The 2004 movie (ALW version)

Paula74 wrote:

ML6 wrote:I think it is time to rid myself of my copy as well. (And the burned copies of the foreign film soundtrack.)

I keep trying to get rid of mine, but it won't leave without a fight.

I tossed it in the trash about two years ago. My boyfriend, assuming anything Phantom is valuable to me, rescued it. A few months later, I tossed it again. His father saw it in the bag and pulled it out because he assumed it was tossed by mistake. When he wasn't looking, I tossed it back in the bag. Either I missed the bag or the bag tore on the way to the garage because this summer, I found the remains of it in the backyard.

Cameron Mackintosh wrote: I had nothing to do with the film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, but to be honest, I would have wanted to do the film differently.

LadyCDaae wrote:Given that he's using the new tour as a model for the way he wanted to do it, the "better" part is probably debatable. But I do think he's right in claiming the material needs: a sense of darkness, and a contrast between the glamorous world of the opera and the shadow realm the Phantom inhabits. Schumacher was gilded and glitzy from start to finish, and it killed the mood of the story.

~LCD

LadyCDaae wrote:...What is that thing, one of those fountain sculptures you can get at Bed, Bath, and Beyond?

~LCD