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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Beautiful, but no depth.. (Just like Emmy.. :) )
I just came away from watching the movie and i'm still not sure how i felt about it. I saw the stage production a few years back and loved it and the teaser trailer for the film looked beautiful, but the movie is just so weak and powerless compared to the stage production, the scripts is almost word for word but the characters talk through some of the verses for the songs and the whole thing loses the flow of the stage show which is almost entirely to music.
There are new but pointless black-and-white flashbacks throughout which are pretty but since the movie is overlong could certainly have been excluded.
The inclusion of the phantom's back story is a plus point but none of the other characters receive the same treatment and my GOD is Christine wet.. (and looks about 12 :) )
To be honest although i think most people didn't i liked Gerald Butler's kind of hammy performance as the phantom, i thought he chose the right way to tackle the role..
Emmy, who plays Christine, is beautiful but her performance is as deep as a puddle and her voice is as devoid of expression and emotion as the rest of her performance.
However the sets and costumes are spectacular, which is probably why they show them off in the teaser trailer, they really are the best thing about this movie. I would still say its worth seeing but it doesn't have the character or the flare in direction of Moulin Rouge, or the power and flow of the stage show, but it is a great story and a beautiful film.
Jigsaw (2002)
Bad, bad, bad movie...
Whether you want to spend nearly 2 hours of your life watching this depends how you like your horror movies. If you like them so god damn awful they're hysterical, watch away. Jigsaw is without a doubt the worst movie i've seen in my life (and i've seen 'Long Time Dead'), and i say this as a fan of the low-budget horror/gore genre and having seen a good few to compare it to. I'm not even going to go into the specifics of what makes this movie was bad as it is, the only good thing about it is it's so so terrible it's one of the funniest things i've seen in years. If you can find this to rent cheap it's definitely worth watching, if you were involved in making it - shame on you. :o) IMDb need to introduce a 0/10 ranking especially for this movie, it thoroughly deserves it.