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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 15:57:41 GMT
I wouldn't bother, it's decidedly average, no better than a thousand other mediocre murder mysteries I wanna see it more because of its legendary status. In truth, of all the shows in London, I can never see Les Mis, Phantom, Woman in Black and Mousetrap closing. Obviously they may eventually, but they all are part of West End history in a huge way. If one closes soon, it will be Woman in Black. But that still won't happen anytime soon. Thst said, its a great show, I loved it when I saw it, and the Fortune Theatre fits it perfectly so, it feels almost purpose build because of how horrible it is in there hahaa. So that can stay. I wanna go back actually. Seen it twice, I loved it! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 16:08:58 GMT
Just thought of a new one, the 2007 film of Hairspray is better than the 1988 original.
Also more a personal one but any musical or play in in the west end must close after maximum 10 years and not be revived until another 10 years.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 16:20:41 GMT
*takes a deep breath*
Rodgers and Hammerstein bore me.
There. I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 16:24:17 GMT
I couldn't say this on the Wicked thread or on YouTube as I'd probably get a witch hunt coming my way.
I find Willemijn Verkaik is very overrated as Elphaba. I have no problems with her in her own right, but in Wicked, there's just something missing.
Another unpopular opinion
Hamilton is overrated. People are incredibly foolish to be paying up to £1000 now when you can wait about 5 or 6 years when its popularity has faded and tickets will be cheaper. Rap/hip hop just doesn't seem worth top dollar in my opinion.
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Post by tmesis on Apr 14, 2018 16:25:52 GMT
I don't really like Styles and Drewes music either. It’s not just me!! Oh thank god. I mean, I’ve tried. I really have. But they just.... do nothing for me. Me too - they're totally overrated. |
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Post by tmesis on Apr 14, 2018 16:28:16 GMT
I've never seen more than five minutes of any James Bond film and I'm happy to keep it that way.
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Post by sf on Apr 14, 2018 16:32:09 GMT
I am allergic to Bernadette Peters.
Can't stand her. She's a one-note actress and a technically sloppy singer with absolutely no sense of musical phrasing, and her career, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the universe's great unsolved mysteries.
And the worst thing - the absolute worst - is that she appears, at least on her worst days, to have absolutely no respect for her audience. The first Broadway show I ever saw was The Goodbye Girl. To be kind, it wasn't good, and Peters's co-star - Martin Short - got by far the best of the reviews. The evening I saw it, she very clearly didn't want to be there, and she perpetrated the most breathtakingly unprofessional display of Phoning It In I've ever seen in my life. She mumbled her lines, her singing voice was fried, she didn't make eye contact with anybody, and she demonstrated roughly the same level of energy as a sloth on Mogadon. When a few hundred people have paid to see you, that is unacceptable. Most of us, if we took a bad day at work/getting out of the wrong side of bed/whatever out on our clients, would very quickly find ourselves no longer employed - but Bernadette Peters is Bernadette Peters, and apparently some people are still willing to make excuses for her.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 16:34:37 GMT
I've never seen more than five minutes of any James Bond film and I'm happy to keep it that way. The best part of the Skyfall film is the opening credits. And that is just because of Adele. Switching off after that, you miss nothing. 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 16:37:40 GMT
I found Call Me by Your Name incredibly boring. And I hate it when I tell this to people and they're like "but... you are gay..." with a WTF face as if those two things weren't compatible. Yes, I am gay and didn't like the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 16:40:05 GMT
I wanna see it more because of its legendary status. In truth, of all the shows in London, I can never see Les Mis, Phantom, Woman in Black and Mousetrap closing. Obviously they may eventually, but they all are part of West End history in a huge way. If one closes soon, it will be Woman in Black. But that still won't happen anytime soon. Thst said, its a great show, I loved it when I saw it, and the Fortune Theatre fits it perfectly so, it feels almost purpose build because of how horrible it is in there hahaa. So that can stay. I wanna go back actually. . I will wait to see who goes first, them or me! No bets please.  |
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Post by tonyloco on Apr 14, 2018 17:20:49 GMT
I am allergic to Bernadette Peters. Can't stand her. She's a one-note actress and a technically sloppy singer with absolutely no sense of musical phrasing, and her career, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the universe's great unsolved mysteries. And the worst thing - the absolute worst - is that she appears, at least on her worst days, to have absolutely no respect for her audience. The first Broadway show I ever saw was The Goodbye Girl. To be kind, it wasn't good, and Peters's co-star - Martin Short - got by far the best of the reviews. The evening I saw it, she very clearly didn't want to be there, and she perpetrated the most breathtakingly unprofessional display of Phoning It In I've ever seen in my life. She mumbled her lines, her singing voice was fried, she didn't make eye contact with anybody, and she demonstrated roughly the same level of energy as a sloth on Mogadon. When a few hundred people have paid to see you, that is unacceptable. Most of us, if we took a bad day at work/getting out of the wrong side of bed/whatever out on our clients, would very quickly find ourselves no longer employed - but Bernadette Peters is Bernadette Peters, and apparently some people are still willing to make excuses for her. Crickey! That description fits exactly how Barbra Streisand played 'Funny Girl' in London the night I saw it. She certainly didn't want to be there because she was in the early stages of pregnancy but the management forced her to honour her contract. She gave nothing to the audience and seemed to be delivering her performance up her sleeve or down to her shoes. It was as if she was trying not to be seen across the footlights. |
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Post by alece10 on Apr 14, 2018 17:43:28 GMT
I've never seen or want to see Casablanca. Friend bought me the dvd as she was amazed I'd never seen the film. Didn't watch it but told her I had. Fortunately she didn't ask me any questions about the film.
