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Post by nazsuncle01 on Jul 18, 2008 12:36:28 GMT 1
Nope haven't got the sound track yet,it's on my list regarding the film i forgot to mention "Slipping Through My Fingers" loved the montage they did with Donna and Sophie have to admit i had a tear in my eye.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 18, 2008 13:01:47 GMT 1
oh gosh yes "slipping" is gorgeous
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Post by Jazz on Jul 19, 2008 17:19:55 GMT 1
Just back from viewing number two of the movie. SOOOOOOOOOOO much better seeing it second time around. -Wish they had played more on the sexual tension between Donna and Sam (Pierce and MEryl have wicked chemistry). -I STILL DON'T LIKE PEPPER! DYMK just is wasted, as good as Christine is, it's wasted, because they don't play any of the stuff between Tanya and Pepper before hand. - LAYLOM .bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hot hot hot..we love Dominic! - spotted lots of Lee this time around - Still failed to spot Graham Vick..ANYONE??? - I SWEAR I could pick out Lucy Harris and her vocals in Dancing Queen! - The scene with Donna painting Soph's toes ...made me bawl. AND they HAVE cut name of the game....it was in the previews. i swear i'm not going crazy, but i'm sooooo sure it was in there when i saw it and now it's gone. I'm soooooo sure it was in the movie when i saw it like the other week at the Odeon LS!! bahhhhhhh i'm confused! Loved it. Can you tell?? ;D and Dom is this week's torso of the week in Heat:
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Post by dani3008 on Jul 20, 2008 12:58:55 GMT 1
i saw it for the second time yesterday ;D!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOO much better the second time the theatre was PACKED out once again lol and again i was the only one singing and clapping !! spoted more ex cast members thou lol also someone explain to me why gd wasnt cast as sky?? i saw him in the background twice my god he looked SOOOOOOOO hot whooooooore!!!!
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Post by Jazz on Jul 20, 2008 17:08:38 GMT 1
i saw it for the second time yesterday ;D!!!! SOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOO much better the second time the theatre was PACKED out once again lol and again i was the only one singing and clapping !! spoted more ex cast members thou lol also someone explain to me why gd wasnt cast as sky?? i saw him in the background twice my god he looked SOOOOOOOO hot whooooooore!!!! our audience were PANTS! well except me! and GD as Sky? He could have played Pepper! ;D ;D ;D MM took 10million on it's first day of release in the USA, it's getting mixed reviews in the USA.
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Post by iain on Jul 22, 2008 10:01:02 GMT 1
I finally got round to seeing it Me and 21 other people in the cinema. Guess Ashton-under-Lyne just doesn't do musicals It's quite good. And the fact that hardly anyone else was there meant that I could shed my usual tear or two during Slipping (but don't tell anybody....I have my image to maintain). Did it make me want to see the film again? Maybe. Did it make me want to reach for the credit card and book PoW tickets? Oh, yes
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Post by ThinkPink on Jul 22, 2008 17:13:54 GMT 1
Eeek I watched it online today *Shusssh* It was soooooo good! I well prefer the stage show but loved the film to! Meryl is amazing and I want to hug Julie Walters. I thought they could have cast someone better as Tanya though my only complaint really x
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Post by nazsuncle01 on Jul 23, 2008 12:27:11 GMT 1
;D ;D ;D The film has held off the challenge of "Wall.E" and kept it's position at the top of the box office listings again this week.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 2, 2008 16:25:17 GMT 1
just seen screening numero trois of the movie.
Fab audience..clapping and cheering all the way through and laughing their butts off.
-Spotted TIM STANLEY blatantly in "When all is said and done". hahaha that was fun.
loved it even more this time.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 6, 2008 8:09:16 GMT 1
SPOT TIM STANLEY: Dom (Dom shirt open) and Pierce..wet shirts...GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HOT IMAGE for 8am!
