Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

This movie very very very very much needs to not exist.

This movie was actually kind of awesome. I knew a bit about the storyline but not a lot. It's actually kind of a great one. If you don't know, it's no spoiler to tell you that Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Johnny Depp), was formerly known as Benjamin Barker and that some creepy corrupt judge destroys his family by falsely imprisoning him so he can try to seduce his wife. The Barkers also have a young daughter at the time.

The movie begins with him coming back to London after something like 15 years locked up on the false charges.

Johnny Depp does a really good job with the singing. I've of course never heard him sing before so you always have to be a little nervous - sometimes actors think they can just magically sing when they actually can't. But I think the score of this movie is also notoriously difficult and he does great.

I love Helena Bonham Carter as well, she's so nutty looking when she wants to be and is perfect in her role I think. I even liked the guy who plays the kid in love with Sweeney Todd's daughter, he has a really sweet singing voice and I like the song he sings to her.

The music and story are great and it has pretty much the perfect ending. If you're a fan of musicals at all and/or particularly of Sweeney Todd, I highly recommend the movie.

Wow, I really wanted to like this movie way more than I did. There were redeeming qualities, but the end was very weak and a lot of stuff went unexplained.

Sounds like they would have done better to keep the book's original ending (warning, there are spoilers if you want to read the entire article, so only do it if you've already seen it or you don't plan to/don't care).

The book's original ending is SUCH a better explanation for the title, and a better, more interesting twist instead of the weird God twist they put in the movie.

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I just read this quote from Katherine Heigl about "Knocked Up":

It was a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. ... Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.

and it made me sad. We just rewatched this movie over the weekend with Heather, who hadn't seen it before and I think it's really funny and sweet.

I don't think it paints the women as shrews - I think the women in the movie are somewhat intolerant of crazily immature behavior like farting in each other's faces for instance, but I hardly think that makes them shrews.

Also, I really think in general people do too much "interpreting" of movies - apparently even the actors in them. It's just a story about a few people. It doesn't have to represent all of humanity. If the guys in the movie are goofy, it doesn't mean all guys are goofy. I don't really think the guys in this movie are supposed to represent the average American guy either - the group of friends living in a trashy house supposedly working on an internet startup for years, smoking pot constantly, etc. I don't know any guys like this myself. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

I just think it's a silly comment and it made me sad because I like that movie a lot and I think it got too much flack for dumb reasons. (Another of which is supposedly that it has a strong pro-life message... why, because the woman who gets pregnant doesn't have an abortion? Is every pregnant woman who has a baby now anti-choice?) Come on people. For Pete's sake, it's just a funny movie. Enjoy it.

Hey, Coen brothers, we get it. Life is random. Everything is pointless. You never see what's coming next. The hero doesn't always win. The bad guy doesn't always get caught.

WE GET IT ALREADY.

Jesus Christ, do yourself a favor and DO NOT see this movie. No matter what lies the critics are telling you. Seriously. Unless you like being bored, annoyed, and disappointed. In which case, hurry up and get a ticket!

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Seriously, can someone explain that to me? Why is it such a phenomenon? And now there's a stage show. High School Musical: The Musical?

Thank God I don't have a 9 year old daughter I'd have to lose all respect for if she liked this crapola.

We saw this movie last weekend and I really loved it. Here's a review from Pajiba.

It's really funny in parts, really sweet in parts, and while some of it stretches believability a little bit, it's overall definitely a good movie. Yes, the director is the same as for The 40-year-old Virgin, so if you liked that I'm pretty sure you'll like this as well.

No, no, no, NPR.

There's a show on where they're talking about movies that make men cry and I think it was the host of the show just said her husband always gets choked up at the part in The Sound of Music when Captain Von Trapp is singing Edelweiss and he gets choked up because he thinks he's going to have to go join the Navy for the Third Reich and leave his family.

Come on! You've watched the movie enough times to know what makes your husband cry "every time" but you don't even know what's going on! He's not crying about leaving his family, he already knows he's escaping with them shortly, not joining the Nazi navy. He's crying about leaving his country that he loves so much.

Edelweiss is a love song about Austria. He's sad because he has to leave Austria with his family in order to keep them safe.

I'm disappointed, NPR. As I'm sure Clementine will be as well when she reads this.

Really, do I have to wait for Spiderman 3? Will there be nothing good before that? The current selection is disappointing, Hollywood.

Dude, this movie is awesome.

Apparently I should have been a boy or at least should have been reading Frank Miller's comics/graphic novels because I really like the crazy movies based on them.

I think a lot of the people that don't like it are kind of missing the point.