looking for it.)
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I haven't seen it yet, but I am sure I will at some point..
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I thought Rent was excellent considering I have never seen it on Broadway. Some other musicals I've enjoyed in film or on stage would be:
Xanadu-Both (Cheesey, but I love them both)
Little Shop Of Horror-Film (Love it)
Fame-Film (the on stage version was horrible. I pray they have not adapted that crap for release this fall)
Tommy-Stage (just ok)
Grease- Both (grease 2 is a guilty pleasure)
Lion King-Stage (AMAZING)
Sunset BLVD-Stage (liked it)
Mamma Mia-(Preferred the movie over the play)
Need to check my old playbill's, so many more.
Xanadu-Both (Cheesey, but I love them both)
Little Shop Of Horror-Film (Love it)
Fame-Film (the on stage version was horrible. I pray they have not adapted that crap for release this fall)
Tommy-Stage (just ok)
Grease- Both (grease 2 is a guilty pleasure)
Lion King-Stage (AMAZING)
Sunset BLVD-Stage (liked it)
Mamma Mia-(Preferred the movie over the play)
Need to check my old playbill's, so many more.