The Phantom of the Opera
Added 2024-12-01 05:00:02 +0000 UTC“CRASH! A Chandelier drops from the ceiling!” Our ALW commentary series continues as we discuss the music movie of the night, Joel Schumacher’s 2004 film The Phantom of the Opera.
Topics include: Gerry B’s trajectory, a Hollywood mandate!, would Ben go see Phantom if it reopened? Can you buy the set? Super timely Biden updates, a definitely needed unboxing session and more.
Movie starts at 4:02
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I was a test screener for Van Hellsing back before it came out and we did a questionnaire about the series after the movie
TorpedoFace
2025-01-12 19:11:31 +0000 UTCtheres a lot of weird left turns that could be on that list too.
JC9000
2025-01-10 07:02:54 +0000 UTCSup?
films
2025-01-06 22:38:10 +0000 UTCIt's a Commonwealth country!! IT HAS M&S, DAVID
Carol
2025-01-03 01:29:22 +0000 UTCGetting caught up and instead of a new series on comic strip movies, what about 90s post Batman comic serial movies: Dick Tracy, the Rocketeer, the Shadow, and the Phantom?
Bryan J.
2024-12-26 00:19:54 +0000 UTCI love this movie, wholeheartedly and unironically. Yeah it's goofy as shit and is bad in parts but I don't care. Patrick Wilson is so good and Gerard Butler is so hot, like bro can just sleep on the other side of the bed and I'll kiss your sad little sunburns. It's Beauty and the Beast for Hot Topic girlies!
Jessica
2024-12-21 05:24:24 +0000 UTCIf your going British newspaper cartoons The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp would count. BTW there 7 St Trinian films. The 1950s ones are actually quite fun.
David Kirk
2024-12-17 13:58:46 +0000 UTCAfter Saturday Night, every time my wife puts SNL on I must say, “IT’S A NIGHT OUT IN NEW YORK!!”
J
2024-12-15 05:03:43 +0000 UTCI also love this musical, less for the story which is dumb, but for the music and the drama of the whole experience. My little musical theater friends and I went to see the movie and all hope of enjoyment died the moment I heard the singing. I am hoping the success of Wicked has a set a precedent for casting actual singers in your musical!
Kelsey Nagel
2024-12-11 19:45:58 +0000 UTCI'm gooning for Christmas
jerome dunn
2024-12-11 05:18:18 +0000 UTCAnd Little Princess
Maricela Gonzalez
2024-12-10 04:20:20 +0000 UTCThe Broadway show got me at every extension. In that last year, I saw it 4 times bc I kept panic buying tickets
Maricela Gonzalez
2024-12-10 04:17:27 +0000 UTCMy hot take is that Love Never Dies has like 3 songs worth of ALW's best composed music but OG Opera Ghost still wins out
Maricela Gonzalez
2024-12-10 04:15:56 +0000 UTCOh no I am perceived! This movie was BIG on my Tumblr
Maricela Gonzalez
2024-12-10 04:13:33 +0000 UTCdid griffin dream that puppet musical?
pj
2024-12-09 13:41:45 +0000 UTCI actually enjoyed this movie. Of course it pales in comparison to the stage show yada yada, but I enjoyed my time with it. Plenty of stuff BC has been way more kind to that I have liked way less. Just putting it out there to represent the small venn diagram of “Who likes this movie?” and people who also listen to Blank Check.
Soapfish
2024-12-08 02:28:22 +0000 UTCBen wins the whole episode with the, Christmas is kids gooning for presents, line.
Kurt Farschman
2024-12-08 01:47:15 +0000 UTCPhantom of the Opera is self-serious girl culture. See also The Secret Garden.
Maureen Tango
2024-12-07 20:12:10 +0000 UTCPetition to have G&D do Death Race 2008
Bryce
2024-12-07 02:05:13 +0000 UTCBc
Rh
2024-12-05 20:29:03 +0000 UTCThey're musicals from one author, ALW. Not indicative of the entire genre?
Mike Ostrov
2024-12-05 20:28:54 +0000 UTCYa think thetwofriends follow dril on letterboxd?
Jed Vrazo
2024-12-05 17:04:53 +0000 UTCA musical series by three guys who evidently don’t like musicals very much was an interesting choice, lol.
