Total: 9900 Guests

 

The Michael Crawford Phantom Movie Campaign Guestbook

Total: 100 guests      
Name: pat nazars
Posted on: March 19, 2005 09:57 PM
E-Mail: momnaza1@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: redford,michigan,usa
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments:  
Name: ahmed
Posted on: March 21, 2005 07:10 PM
E-Mail: elshexawy
Homepage Title: bird
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: egypt
Referred By: From a Friend
Comments:  
Name: Matt
Posted on: March 15, 2005 09:19 PM
E-Mail: Daretodream50@yahoo.com
Homepage Title: Angel of Music
Homepage URL: crawford rules
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: From a Friend
Comments: I would also like to wonder if Michael Crawford will ever be in his own movie of, "The Phantom of the Opera", someday.

 
Name: alison milne
Posted on: March 13, 2005 05:46 PM
E-Mail: ali@milne94.fslife.co.uk
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: sctoland
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: dear michal my name is alison milne and i have the phantomof the opera on cd becase i like you playing the phantom . i am one of your fans so hope that you can write to me . my ands is 94 muirfield cresnet dundee dd3 8qa I am going to be 30th on the 14th of may. hope that you get Better soon lots of love from one of your fans alison milne

 
Name: Harrison
Posted on: March 11, 2005 01:31 AM
E-Mail: woolhg@millsaps.edu
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Louisiana
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I love him with all my heart he is the best phantom ever. I would pay hundreds of dollars just to have the copy of the movie with him in it. I seen him on stage 9 times. All better than the next. Phantom lives on!

 
Name: Louise
Posted on: March 9, 2005 07:49 PM
E-Mail: demasi_louise@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Philadelphia, PA
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: ALW really goofed by not casting Michael Crawford for the movie POTO. No wonder the movie received bad reviews. In fact, compared to unbeatable, wonderful Michael, anyone that ALW cast in the role of Phantom wouldn't have made a difference. Michael was born to play that role. It's his. His incredible, angelic voice of his is unmatchable. The movie would have won Academy Awards for everything. Let's hope ALW wises up and releases the stage play on video with MC and Sarah Brightman. Maybe he can recoup some of his losses.

 
Name: Linda
Posted on: March 9, 2005 12:51 PM
E-Mail: lgodfrey@gilavalley.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Arizona
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I was never lucky enough to see Michael Crawford as the Phantom, but I have the cd. Recently I saw the movie and it wasn't the same with out Michael Crawford. I enjoyed the movie, but kept thinking I would hear his voice. Can someone tell me what music is different in the Andrew Lloyd Webber version than in the 1943 version? Would appreciate any answers.

 
Name: Camille
Posted on: March 7, 2005 02:05 PM
E-Mail: light_of_broadway@yahoo.com
Homepage Title: Phantom Phanz
Homepage URL: http://phantomphanz.proboards41.com
Where are you from?: NC
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Michael Crawford needed to play Erik in the Phantom of the Opera. I believe they will need to remake it! MUAHAHA! I have convinced most of my friends not to fall for Gerry too.

 
Name: Elizabeth Anne Nash
Posted on: March 6, 2005 02:44 PM
E-Mail: singingbeth2003@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Manchester, CT, USA
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I am a music Major and a vocalist. I have seen the stage musical 3 times and the movie as well. I own the soundtrack with Michael Crawford and I have to say that no Phantom can live up to him and that amazing voice of his.

 
Name: Hannah White
Posted on: March 5, 2005 03:13 PM
E-Mail: dodgy_donna_lbg@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Doncaster
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I fell in love with Micheal Crawford when I first heard his beautiful voice on a Best Musicals album, and my love has never died. It's so unbelievable that anyone could have a voice as beautiful as that! Every shred of credit he receives is not received undeservedly. I urge you fellow Phans, join me and book to see him in London in April and May, hear our angel sing again!

 
Name: Hannah White
Posted on: March 5, 2005 03:04 PM
E-Mail: dodgy_donna_lbg@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Doncaster
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Why oh why did they cast Gerard Butler as the Phantom? It wold have been good if only the worlds greatest singer had been cast. Update fellow Phans, although he's taken a break, you can see the lovely Michael in The Woman In White in the west end from April!

 
Name: Sara
Posted on: March 5, 2005 10:09 AM
E-Mail: phanatic7825@sbcglobal.net
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: San Deigo
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Micheal, did you see the new movie? You are such a great singer! The one and only original show Phantom!!:-)

 
Name: annie lau
Posted on: March 5, 2005 08:01 AM
E-Mail: annielau0914@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: china
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments:  
Name: Samantha
Posted on: March 3, 2005 08:21 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: philippines
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I love this website! I really like michael crawfords voice too! He can really go high and low! Heheheh! I listen to him everyday singing in my soundtrack phantm of the opera!

 
Name: Fritz Javier
Posted on: March 1, 2005 02:07 AM
E-Mail: erik_destler_07@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Manila, Philippines
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I love Michael Crawford's voice very much. it sad to know that he's not the PHANTOM in the movie. even if i have'nt seen the stage show where in mike's the phantom, i heard his voice and it's so very ANGELIC.

 
Name: Kathleen Farrell
Posted on: February 28, 2005 05:59 PM
E-Mail: Kathleenafarrell8@mchsi.com
Homepage Title: no page
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: N Carolina
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Saw the movie and it was a disapointment. They missed the boat casting the phantom. I saw him in Toranto and we were told that that night was one of the very best, every one was realy on. Would watch him again K Farrell Thank you for Sharing your God given talent.

