Have to rant about a horrible play and a horrible film I saw, horrible for entirely different reasons.
The horrible play was a high school production of "Pullman Car Hiawatha." It was extremely well-performed, and the actors were really talented, but the play itself is bizarre. Has anyone here seen it or read it? I'm not sure if it's just me, and I don't care if people call me a Philistine or what, but it was absurd. I've never seen the play before, so maybe it was just the way this particular production was staged-- because I know Thornton Wilder is a really famous and acclaimed playwright-- but nobody I talked to liked the play, including the actors in it.
If "Pullman Car Hiawatha" was too intellectual for me, then the film I hated was the opposite-- "Mamma Mia." What the heck? I'd never seen the musical before, and I knew absolutely nothing about it. I only know one Abba song ("Dancing Queen"), but my friend swore that "Mamma Mia" was the best movie she'd ever seen and lent me the DVD. I could only watch an hour before I just gave up. It was flat-out dreadful.
The songs had nothing to do with what was going on and were totally unmemorable and computer-edited, the acting was so forced, and it was just all-around unpleasant to watch. It seemed like the actors were slaves forced to entertain a king who would torture them if they didn't keep huge smiles plastered on the whole time. It was just embarrassing to watch.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy