les miserables (the movie film; not the concert film or book. Dutch angles! Americans! Australians!)

hahaha I have actively ridiculed the critical faculties of people who have told me that they liked the Rent movie

i've never seen rent, planning to keep it that way

snippets I hear are just O_o

at some point nino you just have to be happy these people find each other

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

Everything I've heard of Rent marks it as pretty clearly the worst musical of our times.

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 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

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lmao

http://thebestpictureproject.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/les_miserables_2.jpg

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 saw about 3/4s of this film while I was in the waiting room of a doctor's office...it was hell.

I just watched this movie last night, and for some reason all I find myself singing today is "Yes! I'm Martin Guerre!"

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 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.

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.

I remember liking the '95 Lelouch Les Miserables. Maybe I should try that again.

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.

Bring Him Home is a freaking amazing bit of work i don't care what anyone says.

Won't argue with you there, but I'd rather hear Kermit the Frog sing it than Hugh Jackman

man this thread is p stupid

this fucking owned

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.

i'm still planning on seeing it

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

you can have emphyzema and choke out "On my own / pretending he's beside me" and I'll still get goosebumps. Plus: everybody dies

pfft nah

several of the dumber characters were alive at the end in this version

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

anyway I think this is dumber than Rent, and Rent is pretty dumb. *drops mike*

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

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"

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

lol
she is in everything
she and Helen Mirrin and Judi Dench are the Hecate of British cinema

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.

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

...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,

everyone dying at the end was pretty cool too

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

oh they were fine for the comic relief they were intended to be, but they were probably in too many scenes

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.

i dig a lot of old movie musicals, but broadway-style musicals never did it for me

This is one of those movies that turns my FB feed into a true tale of two cities.

movie musicals absolutely need abstract body patterns and lots and lots of fountains

jackman is pretty much 100% why I want to see this - love any opportunity to see him sing
and I'm v curious about Hathaway

who is responsible for trading in dancing for belting out hallmark cards, and can we flog that person

Hathaway as Javert?

jackman's real good in this. if he wins an oscar it'd be well deserved. same with hathaway

this movie shouldve had the lyrics onscreen the whole time with that little ball bouncing on each syllable

who is responsible for trading in dancing for belting out hallmark cards, and can we flog that person

otm. I guess Fosse was the last gasp of great Broadway dance? Or I guess, Twyla Tharp has had some big shows. But none of those have been made into movies (and I haven't seen any of them, so I don't know if they were any good).

hathaway didn't have much screen time at all but she was wonderful, yeah. jackman should get some recognition for his part i think

Jackman only seemed great because he played most of his scenes opposite Russell Crowe.

Like the Twilight movies, I'm only happy that this exists for the hilarious Walter Chaw review:

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2012/12/les-misérables-2012.html

the only one who makes real emotion of the melodrama of cramped source material that has the audacity to not only introduce a new generation of characters post intermission, but also ask us to invest in a love triangle between three pretty little ciphers chirping their sorta-pretty little songs.

yeah, exactly. the part where it turns into a teen movie is when i started checking out mentally, and spent the rest of the movie counting the pores on the actors faces