 
Name: Rainne Apud
Posted on: February 27, 2005 10:35 AM
E-Mail: rainne24apud
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Mandaluyong,Philippines
Referred By: Web Ring
Comments: i'am a #1 fan of michael crawford and all of the phantom i'm so addicted of the phantom of the opera!!!

 
Name: Leo
Posted on: February 27, 2005 02:25 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: LA
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Schlockmeister Shumacher doomed this movie the minute he decided to go for "hot" over talent.

 
Name: Janine
Posted on: February 27, 2005 12:33 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Cincinnati
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I loved the Phantom movie. I love the story and thought the actors did a credible and good job. I will stick with the soundtrack as far as listening music goes though because nobody can beat Michael Crawford's voice. Having never been able to see the play (and wanting to for years), I'm happy to finally have the story in some form. The movie is getting a bad wrap; but I'm sure that absolutely nothing can compare to the theatre experience.

 
Name: Pat
Posted on: February 26, 2005 04:36 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Ca
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Just sitting here thinking about the Oscars. Too bad Phantom isn't up for any of the major awards. Bet if they had cast Crawford or any number of better known actors who can sing it would have been.

 
Name: alicia
Posted on: February 23, 2005 01:07 PM
E-Mail: superally230689@msn.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Glasgow, scotland
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Hiya all ! love phantom of the opera , but i`m 15 and looking to see if the one with michael crawford in it is on vid . could anyone get back to me and let me know if i can get it and where ! thankz

 

 
Name: Jemimah
Posted on: February 20, 2005 12:08 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: London
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I hate to see Michael Crawford not in the phantom movie and I can't beleve that Andrew Lloyd Webber chose Gerard Butler over Michael Crawford,it's so not fare!OH Whitney,I'm an Elijah Wood fan too and I saw him with Peter Jackson making a speech at the London permire of The Two Towers!

 
Name: Whitney
Posted on: February 19, 2005 11:52 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: California
Referred By: From a Friend
Comments: I'm VERY shocked to hear that Michael Crawford is not in the movie and I have seen the movie and it's good but it's missing one thing... MICHAEL CRAWFORD!!!.I am a member of the biggest Michael Crawford fan club in the world and I'v gotten the news that Michael is in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical called The Woman in white that will be playing on Broadway THIS year!and cross your fingers and hope Michael's coming with the rest of the cast!... OH!and by the way,is anyone here an Elijah Wood fan like me!

 
Name: Cathy Tayon
Posted on: February 18, 2005 11:18 AM
E-Mail: tolkiensgirl09@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments:  
Name: Justinian Y. Filoteo
Posted on: February 18, 2005 05:58 AM
E-Mail: jhezian@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Philippines
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: This movie had so much potential.

 
Name:
S.M.G.L
February 17, 2005 02:27 PM
E-Mail: sglrml@btopenworld.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: England
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: They've also been talking about it over here! On Tuesday when I was just flicking through the channels, I got to Channel 3 and I saw ALW being interviewed on 'This Morning' talking about the making of a movie on 'Sunset Boulevard'. If he really is thinking about the idea let's hope he doesn't blow it like he did for 'Phantom'.

 
Name:
Justinian Y. Filoteo
February 18, 2005 05:58 AM
E-Mail: jhezian@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Philippines
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: This movie had so much potential.

 
Name:
marilena
February 17, 2005 09:37 AM
E-Mail: mqcarneiro.smf@pcrj.rj.gov.br
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Brasil
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I'd like to know news about the Phantom. I've been attended the musical for 7 times

 
Name:
Clarisse
February 17, 2005 02:34 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Sorry if the following is more than a week late but USA Today ran an article on Monday, February 7, 2005, reporting this year's Screen Actors Guild awards. The article briefly mentioned the Phantom movie:

"Meanwhile, it seems the disappointing box-office returns for Phantom of the Opera haven't stopped Andrew Lloyd Webber from moviemaking. After her win [Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries] for the TV movie The Lion in Winter, Glenn Close revealed she recently received a call from Sir Andrew about bringing her Sunset Boulevard character, Norma Desmond, to the big screen. She 'very much' wants the gig."

If the musical Sunset Boulevard finally gets its big screen due, I hope Close will reprise her role on-screen. Andrew better not make the same mistake he did with the POTO movie.

 
Name:
Daphne
February 16, 2005 09:32 PM
E-Mail: freak_of_nature666_170@hotmail
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Canada
Referred By: From a Friend
Comments: Wow, I have loved Phantom of the Opera since I was 2!(saw the play in Toronto..twice!) I can't remember much of it but I DO remember I loved it, and have lots Phantom of the Opera everince!about a month or two ago I got my friend into it, and now she is a bigger Phantom Phan than me!!!and Michael Crawford is THE BEST OF THE BEST!!!!

 
Name:
Carolyn Cardinal
February 13, 2005 11:44 PM
E-Mail: i.heart.jam@gmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Grande friggin Prairie
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I dont agree with the actors they chose for chrisine and the phantom. but really only them. sure gerard butlers sexy, but hes not supposed to be. Micheal crawford and sarah brightman are the only actors who can play these roles. i did however, like their choices for the Firmin and André and Carlotta :P they were great. I heart minnie driver.

 
Name:
anniefarmakides
February 13, 2005 01:24 PM
E-Mail: anniefarmakides@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: usa,live in Greece
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Having seen both versions of the phantom of the opera, I have to admit that Michael Crawford is the Phantom of the Opera. I wish I could get a VHS or DVD or both of that performance. I have searched everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find anything.Any help is welcome.

