Unrelated, but alliterative names are FTW. Unofficially.
HAIRSPRAY! Okay, first off, I loved it. It's been so long since I've seen a movie where no one dies, haha.
General Casting: Honestly, I thought it was spot-on. Some of the actors weren't exactly up to par in terms of singing, like Amanda Bynes, but they made up for it in spunk and infectious enthusiasm. Out of the adults, I thought Michelle Pfeifer did really well, as did Christopher Walken (anyone surprised?). The entire cast was just so bubbly and peppy and happy... I literally could not stop grinning like a complete idiot throughout this entire movie.
Singing: Like I said, there were quite a few vocal performances which were lacking, but overall, the singing was also pretty good. People who stood out in my mind were Queen Latifah and Elijah Kelley. Speaking of whom, who is this kid? As Seaweed, he was charming and cute, and BOY, could he sing! Don't believe me? Just listen to "Run and Tell That". No, seriously. Listen to it. It was probably my favorite vocal performance in the entire movie. Not that everyone else wasn't amazing (yes, including Zefron, but we'll get to him later) but Elijah was a star.
However. This movie had the absolute worst diction I have ever heard in my entire life. I couldn't tell what they were saying half the time. Speak clearly, m'dears. It's still, after all, a musical.
Zefron: Oh dear Lord. Okay, so I'm the first to say that I hated HSM (even though I was in the play, and I'm so watching HSM 2, if only for the Lubin*) but it needs repeating: Oh. Dear. Lord. First, it had been my firm belief that Zac "Twinkie Boy" Efron's singing was as pleasing to the ear as Kareena Kapoor's dancing (don't ask), but I have to say, I was impressed. He more or less won me over. I mean, he's still no John Barrowman (This John Barrowman as well) or John Tartaglia, but still. Not that I was really listening to him. See, I'm also a fierce proponent of the Zefron-Is-Totally-And-Completely-Asexual-If-Rather-Adorable Corollary, but, well, uh. Zac has this solo called "Ladies' Choice," right? Well, so I'm watching, and Tracy's dancing, and Zac's looking at her and singing and, well, dancing--no, not dancing... thrusting. He's thrusting his hips and staring at her with those great big blue eyes, and my first thought is, "Can he please do that forever?" and my second thought is, "Shit, that's Zac Efron." So throughout every single one of Zac's scenes, I'm like, "THAT IS ZAC EFRON. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE DIRTY THOUGHTS ABOUT ZAC EFRON." And then, there was "Without Love," in which Zac lays on Tracy's bed with a picture of her and proceeds to do this, but more importantly, this. All these things = NOT GOOD. But my feelings were resolved this morning when someone on LJ wisely said, "Zac Efron's a twerp, but not a twerp that I'd kick out of bed." And so it goes.
Oh, and also? He does this. A LOT of it.
That's it, I guess. I could add more, but that would be more incoherent and rambly. Basically? Go see Hairspray. It's amazing.
Oh, wait! One more thing.
JOHN TRAVOLTA IN DRAG IS THE BEST THING EVAR.
Okay, now I'm done with Hairspray. But not Zefron. So, onto some rage. So there was this interview with Elijah Kelley, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, and Zefron. And this happened:
Which is cute, whatever, it's all in good fun. Right? NOT IN FANDOM. I was scrolling through the comments, and I see a ton of comments like this:
OMFG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, ZANESSA BABY! Zac is way to fuking good for Nikki, i dont like her AT ALL. poor Vanessa :[ agh i want to slap Zac!
and
OMG!!!! that is just wrong!!!! some people thinks its cute but no way!!...i mean come on! he's dating vanessa! doesnt he care how she is going to feel after that if she sees it!...i mean sure he has to do it in the movie because that's what his caractor has to do...but he didnt HAVE to do it in the interview! Vanessa and zac are a way better couple that zac and nikki...zanessa sounds better than zikki...zikki sounds like a type of zit! lol ZANESSA ROCKS!!!<3
and, my personal favorite
nikki is like so fat why would she do that to zac! poor zac! LOL! we all know he likes vanessa!
