| Posted by: Derek Janssen at January 7, 2008, 5:10 pm | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | MFalc1 wrote: Quote:On Dec 31 2007, 4:06�pm, Mitchell Holman wrote: Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote innews:6b7963195d7e7d540f5123e7ab8e312e@dizum.com: Wall Street Journal film review:http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd � � �With an emphasis on the bloody. � � �Buckets of the stuff. Spurting and dripping and flowing and piling up. True, but it has the same shade of red that the old Hammer films utilized. Probably intended by Burton. Burton was all set to direct the film back in the mid-90's, and claimed it was going to be his "Loving tribute to Hammer horror films"... But this was the mid-90's, back when every Broadway movie project self-destructed in limbo, so he ended up taking "Sleepy Hollow" instead, and made THAT the outlet for his personal Hammer-tribute urges, which is how he first started using Christopher Lee in all his movies-- And now that musicals are okay again and he got to do Todd anyway, now we have...TWO Hammer tributes. Please, Tim, don't hurt Hammer. ;) Derek Janssen eja... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: ~consul at January 7, 2008, 4:53 pm | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | and thus Mitchell Holman inscribed ... Quote:Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in Wall Street Journal film review: http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd With an emphasis on the bloody. Buckets of the stuff. Spurting and dripping and flowing and piling up. Eh, lots of flowing blood and spurts, but AvP had it better. IMO. -- "... respect, all good works are not done by only good folk. For here, at the end of all things, we shall do what needs to be done." --till next time, Jameson Stalanthas Yu -x- <<poetry.dolphins-cove.com>> | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MFalc1 at January 7, 2008, 11:02 am | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | On Jan 1, 5:47�am, trotsky wrote: Quote:Red Cloud wrote: On Dec 21, 9:00 am, Nomen Nescio wrote: Wall Street Journal film review:http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd �Garbage movie critic has reviewed garbage movie. They gave usually thump up mostly to � the garbage movie. The bad movie get good reviews because it's the new way of � review �movie in these days. Why isn't there any chance of it being a good movie, Cloudy? If you ask Red Cloud to explain himself, then his one-joke-pony act is blown. Mark L. Falconer-film and video links at http://hometown.aol.com/mfalc1/links.html | | Static Link |
| Posted by: MFalc1 at January 7, 2008, 11:00 am | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | On Dec 31 2007, 4:06�pm, Mitchell Holman wrote: Quote:Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote innews:6b7963195d7e7d540f5123e7ab8e312e@dizum.com: Wall Street Journal film review:http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd � � �With an emphasis on the bloody. � � �Buckets of the stuff. Spurting and dripping and flowing and piling up. True, but it has the same shade of red that the old Hammer films utilized. Probably intended by Burton. Mark L. Falconer-film and video links at http://hometown.aol.com/mfalc1/links.html | | Static Link |
| Posted by: trotsky at January 1, 2008, 9:47 am | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | Red Cloud wrote: Quote:On Dec 21, 9:00 am, Nomen Nescio wrote: Wall Street Journal film review:http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd Garbage movie critic has reviewed garbage movie. They gave usually thump up mostly to the garbage movie. The bad movie get good reviews because it's the new way of review movie in these days. Why isn't there any chance of it being a good movie, Cloudy? | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Red Cloud at December 31, 2007, 8:34 pm | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | On Dec 21, 9:00 am, Nomen Nescio wrote: Quote:Wall Street Journal film review:http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd Garbage movie critic has reviewed garbage movie. They gave usually thump up mostly to the garbage movie. The bad movie get good reviews because it's the new way of review movie in these days. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Mitchell Holman at December 31, 2007, 8:06 pm | | Topic: "Sweeney Todd" is bloody good Forum: groupsrv | | Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in news:6b7963195d7e7d540f5123e7ab8e312e@dizum.com: Quote:Wall Street Journal film review: http://easyurl.net/SweeneyTodd With an emphasis on the bloody. Buckets of the stuff. Spurting and dripping and flowing and piling up. | | Static Link |
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