Posted: 12/24/2007 7:42:06 PM EDT
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Saw it, very graphic violence yet boring at the same time. I admit I am not a musical person, but it seemed like every time the action got good, people would break into song. Acting was good, film was well made, they just needed to cut out some of the singing. I give it 2 beadles out of 5. |
UMM, dude its a musical. wtf where you expecting? |
good to know. it looked good in the theater. they didn't bill it as a musical. as much as i like the burton stuff i won't be going.  |
Yes, the trailer very much played down the musical aspect of the film, which is misleading and unfortunate. People get something they didn't expect and as a result are disappointed. On the other hand, I have seen Sweeney Todd on stage three times, including once on Broadway and am very much looking forward to seeing this in theatres next week. |
I really wanted to like it. A musical about a serial killer just seemed so profane. Our ticket taker even giggled that we were so cruel to watch a movie about a serial killer on Christmas Eve but it just didn't work out. My wife was having to turn away for all the slashings, looked very well done.And the theatre was pretty empty, only about 18 people total. |
Tim Burton directed this, and he and Depp have worked together something like five times now. Edward Scissorhands Nightmare Before Christmas Corpse Bride Sweeney Todd Probably at least one more I am forgetting. I am really not a fan of Time Burton but he is the right director for this movie, as it is very twisted and dark to begin with. |
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I saw the movie and I LIKED IT! I also saw the play. I just wish they had left this song in: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Prologue) Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. His skin was pale and his eye was odd. He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again. He trod a path that few have trod did Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street. He kept a shop in London town. Of fancy clients and good renown and what if none of their souls were saved they went to their maker impeccably shaved. By Sweeney, by Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street. Company Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies. Freely flows the blood of those who moralize. His needs were few, his room was bare. A lavabo and a fancy chair. A mug of suds, and a leather strop, an apron, a towel, a pail, and a mop. For neatness he deserves a nod, does Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. Inconspicuous Sweeney was, quick, and quiet and clean he was. Back of his smile, under his word, Sweeney heard music that nobody heard. Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned, like a perfect machine he planned, Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle, Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle, Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle, Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney Todd Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd! Company Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd! Sweeney Todd He served a dark and a vengeful God! Company He served a dark and a vengeful God! Sweeney Todd what happened then, well that's the play, and he wouldn't want us to give it away... Company Not Sweeney Not Sweeney Todd The demon barber of Fleet... Street... |
starduken? I'm shocked. I never fancied you as a musical type. I always thought you and I both subscribed to the same philosphy - no war, no boobies = no me paying money to see it. |
HAha, if i want those all i have to do is look at your avatar and i get that for free. besides... my aunt teaches theater 
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you're kidding, right? I just about fell out of my chair because I was laughing so hard when he made his first kill... looked like the movie was sponsored by Behr paint... fakest blood ever. but I enjoyed the flick... would have liked it more with less singing, but I knew going in that it was a musical, so I wasn't too surprised... ETA: FWIW, my hubby says it didn't look like paint. it looked like melted crayon. 
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I went to see it today, and it was awful. - Johnny Depp playing an oddball character is wearing a bit thin. - For someone who came back from 15 years of hard labor in Australia, Todd looked no worse for wear, other than looking pissed and that "Bride of Frankenstein" hair. - The movie has one speed on pacing - fast. I never felt any dramatic tension. In fact, I feel more for his victims than Todd himself. He never stopped to ponder what he was doing. It's hard to root for a mindless killing machine. - And all that throat-cuttings. Even al Qaeda thinks it's too much. A little gore goes a long way, but we got a truck load, and up close, complete with gurglings and death rattles. |
I giggled when he killed the first couple of times, too. Something about the kill, and then the chair tipping back and blammo. And the blood was so fake, but it was meant to be, obviously. Tim Burton wanted blood, but not the slash 'em up blood and gore like in a "SAW" movie. I enjoyed it. |