Movie You're Watching Tonight

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Heard a lot of great stuff about this. Watching it tonight :

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Movie of the night - Stephen Spielberg's remake of West Side Story - An excellent production, an unknown but terrific cast of performers, with all of the energetic dance routines you might recall from the old one. I haven't seen a version of this for a long time, but I think it covers most of what I recall in this musical equivalent of Romeo and Juliet, set on the Upper West Side in NYC, composed by Leonard Bernstein.

Aside from the performances, I was amazed at how they recreated the 1958 setting. It did NOT have an stylized theatrical backdrop, but a detailed setting that seemed to show every detail of the setting, ads, signs, elevated trains, cars parked on the street and even food signs in neighborhood delis. Whoever did the digital animation on this got every detail. The setting (W 86th Street) is completely gentrified and high rise today, but the real shots were done in some part of across the river New Jersey that is convincingly 1957.

I'm definitely NOT a fan of musicals, and this one was pretty long, but if you are a musical fan, don't miss it.

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my support worker loved that movie

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One of my all-time favourite!

I love stuff like this.