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Post by sf on Jul 19, 2018 20:16:50 GMT
On a scale of ten, how blatant is the innuendo in the script? I appear to be taking my mother to see this next week, and I still treasure (by which I mean squirm at) the memory of trying to explain why I barked with laughter at the line about watersports in the first film, so forewarned is forearmed.
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Post by grannyjx6 on Jul 19, 2018 21:14:23 GMT
Well I've just booked to see it next Tuesday as my friend is a big Abba fan and when it came to choose the seats, at the minute we have the cinema to ourselves!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 21:35:27 GMT
On a scale of ten, how blatant is the innuendo in the script? I appear to be taking my mother to see this next week, and I still treasure (by which I mean squirm at) the memory of trying to explain why I barked with laughter at the line about watersports in the first film, so forewarned is forearmed. I don't remember much innuendo at all, but was very surprised by a blatant line from Christine Baranski's character. Something about her getting feelings in her vagina. unless they have cut it since the crew screening. It's not suitable for this film. I originally wrote that it didn't fit, but that was too much innuendo.
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Post by sf on Jul 19, 2018 22:34:37 GMT
On a scale of ten, how blatant is the innuendo in the script? I appear to be taking my mother to see this next week, and I still treasure (by which I mean squirm at) the memory of trying to explain why I barked with laughter at the line about watersports in the first film, so forewarned is forearmed. I don't remember much innuendo at all, but was very surprised by a blatant line from Christine Baranski's character. Something about her getting feelings in her vagina. unless they have cut it since the crew screening. It's not suitable for this film. I originally wrote that it didn't fit, but that was too much innuendo.
Ha! That, actually, won't be an issue if it's still in the film, because I won't have to explain it afterwards. Thank you.
(My mother, herself, has quite the gift for unintentional double entendres. You would think after forty-five years I might have learned not to giggle uncontrollably/choke on my coffee/collapse in fits of laughter when she comes out with gems like "when I want to turn the heat up, I need a knob" - in a car showroom, after discovering that the AC on the car she was looking at was controlled through the touchscreen - but I am my late father's son and my sense of humour is sometimes about thirty-three years younger than I am.)
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Post by alicechallice on Jul 20, 2018 9:35:45 GMT
I don't remember much innuendo at all, but was very surprised by a blatant line from Christine Baranski's character. Something about her getting feelings in her vagina. unless they have cut it since the crew screening. It's not suitable for this film. I originally wrote that it didn't fit, but that was too much innuendo.
Ha! That, actually, won't be an issue if it's still in the film, because I won't have to explain it afterwards. Thank you.
(My mother, herself, has quite the gift for unintentional double entendres. You would think after forty-five years I might have learned not to giggle uncontrollably/choke on my coffee/collapse in fits of laughter when she comes out with gems like "when I want to turn the heat up, I need a knob" - in a car showroom, after discovering that the AC on the car she was looking at was controlled through the touchscreen - but I am my late father's son and my sense of humour is sometimes about thirty-three years younger than I am.)
I was just asked by a chemist's assistant if I'd prefer a spray or something to suck on! I said the latter preferably but it looks like he's quite busy at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2018 10:28:35 GMT
I always think it's amusing that our own generation assumes that we invented all manner of things, and that the previous one must either be ignorant of or have never indulged in anything except under covers in a darkened room...
Years ago now I can remember my sister (aged about 14) telling my mum about a very 'forward' friend and what she'd got up to with her boyfriend: "She gave him a wank, mum. Do you know what that is...?" My mum smiled and said, "Yes, darling" and let her carry on.
I mean, watersports must have been around for donkeys years, mustn't it? Some of our mothers and fathers might have given it a go. Who knows... Who cares...?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 20, 2018 11:01:41 GMT
Ha! That, actually, won't be an issue if it's still in the film, because I won't have to explain it afterwards. Thank you.
(My mother, herself, has quite the gift for unintentional double entendres. You would think after forty-five years I might have learned not to giggle uncontrollably/choke on my coffee/collapse in fits of laughter when she comes out with gems like "when I want to turn the heat up, I need a knob" - in a car showroom, after discovering that the AC on the car she was looking at was controlled through the touchscreen - but I am my late father's son and my sense of humour is sometimes about thirty-three years younger than I am.)
