God damn it, Clark.

Thought I was going to see another picture of Jerry Jones and Chris Christie hugging

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An ex-worker of mine from Cleburne, Texas, a small white trash town south of Fort Worth which is well known for being full of white racists, once told me that two mean ass brothers he went to high school with, this was back in the late '60s, told him that the both of them wanted to become cops with the Fort Worth PD…

Apparently you have never listened to *any* Sondheim.

To be fair, I wasn't a fan of her random death in the play either.

I assumed a movie version made with Sondheim's blessing would hew closely to the original. I loved that show. I wanted the movie to be not for 8 year olds.

Yeah, I know they couldn't have "intermission", but would it killed them to have put up a card or something that said "one year later"? Without that break, and the second-act opener "So Happy", it just felt like everyone was immediately cheated out of their happy endings. It especially undermined Cinderella's story, I…

Annoyed yes for the reasons you mentioned but frankly surprised as much of the show's dark tone made it into the movie as it was so can forgive it for not wanting to throw in yet another death for non-Broadway audiences.

His costume has a big ol' dick on it in the show, and he's played by the same actor who plays Cinderella's Prince, which is interesting. However, the problem here is that Red is being played by a child. On stage she was originally played by a 16-yo. You're supposed to feel that Red is dealing with age typical emergent…

I look at it from the point of view of children and tweens and teens who will have this movie as their first exposure to the story and to Sondheim in general. The success of this movie will inspire that many more people to examine the musical more closely and fall in love with it. The far broader reach that this show…

It's indeed in the stage play. <shudder> When I was 19 or so I had a boyfriend who would sing that all the time and it creeped me right out. Years after (rightly) ending the relationship, I finally watched the stage play and went "ohhhhhhhhh. nope, still creepy."

Oh no I added that after the complaint. It's OK. We cool.

I've always looked at it that the Witch cuts rapunzel's hair she dooms her because the near sighted giant confuses the short haired girl for Jack thus killing her.

This film adaptation got so many things right but it just stops short with this change. Maybe I'm just biased because the Witch is my absolute favorite character, but it was a disservice to her story and her arc and you are totally right that it takes away the nuance from her character. She remains just the Witch…

On a 26 year-old musical? No. The film makes a significant change to source material from the original musical, which Meredith is exploring and she is right. It changes the thematic resonance of the song for Rapunzel to live. The second act of Into the Woods is dark.

Annoyed yes for the reasons you mentioned but frankly surprised as much of the show's dark tone made it into the movie as it was so can forgive it for not wanting to throw in yet another death for non-Broadway audiences.

I once had a psychologist who reminded me so much of Joanna Gleason that I kept going to her for quite a while before I realized that she wasn't a very good therapist.