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I would have thought this movie sucked BIG TIME. But a Repo Man for organs?! That is right up my perverse alley.

Thanks for a great review! I’ll check this one out.

Angela

Sarah Brightman? Bad accent? Do you mean bad english accent, if you do, LMFAO!!!

Errrr. Sarah Brightman IS British. And It’s Alexa Vega. Well researched…

Sarah Brightman has an AWESOME speaking voice.She is truly British and I could listen to her just speak allday.Her singing is of course first class….Beautiful,Angelic voice.
Without Sarah Brightman,this movie would be a giant DUD.

Regards,
Ray W. Martin.

Okay, A, Alexa Vega = typo. Largo + Vega = Varga, for some reason. If you’re going to mock me, mock me for something I deserve. I do my research - my brain is just wired crazy like. Now, if you said ‘you screwed up her name, idjit’, I’d have no problems with that.

B, never said Sarah Brightman wasn’t British, just said her accent drives me freaking batty. She has a stunning voice, I just happen to think she’s one of the greater morons in the world, and I cannot stand to hear her speak. She also looks like she has dentures (though I can’t prove that one, sadly), but mostly, the way she speaks - her cadence, her tone, her pitch - it makes me feel like a dog when someone blows one of those really high pitched whistles. The woman’s voice (when she isn’t singing)causes me pain. I also find her to be vapid. I watched that stupid video concert from Africa about a million times (not my choice in entertainment, mind you; I was forced by powers greater than me) and every time I just wanted to stab something when she talked. Call it irrational - and I’m fine with that - but I just hate hate hate the woman. Hate. It makes me think less of Music of the Night because it’s affiliated with her.

Then again, it’s very possible that I’m a little off my nut. It’s been suggested many, many times before. Often by my husband and closest friends.

You say in your article that Sarah Brightman has an annoyingly unbelievable (your words) British accent, i assume by that you mean her English accent,which isn’t forced, it’s actually the way she speaks and strangely that makes it believable as she is in fact English!! Also her characters name is Mag not Meg.

Mag, Meg… Who can tell the difference? If you actually WATCH a film, you get who is who by LOOKS, not names. Half the time, I don’t get the names of characters. I just think, OK, the guy with the weird hair is going into this situation and it is very bad.

Seriously.

And hating Sarah Brightman makes it even funnier that you had to review it, Amanda. That happens to me so often. It is nice to know I’m in good company!

(PS: Get one of those blow up things that is weighted at the bottom - you know, the boxing things for kids. Put Brightman’s photo on it and hit it until it rips apart, or get a dart gun or one of those little suction arrow guns and shoot it until you feel better. Works for me! And is a GREAT stress reliever.)

What mean things to say about Sarah!  Sorry, but anyone who has had a 30+ year career in the music industry and is the biggest selling soprano of all time is not a MORON.  How insulting.

I think YOU are the moron and this article was very poorly researched.  Ever heard of fact checking?

LaLunaLady

I get that she’s British people, I do. To me, it just sounds like she’s tryinbg too hard when she speaks. There are plenty of Americans who annoy me with the same trait (and most of them are on CNN, which I faithfully watch). She can annoy me and be a good singer, it’s possible. I love Nicole Kidman more than any other actress, and my husband thinks she’s a boney-faced witch who eats children for fun and profit. It’s okay to have an opinion. I chose to think she’s a moron. You chose to think I’m a moron. I’m good with it. I also think that the film, with SB as a main component, was worth four and a half stars out of five. Did I screw up a couple time in this article? You bet. It’s not the first time, and certainly won’t be the last. Jim Butcher, who is a sci-fi god, wrote a fight scene in the parking lot of a sports stadium in Chicago that has no parking lot. Is he a moron? Gods no. Nor am I. My opinion about SB wasn’t pulled out of the ether, it was an opinion formulated on many things I’ve heard her say in interviews that irked the crap out of me. On one of her live performances on DVD, she says that a song should never be translated out of it’s original language (in defense of her singing opera in the original Italian). In the same performance (and the cd it’s based around) she sings the theme song for Titanic in French. Is that more or less moronic than my mispelling Vega and Mag? I don’t really care. The point is, you guys need to deal with opinions as just that, and let it go. I gave the movie, her performance included, the second highest ranking I possibly could. You’d think that would be enough.
And Angela - you rock! I wanted to review Repo, though, because I heart ASH and thought it looked phenomenal, which it was. I enjoyed every second of it, every time I watched it. Which has been a lot.

And, naturally, I made a typo in my last post. Ah, irony, you tart.

More or less moronic than your misspelling of Vega and Mag?  There’s no answer for that because she didn’t sing the Titanic song in French.  She sang it as “Il Mio Cuore Va” in Italian!  Once again, your ‘supposed’ research is wrong.  You just embarrass yourself even more.  So, maybe you “should” care?

