mamma mia!

[shockey]

has been on the hbo channels the last two weeks. riddle me this: i hate abba. don't generally like musicals. but...

i'm strangely drawn to it. perhaps it's streep, who i'd watch washing dishes. but i'm enjoying it for what it is -- fun fluff.

have i lost my mind? ??? ??? ???

 

[imjustagirl]

Terrible movie. And I wanted to do terrible things to 2/3 of the adult male leads.

 

[shockey]

Terrible movie. And I wanted to do terrible things to 2/3 of the adult male leads.

that's what i mean. i'm even enjoying watching them try their darndest to bravely keep up.

maybe i HAVE lost my mind.

 

[Moderator1]

Didn't see the movie. I did see the musical. Not an ABBA fan at all but I liked the show.

 

[dreunc1542]

Terrible movie. And I wanted to do terrible things to 2/3 of the adult male leads.

that's what i mean. i'm even enjoying watching them try their darndest to bravely keep up.

maybe i HAVE lost my mind.

Not sure that's what she meant by terrible things.

 

[Big Circus]

Terrible movie. And I wanted to do terrible things to 2/3 of the adult male leads.

that's what i mean. i'm even enjoying watching them try their darndest to bravely keep up.

maybe i HAVE lost my mind.

Not sure that's what she meant by terrible things.

Yeah, pretty sure you're on different pages.

Poor Brosnan. Seems like a nice enough guy...can't sing a lick.

 

[shockey]

Not sure that's what she meant by terrible things.
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oy. flew right over my head. like i said, losing my mind.

 

[dooley_womack1]

The play is awesome. The movie wasn't quite as good. Streep sang pretty good, tho you'd have to say she was slumming way below her league. The concept of Brosnan singing was abhorrent. The best part of either is the songs after the main part of the show is over, and the movie did only two songs, not the three the play does.

 

[mediaguy]

Brosnan singing was disastrous. And some of the songs were soooooooooo shoehorned into the "plot." Embarrassingly bad ...

 

[dooley_womack1]

Well, that's the case in the play, too. At least the movie had a couple fewer songs, thus we were spared the embarrassment of Name of the Game being very badly shoehorned in.

 

[DanOregon]

I wouldn't say it's "good," but it is fun to watch.

 

[bagelchick]

I have it on TiVo but I haven't watched it yet. I do like ABBA. I also know going into it that Pierce Bronson's singing sucked.

 

[wisportswriter]

Was never interested in ABBA music.
Mrs. WSW and WSWette love the musical and the movie, and the music gets regular play on the family iPod, so I've come to know the music and movie quite well, and I quite enjoy both.
Even though Pierce does, indeed, have a rough go of it. None of the males in the movie, actually, can sing very well.

But they're still not as bad as Gerard Butler trying to sing the Phantom. Oy.

 

[trifectarich]

Didn't see the movie. I did see the musical. Not an ABBA fan at all but I liked the show.

Ditto.

 

[Seahawk]

The cast seemed to have so much fun it made the movie work for me, despite Brosnan's singing. That, and the girl who played Streep's daughter - Amanda Seyfried, or something like that - could belt out her songs. She was the best singer of the lot.

 

[Big Circus]

The cast seemed to have so much fun it made the movie work for me, despite Brosnan's singing. That, and the girl who played Streep's daughter - Amanda Seyfried, or something like that - could belt out her songs. She was the best singer of the lot.

Girl sexy, too.

 

[shockey]

The cast seemed to have so much fun it made the movie work for me, despite Brosnan's singing. That, and the girl who played Streep's daughter - Amanda Seyfried, or something like that - could belt out her songs. She was the best singer of the lot.

she's great in "big love," even without the singing.

 

[BTExpress]

Love ABBA. Hated the movie.

Silly. Overacted. Over the top. Didn't like Streep's friends (who got rave reviews from many critics). Don't like bad singers singing ABBA's wonderful songs.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

I like Abba. I like musicals. But when Zombie Girl dragged me to see that movie last year I was ill-prepared for the amount of cinematic fail I would experience. The only thing entertaining about the movie was the group of gals a few rows ahead that got lit and sang along [the theater has a bar in it]. That movie is awful. I didn't think it would ever end. I thought it was longer than Shoah. Never again. Never again. And what's sad is that I will never go see the musical because of the movie. I'm not taking chances.

 

[BTExpress]

And what's sad is that I will never go see the musical because of the movie. I'm not taking chances.

That's how my wife feels. I'm willing to take a chance on them (ABBA pun intended), because I think the singers would be better. But she's not interested in seeing it when it returns to our area in a few weeks.