I was just asked by a chemist's assistant if I'd prefer a spray or something to suck on! I said the latter preferably but it looks like he's quite busy at the moment. What a coincidence, I was just in the chemist asking for a deodorant. “Ball or aerosol?” He asked. “Neither, it’s for my armpits” I replied.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 20, 2018 12:24:10 GMT
So. Just got back from this. Pleasantly surprised. Oh, it's crap, just like the first one. But in a way that is very easy to let wash over you between the, admittedly brilliant, songs. Some of the dialogue and comedy business is as cringe worthy as ever, Dominic Cooper's character, such as it is, has as much charisma as a damp dishcloth. Lily James is quite wonderful it has to be said, she really exudes the confidence and exuberance that the young Donna requires. And it was lovely to hear some Abba tunes I'd never head before, I'll be singing Kiss The Teacher all week! Also, singing along to Cher singing Abba songs is the campiest thing I will do this week, possibly ever! It might also be because in my screening, though full, almost nobody sang along (I did and I had a bloody good time doing it). I think a joyous crowd singing along with the tunes helps a lot with the overall impression you get from the film so maybe the lack of that effected it a bit.
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Post by Daytripper on Jul 20, 2018 12:28:54 GMT
On a scale of ten, how blatant is the innuendo in the script? I appear to be taking my mother to see this next week, and I still treasure (by which I mean squirm at) the memory of trying to explain why I barked with laughter at the line about watersports in the first film, so forewarned is forearmed. I don't remember much innuendo at all, but was very surprised by a blatant line from Christine Baranski's character. Something about her getting feelings in her vagina. unless they have cut it since the crew screening. It's not suitable for this film. I originally wrote that it didn't fit, but that was too much innuendo. I saw the film this morning (there were 28 people in). The line IS in the film, and is "be still my beating va****". I was a bit surprised by it too, especially as there were a couple of children in the audience. I enjoyed the film overall, especially as it took me back to my teenage years when I became an ABBA fan and bought a lot of the songs featured in the film (showing my age). I nearly had a tear in my eye in the church scene near the end. The one negative comment I have is that in my humble opinion Dominic Cooper can't act and definitely can't sing.
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2018 12:32:03 GMT
I'm surprised that it only got a PG rating, in the US it's PG-13 which is the equivalent of 12A here.
I've read I Wonder (Departure) isn't in the film but is on the soundtrack so I assume it'll appear as a deleted scenes much The Name of the Game in the first film
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Post by anita on Jul 20, 2018 12:36:48 GMT
Well that was a waste of a morning.
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Post by isabel on Jul 20, 2018 12:57:11 GMT
Seeing it tonight, and I really hope no one sings along !
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Post by poster J on Jul 20, 2018 13:09:41 GMT
It might also be because in my screening, though full, almost nobody sang along (I did and I had a bloody good time doing it). Wow did it not occur to you to be considerate to your fellow audience members? They didn't pay to hear you or anyone else sing along, that's not the purpose of a cinema! If you want to sing along, do so in your own living room, not in public If I'd been in your screening I'd have been telling you to be quiet and getting the ushers involved if you weren't! Have a bit of respect for the people around you!
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 20, 2018 13:16:25 GMT
It might also be because in my screening, though full, almost nobody sang along (I did and I had a bloody good time doing it). Wow did it not occur to you to be considerate to your fellow audience members? They didn't pay to hear you or anyone else sing along, that's not the purpose of a cinema! If you want to sing along, do so in your own living room, not in public If I'd been in your screening I'd have been telling you to be quiet and getting the ushers involved if you weren't! Have a bit of respect for the people around you! That is a fair point and I'm not going to argue with you. All I will say is that my memories of seeing the first one were of a crowd where singing along was almost part of the film itself. It's a musical with Abba songs, it's almost impossible not to sing along! Besides which, the sound was so loud I'm pretty sure it drowned out any singing I was doing (I wasn't absolutely belting to try to be louder, just singing to myself).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2018 13:45:22 GMT
If children don't understand the idea of a beating vagina*, it'll wash over them and be gone entirely by the end of the film. If they do, then it's FAR too late to start worrying about their innocence. *I don't think the word needs to be censored, it's the proper name for a body part possessed by a great many people.
