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Post by bklynred on Jul 18, 2012 8:39:46 GMT -4
This was outrageously bad. I didn't know it was a MUSICAL! Y'all have to WARN ME of this sh*t! The minute Tom Cruise belted into song I laughed so loud I probably gave my downstairs neighbor's cat the heebie jeebies. I couldn't watch it all.
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Post by Sunbaby on Dec 12, 2012 18:02:33 GMT -4
I own this movie's soundtrack.  Mostly because I love Catherine Zeta Jones but I also like most of the songs. Julianne Hough and Malin Ackerman are not bad singers, at least to my ears. (It's also possible that I don't know any better...you can sing Warrant's "Heaven" on key? Great!) I don't even mind Tom Cruise's singing either. He's servicable enough. I was reading through this thread and someone suggested Johnny Depp - can he even sing? A long time ago I heard a cover of U2's "One" that he did with Vanessa Paradis, but I remember being completely underwhelmed. |
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Post by bklynred on Dec 15, 2012 4:21:38 GMT -4
I'm sure the music is fine, but my experience was kinda like walking into a drama and finding a comedy... I was not prepared. And what Broadway show do I see advertised last night, for the first time? You guessed it.
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Post by RabbitEars on Apr 22, 2013 22:09:02 GMT -4
A young friend of mine (30) had a hard day and wanted something totally silly to watch. This fit the bill! I'm 13 years older, so I grew up with this music and hated it, sticking to my Cure and Kate Bush and Depeche Mode (although I might have hummed along to "Pour Some Sugar On Me" in the car).
OOOOoooohhh, it was awful. Hilariously awful for us, because we could just relax and crack jokes the whole way through.
Tom Cruise was awful to watch. Lurching around faux drunk and stick his chest out the entire movie. Gross. It hurt me bad that he turned out to be the best singer of the men and most of the women.
Mary J Blige was a total joy to watch and hear and had killer outfits. I'm so glad she was there.
As the resident child of the '80s, I could tell my friend which outfits and hairstyles rang true. Some of CZJ's outfits trended a smidge early '90s, but Malin Ackerman's crunchy big hair was just right, and Alec Baldwin's aging rocker was spot on. The movie needed more mullets, more teased bangs, and way more blue and purple eyeshadow.
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Post by chiqui on Apr 29, 2013 1:33:34 GMT -4
I was not impressed with this movie at all. The seduction scene between Tom Cruise and the other dude was squickworthy.
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Post by Hamatron on Apr 29, 2013 23:34:30 GMT -4
Do you mean the scene with Cruise and Malin Ackerman? I couldn't figure out what was happening during that scene. I mean, they're adults... and they're acting orgasmic... or something, but they're not having sex? Or even moving around in a sexual manner? Like, I kept thinking someone was about to pull out a knife or something, the acting choices/facial expressions were so unintentionally bizarre.
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Post by Ladybug on Apr 30, 2013 10:49:44 GMT -4
This was a (off?) Broadway musical before it was a film, correct? I think I would've enjoyed it more if I saw it on stage. All of the sets looked really cheap and fake, which on stage I can suspend my disbelief, but in a film it needs to look real to me. Ditto the hammy, OTT acting and singing.
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jynni
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Post by jynni on Apr 30, 2013 13:24:14 GMT -4
Broadway musical and it's actually still running.
The stage version is a thousand times better than the movie version. It's a campy, raunchy, parody/homage to 80's hair bands and it's self aware enough to poke fun at it's own ridiculousness. Plus you get a cast that can actually, you know, sing.
They changed quite a bit for the movie. Stacee Jax's character is totally a supporting role and a completely different personality in the stage version. There are some characters that were cut and replaced with different ones for the movie. Plot points were tweaked, added/removed as well. Most of all tho - the movie gets the tone all wrong. It takes itself waaaaay too seriously and doesn't seem to know the difference between cheese and camp and when to use them. Oh and most of the movie cast was just terribly wrong for their roles.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Apr 30, 2013 18:16:15 GMT -4
I just watched this at a friend's house over the weekend. It was fun to sing along to the songs, but I just couldn't get over my dislike of CTC. Every time he came onscreen, I shouted "No!". Mostly because he was just looking and acting like a big ole creepster. I got more than enough of his nipples and soft, womanly hips for 10 lifetimes. The wigs were all really bad, but I assumed that was on purpose.
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Post by Ladybug on May 1, 2013 10:06:35 GMT -4
He was really miscast. All of the hot heavy metal guys I remember from the 80s like Brett Michaels, Tommy Lee, Axl Rose, etc. they were lanky and kind of dirty/sexy/hot. TC was lumpy/pale/pasty. He was way too old and not the right body type and he looked out of place through the entire thing. And like everything, he took it waaaayyyy too seriously. There was no sense of fun in his performance. He was playing lonely, tortured artist, but the whole damn movie is a farce. It's an affectionate joke on the 80s hair bands. His singing voice and stage performances weren't awful, but I suspect there was a lot of auto-tuning going on.
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