We're not sheep!
Feb. 16th, 2007 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerSo GHOST RIDER reportedly blows. While many of you will likely respond with a rousing "well a-DUHHH," I confess that I had been hoping the film was just a victim of bad marketing. Sure, this is the guy who did DAREDEVIL, but anyone who's seen the DD Director's Cut knows that movie was actually pretty damn good, flaws and all. I was hoping he'd knock it out of the park with this movie, but alas.
Although it would have been fun to see Muttonchop-Godfather Peter Fonda and the utter awesomeness of the last living cowboy Sam Elliot. Regardless, boy, now I'm really glad I turned down a chance to see it for free last night in favor of seeing the live EDWARD SCISSORHANDS dance show.
I keep wanting to call it ballet, but it wasn't really. It was very OKLAHOMA! and WEST SIDE STORY in its moves, but very, very Burton/Elfman in its style. The basic story's the same, but much of the plot is changed. Which I understand, for the sake of telling a story without dialogue. The changes took me a second or two to get used to and sometimes took me out of the moment, but the whole thing worked beautifully.
I only wish I could see it a couple more times. There is so much going on (with virtually every single person in the ensemble cast doing something interesting at any given moment) that you just can't catch all the wonderful details in one viewing.
I didn't sob as originally predicted. But I most definitely did shed a couple tears at the final dance between Edward and Kim (set in a graveyard rather than in the castle) after an entire show of slowly getting progressively choked up whenever Elfman's theme came in. I cannot imagine this being done without the Elfman music. His score for the film is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful scores I think I've ever heard (the only other one that immediately pops to mind as a contender is Ennio Morricone's THE MISSION).
Also, Edward doing the curtain call in character? Utter brilliance.
Although it would have been fun to see Muttonchop-Godfather Peter Fonda and the utter awesomeness of the last living cowboy Sam Elliot. Regardless, boy, now I'm really glad I turned down a chance to see it for free last night in favor of seeing the live EDWARD SCISSORHANDS dance show.
I keep wanting to call it ballet, but it wasn't really. It was very OKLAHOMA! and WEST SIDE STORY in its moves, but very, very Burton/Elfman in its style. The basic story's the same, but much of the plot is changed. Which I understand, for the sake of telling a story without dialogue. The changes took me a second or two to get used to and sometimes took me out of the moment, but the whole thing worked beautifully.
I only wish I could see it a couple more times. There is so much going on (with virtually every single person in the ensemble cast doing something interesting at any given moment) that you just can't catch all the wonderful details in one viewing.
I didn't sob as originally predicted. But I most definitely did shed a couple tears at the final dance between Edward and Kim (set in a graveyard rather than in the castle) after an entire show of slowly getting progressively choked up whenever Elfman's theme came in. I cannot imagine this being done without the Elfman music. His score for the film is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful scores I think I've ever heard (the only other one that immediately pops to mind as a contender is Ennio Morricone's THE MISSION).
Also, Edward doing the curtain call in character? Utter brilliance.
