vanity - has any one seen Django or Les Mis?

[Perdogg]

Has any one seen Django or Les Mis? I am thinking about going to the movies this weekend. I know Les Mis is a musical but I was thinking that the theatre might be full of single women.

I like the music in Django, but I am not a fan of any of thr Obamatrons in the film.

any insight to either movie?

[hecticskeptic]

Just got back from Le Mis…Have seen the stage production several times and the music is often played in our house. This is a very good production and we all enjoyed it a lot (four of us). One negative that had me wondering for a minute… the computer animation with the shipyard at the very beginning is rather lame but fortunately it lasts for a short time and I’m sure others saw it and didn’t notice it. The story as a stage production actually flows reasonably well but the movie makes all the parts flow seamlessly. The themes of justice denied, pursuit by the law for nonsense reasons, kindness, forgiveness, redemption etc come through very well and it’s actually possible to have a tear well up from time to time. As a musical, I’m sure that folks will comment on the music not being as good as a stage production…. They’d be right but well, duh. In my opinion, it actually works better because the singers are not great. I mean, who would go to hear Russell Crowe sing? However, the reason I say it actually works better is because it makes the characters a bit more believable…these are after all supposed to be a bunch of ordinary people and thus while the actors better be able to act, the should not necessarily be able to sing as flawlessly as opera singers. Having said that, the singing was reasonably good and since virtually all the dialogue is in song, it’s important to distinctly understand every word. Another thing that made the music in my view be far more believable is that the singing was obviously recorded on the set as the acting actually happened…. As opposed to actors just doing their lines and then doing the singing in a studio with it all getting dubbed in later. Often in musicals the words can’t be clearly understood but such was not the case in Le Mis. Overall, I’d give it high marks and yes, Jackman is great in it.

As for The Hobbit, I saw it a few nights ago with some other family members. The others thought it was ok but I hated it….the bone crunching bass blasts were too frequent and way to loud and it goes on and on because of the many battle scenes. I mention this because I’m sure that the theatre I saw it in is not unique…. It’s the kind of movie where they really crank up the bass/volume and folks might want to consider taking earplugs with them as it was headache-inducing. I am sick and tired of make-belief movies where every fantastic danger is meant with an even more fantastic solution which is met by an more fantastic danger which is met be an even more fantastic solution……… and on and on it goes. I’m sure it was only a bit over 2 hours long but it felt like 5 and I couldn’t wait for it to end. Computer animations are a fact of life in movie making and thus here to stay….but I think that in this case, while expected to be plentiful, it actually detracted much from the movie and it would have been a far better movie if it had of had about 1/10 of the computer animations. I’d give it a miss.

[Inyokern]

I saw Les Miserables today. In a word, awesome. They sold so many tickets at my multiplex that they had open another theater and show it there simultaneously. Jackman and Hathaway deserve Oscars although Crowe was a little weak, in my opinion.

I have seen the play and several scenes, such as “Empty Chairs and Empty Tables,” come off much more powerfully on the screen than on stage.

Highly recommend.

[mac_truck]

I reccamend Jack Reacher...very entertaining.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“I was thinking that the theatre might be full of single women. “

Thanks for the tip. As a newly single guy; I know what movie I am heading to.

[Helen]

Long day, shallow thinking! Thanks for the correction.

[ASouthernGrl]

We boycott Hollywood.

Same here. I refuse to give the liberal idiots one.damn.penny.

[Apple Blossom]

I think Anne Hathaway’s character is Fontine.

Apple Blossom

[Babashane]

I can’t go to the movies anymore either. My money is tight and that’s the last place I’d spend it these days- certainly do not need to be spending those dollars propping up the Hollywood lifestyles

[Baynative]

"Miracle" was the last movie my wife and I paid to see, too.

[Yaelle]

We saw Argo today. Very well done. Great except for the carter VoiceOver at the very end.

[porter_knorr]

at our theater the line to get into Les Mes was mostly of the grey haired variety.

[mcmuffin]

I saw Skyfall in November and posted a review.

I saw Skyfall in December and was not impressed.

[faucetman]

Stay home and watch an excellent version.....

“Les Miserables (1998) - Starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes”
Watch Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhhsylxYafE

Real men don't do theater or musicals. I think metrosexuals is what they are called, not men.

[jocon307]

I’ve never seen les Miz, but I am really hoping to see this movie. I love Hugh Jackman and I am reading that what’s her name (Ann Hathaway?) really hits it out of the park with “I dreamed a dream” which is such a great song. It looks very good from the TV ads, like a real old time “BIG MOVIE”.

My problem is I really do not like to go to the movies alone and dragging hubby there is a chore. My daughter is home for a few days and I’m hoping we can get her hubby to watch the baby for a few hours one night this week and that she’ll go with me.

I wheedled hubby into taking me to “Chicago” for my birthday years ago and we both LOVED it. Even my really particular friend LOVED it when we showed it to her on DVD later. It’s really one of our faves.

If Les Miz is 1/2 as good as Chicago, that’ll be great.

[higgmeister]

I will not watch that sewage called "Les Miserables", ever.

A political interpretation of Les Miserables

The acclaimed French literary classic Les Misérables contains many powerful images, particularly relating to the political views of author Victor Hugo. The political stance of the novel can be interpreted in relation to the conclusions of theorist Karl Marx, as both have a focus on the lower classes, a concern with social and economic injustice and their effects, and both believe that revolutionary change is inevitable but must come from the working class. http://www.stuartfernie.org/mispolint.htm

[higgmeister]

I cannot believe all of the supposedly forthright and upstanding individuals on FreeRepublic that are effusively proclaiming how wonderful this communist class warfare is.

Les Misérables is a novel very much focused around characters fighting against their oppression and exploitation. Some of them, like Jean Valjean, are successful in their struggle, others, such as Fantine, are not. The main form of exploitation and oppression in the novel is that of economics, as Hugo portrays characters forced into terrible positions by poverty. Hugo also portrays the struggle between classes, for example, Fantine is unfairly arrested for retaliating to a bourgeois who taunted her for being a prostitute and threw snow down her back[10]. Marx devotes the opening to his landmark work The Communist Manifesto to this class conflict, saying that throughout history, social classes have fought against each other as “oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight”[11] and one which Hugo revisits throughout the novel.

[11th_VA]

Just got back from the 10pm showing of Les Miz here in Grand Forks. Have never seen the show in any format. Very redeeming show and lots of young people at the theater. Definitely not to be missed. A bit slow in the middle, but very well done.

[3722535r]

“We boycott Hollywood.....”

Why give money to these anti-American people?.....Haven’t been to a theatre in over a decade.....Old movies from the beginning up to the 70’s are it for us.....Exceptions would be C. Eastwood up to the present......

[P.O.E.]

Last movie I went to see was the original “Matrix”. Used to take the kids to the cinema (”Monsters Inc” being the last before they didn’t want us square parents around.)

Wouldn’t spend a dime in Hollywood’s direction.

[Sivad]

As far as I’m concerned Tarantino can practice his “artistic
license” with somebody else’s ten bucks. And since the star
of the flick thinks Obama is God and also thinks joking about
killing all the white people is humorous, I’ll just stay home and
clean my assault rifles, thank you.