It's Priest! Have a Little Priest!

WOW.

Just say Sweeney Todd last night...can anyone say gore? Can anyone say oceans of blood? Can anyone say Johnny-Depp-slashes-people's-throats-is-somehow-morbidly-HOT?

I have a funny feeling Don is going to get a boner when he sees this movie.

It was fucking awesome. It wasn't the stage show, but that was a good thing. They cut about a third of the music, but I was fine with that. Tim Burton really took it and made his own thing. Instead of just taking a stage musical and "putting it on film" he made a great film first and foremost that was a musical based on Sondheim's show. But it was wonderful.

It had a very different flavor and style than the stage show, but I loved every gorey moment. And yes - OCEANS of blood. Seriously. The final image of the movie (I won't ruin it) is like the PERFECT marriage of gorey and heartbreaking all at once. Leave it to Burton to find an image that makes you sad and repulsed all at once.

Depp is a god. He made Todd immortal. That character...wow. It was like, yes, you pitied him and felt sad for his past...but you were nothing but frightened of the person he'd become.

The comic relief was great, too. Specifically Mrs. Lovett's "By the Sea".

All in all....WOOHOO!

I'm going to see this again and again.