Posts Tagged “Movie”
- Thoughts on Les Misérables: The 2012 Movie Musical - A Fan’s Review As a fan of the stage musical from way back, I'd say it's good, but has its flaws. Time will tell whether it's great. Here's what did and didn't work for me
- Wolverine vs. Jor-El Les Misérables takes on an entirely new light when viewed as their epic struggle.
- Revisiting the Movie Musical After Re-Reading the Novel I liked the film of Les Misérables better on second viewing, and also was able to see just how much they brought in from the novel.
- Review: Les Misérables Movie 1978 The story of Jean Valjean vs. Javert is very well done, but the other characters and their stories are pushed out to the point where they're incidental.
- Review: Les Misérables Movie 1998 This version does a decent job of humanizing Valjean and Javert, and giving Fantine and Cosette more presence, but changes lead to an unsatisfying ending.
- Jacked On Jean Valjean, Wolverine, and Hugh Jackman's training for X-Men.
- No Canon One reason the singing style in the movie didn't bug me: I've listened to so many different cast recordings that I'm *used to* different performances.
- Review: Les Misérables Movie 1935 I quite liked Richard Boleslawski's 1935 movie of Les Misérables starring Charles Laughton as Javert and Frederic March as Jean Valjean.
- Review: Les Misérables Movie 1952 Clearly inspired by the 1935 version, this movie has better cinematography, but the characters suffer from being forced into 1950s stereotypes.
- Review: Les Misérables TV Miniseries 2000 Stand-outs: unusual character choices and the Thénardier family as a real menace. But I wanted to like it more than I did.