Billy Greer
2024-12-05 14:46:37 +0000 UTCWhen my friends snuck into Phantom at our local mega plex I decided to instead go see In Good Company instead.
Kevin Fennell
2024-12-05 14:00:02 +0000 UTCI’m sure in the future every podcast episode will be specifically catered to your personal experience
Kevin Fennell
2024-12-05 13:56:12 +0000 UTCIf anyone wants to imagine what Antonio Banderas would do with the role, here’s him performing with Sarah Brightman during an ALW music tribute. CW: sexy. https://youtu.be/j9qLfyLowjg?si=GaQpHaypitcMFcoP
Han
2024-12-05 07:23:48 +0000 UTCSigh…I am obligated to tell you all that duuuuuun dun dun dun dun dunnn is stolen from Pink Floyd. Yes, I’m exhausting.
Quinton Caringella
2024-12-05 02:30:53 +0000 UTCI can’t imagine sincerely liking this movie. The actual stage musical is great for being melodramatic schlock, but you need the best singers on the planet to pull it off. If you just have actors struggling to sing the arias it falls on its face.
nelly
2024-12-04 11:20:00 +0000 UTCYes!
Caroline Pruett
2024-12-04 01:56:11 +0000 UTCThe Palais Garnier? Quite possibly the most beautiful building in the world. Would love to haunt that place
Daniel S
2024-12-04 01:44:51 +0000 UTCWell played
David Draper
2024-12-03 19:48:38 +0000 UTCSuper insane
David Draper
2024-12-03 19:48:00 +0000 UTCLooking for monster musicals with goth vibes? Might I suggest “A Taste for Love”, music and lyrics by Peter Bretter?
Dustin
2024-12-03 18:02:15 +0000 UTCreddit.com/r/masquerade is fun as hell
fartinscorcese
2024-12-03 14:57:36 +0000 UTCFuck landlords indeed
Bairbre
2024-12-03 05:30:29 +0000 UTCWeirdly this film has the same fan base as a lot of the prequels. Liking Anakin and Phantom go hand in hand as the “I can fix him,” starter pack. (I know from middle school friends, I was overdramatic and thus obsessed with Brad Pitt’s inexplicably accented depiction of Louis de Pointe du Lac.)
Champagne and Gummy bears
2024-12-03 04:46:28 +0000 UTCYou ask who likes this movie? It's my sister in law, who watched it every day after school. She watched it so many times that my wife, who hated it, hid it in the top of the closet for 3 years, until her sister found it when they were moving.
Stephen Flechsing
2024-12-02 23:44:34 +0000 UTCDavid’s daughters pivoting to ‘there’s a tree and you gotta wait’ is the most succinct description of 3yo logic leaps.
Matt
2024-12-02 21:32:42 +0000 UTCinsane take, i fear
Isabelle Iverson
2024-12-02 20:43:15 +0000 UTCI didn't see it come near me, and I wasn't in middle school at the time.
Glenn Peters
2024-12-02 19:41:29 +0000 UTC*David: Does this movie have fans? It must. *Me: Smiles and raises hand *Griffin: It doesn't. *Me: unsmiles and puts hand down sadly.
Harrison Stanley
2024-12-02 19:28:35 +0000 UTCWhen David said that quote, he was assuming the perspective of a movie exec deciding when would be the ideal time to make a Phantom movie. Also, it was the longest running show in a huge tourist destination that also toured everywhere and could be done by middle schools. It was more available than most unfilmed plays.
Mike Ostrov
2024-12-02 17:37:58 +0000 UTCThe touring show was pretty ubiquitous at one point but I grant that's also pricey.
Caroline Pruett
2024-12-02 17:36:36 +0000 UTCThis also feels like the place to say that I was very amused, when visiting the Paris opera house, that they had no official 'Phantom' merch for sale but did have souvenirs with masks that sure look a lot like the Broadway logo. Like, they'd probably sniff at you if you asked about it but they know what some of the tourists are there for. (I have never sseen any version of Phantom but played it in high school band in the 90s. At the time I assumed this was some classic piece of musical theater, not that it was less than 10 yrsold).
