![]() When I finally do sit down and screen this DVD, I am filled with feelings of awe. My aunt calls me after she hears about this(her favorite plays and movies are musicals) and wonders if I have watched it yet. To them this is the best kind of justice. ![]() So, the movie comes out on DVD and of course I end up reviewing it. It isn’t that I find this tale confusing, it’s just to me, it is so simple, yet freighted with such grandeur that I end up wondering just what the big deal is? This story of a love triangle and a mysterious phantom who haunts a theater, just went way over my head. ![]() Before my mom can reply, my father pipes in with, ”Why would we take you to see it? You’re just going to sit there and act stupid.” So, I never saw Joel Schumacher’s rendering of this now classic play in a movie theater. Although, it is out around the time of my mom’s birthday so I decide to extend an olive branch on this sore subject. The Phantom of the Opera has been brought to the big screen and I have every intention not to see it. After the play, when asked for my opinion, I gave a similar account to the one I just gave you and I was promptly rebuked and yelled out.įlash forward to 2004. No offense, but Terry Schiavo could have gotten out of the way of that falling chandelier. Yes, I know that it was in the theater and they had to do the play over again the next night, but when I all I hear about for years is how great it is to see this chandelier fall, the chandelier in question had better smash into the floor, break up into a million pieces and then those pieces of glass should fly into the eyes of the folks in the first row. The sound was bad, the mood boring and when the “chandelier” fell I thought it was anything but amazing. Wearing a little suit, I sat in the theater watching this play and I was anything but mesmerized. ![]() I wanted to love this play and I thought that I would. So naturally, when I was younger, about 18, they took me to see this musical and I expected great things. All my mom could talk about was how “great” the play was and how amazing it was to see this scene where a chandelier fell. My parents have been trying to ingrain The Phantom of the Opera in my brain since I was a young boy. ![]()
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