Comments on: Sweeney Todd movie review http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/25/4160 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/25/4160/comment-page-1#comment-30280 Meryl Yourish Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:11:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/25/4160#comment-30280 Well, I must admit that I tended not to watch the blood spurting. Even though he made it a neon-red color, sounds were added and, well, I don't like gore at all in movies. But once you remind yourself that it's all fake, it's easier to handle. The thing is, I love Sondheim enough to just look away during the blood-spurting scenes. But not enough to forgive them for not including any sort of finale. I am surprised he didn't lower it to a PG rating. I think there'd have been a lot more teenaged girls in the audience. And yes, I know that Helena and Tim are live-ins. Well, I must admit that I tended not to watch the blood spurting. Even though he made it a neon-red color, sounds were added and, well, I don’t like gore at all in movies. But once you remind yourself that it’s all fake, it’s easier to handle.

The thing is, I love Sondheim enough to just look away during the blood-spurting scenes. But not enough to forgive them for not including any sort of finale.

I am surprised he didn’t lower it to a PG rating. I think there’d have been a lot more teenaged girls in the audience.

And yes, I know that Helena and Tim are live-ins.

]]> By: soccer dad http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/25/4160/comment-page-1#comment-30279 soccer dad Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:43:48 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/12/25/4160#comment-30279 While I read that there Helena Bonham Carter got the job on the basis of an audition (I think in front of Sondheim), there is <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20166500,00.html" rel="nofollow">another possible reason</a> she got the part. I saw it on Broadway as it was getting in its final weeks with, I think, George Hearn and Dorothy Loudon. I have to admit that this <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/smith/1457" rel="nofollow">review</a> discouraged me. (I am neither a Tim Burton nor Johnny Depp fan, to put it mildly, which doesn't help either.) While I read that there Helena Bonham Carter got the job on the basis of an audition (I think in front of Sondheim), there is another possible reason she got the part.

I saw it on Broadway as it was getting in its final weeks with, I think, George Hearn and Dorothy Loudon.

I have to admit that this review discouraged me. (I am neither a Tim Burton nor Johnny Depp fan, to put it mildly, which doesn’t help either.)

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