A Girl With a Sword

The Year is Ending. Hopefully another will begin tomorrow.

I used the word "relationship" far too many times this year.

I went to see Phantom of the Opera yesterday. It was interesting to see a musical I have known and had memorized for far too long re-interpreted as a film. I was sorry that the filmmakers felt that they should make it more of a musical. They could have gone the Evita route, take the music, make it a story, realize that the music is the dialogue and you don't need to worry that people won't understand. Anyway, I didn't like that they changed a lot of the dialogue into spoken words instead of sung. The whole "Raoul, I'm frightened, don't make me do this . . ." scene sounded really cheesy. And that's one of my favorite parts. I don't like musicals. I like POTO and Les Mis and Evita because they aren't so much musicals as sung plays. The music doesn't interupt because there is no talking. I hate it when people randomly burst into song and the way the Phantom movie did things it sounded even more like people were randomly bursting into song because they would start out talking and them they would start singing mid-sentence. Oh, and the Phantom had like a square-inch of scar tissue. Really hideous.

Anyway, I feel like anymore complaining would be like kicking the movie while it's down. I liked it for its nostaligic value, and it was a pretty movie. I liked Madame Giry. She's wicked cool. I think she's Andrew Lloyd Webber's presence in the musical. Oh, and I like Mr. Beebe as Andre.

I found this review that says pretty much what I have to say about the movie.