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#347901 Japanese Teeth Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:40:47 PM from Meinong's jungle

How is the movie version of Les Mis anyway? It's one of my favorite musicals and I've been wanting to see it for a while.

Also, the way Luna made a town out of grocery products kinda reminds me of The Mayor of Can Town.

edited 14th Mar '13 1:42:44 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#347902 darkabomination Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:43:51 PM from the Deepwoods

It's... meh. It was technically decent, but the execution wasn't.

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#347903 Rhyme Beat Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:44:07 PM from Eastern Standard

I heard it was OK, but suffers from trying to get EVERYTHING into the movie, and one really bad casting choice for Javart.

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#347904 kegisak Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:45:34 PM

Really? I really liked Javert in it, actually. if it was anyone I thought Hugh Jackman kinda got overshadowed by some of the other actors. But yeah, it's good but the beginning in particularly is really choppy and rushed, and it doesn't really catch it's stride until about an hour in.

#347905 Pykrete Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:46:54 PM from Viridian Forest

I personally thought Russell Crowe did an amazing job playing a man who can't sing or act.

#347906 kegisak Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:49:08 PM

Aww...

I will grant you he was pretty damn rigid throughout. I kinda wrote that off to him being, you know, an incredibly disciplined military-type man.

It probably helped my opinion of it that I've never seen any other rendition of Les Mis.

#347907 darkabomination Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:51:24 PM from the Deepwoods

Oh it does. It's what got me into musicals. Then I saw Rent and it was all downhill from there.

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#347908 Rhyme Beat Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:52:15 PM from Eastern Standard

Honestly I'm just mirroring what I heard. I wish I could have seen it in theaters though.

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#347909 Sydxelia Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:55:23 PM

*hasn't seen Les Mis*

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#347910 Lopiny Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:56:08 PM from somewhere

*Hasn't seen a musical ever*

edited 14th Mar '13 2:22:51 PM by Lopiny

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#347911 Meta Four Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:57:30 PM from riding the wave

"Bad Seed" has no actual definitive source but is inspired by 60s chase scene music. Theorized

According to the "One Bad Apple" trope page, "Bad Seed" was an homage to songs from Hana-Barbera cartoons like Josie and the Pussycats.

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#347912 kegisak Thu, 14th Mar '13 1:57:35 PM

I saw Phantom of the Opera live when I was young. That was fun - although the Chandalier bit at the beginning, where it explodes so they can change the set to the first song, freaked the hell outta me and I missed a bit of the beginning because of it.

#347913 Japanese Teeth Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:00:43 PM from Meinong's jungle

I kinda figured it would be inevitable that the pacing got a bit rushed. It's what happens when you try to fit a four-hour musical into a movie.

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#347914 darkabomination Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:03:09 PM from the Deepwoods

And trying to fit said 4 hours in a plot crammed as it is from one doorstopper of a novel.

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#347915 Meta Four Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:04:36 PM from riding the wave

Like "Magical Mystery Cure", Les Mis would have been better as a two-parter?

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#347916 Pykrete Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:06:39 PM from Viridian Forest

I just think it's funny that the best showstealing singing came from a character who died within the first half hour. Anne Hathaway was goddamn amazing.

They had kinda crap cinematography, though that was a consequence of how they wanted to film the singing directly. So you get a lot of long, awkward, up-close facial shots (giggity).

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#347917 Rhyme Beat Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:11:22 PM from Eastern Standard

I'm still trying to find good art of Pegasus!Cadance.

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#347918 Sydxelia Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:18:01 PM

According to the "One Bad Apple" trope page, "Bad Seed" was an homage to songs from Hana-Barbera cartoons like Josie and the Pussycats.

I knew the style was familiar.

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#347919 storyyeller Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:20:10 PM from Appleloosa

Little towwwwwn, it's a quiet villaaage...

Unser Stadt, ein ruhiges Dorfchen...

I probably mangled that, since I don't remember the exact words to the German version. But often times, I think of the German version first when I hear the song.

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#347920 Sereg Thu, 14th Mar '13 2:56:40 PM from South Africa

I thought that "Morning in Ponyville" being a refference to "Oh! What a Beautiful Morning!" rom Oklahoma was ... obvious. Even to the musically ininformed me. Then again, I had to listen to that song multiole times in Primary school.

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#347921 Pykrete Thu, 14th Mar '13 3:00:54 PM from Viridian Forest

I thought it was too bouncy to be that specifically, but hey.

#347922 storyyeller Thu, 14th Mar '13 3:03:43 PM from Appleloosa

"May the Best Pet Win"/ "Animal Song" (forgot the name) Doctor Dolittle

I've never been able to see much similarity. Was this ever confirmed?

And trying to fit said 4 hours in a plot crammed as it is from one doorstopper of a novel.

Well hey, it's important to have expositon about the Paris sewer system in the middle of your story.

I thought that "Morning in Ponyville" being a refference to "Oh! What a Beautiful Morning!" rom Oklahoma was ... obvious

Well I've never seen Oklahoma.

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#347923 Pykrete Thu, 14th Mar '13 3:04:40 PM from Viridian Forest

EQD's poll only lets you choose Twilight or Luna for pope. I'd rather have one of the princesses that isn't mentally unstable

#347924 Sereg Thu, 14th Mar '13 3:11:46 PM from South Africa

@P Yrkete: It's admittedly bouncier, but the tune, lyrics and relationship to each other are still strikingly similar.

Oh, what a beautiful moooorning, oh what a beautifil day!

I've got a beautiful feeeeling, everythinngs going my way!

Er... then there's something about corn as tall as an elephant's eye. As I said, I'm not good with music.

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#347925 Sydxelia Thu, 14th Mar '13 3:12:45 PM

I'd rather have one of the princesses that isn't mentally unstable

Princess Moles-*SHOT*

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