Caroline Pruett
2024-12-02 17:35:43 +0000 UTCI need 'Challengers could sweep' 'That would fucking rule' as a ring tone. Liked the rest of the episode too -- this film definitely has its fans, esp for Gerard.
Caroline Pruett
2024-12-02 17:32:28 +0000 UTCThe best thing this movie gave to the world is the Night Wish cover
Spencer Pommier
2024-12-02 17:22:13 +0000 UTCHilarious how they were talking about Jamie Loftus at the same time they were saying no one was a fan of this movie. She could have guested to tell us all about how much she loved it.
Donald W Pratt
2024-12-02 12:37:03 +0000 UTCAs someone who’s only Broadway experience was Phantom on a field trip in middle school, that is a completely valid point. All three of these guys have probably seen shows the average person could only dream of attending
ipsydipsy
2024-12-02 06:40:43 +0000 UTCThere have really not been enough of these callbacks but they do hit hard as a result
Rad Rodge
2024-12-02 06:39:29 +0000 UTCI love this musical (and agree, it isn’t necessarily ‘good’ but is so much fun!) and was so devastated when it came out — even at 13 I was like oh man this sucks. I hope with the success of Wicked we get a new film version that leans into the exaggerated gothic sexy campy aspects. Was also surprised Wicked wasn’t discussed much as an end-of-the-year musical Oscar contender but makes sense if they were having this conversation in July 😅
Kate
2024-12-02 03:44:16 +0000 UTCI always thought the opera was super fancy because Pratchett parodied it, like Macbeth.
itsyourcousinstjean
2024-12-02 01:38:45 +0000 UTCGooning for presents.
Anthony Regina
2024-12-01 23:21:52 +0000 UTCAm I insane for preferring Love Never Dies to this
Chet Kazalski
2024-12-01 20:05:49 +0000 UTCanother wonderful election conversation! 😀
Benjamin Adgate
2024-12-01 19:58:58 +0000 UTC"Everyone who wanted to see the show has by now" Not everyone lives in walking distance of Broadway. (Or can afford it.)
Glenn Peters
2024-12-01 19:39:50 +0000 UTChearing David refer to home runs as "dingers" (~25 min in) fills me with indescribable joy
deirdre nelle
2024-12-01 19:12:22 +0000 UTCI love POTO but it IS fun junk.
Liz aka Cosbrarian
2024-12-01 15:40:45 +0000 UTCThe hardest BC has ever made me laugh was ARPs callback to CRASH!
Matt
2024-12-01 13:05:32 +0000 UTCSeeing this on Broadway was such an experience though…
David Draper
2024-12-01 09:41:25 +0000 UTCThe one piece of music that everyone remembers - the one the guys keep singing because it's the only really catchy tune? ALW completely lifted that from Pink Floyd's 1971 song "Echoes". Just one more reason this thing sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhUob7ZERI
Patrick McEvoy
2024-12-01 09:40:33 +0000 UTCMASTODON
Rad Rodge
2024-12-01 08:32:06 +0000 UTCIt's CHANDELIER TIME
Jordan B. Anderson
2024-12-01 07:51:09 +0000 UTCNext March madness, American Pie trilogy!! We need some 2000s fun. 😂😂😂 This movie is so bad. So glad l skipped it in 2004. I remember thinking about seeing it but never did.
Gemini smile
2024-12-01 07:48:07 +0000 UTCThis movie……not good.
Gemini smile
2024-12-01 07:37:44 +0000 UTC[Yarnold shouts from under the floorboards] Get your ass to Malta
Rad Rodge
2024-12-01 07:15:15 +0000 UTCI just relistened to the live fanfare episode like three days ago, when John Hodgman is the Phantom of the Brooklyn Opera House hahahah, I totally forgot this was coming up in three days
Rad Rodge
2024-12-01 05:51:20 +0000 UTCFun fact: in the show the Phantom was originally going to have the classic full mask (which is why that’s what’s on the poster) but they changed it to a half-mask because the full mask interfered with the mic.
Antonio Melgar
2024-12-01 05:29:13 +0000 UTCKinda feel that Shameless stole Emmy Rossum from us
Agiddysea
2024-12-01 05:24:30 +0000 UTC
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