[Ohwiseone]

Searched didn't see a thread.

This is the adaption of the Stage Musical (as a heads up)

Impressed by the look of it.

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/vid...repermalink%3a

[Speevy]

A storm's coming.

[Genesis Knight]

Looks great.

[jett]

A storm's coming.

mr wayne?

[Caoz]

Looks very good. Maybe mr hooper will be redeemed.

[Talon]

Looks very good.

Russell Crowe is bloody perfect for that role.

[Ohwiseone]

The Cinematography Impressed the hell out of me when I saw it, I have watched it a few more times now and there are some beautiful shots in that trailer.

[Speevy]

It better be pretty if they're gonna have Russell Crowe singing.

[wwm0nkey]

Will watch, loved the book

[Lionel Mandrake]

Those are some nice visuals.

I know nothing about this play/book. Absolutely nothing. George sung a song from it in an episode of Seinfeld. That's it.

[Volimar]

Aww, I thought it said Tobe Hooper's Les Miserables....

[Femmeworth]

Good trailer, but I'm tired of Russell Crowe. :\

[RiccochetJ]

Aww, I thought it said Tobe Hooper's Les Miserables....

Was just about to post this. Can you imagine what the guillotine scenes would be like?!?

[TrumanBurbank]

Looks great.

But might as well call it "Oscar Bait".

[Talon]

Looks great. But might as well call it "Oscar Bait".

Between Lincoln, The Master and this, it's going to be a bloodbath.

[Scullibundo]

Shit looks great. Bing plays that video like absolute shit.

[Mister Saturn]

I like Russel Crowe, but I don't think I'll ever see Geoffrey Rush's version of Javert topped.

[TrumanBurbank]

Good trailer, but I'm tired of Russell Crowe. :\

What!
He hasn't been in a movie since 2010. I miss him :(

[Femmeworth]

What! He hasn't been in a movie since 2010. I miss him :(

I'm just not a big fan of his acting, that's all. *shrug*

[Scullibundo]

Okay, got to watch it in HD. I'm really surprised. It is looking fucking great. Shooting way up my list of things I want to see this year. Did not expect that from Hooper. Kudos.

[Ohwiseone]

Okay, got to watch it in HD. I'm really surprised. It is looking fucking great. Shooting way up my list of things I want to see this year. Did not expect that from Hooper. Kudos.

I know, Its really impressive, I have been following this movie quite a bit, but I didn't expect it look this Good.


I just hope the cast delivers, Hooper making every cast member sing live on set is a huge risk.

[Scullibundo]

I know, Its really impressive, I have been following this movie quite a bit, but I didn't expect it look this Good. I just hope the cast delivers, Hooper making every cast member sing live on set is a huge risk.

Especially if Crowe sings. He's a notoriously bad singer who loves the sound of his own voice.

[Scullibundo]

Also, this is a surefire Oscar contender.

[Discotheque]

Looks great. But might as well call it "Oscar Bait".

Forreal. The Master and Lincoln gonna be so much more interesting though.

I'm not a fan of Tom Hooper, but the visuals here are nice I suppose.

[Scullibundo]

Hate the term Oscar bait for anything that might appeal to the Oscar crowd. This looks like it has had a lot of effort and thought put into it. If it's earnest, then all the better.

Oscar bait needs to be reserved for films like The Soloist or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, where the attempts at poignant drama fall flat on their face in clunking, clumsy fashion.

I'm not a big Hooper fan - especially after TKS beat out TSN, but this film looks really fucking good.

[Discotheque]

Yeah I guess you're right about the actual definition of oscar-bait with those film examples.

[robertsan21]

ah fuck, another musical?

it looks fucking great, dont get me wrong, but I am against musicals.

why couldnt they just have done a remake of the awesome movie that is

[Scullibundo]

Yeah I guess you're right about the actual definition of oscar-bait with those film examples.

Yeah. I consider something to be Oscar bait when the filmmakers' attempts come across as clumsy because they either don't fully understand the drama they're trying to share, or their heart isn't in it and so my gut reaction is that their weak attempts at tackling something they have no grasp of is for that Oscar glory.

I don't get any of that from this trailer, but trailers have been misleading more than once before.

[Speevy]

I think people should hold reasonable expectations after seeing breathtaking visuals.

Musicals need fantastic visuals. Unfortunately, what often happens in these movies is that the scenes are short and paper-thin, and of course the backdrops are staging for songs.

None of these things are negatives, but a dramatic musical is probably the hardest thing anyone could transfer to film.

[Mgoblue201]

Oscar bait used to mean a hollow attempt to garner an award by appealing to what one thinks the academy's idea of an "artistic film" would look like but without the capability to actually make anything of artistic value. However, the term keeps getting applied to anything that is attempting to be "artistic" in general. That just waters the term down. I think that Les Miserables has the potential to be a very good film, and I am also a fan of Tom Hooper's work. In the last seven or eight years, he has been on a roll (Elizabeth, John Adams, The Damned United, The King's Speech). I don't think that any of his movies have been overly pretentious or attempting to feign artistic value, though some may disagree.