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Post by nazsuncle01 on Aug 8, 2008 12:29:40 GMT 1
Still going strong here in Bishop's Stortford the film is now into week number five ;D ;D Must get to see it again at some point next week.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 8, 2008 21:55:14 GMT 1
Still going strong here in Bishop's Stortford the film is now into week number five ;D ;D Must get to see it again at some point next week. i knoooooooooooow it's fabulous to see it doing so well. And the soundtrack is doing really well. TOp of the billboard charts! I loved the countermarketing they did in the USA opening against the dark knight, what a great move. I'm going to see it again with Chellie next weekend. It gets better EVERY time! and my colleagues all come in going "jazz i saw the movie, it's brilliant" hahaha ...
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Post by Jazz on Aug 9, 2008 15:41:51 GMT 1
Here ya go, this was a pleasing read:
Mamma Mia - chick flick's a surprise hit By Pam McClounie
Last updated 10:31, Saturday, 09 August 2008
Mamma Mia! Dancing in the aisles and singing along to the Abba songs, middle-aged women have been packing out the cinemas of Cumbria.
From left, Maeve Keane, 13, John Lancaster, 68, Malcolm Bell, 61, Maureen Lancaster, 68, and Ann Bell, 65, in the queue The film adaptation of the hit West End musical has become this summer’s blockbuster film and tickets are selling like hot cakes.
Ever since the release of Mamma Mia! on July 10, phone lines at Cumbrian cinemas have been red hot and ticket queues have been stretching out the door.
Abba fans, desperate to see Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Julie Walters singing, just can’t get enough.
John Archer, manager of Vue Cinema on Botchergate in Carlisle, said: “About 18,500 people have been to see Mamma Mia! in Carlisle since it opened a month ago and it’s not dropping off – the sales have been overwhelming.
“Usually when a film has been on for a couple of weeks we see a drop off of about 25 to 50 per cent but this hasn’t happened with Mamma Mia! It’s just getting bigger and bigger. We had about 16,000 ticket sales for Indiana Jones.
“We have pretty much sold all of the 350 seats every night and we’re getting a lot of people who don’t normally come to the cinema. They just expect to walk in and see it but we’ve been having to turn people away.
“Mamma Mia! has outsold Batman (The Dark Knight) and that’s got twice as many shows. That was supposed to be the summer blockbuster.
“We moved Mamma Mia! into the biggest screen. We anticipate that we will have it on our screens for another three to four weeks.”
And the advice from cinema bosses is to book tickets in advance.
Darren Horne, manager at the Alhambra Cinema in Penrith, said: “It’s been absolutely manic. We didn’t realise it was going to be that busy.
“It was kind of slow to start with but then word spread and before long it was packed out.
“They’re up singing and dancing and it’s the only film I’ve known which gets a round of applause at the end.”
Muriel Campbell, of Dalston Road, Carlisle, said: “It was wonderful. It kept me gripped from the start to the finish.”
YAY....and let's see how it does at the Golden Globes !!
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Post by nazsuncle01 on Aug 14, 2008 12:39:57 GMT 1
Popped along to see the film for the second time yesterday and it was even better this time around. I think the first time was a case of "Okay what sort of a job have they done compared to the stage show" whereas this time i just sat back and savoured every little bit with a huge grin on my face the entire time. I still defy anyone not to get all soppy during "Slipping through my fingers". And yep spotted Tim this time around and Amanda is still as stunning as ever. ;D ;D Happy to say the film is running here for another week as from today so trip number three is 100% guaranteed.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 15, 2008 7:04:24 GMT 1
Popped along to see the film for the second time yesterday and it was even better this time around. I think the first time was a case of "Okay what sort of a job have they done compared to the stage show" whereas this time i just sat back and savoured every little bit with a huge grin on my face the entire time. I still defy anyone not to get all soppy during "Slipping through my fingers". And yep spotted Tim this time around and Amanda is still as stunning as ever. ;D ;D Happy to say the film is running here for another week as from today so trip number three is 100% guaranteed. Glad you spotted Tim . I was like "ohh there's more Tim" lol. I have to say this film gets better with each viewing, and Amanda has grown on me. She is sweet. My friend went to see this at the weekend and text me as soon as the movie finished to say "I CRIED! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!" so yes, SLIPPING is a tearfest. It's just done so beautiful. It's great that it's still doing so well, apparantly MM the Movie is universal pictures MOST successful release in the UK. How !
