Ellen Greene was brilliant .. and, sadly, one of the better parts of the cast.
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Moranis and Martin gave performances worthy of off-year SNL .. caricatures of the caricatures they were supposed to be playing.
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That they messed with the ending was .. tolerable. ‘s a movie, not a play .. but ‘s a *play* intended to give people nightmares .. or at least to prickle their morality centers.
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The movie “happy ending (maybe)” lacks the weight .. and I think lets everyone off a little too easy.
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I’ll spring for tickets to schools and local theater types reviving the play .. and would like to see an update, maybe set in the ’00s instead of the late ’50s? and with CGI ..
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Mew
Somebody in YT comments (yeah, I know) more or less pointed out that Greene punched this song hard enough that it obscured the fact that it’s supposed to be satirical. BTW: socialists hate this song. I mean, they REALLY hate this song.
Anyway, with that kind of emotional resonance killing Greene’s character off later kind of doesn’t work for the movie the way it does the play (where you can’t *see* and compare Audrey’s version of Heaven with the life she’s living now).
I’ll make a point of adding the song to my road trip playlist ..
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It’ll blend nicely with the anime tracks (‘Cowboy Bebop’ had remarkably good music..) and other bits of theater .. (mostly Lloyd-Weber)
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Mew
Love Ellen Greene! Suddenly Seymour is just so fantastic.
And I for one LIKE happy endings.. Life is more than bleak enough for me, thanks.
I personally think that all the nihilism that has been been every year growing in volume is one of the most visible signs that our society is in decay.
To clarify, I don’t have a *problem* with happy endings – I can go off on a long rant about how utterly wrong the ending of “The Mist” was ..
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What I don’t like about *this* happy ending is .. the ‘they got away with it’ aspect. It’s changing one rot for another.
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An ending where Ellen is living ‘someplace green’ (because Seymour inherited from Mushnik and took all the blame for the deaths) preparing to visit Seymour in prison would have worked ..
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Mew
while Seymour chopped up some dead bodies, and fed them to the plant, I don’t actually remember him committing murder. Hmm.. I guess Mushnik was pretty close, so call it accessory to murder?
But in his defense he may have had found it hard to think clearly in that moment when his father figure was quite suddenly blackmailing and holding a gun on him.
Ellen Greene was brilliant .. and, sadly, one of the better parts of the cast.
.
Moranis and Martin gave performances worthy of off-year SNL .. caricatures of the caricatures they were supposed to be playing.
.
That they messed with the ending was .. tolerable. ‘s a movie, not a play .. but ‘s a *play* intended to give people nightmares .. or at least to prickle their morality centers.
.
The movie “happy ending (maybe)” lacks the weight .. and I think lets everyone off a little too easy.
.
I’ll spring for tickets to schools and local theater types reviving the play .. and would like to see an update, maybe set in the ’00s instead of the late ’50s? and with CGI ..
.
Mew
Somebody in YT comments (yeah, I know) more or less pointed out that Greene punched this song hard enough that it obscured the fact that it’s supposed to be satirical. BTW: socialists hate this song. I mean, they REALLY hate this song.
Anyway, with that kind of emotional resonance killing Greene’s character off later kind of doesn’t work for the movie the way it does the play (where you can’t *see* and compare Audrey’s version of Heaven with the life she’s living now).
I’ll make a point of adding the song to my road trip playlist ..
.
It’ll blend nicely with the anime tracks (‘Cowboy Bebop’ had remarkably good music..) and other bits of theater .. (mostly Lloyd-Weber)
.
Mew
Love Ellen Greene! Suddenly Seymour is just so fantastic.
And I for one LIKE happy endings.. Life is more than bleak enough for me, thanks.
I personally think that all the nihilism that has been been every year growing in volume is one of the most visible signs that our society is in decay.
To clarify, I don’t have a *problem* with happy endings – I can go off on a long rant about how utterly wrong the ending of “The Mist” was ..
.
What I don’t like about *this* happy ending is .. the ‘they got away with it’ aspect. It’s changing one rot for another.
.
An ending where Ellen is living ‘someplace green’ (because Seymour inherited from Mushnik and took all the blame for the deaths) preparing to visit Seymour in prison would have worked ..
.
Mew
while Seymour chopped up some dead bodies, and fed them to the plant, I don’t actually remember him committing murder. Hmm.. I guess Mushnik was pretty close, so call it accessory to murder?
But in his defense he may have had found it hard to think clearly in that moment when his father figure was quite suddenly blackmailing and holding a gun on him.
Accessory with extenuating circumstances?