H4A: all right, but if his movie ends up being shitty with shitty singing he kind of loses coming and going, you know?
― before and after broscience (goole), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
im not a singing nazi so i suspect i wont really care. that clip of russell crowe bellowing I AM JAVERT or whatever had me cracking up, so im probably going to enjoy this
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
im not a singing nazi
The hills are alive with the sound of Hunnnnnnnnnnngry...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
This film is going to do what Rent did -- draw in a large opening weekend, make a bunch of high school Thespians sob into their box of Milk Duds, get panned critically, and then brick the rest of the way.
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
I would prefer this film if they added in an updated version of "Fightin' Round the World" from that South Park ep for Crowe to sing
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
tomorrow belooongs to Aaaasssss
― before and after broscience (goole), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
omfg Rent was SO FUCKING BAD
I was actively angry at the group of friends who dragged me to that piece of shit for WEEKS
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Some guy accused me of disrespecting his girlfriend once because she asked me what I thought of Rent the film and I (thought I) politely responded "I didn't like it". He said I "tried to destroy something she loved".
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha I have actively ridiculed the critical faculties of people who have told me that they liked the Rent movie
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
i've never seen rent, planning to keep it that way
snippets I hear are just O_o
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
at some point nino you just have to be happy these people find each other
― before and after broscience (goole), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
I really can't believe that show launched the careers of three actors I genuinely like/admire because IT IS SO FUCKING TERRIBLE AND NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED
I just remember sitting there in the movie theater when the lights came up on them singing "Seasons of Love" and thinking to myself "my god... what have I done?" and then the movie proceeded to get WORSE and WORSE and WORSE until at one point I found myself actively cheering on the AIDS virus
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Everything I've heard of Rent marks it as pretty clearly the worst musical of our times.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
it's a really special movie/show that can reduce you into a hate-filled caricature of yourself that you don't even recognize as being human
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
lmao
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://thebestpictureproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/les_miserables_2.jpg
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I saw about 3/4s of this film while I was in the waiting room of a doctor's office...it was hell.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched this movie last night, and for some reason all I find myself singing today is "Yes! I'm Martin Guerre!"
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
I think it says a lot about exactly how terrible Rent was when you consider that all of this venom and invective is coming from someone who has said positive things about Catwoman and Ultraviolet; I think the last time I was that outright angry at a movie was Funny Games, only by the halfway point of Rent I was hoping and praying that the psycho brothers from FG would show up, rewind the movie and murder all of the characters as they sat on those fucking stools singing about sunshine and rainbows
man I have successfully talked myself out of giving even a modicum of benefit of the doubt to Les Miz, thanks again Rent you fucking bastard
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
i saw this musical in highschool and I was really bored. I couldn't follow the plot. Now I know why, because I looked up a synopsis on wikipedia and there's far too much shit going on for one damn musical.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
the movie version of Rent is dreadful, but ngl I saw the stage show like three times as a teen and loved it, it functioned as a sort of Baby's First Intro to Edginess to me and my sheltered drama friends.
otoh i've managed to get this far knowing next to nothing about le miz, i'm considering seeing the movie because any exposure to the show thereafter can only be an increase in quality.
― sad faces at Terror Castle (reddening), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
I remember liking the '95 Lelouch Les Miserables. Maybe I should try that again.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 07:21 (eleven years ago) link
With this and Django opening on Christmas Day, it's no wonder Morbs is such a grinch.
I have such a loathing for Tom Hooper that I'll probably go see this.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
Bring Him Home is a freaking amazing bit of work i don't care what anyone says.
― piscesx, Saturday, 15 December 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Won't argue with you there, but I'd rather hear Kermit the Frog sing it than Hugh Jackman
― NINO CARTER, Saturday, 15 December 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
man this thread is p stupid
this fucking owned
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
this was the best musical-to-movie adaptation I've seen since Chicago, which makes it the second-best musical-to-movie adaptation I've seen.
However, it turns out that I think Les Miserables is a really stupid musical.
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'm still planning on seeing it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
This musical is the best of all the latter-day myoozicals, it doesn't even come close to making up for the entire genre but I will surely set aside 30 years of bullshit "musical" "theatre" when we go to see it tomorrow
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
you can have emphyzema and choke out "On my own / pretending he's beside me" and I'll still get goosebumps. Plus: everybody dies
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:10 (eleven years ago) link
pfft nah
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
several of the dumber characters were alive at the end in this version
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
I could reserve my challops till after listening to a cast recording or watching the concert film or whatever but that wouldn't be very ilxory
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
anyway I think this is dumber than Rent, and Rent is pretty dumb. *drops mike*
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:20 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't accuse Rent of being dumb so much as being manipulative, gaysploitative, blaxploitative, classist, patronizing and smarmy, plus every song was worse than the one before
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
iirc only Marius and Cosette are alive at the end, everybody else has committed suicide, been executed, died of starvation, or "ascended gloriously to heaven on the wings of song"
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my one funny story about watching this was, I was doing my usual thing of not learning too much about a movie before seeing it, and I was thinking to myself about twenty minutes in that it was a relief Helena Bonham Carter wasn't in this
then blammo as if on cue there she appeared
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
lolshe is in everythingshe and Helen Mirrin and Judi Dench are the Hecate of British cinema
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 07:51 (eleven years ago) link
never seen/heard the musical before. some of the big numbers were stirring, but i thought the second half of the movie was interminable. eponine, marius and cosette were all dumbass fucktards. russell crowe was alright in his scenes with other people, but his two big solos were real bad. he seemed like he was concentrating as hard as he could on getting the singing right, and as a consequence was really stiff. wolverine's got some pipes on him though, damn.
i dunno, maybe somethings wrong with me. the whole theater was sniffling during valjean's death scene, but i was just thinking about how bad i needed to piss. my attention wandered bigtime during a lot of the songs, including that one.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
i agree with most of that, partic crowe's stiffness. thought all the acting was pretty good though
hathaway's "i dreamed a dream" was AMAZING, like i knew nothing about the story coming in and sobbed during it amazing
also agree the last third was too long. again i didn't know the story beforehand but i kind of expected it to end after
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
...valjean brought the young guy back to his daughter, though i can see how that might have been too disney-movie of an ending
also i kind of just loved the character of valjean and jackman's performance. his eyes did a lot of srs acting imo,
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
everyone dying at the end was pretty cool too
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
I understand that Sacha & Helena BC stink up the place but at least some Youtube searching on that matter has caused me to find Matt Lucas and Jenny Galloway at the 25th Anniversary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sD5hjYXD3E
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh they were fine for the comic relief they were intended to be, but they were probably in too many scenes
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 December 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
I have a soft spot for musicals -- I blame it on incessant listening to Oliver! when I was a kid -- and I like Les Mis more for its ridiculousness than in spite of it. My theater-geek girlfriend is similarly inclined, so we're looking forward to this. Not because it will be good in any serious sense. But, you know, shamelessness can be its own reward.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
i dig a lot of old movie musicals, but broadway-style musicals never did it for me
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
This is one of those movies that turns my FB feed into a true tale of two cities.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
movie musicals absolutely need abstract body patterns and lots and lots of fountains
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
jackman is pretty much 100% why I want to see this - love any opportunity to see him singand I'm v curious about Hathaway
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
who is responsible for trading in dancing for belting out hallmark cards, and can we flog that person
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link