My thoughts on MAMMA MIA! — Page 2

Is "The Name of the Game" cut from the movie too? I dont remember seeing it last night, but the soundtrack has the song!

Edit: Per FoaNatic post- It was shot but was edited out for the final cut! Thanks.. I am all set!

J*

Updated On: 7/19/08 at 01:49 PM

Fyi- The Encores (Mamma Mia,Dancin' Queen & Waterloo) are available only on Amazon (also for download) not on iTunes. Its actually on the 5 Year Anniversary album. Here is it. Special Thank to BrodyFosee for the tip!

I just downloaded it thru Amazon (.99 cents/per song)
Scroll at the bottom for MP3 downloads:
https://www.amazon.com/Mamma-Mia-5th-Anniversary-Combination/dp/B000MQ58V8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1216491387&sr=8-3


Now I have the Encore part of the show with live audience!

J*

Updated On: 7/19/08 at 02:19 PM

It is a scale of your inner childhood or your inner self.

Thanks, buddy: I hated the movie because I have an insufficient inner self. THAT'S comfort.

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This movie was campy, silly, ridiculous, and fluff...but I loved every single freaking minute of it!

Left the theater with a huge smile on my face; it's like one big sparkling Zoloft!!!

Did anyone else notice audience members start laughing whenever Pierce Brosnon sang?

I didn't feel sorry for him at all--he knew exactly what he was doing and played it FULLY!

And then--to see him come out in that costume at the end!

My admiration for him grew in leaps and bounds.

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Ugh, the movie was awful. Really. I loved the staged show, but I just kept thinking "why, the story is horrible here." For someone reason I forgave it on stage - maybe the beautiful set pieces, the dancing, or the creative stage pictures, but the movie was just bad. The director could never settle the camera down and let us just watch a dance sequence. I mean, it's a musical, I wanted some dancing!

I couldn't hear parts of the movie because my friend and her girlfriend were laughing SO HARD at Brosnan's singing, LOL.

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To all the people who saw "Mamma Mia" the movie and consider it the worst thing they ever saw in their life. It's my guess you have either had very short lives or have been incredibly lucky.

There are those rare moments in life when one views a film or work for the stage that is so catastrophically conceived and executed, people remember everything about the experience like people recall where they were when they heard President Kennedy had been shot. One recalls the color of the hair the person they sat next to had or some otherwise trivial moment like a snippet of conversation entering the theater.

("Yes! We were talking about your cousin Bernie's gallstones... .")

"Mamma Mia" does not come close to such a moment.

For those who would dare, watch Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in "Ishtar"--keeping in mind it was a
SERIOUS attempt to be classically comical in the tradition of the Hope/ Crosby movies.

"Mamma Mia" looks like "Citizen Kane" by comparison.

Clearly, however, no one who ever saw "The Moose Murders" would
declare "Mamma Mia", the worst thing they ever saw.

In a way I feel a bit sad for those for whom "Mamma Mia" has
established a lifetime cinematic low: there are going to be some
genuinely unforgettable moments down the road for you that will
make you sleep with the lights on.

I can only wish for you that you will in no way be connected to them
professionally.

Updated On: 7/21/08 at 06:56 PM

Eagleman, who are you so defensive? Happens occasionally on the Xanadu board as well, as if saying a bad word about something bad someone else adores is going to bring on the Four Horsemen of the Apolocalypse.

I'm a big fan of the stage show--have seen it four times--but I thought the movie was kind of sloppy. It's hardly the worst movie I've seen--in fact they're were several individual scenes that either had me grinning like the village idiot or close to tears. I personally thought the comedy was strained and that the more dramatic scenes worked better....and onstage, I pretty much liked the whole thing, lightweight as the whole show has always been.

Everyone has the right to their opinion without getting verbally berated about it. It's happening a little too often on the board as a whole.

First off, I love the stage version, so I was really looking forward to seeing the movie.The first time I saw it I thought it was ok, but I was a little disappointed. But I went to see it again last night and I really liked it alot. One difference was the theater audience -the first time I saw it they were so quiet but last nights everybody was into it. I definitely want to see it again!

It amazes me how some people can be so critical of this movie. If you are going to the theater to see Angels in America you better saty home. This is 100% fluff and each and every actor on that screen knows it. It is not supposed to be bind blowing, it is a movie musical based around ABBA music. Sure, Pierce Brosnan is not Raul Esparza but you don't have to be a rocket science to sing this music.
Take the show for what it is worth. I went and LOVED it but I also knew that it was ABBA and so I did not expect it to change my life... just two hours of sheer fun and laughter.

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The name alone is going to sell the movie, not the actors.

That's what they said with "Rent."

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I really enjoyed the movie too, I'm glad the director stuck closely to the show. Meryl is fantastic. I thought Pierce was just fine, nobody was laughing when I saw it. I still think he's incredibly handsome too!!