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[trinityvixen]

I had an aborted conversation with kent_allard_jr a week ago regarding Heroes (aborted because I was mingling and friggin' hungry so I kept getting up to get food). He'd just started watching and was finally able to be appalled (like all the rest of y'alls) about how much I'm in love with Sylar. "You like the brain-eating psycho?" or words to that effect. He then made some comment about how disturbing a trend this was becoming given my slavish sexual fetish for Dexter. "Does a prospective date have to kill ten people before you'll like him?" I laughed it off. Oh, me and my crazy killer fetishes! Just a coincidence.

Um. Yeah. Uh, I saw Sweeney Todd last night, right? And, um, I don't think I've ever been more inappropriately attracted to Johnny Depp in my life. I mean, Captain Jack Sparrow is a favorite pet and all, but I swooned for Sweeney (okay, and I also completely lost it with giggling every time Mrs. Lovett called him "Mr. T"). This is really not helping things and only gives kent_allard_jr's thesis more evidence, alas. I blame the hair. The hair and the vest. The hair, the vest, and the tight pants. The hair, the vest, the tight pants, and the shiny, shiny razors. So shiny. I mean, the sexual connotations were written into the song where Sweeney sings to his razors while Mrs. Lovett tries to get his attention on her, but still! So inappropriately hot!

Aside from the unbearable tap-that-ness of Johnny Depp, I really liked Sweeney Todd. I knew it was a musical before going and all, but I was still caught completely by surprise when the first two characters to walk onscreen burst out into song. I also wondered if Tim Burton and Danny Elfman were going to have another gay-divorce over Elfman not being used for this movie until I remembered that Sondheim had already written all the music and that was the whole point of a musical adaptation, duh. After the initial adjustment, I was perfectly keen on the songs, and I quite liked Johnny Depp's singing (I've never heard any other version, so perhaps ignorance is bliss, but I thought he did a good job) and Helena Bonham Carter's as well. I know that Depp was the only one to get a pass from Sondheim without having to sing, so good thing he could. Everyone else had like tapes sent in to get the master's approval. And Helena Bonham Carter was good. I liked the one she sang about going to the sea especially.

And I loved Sweeney offering his own neck at the end. Seemed right, somehow, that he knew it was coming and let it, helped it along even. Not a man who could manage to find a new interest after successfully taking revenge, methinks. He had weird enough hobbies already before the revenge was complete.

Sweeney Todd is the first new movie I've seen this year. It's going to be a weird year, I can tell. I goggled at the Iron Man and The Dark Knight (the bottom one) posters in the lobby on our way out. Movie tickets may be going for an minimum of $11 these days, but I'll set aside that money now for both of those. And y'all better, too, since, if the date on that Iron Man poster is right, that is our May Movie for 2008.

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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Note to self: If any of my single male friends ever goes batshit and kills a bunch of people, send him your way.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Only if he's not going to be a wussy and have a moral crisis over it.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Well, duh. Confidence is a turn-on even for people who aren't into serial killers.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Heh! Awesome.

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely up for both Iron Man and Dark Knight. And I hear women like bad boys--you're just taking it to an extreme. :)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

:)

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

You like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho too, don't you? Well, there you go.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Actually, I just find him funny. I'm not attracted to him. Which is funny given that Christian Bale is pretty damn hot and I am attracted to him in other roles.

Also, I ::heart:: your icon. And I ::heart:: the Piemaker! Which I would say means I'm not only attracted to killers, but...

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Thanks--I'm obsessed with the whole black-and-white thing, which is probably why I love Pleasantville so damn much :) Plus, the Photoshop effect is easy to do!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Gotta love easy-to-photoshop stuffs.

I, too, have a fondness for Pleasantville. Did you know it involved more special effects shots than Titanic? Crazy, but true.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Not attracted??? That's the movie my college friend famously told me made her "stick to the seat."

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I suppose he's attractive in some ways, but really he's just so personality-less and humor-less that he's a caricature at whom we laugh. You don't feel bad for him or want to cuddle him. He's a crazy, violent, shallow person. While his psychosis is fascinating and his body is a model of perfection which I do appreciate, he just doesn't tweak me "that way."

That's not to say that I don't enjoy the scenes of him working out nearly naked or the parts where he IS naked (especially the scene with the chainsaw and the trainers), but they're not even near to my favorite scenes (I like the business card penis-measuring contest and the freak out at the end from the ATM scene on best).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Also, your college friend is awesome. She sounds like me, only at Princeton. Because that's more or less what I said about watching Ryan Reynolds run around in Blade: Trinity.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yes, she is awesome. She's the one who got me drunk the first time, too.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Sweeney is eeeeexcellent. And how can anyone look that hot with giant bags under their eyes. Seriously. My only regret is that they cut out the judge's masturbation song. Alan Rickman performing that would have been fantastic.

