Tuesday, January 8, 2008
A Great Tragedy
Well, it came at no surprise that the rating for Sweeney Todd was "R". I could hope that it was PG-13 but I knew that with Tim Burton it would be brimming with gore... sad... Well, I would put some of the music up on my blog (It's an amazing score, and it doesn't seem to fit the play much unless you see it, or so I'm told.) but that site doesn't have the movie sound track and I really like the voices they chose for the movie. I have seen a scene or two of the movie and I wish I could see the whole thing but I guess I'll have to be satisfied by the soundtrack which my lovely friend Amanda was more than happy to give me after hearing that I would never see the full motion picture.
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Am I supposed to be familiar with Sweeny Todd? How did you know about it? Don't you wish every movie was just PG. or G for that matter!
No kidding! Does the gore really add that much to the plot anyway? What's really sad is that what is PG-13 now is what R used to be. That's means our pore little chillins will probably have our R movies for their PG-13 movies. What to do???
Why does the name "Sweeney Todd" sound familiar? Refresh my memory...maybe list some of the songs? I don't know why, but I must have been exposed to it during high school music days maybe?
I agree with you both girls on the movie rating dilemma...it's gettn' scary. I have found that the 10 minute rule gets me out of a LOT of trouble. If the movie doesn't feel good after 10, then I'm through. Saves me SO much grief (with one exception Mar).
What's the one exception. Sweeny Todd is the Demon Barber of Fleet street. It's score is amazing... however... the plot is a little... hmm... gruesome? Through certain things that happens in his life he starts killing the people he "shaves" and Mrs. Lovett (a very cool lady) come up with a very *ahem* creative way of hiding the bodies- In her meat pies.
Eeeewww! Thank goodness that's rated R! Sounds like a role Johnny Depp would take on. It is scary what's in movies and on tv these days that our kids see! (and us for that matter!)
Christine...I love the 10 min. idea. That's really all it takes!
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