Comments on: Sweeney Todd (2007) http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Mon, 11 May 2026 23:01:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491&cpage=1#comment-12427 girldetective Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:47:30 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491#comment-12427 Oh, I flinched every time one of the bodies went down the chute. Maybe I was in too bad a mood to appreciate it; if I'd been in a better place, perhaps I would've gotten the joke. Yes, the gore _was_ stylized, and skillfully stylized at that, but there was a viciousness to the slashing scenes that I couldn't get past. Oh, I flinched every time one of the bodies went down the chute. Maybe I was in too bad a mood to appreciate it; if I’d been in a better place, perhaps I would’ve gotten the joke. Yes, the gore _was_ stylized, and skillfully stylized at that, but there was a viciousness to the slashing scenes that I couldn’t get past.

]]> By: Carrie K. http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491&cpage=1#comment-12419 Carrie K. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:29:03 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491#comment-12419 I felt the same way you did. Once I saw how horrible the throat-slashing scenes were going to be, I "watched" those scenes with my eyes closed and ears plugged. Shudder. I felt the same way you did. Once I saw how horrible the throat-slashing scenes were going to be, I “watched” those scenes with my eyes closed and ears plugged. Shudder.

]]> By: carolyn http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491&cpage=1#comment-12415 carolyn Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:43:29 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1491#comment-12415 I actually didn't find it very gory at all. The gore was so stylized, more like lots of strawberry jam than lots of blood. Felt more comical to me (but in a good way). (Another potentially gory but instead comical thing: the scenes with the bodies dumping down and hitting the floor, over and over. Hilarious!) My pet peeve was how in the first five minutes, they didn't sync up the sound well enough so the vocals & the lip movements didn't match. But I got past that. I wound up REALLY liking it. I actually didn’t find it very gory at all. The gore was so stylized, more like lots of strawberry jam than lots of blood. Felt more comical to me (but in a good way).

(Another potentially gory but instead comical thing: the scenes with the bodies dumping down and hitting the floor, over and over. Hilarious!)

My pet peeve was how in the first five minutes, they didn’t sync up the sound well enough so the vocals & the lip movements didn’t match. But I got past that.

I wound up REALLY liking it.

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