Les Miserables Movie

[MrsK]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...#slide=1031715

OMG, this looks spectacular. Anyone else looking forward to this movie?

[oceanchild]

My husband is SO excited. I've seen the stage show 3 times with him, and I think he's seen it 3-4 more without me.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

This looks amazing!

[Curegirl]

Um, just how perfect of a man is Hugh Jackman? Rawr.

[Momo]

Um, just how perfect of a man is Hugh Jackman? Rawr.

word!!!!!!!!

[SoonerTexan]

Double word

[TigerLily]

That looks awesome!

[lovelight]

Can't wait! We saw a trailer on the big screen and I've been excited since!

[MrsK]

This made my day (NPH and Jason Segel singing "the confrontation"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhXsJjVdj1E

[HouseofWool]

I cannot wait to see it.

[L.Jane]

MrsK everytime I watch that clip I crack up. I can't wait to go see the movie. I promised one of my friends who is on call for her fellowship until mid Jan, I would wait for her service to be over and go with her... Three more weeks... Until Then I have watched every clip from here: http://www.youtube.com/user/LesMiser...?feature=watch

[TigerLily]

We just saw this last night and DH and I both agree it's one of the best movies we've seen. It is really incredible. Definitely worth seeing in the theater.

[PrincessFiona]

Can't wait!

[BonBon]

Totally looking forward to it, but might wait til it comes out on dvd. One of our sitters just saw it and said it was amazing!!

[MrsK]

I finally saw it last night. I thought it was amazing. The singing is definitely flawed. I've heard a lot of critisim about the singing in particular, especially Russell Crowe's singing, and that Helena Bonham Carter and Sasha Baron Cohen were too over-the-top Tim Burton like. But I think that the movie makes up for it with fantastic story telling and character development. The depiction of imprisonment, poverty, illness, and prostitution are very graphic which I've always thought are a little too sanitized in the stage productions. Every minute that Anne Hathaway is on the screen, you fell her desperation. The revolutionaries are portrayed as idealistic and privileged students; watching them slautered in their futile attempt at revolution is devistating. Marius's pain upon his realization that he is the lone survivor of his friends and their deaths were fruitless is palitable. He matures. Also, I felt that Hugh Jackman and Russel Crowe brought a lot of humanity to Valjean and Javert. The relationship between the men is more fully developed rather than being portrayed as a game of cat-and-mouse. I've always thought that Javert was a rather two dimentional character; he has this single-minded black-and-white understanding of absolute right that is hard to relate to. Casting a less impressive actor in the part humanized him in a way that I'd not seen done before. DrK also found the scenery, sets, costumes, and staging to be very impressive - particularly the scenes depicting the poor in alleys and sewers.