Les Miserables: the movie

I FINALLY SAW THE MOVIE YOU GUYS IT WAS AWESOME

I was expecting to think it was overwrought and enjoy it principally for its potential for mockery (and, mind you, there was some of that) but... but... it had two things going for it. One is that the people who made the movie clearly, clearly, loved the musical and the book, and for that I adore them SO MUCH. The other thing that it had going for it was that despite all the cynicism and judgmentalness and analytic distance I've built up since I saw Les Mis for the first time, as soon as the first orchestral notes boomed in I was grinning like a maniac, a large part of me instantly reverted RIGHT BACK to twelve-year-old OMG I AM IN LOVE. So, um. Loved the movie!

I do think, mind you, there are certain things one needs to know if one desperately loves the musical, as I do: ( Read more... )

It was actually awfully cool to watch it after reading the book.( In which I rave and rant about the musical and the book and the movie and things that made no sense in the musical/movie and things I liked MORE in the musical/movie )

I could talk about this movie forever, but in conclusion: LOVE.