Yeah but you're an uncultured boob

EDIT: And Nichole is probably too young for you to appreciate

Dude, you've seen the Jessye Norman music video of this? It's the most terrifying thing in opera, second only to sutherland's jawline



Mr Demille, she's ready for her close up *eeeesh*

If you've got to compare something to Rock of Ages to make it look good then I think it's probably not worth defending.

Haven't seen that before, xn. But I will watch and be terrified.

The only musical -> film that I've ever really liked was Chicago

All the rest can be destroyed with no loss to society. We should start with the most recent les mis, which was so bad I cried

Jessye Norman scares the **** out of me anyway. When she sings Wagner I want to hide.

Best film -> musical goes to Newsies, obv.

West Side Story!

And my God, was that Les Mis adaptation awful.

Amp makes good points.

It's not as fun as watching the pianist struggle with 4 minutes of constant triplets in the right hand trololo but it's still pretty fun

Haha. That right hand was a big Schubert "**** you" to every accompanist.

I also quite liked the Tim Burton Sweeney Todd, but, you know, Sondheim rules.

i think many people get married for the wrong reasons and subliminally convince themselves that they are in love

i also think sometimes when people fall out of love, it is because they decide that being in love is too hard sometimes

You're crazy. Nobody sings Liebestod better than Jessye.

But mets, what do you think of Moulin Rouge?

i think often when people fall out of love, they realize they were never in love in the first place

im torn

the song is okay

I'm NOT saying she's bad or anything! Her technique is exquisite. But it's like she might melt me with her cycloptic eye beams or something.

The film was good, the singing was horrendous.

Hollywood, there is no need to not dub actors who can't sing. By all means, hire ****ing Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady but FFS let Marni Nixon do the singing.

They think omg but if we don't let the actors sing, what will happen? Absolutely nothing, nobody has ever heard of Marni Nixon and everyone is just as happy with Audrey in that film as if she were actually singing. So let's stick to that system, it works just fine. That way we never ever need to know what SBCohen's baritone sounds like (weak as mofo) or how warbly a soprano Anne Turdaway, I mean Hathaway, is. I'm sure Johnny Depp, fine actor that he is could have lip synched. He sucked at singing. I would have personally paid Russell Crowe all my dollars to never vocalize a single note on film.

The only actor who had any business singing in Sweeney Todd at all was Helena bonham carter, who actually has a theater voice.

What you mean is, they realize that what they were in love with is not this person but some imaginary person pretended by one and projected by the other.

Fair enough. My reaction was more, look how great he's doing despite not being able to sing!

or they were in love with the idea of being in love

location: circle strafing Jessye

First Ewan McPooper, then Anne Turdway. I'm sensing a pattern here.