![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Mama Mia and other tidbits...
Jul. 26th, 2008 06:27 pmSaw Mamma Mia today, a fun breezy movie that made me laugh very hard in places. Quite worth the trip and highly recommended. Not quite sure why everyone was so critical of Bronsan's singing voice - sure he looks uncomfortable doing it, but he doesn't sound all THAT bad. (My comparison is of course to me and my own family, who sound lovely to ourselves, but like a bunch of screeching owls to everyone else. I remember singing in a musical once and they corrected me until I started to lip synch, once I began to lip sync along with the crowd they said I'd really improved. As a result I don't sing. I lip synch. Bronsan, to give him credit, actually does sing, and sounds a bit like an Irish Rex Harrison with a touch of rhythm. )
Mamma Mia is a fun romantic musical for older women. It is not the sort of film you critique or even think too much during. It's a fluffy breezy summer beach movie, that you might watch outside while sipping magritas and getting up to dance during certain bits.
The only downside to Mamma Mia was when for no explainable reason the lights came on during the title number. Was incredibly annoyed by this, except it was during a bit that I'd seen repeatedly in the trailers so no big. My favorite two numbers remain Winner Takes it All and Take a Chance on Me. And it has this great line - Christine Baranski states: "My feet are so big, that's what all that yoga will do to you."
Other pop cultural bits: Apparently The Dark Knight has blown away the competition this summer and continues to do so. The theaters were not nearly as crowded this weekend as last weekend, partly because it wasn't as unbearably hot.
Michael Cain by the way says a great line in EW about Batman and Superman or the political metaphor of the two characters: "Superman is the way America sees itself, and Batman is the way the rest of the world sees America." Christopher Nolan, the director, states "Batman is kind of this benevolent billionaire, with the power of the wealthy. He's not a godlike figure like Superman. He's one of us.". Interesting take. And yes, to a degree he was writing political metaphors into the film: "We write from the perspective of the world we live in., what interests us and what frightens us. And on of the things we're very aware of right now is the idea of society breaking down. That's what we're doing with the Joker. He's essentially an anarchist. An agent of chaos, we like to call him."
And...Dr. Horrible has broken into the mainstream media world or grabbed its attention. As Felicia Day states - the mainstream media doesn't quite understand the internet or how fans can get something to get top ratings just through word of mouth. (Information Revolution will do that to you.) That's right folks, you can no longer consider yourselves cool cult fans just for watching it - the media has noticed. Neil Patrick Harris showed up on the View promoting it, and there's an article in EW regarding it as well. Apparently it's the most popular thing on the net at the moment. Over 250,000 hits in five hours, enough to crash the site when it first went up. Crazy kids. The dang thing was up for at least five days. (I wouldn't get too excited about all this, most of the videos on the net are fairly amateurish and cost less than $500 or at least I hope they do. Whedon by comparison spent at least $50,000 to create Dr. Horrible (according to EW) -demonstrating that yes, we can create and sell videos on the internet, albeit far cheaper than on TV or film. Apparently that comic book gig is a lot more lucrative than he's letting on. Note to self, never feel sorry for or believe whiny popular comic book and tv/film writers - these people lie for a living after all. )
Mamma Mia is a fun romantic musical for older women. It is not the sort of film you critique or even think too much during. It's a fluffy breezy summer beach movie, that you might watch outside while sipping magritas and getting up to dance during certain bits.
The only downside to Mamma Mia was when for no explainable reason the lights came on during the title number. Was incredibly annoyed by this, except it was during a bit that I'd seen repeatedly in the trailers so no big. My favorite two numbers remain Winner Takes it All and Take a Chance on Me. And it has this great line - Christine Baranski states: "My feet are so big, that's what all that yoga will do to you."
Other pop cultural bits: Apparently The Dark Knight has blown away the competition this summer and continues to do so. The theaters were not nearly as crowded this weekend as last weekend, partly because it wasn't as unbearably hot.
Michael Cain by the way says a great line in EW about Batman and Superman or the political metaphor of the two characters: "Superman is the way America sees itself, and Batman is the way the rest of the world sees America." Christopher Nolan, the director, states "Batman is kind of this benevolent billionaire, with the power of the wealthy. He's not a godlike figure like Superman. He's one of us.". Interesting take. And yes, to a degree he was writing political metaphors into the film: "We write from the perspective of the world we live in., what interests us and what frightens us. And on of the things we're very aware of right now is the idea of society breaking down. That's what we're doing with the Joker. He's essentially an anarchist. An agent of chaos, we like to call him."
And...Dr. Horrible has broken into the mainstream media world or grabbed its attention. As Felicia Day states - the mainstream media doesn't quite understand the internet or how fans can get something to get top ratings just through word of mouth. (Information Revolution will do that to you.) That's right folks, you can no longer consider yourselves cool cult fans just for watching it - the media has noticed. Neil Patrick Harris showed up on the View promoting it, and there's an article in EW regarding it as well. Apparently it's the most popular thing on the net at the moment. Over 250,000 hits in five hours, enough to crash the site when it first went up. Crazy kids. The dang thing was up for at least five days. (I wouldn't get too excited about all this, most of the videos on the net are fairly amateurish and cost less than $500 or at least I hope they do. Whedon by comparison spent at least $50,000 to create Dr. Horrible (according to EW) -demonstrating that yes, we can create and sell videos on the internet, albeit far cheaper than on TV or film. Apparently that comic book gig is a lot more lucrative than he's letting on. Note to self, never feel sorry for or believe whiny popular comic book and tv/film writers - these people lie for a living after all. )
