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"Annie": Awful redo of the musical with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz (review)
cleveland.com ^
| 12/19/14
Posted on 12/19/2014 6:23:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Think you've got a hard-knock life? Try sitting through the new "Annie."
A rewritten, re-orchestrated but far from revitalized version of the old Broadway musical, this latest edition moves it out of the Depression and into a modern, tech-driven New York.....
Where's the excitement? They're not very apparent here, judging by the kids I saw at my screening. The row in front of me spent most of the movie talking....
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fail; film; racist
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To: SJSAMPLE
Taking movies and arbitrarily making them into musicals is utter NONSENSE. Aw, and I was looking forward to the following:
- The Amazingly Musical Spider-Man
- Robocop: The Musical
- The Melody of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Lord of the Rounds (LotR)
- Rock Lee Rock
- Total Refrain (A Musical retelling of Total Recall)
- The 5th Elegy
- Avatar: The Last Aria-bender
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12/19/2014 12:19:59 PM PST
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OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: edpc
Nothing encapsulates a musical more than the one shown on The IT Crowd episode "The Work Outing." Like this.
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12/19/2014 3:28:22 PM PST
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OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: VanDeKoik
The original Annie movie was a product of the time. Not only could you get away with a musical back in the late 70s and earliest 80s, but there was actually a bit of 1930s nostalgia at the time, which was only 50 years before.More simply, Annie was a successful Broadway musical that was still in its original run when the 1982 John Huston movie was made. (Of course 1930s nostalgia would still explain the existence of the Broadway musical...)
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