but the award for dumbest comment ever goes to
omggg they even used toung(i cnt spell it)
Okay, maybe I'm wanking a little bit, but come ooooooooooooooooooooooon. Are you kidding me? Nikki is really pretty, and she seems pretty cool too. I am honest-to-goodness so sick of these 12-year-olds whining about Zanessa and Zashley or whatever the fuck. It's mostly the Zanessa people who are borderline insane, like the crazy Harmonians (no offense, really), only their ship is what we would call "pseudo-canon" on account of this is IRL. Plus, Harmonians can usually spell "tongue." There were also 8954787 comments about how Zac wiped his mouth afterwards. Could it be that Zac saves wearing lipgloss for his moonlighting gig at the Pretty Pony Pub ONLY? Heavens to Betsy no! CLEARLY, this is proof that he hates Nikki Blonsky, that stupid Italian-Jewish cow OMG. And calling Nikki fat? Seems somebody missed the whole point of Hairspray. Say it with me, kids: *FAP FAP FAP* Like it matters! RPF is one thing. This? This borders obsession. No, you know what. Enough of this Zashley-Zanessa bullshit.
SOMEONE START A MOTHERFUCKIN' ZUCAS-LUBIN* FLAMEWAR, PLEASE.
DECLARE YOUR OTP, FOOLS.
*Where Zucas = Zac/Lucas and Lubin = Lucas/Corbin. Obviously.
*sigh* And that's all I have to say about that.
Another thing about shipping. People on LJ are really rude sometimes, and I'm just going to go ahead and get this off my chest since I'm wanking anyway. So I left a comment on someone's post (I won't say who) about season 2 of Heroes, and at the very end, I mentioned something about Mylar or "preserving the Mylar" or something. Harmless, right? NOT IN FANDOM. And someone comments back saying how much they "hate hate" Mylar or Mylar fiction or whatever. This, in my book, is not cool. I mean, there are people on my flist who ship differently than me, but why on Earth would I point that out to them? I mean, Christ, I thought that was common courtesy. Don't fuck with my ship because I never fucked with yours. And I don't even know this person. Jesus. People really annoy me sometimes.
And besides, there's a ton of well-written Mylar out there, so throwing it under a tent with all the fluffy, craptastic Mylar is really unfair. Plus, the person whose journal this guy commented on happens to write Mylar fanfiction. I'm sorry, but that is just... uncouth. Yeah, so, that's it.
And, as always as compensation for wanking, have a song!
Hallelujah - Regina Spektor.
It's a cover of the Leonard Cohen song. Anyone have the Rufus Wainwright version and would be willing to share?
General Casting: Honestly, I thought it was spot-on. Some of the actors weren't exactly up to par in terms of singing, like Amanda Bynes, but they made up for it in spunk and infectious enthusiasm. Out of the adults, I thought Michelle Pfeifer did really well, as did Christopher Walken (anyone surprised?). The entire cast was just so bubbly and peppy and happy... I literally could not stop grinning like a complete idiot throughout this entire movie.
Singing: Like I said, there were quite a few vocal performances which were lacking, but overall, the singing was also pretty good. People who stood out in my mind were Queen Latifah and Elijah Kelley. Speaking of whom, who is this kid? As Seaweed, he was charming and cute, and BOY, could he sing! Don't believe me? Just listen to "Run and Tell That". No, seriously. Listen to it. It was probably my favorite vocal performance in the entire movie. Not that everyone else wasn't amazing (yes, including Zefron, but we'll get to him later) but Elijah was a star.
However. This movie had the absolute worst diction I have ever heard in my entire life. I couldn't tell what they were saying half the time. Speak clearly, m'dears. It's still, after all, a musical.
Zefron: Oh dear Lord. Okay, so I'm the first to say that I hated HSM (even though I was in the play, and I'm so watching HSM 2, if only for the Lubin*) but it needs repeating: Oh. Dear. Lord. First, it had been my firm belief that Zac "Twinkie Boy" Efron's singing was as pleasing to the ear as Kareena Kapoor's dancing (don't ask), but I have to say, I was impressed. He more or less won me over. I mean, he's still no John Barrowman (This John Barrowman as well) or John Tartaglia, but still. Not that I was really listening to him. See, I'm also a fierce proponent of the Zefron-Is-Totally-And-Completely-Asexual-If-Rather-Adorable Corollary, but, well, uh. Zac has this solo called "Ladies' Choice," right? Well, so I'm watching, and Tracy's dancing, and Zac's looking at her and singing and, well, dancing--no, not dancing... thrusting. He's thrusting his hips and staring at her with those great big blue eyes, and my first thought is, "Can he please do that forever?" and my second thought is, "Shit, that's Zac Efron." So throughout every single one of Zac's scenes, I'm like, "THAT IS ZAC EFRON. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE DIRTY THOUGHTS ABOUT ZAC EFRON." And then, there was "Without Love," in which Zac lays on Tracy's bed with a picture of her and proceeds to do this, but more importantly, this. All these things = NOT GOOD. But my feelings were resolved this morning when someone on LJ wisely said, "Zac Efron's a twerp, but not a twerp that I'd kick out of bed." And so it goes.
