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Beauty and the Beast 2017
There's a separate grammar to movie musicals than there is to stage musicals—at least, there is to the type of movie musical that Disney makes. Classic stage musicals are pervaded with song. Many of them are almost/entirely sung-through—Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, The Phantom of the Opera, etc.—and even those that aren't will have musical numbers peppered liberally throughout their runtime. In this type of musical, songs are the default mode of expression—not every song will be as important as every…
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Beauty and the Beast 2017
Rant to come; for now suffice it to say this is the most aggressively useless movie ever made.
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Alice in Wonderland 2010
You know what the worst thing in the world is? When people who have never actually read Alice in Wonderland take a nauseatingly saccharine quote from this abortion of a movie and attribute it to Lewis Carroll. Or when people who have never read Les Mis take lyrics from the musical and attribute them to Victor Hugo. You people are everything that is wrong with humanity and you will die too uninformed to realize how blitheringly stupid you are. And I will take some embarrassing quote from the Internet and misattribute it to you as your epitaph.