You know how this works. Thoughts as they come to me without self censorship to speed up the blogging...
Musical No. 1 INTO THE WOODS
• This is how I look in the morning when I accidentally fall asleep with a wig on
• "Be careful what you wish for" - they pay people to write these taglines you know but why not save money on the budget and just use song lyrics. It doesn't get much better than Sondheim lyrics. Wouldn't "Careful the tale you tell, that is the spell..." be more intriguing / and delightfully faithful. Say what you will about Les Miserables (2012) -- and you have -- but one of the best things about its very successful campaign ($441 million plus worldwide) is that they just used song titles for their character posters
• "Be Careful what you wish for..." as Meryl climbs out of the poster at you, also adds an unfortunate meta layer. Be careful that you ask for Meryl Streep to be in every moviee because she WILL be!
• Meryl looks a bit like "Yoga Jones" here, yes?
• How much would they charge The Witch for a mani/pedi?
• Christmas. UGH. I am impatient. I used to L-O-V-E going to movies on Christmas day. Now I want all holiday movies to open on Thanksgiving.
• Since The Witch is Rapunzel's mother, we can directly compare her to Donna Murphy's Mother Gothel in Tangled if we'd like...
And then transpose those feelings on to the fact that Donna Murphy is the last major star to play The Witch on the New York stage and then we can have feelings about Broadway stars not getting movie roles. If we'd like...
• So many Broadway stars should be more famous. Like a certain Cinderella...
• Bet you a handful of magic beans that this is not the final poster but just #1 in a series of character posters that will hit in 3...2...
• Weird star contracts requiring Meryl first and "And" Johnny Depp "As" last ruin the alphabetization! So now it just looks like Anna Kendrick isn't as famous as James Corden, which, no.
• I'm so tired of the teal/blue & orange/yellow color schemes. It's like the only aesthetic allowed
Musical No. 2 ANNIE
• My god that's a lot of red, red, red, red, red!
• Everytime that Cameron Diaz wears animal prints now I'm going to have awful flashbacks to one of the worst movies i've ever seen. I mean did it have to be Cheetah print again? This is uneccessarily cruel.
• So weird that two musicals are going to be fighting it out at the box office for family's Christmas dollars. But weird in a good way
• True story: I used to hate Rose Byrne and now I kind of look forward to seeing what she does with each of her roles. This is a very new phenomenon dating back only to Bridesmaids with Neighbors being the reminder that Bridesmaids wasn't a fluke
• Sandy's all "don't blame me if you hate it"
Musical No. 3 INTERSTELLAR
Wait, what? THERE'S NO SINGING????? Damn you Chris Nolan! (I really wanted Hathaway and Chastain to sing a duet while floating in space like Barbarella)