Well I do apologize for the delay in new postings, but I have been having problems with my DB. So now that everything is reletivly back to normal, I can start to bitch about things again.
First off, I know alot has happened since I last wrote, so to get those out of the way first Happy Holidays, have a great New Years, and Go Bills. Now for the subject that is truly pinching my sac, and that is the constent bashing of Joel Schumacher's adaptation of Andrew Loyd Webbers Phantom of the Opera. I frequently read a number of movie sites as I have menthoned in the past, and Rotten Tomatoes happens to be one of them. And it is a great site, I get informed and I toy with the forums. But today I was reading the reviews, and I must say I can't believe that these critics are terring this movie apart.

"The screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical lacks both authentic romance and the thrill of memorable spectacle."
-- A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Though admirably anti-MTV, Schumacher's film is often so baroque, it comes off like some joke."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

The splats go on and on, with much lesser numbers of positive critiques. So I felt it incombant apon myself to cast a review that displays my total aproval and how happy I was with the films outcome. I am a fan of the musical -which I have seen 4 times and no I am not gay-, the first time a saw it in Toronto I was just about 12 years old, and I thought it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. And from that day I begged my family to take me back so I could recreate the drug like chills the performace gave me. So needless to say when the movie came out I was one of the more excited people I know about the flick. But being a movie cynosure -sort of, dork is more like it- I was worried that when this movie was made they would ruin the essence of it and cover it with media bullshit. So I went to the movie house with mixed feelings of excitment and anxiety, I sat down in the seat, and waited for the first sceen.
Many of the negative movie critics have menthoned that the adaptation was not original, and they are correct. The movie is primarily line for line the musical right down to the raising of the chandelier in the first sceen -which gave me chills, and that was what I was looking for-. You see this musical is such a master piece that you can not, and I stress can not, mess with it to much. Any one who has sceen Webbers Phantom will tell you that it is near the most perfect and enjoyable thing they have ever sceen. If the movie was basterdized or 21st centuryized , it would have been rejected by the audiences like Gigli. But the fact the Andrew Webber was one of the producers, I can see why it was left alone for the most part. A few minor modifications were made, but this was neccessary due to the simple fact that it is a frikin movie. The actors I feel did a amazing job of both playing thier characters and singing these beathtaking songs. But I must say I was beside myself with Emma Rossum as Christine Daae. Rossum I just may think ranks up there with my personal new movie hottie, and she is only 19! She looked beautiful in every sceen, and her voice is fantastic -which you may have heard in "Song Catcher"-. And also her breasts were heaving in every sceen, always heaving I couldn't take my eyes off them. All in all I loved this movie, and I will totally see it again in the theaters, and I will buy it when it comes out on DVD.