Les Misérables [2012]

[Merci]

Hugh Jackman
Russell Crowe
Anne Hathaway
Amanda Seyfried
Sacha Baron Cohen
Helena Bonham Carter

Directed by: Tom Hooper

Release Date: 14 December 2012

Teaser featuring Anne Hathaway singing I Dreamed a Dream

so excited for this! I remember reading the novel when I was younger

[johnny_d]

My God that trailer is amazing!! I need it to be Christmas already. Really looking forward to this.

[Noahh]

So looking forward to this. The teaser-trailer looks amazing!

[Spartan]

I'm so stoked for this. I hope they do it justice.

[johnny_d]

New trailer

I am so excited for this film to come out guys!!

[thebigham]

I saw this tonight.

Les Miz is not my favorite musical. I find it long and boring.

The movie was long and boring, BUT the live singing made for some AMAZING performances.

Give the Oscar to Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway right now!

Eddie Redmayne should be nominated for best supporting actor.

Very impressed with Russell Crowe and Samantha Barks.

Amanda Seyfried has a very small role. She was okay.

I hate Master of the House so I did not enjoy Sascha Baron Cohen nor Helena Bonham Carter.

The little boy who help the Revolution was excellent.

I did cry.

[Baditude]

^I heard Russell Crowe was an awful singer in this movie. What did you think of his performance (singing)?

[thebigham]

^I thought he was very good. He should be out promoting this movie.

[GetBack]

I can't wait to see this!

[steophonic]

I'm so excited to see this. The trailer gave me goosebumps!

[Tripolis]

Saw this yesterday, it was brilliant IMO.

Anne Hathaway is really phenomenal, she deserves an Oscar just based on the back of her "I Dreamed A Dream" performance alone. She had pretty short screentime though.

Hugh Jackman is good and I really think he played his role very well. His singing was pretty good too.

Russell Crowe can't sing tbh, so his singing was probably the most cringe-worthy part of the movie. Lucky he didn't have many solos so it's still tolerable. His acting was good though.

Eddie Redmayne I think is my fave male actor, he's so good + his singing was decent as well. He should be nominated for Best Supporting Actor I think.

Samantha Barks was brilliant. Her performance of "On My Own" is my second-fave from the movie after "I Dreamed A Dream".

It's a really touching movie in general and is one of my movies of the year. The whole movie is SUNG though, with practically no talking scenes.

4.5/5.

[jpguy]

I can't wait to see this!

[LotsOfLove]

I can't wait to see this too.
I saw the trailer, and I really don't know the exact plot but the trailer was soo... captivating! I must watch this.

[Blondini]

Les Misérables has recorded Universal’s biggest ever three-day opening in the UK at non-final $13.1m (£8.1m), which is also the biggest for producer Working Title and the biggest ever opening for a musical in the UK.

The people have sung. With a 37% market share, Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Les Misérables has debuted top of the UK box office with a record-breaking non-final $13.1m (£8.1m) debut.

That result marks Universal’s biggest ever three-day opening in the UK, topping the $11.5m (£7.1m) achieved by Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, as well as being the biggest debut for producer Working Title. It is also the best-ever opening for a musical in the UK, toppling Mamma Mia! which took $10.6m (£6.6m) of which $9m (£5.6m) came from its Fri-Sun weekend.

It also marks the biggest opening for Hooper in the UK by some margin. The King’s Speech was his previous best at $5.7m (£3.5m), although it went on to enjoy a sterling run in the UK and grossed $73.8m (£45.7m).

[Blondini]

#1 UK album midweek. I Dreamed A Dream #21, On My Own #38. Neither of the two previous charting cast albums sold anything like this.

[Spartan]

Saw this a couple of days ago, I thought it was average. Too much singing (and I love musicals). Too much Russell Crowe, too lengthly.

I think my expectations for Hathaway and Jackman were too high because I thought both were very decent but not jaw-droppingly amazing like everyone made out.

[steophonic]

I really liked it - had to hold back the tears at the end.

I think the reviews have been mixed but I thought it was great. Anne Hathaway particularly impressed me. Hugh Jackson also exceeded my expectations.

[Loveguru]

This movie is just NO So much singing.. amazing how Kat Deluna didn't get a gig in this since she loves singing songs noone cares about.

Anne however was amazing, like her aura was just wow coming from someone who hated this mess of a film

[RaFanatic]

This movie is based on Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, right? That's my fave book! I loved that old version of this movie so i'm really excited to watch this one too!

[Merci]

^ yes

I read the book in 2001

[crazyman324]

I was in the musical years ago at school, I have loved it since and seen it many times on stage. This was a fantastic film. It was very well done and I loved it.

It's "Les Miserables"... a 3 hour stage show, a musical that is sung all the way through. It was done complete justice I felt. If it was anything less it would have been a watered down imitation. As it goes, they did shorten a lot of numbers and even cut some out.

And as for people who think that the film is in any way flawed because they sing a lot or that it's quite long, just highlights they don't really know what they're talking about. It's a bit like listening to John Cage's 3'44 and complaining afterwards that it didn't have a beat drop.

Opinions are of course entitled. Didn't enjoy it? Fine. But I do find it insulting to call it a "mess" of a film, and say stupid things like "songs no one cares about".

[Brad]

And as for people who think that the film is in any way flawed because they sing a lot or that it's quite long, just highlights they don't really know what they're talking about. It's a bit like listening to John Cage's 3'44 and complaining afterwards that it didn't have a beat drop.

Opinions are of course entitled. Didn't enjoy it? Fine. But I do find it insulting to call it a "mess" of a film, and say stupid things like "songs no one cares about".

YES. Someone finally said it.

[Spartan]

It's "Les Miserables"... a 3 hour stage show, a musical that is sung all the way through. It was done complete justice I felt. If it was anything less it would have been a watered down imitation. As it goes, they did shorten a lot of numbers and even cut some out.

That's my main point I LOVE the show. I feel like it's a completely different experience watching a stage show as there's a lot more presence whereas I just don't feel its transition into a feature length film worked, in my opinion.

[crazyman324]

You seem to be suggesting that the film would have had better "presence" if it was shorter?

Obviously in a theatre, the dynamics are different, primarily because of the audience's proximity to the actors, the theatre itself and the sound of a live band. Emotional engagement is perhaps better-achieved. Plus with the set, as fantastic as they can make it with the revolving stage, barricades, lighting and sound effects, you have to rely on imagination at time, so it could be considered a more "personal" experience.

However, even that considered, it's such a huge musical in terms of narrative, as well as the setting and costume. They had the resources to bring it all "to life" as such. And the live singing - particularly with Anne Hathaway, Samantha Barkes and Hugh Jackman - made it as close to that raw stage-show-emotion as a film adaptation could be.



I'm not damning your opinion, merely querying as someone who also loves the show, how could they have made the film better? (*cough* Russel Crowe aside)

[steophonic]

If anything it was too short... It was a shame to see some of the scenes/songs cut out of it!

But on balance it was really well done. I'm looking forward to watching it on DVD! It was also nice to see Colm Wilkinson have a role!