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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 4, 2008 11:42:07 GMT
That ITV programme/advert last night totally sold me on this. I think it was Christine Baranski singing Does Your Mother Know? with half-naked men and a cocktail in her hand that was the clincher.
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Post by raven on Jul 4, 2008 12:57:41 GMT
Julie Walters getting up on the table and singing Take A Chance On Me to a terrified looking Stellan SkarsgÄrd did it for me.
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 4, 2008 19:15:58 GMT
I'd quite like to see this film. But call me shit or whatever, but some of the trailers have got to me a little bit.
It's just a bit... people that aren't ABBA singing ABBA isn't quite as good as ABBA singing ABBA. Like I heard a clip of Amanda Seyfried singing and it wasn't great. Meryl Streep's singing is better, obviously.
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Post by mcqueen on Jul 4, 2008 23:15:45 GMT
The ITV show sort of made the whole thing look like a big mess.
The arrangements sound like karyoke backing tracks- Benny, how could you?
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 5, 2008 17:02:09 GMT
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Post by Merce on Jul 9, 2008 11:46:08 GMT
Went to see this last night. All in all I totally enjoyed it (albeit in a cinema full of hen night refugees who appeared to find every. single. second. totally hilarious - it was funny but come on loves, it wasn't THAT funny !).
Meryl Streep was fantastic, Dominic Cooper topless was breathtaking but the best thing about it was Pierce Brosnans god awful singing. Was so bad it was brilliant !
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Post by marknyc on Jul 10, 2008 8:41:24 GMT
I suppose I am a bit confused. As a confirmed ABBA fan and gay, I always thought that it was the universal opinion of everyone except suburban mothers that the musical Mamma Mia was complete shit. Has the film completely reinvented it somehow? Do the cinema audiences clap along to the songs?
Perhaps it is just topless Dominic Cooper. That seems to be my only interest, anyway.
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Post by raven on Jul 10, 2008 13:30:20 GMT
No - the story still is paper thin. No-one clapped in my cinema but I was the only one there apart from an old couple a few rows infront of me. I did enjoy the movie a lot with be buying the DVD and seeing it again at the cinema. There were a few things that did bug me. I can't really put my finger on them.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jul 10, 2008 15:00:38 GMT
It really is very enjoyable, once you get past the premise of why a girl growing up on a Greek island has an American accent, and despite how totally contrived the whole thing is. But you lose yourself totally and it is just utterly fun to watch. I didn't laugh as loudly as other people in the cinema but it put me in a much better mood than when I went in. Meryl did look a lot older than a woman who would have spawned Amanda Seyfried in the throws of youth, but her frown lines were lovely. And during Super Trouper she was the spitting image of another cinematic heroine with a love of Abba. And for the gays how lovely that Colin Firth should end up with Juan Pablo Di Pace, aka Him From That Eric Prydz video. And I hope that poor donkey didn't have to carry the bride all the way up the steps to the church. And it didn't get to sing either.
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Post by raven on Jul 10, 2008 15:23:23 GMT
I thought Meryl looked fine all the way through the movie however when they did performance during the credits her skin looked really bad/odd all of a sudden. I couldn't help but notice how nice Amanda Seyfried's boobs are. They are such a perfect size for her frame. Stellan is quite clearly the hottest dad. I didn't like how some of the performances were edited. I could barely see what was happening. The shots kept changing too fast. The reveal moment between Sophie and Donna at the wedding was too quick.
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Post by Merce on Jul 10, 2008 16:10:48 GMT
I suppose I am a bit confused. As a confirmed ABBA fan and gay, I always thought that it was the universal opinion of everyone except suburban mothers that the musical Mamma Mia was complete shit. Has the film completely reinvented it somehow? Do the cinema audiences clap along to the songs? I've never seen the show so I can't compare but our entire cinema - which had been sold out as it was a preview - was clapping along at the end. I suspect half of them were hammered though. Although my sister was alarmingly sober and insisted on singing along very loudly at the end.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jul 10, 2008 17:47:47 GMT
I am both A Gay and An Abba Fan, and I want to see this, but I really don't want to sit with a load of idiots singing along and clapping. Put on fucking Abba Gold at home if you want to do that.
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Post by Bungle on Jul 10, 2008 20:32:32 GMT
The stage musical of this has never appealed but the film did, so I went to see it tonight.
Very disappointed, if I'm honest. Not very funny and not as much fun as you'd hope.
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Post by als on Jul 13, 2008 12:54:48 GMT
Went to see this last night and loved it to pieces. I don't think i've smiled and laughed that much all the way through a film for a long time. Highlights were Colin Firth (those tiny shorts particularly), Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried (I want her hair) and most of all an exceedingly pretty Dominic Cooper. Best songs for me were 'Does Your Mother Know', 'Lay All Your Love On Me' and 'Chiquitita', and the bit after the credits with all the men dressed up had me in hysterics.
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Post by Ugly Netty on Jul 13, 2008 13:40:59 GMT
I don't know anything about Mamma Mia, why have they chosen people that aren't singers and dancers to be in it?
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 13, 2008 13:41:49 GMT
I am both A Gay and An Abba Fan, and I want to see this, but I really don't want to sit with a load of idiots singing along and clapping. Put on fucking Abba Gold at home if you want to do that. Talking of Abba Gold, this movie has put basically all Abba CDs up in price on eBay. My pursuit of "More Abba Gold" continues...
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jul 14, 2008 19:40:08 GMT
I don't know anything about Mamma Mia, why have they chosen people that aren't singers and dancers to be in it? So that people will go and see it? I want more Colin Firth in spandex please. In fact, more Colin Firth in general.
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Post by Sparkle on Jul 17, 2008 21:40:51 GMT
I took myself to see it this afternoon, and though it is Not A Musical and wouldn't go to see the stage show, I did enjoy it. Amanda Seyfried is awesome, I fancied all three dad-possibilities, and can't remember a word Dominic Cooper said because I was distracted by looking at his tummy.
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Post by Rad on Jul 18, 2008 18:22:42 GMT
I had a big beamy smile all the way through this. I just loved it. I can't imagine it being as much fun on stage though, because part of the joy is seeing all these big names being so silly and the beautiful scenery.
There were three middle aged women next to me who were talking, giggling and singing their way through it and generally acting like a menopausal hen-party. At four in the afternoon!
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jul 19, 2008 22:42:27 GMT
I've seen this 4 times now, I feel a little ashamed. Whenever I particularily hate work (which is every day, really) I'll go upstairs to the cinema afterwards and see this to make me feel better. On my own. I feel like an absolute freak but I can tell I will go at least once more. I hope the Dark Knight is out soon, I need to see something else to get me off the beaten track.
It's bloody good fun though.
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Post by Smudge on Jul 20, 2008 14:44:50 GMT
I loved everything about this film - the paper thin story, the bad acting, the endless cheese, Petula Gordino and Marrianne Thorpe....
Other points. 1) How does Amanda Seyfriend look so fit in a one-piece?! 2) Is it wrong that I couldn't decided who was fitter - Dominic Cooper or Pierce Brosnan?!
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