Oh, and also? He does this. A LOT of it.
That's it, I guess. I could add more, but that would be more incoherent and rambly. Basically? Go see Hairspray. It's amazing.
Oh, wait! One more thing.
JOHN TRAVOLTA IN DRAG IS THE BEST THING EVAR.
Okay, now I'm done with Hairspray. But not Zefron. So, onto some rage. So there was this interview with Elijah Kelley, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, and Zefron. And this happened:
Click to view
Which is cute, whatever, it's all in good fun. Right? NOT IN FANDOM. I was scrolling through the comments, and I see a ton of comments like this:
OMFG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, ZANESSA BABY! Zac is way to fuking good for Nikki, i dont like her AT ALL. poor Vanessa :[ agh i want to slap Zac!
and
OMG!!!! that is just wrong!!!! some people thinks its cute but no way!!...i mean come on! he's dating vanessa! doesnt he care how she is going to feel after that if she sees it!...i mean sure he has to do it in the movie because that's what his caractor has to do...but he didnt HAVE to do it in the interview! Vanessa and zac are a way better couple that zac and nikki...zanessa sounds better than zikki...zikki sounds like a type of zit! lol ZANESSA ROCKS!!!<3
and, my personal favorite
nikki is like so fat why would she do that to zac! poor zac! LOL! we all know he likes vanessa!
but the award for dumbest comment ever goes to
omggg they even used toung(i cnt spell it)
Okay, maybe I'm wanking a little bit, but come ooooooooooooooooooooooon. Are you kidding me? Nikki is really pretty, and she seems pretty cool too. I am honest-to-goodness so sick of these 12-year-olds whining about Zanessa and Zashley or whatever the fuck. It's mostly the Zanessa people who are borderline insane, like the crazy Harmonians (no offense, really), only their ship is what we would call "pseudo-canon" on account of this is IRL. Plus, Harmonians can usually spell "tongue." There were also 8954787 comments about how Zac wiped his mouth afterwards. Could it be that Zac saves wearing lipgloss for his moonlighting gig at the Pretty Pony Pub ONLY? Heavens to Betsy no! CLEARLY, this is proof that he hates Nikki Blonsky, that stupid Italian-Jewish cow OMG. And calling Nikki fat? Seems somebody missed the whole point of Hairspray. Say it with me, kids: *FAP FAP FAP* Like it matters! RPF is one thing. This? This borders obsession. No, you know what. Enough of this Zashley-Zanessa bullshit.
SOMEONE START A MOTHERFUCKIN' ZUCAS-LUBIN* FLAMEWAR, PLEASE.
DECLARE YOUR OTP, FOOLS.
*Where Zucas = Zac/Lucas and Lubin = Lucas/Corbin. Obviously.
*sigh* And that's all I have to say about that.
Another thing about shipping. People on LJ are really rude sometimes, and I'm just going to go ahead and get this off my chest since I'm wanking anyway. So I left a comment on someone's post (I won't say who) about season 2 of Heroes, and at the very end, I mentioned something about Mylar or "preserving the Mylar" or something. Harmless, right? NOT IN FANDOM. And someone comments back saying how much they "hate hate" Mylar or Mylar fiction or whatever. This, in my book, is not cool. I mean, there are people on my flist who ship differently than me, but why on Earth would I point that out to them? I mean, Christ, I thought that was common courtesy. Don't fuck with my ship because I never fucked with yours. And I don't even know this person. Jesus. People really annoy me sometimes.
And besides, there's a ton of well-written Mylar out there, so throwing it under a tent with all the fluffy, craptastic Mylar is really unfair. Plus, the person whose journal this guy commented on happens to write Mylar fanfiction. I'm sorry, but that is just... uncouth. Yeah, so, that's it.
And, as always as compensation for wanking, have a song!
Hallelujah - Regina Spektor.
It's a cover of the Leonard Cohen song. Anyone have the Rufus Wainwright version and would be willing to share?