try the priest

[glaucon]

Holy crap! It's a film version of Sweeney Todd starring Alan Rickman, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and fucking Giles!

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[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, I have to go wring out my panties now.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

do you think Johnny Depp can be scary enough to do a good Sweeney Todd?

I know he can be creepy, but I haven't seen scary from him yet.

Alan Rickman, on the other hand, will make a brilliant Judge Turpin.
*shiver*

[joethelionn.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it's directed by Burton who hasn't turned out anything worth a tinker's damn since Ed Wood.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

hey! what about Big Fish: the movie so good it killed Spaulding Gray.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

I think one of the essential qualities of Sweeney Todd is his non-scariness. I think the character should have a Lynchian fucked-upness-under-the-patina-of-the-completely ordinary, Everyman-esque kind of quality to it.

and Depp can do that in spades.

[alice-at-night.livejournal.com]

you had me at "fucking Giles"

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

did you know that Anthony Stewart Head is Murray Head's brother?

[alice-at-night.livejournal.com]

Is Murray also like a stevedore during sex ?
(I guess if it is in Bangcock. I mean Bangkok. Damn, I got to concentrate on work. Stop distracting me you knave.)

[ms-violet.livejournal.com]

(applause)

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

I disagree ... Len Cariou as Sweeney (original cast) had this brooding menace about him that scared the hell out of me, even when I pitied him.

He has had everything taken away from him (wife, child, occupation, freedom) and has become something inhuman, and that inhuman thing is vicious and dangerous, not just slightly creepy or adorably weird.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

you're out of your tree, klein.

slightly creep or adorably weird?
which lynch movies are you watching?

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

I'm talking about Johnny Depp.

I actually don't like David Lynch movies. I saw Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway, but none of them affected me enough to scare me.
I hear that Twin Peaks is different/better, so I may see that some day.

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

yeah, yeah, yeah, know all about it, have known for months or a year, very, very, VERY unhappy about Tim Burton directing, am expecting "Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with Music by Danny Elfman!"

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

i do hope they put "Deliver Me" in the movie.

[celyn100.livejournal.com]

I knew about Depp & Burton being involved. I did not know about AMH and Rickman. I am a happy, happy woman. Must line up sitter now!

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

omg
i am not sure if i want to laugh or cry
something to look forward too after Stardust :)