...damn you! you little lying delilah!...

I will never, ever forgive Joel Schumacher for this movie. Ever.

Loved:
- having a close-up, larger than life visualization of Phantom of the Opera
- Minnie Driver (we are bffaeaeae)
- submerging in the music, the voices

Hated:
- Emmy Rossum and her too-pensive, angst-filled eyes and placid acting - no charisma at all, only one touching scene (the lonely kiss)
- the strange dancing in the background of Don Juan Triumphant
- a blond Raul
- over-the-top everything, and distracting cinematography
- spoken word-ing what should be sung, sounds like rhyming talk, so silly

All in all:
i will buy it out of loyalty to ALW, my first and truest love. Will curse Schumacher from the depths of my soul forever and ever amen. Will continue to insist that a musical of this calibre cannot be made into a movie without some serious risk of unintentional comedy.