And, you have the temerity to call her a “moron”?! That isn’t even an opinion, it’s stooping to ‘name calling’, which is just plain tacky; shoddy journalism.

I can deal with opinions—no problem; that’s not even an issue.  Heck, I’m not even a fan of Repo, and I’m still interested about anything SB related.  But, I’m also not a fan of unprofessional journalism.

And for the record, “it’s” = it is, while “its” = possessive.

I think part of what Amanda is talking about is that SB wasn’t using her natural voice. She was putting on a voice and it was damn annoying. Regardless, the movie sucked and there is a good reason it was pretty much dumped to DVD. The theatrical run was out of obligation to fulfill a contract.

@ Stefan Halley—yes, Lionsgate was initially going to “dump” the film directly to DVD.  But the fans stepped up and did a lot of very successful ‘grass roots’ promotion for the film.  The consequence of the fan promotion was that there were three (very successful) Repo Road Trips that happened in the US.  In fact, its been so successful that they are doing a Repo Road Trip in the United Kingdom next month.

And isn’t it funny how Lionsgate got “on board” for the film ONLY after three of the songs from the film had been short-listed for a Grammy nomination?!?

*cough*  Some of us know what we are talking about, unlike the blog writer.

LaLunaLady

@LaLunaLady, that’s not really true. Lionsgate had a contractual obligation to play it in at least 10 theaters. They screened it one weekend in November of 2008 and then dumped it on DVD. It wasn’t until later that the director created the roadshow.

Lionsgates isn’t doing the roadshow, it’s the director and the creator that are producing it. Lionsgate may have their name on it somewhere but it’s because they own the rights to the film.

Get your facts right before you start dogging on others.

What is so ironic about all this bitching is that the reviewer gave this film a GOOD STAR RATING. Does anyone out there realize that?!

The reviewer doesn’t like her voice. Neither do these folks:

http://musicals.net/forums/archive.php/sarah-brightman-acting-skills__o_t__t_56913.html

People disagree about films, musicians and more all the time. I get emails from folks who disagree with me on book reviews - but at least they are nice about it. They are not snotty, rude, discontented souls who want to take out their life’s frustrations on someone who disagrees with them about something that, at the end of the day, isn’t as important as have a job, having a healthy family, a roof over your head and food.

Excellent point, Angela. Yes, I did see that she gave it good star rating. Personally, I didn’t need to see her get a good star rating, because I’m not even a fan of Repo.  But perhaps others can appreciate it.  So, if I was one of the ones who came across as “snotty”, “rude”, or “discontented”, I’ll be the first to apologize.  But, please also know that it wasn’t so much “what was said” (the opinion), but HOW it was said with all that “hate hate hate” spewed all around.  When a writer throws that kind of nasty sentiment into it, it just makes it truly lack credibility. Again, I have no problem with different opinions of SB’s work.

As a matter of fact, sometimes I’m even curious as to what constructive criticism might be out there (even learn from it), and I’ll also admit I don’t like everything she’s done.  Her rendition of “Moon River” is one of the worst I’ve heard, and that’s an “opinion” coming from a long-time fan.  I was even more disappointed in her when she did a horror movie, but that’s again “my opinion”.  It doesn’t make me hate her.

Yet, I can also understand not “liking an artist’s work”.  Example:  I really don’t care for any of Alanis Morisette’s work, yet I would never go out of my way to say I “hate hate hate” her.

I also don’t care for Dolly Parton’s accent when she speaks, so I can understand how an accent can be sort of annoying. But is it a reason to hate?

As an American immigrant, who learned “American English”, I also confess that deep down inside, I wish I spoke English with an English accent.  An English accent just sounds so much more charismatic and sophisticated; like Sarah’s beautiful English accent. But again, I realize that’s just “my opinion”.

And your “opinion” of what’s important in life about having a job, health, and having a roof over one’s head is right on the money (especially, during these difficult times). Very true.  Actually, I’d like to add to it; that perhaps, one of the most impressive things in this world would be, to see, less “hate”.

Most - though not all - of PopSyndicate’s writers have adapted a humor-based, non-conformist tone. If you’re looking for absolute professionalism in journalism, I might suggest the New York Times instead.

Wow, I just read your comments to your own article (bahahahahaaaa WHO does that?)and I have to say that you are completely unprofessional. I was a journalism student (dropped it because I would hate to have journalism as my career), and you really don’t stick to the “be objective” rule, do you?

Before you think about calling someone who actually has talent vapid again, maybe you should look in the mirror.

Sarah Brightman is the best selling soprano of all time…what have you achieved?

