I lost track of this thread, but that is a great twist. I was thinking of it strictly as a procedural. Your vision is more Saw-like. Not my thing, but totally doable as low budget horror.

Regarding the subsequent notes: again, step 11 is making it plausible.

Hi there, Darth Praxus!

"The Last Airbender" hits video this week. I hope you have this one fast tracked

Ooo, i can't wait to see Metropolis. I still have a soft spot for the Giorgio Moroder version with colour tinting and pop songs.

If you are going with a Fritz Lang film I suggest going with M. It's considered by critics and from his own opinion to be his masterpiece. It is one of the first talking pictures and one of the first to use off screen sound (whistling) to effect. Peter Lorre, a comedic actor at the time, gives a breakthrough performance as a serial killer. The movie explores the ramifications of a child murderer in a German community. The horrendous killings affect the police, forensic scientists, the newspapers, the children, the parents, and even the criminal underworld. It is a masterful film. The Nazi party used the movie to warn against sexual deviancy. Meanwhile it launched Peter Lorre's Hollywood career.

It should still be on Netflix Instant Play.

I love Metropolis, too. In fact it ranks among my favorite films. That would make for an interesting double feature. Since Metropolis has been rereleased with restored footage, that is definitely first choice.

There are posts of Metropolis on YouTube synced to This is Happening by LCD Soundsystem. It's pretty cool. There is another creepy sync to Pink Floyd.

I liked Sweeney Todd. Hm.

I'd have to see the stage show to get a proper gauge, but the songs they kept in the film were fairly terrible, IMO. The film's rendition of "The Worst Pies in London" is nigh unlistenable.

Unless it's supposed to be like that -- I'm convinced that the POPEYE movie, for instance, is a deliberate satire on movie musicals and that's why the songs are inane and unpleasant. But considering that it started as a stage musical I'm assuming that's not the case for SWEENEY.

Actually, the movie's a musical, too. It sounds like you think they cut all the songs. They didn't, just "The BAllad of Sweeney Todd" and "Kiss Me".

hey guys i'm new here but just thought i would throw this out there, I avoided Sweeney Todd like the plague. have loved all other previous incarnations of the story and i'm sure this one would be at least ok, but if i have to watch Burton/Depp yet again hold down and rape something i love, i will hut them down, haha. I like those two guys fine, just not when they are working together.

Btw, you guys need to do stripes!

I want to party with you, cowboy.