 
Name:
Suse
February 11, 2005 01:34 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Portland
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Movie looked great. Too bad the acting and singing wasn't as good. What were they thinking? The phantom should have been getting raves not pans. No wonder the movie is getting bad reviews and tanking at the boxoffice. Any fan of the show could have told them the key is the phantom.

 
Name:
Maria Eugenia Dupuy
February 11, 2005 09:22 AM
E-Mail: yoaca11@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Uruguay
Referred By: Newsgroup
Comments: I think this page is wonderfull, so interesting. I havn't see any film of Michael Crawford, but I love the story about "The Phontom of the Opera", because of I looked for some information about it.

 
Name:
Colette
February 8, 2005 10:36 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Long Island, New York
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I think that Micheal Crawford is a fantastic actor. He knows how to put a smile on someones face and I admire that. He is my 2nd favorite actor and my first is Emmy Rossom. They both inspire me more than anything in the world, besides my brother in the Navy. I'd do almost anything to meet Micheal Crawford and Emmy Rossom.

 
Name:
Cheron
February 7, 2005 11:22 AM
E-Mail: kcollis@global.co.za
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: South Africa
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I have always been a fan of Theatrical Productions,broadway any stage production,with singing,dancing & emotion!MIchael Crawford has the most amazing voice ever..even if you are listening to him on the radio and you can't see him,you can actually feel the emotion in his voice!HE is wonderful and a fan to many many people around the world!

 
Name:
Summer Morrow
February 7, 2005 12:48 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Texas
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments:  
Name:
angeles balanso
February 6, 2005 07:23 AM
E-Mail: angelesbp@mibbva.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: SPAIN
Referred By: Web Ring
Comments:  
Name:
Diane
February 5, 2005 11:13 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: NC
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I just returned from Asheville after watching Phantom of the Opera with my friend, Robin. Let me confess that I knew nothing about the play or movie, allbeit I soon discovered Robin was a talking history book.

I left the theatre with mixed emotions and found myself trying to figure out where (and what) the missing pieces were. With no background, I was confused and, at times, saw the Phantom as a villin. Fortunately, Robin was there to rescue me from my confusion and fluently recited the story (and lots of history) on our ride home.

I had the pleasure of listening to the original cast recording as we rode. Michael Crawford's voice was mesmerizing and by far would have been the better choice. Bottom line...I see the movie as a potentially earth-shaking love story...by not this version. My interest has truly been peaked. I will now have to read the book, and hopefully fill the void left by the movie.

 
Name:
Angela
February 5, 2005 02:05 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: to SIR Lloyd Webber and Sh*tmaker:

i hope you too are VERY pleased w/ yourselves.

thank you so very much for killing a dream

 
Name:
S.M.G.L
February 5, 2005 05:58 AM
E-Mail: sglrml@btopenworld.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: England
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Did you hear the news? Michael Crawford's got the flu and won't be recovered till April! Pray for him won't you all?

 
Name:
Megan
February 5, 2005 02:27 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Hope this flop of a movie doesn't end the comeback for musicals. At least the people making Rent and The Producers are smart enough to use the original casts. Too bad Andrew Lloyd Webber and that hack Shumaker didn't pay attention to the fans.

 
Name:
sammy
February 4, 2005 02:48 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: england, kent
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: hey hey how kool is dis i love this musical its my most fav uve inspired me michael thank you and andrew lloyd webber and cameron mackintosh as well and the fantastic person who decidided to also make a movie so i cn atch any time i wont lke cats thanks love sammy xxxxxxx

 
Name:
Jace
February 3, 2005 12:35 PM
E-Mail: SexySumpter1989@comcast.net
Homepage Title: The Ultimate Phantom
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Colorado
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I love the Phantom and if I where Christine then I would have chosen the Phantom not Rauol. Michael Crawford has an amazing vocie and a spooky laugh. I love the songs The Phantom of the Opera, Music of the Night, and The Point of No Return. I listen to the original version everyday. -Always and 4ever, phantombride1991

 
Name:
marjan de groot
February 2, 2005 09:48 AM
E-Mail: marjan.degroot@planet.nl
Homepage Title: PhantomMoviePage
Homepage URL: phantom/guestbook
Where are you from?: holland
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I think Michael is a great actor and a great musicalartist,

 
Name:
POTO fan
February 2, 2005 02:29 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: This movie had so much potential. Butler just ruined it.

 
Name:
Jill
February 1, 2005 02:13 PM
E-Mail: jilly_bean233@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Duncan, B.C., Canada
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Re: I agree with the previous comments, Gerard Butler makes a mockery of the Phantom. He has no singing voice, charisma or acting talent! I don't even think he is that great looking - I don't see the big deal!

Try saying that on a Non-Michael Crawford site.. I did, and got bashed. Someone didnt even believe me that I saw MC!

 
Name:
Becka
January 31, 2005 03:48 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Michael Crawford has more talent in his pinky finger that Gerard Butler has in his whole body!!!

 
Name:
Becka
January 31, 2005 03:46 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I agree with the previous comments, Gerard Butler makes a mockery of the Phantom. He has no singing voice, charisma or acting talent! I don't even think he is that great looking - I don't see the big deal!

