Anyone else looking forward to it?





I've just recently watched the 10th and 25th anniversary concerts to be familiar with the musical since I haven't seen it. And jsut starte d rereading the book.


Also just want to say i' excited with the cast and director but kind of worried since the running time which was just announced is 2:32 hours excluding credits. I don't know I hope it would sill be the full experience and not a dumbed down version for general audience.


TRAILER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5UStefYmE


EXTENDED FEATURETTE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STv2Z0AB_TI


25th anniversary concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qVbV71MBqU


10th anniversary concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMmF9el0S7k

I was in a production of this my senior year in Hs.  IT's one of the only musicals I've ever seen that isn't  absolutely horrendous, so i'll probably torrent it at sometime. 

hugh jackman more like huge jacked man
russell crowe more like russ hulk row or something

count me in *swoon*

this might be interesting if it wasn't directed by tom hooper, who is probably the most intensely boring filmmaker to ever touch a camera. i wouldn't care either way except i know this is going to be like the king's speech which was one of the most unpleasant movies in the history of time, not because it's BAD, as any possible value judgement that could be attached to it more or less stops at IT EXISTS, but instead because it was the sort of thing where literally dozens of people i encountered would impatiently ask HAVE YOU SEEN THE KING'S SPEECH YET IT IS A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE and i found myself needing to throw away two hours of my life on the movie just to get them the fuck off my back.

the best case scenario here is that this movie becomes the second coming of one from the heart, which was supposed to be this GROUNDBREAKING MUSICAL and ended up being literally the most unwatchable thing ever put to film and stopped francis ford coppola's career before he had the opportunity to do more damage. if this happens nobody will ever talk about this movie ever again and we can all go about our merry fucking way.

but probably this is going to be one of those SICKENINGLY WONDERFUL ACADEMY AWARD® WINNING MOVIES that nobody can shut up about that is actually not worth anybody's time and energy. so i know there is going to be this couple month period where i am CONTINUOUSLY ASKED IF I HAVE SEEN THE BORAT* VERSION OF LES MISERABLES and i'm going to just learn from the king's speech and say YES I HAVE SEEN IT IT IS A  MAGICAL EXPERIENCE HUGH JACKMAN IS SO DREAMY IN IT I WOULD LIKE HIM TO LITERALLY PUT HIS BALLS IN MY MOUTH


*ps did you know that borat is in this???? i watched the trailer and some insufferably empty behind-the-scenes thing where anne hathaway and hugh jackman ramble on and on, managing to drop the word groundbreaking into every other sentence. however!! they were careful to leave any evidence of borat out it, possibly because he is the most heavy-handed actor to ever wander onto a stage and the advertising people have some pretty intense shame that some idiot decided to put a cheap comic relief actor in this.