The Last Five Years (The Movie, The Thread)- Page 5

[mattporter17]

Posted: 4/23/15 at 7:52pm

I strongly disagree. This is honestly one of the best musical musical theatre scores I've ever heard. It's up there with Les Mis, Wicked, Book of Mormon. I saw the movie in February and haven't stopped listening to the soundtrack cause it's so damn good. My favorites are:

Shiska Goddess 

See I'm Smiling

A Miracle Would Happen

Climbing Uphill

I Can Do Better Than That

and my fav is Goodbye Till Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You the way it's done in the movie is beautiful.

[rcwr]

Posted: 5/13/15 at 11:03pm

I *finally* saw this. (I tried OnDemand when it first showed up, but Comcast had the aspect ratio wrong and it was just too distorted to watch. Now I have the DVD.)

I've never seen this on stage; I only knew it from the Norbert Leo Butz / Sherie Rene Scott recording, which I know pretty well. I loved this movie. I think the music is great; I appreciated the bits of dialogue (which I suss aren't part of it when staged?); and I found the performances really terrific. I found Kendrick's straight-toning (if I've figured out right that that means without vibrato?) to fit the character.

It's grim. It's dismal. I'm not entirely convinced it's not a bit sexist and anti-Semitic. Jamie's a douche and I don't love Cathy either. So maybe it's not my favorite musical. Except I love the songs and music, and I loved this film of it!

That ending is magnificent. In a very depressing, very moving, excellent art way.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/14/15 at 8:16am

I love it too.

Jeremy and Anna are both wonderful.

And I love all the cameos -

Ashely Spencer (JJ's real life wife) plays the receptionist/lover

Betsy Wolfe plays the stripper (Wayne the snake's owner)

Kurt and Sherri Rene are the casting people during the first "When you come home..."

JRB is the piano player in the second "When you come home..."

 

Did anyone else spot any other fun cameos?

 

 

Updated On: 5/14/15 at 08:16 AM

[notalwaysontime]

Posted: 5/15/15 at 4:15am

"I *finally* saw this. (I tried OnDemand when it first showed up, but Comcast had the aspect ratio wrong and it was just too distorted to watch. Now I have the DVD.)
I've never seen this on stage; I only knew it from the Norbert Leo Butz / Sherie Rene Scott recording, which I know pretty well. I loved this movie. I think the music is great; I appreciated the bits of dialogue (which I suss aren't part of it when staged?); and I found the performances really terrific. I found Kendrick's straight-toning (if I've figured out right that that means without vibrato?) to fit the character.
It's grim. It's dismal. I'm not entirely convinced it's not a bit sexist and anti-Semitic. Jamie's a douche and I don't love Cathy either. So maybe it's not my favorite musical. Except I love the songs and music, and I loved this film of it!
That ending is magnificent. In a very depressing, very moving, excellent art way."

 Just to answer your question about dialog, they did add a lot of it, which I thought worked really well! But there are bits in the movie that are in the stage version as well. Jamie's phone call from Random House, but on stage that's in the See, I'm Smiling music break before she gets mad (which I'm so glad they moved it for the movie, since that would have completely messed up the flow, and actually it's been a while since I watched, but I think in the stage version that phone call is longer and in two parts, but I could be wrong.), They moved it to before Moving Too Fast, and merged it with the moving in phone call, which on stage is him calling his friend saying he's thinking of moving in with Cathy. Um, her Phone call with her agent is in the staged version as well, and his bookreading (which was actually condensed a tiny bit in the movie, and split up, it's all in one big chunk on stage.) There's little bits too like before If I Didn't Believe in You, "Cathy stop!" from that part on is there on stage, the beginning of Schmuel where he tells her It's time for a little Christmas story. (I feel like I'm forgetting something lol)

"I love it too.
Jeremy and Anna are both wonderful.
And I love all the cameos -
Ashely Spencer (JJ's real life wife) plays the receptionist/lover
Betsy Wolfe plays the stripper (Wayne the snake's owner)
Kurt and Sherri Rene are the casting people during the first "When you come home..."
JRB is the piano player in the second "When you come home..."
 
Did anyone else spot any other fun cameos? "

Jason's wife Georgia and Richard the Director both have super fast, blink and you'll miss it cameos. Georgia is the Summer in Ohio piano player when Betsy's dressed as a nun and sitting on the piano at the end of the song, and Richard is the tailor fitting Jamie for his suit in Moving Too Fast.

Updated On: 5/15/15 at 04:15 AM