 
Name:
pernille
January 31, 2005 08:45 AM
E-Mail: poiestad@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: norge
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: jeg er fra norge.... jeg elsker phantom of the opera

 
Name:
pernille
January 31, 2005 02:20 AM
E-Mail: poiestad@hotmail.com
Homepage Title: we love the movie
Homepage URL: we love the movie
Where are you from?: norway
Referred By: E-Mail
Comments: hey. I am from norway and I'm just 12 years old. I love the Phantom of the opera. I have seen it 3 times and I will never gonna be bored. Christine Daae or Emmy Russum are just amazing. I cry when I hear she sings. Just on the cd. I hope I'm not the only one on my age which like Phantom of the opera.I just LOVE it.

 
Name:
Natalie
January 30, 2005 03:51 AM
E-Mail: TheBeatles_girl@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Colorado, USA
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I just watched the movie. To me, it's not the same. I think Michael Crawfords voice is sooo much amazing than Gerard Butler. It would of been nice to have Michael as the Phantom.

 
Name:
Jill
January 29, 2005 12:28 AM
E-Mail: jilly_bean233@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Duncan, B.C., Canada
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I happened to see Micheal Crawford as the Phantom when I was 5 or 6 in around.. 1996? I saw him in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and I don't remember much of the show, except that in the previous years I had memorised (almost) the entire score to the play from a tape from the original 1986 cast. According to my Mom, Micheal was amazing, and I sat there and sang along to the whole play (at the age of 6!)

I read some reviews of the film, and thy said that if you liked the play, you would like the movie. So hopefully I do. But I wish they could have brought in the original cast, that would have been awesome.

From a hardcore Phantom fan since the age of 3, Ciao Jill (now age 15)

 
Name:
Sarah
January 28, 2005 09:56 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: California
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: No one could ever fill Michael Crawfords shoes! Ever!!! He has an awesome voice!!!!!!

 
Name:
Steven Case
January 28, 2005 07:42 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Peterborough
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Micheal Crawford rules! Some day I will be the Phantom, following in Micheal's footsteps. Some day it will be me to compose the music of the night, it will be me to make the chandelier drop, and it will be me who haunts you till you're dead.

"...let your spirit start to soar..."

Steven Case Phantom Fan and Magician

 
Name:
Sophie
January 28, 2005 07:26 PM
E-Mail: singerchic179@sbcglobal.net
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: U.S.A
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I am not old enough to have seen Michael as the Phantom, but I have the original sountrack, and his voice is amazing. I would have liked to see him in the movie.

 
Name:
Noel
January 27, 2005 08:13 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Clarisse Minie driver isnt lip synched in the movie just on the soundtrack ! thnx Noel

Comment from TMCPMC:

Minnie Driver IS dubbed in both the soundtrack and the movie by Margaret Preece who played the role on stage. The only thing she sings live is the new song over the credits.

 
Name:
hector lamadrid
January 27, 2005 01:07 PM
E-Mail: hectorlamadrid@yahoo.com.mx
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: mexico
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: i agree, michael crawford the best

 
Name:
Albert Streckfus
January 26, 2005 09:56 PM
E-Mail: astreckf@bcpl.net
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Baltimore, Maryland
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I loved the movie and only hope to have the opportunity to meet Michael Crawford one day and tell him how great he is and will always keep THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT THE TOP OF MY LIST AS THE GREATEST ONE OF ALL TIMES. THANKS AGAIN FOR LETTING US KNOW SUCH A GREAT ACTOR LIKE YOURSELF

 
Name:
Tiffany C
January 27, 2005 12:26 AM
E-Mail: uve_been_punjabbed@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Australia
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I saw the movie-

-and I am both too lazy and distressed to share my thoughts on it. To do so would be to spend the next five hours searching endlessly through a thesaurus for words to describe Gerard Butler adequately and, consequentally, spend the rest of the afternoon in mourning after my exhausted fingers have fallen off in protest. Thus, I will put my time, effort and fingers to better use. *sets off to remove Butler, Lloyd Webber and Schumacher from the face of the earth... and perhaps marry Michael Crawford along the way too*

 
Name:
Clarisse
January 26, 2005 02:03 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: CA
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I haven't seen the movie yet but I have heard snippets of the movie soundtrack. Music is absolutely key (no pun intended) in a musical, right? Upon hearing the samples of the soundtrack, I had these thoughts:

Listening to Emmy and Gerald is like when Jed Leland had to put up with Mrs. Susan Kane's opera debut in "Citizen Kane." I would rather tear up my program into ribbons than listen to these "singers" who actually can't sing at all. Emmy's vocals are not convincing enough to make her the toast of Paris. Even worse, Gerald is absolutely miscast as the Phantom. He was cast due to his good looks rather than his singing ability, which he clearly lacks for this paticular role. If memory serves, the Phantom is old and born-deformed and has to use only his voice and body language to communicate. Given that, don't try to claim Michael Crawford is too old for the role. Said claim has already been proven wrong and yet, some people (especially Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher) still don't get it.

While on the subject of singers, why hire someone who can't sing at all? I couldn't believe that Minnie Driver was cast as Carlotta and her vocals had been dubbed by Margaret Preece. The thought of seeing Driver lip-synch brings to mind Kathy Selden singing the vocals for screechy-voiced Lina Lamont in "Singin' in the Rain." I'm compelled to pull up the curtain to reveal the true singer behind the image who can't sing to save a life.

Why am I making judgements on a movie I haven't seen yet? I first got into Phantom by the original London cast recording alone. I wouldn't see the show until three years later. But the recording alone was what drew me to the show in the first place. When I did see the musical on stage in San Francisco, I enjoyed it but I had wished I had seen Michael as the Phantom. The closest I ever got to see Michael was in concert (also in San Francisco), which heightened my reasons for wanting him in the movie.