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Post by Guest on Aug 16, 2008 17:34:17 GMT 1
I saw this article i Time Magazine and decided to share:
Take a Chance on Mamma Mia? Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008 By RICHARD CORLISS
For a couple of decades now, the stars of big movies have been trending younger, until it seemed that the next generation of the Hollywood élite would emerge not from high schools but from the womb. This summer, though, has brought good news for geriatric actors--those over 30. Harrison Ford, who at 66 is, in movie years, practically a sequoia, looked at least as vigorous as the Indiana Jones film he headlined. Comic-book epics also have middle-aged men in lead roles: Robert Downey Jr., 43, in Iron Man and 58-year-old Ron Perlman in Hellboy II. The cosmo-swigging quartet of Sex and the City range in age from 42 to 51, yet the film has earned about $350 million worldwide. Elders are getting a little respect. In action films and romantic comedy, old is new.
Now the big genre challenge: musicals. The very form is antique. Young filmgoers often have to be told why the people in these movies are suddenly singing instead of speaking. And nothing dates faster than musical styles. The great American songbook of Gershwin and Porter and Rodgers standards can sound positively atonal to teen ears, just as hip-hop seems melody-deficient to the folks with hearing aids.
So who'll go see Mamma Mia!, the new movie based on the 1999 stage show with nearly two dozen songs by the Swedish pop group Abba that were hits some two decades earlier? One guess: a lot of the women who saw Sex and the City, plus kids who loved High School Musical, plus some gay guys. And, a big plus, most of those who saw the original musical, which by now has grossed over $2 billion--more than any movie has ever earned in theaters.
But making a mint could be a struggle. The other big film musicals of this decade--Chicago, Dreamgirls and Hairspray--had casts of mostly young actors. The Mamma Mia! contingent is different, as will now be proved with a précis of the movie's plot (a knockoff of the 1968 comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) and a few actuarial stats.
Donna (Meryl Streep, 59), an American who runs a little hotel on a remote Greek island, has invited two old friends, Tanya (Christine Baranski, 56) and Rosie (Julie Walters, 58), to join her for the wedding of her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried, who is, all right, 22). Sophie, who doesn't know who her father is, has found Donna's diary from the summer she got pregnant. Her dad must be one of the three men mentioned in the diary. Sophie lures them all to the island--Sam (Pierce Brosnan, 55), Bill (Stellan Skarsgard, 57) and Harry (Colin Firth, the baby at 47). They arrive the day before the wedding, and intrigue ensues. Who's the real father? Will Donna be able to cope with three thorny reminders of her wild youth? And how will the movie shoehorn such Abba hits as Waterloo and Money, Money, Money into this far-fetched farrago?
The last question is the easiest to answer. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the boy half of Abba, may have been writing for the Top 40, but their songs explored a gamut of dramatic situations, from the vagaries of celebrity (Super Trouper, Does Your Mother Know) to the wistfulness a woman feels as her daughter grows up (Slipping Through My Fingers). And since Abba's vocalists were women (Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog), the guys composed enough hits over the group's nine-year run to accommodate all the female characters in Mamma Mia!
Great Music, Weird Movie
We'll say this once, then run for cover: Abba was not just the top-selling group of the '70s; Andersson and Ulvaeus created the smartest, most buoyant body of work from any pop group since the Beatles. Their gaudy gear, with the spangles and spandex, made them easy to deride, but their real sin was that they lacked "depth," which is to say they didn't pretend to be miserable. Instead, like pop performers from an earlier age, they pretended to be happy. Their music did too. The lyrics to the song Mamma Mia confess to erotic obsession and serial masochism, but the perky melody puts the pain at an ironic distance. It was heartache you could disco to. That's why millions of people, not all of them idiots, felt better listening to Abba's music. Hearing it now, people still do.