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2018 14:05:54 GMT
If children don't understand the idea of a beating vagina*, it'll wash over them and be gone entirely by the end of the film. If they do, then it's FAR too late to start worrying about their innocence. *I don't think the word needs to be censored, it's the proper name for a body part possessed by a great many people. If wank can be uncensored then vagina should be!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2018 14:33:34 GMT
Loved it.
Better than the first and shows that movie musicals can be cheesy and still be genuine (ahem Greatest Showman).
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Post by sf on Jul 20, 2018 17:27:22 GMT
It's a musical with Abba songs, it's almost impossible not to sing along! Try. Please.
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Post by The Matthew on Jul 20, 2018 18:51:57 GMT
I'm surprised that it only got a PG rating, in the US it's PG-13 which is the equivalent of 12A here. The reality seems to be that because a US "G" rating is taken by the audience to mean "crap for infants" the equivalents are shifted by about one level: many US "PG" films are released as "U" in the UK. In the UK a film can get a "U" rating if it contains brief non-sexual nudity. In the US it would get a "PG" or probably a "PG-13" rating.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 20, 2018 19:02:12 GMT
Wow did it not occur to you to be considerate to your fellow audience members? They didn't pay to hear you or anyone else sing along, that's not the purpose of a cinema! If you want to sing along, do so in your own living room, not in public If I'd been in your screening I'd have been telling you to be quiet and getting the ushers involved if you weren't! Have a bit of respect for the people around you! That is a fair point and I'm not going to argue with you. All I will say is that my memories of seeing the first one were of a crowd where singing along was almost part of the film itself. It's a musical with Abba songs, it's almost impossible not to sing along! Besides which, the sound was so loud I'm pretty sure it drowned out any singing I was doing (I wasn't absolutely belting to try to be louder, just singing to myself). If you did that while I was in the same cinema I’d have you removed. How incredibly disrespectful to anyone else watching it. People who sing along to shows and films think it’s funny. It’s not. It’s incredibly annoying.
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2018 19:07:27 GMT
I'm surprised that it only got a PG rating, in the US it's PG-13 which is the equivalent of 12A here. The reality seems to be that because a US "G" rating is taken by the audience to mean "crap for infants" the equivalents are shifted by about one level: many US "PG" films are released as "U" in the UK. In the UK a film can get a "U" rating if it contains brief non-sexual nudity. In the US it would get a "PG" or probably a "PG-13" rating. The BBFC's main concern is violent whereas as the MPAA's main concern is sex and language. Men in Black 3 in the UK was a PG which was odd because it had one swear word in it whereas it got PG-13 but sometimes the BBFC can give higher ratings, Suicide Squad was a 15 in the UK but a PG-13 in the US because of the violence and a scene where a character's head is blown up, The Mummy with Tom Cruise was also a 15 too.
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Post by sf on Jul 20, 2018 19:46:33 GMT
That is a fair point and I'm not going to argue with you. All I will say is that my memories of seeing the first one were of a crowd where singing along was almost part of the film itself. It's a musical with Abba songs, it's almost impossible not to sing along! Besides which, the sound was so loud I'm pretty sure it drowned out any singing I was doing (I wasn't absolutely belting to try to be louder, just singing to myself). If you did that while I was in the same cinema I’d have you removed. How incredibly disrespectful to anyone else watching it. People who sing along to shows and films think it’s funny. It’s not. It’s incredibly annoying.
Exactly - and yes, I'd have called an usher too. Unless it's specifically advertised as a singalong screening, singing along in the cinema (or the theatre, come to that) is absolutely unacceptable behaviour: boorish, self-absorbed, disrespectful, and spectacularly inconsiderate of everyone else in the auditorium.
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Post by talkingheads on Jul 20, 2018 19:57:48 GMT
If you did that while I was in the same cinema I’d have you removed. How incredibly disrespectful to anyone else watching it. People who sing along to shows and films think it’s funny. It’s not. It’s incredibly annoying.
Exactly - and yes, I'd have called an usher too. Unless it's specifically advertised as a singalong screening, singing along in the cinema (or the theatre, come to that) is absolutely unacceptable behaviour: boorish, self-absorbed, disrespectful, and spectacularly inconsiderate of everyone else in the auditorium.
