Should I bother getting it?
Caela fucked around with this message on 01-15-2006 at 01:30 PM.
Only major differences were some added visuals and the fact they reverted someone of the singing parts back to spoken parts. (The words remain the same, but are no longer sung in those scenes, and are spoken instead.)
The very opening scene in the opera house at the auction is killer, when it all starts up for the first time. If you are a fan at all and have scene the play, that scene alone will fire it up. 
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If you are a fan at all and have scene the play, that scene alone will fire it up.
I have seen the play and the movie, and preferred the Play. If I had not seen the play then the scenes I saw in the movie would have been great. So I liked the scenes I saw in the play better than the ones in the movie, but both are worth seeing. 
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he very opening scene in the opera house at the auction is killer, when it all starts up for the first time. If you are a fan at all and have scene the play, that scene alone will fire it up.
nice one
The characterization I was very pleased with. I had my doubts about Minnie Driver, but she was a perfect Carlotta. There's a part during Masquerade where Raoul and Christine dance past and Carlotta is standing against the wall and makes a face, raising her fan like she wants to hit Christine. It was all those little things Schumacher added in that really made her shine as Carlotta.
I thought the mixture of the speaking and singing was very well done. Some parts here and I there I would have thought would be better sung, but it wasn't a glaring mistake. The Phantom's voice was somewhat harsh, but I read somewhere that Schumacher did want a bit harsher of a Phantom for this, and not the gentility of a Crawford Phantom.
We rented it first, then decided we had to have it. It's well worth the money if you are a fan of the stage story, and it even had a little bit more thrown in from the book. Lyinar Ka`Bael fucked around with this message on 01-15-2006 at 05:05 PM.
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We'll be buying it soon.
Perfect date movie. The Phantom has a hell of a voice, tyhe only problem being that he isnt the tenor that the part seemed to be written for. He's a light bass. I must say, the way he hit those notes though, was impressive, even if it looked like it might have been a little painful.
Rauol seemed very feminine to me..
Cristine was a good singer. It may have been the way the character was written, but she seemed very weak willed to me, seeming to fall over Erik (the Phantom's actual name) and Raoul, depending on who she was with.
Loved the effects and the authenticity of all the props. It looked like it was really late 1800s rather than well, a play, like it is.
I know my review sucks. Sue me. 
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