I will say that one should avoid the Liam Neeson version as it pretty much becomes a train wreck the farther along it goes. Among other things it involves Javert holding a gun to Cosettes head and Valjean seeing Javert commit suicide(by walking into the Seine...from the riverbank) and then walking off with a big-ass grin on his face.Frybird said:Because they already did...like...a bunch of times. Hell, there are even Anime Adaptions. You can pretty much pick by country and length.Mr.Tea said:I'm already biased since I fucking hate... nah, what's stronger than hate? Oh, I megaloathe musicals. But seriously, why couldn't they make a real movie with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Les_Mis%C3%A9rables
Well because they already technically did made it into a normal movie. About 12 times before. With the 1998 version having Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean. It was pretty good I thought. Then again that was 12 years ago so I can't say for sure.Mr.Tea said:I'm already biased since I fucking hate... nah, what's stronger than hate? Oh, I megaloathe musicals. But seriously, why couldn't they make a real movie with this?
And then it had to star Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman... I don't think they could have made this film less appealing to me.
Edit: OH! And then there's having to listen to anglophones keep pronouncing French names... Oh how much better it (and indeed any movie) would have been with Cristoph Waltz.
Because the musical is more popular and there are way more people who really like musicals than not.Mr.Tea said:I'm already biased since I fucking hate... nah, what's stronger than hate? Oh, I megaloathe musicals. But seriously, why couldn't they make a real movie with this?
And then it had to star Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman... I don't think they could have made this film less appealing to me.
Edit: OH! And then there's having to listen to anglophones keep pronouncing French names... Oh how much better it (and indeed any movie) would have been with Cristoph Waltz.
Growing up in a town where our main attraction is our children's theater and our high school shows its odd to hear people NOT be obsessed with musicals half the time; when you've grown up seeing and being in pretty much every musical in existence its simply hard to believe someone can't like musicals.Frybird said:...I don't like the notion of "I don't like musicals" though, because i very much think to hate Musicals in General you either gotta hate Singing or Movies.
I love Little Shop of Horrors, Repo, Once, The Rocky Horror Show, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (wich 1: Shut up, it's totally a Musical and 2: Is in many ways a Parody of Les Miserables as much as it is one of Disney Movies), Reefer Madness and Perhaps Love as much as i H A T E Moulin Rouge, Nine, Cats, Rent, Glee, Mamma Mia and Rock of Ages. Even those wich i like oftentimes cannot be more different from one another, so yeah, i think saying something like that seems like a rather uninformed opinion.
That's the best part of musicals, a good stage actor/singer can convey emotions ten times better through singing than anyone can through voice.Clankenbeard said:Musicals are like going to a bar. I never really get the urge to go, but once I get dragged there I have a good time. For me, the music heightens the emotion of the scene and has a tendency to "lock it in". Hearing the song in the future brings back the emotional state of the acted scene pretty easily.Frybird said:...I don't like the notion of "I don't like musicals" though, because i very much think to hate Musicals in General you either gotta hate Singing or Movies.
As an old straight dude, this frightens me more than I can say.
Love your avatar by the way! Scary Smash! Joss was a real sport for squatting through that one.
Seems to only happen with movies he feels are really crap. I noticed it too, the more agitated he gets about talking about a bad movie the more the accent slips. Oh well, adds a bit of realism to the review if you ask me. Am suddenly reminded of Ted though.T3hSource said:Your accent slipped out a lot more than usual this time Bob,it's kind of unsettling and creates inconsistency.
EDIT: I'm not saying Bob's accent creeps me out,quite the opposite,I'm saying the quick jumps between his normal speech and broadcasting voice just distract me.
You still need a good director (and a good script) to make a good movie out of it. Your comparison doesn't even make any sense.Falseprophet said:snip
While I am in agreement with your statement I couldn't help but enjoy your Dr. Cox (Scrubs) reference. I'm just surprised you didn't drop a Hugh Jackman quote in there beside it.Mr.Tea said:I'm already biased since I fucking hate... nah, what's stronger than hate? Oh, I megaloathe musicals. But seriously, why couldn't they make a real movie with this?
And then it had to star Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman... I don't think they could have made this film less appealing to me.
Edit: OH! And then there's having to listen to anglophones keep pronouncing French names... Oh how much better it (and indeed any movie) would have been with Cristoph Waltz.
Odd you say that since I adore the hell out of that version.Dalisclock said:I will say that one should avoid the Liam Neeson version as it pretty much becomes a train wreck the farther along it goes. Among other things it involves Javert holding a gun to Cosettes head and Valjean seeing Javert commit suicide(by walking into the Seine...from the riverbank) and then walking off with a big-ass grin on his face.Frybird said:Because they already did...like...a bunch of times. Hell, there are even Anime Adaptions. You can pretty much pick by country and length.Mr.Tea said:I'm already biased since I fucking hate... nah, what's stronger than hate? Oh, I megaloathe musicals. But seriously, why couldn't they make a real movie with this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Les_Mis%C3%A9rables
To be fair to the work done on this film, I think what we have are a handful of performances that are absolutely masterfully done... just done masterfully in the wrong medium, perhaps. However, there are non-artistic concerns to consider here:MovieBob said:Les Miserables
See if MovieBob thinks that Les Miserables is really that miserable.
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