[Cinnamon Girl]

Have you seen it? Please share.

[Cinnamon Girl]

For those of you who may be interested.

[FormerACLUmember]

I saw the DVD last week and totally enjoyed it. The sets and staging were spectacular. And I happen to love the music.

[Mad Dawgg]

I just saw Moulon Rouge for the first time last night and was blown away.

I am heading to Netflix now to and this one to my list.

[tiamat]

Haven't seen it yet.

Saw the origional play in Toronto years ago.

Cy, check it out!

[Darkwolf]

Haven't seen it and have no desire to, but it's always interesting to me how many women I've known are hugely into musicals, while the few I've seen have left me not only uninterested but completely bored stiff. (I'm not putting this movie down, btw, just using this opportunity to talk about the general topic.) It's not about imagination, as I've sold some pretty far-out fiction, but I think it's about making overt emotions that women feel and think about but never get to express, or, maybe more pertinently, they wish men would express overtly. I don't like the music, don't like musicals, the style of music is just florid and sappy to me, but I am always amazed at how INTENSELY some people love this stuff.

[nutmeg]

:o)

[Gewittermädchen]

BTW, Minnie Driver was the only one in the cast who did not sing, all dubbed, thought she was hysterical though, "get my doggies, bring my doggies, bye, bye!!

[narby]

Saw it this weekend. Pretty good. But I enjoyed the two trips to see it on stage in LA better.

There were some small things that could have improved it dramatically (pun....).

Don't continue if you haven't seen it yet.

The part where the phantom chases the stage hand in the rigging up over the stage was done badly. It was appropriate that they showed the phantom chasing him. But then he caught him, and you watched the phantom put the noose over his neck. Then the stage hand fell down and hung over the stage.

Totally predictable. Written like someone who was "too close" to the stage production would have converted it to movie.

They could have showed the chase. But then skip directly to the body dropping on the noose. It would have had the surprise that it had on the stage where a normal show was going on and suddenly this body drops down. Wow.

[SouthernFreebird]

OMG I saw this on the big screen and ran to the store the first day of release. I loved this movie, I cried everytime I've watched it (about 100x) and my kids love it.

And yeah the Phanton is so hot! I can't believe she would go for that wuss over the Phantom... now he has testosterone.
Heck I'd do him even with the messed up face :)

[ezo4]

just brought it yesterday. Havent seen it yet

[Theo]

I saw it with my wife in the theater. Puzzlingly bad, in my opinion.

The cinematography is great, but the story seems to have been written by a pretentious undergrad student trying to impress someone. It's got elements stolen from a dozen other stories, inappropriate and story-disrupting outfits (who walks around in the cold of winter with their chest bared?), a musical accompaniment straight out of a 70s rock opera, and so on.

The cinematography is alluring, but all the accollades this film receives strikes me like the applause people gave at "seeing" the emperor's new clothes.

I guess what I'm saying is that people shouldn't be ashamed to say they don't care for such a "classic" as this....

[MikefromOhio]

screw the guy who played the Phantom, who was that young blonde that was Christine's friend? SHE was gorgeous!!!!

[supercat]

In many ways, this is a really great film, but the greatness is in some ways marred by excessive silliness. I fully recognize that this is a musical, and so the concept of people singing is part of the normal suspension of disbelief. Candelabras which rise, lit, out of an underground lake, however, are simply goofy (yes, I know the stage musical does it, but the effect there is more metaphoricaal than literal). The first time I saw the film, stuff like that put me in 'silly mood' and distracted from the rest of the picture. The second time I figured that since I already knew the story editors were goofy I figured I could focus on other aspects and enjoyed it much better.

Still, the list of sillinesses is pretty impressive:

1. The candelabra 'hands' in the first verse of the "Phantom of the Opera" song.
2. Indecision of whether a verse of music is voice-over or direct singing, changing depending upon camera angle.
3. A very powerful underground light source outside the phantom's lair
4. Chrstine telling a driver to take her "To the cemetary--to my father's grave". If the driver knew her, she wouldn't have to say which grave she wanted, and if he didn't know her, her order wouldn't tell him where to go.
5. The "James Bond" swimming scene. The film is somewhat overlong, and would have been just as good if not better if everything from Raoul's walking down the stairs to him climbing out of the water was cut.
6. The "ropes and chains flailing madly" insert shots during the chandelier disaster
7. The chandelier disaster itself does not seem to have been well-thought-out. Consider the implications for the 1919 opening and also for Mme. Giry's order that Meg stay put.

I really like the film, but find myself amazed at the number of small bits of Plan-Nine-level stupidity that were left in.

[FormerACLUmember]

Emy Rossum:

[pitinkie]

My DVD just came! My son loved the movie! I saw the movie and the play with Crawford.

[RaceBannon]

it was outstanding

[nutmeg]

I loved the movie as well and probably will buy the DVD.

Saw the musical twice in NYC on Broadway - the first time with the original Phantom - Michael Crawford - shortly after its Broadway debut. Saw it again in London years later. I have to admit - I liked each and every phantom in all four versions of the musical and/or movie I saw. If I had to vote for best Phantom in the musical though, I'd have to vote for Crawford.

Emmy Rossum is remarkable. Isn't she 18? I like her voice because it's clear and strong but not opera-ish.

I was absoutely stunned to learn she's 18 (or was in 2004). I've read that Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted the character of Christine to have a clear, strong yet sweet voice, without sounding too professionally "opera-ish", so Emmy was perfect for the part, IMHO.

As a child, Emmy Rossum sung at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in NYC, performing in over 20 operas in six different languages, alongside stars such as Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Incredible resume for such a young age! Emmy Rossum bio - imdb.com

[A CA Guy]

I was thinking of buying the DVD having missed it in the theaters.
Then, a group of friends who all went to the play in Los Angeles pretty much all called this movie crap, so maybe I'll rent it instead for a dollar months from now.

[Unknown Freeper]

bump for later

[k2blader]

Planning to rent it. :-)