After 2 weeks I was finally able to watch this movie. Not
without a little drama of course. To make the long story short, I was so
excited to watch the movie and didn’t notice that we accidentally bought the
wrong ticket. We didn’t found out until we were inside the theatre. The ticket
lady must have heard me saying “Chinese” instead of “Le Mis” because she showed
us the seats to Chinese Zodiac. I didn’t check the ticket until we were inside
the theatre. The movie was already running for 30 mins. so we opted to just
have our ticket refunded instead of transferring to another theatre. We just
came back the following day and made sure we bought the right ticket this time.
But ‘nuff of my story, here’s what I think of the film.
It was definitely worth watching in the theatre! I can’t
believe I almost didn’t. At first I thought, damn! 3 hours will be so long. But
no! I didn’t even notice the time. It was that entertaining! Huge Jackman’s
transformation was incredible. I heard that he didn’t drink water during the
shoot just so he could look that tired and lose all his water weight. Anne
Hathaway’s performance was so moving. I cried every time she was on screen.
Amanda Seyfried’s voice was like an angel. I didn’t know her voice was that high
pitched. Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen added a bit of fun to the
very sad story line. And I think everybody knows that Russel Crowe isn’t the
best singer. There are times that I think he should be singing the lines, but it sounds like he was just prolonging the syllables. But the role as Javert suits him. Eddie Redmayne is such a pretty
face who knew he could sing so well. I’m sure a lot of opportunities came
knocking on his door as soon as the film came out. Let's not forget Daniel Huttlestone, the
little boy who died in the revolution is just the cutest little thing even with all that teeth cavity. I
loved the way he sings because I can hear his British accent. His character was
so brave for a tiny man.
I also didn’t expect that I would like the songs so much. I
mean, the songs in musicals seem to fit well in the scene but not on it’s own.
But the songs in Les Miserables is catchy that you can just download it to your
i-pod and listen to it over and over again and it wouldn’t sound off. I will
probably do that and sing my heart out in the shower!
In my opinion, the film adaptation was done incredibly well. It was
nice to see these musicals shown to the big screen because not everyone can
afford to watch musicals these days. I was very intrigued to watch the first
film adaptation since they are selling it on DVD.
The movie is so moving. The life and struggles of each
character is full of love and hate all at the same time. Sticking to the original
musical them instead of making it as an ordinary movie was indeed the right way to go. I don’t think it would have that huge impact if the lines were just said.
Singing it makes it even better because it shows more emotion thus makes it
more dramatic.