Anyway, my greatest worry is that this film will have a tough time balancing the cast's acting ability with their singing talent. I understand the need to cast more professional actors. The dynamic of a film is completely different from that of a stage musical, where only some of the emotion is communicated through movements and facial expressions, whereas the movie actors will have to deal with that sort of thing. I also assume that there will be spoken dialogue in the film (though I could be wrong). But at the same time it's going to be difficult for the singing to live up to the stage musical. Most of the cast has had a lot of experience singing, sure, but nothing I have seen has led me to believe that it's quite as good as the talent used for the stage versions.

I think people should hold reasonable expectations after seeing breathtaking visuals. Musicals need fantastic visuals. Unfortunately, what often happens in these movies is that the scenes are short and paper-thin, and of course the backdrops are staging for songs. None of these things are negatives, but a dramatic musical is probably the hardest thing anyone could transfer to film.

As far as I know Tom Hooper doesn't have much experience with musicals, so we'll see how that part of it goes, but what Tom Hooper does do well is the ability to create tension and drama within the setting. I wouldn't be too worried about that.

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I see Gabriel Van Helsing in there.

[Scullibundo]

I see Gabriel Van Helsing in there.

Angier.

[Mgoblue201]

I see Gabriel Van Helsing in there.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, ReturnOfTheRAT, and I won’t have it.

[Larson Conway]

#slain

[Fidelis Hodie]

The Cinematography Impressed the hell out of me when I saw it, I have watched it a few more times now and there are some beautiful shots in that trailer.

Yep. Apparently it's the same dude from The King's Speech, which makes complete sense. His use of those ridiculously wide lenses are so damn perfect.

The movie will be astoundingly gorgeous.

I had no hype. Now I have massive hype.

[mclem]

I'd like to have seen more of the major roles in the trailers (Cosette might be the entire driver for the storyline, but she's not actually a particularly interesting character; not when you've got Eponine and the Thenadiers out there). Still, looks highly promising.

Edit: Just looked at the cast list. Nice cameo in the role of the Bishop of Digne!

[lenovox1]

The film arrangement for “I Dreamed a Dream” is beautiful. Anne Hathaway sounds absolutely marvelous yet restrained. Good for her.

I think Evita has proven that a sung-through, dramatic musical can be done fairly well on film with the righty take on the material. So, I have high hopes and expectations for this project. I hope it does well.

I'd like to have seen more of the major roles in the trailers (Cosette might be the entire driver for the storyline, but she's not actually a particularly interesting character; not when you've got Eponine and the Thenadiers out there). Still, looks highly promising.

But it does make sense for the first trailer. "I Dreamed a Dream" is the most internationally recognized songs from the musical, and Anne is one of the biggest stars in the film.

[Speevy]

One thing I can already tell is that Hugh Jackman's performance in this film is going to be something special.

[Scullibundo]

One thing I can already tell is that Hugh Jackman's performance in this film is going to be something special.

I certainly hope so. Jackman hasn't done anything good in a long while.

[DBT85]

Will watch. And if it's good, over and over.

Been to the show 3 times and love it.

Also, this should be a positive delight to see that the cinema as people who talk and make noise will be far less likely to go and see it.

[glaurung]

It's... beautiful.

Not too sure about Anne's singing, but knowing Hugh and Russel both have great singing voices, this should be an awesome rendition of the musical.

Cannot wait.

[legend166]

Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in the same movie?

The Australian media is going to go nuts.

[Scullibundo]

Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe in the same movie? The Australian media is going to go nuts.

You just know that wrinkled piece of plastic Richard Wilkins is going to have a hard on tomorrow morning.

[Chaser]

Those are some fantastic visuals.

I've always had trouble getting into musicals, but I'm definitely excited for this now. Anne sounds great.

[mclem]

But it does make sense for the first trailer. "I Dreamed a Dream" is the most internationally recognized songs from the musical, and Anne is one of the biggest stars in the film.

You're thinking of Fantine; Cosette's the daughter, the one played by Amanda Seyfried. I agree completely about putting Fantine front-and-centre!

Edit: In retrospect, though, Amanda Seyfried's arguably a much bigger star than Samantha Barks, at least, even though it was the Eponine who appeared in the O2 performance! I wonder if they might elbow Sacha Baron Cohen into the trailer for the UK since he's bigger over here?

[Scullibundo]

YOUTUBE HD

[lenovox1]

You're thinking of Fantine; Cosette's the daughter, the one played by Amanda Seyfried. I agree completely about putting Fantine front-and-centre!

Oh, you're right (and there was quite a bit of young Cosette). Silly me :-).

The movie's not done yet though, so I'll just assume that that was just some of the most trailer-ready footage they had.

[Ratrat]

It's... beautiful. Not too sure about Anne's singing, but knowing Hugh and Russel both have great singing voices, this should be an awesome rendition of the musical. Cannot wait.

Russell Crowe has a great singing voice?
What.

[Hawkian]

You're thinking of Fantine; Cosette's the daughter, the one played by Amanda Seyfried. I agree completely about putting Fantine front-and-centre!

Thank you, that was bugging me.

...I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS MUSICAL

I had no idea this was happening.

[Tom_Cody]

The trailer has won me over.