Wow. OK I'll be honest I didn't expect this much of a reaction. A few things then. One. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my original post. Yes I was singing along. Not anywhere near full volume and making sure I wasn't being too loud, the film was IMAX and thus deafiningly loud, the music was many, many decibels higher than my quiet singing to myself. Second. I heard one or two others singing along, and I cannot believe for one second that I'm the only one who will sing along to this campy ABBA jukebox musical. Third. If anybody had told me to be quiet or that I was being disruptive then of course I would have been. I'm the first to call out people talking at plays or films that aren't musicals. I am truly sorry that I appear to have upset so many here. Not my intention at all.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 20, 2018 20:14:46 GMT
Exactly - and yes, I'd have called an usher too. Unless it's specifically advertised as a singalong screening, singing along in the cinema (or the theatre, come to that) is absolutely unacceptable behaviour: boorish, self-absorbed, disrespectful, and spectacularly inconsiderate of everyone else in the auditorium.
Wow. OK I'll be honest I didn't expect this much of a reaction. A few things then. One. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my original post. Yes I was singing along. Not anywhere near full volume and making sure I wasn't being too loud, the film was IMAX and thus deafiningly loud, the music was many, many decibels higher than my quiet singing to myself. Second. I heard one or two others singing along, and I cannot believe for one second that I'm the only one who will sing along to this campy ABBA jukebox musical. Third. If anybody had told me to be quiet or that I was being disruptive then of course I would have been. I'm the first to call out people talking at plays or films that aren't musicals. I am truly sorry that I appear to have upset so many here. Not my intention at all. You don’t need to apologise.. just never sing in a cinema I’m sat in. Sadly most people would sit there being annoyed by it and have it Ruin there experience, being too worrie to say something. I would simply not stand for it.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jul 20, 2018 20:16:30 GMT
I don't remember much innuendo at all, but was very surprised by a blatant line from Christine Baranski's character. Something about her getting feelings in her vagina. unless they have cut it since the crew screening. It's not suitable for this film. I originally wrote that it didn't fit, but that was too much innuendo. I saw the film this morning (there were 28 people in). The line IS in the film, and is "be still my beating va****". I was a bit surprised by it too, especially as there were a couple of children in the audience. I enjoyed the film overall, especially as it took me back to my teenage years when I became an ABBA fan and bought a lot of the songs featured in the film (showing my age). I nearly had a tear in my eye in the church scene near the end. The one negative comment I have is that in my humble opinion Dominic Cooper can't act and definitely can't sing. Dominic cooper is probably the luckiest person in showbiz (apart from James Corden). He is totally devoid of talent. Plus I know people who have worked with him and he is the most arrogant person they have ever met- and they’ve worked with MUCH bigger stars.
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Post by andrew on Jul 20, 2018 20:27:35 GMT
It's not a personal drag, but it really drives me crazy when people want to sing along in a theatre or cinema (if it's not a specific singalong event)... I mean, don't you actually want to hear the songs you paid to listen to? The voices? The orchestrations? You really love the sound of your own voice THAT much?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2018 20:29:14 GMT
Reports are saying the film is expected to take $44 million in the US on its opening weekend. Impressive considering the overall box office in the US for the first one was $144 million. Thursday night previews in the US took $3.4 million at the box office.
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Post by sf on Jul 20, 2018 20:55:48 GMT
Wow. OK I'll be honest I didn't expect this much of a reaction. A few things then. One. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my original post. Yes I was singing along. Not anywhere near full volume and making sure I wasn't being too loud, If you were singing along AT ALL, you were being too loud. It's a cinema, not your living-room.
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Post by theatreian on Jul 20, 2018 21:20:27 GMT
I frankly cannot believe all these negative comments . This film (and I have not seen it yet) is a musical, a feelgood happy experience. I have been to many theatre musicals where most of the audience seems to be singing. Abba songs are so well known that is it really all that bad if a fan wants to sing along for the odd song or line. Things are getting very bad when we have to deride someone for enjoying themselves. Lighten up.
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2018 21:29:53 GMT
It's not a personal drag, but it really drives me crazy when people want to sing along in a theatre or cinema (if it's not a specific singalong event)... I mean, don't you actually want to hear the songs you paid to listen to? The voices? The orchestrations? You really love the sound of your own voice THAT much? I don't mind people miming to songs because it's not as distracting but singing along is a no-no. It's in Kermode and Mayo's Cinema Code of Conduct at number 6. www.bbc.co.uk/5live/films/code_of_conduct.pdf
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