Having said that, seeing the movie would not make it better. The visuals can be made to be spectacular but the music is what truly makes or breaks the musical. Frankly, the visuals in this movie are incredibly tacky and cheap, with too much emphasis on blatant sexuality, which is in violation of the story's core meaning: beyond appearances lies the true heart of a person.

Here's another question. Make that several questions: why did Lloyd Webber and Schumacher miscast and ruin the integrity of the stage show? Why did they have total disrespect for the phans who have waited for this movie for years? Remember, Schumacher remarked that the Michael fans may not like it but should stay home then. Why did they not take the opportunity to cast Michael as they should have? Why Lloyd Webber and Schumacher did this is (as Robert Stack used to say) "an unsolved mystery." One thing is for certain: it took Lloyd Webber 15 years to bring one of the most successful musicals on screen. And 2 1/2 hours for Lloyd Webber and Schumacher to screw it up.

Lloyd Webber and Schumacher, you promised the movie will be a true adaptation of the stage musical but in the end, you both lied. And it is your lies and deceit that resulted in Michael's performance being lost forever.

 
Name:
Maggie Birge
January 25, 2005 03:10 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Kentucky
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: So the Oscar nominations are out and there are no major ones for the movie of The Phantom of the Opera. Well, well. Some surprise. What could have been a great and glorious movie version of the most successful stage show in history became instead a piece of schlock. A combination of a flawed vision of where the story should go AND a completely incompetent actor/singer in the lead role made the movie a shambles instead of the masterpiece it might have been. What might have been. That phrase will haunt true Phantom lovers forever. This snub by the Oscars, plus weak box office figures, should tell Andrew Lloyd Webber once and for all what this campaign tried to tell him for years before he made his fateful decisions. Give us, the phans, the movie we want or you will suffer the consequences. But some people never learn.

Maggie

 
Name:
Yvonne Scicluna
January 24, 2005 02:50 AM
E-Mail: yvonnescic@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Malta
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Unfortunately I am one of the thousands, if not millions, who would have loved to see the sage production of the Phantom with Michael Crawford as the Phantom. But for me it would have cost me an arm and a leg to travel all the way to USA, find lodging and try to get the ticket at the same time. For me it was just a dream which will remain a dream. I only managed to see a video version of one of his concerts where he performed 3 pieces form the Phantom. That is whene I realised how unlucky I have been not to be able to see him on stage. Is there any way we, the unfortunate ones, could one day see Michael as the Phantom on DVD. Was there ever any recording of his stage performance that might one day be released as a DVD? It would be glorious for us all to have. It would take the world by storm. MICHAEL is the ONLY PHANTOM.

 
Name:
Sam
January 23, 2005 03:14 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I haven't seen it with Michael Crawford sadly. But I heard the origainal songs and I don't know anyone who would be more perfect for the part of the Phantom... I really want to see it!!!

 
Name:
Melissa
January 22, 2005 06:25 AM
E-Mail: mp_shewolf@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: US
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I saw Michael Crawford in Phantom when it opened in LA, I consider myself very lucky. His performance was unparalleled. I saw Phantom again in Chicago in 98, I did not like the Phantom at that production, he missed out on the sensuality Crawford brings to the piece. I really wanted to like the movie, it was just sad and flat with a complete loss of everything that made the stage production. Bad choices all around in casting, director and production staff. I wish more people could have seen what the only phantom did with the role.

 
Name:
linda
January 21, 2005 10:22 AM
E-Mail: lookwhoshere7
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: calif
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh what can anyone say you are the BEST Michael Crawford!!!! You do not just play the Phanthom You are the only Phanthom EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Name:
Megan
January 21, 2005 02:04 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Dearest Michael crawford, Ever since I have heard and seen the phantom of the opera, I have had a deep connection with the phantom. I love him and my heart goes out to him, a scorned lover of music and human socity.

 
Name:
Kelly Mulvoy
January 19, 2005 01:50 AM
E-Mail: maxermachick@hotmail.com
Homepage Title: yahoo! movies
Homepage URL: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=180
Where are you from?: Aurora, IL USA
Referred By: Newsgroup
Comments: I am utterly shocked that Michael Crawford Was not casted for the Phantom! What is wrong with them! I would take it as an insult! I truely believe that he is the perfect Phantom and should be the only Phantom! I think he is a wonderful person!

I did See the movie. I liked it very much, but I would have rather have seen it with Michael and Sarah as the the Phantom and as Christine!

Don't dwell over the movie though! Michael is still the best in the business, no doubt!!

 
Name:
Marty
January 18, 2005 12:05 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: New York
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: The movie is stunning visually but dragged down by a poor phantom. Butler can't sing as well as the worst phantom I've seen. With the right actor this movie would have been a shoo-in for best picture. Butler and Shumacher's insistence on a "hot" phantom took all the heart out of the picture. This is a dumbed down version aimed at silly teenagers and women who think Harlequin romances are great literature.

 
Name:
Eric French
January 18, 2005 04:22 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Athens, Ohio
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I just read on Yahoo! News @ Yahoo.com that Andrew & his partners are considering a bid to buy The Really Useful Group. This would include all rights to POTO, including movie & DVD rights.

Maybe there's hope, after all.

Maybe.