That's the mood the Mamma Mia! movie tries to tap, but with a sledgehammer. The cast, especially the older women, is given to giggles and girlish body language. You're meant to think everyone making the film had a great time, so you should too. At one point, Streep shouts, "Let's go have fun!" But the bonhomie is oppressive; the high spirits are not impromptu but imposed: Listen, people, you vill haff fun!
The chief exponent, or perp, is Streep. She's lively and limber, executing a saddle jump to gymnastic perfection while bouncing on a bed and singing Dancing Queen. But she also spends a long part of the film in a strenuous simulacrum of pleasure. She has the laughs the way a consumptive has the coughs. You worry that when Streep dies and goes to Actor Heaven, the recording angel will say, "On this scale we have decades of transcendent performances, and on this scale, that Mamma Mia! thing. Begone!"
One problem is that the creators of the stage show--producer Judy Craymer, writer Catherine Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd--gave themselves the job of turning it into a big movie, but none had ever worked on one, and the inexperience shows. A small point: the glare of the Greek sunlight is punishing to the face of anyone over 30. A larger one: the dance numbers are edited so choppily that the rhythm and feeling of the songs suffer.
Surrendering to the Feeling
e inanities multiply. Firth's character has a reverie song, Our Last Summer, but it's about Paris, not Greece. And all the chat about the year Sophie was conceived evokes hippies and flower power, which suggest 1967, but the film is set in the present, so that ecstatic summer was more like 1987, when the cry was less "Free love!" than "Let's not have sex because we might die."
Eventually, as Donna and her gal pals don trashy frocks to do Abba's greatest hits and a Greek chorus of villagers materializes as a backup group for practically every number, Mamma Mia!'s flouting of narrative and visual logic starts to suggest a cunning subversion. The film is not failed kitsch but triumphant Dada. It exists in an alternative universe, an Abbaworld, where 40 years telescopes to 20, the Seine is the Aegean, and Streep's outsize cheerfulness is the expression of a soul in mortal panic.
In the end, the movie beats down even the most stalwart viewer's resistance, in a Guantánamo of giddiness. The supporting actresses help out. Baranski, slim and large-mouthed, and Walters, wizened and hiding behind shades, might be Mick and Keith in a Rolling Stones girl tribute band, and they lend all their show-biz savvy to vivid renditions of, respectively, Does Your Mother Know and Take a Chance on Me. Seyfried, from the HBO series Big Love, is in full control of Sophie, the film's one sensible character. And Streep comes back to earth in a handsomely calibrated rendition of the power ballad The Winner Takes It All. By the end-credit sequence, when the stars appear in spandex outfits to reprise Dancing Queen, the audience may be singing along as if they'd overdosed on ouzo.
The older ones, anyway. For them, this is prime nostalgia. For those too young to remember the Abba years, it's just faux-stalgia. But even that has its allure. It can turn a hapless movie into a fun one. And if you don't like the Mamma Mia! film, you can still hum those tunes all the way home.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 17, 2008 18:55:37 GMT 1
Just come out of viewing number 4 with Chellie who was on viewing number 6 hahahah
Still such fun to watch. We were well behaving, getting eggcited over old skool hahahaha. Doing the moves in our seats hahhaahha
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Post by nazsuncle01 on Aug 20, 2008 21:19:54 GMT 1
Visit number three done and dusted this afternoon. ;D ;D ;D It just keeps getting better and better each time i see it.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 25, 2008 9:16:06 GMT 1
Visit number three done and dusted this afternoon. ;D ;D ;D It just keeps getting better and better each time i see it. i agree. i was meant to go to whipsnade zoo yesterday, but it was raining and not zoo weather, so i ended up in the mall and watching mamma mia. the lady in front of me bawled during Slipping. she got a tissue out and wiped her eyes.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 31, 2008 18:15:47 GMT 1
I have officially seen this movie in the cinema MORE TIMES than any other movie EVER. Previously that title belonged to Cher and Mermaids, i saw it three times. Once for my birthday, once with a bunch of Cher fans and then we saw it again. Until MM came along to the cinema and was open during one of my hardest months ever at work. IT was just there. oh well. And i still may squeeze in another viewing, I've just had a "let's go watch MM" text hahahahaha.
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