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Nicholas

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In Topic: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory: The Musical

22 May 2013 - 12:13 AM

I hope these questions won't bring up spoilers...
1) Is Douglas Hodge every bit as good as we hope/expect?
2) Just how lavish and colourful is it?
3) Is it closest to the Gene Wilder, Johnny Depp or something very new and different?

In Topic: Peter And Alice

20 May 2013 - 12:02 AM

Ben Whishaw seems genuinely nice.  At the Baftas he didn't do a "I don't deserve/didn't expect this" speech but did seemed genuinely flustered at the idea of winning and having to give a (in the end lovely) speech.  A friend of mine once drank with him at a bar and he was apparently easy to get on with.  What's the old phrase about the kind of person you'd bring back to your parents or something?  He's that.  And to me, one sign of a great actor is someone who can shine in slightly lacking pieces and in my opinion he did that here, in Cloud Atlas and in The Hour, so in all mediums.  He's also the perfect candidate for a film about Nick Drake, should one ever be made.  I'm not his agent, I just slightly wish I was so I could point him in the direction of better material than this.

In Topic: A Doll's House - Young Vic

17 May 2013 - 12:00 PM

I'd really urge everyone who missed it the first time (and anyone who saw it) to see this (again).

In Topic: Into The Woods Movie

15 May 2013 - 07:42 PM

 Titan, on 15 May 2013 - 07:18 PM, said:

So with meryl streep, johnny depp and james corden signed up and chris pine and jake gylennhal being sought for the princes it looks like this is going ahead. Just wondering what others thoughts are on it?

Personally im not sure this will work on screen and could end up being another Nine

Nine…  When Daniel Day Lewis actively makes a film worse, you know you're in trouble.  Anywho...  Can Cordern, Gyllenhaal and Pine sing?  Streep and Depp can a little (can Depp without that accent?).  After the double of Les Mis and Nine I’d have thought it was clear that musical talent came before star wattage.  I bet more people saw Les Mis because Samantha Barks was in it and got good reviews than would have if Scarlett Johanssen was in it with poor write-ups.  If they can’t sing they can’t do a big part of the role (and probably will struggle to act the song) so the film will suffer.

And isn't it the director of Nine?

In Topic: Vicious

12 May 2013 - 06:09 PM

Finally caught up with episode one and my eyes are still bleeding.  In a brilliant episode of Frasier Derek Jacobi plays an abysmal actor and resumes that here to perfection.  Ian McKellen matches him.  This sounds like it was written by someone who not only has never seen an actual gay person outside of Are You Being Served but has no idea what actual human beings sound like, and shame on the actors for reading this and deciding it was a good idea.

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