 
Name:
Dirk
January 17, 2005 03:13 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: yeah the face was disney scary :P to quote a musical fan site but still that was the only thing i found missing in the film : the face under the mask was really weird just a weird rash yes

 
Name:
Di
January 17, 2005 01:13 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I just had to congratulate Mick Jagger on his Golden Globe win last night. I am DELIGHTED. Not only is he a legend in music but he has GREAT taste. Found his guestbook entry from 1999 this morning and thought I would repost it. This was a timeframe when many musicians were signing in while the campaign was in full gear. :) I hope he gets the Oscar as well, and for the record, I do not think much of Andrew's song submission for the category, "Learn to be Lonely." In my humble opinion it borders on cheesy, is substandard to the rest of the music from Phantom, and the words have almost NOTHING to do with the story that I can tell.

Ahem.

(But hey... the vent felt good.) ;)

So for fun here is Mr. Jagger's post, enjoy. :)

Name: M. Jagger

Website: Referred by: From a Friend

From: Uk/Usa Time: 1999-09-12 09:20:47

Comments: Really bummered out..........Michael Crawford's best work is yet to be heard on Dolby Surround sound.......if that's the movie....so be it? No American/Banderassion/Trav-revolting should even be considered.....whatever their nationality. O'course, if you need a cheap actor to play the part.......I can certainly work without a mask.....MJ

 

 
Name:
Jennie O
January 16, 2005 10:51 PM
E-Mail: JennieOooo@gmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Toledo
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: It just wasn't the same, I severly disliked what he did with the phantom, I miss micheal

 
Name:
Joe
January 16, 2005 02:29 PM
E-Mail: lnharper1@juno.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Wyoming
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: well, i first got interested in the Phantom of the opera just a few days ago. our class in music is using the play scripts and listening to a cd. i think that it is wonderful. i love the way that Crawford sings. i am so excited about the upcoming film.

 
Name:
Signe Lausen
January 16, 2005 11:13 AM
E-Mail: fantatiker@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Denmark
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I actually found the film good- enough... It could have been much worse, it is Hollywood after all... There was just one thing that really- no two things!! Two thnigs that almost pissed me off!! 1- Gerald Butler and 2- his makeup! What was up with that?!! THAT was not a horrible and disfigured face, that was a rash!! It was NOT something you are put in a cage and shown like an animal for, he was just a little red around the right eye... It's a movie, for Eriks sake, it should've been something you would have gone home and had nightmares about!! Gerald- where's the passion?!! This is not just a thing you sing and get paid for, you have to make the audience feel the very dispair and madness the Phantom feels!! Untamed rage, fury!! This is a mad man with a temper like nothing else! We wanna see the very Flames of Hell in your eyes!!!! "All the sadness of the world"!! ........Okay, maybe a little exaggerated, but you get the point, right? It SO needed more passion!

From a little Dansish girl... :P And the biggerst Phan in the kingdom!!

 
Name:
stacie
January 16, 2005 10:12 AM
E-Mail: stacie_punk@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: malta
Referred By: E-Mail
Comments: hi micheal, i am a great fan of you i like the way you act when i saw the film the phantom of the opera i cry how nice it was. i like acting as well and when i grow up i would like to act like you. you are great. bye love stacie form malta

 
Name:
Alexis Segura
January 15, 2005 11:55 PM
E-Mail: Lexis121090@aol.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Marion, In
Referred By: From a Friend
Comments: MICHAEL CRAWFORD ROCKS AND A PHANTOM MOVIE WITHOUT HIM IS NOT A PHANTOM MOVIE.

 
Name:
Chelsea
January 15, 2005 07:19 PM
E-Mail: ommsgal@cs.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Birmingham
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments:  
Name:
Paul Mattson
January 15, 2005 07:03 PM
E-Mail: psmattson@juno.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: California
Referred By: From a Friend
Comments: I have never seen the stage version of this play, but my wife put me on to the Michael Crawford version of the soundtrack a while back, and I was riveted--it is one of the greatest performances in music-theatre history. So I was full of hope when we went to see the film three days ago. But then...

The film is beautiful to look at, and witty from time to time--sometimes unintentionally--but the missing element is the Phantom of the Opera.

This film is not titled "Christine Daae of the Opera," but it should have been, because no "Phantom" ever appears on the screen, and a kazoo, rather than a phantom, escapes from the theatre speakers. To hear "The Music of the Night" and find oneself hoping it will soon be OVER is the ultimate measure of the insult presented to the paying audience.

The real version of the musical is playing in the background as I write, and the sense is inescapable that Michael Crawford is somehow channeling a voice from Beyond, while Gerard Butler channeled only--for two grueling hours--some bore from Hell.

This is the most astonishing and egregious instance of miscasting I can remember. Ever. The magnitude of this is hinted in the fact that the most appealing and absorbing characters in the film were Raoul and Meg, mere stage furnishings in the original version.

Miscasting may now become an art unto itself: why not take a fresh look at "Gandhi," bringing in, say, Donald Trump as the lead, to reach a whole new demographic? Or an update of "The Godfather" with the broader appeal of Donnie Osmond atop the marquee? Or a re-recording of that now too-familiar "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," incorporating the more dynamic sound of the Archies? After all, as cartoons, they will never grow old!

So it goes. While the boat was sliding through the half-conscious scenario of the phantom's lake, I shut my ears and dimly recollected the mental melody of "The Pirate's Life For Me." When Butler strode manfully ashore in his mysterious sanctuary of music and turned to face the bewildered Christine, I heard a small voice in my skull mutter "Yeah, but where's Robin?" The Phantom of the Batcave revealed at last.

