Just saw Les Mis - ask me anything

[elehhhhna]

and pee before you see it.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I've not see a good review of it.

What's your opinion? Singing OK?

[elehhhhna]

3. singing better than expected -

I have the same complaint as always - the show's too long. Beautiful cinemetography but too many closeups imo -- 30 foot tall faces singing is tiresome.

Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, and Samantha whatever (Eponine) were quiet good.

[hlthe2b]

2. "great minds and all that"... I just did as well...

But, omg was it crowded (big major cinema, 11:45 matinee, and after a snow storm to boot)...

I could not have gotten up to pee if I'd been beyond desperate.


Good performances, Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman were really excellent. The only one who I had to say would not have been my casting choice was Russell Crowe... His acting was fine, of course, but his voice, well, just passable, I think.

I enjoyed it, but sort of wish I'd gone when it was less crowded... Sitting scrunched in, next to a bunch of 20-something guys (who clearly were there only for the girlfriends) did sort of take something away from it. I think this is definitely one that will go over best with a slightly older audience...

[banned from Kos]

4. what % of the movie is musical?

I read the book years ago and it has a lot of plot.

Does the movie have too many dull musical moments (like most musicals do)?

[elehhhhna]

5. 99% It is an opera

perhaps 40 spoken words in 2.5 hours. Opera is a dirty word, lol. My daughter tells me it's not opera if it's in english.

[banned from Kos]

8. reminds me of Amadeus when the King's music overlords said opera

could only be in Italian.

The renegade Mozart defied them, of course.

[elehhhhna]

6. also, re: dull moments

once Fantine dies, I'm done. Drags in the middle and a sad, sad story for the most part.

[hlthe2b]

14. The Parisian sewer scenes were just a bit too realistic to me. ughh...

[cbrer]

7. How much of it

did you think was translatable, if only loosely, to a Republican/Democrat, Conservative/Liberal struggle?

Hope you enjoyed it! Merry Christmas!

[elehhhhna]

9. It's so about the characters that the revolution is almost an afterthought

although Javert's narrow worldview is very familiar - he's a law-and-ordery republican-y tool.

[hlthe2b]

11. I think the revolution is definitely an afterthought in the movie, even if it takes up a lot of the

last half hour or so.... For some reason, it seemed less an incidental aspect of the Broadway (or touring) musical.

[applegrove]

10. How was Russell Crowe? Sometimes he

rocks.

[hlthe2b]

12. I thought his singing to be pretty rough--especially when he has to go up against Hugh Jackman.

It isn't that he can't sing the notes, but it is a passable voice, at best.

[elehhhhna]

13. meh

outgunned, imo

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I saw it today.

I predict academy awards for set design and costumes.

[hlthe2b]

16. Yes... both were well done--agree

[elehhhhna]

17. I'm thinking Jackman just for doing it and

Hathaway BSA nom.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. SPOILER ALET

I had never read the book or seen the play so I wasn't familiar with the story at all. And I was STUNNED when Anne Hathaway's character died. I looked at my watch, it seemed like the movie had just started and I knew it was going to be long. And she was already dead?!?

LOL