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Okay, so basically, if any of you have seen the animated movie Howl's Moving Castle but have not read the book? You ought to read the book. The movie just doesn't compare, not to mention that it only contains like one-fifth of the plot of the book. And what it does contain it distorts almost beyond recognition.

Oh, and I watched Sweeney Todd yesterday. It was kinda underwhelming.
Throughout the movie, I couldn't help but marvel at the odd colouring of the blood. It looked kind of... milky I think is the word I'm looking for. Too opaque and oddly light in shade, considering the high-contrast, low-saturation quality of the picture in most of the movie. The sideplot with Johanna and What's-His-Face felt half-hearted and faintly creepy. Most of the songs sounded pretty much the same and, well, neither Johnny Depp nor Alan Rickman sings half as well as they act (granted, both still sing way better than I do). Helena Bonham-Carter was pretty amazing, though.
Then again, this could just be that I haven't been able to take any sort of scary movies seriously for years. Perhaps I'm interrogating the ngenre from the wrong perspective.

Ps.

jadeile, Palauttelen tuon kirjan sulle varmaan tän viikon aikana. Joko oot Good Omensin lukenut? Jos et, en tuputa sulle enempää luettavaksi vielä, mutta jos olet... mwahahaha. >:D

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Finally someone else who didn't love Sweeney Todd!

I ~~downloaded~~ used totally legal ways to get and watch it some time ago, and my opinion could be summed up as "meh". The colouring (blood and over-all) was really odd and I just couldn't take it seriously at all. I usually have the latter problem with musicals and scary movies, and it really isn't helped be the fact that the so called plot twists can be seen miles away. :/ For example, I totally saw Sleepy Hollow and Fight Club's upcoming twist(s) and/or guilty persons unlike, oh, everyone else in the room.

I suppose it did nothing to help the willing suspension of disbelief that the two main characters looked like they'd just been involved in a cartoon explosion and hadn't slept for at least a month...
And yes, it was predictable as anything. Whenever we could shut up about the things that didn't make sense or looked stupid, we would default to discussing what would happen next. We were usually right.

Hah, yes. It's a bit difficult to take the blood and gore seriously when the killers look like that.

I felt the same way. And I'm a sucker for musicals and horror movies.

I'm so glad to know I wasn't the only one. Everyone else seems to love it and I just don't get why.

Yeah, a friend of mine made me watch it because he's in love with it, and I don't want to ask him why he thinks it's so great because I don't want him to be sad that I didn't like it that much. XD Helena Bonham Carter was pretty great in it, though, I think.