re: Gerald Butler
Thanks for the yummy pix maven. He is a handsome dude for sure! (Yes, I saw that drool!)
(one of you want to do a bio on him for April's issue? That would be an ideal character with the movie 300 fresh) Just the write up. Post here if interested. First come, first gets him!
the first number is the rotten tomatoes rating. Phantom got a low review rating but I LOVED the movie. The critics were busy comparing it to the play rather than taking it on it's own merit. I for the FIRST time in seeing the films heard/got all the words(after seeing the play in 3 different cities on 3 occasions) & thought the sets were gorgeous. I saw it 3 times on big screen.
here is Gerald's flicks
- N/A P.S., I Love You 2008
100% 300 2007
80% Dear Frankie 2005
26% The Game of Their Lives 2005
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N/A The Miracle Match 2005
48% Beowulf & Grendel 2005
33% Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera 2004 -
N/A Shooters 2003
23% Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 2003
11% Timeline 2003
52% The Cherry Orchard 2002
51% Harrison's Flowers 2002
41% Reign of Fire 2002 -
N/A The Jury 2002 -
N/A Tomb Raider 2-Pack Gift Set 2001-2003 -
N/A Attila 2001
15% Dracula 2000 2000 -
N/A One More Kiss 1999 -
N/A Fast Food 1998
94% Mrs. Brown 1997
52% Tomorrow Never Dies 1997
I also loved Phantom of the Opera movie, despite the abysmal reviews. The acting (esp. GB) was incredible, and the sets and costumes were beyond brilliant.
The idea of trashing GB just because he's not Michael Crawford is just wrong. GB was WAY better suited to the movie role, and having Michael Crawford doing the part with Emmy Rossum would have been really, really creepy. I preferred GB's "rock 'n' roll" sound to pure opera vibrato for the piece, and THAT's the way Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote it in the first place. The movie was magical, and still the only one I've ever gone to in the theaters nine times! Everyone I know who is NOT an opera snob LOVED the movie. It had a couple of technical flaws, as does any movie, but it was a marvelous movie spectacle unequalled in current times.
I own every one of those movies, except for Fast Food and Tomorrow Never Dies.
Maven