Phantom of the Opera

[dlndavid]

If you have seen and liked the play, I highly recommend the movie.
If you have not seen the play, it's a very inexpensive way to see this piece of work.
It is produced by Andrew Loyd Webber just like the play. I can't wait for the DVD to come out.
Also as a note; I think it was better than the play itself.

 

[Marvel]

I enjoyed it immensely also. I did find the Phantom's voice to be a bit disconcerting. At times he sounded terrible, at times sublime....Minnie Driver did a good job as the diva.

 

[Viscya]

I enjoyed it immensely also. I did find the Phantom's voice to be a bit disconcerting. At times he sounded terrible, at times sublime....Minnie Driver did a good job as the diva.

We did not like the play. I'll wait on the movie.

 

[pipedope]

I love Phamtom but I am still partial to Sweeney Todd.



Who wants a shave?

 

[Scubaroo]

I was one of those guys sitting next to the wife checking his watch every 10 minutes and going "humpfffffffff" every 5

My wife said the same thing about the voice of the guy who played the Phantom. Didn't realise it was the chickie out of "Day after tomorrow" who played the, um, singing chick.

(obvisouly my idea of culture is something that grows in a petri dish!)

 

[dlndavid]

Wow, you could actually see what time it was on your watch in a dark theater. :11:
So what else does your wife make you do you don't like?

 

[Vie]

Andrew Lloyd Webber AND Joel Schumacher—even if you PAID me I wouldn’t see it.

To quote Anthony Lane (The Current Cinema, The New Yorker, Jan. 3, 2005):

What does it take to shake a movie fan? Whether we are critics or bug-eyed buffs, so many of our evenings are spent in the company of crimes and misdemeanors that we can hardly be blamed for developing the hide of a pachyderm. Just occasionally, something slips through—a thin shudder of monstrosity, enough to remind us of what it means to be afraid. And so it came about, this week, that I gazed at a black screen and saw words so calamitous that they might have been written in my own blood: “Screenplay by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher.”

It couldn’t be any better, really, could it? The pairing of the tasteful genius behind “Batman & Robin” and the English peer who paid homage to T.S. Eliot by having grown men prance around wearing jerkins knitted from tabbies: what flash of fate brought those two together to merge into a seamless whole?

 

[baltimoron]

Well, I didn't think much of it. Sorry.... Saw the play, thought it was much more captivating and enjoyable. It was long, unbearably so.... Nonetheless, I still have Masquerade stuck in my head- enough to buy it on iTunes.

"Masquerade, hide your face so the world will never find you..."

Still, I am waiting for my Les Misérables movie fix.... yeah yeah, I know that they made a movie out of it already, but not a MUSICAL!!!

"At the end of the day you're another day older..." is my mantra.