Apparently, someone thought Crawford was "too old" to play the Phantom in this film--at least that's the rumor. I get the impression, however, that because of his astonishing voice, women still find Crawford sexier in his sixties than they do Butler in his twenties or whatever he is. Especially when Butler attempts to sing, but manages instead to growl his way angrily around in search of the note he never seems actually to find.

So it goes. The film is still nice to look at--most of it--except for the moments Butler presents himself in his overbearing way--generating schism and unintended comedy--and provokes one to consider the mercenary nature of Hollywood, and to wonder whether it might have paid off better for the producers if they had snared Orlando Bloom to portray the Phantom, and then just dubbed in the voice of William Hung. Or maybe Elmer Fudd.

 
Name:
Paul & Kathleen M
January 15, 2005 05:35 PM
E-Mail: keida84@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Sunny? California
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: This film should be renamed "The Phantom of the Civic Light Opera" or as my husband says, "The Phantom of Some Other Opera". He says it is a great film to look at as long as you have control of the mute button.

ALW and Schumacher have effectively mutilated the memory of Michael Crawford's Phantom.

Emmy Rossum was a good Christine, but she could have been superior if she had something to play off of. Gerard Butler acting was poor but his singing was inexcusable!

Michael Crawford was the only choice for the film. The phantom is suppose to be old and unattractive (read the book), but his gift is his seductive voice (remember, he coaches her from the shadows). No one embodies this role but the voice & talent of Michael Crawford. Others have played this role, but only he became it.

The film is a sad, pathetic attempt at recreating a theatrical masterpiece. When the video comes out watch it with the sound off and Michael Crawford's soundtrack on.

Tsk Tsk Tsk to JS & ALW :-(

 

 
Name:
Michael Nguyen
January 15, 2005 03:43 AM
E-Mail: michael_90703@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: CA USA
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Oops! I pressed the "submit" button by mistake.

By the way, I saw the Phantom of The Opera play 10 years ago and happened to saw the movie last week. I was so disappointed with the production. I walked out the movie.

Mr. Andew Lloyd Webber, you blew it.

 
Name:
Michael Nguyen
January 15, 2005 03:26 AM
E-Mail: michael_90703@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Orange County, CA. USA
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Mr. Michael Crawford made the Phantom of The Opera famous.

 
Name:
Hassie
January 14, 2005 11:25 PM
E-Mail: rbetz11824@aol.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: One more comment about Michael Crawford being "too old" according to Schumacher. Michael Crawford's Phantom is timeless -- too old doesn't exist. His Phantom is magic - tragic, pure and beautiful. His Music of the Night takes your breath away.

I watched the movie tonight. Michael Crawford used his hands so expressively as he sang. Butler had no idea how to sing that song or project the depth and despair of tormented love that the role demands. It was pathetic miscasting throughout the film.

 

 
Name:
Hassie
January 14, 2005 11:14 PM
E-Mail: rbetz11824@aol.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: NY/OK
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I fell in love with the music of the Phantom and Michael Crawford's voice. Michael Crawford's Phantom broke my heart. This was a love story. Michael Crawford's voice and gestures brought that story to life and grabbed your heart. The Phantom was a little crazy, but his love was so pure and beautiful. Crawford conveyed every emotion with so much beauty and grace.

None of this happened in the movie. The singers couldn't deliver the music and the beauty of the sets and costumes couldn't compensate for the musical void. I felt nothing for Butler's Phantom.

I was so sorry to hear that Michael Crawford wasn't in this movie. He is the Phantom of the Opera. He is the music of the night... He always will be.

 
Name:
Dirk
January 14, 2005 03:45 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: sorry for the multi posting but i now know for a fact the show was taped because wednesday night here in holland they where showng the making of and Joel Schumacher said that he was gonna do it 11 years ago with Mc and sarah brightman. and then they showed music of the night from various camera points very stunning and it had to be of a tape it was different than the one that is on this website or the bob hope special

 
Name:
Dirk
January 14, 2005 03:41 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: hello mdaae aka venice yeah he is isnt he but he Had Opera experience they should release a dvd with multiple version of phantom on stage dutch cast german cast and M c version :D

 
Name:
Dirk
January 14, 2005 03:35 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Wow i Discovered the video section sweet now i have a much better opinion michaels handwork ( i love it ) but Butler now next to Chaney the best movie phantom in my eyes. but still i like both the movie and the play and i hope and this is a great Idea !!!! that they put the theatre version on the movie dvd :) for comparissing they can do that they also put the original alien en the directors cut on 1 disk so maybe an idea to give to r u g :P

Dirk

 
Name:
Crystal Hubbard
January 14, 2005 10:26 AM
E-Mail: chubbard@cableone.net
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Arizona
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: I was just a little girl when I first saw the "phantom of the opera"...and who else was in it...yes, Michael, and I fell in love with the story, the music and his voice. Even though I know that there are other "phantom" movies and stories out there, the only one that will ever be in my heart is the original one the i fell in love with.

 
Name:
Donna Gibbish
January 13, 2005 05:28 PM
E-Mail: Tcabinet@cheqnet.net
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Hayward, WI
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments:  
Name:
Stef
January 13, 2005 04:14 PM
E-Mail: StefFLP145@aol.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: PA, USA
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I just heard sound clips from the movie soundtrack for the first time on Amazon and...Good God! Butler sounds awful...Sounds like he's holding his nose while he's singing. Schumacher and ALW made a HUGE mistake in casting him...Ugh...

