Sweeney Todd

But so what if they didn't know it was a musical. Doesn't stop them enjoying it does it? Unless they are resolutely against any cultural enhancement to themselves whatsoever.
 
I went to see the stage version many moons ago in the West End.
It is a musical but The Sound Of Music it ain't. It is a very dark musical and gory in places with throats being 'cut' on stage in a very realistic way.
I found it very enjoyable and I certainly will be going to see the movie when it is released.
 
Ive been wanting to see this sinc i heard about them making it, then they make it an 18 :(

Can anyone clarafiy if its scary scary as in nightmaresfor weeks, or just a cmical scary.

Most people i know found heroes scary, so compared to heroes, is it scary?
 
Went to see this last night and absolutely loved every minute of it. In fact I can't get "A Little Priest" out of my head :D



I thought that about Anthony too!
 
I watched it today with a libretto from the stage show in hand and was very impressed at how intact it is. Obviously there are little bits rearranged and the odd fairly redundant song missed out altogether (I believe Tim Burton is quoted as saying something like "why have them sing a song about a party when I can just show the party!" or something like that). It has transferred very well indeed.

Often stage musicals are completely sliced and diced for the transition to film (the worst has to be Cabaret which is totally different in the two versions) but this has to be the least "tampered with". Well done Tim.
 
When I went to see it the second time, it was on all of about a minute when this big beefy neandrethal (spelling?) looking guy stood up and declared "I'm not watching this shit, we ****ing leaving!" and dragged his g/f out of the cinema, ahaha. It must suck to be that close minded, haha.
 
Nah.... I don't think the studio has any say what the BBFC adjudicates in any direction.

Here is the BBFC's reasons for it's decision:


"Several scenes in the film depict customer's throats being slit with a razor. These scenes are generally shown in close up, sometimes in an extremely gory and bloody manner. This contradicts the BBFC's Guidelines for the '15' category which state that 'violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain and injury' and that 'the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable'. "​
 
Compared to Heroes, anything is scary. How old are the people you know, 8?

Okay, that was slightly harsh, but seriously... I think any movie rated 12 or over is gonna be scary next to Heroes, which in my humble opinion has no fright factor or gore in it at all other than Claire's injuries, which aren't remotely frightening because you know she can heal anything. I really can't think of how an 18 rated horror musical can be less frightening than that.
 
Exactly the film I was thinking of when thinking of changes between the stage and screen version, so much so that the recent UK version amalgamates both versions and falls between two stools dramatically.
 
Dunno. You'd have to find one of the sixtysomething people who made an (upheld) "misleading advertising" complaint to get an answer to that. I thought it was great - but then again I got what I was expecting with the flick.
 
Just got back from the cinema.
Loved it, loved it, loved it :D

I do wonder how hard the studio had to work on those voices though ;)

As for the scaryness - it's not scary, but gory. There's blood and more blood. If you're fine with blood like me, you're ok. If you're like my friend....well, she was covering her face with her hanRAB at points :)
 
This was BRILLIANT. :D

Really didn't expect to like it, but I think it's the best thing Burton's ever done. Wasn't sure if a musical could ever work well onscreen after watching that Moulin Rouge rubbish, but the songs worked really well here and didn't interupt the story.

Depp and Helena were both excellent too. Especially Helena.
 
jsut saw it tonight, was goooooooood :)
Loved HBC's character, her death was the most gruesome to me.
NO tas gory as I thought it would be, which is good cos i turn away at the slightest of things.
The songs were really good, and surprisingly worked i feel :)
wooo i feel like a film critic haha :D
 
Heh I put on a film fan forum that the shot you're referring to was to my mind a homage to Edward ScissorhanRAB, from the way JD was standing, the clothes he was wearing, the run down room he was standing in, and the expression on his face. It was just for a second totally like the bit of ScissorhanRAB where he's up in the ruined attic room. I got utterly savaged for saying such a thing :D

There's another bit in Sweeney Todd where JD is looking around at stuff looking baffled, which I also thought was like Edward ScissorhanRAB learning about the "human" world.
 
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