Heh heh. I like this one better than all the others. Thanks for the *promote!

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
I've apri1 foo1ed you: http://www.videograter.com/video/Sorry-DFT-THIS-is-What-Sweeney-Todd-ALSO-Sounds-Like

I'll help you look for a more appropriate embed to fix this one up tomorrow.

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She's pretty funny. This exert from the stand up act is good.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Julia-Sweeney-Letting-Go-of-God

heh. pretty mean trick, swampy.
my little sister's horror softspot was sweeney todd. but i was more the protective brother, not the teasing one, and i think her aversion to it had a lot to do with the fact that our mom was british, and spoke with a similar accent.

this movie probably should've scared me more at that age, especially as well-made as it is. but i had already stopped believing, so parts that should've been scary, would've been perceived as slightly more campy instead.

to this day, though, this is still routinely listed first on many personal horror lists.

A new study out of Yale University confirms what argumentative liberals have long-known: Offering reality-based rebuttals to conservative lies only makes conservatives cling to those lies even harder. In essence, schooling conservatives makes them more stupid. From the Washington Post article on the study, which came out yesterday:

Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler provided two groups of volunteers with the Bush administration's prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. One group was given a refutation -- the comprehensive 2004 Duelfer report that concluded that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded in 2003. Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only about the Bush administration's claims thought Iraq had hidden or destroyed its weapons before the U.S. invasion, but 64 percent of conservatives who heard both claim and refutation thought that Iraq really did have the weapons. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse.

A similar "backfire effect" also influenced conservatives told about Bush administration assertions that tax cuts increase federal revenue. One group was offered a refutation by prominent economists that included current and former Bush administration officials. About 35 percent of conservatives told about the Bush claim believed it; 67 percent of those provided with both assertion and refutation believed that tax cuts increase revenue.

In a paper approaching publication, Nyhan, a PhD student at Duke University, and Reifler, at Georgia State University, suggest that Republicans might be especially prone to the backfire effect because conservatives may have more rigid views than liberals: Upon hearing a refutation, conservatives might "argue back" against the refutation in their minds, thereby strengthening their belief in the misinformation. Nyhan and Reifler did not see the same "backfire effect" when liberals were given misinformation and a refutation about the Bush administration's stance on stem cell research.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/theres-no-arguing-with-co_b_126805.html

she was pregnant when they filmed sweeney todd, and if you pay attention, her boobs change size throughout the movie.

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotaneuse!


I liked sweeney todd a LOT more as a soundtrack. I couldn't stand watching it.

I liked Sweeney Todd too.

In reply to this comment by Issykitty:
How many shows have you seen where the talented cast is ALSO the pit orchestra where they sing, act, and play instruments all at once? On top of the incredible talent, this is also a multi-layered play within a play... okay I'll stop.

the revival of cabaret.

A great song, but JD just isn't angry enough for me. This is the moment where Sweeney has decided to exact his revenge on the entire world. I'm just not feeling the rage. I did like the film, just not the two leads.

Sweeney Todd was robbed.

Johnny Depp did the best he could. I wouldn't fault him. I think it was more of a casting mistake than anything else.

The problem with Depp is that he just wasn't angry enough and he didn't seem to have the ability to sing and act at the same time, which most of the other actors seemed to do quite well.

The other major strain on credibility was that he was way too young, pretty and well dressed to be a man who spent 15 years in prison and had fathered a teenage daughter. Did the prison have a gym and skin spa?

Beyond that, I think Johnny Depp is getting lazy. His Sweeney was nearly identical to his captain Jack, with the same clumsy cockney accent that seemed to become more and less pronounced from scene to scene for no particular reason.

I understand the need to put celebrities in leading rolls to up the box office returns, but couldn't Burton have at least picked an actor with an appropriate physicality. I mean, other than Depp and Burton's wife, the casting was brilliant. It just seems like Depp is becoming Burton's crutch, and IMO, Burton doesn't yet need a crutch.

I'm a Burton/Depp fan too, but I agree that they seem to be getting lazy.

So what is your profession? Are you in the arts?

Also, why is your queue empty? Fill that bad boy up.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
I was more of a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fan, 'til a few years ago. I feel like they are both a short step away from doing one of those pirate movies together soon. Sweeney Todd is one of my favorite musicals, which is why I am so leary of the movie. But - I am going to heed your insight and give it a try, especially since you had an affinity for the musical too. This is perhaps the push I needed.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Are you a Sweeney fan too?

There is actually a lot to like about Burton's Sweeney, but he completely miscast the two leads. Depp and HBC are way to small, pretty, soft, young and fashionable to play Sweeney and Lovitt.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Hey, Sweeney Floyd is here to entertain, not aggavate! Tag removed, no problem. In fact, I didn't bother to see the movie because I heard it was gutted. Can't believe they left this out.

I was more of a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fan, 'til a few years ago. I feel like they are both a short step away from doing one of those pirate movies together soon. Sweeney Todd is one of my favorite musicals, which is why I am so leary of the movie. But - I am going to heed your insight and give it a try, especially since you had an affinity for the musical too. This is perhaps the push I needed.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Are you a Sweeney fan too?

There is actually a lot to like about Burton's Sweeney, but he completely miscast the two leads. Depp and HBC are way to small, pretty, soft, young and fashionable to play Sweeney and Lovitt.

In reply to this comment by critttter:
Hey, Sweeney Floyd is here to entertain, not aggavate! Tag removed, no problem. In fact, I didn't bother to see the movie because I heard it was gutted. Can't believe they left this out.