It's not a terribly good film, actually, but Rickman is good and the libretto is witty, if sick - if that makes you feel any better about not having time!
Doesn't he, though? I couldn't imagine him singing but then he started and I thought, "Hey, he sounds just like himself" and it was not unpleasant to hear. ;)
I thought "Pretty Women" was the best bit of the film, in large part because Burton had obviously forgotten to inform Rickman that he wasn't really expected to act or consider making his character three-dimensional, and he thus pulled up the absolutely dreadful Depp. He did indeed sing rather nicely. I assume that it is the fact that the song was cut from the Original Broadway Production, subject of such adoration (not entirely deserved, to my mind) that Rickman fans all over the world are not raging at the absence from the film of the Judge's Song in which he flagellates himself whilst lusting over Joanna...
Sorry! I resisted posting about ST because it would have turned into a terrible rant, but for someone who is a fan of the musical, I was not at all impressed with the film.
I don't know the musical, so I can't judge that aspect of it, but I thought Depp was shocking. But then, I've never understood the Depp-worship which somehow seems to have been decreed to be an integral part of straight womanhood. For instance, in Choclat, I thought Alfred Molina as the Count was an awful lot more interesting....
It's such a relief to hear someone say they thought Depp was bad. It was a dreadful performance (and that accent...). I do think he's given good performances (Sleepy Hollow comes to mind), but he is capable of - even prone to? - phoning in grim ones.
Heh! You don`t happen to be from a English speaking country? I saw plenty of such musical on Slovak or Czech TV. I got used to it. But I admit that I enjoyed My Fair Lady or Singin` in the Rain when it was not dubbed. Unfortunately, when I was younger, I didn`t have much choice.
Sometimes dubbing can actually improve a movie (I mean a good movie, not something that cannot be made worse by anything). But when it happens, it` wonderful. French comedian Louis de Funès`s movies were always very popular here, and fantastic work of Czech actor Frantisek Filipovsky who provided voice for Funès was partly responsible for it.
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Date: 2008-02-25 10:00 pm (UTC)I just have to find some time in my...
Oh well, I guess I'll wait for the DVD release.
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Date: 2008-02-26 10:43 am (UTC)Sorry! I resisted posting about ST because it would have turned into a terrible rant, but for someone who is a fan of the musical, I was not at all impressed with the film.
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Date: 2008-02-26 10:49 pm (UTC)I don't know the musical, so I can't judge that aspect of it, but I thought Depp was shocking. But then, I've never understood the Depp-worship which somehow seems to have been decreed to be an integral part of straight womanhood. For instance, in Choclat, I thought Alfred Molina as the Count was an awful lot more interesting....
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Date: 2008-02-27 11:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-27 11:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-25 09:55 pm (UTC)I saw plenty of such musical on Slovak or Czech TV. I got used to it. But I admit that I enjoyed My Fair Lady or Singin` in the Rain when it was not dubbed. Unfortunately, when I was younger, I didn`t have much choice.
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Date: 2008-02-25 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-25 09:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-26 12:22 am (UTC)French comedian Louis de Funès`s movies were always very popular here, and fantastic work of Czech actor Frantisek Filipovsky who provided voice for Funès was partly responsible for it.
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Date: 2008-02-26 10:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-26 11:33 pm (UTC)He's considered rather a good actor in Germany, entirely on the basis of his voiceover artist.