About just-over-halfway through Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd adaptation.
I've had this sitting on the shelf for months waiting to be watched. Going to try to get to it this weekend.
Please post your impressions if you do. I'm still not sure if I liked it beyond the visuals and theme; I'll likely pick up the soundtrack at some point since I have a soft spot for musicals.
I started, but oh god it's not just based on a musical, it IS a musical! I had no idea! There are very few stage musicals that I actually like, and I pretty much always find movie-musicals boring. I stopped altogether because after 20 minutes I started fast forwarding through songs - I'm going to have to reshape my frame of mind totally before tackling it again. 
I'm not surprised; it's not just a musical, it's not just a depressing musical, it's not just a violent and depressing musical, it's a violent and depressing musical with comedy. It's perfect Tim Burton wank material, but it's not handled evenly. It's worth watching for the visuals, but I think I will check out the Angela Lansbury version if I get an itch to see it again.
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Pretty much true, considering you got absolutely destroyed and are still rubbing your wounds.
Did I really though? What really happened? Two sides went back and forth for awhile about a movie. Neither side convinced the other. But for whatever reason, there are more Avatar haters than people who liked it on this forum. At the very least, the Avatar haters are far more vocal than those who liked it (myself notwithstanding). So they got to cheer each other on and yell out "Annihilated!" every time someone on their side made a post that resonated with them.
The exact same arguments could have been made word for word on a different forum with a completely different perceived result. If the exact same argument had played out on GAF, for instance, the perception would no doubt be that I had thoroughly annihilated Willco and Ichirou (though both of them would probably have been banned before the argument got anywhere near as heated as it did here. Willco would have been banned for ceaselessly trolling a movie he hadn't seen, and Ichirou would have been banned for his ad-hominem attacks after I talked about Aliens. I probably would have been banned for my harsh words to Boogie around the same time, but that's a different story).
The point is that winners and losers in silly internet debates like this are entirely contingent upon the audience. Here, for whatever reason, the majority opinion on Avatar runs contrary to general public opinion and the critical consensus. But just because that is the case, I don't think it's accurate to say that I was "completely destroyed" or "annihilated."
Really, we should stop talking about this stupid "annihilation" shit. It doesn't help anything and only serves to encourage sensationalist posters like Powerslave.
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What are your favorite musicals, Chronovore?
I'm not actually all that familiar with the genre, but what I've seen, I tend to enjoy. I wouldn't count
Sweeney Todd among my favorites. I'm also pretty plebeian in that I'm fully willing to count Disney movies in with broadway shows equally. So with that:
Les Miserables is incredibly moving. Disney's
Aladdin is a lot of fun to sing.
Rocky Horror Picture Show is weird and not particularly timeless, but fun.
Grease is exceptional; I know it nearly by heart. Oh, and I'm not immune to Tim Burton/Danny Elfman:
Nightmare Before Christmas is on heavy rotation on my iPod, even the batch of cover versions they released a ways back.
I keep meaning to see
Phantom of the Opera, but am not anxious to pay 100USD+ to see it in Japanese,
Miss Saigon is on the list, but I've no idea when I'd have a chance to see it.
Chicago keeps moving into "maybe next time" territory when I'm at the video store. Are you into musicals?