Wow, WDYWK?, you obviously don’t have a clue about the difference between “journalism” and “critical analysis”(bahahahahaaaa imagine a “journalism student” not knowing that?), and you might want to look up the words “objective” and “subjective” in the dictionary. REVIEWS are, by their very nature, subjective, and not held to the same guidelines as traditional journalism. A review being “objective” would be utterly pointless. They express opinions; that is why they exist.

Oh, and saying to a reviewer “what have you done, huh?” is about the most immature and lazy reaction possible. Amanda expressed an opinion about something, she didn’t murder Brightman in cold blood, burn down her house, and whiz on the ashes. So grow up and get a life.

To JE Smith,

If you would have read my comment more carefully, you would see that I was referring to her comments here (from February 2, 2009), and not the article (duh). Just incase you are too lazy to look up at my previous comment again, I’ll show you here how I began:

“Wow, I just read your comments to your own article” and then I proceeded from there. And don’t you think that telling someone to grow up and get a life is also an immature and lazy reaction? Think about it :)

@wdywk - I’m a person who addressed the issues put forth by the readers. I’m a person who reads her feedback in an attempt to be better. For example, I learned that editing at four am before going to bed = not the best idea. Would you rather I not be that kind of person, someone who doesn’t try to learn from their actions? I think that would be ignorant.
I’m also the kind of person who finds the reactions of people like LaLuna amusing, because they make no point and serve no function. Kind of like you.

I am amused and appalled by the stupidity of some who’ve left comments.

Before you call up the Holy Water to exorcise the anti-Brightman demons from me, let me first say that not only do I know who Brightman is, I’ve heard her sing. I liked some of it. Her genre isn’t typically my style, but it has a place. I thought it was ironic that the reviewer hates how she speaks, but had to review this piece. It’s like when my friends drag me to film I know I will absolutely HATE, but I have to go, anyway.

For those who maybe don’t understand, reviews are like Op Ed pieces in a newspaper. They are subjective opinion pieces - like letters to the editor. Reviewers at Pop Syndicate are not paid to say nice things - like those “reviewers” who do movie poster comments - they say how they really feel about something they watch or read.

You don’t have to agree or disagree, but you have to RESPECT them for having their own opinion and be brave enough to share it online. Many times in life, I find those who are the harshest critics wouldn’t have the guts to be that brave. (Typically, they do not use their real names on their criticisms, like many in this comment thread.)

And the person who dropped out of journalism (Why Do You Wanna to Know?), you hit my hot button. I am a veteran journalist. Not only did I graduate, I worked the field. When you work it, you have a greater understanding of what journalism is. You know the difference between a REVIEW and a HARD NEWS STORY.

As a working journalist, you also know that, no matter how much you proof, your editors proof, your copy editors proof, mistakes happen. You miss punctuation, grammar, name spellings… Anyone who has ever worked professionally as a journalist or freelance writers knows this and understands it will happen. There is no getting around it. You just correct it and move on. Normal people are happy when you make the correction, leave their thanks and go about their lives again. (Been there, done that, and I’m sure I’ll make a mistake again. I’m not Jesus and don’t try to play Him on TV or the Internet.)

Perhaps if you take some additional Journalism 101 courses, you can refresh your memory that OBJECTIVITY is for hard news, and SUBJECTIVITY for reviews, Op Ed pieces and other personal musings. I’m quite sure there are some great courses near you, or online, that can help you.

Based on the snotty comments from the Brightman Brigade, I’m assuming Sarah Brightman has started multiple accounts on this site and has decided to valiantly defend her reputation. That or her fan club is a bunch of perfectly rude individuals who have never made a mistake in their lives and need a bit of aerosol Prozac to calm themselves when someone has an opposing view about the singer.

And get over the use of the word “hate,” people. The reviewer is not a Nazi, or rival stalking Brightman. She just hates Brightman’s voice. I hate peanut butter ice cream. Does that make me an evil person? Nope. And neither does hating Brightman’s voice. make this reviewer an evil person. This isn’t a philosophical debate on tolerance, IT IS A FREAKING REVIEW OF A DVD WHICH GOT 4.5 OUT OF 5 STARS!!!!!!! If the reviewer hated Brightman that much, she could have given it a lower score. I probably would have.

You just got BUTT SLAMMED by Angela Wilson.

PS. I don’t don’t know who Sarah Brightman is and can’t remember her from the movie. So in my mind, she’s pretty forgettable.

Reviewers at Pop Syndicate are not paid to say nice things -

...or, indeed, paid at all. XD

You just got BUTT SLAMMED by Angela Wilson.

...and not in a good way, in that special way we all want to be B.S.ed by Angela Wilson. Who loves ya, baby? ;-p

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