| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: mattyp4 01:18 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Valalala 08:33 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| I wasn't home last night so I only got around to watching it this morning. I liked it. I'm not sure why it's garnering such bad reviews online and on social media. But I think it comes down to one thing: It's a musical. The common television viewer just doesn't seem to like musicals. Most of the (vitriolic) comments I read online had to do with the fact that there were songs. But even some of the critical reviews were a little puzzling to me. Like when Variety called Matthew Broderick's narrator "creepy." I get that some people take umbrage with having a narrator as a storytelling device, but "creepy?" The only thing I hated was that Bebe Rexa song at the very beginning. I think it was a bad move starting the show with that jarring contemporary song. But after that I found the production quite nice. The cast was excellent-- especially Chris Diamantopoulos, Jane Krakowski and Andy Waken (the kid who played Ralphie). I didn't notice too many flubbed lines by Matthew Broderick-- only one. And I didn't mind the (very few) technical glitches. The Variety reviewer complained about them, most notably the camera going out of focus during a pivotal moment in "A Major Award," but honestly, it wasn't that big a deal. I feel like it's just par for the course with these live musicals... especially now that they're getting very technically advanced. I prefer the more intimate soundstage productions (Sound of Music; The Wiz) over the big, splashy Hollywood lot productions (Grease; Hairspray), but I still think the latter musicals are impressive feats. People just love to shit on these things and I still don't really know why, except for the fact that musicals don't sit well with a lot of people. Part of me wishes they would go back to the smaller soundstage productions but I feel like there's no looking back. Grease set the bar high and now they all have to be on huge Hollywood back lots. (Part of me feels like they should just film a movie at that point rather than broadcast a live production.) |
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