By the way, a movie about a teenage pregnant girl? I personally DON’T Think it should have won, despite how good/bad it was. And even though ST was taken from Broadway, and many people say it was unoriginal, how many movies are? They are all practically the same. So if you take a chance, no matter how great or how horrible your movie may be, I will pay to see it because I believe it will take a chance and be different then everything else that is playing.

Besides, truly tell me, will everyone who has seen this movie have already seen it on Broadway? I doubt all have, I’d absolutely love to, but think about it. Tim might be coasting, but why would you fix something that isn’t broken, and isn’t it smart to recreate something that is so well-acclaimed? Also, a musical to movie will be difficult, and you have to make it ‘movie-like’ otherwise….its not a movie, isn’t it? Others will prefer that it stay more to its musical aspect, but the addition of plot gives it more substance, which you need in order to sit through a movie almost two hours long.

So I think that anyone who is bagging on this movie for winning over some of their own personal favorites should bug off and really think about this.

Sorry to all the ‘non-winners’ but I am glad Sweeney Todd won!

And I resent this ‘Hot Topic nation, and tween comment.’ I can love Sweeney Todd/Tim Burton/Johnny Depp without that type of label, thank you.
Again, this is all purely a matter of personal taste, and you can push for what you prefer. But then again…what appeals to the masses?

On that we agree. LOL! Am I the biggest jerk on this thing or what?

@Joshua:

I thought your assessment of Juno was very lucid and refreshing to see, and I agree with your assessment of Sweeny Todd as well. All I kept thinking was I wonder how they did this part, or that part, on stage. Sondheim is no Webber that’s for sure too. I saw it just over a week ago and cannot recall one single melody from it. I personally think Tim’s coasting.

I’ll be adding these to my blog list of movies to rent / watch / download.

If you are not sold on that reason alone, the motion picture of Sweeny Todd should have been left in Broadway. There is a huge difference for a musical that is meant to be a Broadway film and a musical that is geared more towards a film. Tim Burton is a great director, respect his work, but his adaptation to film is whimsical at best for Sweeny Todd. There was no effort to show the film as a musical for the movies, instead it is shown as a movie I would rather see done in real life.

Juno, on the other hand, the director properly executed the film and showed the right perspectives of how to sell the movie. It was ‘A Day in the Life’ montage of a young girl in high school who slowly realizes the consequences of life and growing up. The director properly showed her perspective throughout the film of how each individual person interacted with her. Sweeny Todd was lets just stick a camera in and film the sucker. No depth, I am sorry.

I agree Juno’s writing was unoriginal and had a feeling of the movie Saved! in it. The lines used can be typical of a book you would give a teenager to read in middle school to hopefully captivate their attention. Despite this flaw, the actors and actresses actually took their roles and played the characters and showed emotion and depth beyond the words written on the page. I am literally amazed at how well the actors and actresses did with this script because it was written horribly.

Even if you do not agree with my assessment, you have to admit, my point of view should at least make you think.