Thread: I Wanted To Like It

When you watch the stage version first, the movie is more suspenseful because it's got it's own new shock values and the whole thing feels realistic {even though everyone sings and you know how it ends with better special effects}.

Both stage versions are wonderful I saw the one that was made in 1970's and it blew me out of the water I thought both versions were better then the movie

But all it did was annoy me. I stopped paying attention halfway through. It looks good and has an excellent plot but failed to catch my attention.

Watch the stage show on Youtube. Kiss me, I bleed Last seen: Where the Wild Things Are, 9/10

I felt the same annoyance, but I feel that for all Sondheim music. His rhythm is like nails on a chalkboard to me. The movie itself was alright, and I probably would have enjoyed it on mute.

It could easily have been a silent film the way that Burton filmed it. I love the music in Sweeney Todd. A composer for whom I have a similar "nails on a chalkboard" reaction to is Andrew Lloyd Webber... You're terribly late you know...Naughty! Mad Hatter 3/5/2010

Webber's hit or miss for me. But Sondheim is always wonderful IMO. We're having too good a time today, we ain't even thinkin about tomorrow Public Enemies