Oh and I hate curry.
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Post by d'James on Apr 14, 2018 17:44:17 GMT
I've never seen more than five minutes of any James Bond film and I'm happy to keep it that way. The best part of the Skyfall film is the opening credits. And that is just because of Adele. Switching off after that, you miss nothing. 😁 I’d class that as the worst part haha. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 18:07:56 GMT
With regard to the Oscars this year...
Timotheè Chalamet should of won over Gary Oldman.
Sally Hawkins should of won over Frances McDormand.
Armie Hammer should of been nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
And yes, I have watched all of these performances. 😁
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Post by ellie1981 on Apr 14, 2018 18:15:42 GMT
I think Christopher Nolan is the most overrated film director around now. I loathe the Dark Knight trilogy.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 18:18:15 GMT
I think Christopher Nolan is the most overrated film director around now. I loathe the Dark Knight trilogy. Oooooo girl this isn't shade, I'm just working off what you gave me. 😂😂 The Dark Knight is the best superhero film ever made. |
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Post by robertb213 on Apr 14, 2018 19:51:47 GMT
I think Christopher Nolan is the most overrated film director around now. I loathe the Dark Knight trilogy. Agreed, give me Burton and Keaton any day!! |
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Post by robertb213 on Apr 14, 2018 19:53:57 GMT
I hate football, and not just because I was forced to play it at school. I've been watching the Commonwealth Games this week and been engaged by sports like beach volleyball and netball (where England have just made it to the final 56-55 with a goal in the very last second) because things keep happening and the scores keep changing and the course of a match can alter in the space of a minute. And then you have football, where a team can play for an hour and a half and get a score of 2, and where scores of nothing at all from either side are common. It's how fans talk about it as well. 'We were great, you played like Muppets' etc - um, you didn't play at all sunshine, you sat and watched it! I don't go around saying 'We were fabulous in Wicked last night' do I! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 20:30:57 GMT
I found it boring, but it fulfils a valuable function in that as long as it's running it stops any other production from crowing about long runs. Any time a show boasts about its longevity it can be countered with "Yes, but The Mousetrap has been open decades longer than you and that's utter crap". The Mousetrap = The Tourist Trap. The people I saw queueing up to get into the St Martin's all looked like tourists. Nobody who looked like they wanted to enjoy Agatha Christie's famous play, but those who just wanted to tick it off the bucket list. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 23:28:23 GMT
Monty Python is just posh white men shouting.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 8:09:57 GMT
Despite being a child of the 90s and loving Destiny’s Child back in the day....
I don’t get the worship of Beyoncé
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Post by tmesis on Apr 15, 2018 8:30:15 GMT
All tea bag tea tastes crap (unlike loose-leaf.)
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Post by tmesis on Apr 15, 2018 8:37:47 GMT
With regard to the Oscars this year... Timotheè Chalamet should of won over Gary Oldman. Sally Hawkins should of won over Frances McDormand. Armie Hammer should of been nominated for Best Supporting Actor. And yes, I have watched all of these performances. 😁 As Professor Higgins might have put it: 'Your pertinent points have been diminished by your thrice perpetrated grammatical solecism.' |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 9:25:38 GMT
James Graham’s Quiz is fun but is not the work of the prodigiously gifted playwright that I was expecting (I haven’t seen his other plays). There is mention in the play of scientific research into the way in which narrative can manipulate emotional responses from the public and this was deployed in a clever way in the play so that
our views about whether or not the Major was a cheat were controlled by narrative revelations. However the use of nail biting suspense that was exploited in WWTBAM was lacking in the play which had little dramatic tension. We should have felt something when the verdicts were revealed. But we didn’t because character development was sacrificed to game show gimmicks which weren’t as entertaining as the producers might think,mainly because the gimmicks were divorced from the action of the play. The action was further intruded upon by narration in the form of mini history lessons on the game show which relieved the audience of having to make their own discoveries about its cultural signifance through the unfolding drama.
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Post by tmesis on Apr 15, 2018 15:46:58 GMT
I hate Jaffa Cakes.
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