I know..Originally Posted by City Lights
Webber didn't make this...I said it because of the recitative singing. I meant, his musicals in that sense kinda worked for me, even though I dislike that choice. But this was unbearable most of the time.
This review is pretty funny: ‘Les Misérables’ Is So Big It Hurts (D+)
From RT 'top critic' Stephanie Zacharek, of Film.com
She calls the movie a "cinematic enema". LOL.
Why do I get the feeling that this isn't really divisive, but people are just tearing it apart for other reasons? Some of these reviews really raise my eyebrows to the believability. AND I'm not even trying to be McTeague here. I don't really care how well this does Oscars wise.
It's just some of these reviews are a little too gleeful with their tear down.
Will Oscar have Riva Fever?
LOL. I love Stephanie Zacharek. I miss her on the CR Oscar roundtable.
The reviews from the trades don't exactly scream Best Picture nominee.
This is crazy. From great buzz to pans ... Even I who was anticipating this greatly can't deny that this feels like its going to die a painful death
Oh Lord Jesus, Anne Hathaway's winning an oscah
And Crowe, having taken a wrong turn from a community-theater production of “H.M.S. Pinafore,” belongs in a special category by himself: He looks so uncomfortable, trussed into an assortment of stiff, brass-buttoned coats, that I began to feel sorry for him. But then I came to my senses and stopped.
LMFAO!
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That is awful.
And now, we await McTeague...This is crazy. From great buzz to pans ... Even I who was anticipating this greatly can't deny that this feels like its going to die a painful death
It's a 158 minute film with almost entirely sung dialogue. If it doesn't hook you immediately or keep you hooked, you're probably in for a miserable experience.
"I shall immediately after I'm done watching Homeland." - DirkDiggler on his voting priorities
You all realized that Hooper is nothing more than a BBC employee/technician just now ???
Color me surprised.
So we did get our glorious mess after all.
Taking care of a crying Hooper.
McT's been gone since before NBR announced its winners. He'll be returning to a world in which Argo lost NBR's top prize and in which Les Mis is establishing itself as an even more divisive and negatively-reviewed film than was widely anticipated. Tumult.
Picture, Hathaway and techs are still happening, but Hooper, Barks, Redmayne and to a lesser extent Jackman are all in trouble. Screenplay and Crowe are absolutely not happening.
Zacherak's review has me in tears. Hysterical.
Elena
May god have mercy on McTeague. Imagine waking to a world where everything you once knew has vanished. "Oh gee, the embargo must have lifted...", he'll go, upon seeing 10 new pages. Only for his world to be crushed page by page until nothing remains. Why Hooper, why.
More flack for Hooper. Todd Gilchrist's pull-quote on RT:
a maudlin act of white-noise desperation, underscored by director Tom Hooper's inability to discern the difference between quiet and loud - not just musically, but as a storyteller and dramatist.
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