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Post by queenzod on Nov 1, 2020 18:21:04 GMT
I haven't watched it! He did Margaret Hamilton?! I love Margaret Hamilton! I also do Margaret Hamilton! Very badly but my niece loved it! We regularly watched The Wizard of Oz and obviously I did the Wicked Witch dialogue! I just identify with her! 😉 Yes! There’s also a nod to Citizen Cane And probably other films that I can’t remember right now. It really is a cute movie. 👍🏼😃
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Post by mllemass on Nov 1, 2020 23:04:16 GMT
The Wizard of Oz is the ONLY musical I like... and I adore it totally! Have since I was a kid. I have watched it dozens and dozens of times. I even studied it in my university film classes! It's a ln iconic masterpiece! I’ve actually seen stage productions several times over the years - at elementary and high schools, when the children of friends or relatives have been in the cast.
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 2, 2020 0:42:57 GMT
I also enjoyed Mary Poppins - except for Dick Van dyke's awful cockney accent 😬 - Oz would be the only other musical I enjoyed.
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Post by MagdaFR on Nov 17, 2020 0:43:50 GMT
It got to number two! www.indiewire.com/2020/11/woody-allen-a-rainy-day-in-new-york-vod-1234599026/I like Cabaret very much. I couldn't watch more than 30 minutes of Hamilton. Perhaps it changed the music later but it was too much hip-hop. Also I don't care for the story. I can't understand the idolization of the "founding fathers". I also have problem with The Phanthom of the Opera, not musically but about the narrative. The productions of both were awesome.
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Post by Hannah Lee on Nov 17, 2020 2:19:10 GMT
Glad to see the Grinch is coming back! I think it's going to become an end of year tradition-watch/classic for a lot of people. It really is an entertaining little holiday story
Magda, I'm so glad you mentioned Phantom of the Opera! Seeing that play life was one of the most powerfully negative theatre experiences I've had and has stuck with me.
Many years ago, a friend got some of the "hottest tickets in town" and invited me along, to see Phantom in Boston. I was so excited; I had loved the music I'd heard from it, and it had gotten great reviews. I remember sitting in the theater, so happy to be there and looking forward to it. And then the show started. And as it went along, I started looking around ... and saw so many people completely transfixed ... they were loving it! And I ... just did not like it. At all. I could see the seams of the production, could see flaws in the story, hear issues with the sound and the performances and was just so disappointed.
While some of the music and the marquee musical songs were moving, to me the staging and the story ... just wasn't. Part of it I think was the awareness of offensiveness of a story centered around a stalking, where the stalker, the unbalanced person, was essentially being celebrated. Yes, yes, I got the "society shouldn't reject people because they have disabilities or facial injuries" part of it, but I didn't understand why that meant a talented women had to to be harassed and bend themselves into pretzels to humor and accommodate the unbalanced guy. Maybe the production I saw overly simplified the story, but I remember being confused about how I could be so offended AND bored and unimpressed with a bad production, while also kind of angry at it all at the same time AND that so many people wouldn't be offended by the injustice inherent in the story and would be swept up and rave about it.
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 17, 2020 11:31:02 GMT
I haven't watched the musical with the "sexy" Phantom with his "sexy" mask but in the Lon Chaney's movie, he is a great old fashioned villain.
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Post by mllemass on Nov 17, 2020 16:23:23 GMT
I was one of the people raving over the Phantom of the Opera. I knew nothing at all about it before seeing it, and I loved everything about it. It’s still the best live show I’ve ever seen.
I guess I can understand the complaints about the stereotyped girl in peril, but Christine was never really in danger because the Phantom would never have hurt her. Sure, he would have hurt and killed the people around her, but she was safe - other than losing her freedom, of course. It’s really the same as those superheroes with the sad backstories - even Doctor Strange - where the guy is hurt or disfigured and is angry and desperate. Sometimes they use new powers for good and become a hero (like Doctor Strange) and other times for bad and become a villain. Beauty and the Beast tells the same story, and I know that people have problems with that story, too.
I can relate, though, to sitting in a theatre hating the show everyone else seems to enjoy! I went with friends to see Mamma Mia, and I hated every minute. I still don’t know why I didn’t like it, because I like Abba and I liked all the songs. I even liked the movie that they later made, even though critics hated it. But the live production was torture for me. Everyone was on their feet clapping and singing along, and I stood there looking around wondering what I was missing. And even worse, my friends had taken me to see it for my birthday, so I had to pretend to them that I loved it! Ha!
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Post by mllemass on Nov 25, 2020 20:48:15 GMT
The Aproxx website posted a list of everything coming and leaving Netflix in December. They have The Grinch leaving on December 4, although it doesn’t make much sense to remove a Christmas movie just before Christmas! Then I remembered that The Grinch isn’t even on Netflix here in Canada. So I looked it up and they have it coming on December 5. I guess Netflix has it going around the world at different times, and we get for Christmas!
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Post by mllemass on Dec 5, 2020 13:20:03 GMT
Just as they had announced, The Grinch showed up on Netflix (here, in Canada) today. Even though I have the DVD and I’ve watched it several times, I plan to play it on Netflix as often as I can to get those rating numbers up.
It’s really nice to see occasional tweets come up about it from people just discovering it, surprised by how much they like it.
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Post by queenzod on Aug 14, 2023 22:09:19 GMT
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