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Phantom of the Opera

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Is anyone else as pissed as I am about the Phantom movie coming out in December? I wouldn't be surprised if the Phantom gets a new costume at the end of the movie made of rubber with nipples on it. I really, really hate Joel Schumacher.

And the least they could have done was spend a little more time on the trailer...all they did was take a bucket full of one-second clips and through them together, then put music on it. They didn't even bother timing it out to the music.

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Well, the teaser for Ocean's 12 ain't much better. Actually it's mostly just animation and the telltale music.

As for Phantom, I've seen it on stage twice and absolutely love it. I don't think I want to ruin the memory by seeing the movie. I'm pretty sure it's reopening soon (if it hasn't already) here in Chicago and I might take my wife to see it. I dig on Andrew Lloyd Webber and other musical theatre. Seen Les Miserables, Phantom, and Miss Saigon from ALW and have also been to Rent a couple of times (this is my fave). And I have not seen any movie versions of any of these (save for the gorefest version of Phantom with Robert "Freddie Krueger" Englund -- I just couldn't say no).
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Let's give Schumacher the benefit of the doubt; after all, he did give us Tigerland and The Lost Boys.

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FUCKIN HOLLYWOOD . Fuck that really pisses me off that was one play that should have been left alown. i am not seeing that movie i am tell you now. talk about ruining a classic, fuckin morons.
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Am I mistaken, or isn't Phone Booth from Joel "batman & robin" Schumacker as well? And Tigerland was great, too.
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Yeah, but Phone Booth was an ironclad, foolproof b-movie scenario. They couldn't even screw it up when they reworked it for Cellular.

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yeah. phone booth was a solid movie and i cant see how they could have messed it up if then tried.
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Everyone knows B&R sucked hard.

BTW, which previous film versions of The Phantom of the Opera do you people prefer?
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There's been more than one previous film version? I only knew about the Englund slasher version.
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Silent w/ Lon Chaney Sr. is hard to top; the Claude Rains version is pretty good, though.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.