Comments on: Sweeney Todd Opening Credits

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:06:42 +0000

Hey fofo,

I forgot to say, rather a fucked up tooth than the mentality of an eggplant you fucking retard!

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:01 +0000

fofo,

One can clearly see that you analyse your films in the utmost depth. It’s a true honor to have comments from someone with such a broad spectrum in the film industry. Ingenious of you to come up with the novel idea of connecting song to ‘faggets’ or fagots (US spelling) as I believe it should be.

I thought that the film was a good one. The scene was beautifully set in a typically Tim Burton fashion and the songs were very well performed. For me Helena Bonham Carter was by far the best actress in the film.

Although Jonny Depp is an actor I greatly admire, I don’t feel that he was the one to play the role of Sweeney Todd. He looked too young not portraying an image of pain and revenge and it was hard not to see him instead of Todd (e.g. in the scene where he is reunited with his ‘friends’. I also found the plot extremely predictable and was not really gripped by it and agree with Lydia’s comment on the beggar woman – there was not enough interaction between her and Todd which would have built up to a more dramatic death.

All in all, I found the film entertaining when I watched it but would not watch it again or rate it as one of the greats.

By: fofo

fofo — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:53:07 +0000

this movie pissed me the fuck off, it really did with all the damn singing now my two fagget friends are singing the fucking songs, fuck you johnny depp you and ur fucking fucked up tooth

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:33:58 +0000

Just saw the movie. My daughter thinks it was made just for me. I have adored Sweeney Todd since I first saw it (at least 10 times)in the late 70s. Have appeared it several productions as well. I loved the movie. Loved Johnny Depp. Loved everyone in it. Antony was from heaven. My only negative criticism was the beggar woman. They cut her part drastically. Todd should have several interactions with her before the very end. I don’t understand why her part was so cut down. She should be lifting her skirt and offering up her crumpet. It adds to understanding her character. It took away from the ending, which should be excrutiatingly painful. The ending dissapointed me. I did love Judge Turpin’s cutting and Mrs. Lovett’s final oven scene was perfect.

By: cib3k

cib3k — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:33:33 +0000

I don’t find the music that great. I miss Danny Elfman’s openings/themes. The Spiderman theme, the openings to Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Men in Black and others, they all have that magic/fairytale feeling that gets you in the mood. This one may be what Christina said, but it still sounds like standard horror movie score.

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:14:59 +0000

great, three less minutes to look forward too. I love this new trend.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:35:19 +0000

Ooh, I like this a lot. I saw a student production of Sweeney Todd at Theater Aquarius two years ago and am very excited to watch the story on the big screen.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:20:27 +0000

The music is an instrumental version of the choral song that opens the musical. They sadly had to cut all the choral pieces from the movie, since they couldn’t figure out how to stage them believable in a movie setting, but it’s unfortunate because those pieces are glorious. I’m glad that music has found some way in at least. Sondheim is a genius.