Stef

 
Name:
Marianne
January 13, 2005 11:11 AM
E-Mail: lemonpie7000@yahoo.es
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Hello to everyone, first of all, i love Michael Crawford with all my heart, because his voice moves me and make me feel free. I just wanna know, if it is any posibility, that with the effort of all the Phantom?s lovers, we could get an original dvd of whole play of the Phantom, obviusly with the performance of our star, can that be possible??????

 
Name:
Hélène
January 12, 2005 08:23 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Florida
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I have seen the Phantom at least twice on stage; I own the original C/D with Michael Crawford and Sara Brightman. I had expected that the movie was the original play. Patrick Wilson is performing in Tampa the Phantom but I have never heard him sing. He is the son of one of our TV news reporter. Although the movie was not to my expectations, I still enjoyed the music and I played my c/d's when I came home to hear what I saw on stage before. I listen to this website just to hear one of the excerpts of this famous music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. I sure wish one day a DVD with Michael Crawford, etc... would be produced - it would certainly sell like hot cakes. Thanks

 
Name:
joyce cebular
January 12, 2005 11:18 PM
E-Mail: jhcebular@webtv.net
Homepage Title:
Homepage URL:
Where are you from?: Clearfield, Pa.
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Hello All: I want to say the Most beautiful music is from the "orginal" Phantom, Michael Crawford, His voice is magic,as was his protrayal of Erik, Michaels performance pulled all emotions from you, made you Feel his plight, gave the performance you only see Once in a Lifetime, with out a doubt. The Movie is a fiasco, and a disgrace, to be called a movie, "The Music Of the Night" is over... Oh, what could've been, an should've been for all the world to have and see. Mr. Webber, and Mr. Schumcher ruined a beautiful classical masterpiece of literature, and a Beautiful, classic masterpiece of theatre history... Joyce

 
Name:
Charley
January 12, 2005 02:10 PM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: To the makers of this farce, to quote Judge Judy-----DON'T PISS ON OUR LEGS AND TRY TO TELL US IT'S RAINING. WE'RE SMARTER THAN THAT.

This picture could have been great. YOU BLEW IT.

 
Name:
William Boldt
January 12, 2005 12:42 PM
E-Mail: williamboldt@yahoo.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Kansas City
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: The film, from a cinematic point of view, was fairly pitiful. Forget the characters, the acting, the bad music, and look at just the film alone, and you can see that this is a ghost of what Phantom could have been. Schumacher almost seems to have crafted this movie to create a disconnect between the viewer and the characters. The only thing that holds it together is Webbers original score played by the 110 piece orchestra.

 
Name:
Jack Yan
January 12, 2005 11:54 AM
E-Mail:  
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?:  
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Dear Campaign Site team:

I have been out of the loop for about a year, working on launching a national magazine down here in New Zealand, and have limited my moviegoing to when sitting on flights on jets. While driving in downtown Auckland, I spied a billboard for an upcoming Phantom of the Opera movie. I asked my colleagues, 'Is Michael Crawford in it?' and was told, 'I don't think so.' To not have Mr Crawford in the role seems to be a broken promise—I thought it was a done deal, even if my source was a radio interview with him from over 15 years ago. Now to learn that it stars some chap chosen because he is handsome (?!?!) and is helmed by some other chap who killed the Batman series—let's just say that I'll be giving this one a very wide miss. I still can't overcome the shock at how the producers missed the entire principle of the emotionally fragile Phantom. Even if Mr Crawford is 'too old' as supporters of Mr Butler suggest, there must have been many others who could fill the role. And I note from your site, and from Google, that reviewers—both "snobby" and more regular folks—that a lot of people share your opinion. I would like to thank you for a site that at least allows us to consider how "it could have been". You guys are true Phans.

Closing thought: I can draw, but I sure ain't Picasso.

Sincerely,

Jack Yan, LL B, BCA (Hons.), MCA CEO, Jack Yan & Associates

 

 
Name:
Averil
January 12, 2005 07:47 AM
E-Mail: rivanknight@hotmail.com
Homepage Title: -
Homepage URL: -
Where are you from?: Singapore
Referred By: Search Engine
Comments: Thank you so much for putting up the video clips.. MC's version of O Holy Night has got to be the best I ever heard. I watched POTO 9 years ago when the cast came but it wasn't the original of course. But I went to buy the original soundtrack and MC's Phantom blew me away. I was and still am reluctant to watch the movie...

Please please, is there ANY way I can keep a copy of the .rm file? Since the only way I can listen to him is from the web.. Do appreciate it!

 
Name:
Linda MCDermott
January 11, 2005 10:08 PM
E-Mail: Lovelever@AOL.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Pennsylvania
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Gerald Butler is a model phantom,and the definition of a model is a small imitation of the real thing.

 
Name:
Chris
January 11, 2005 05:00 PM
E-Mail: chriswinnwork4me@hotmail.co.uk
Homepage Title: MSN
Homepage URL: MSN
Where are you from?: stevenage
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: Michael Crawford you are are the best and i went to see your concert live at Her Majestey's theatre and i though it was brilliant and how the actors did the phantom of the opera.

well done from chris

 
Name:
megan
January 11, 2005 10:28 AM
E-Mail: rebel50@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:  
Homepage URL:  
Where are you from?: Jonesville, MI
Referred By: Just Surfed On In
Comments: I haven't seen the movie yet, but after reading everyones reviews of the movie Im to afraid to see it for fear of dissapointment. I love POTO and I first saw it in London at Her Majesty's Theatre with John owen-jones as the Phantom. Is Gerald Butler really that bad? As soon as I see it I promise to come back with my reviews.