The Bloody Musical!

           Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street wasnt really a musical but I thought that was a catchy title. This movie was very good the back story to it was deep. A movie filled with songs and great imagery and a great angle to make the viewer see something and not even realize it, in the core of this movie Benjamin Barker is accused of a crime by judge Turpin and exhiled from his love of his life and wife Lucy and daughter Johanna. Benjamin Barker comes back 15 years later and seeks revenge. the lesson I recieved from the movie was that seeking Revenge only brings destruction. Being focused with the bad things in life only brings badness on themselves.
        Benjamin returns to London and meets Mrs. Lovett a widow that owns a bakery. Benjamin is told that his wife Lucy commited suicide with poison and judge Turpin has Johanna, so he decides to become Sweeney Todd and extract his revenge on judge Turpin, the funniest song is when Sweeney gets his razors and is singing about them being his best friends. this movie is filled with songs and funny ways to keep the viewer watching. I thought the director and cast did a very good job. I realized soon that this movie was so good because it was so wierd, most of Johnny Depp's movies are so good because of the wierdness. Anyways, the story goes on as Sweeney kills people comeing in for a shave and sends them down this shoot that then Mrs. Lovett cooks them up into her cakes. I dont want to tell all the details and ruin it for someone that might read this and have never seen the movie but just know it was a good one.
           At the end Sweeney was so caught up with revenge that he was blind to his own wife standing right infront of him, he had just killed judge Turpin and this peasant lady was in his barber and she says "dont i recognize you" then BAM Sweeney cuts her throut...sad. He then hears a noise and finds a boy (actually his daughter dressed as a boy) in his trunk he gets Johanna to sit in his chair and he is just about to kill her when he hears something, he exits saying "pardon my face" haha crazy. he goes down to the cellar where they cook the people and finds Mrs. Lovett they say stuff and then he realizes she lied to him about his wife dieing. Sweeney thinks she told him she died but Mrs. Lovett said she commited suicide never died. Sweeney then throws her in the furnace and she burns to death. ironic because she baked people into her cakes/pies and now she was being cooked. Sweeney realizes the peasant was his wife and he is kneeling next to her as Tobby ( Mrs. Lovetts assistant, basically like her son) cutts Sweeney Todds throut. such a crazy movie that shows us not to seek revenge, the sadness of revenge is it just destroys anything you value, you become obsessed and blind, and in the end it leaves nothing.

Macbeth

Hmm im not sure what I want to say about this movie A Performance of Macbeth. Ian Mckellen was in it though. he was the guy that played Magneto in the X-Men movies and also Gandolf in The Lord Of the Rings. He was a pretty good actor, ive never seen him in The Lord of the Rings but I seen the other two and in both he was good. As for the Macbeth movie as a whole I thought the director tried something that most dont do but it hurt the movie because the story was told in a black room where the viewer had to imagine the surroundings and for those that kinda enjoy to see the place and the palace and all that kinda stuff it kinda made it boring to me. dont get me wrong I thought it was a good try and the blood was very visible it shot out on the screen because of how it was set up but I just kept finding myself thinking about other stuff and daydreaming during this movie. I dont really have alot to say about this one, good try making this movie different and im sure there is people that enjoyed it, it just wasnt for me, movies have to draw me in just like a good book and this one just didnt do that for me.

Haha Isnt That Funny!

Arsenic and Old Lace, ive never seen this movie before in my life until we viewed it in my english class. At first I thought it was very strange because I didnt get the humor of it until I really started to pay attention to the funnyness of this movie. To think a man that doesnt believe in marriage, get married, kinda humorous. the things we do for love I guess. I thought the actors in this movie were very good. Even for a older movie the actors entertained me with ease. Another funny thing I saw in the movie was how the cab driver waiting for Mortamer and Elaine to get in the cab and go on their honeymoon. All threwout the movie they pass the cab driver and he is trying to get them to go so he can get outta there but Mortamer keeps telling him one minute and so the cab driver is just waiting outside the whole time. I thought that was very funny. Can you imagine being the guy waiting out there the whole day. I would question myself and just say "why am I still waiting." Another funny part about this movie is how Mortamer seems like the most insane of the group, his Aunts kill old gentleman for their "charity" I think it was called. Wow I dont know how someone thinks that as a charity but its pretty crazy and because its so crazy it makes it kinda funny. Mortamers nephiew Teddy (who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt) comes into the movie and the first crazy thing I see him doing is yelling CHAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGEEE!!!!!! as he goes sprinting up the stairs into his room, haha. That was probably the craziest thing ive seen in a while I almost rolled out of my chair. Mortamers brother Johnathan shows up and once Mortamer realizes its him hes in shock because hes ugly as frankenstien haha. Johnathan is a murderer acompanied with Dr. Einstein his partner in crime. They stay with the Aunts while Mortamer is scrambleing to get papers to send Teddy to Happydale. Johnathan comes to find out that him and the Aunts have each killed 12 or 13 people, I think that was the number. thats pretty crazy, these 2 old ladies has killed the same amount of people as thier murdering Nephiew, the only difference is the Aunts were doing a charity for the old lonely men. In this movie there is so much to soak in and be like wow! I cant believe they made that funny but this movie really wasnt bad at all. I enjoyed viewing this to see the humor of a movie in the 1940s it was something different.