If you decide to start your thread, just give it a generic title so you can discuss anything you want in the thread. I'm sure people will respond to anything that interests them.
Well, if I should start one, it wouldn't be until later this year, or, most likely, in the beginning of next year. So, we shall all have to wait and see when/how it will happen.
BTW did you know that a lot of singers from the 1950s came out of New Jersey? You probably knew that but I didn't until I watched a movie last night.
I think a lot came from New Jersey, but more may have come from Philadelphia during that era. Of course, NJ is across the border from there so I suppose it would kind of count just the same.
Hey Vamp! you sneaked in while I was typing (sneaked is not the right tense form, what is?)
I know I say "snuck", but I figured that "sneaked" is correct. I looked it up and it said that Americans and Canadians use "snuck". The English language is so poor nowadays that I suppose it doesn't matter what people say anymore.
That boat ride in Willy Wonka scared me too and a lot of it was his excellent, terse singing, very creepy and Wonka is a bit dangerous isn't he? That's why it's so much more than a kids movie.
My brother was always good for singing that little song.
But I actually think a lot of movies that they say are for kids are really meant for adults (I feel that way about a lot of the animated films, too).
Just to confirm, Rules, go look at the "Movie Your Watching Tonight" thread - you'll see I posted, sometime late last night, that I just watched Jersey Boys. That's too weird - we were watching the same movie probably at the same time.
I saw that you posted this and I forgot to say something to what you said. I saw the stage show. I saw it before the movie. It is a very good show. I really enjoyed it. But the story was told in a way to where the songs were placed in the scenes to coincide with the story. Meaning, the themes to the songs were relevant to the situations. Am I making sense? It wasn't like they just went out and "performed" the songs (except when the situation called for it). Not you, of course (as you've not seen the stage show), but the problem that a lot of people had with the movie is that they were expecting it to be like the stage production captured onto film (which I think they kind of should have done instead). So they had high expectations and then were let down.
As for my opinion of it, I didn't mind it. When so many people say something negative I have a tendency to worry that I will be immensely disappointed in what I am going to watch (and I really shouldn't worry only because I generally don't care what other people say). And I don't like going into a movie with negative attitudes because of what others said. But people were really disliking this movie. Since a lot of the negativity came from people who'd seen the stage show, I worried about how I would feel because I saw the stage show. And I really didn't mind it. I liked it. I liked it a lot more as it went on. The beginning was a little slow for me. But in the end, all this movie ended up was NOT the MUSICAL version but, basically, a somewhat traditional biopic of a band. That disappointed a lot of people.
And the guy that played Frankie Valli, he was the original in the Broadway production. I was happy that they got him. Truthfully, he sounds the most like Valli out of everyone that I have heard. He looks the part the most, too. I thought it was fine that they used him. And if you ever heard some of the other guys that have played him, I think you would agree that he was the best.
You see, CR, I just hijacked your thread. Sorry!
Oh, wait! Instead of ever starting one of my own, I could just take over yours.