In case you missed the first three hours of this disaster.... Its called Into the wood into the wood into the wood into the wood.... If you can get beyond that tiresome opening song you'll probably. Love it......
It won a Tony for its score and lyrics, so they were doing something right.
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It won a Tony for score and lyrics, shame it was not for the most boring movie of that year?
What a waste of actor's talents eg Meryl Streep.
It dragged on and on and on.
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You just don't understand the complexity of the lyrics. Granted, you've only seen the film, which is absolutely terrible, so you better go watch the original musical. The full original Broadway play is on YouTube as we speak.
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The score won the Tony over that year's blockbuster, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
INTO THE WOODS has become one of the most frequently-produced musicals of the past several decades, in both professional and amateur productions. There's even a special version available for school productions, I believe.
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You do realise that Tonys are awards for the Theatre, not for movies, right?
share...and how many who voted were gay ? Ten to one all of them were. Who else would want to see Johnny Depp play a flamboyant Big Bad Wolf ? This movie is awful beyond comprehension. If you're not a woman, a girl, or a homosexual, run like hell from this.If you're a Father, or a Husband like myself,well, roll with the punches brother, roll with the punches. You're in my prayers.
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Because every straight man must be exactly like you and have exactly the same tastes. And every gay man, woman, and girl love musicals indiscriminately regardless of content.
Shall I assume then, based on your assessment of this film, that your favorite movies have lots of explosions and few big words?
Flamboyant? Is that code for gay? If so, you are way off... he was a pedophile - and statistically, most pedophiles (whether their targets are male or female) are heterosexual. Pedophilia is about control and power.
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shareFunny how Amuhrikuhn men all say the same thing about this flick and somehow miss the point of the relationship between the Baker and his wife in the process. No wonder the divorce rate in your demented country is at 65%.
shareThere is so much wrong in that statement I am tempted to just ignore it and move on; however ... you are very wrong (didn't want to use 'ignorant') if you honestly think 'awards' are based solely on a merit system. As in everything, personal feelings, projections, bias, etc. come into play.
shareOh my God, its over. I just finished this one.
This movie was longer than it had to be. Seriously. I was intrigued with the film for the first half of the movie. Not too happy with the changes they made in everyone's stories after the Big Bad Wolf was killed, but I was interested. It even had some funny parts in there.
The story--however or whatever it was supposed to be--just became too drawn out. The last quarter of the movie I was ready to stab out my own eyes. It seemed that, every two minutes closer towards the end, they broke out in a song. Hell, they might as well have danced, too, the way they were carrying on. It was at least 15, 20 songs in this damn movie.
It's enough to drive a crazy person sane. Pun intended.
Also, I'm not one who is interested in musicals at all, so to sit through one is extremely difficult for me. It took me till this year just to watch High School Musical for the very first time(and ONLY one time).
What makes this movie not work is trying to cram several stories into a single plot, and then extending it after the initial plot had already concluded.
It didn't work.
I gave this 5 of 10 stars simply because I enjoyed the first half of the movie.
The second half annoyed me.
The 2nd half of the play and film is the entire point of Into the Woods. There's no such thing as happily ever after. There's death and destruction and the choices we make sometimes have dire consequences. Sounds like you missed the whole point.
shareWhat a terrible attitude
shareJust because something wins a Tony doesn't make it good. I love musicals but the movie failed on almost every level. The only positive I'll give it was the talent of the cast.
Into the Woods is revered as a piece of art and it has been for 30 years, and if it fails on every account for you then that is your individual opinion and maybe you just didn't understand it.
shareJust because something wins a Tony doesn't make it good. I love musicals but the movie failed on almost every level.
I never said the movie won a Tony. I haven't seen the play so maybe it's better but I'm assuming alot of the music would be the same and if that's the case, I'm guessing I would hate that too!
shareThis movie sucked, turned it off half way through.
shareI did not like this movie at all. If I had to describe it too many songs like sooooooooo many . Why would you have the whole movie with just songs literally.
Perhaps they got it in their heads that they were doing a musical.
share...and Mozart's music was said to have 'too many notes...'.
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