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Red Ogre said:
I have not, I really wanted to though. Goddammit! Is it a musical too?
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Eh... Not in the way you may be thinking. Yes there is singing, but only in context that makes sense for a movie about a musician. I put it on one night intending to just watch the beginning and see what it was like then ended up watching the whole damn thing and laughed harder than I had at a movie in ages.
 
I'll second the love for Weird. As a big fan of Al, I was a bit hesitant going in, but I had a great time. Not quite as absurd as something like Naked Gun, from what I remember, but as long as you accept that it's a parody of musician's biopics, then you'll have a good time. Daniel Radcliffe really has broken free of the typecasting and is just having fun in a lot of his recent projects. Good for him.
 
joshsquash729 said:
I'll second the love for Weird. As a big fan of Al, I was a bit hesitant going in, but I had a great time. Not quite as absurd as something like Naked Gun, from what I remember, but as long as you accept that it's a parody of musician's biopics, then you'll have a good time. Daniel Radcliffe really has broken free of the typecasting and is just having fun in a lot of his recent projects. Good for him.
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Seriously. He was FANTASTIC in it, and yes it's a brilliant parody of musician biopics. It immediately lets you know what it is and, for me at least, never let up on being funny. Good point about Naked Gun, though it does get ridiculous just in cast you weren't sure if it's based on fact.
AceofKnaves said:
Haha yeah! Little Shop is still a huge favorite of mine, and I watched it obsessively as a kid. Orin Scravello, DDS, is one of my bucket-list roles.
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Yeah, he was the best part of the movie. I'm another who has a really hard time with musicals, and that one was almost an exception, but there are others. But throughout the first time I was watching the Little Shop movie, when I was 9 or 10, is when I first developed my intense crush on Tisha Campbell.
 
Red Ogre said:
I loathe musicals. The damn things won't leave the hell alone though. I remember going to the video store and renting a movie with a badass looking plant monster on the cover. My mom tried to convince me I wouldn't like it but I didn't listen. I don't think I finished it.
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Not that this will convince you, but the alternate ending for that one has the plant monster multiply and destroy the world in literal kaiju movie fashion and it's awesome.

Also if you haven't seen it since you were young you might give it a second shot, Little Shop is so much fun.
 
JakeEkiss said:
Not that this will convince you, but the alternate ending for that one has the plant monster multiply and destroy the world in literal kaiju movie fashion and it's awesome.
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Amazingly, that is the REAL ending. It’s the ending of the stage version as well. Test audiences balked at Seymore and Audrey dying, so they reshot. Because they are cowards.
It caused the absolute banger “Don’t Feed the Plants!!” to be cut as well. Huge loss.

I’ve seen the stage version a few times now, and the narrative is superior.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Amazingly, that is the REAL ending. It’s the ending of the stage version as well. Test audiences balked at Seymore and Audrey dying, so they reshot. Because they are cowards.
It caused the absolute banger “Don’t Feed the Plants!!” to be cut as well. Huge loss.

I’ve seen the stage version a few times now, and the narrative is superior.
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Oh yeah I know the whole history and absolutely agree the cut was criminal. Especially how much work that mini city and all those extra plants must have been. So much effort just flushed away. Least it's been restored so we can watch it if we want.
 
joshsquash729 said:
I'll second the love for Weird. As a big fan of Al, I was a bit hesitant going in, but I had a great time. Not quite as absurd as something like Naked Gun, from what I remember, but as long as you accept that it's a parody of musician's biopics, then you'll have a good time. Daniel Radcliffe really has broken free of the typecasting and is just having fun in a lot of his recent projects. Good for him.
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First, I misread that as "a parody of musician's biceps" and because we're talking Weird Al, I thought "well, maybe..."

I saw Daniel Radcliffe in "Merrily We Roll Along" in the filmed version of the musical this weekend and he did a flawless New York accent in it while singing very fast. I think I maybe heard one slip. I was excited to watch this cast and all my friends love the music of this show, but it left me pretty cold. The directing of the movie is awful - it's ALL close-ups. We see the whole proscenium ONCE. Choreography is important and the director - who also directed the stage play!? - never gives us a wide shot. Even if it's three characters all on stage at the same time - it's always a one shot, to a one shot, maybe a two shot - the widest we get is all three of them when they pull their chairs center. It was INFURIATING.
 
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AceofKnaves said:
Amazingly, that is the REAL ending. It’s the ending of the stage version as well. Test audiences balked at Seymore and Audrey dying, so they reshot. Because they are cowards.
It caused the absolute banger “Don’t Feed the Plants!!” to be cut as well. Huge loss.

I’ve seen the stage version a few times now, and the narrative is superior.
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I'd say that Seymour's softened quite a bit as a character in the movie, too. He feels a little more selfless and less built on resentment, plus most of that original audience might have already been thinking of him as the funny little nerdy guy from Ghostbusters. I get why test audiences reacted that way, especially when you also factor in two other elements: you don't get that visceral level of destruction in a stage show, and you get a curtain call in the stage show that yanks you right back into Everybody's Okay reality. I've seen the original cut of the movie in theater during a re-release and it's kind of weird just having the movie end on a Godzilla film scene without, like, a Godzilla film ending. It feels different than seeing the original ending onstage.
 
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