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[SeaCat]

I know that many of you here have a strong dislike of Andrew Loyd Weber and his works but have I got a movie for you. I just watched the movie version of Phantom with my wife. It damned near knocked me out of my socks.

Cat

 

[BlackShanglan]

Truly? I thought Minnie Driver was superb - she absolutely stole the show - but I wasn't really all that impressed by the casting choice for the Phantom. Raoul was tasty (damn that weakness for gentlemen in period dress), but I found some of the scenes a bit awkward. I did quite like their presentation of the "Don Juan" opera.

Shanglan

 

[Dar~]

I can not wait until I can rent that movie. I was so excited when I heard the musical version would finally be out.

 

[elsol]

*sigh*

The girl loves Phantom... she cried at the movie.

It might inspire me to write an erotic story about it to her for the Christmas... Phantom of the High School (Or at Literotica, Phantom of the College).

I'll have to see how much I fuck up between now and then.

It was pretty good though.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[SeaCat]

I can not wait until I can rent that movie. I was so excited when I heard the musical version would finally be out.

Ahhh but it is out on DVD now. I fear that I will soon have it in my collection.

Cat

 

[Dar~]

Yes, but I have no money. I will wait, despite popular belief military families don't make all that much.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . she cried at the movie . . . It might inspire me to write an erotic story about it to . . . Phantom of the High School (Or at Literotica, Phantom of the College) . . .

De Palma beat you to it.

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00077KAAQ.01-A22XP0Z2W4YOLT._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg



Rocky Horror Picture Show meets A Clockwork Orange in an all BEEF double-cheese with certainly seedy buns.


Now that's what I call a prequel!
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[SeaCat]

Truly? I thought Minnie Driver was superb - she absolutely stole the show - but I wasn't really all that impressed by the casting choice for the Phantom. Raoul was tasty (damn that weakness for gentlemen in period dress), but I found some of the scenes a bit awkward. I did quite like their presentation of the "Don Juan" opera.

Shanglan

I must disagree with you on the choice of the Phantom. The eyes stole the show for him, they showed his madness well. The disfigurment was a bit lower keyed than I expected.

The acting in some of the scenes was a bit stiff. The scene in the graveyard was forced.

The costumes and the effects were fantastic. I enjoyed the shifting between past and future.

The soundtrack. What can I say about the soundtrack other than the next time I watch this, and there will be a next time, I will make sure the neighbors are out so I can crank the surround sound up to max.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

Yes, but I have no money. I will wait, despite popular belief military families don't make all that much.

They don't? Oh wait, your S/O must be below the rank of Chicken Colonel.

Cat

(Believe me Dar~ I do know what military families get. One of the reasons I am highly inscneced by our government is it's treatment of active duty military as well as vets.)

 

[Dar~]

Well at least someone knows, I get so sick of hearing about how MUCh money we make and how they don't even EARN it.

Anywho sorry to swipe your thread. Is the movie as beautiful as the trailers made it look. (fabulous sets, gorgeous costumes *not low budget*)

 

[entitled]

Meh... The stage version was better. Then again, i saw the stage version while still in high school. (Just barely - it was an early graduation present.) Back in the young and impressionable days.

 

[SeaCat]

Well at least someone knows, I get so sick of hearing about how MUCh money we make and how they don't even EARN it.

Anywho sorry to swipe your thread. Is the movie as beautiful as the trailers made it look. (fabulous sets, gorgeous costumes *not low budget*)

Threadjacks are a part of life here, and often the best part of some threads.

As for how it compares to the trailors, I never saw any of the trailors so I can't compare them.

As for the idiots, offer to change places with them for a year.

Cat

 

[Guest]

i will have to rent/buy it in future. im a sucker for a muscial.
one musical i wish they would do in movie format again....WITHOUT dizzy liza...is cabaret!
ohmigod...i saw it in the theater and i was blown away. awesome awesome awesome!

 

[impressive]

Saw the stage show in Toronto. Haven't seen the movie (yet), but I really love Tim Rice & A.L.W.'s stuff (all the way back to Jesus Christ Superstar). The music is haunting and the lyrics better than most poetry I've read.

 

[mlady_france]

I know that many of you here have a strong dislike of Andrew Loyd Weber and his works but have I got a movie for you. I just watched the movie version of Phantom with my wife. It damned near knocked me out of my socks.

Cat

Glad to hear it. I've been wanting to see the movie, but was afraid to because I've seen the stage version. I love the live performance and the music is one of my favorites. This makes me hopful. I'll put it on my list of things I must see soon. Maybe another movie night is in order.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Well at least someone knows, I get so sick of hearing about how MUCh money we make and how they don't even EARN it . . .

From what I have read, between families who lost their home while their chief breadwinner was away from home for twice the length of time budgeted, the Administration trying to cut back on already meagre benefits to dependant families of the serving military, and those same families purchasing luxuries like food and armour to send their members serving in Iraq, I've gotten the impression that the family of a serving member of the military must be in about the same financial situation as a Georgia fieldhand in 1870.

As much as I oppose this Administration and the war in Iraq, I have long been appalled by the treatment of dependant families.

That the family of a person in uniform can even qualify, let alone finds it necessary to apply, for food stamps, is a disgrace to the whole country. All this has been going on long before the present Administration. It is only that this administration has raised trying to pursue military enterprises on the cheap to an art form.

I have two cast recordings of Phantom of the Opera, and almost everything recorded by Sarah Brightman, but have been unfortunate in attendance.

I left home three months before I would have got to use performance tickets. (a graduation gift, that never was.) I was too busy with moving, and all the attendant paperwork, to manage to see it in the theatres, and imagined that there would be a lengthy wait before it was released on video.

Now that it has been released, I am hoping to rent it for the weekend.