Depp didn't have to audition, I think, because he sings in a rock band. The singing I found meh, but mostly because they went stylistically with interior, quiet, poppy voices. The original is just a smidgen shy of an opera. And Epiphany is soooo much better when it's belted by someone with a serious set of pipes.

Also, my mother thinks I'm damaged because I like this musical. For awhile my favorite musicals were this and Little Shop of Horrors, so clearly I have a thing for cannibalism.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And how can anyone look that hot with giant bags under their eyes. Seriously.

That's sarcasm, right? Because Johnny Depp can. And, frequently, through the aid of lots of eyeliner and kohl, he does.

My only regret is that they cut out the judge's masturbation song. Alan Rickman performing that would have been fantastic.

I want to believe that will be on the DVD extras. Because Alan Rickman seems to be the type who'd get a kick out of doing it even if it weren't in the movie's final version.

Depp didn't have to audition, I think, because he sings in a rock band. The singing I found meh, but mostly because they went stylistically with interior, quiet, poppy voices. The original is just a smidgen shy of an opera. And Epiphany is soooo much better when it's belted by someone with a serious set of pipes.

I believe it. darkling1 played one of the songs left out of the movie and it sounded hard to sing. What I heard about Johnny Depp not having to audition for the role was slightly different. Basically, Tim Burton went to Steven Sondheim and said, "So, I'm thinking about casting Johnny Depp in the lead..." and Sondheim said, "Yes. Whatever you're thinking, yes." Because he thought Depp would do a fabulous job (and voila! he did!).

Also, my mother thinks I'm damaged because I like this musical. For awhile my favorite musicals were this and Little Shop of Horrors, so clearly I have a thing for cannibalism.

I'm glad my mother thinks I'm weird and doesn't take me seriously about any of these silly things that i like that involve horrible, gruesome subject matter. We sort-of share that fascination (she's the one who bought a book of famous people's famous deaths when we were in Scotland), so that helps. But she also knows that I DO get squicked out myself and don't like actually want to cause squick-age (she was greatly relieved that, on hearing what happened in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, I was totally grossed out and didn't care for it).

And, technically, Little Shop has no cannibalism. Audrey II just ate people.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

They didn't record that song. Sondheim mentioned it in his interview with the NYT. I'm not suprised--it's the most frequently cut song. It made people walk out of the theater.

I'm going to have to hook you up with the original cast recording now, you know.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Twist my arm, why don't you?

^.~

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Bring your USB key tomorrow. My CD burner is broken, but I can give it to you that way.

[avram]

I don't know if they even bothered to record "Johanna (Judge's Song)"; it wasn't even in the original Broadway production, having been cut in the preview stage. It's a pretty awkward number.

My regret is that they cut out bits of the songs that were included, like the spoken interludes in "A Little Priest", and my favorite verse of "By the Sea". And I miss the full version of "God, That's Good".

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I think I managed to miss the "By the Sea" cut. Which verse was it?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

They cut out my favorite line from "A Little Priest." Yes, I missed the things they cut. Yes, I'm happy they cut them. The movie wouldn't have worked if they'd left everything intact, so I'm fine with it. It'll never be my definitive Sweeney, though.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

My mom was a little squicked by the movie. My brother declared that it was the first musical he'd ever liked.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

My sister really liked it and she's practically my brother (brother with girl problems, I guess) and also not a huge fan of musicals.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Your sister is practically your brother... wait...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

She's the most tomboyish girl ever. She likes beer and football and golf and all the guys treat her like one of them. That's all I meant.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

If you're not at least a little squicked by it, I think there's something wrong with you. I was cringing every time a body went down the chute. Gah.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Rather, my mother was a little squicked by how much I liked it.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, my mother's squicked that I like most of what I like. I really need a Sweeney icon.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Replying to this late because I saw Sweeney Todd on Wednesday in a Nyquil-addled haze, but, kdjaskldjasljdkjadkalsjdas. I was likewise saddened that we didn't get that song from Rickman. I'm a Depp fangirl, but holy SHIT, I found Alan Rickman's judge truly disturbingly hot. I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to find that character sexy, but aldjaljdad. I just about imploded when he and Johnny sang "Pretty Women" together.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Also, WHY HAVE YOU NOT RSVP'D???? WHY? WHY?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I did! I said so when the first e-mail went out before the holidays! I'm sure I did!

...didn't I? Well, I am coming, yes!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Nope, you didn't. You are one of two people who never rsvp'd. Pbthththth.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, I meant to. And I am coming!

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Er...am I the other one? I'm coming too!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

No, edgehopper's the other one.