Into the Woods Official Movie Thread- Page 167

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 12:40pm

@disneybroadwayfan22: Both posters are from the U.S. release.

[Joviedamian]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 1:17pm

Many people are asking why they cast Sophia as Little Red in the first place. Well it was all about money for sure. She was very popular and may even be so around the world (remember how popular John Travolta is in Japan, and most of the backers of the film were those from Japan investors), it's obvious to cast someone when the money to back the film is there and that they are very popular so that more people will buy tickets.

[Starship]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 2:18pm

Half the time you can't really rely on the IMDB parental guidance section. I've seen people call someone taking off their shirt "sexual." In a G movie.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 5:13pm

"He pretty much LOVES everything. "

GASP!!! Someone with a positive outlook! How horrid!

[Starship]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 5:16pm

Just in case there are people that don't know: Cinemark is showing the movie on Christmas Eve at 7PM. I'm not sure if other theatres are doing the same as well, or if that's just where I live, but I figured I'd put that out there anyways!

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 5:45pm

Okay, so I bit the bullet and bought the film soundtrack, even though I said I would not. But I'm glad I did, because FULL LYRICS! I always get so excited when a musical theatre album (be if from Broadway or film) includes the lyrics in its little CD booklet...

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/21/14 at 10:27pm

Four days left and still no major reviews. Hey can you hurry up please?

[Showface]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 9:58am

Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, and Meryl Steep will be on Ellen today!

From the promo (which I cant find), it looks like it will be a fun episode!




I saw a new TV Spot last night, and it was brilliant, and I hope it surfaces online soon!



Here's another new TV Spot (with hardly any new footage unlike the other one):

[Showface]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 10:07am

Christine Baranski interview:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/christine-baranski-sheds-light-role-woods-27761412


Features new clip "Darling Those Nails"

[Len6677]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 11:32am

I really like this review that just came out from the Chicago Tribune. One of my favorites that I've seen so far.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-into-the-woods-review-20141222-column.html

Reading all these, it sounds like the movie could really use a "So Happy"-type scene. If not that song itself, something in its place that has the same function.

[Showface]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 11:43am

Christine Baranski on Kelly and Michael. They showed another clip. "I'm Going to Hide"

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 12:01pm

The Chicago Tribune review is blocked with a subscriber thing. Can anyone quote the full review and what score it is? Thanks a bunch.

[Showface]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 12:04pm

^ 3 out of 5 stars.


Conclusion of Review: ""Into the Woods" was a natural for the movies, with its transformation scenes, its jump-cut-friendly storytelling, hopping from one set of characters to another and back again. The movie works best whenever Corden and Blunt, performers of nearly limitless appeal and sweet-natured vulnerability, take the story back from their cohorts, though Kendrick is no less beguiling. I wish I could say Marshall is a savior of the screen musical, but in truth, though he scored with "Chicago," his film version of "Nine" wasn't much better than his nonmusicals "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4." "Into the Woods" brightens the record."

[Len6677]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 12:12pm

The Chicago Trib reviews on a four star scale though, so it's actually 3/4.

Strange that you can't view it. I don't have a subscription and the link goes through for me.

This review, on the other hand, is infuriating. And oddly enough, I just realized I went to college with the reviewer.

http://www.redeyechicago.com/entertainment/movies/redeye-into-the-woods-review-20141219,0,7628688.column

[Musical Master]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 12:35pm

@Showface, Thanks.

@Len6677, Nice to read yet another positive review and I guess the Chicago Tribune does that "do you have a subscription"? often while in other places in the US it doesn't.

[Showface]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:07pm

On Rotten Tomatoes the move has a 71. However, again, the "rotten" reviews seem to criticize that it is too dark and too long, and for those of us who are fans of the show, that should be no problem.



Also, all of the "Top Critics" gave the film a "fresh", except for one, and that is by the "San Jose Mercury News"

[tenorphil81]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 5:29pm

So, at the end of the day, Marshall, et. al. just can't win. Seems that the critics don't get that the second half was meant to be dark. Whatever.

[Len6677]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 5:37pm

Yeah, it's kind of maddening that so many of these people don't get it and don't seem to be attempting to get it, but the good news is that overall this is getting positive reviews.

I guess the criticism of the second half should come as no surprise, but I've always been a bit confused as to why it's polarizing even among theater fans. To me the second act pretty much makes the whole thing.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 5:55pm

People say/said the same think about Sunday in the Park With George.

I think the second act is the point. And I like it better than the first.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:07pm

Music and Words featurette with some new footage (Spoilers)

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/watch-more-musical-performances-from-into-the-105886926007.html

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 6:47pm

^O NOOOO

Now I feel like I've seen the whole movie. NO MORE CLIPS!!!

[stage_star]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 8:46pm

After seeing that featurette, I'm just going to quote the first answer to the very first topic in this thread, more than two years ago:

"STREEP DOES NOT HAVE THE VOICE FOR THIS ROLE!"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

(sorry Jordan Catalano :p )

[gypsy101]

Posted: 12/22/14 at 11:28pm

I haven't watched a clip since the soundtrack came out, and I listened to that twice before I placed on myself a ten-day embargo...I know the score like the back of my hand, so I'm thinking I shouldn't listen to anything Into the Woods-related until I see it. Although I kind of want to watch the clip of Sondheim. I can't believe it's only two days away!

[MagicalMusical]

Posted: 12/23/14 at 1:11am

Hey Broadway World, in your article "Beans, Capes, Princes & Slippers - Uncovering the Fairy Tales of INTO THE WOODS!", you got a few little things wrong with Cinderella's original fairy tale.

In the Grimm's version, there is also the tree at Cinderella's mother's grave that gives Cinderella what she needs for the ball, and the slipper is gold, and the birds peck out the stepsisters' eyes. Into the Woods didn't add that themselves, it was always in the Grimm's version.

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/23/14 at 1:15am

it's sad that this idiot is considered a "top critic."

Into the Woods can claim a clever screenplay and a few enjoyable performances but little else. The generic musical numbers are choreographed with little in the way of verve and there's nary a catchy tune to be found.

In terms of its content, Into the Woods may be suitable for family audiences, but it's hard to imagine young children having much interest in a film that is consistently dark and pauses frequently for the actors to warble forgettable tunes.


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Updated On: 12/23/14 at 01:15 AM