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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:00 pm
I think the first one was made in...1979?
Yeah..personally, I didn't really like it....Eponine wasn't even in it...they cut out a lot, and had much, much more about Valjean's past...
Well, I guess it's kind of hard to fit all of the stuff from the book into a two hour movie...
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:57 pm
Roses are red...
There was one made in...1998 (maybe?) that I thought was a load of crap. The Friends of the ABC weren't given enough of a part, Fantine was Uma Thurman ( gonk ), there was no Patron-Minette and Valjean didn't die. That was what pissed me off the most. However, it had it's high points, namely Petit-Picpus.
And pink and yellow and purple
{ etc. etc. etc. }
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Public Flogging Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:58 pm
Atomic H Roses are red...
There was one made in...1998 (maybe?) that I thought was a load of crap. The Friends of the ABC weren't given enough of a part, Fantine was Uma Thurman ( gonk ), there was no Patron-Minette and Valjean didn't die. That was what pissed me off the most. However, it had it's high points, namely Petit-Picpus.
And pink and yellow and purple
{ etc. etc. etc. } I heard that it really did justice to the first half the the book, but butchered the second half.
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:08 pm
Public Flogging Atomic H Roses are red...
There was one made in...1998 (maybe?) that I thought was a load of crap. The Friends of the ABC weren't given enough of a part, Fantine was Uma Thurman ( gonk ), there was no Patron-Minette and Valjean didn't die. That was what pissed me off the most. However, it had it's high points, namely Petit-Picpus.
And pink and yellow and purple
{ etc. etc. etc. } I heard that it really did justice to the first half the the book, but butchered the second half.
You hit the nail on the head with that one, Flogging.
And pink and yellow and purple
{ etc. etc. etc. }
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[~ Sonata Euphoriacide ~]
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:59 pm
 I only saw the 1998 movie.
And it wasn't too good in terms of staying to the book.
Here's my whole rant on it. Pssh, those other people were talking about Eragon, Ella Enchanted, or Harry Potter. No, '98 Les Mis is what they're looking for. Seriously, Les Mis is a CLASSIC, and they could've done a better job on it.
But TAC = heart Feel like going insane? Got a fire in your brain? And you're thinking of drinking gasoline...
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:43 am
They should make a new version, and have the songs in it!!!!! Only in a few years, so I can be in it heart
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:54 pm
I was tempted to buy it in the store, but as there were no songs, and the fact that a friend of mine said the 1998 version was awful, I did not get it.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:22 pm
Roses are red...
Does anybody know where I can get a copy of the TAC on VHS? I rented it from Video Library, but Video Library got stupid and became a bootleg Netflix....
And pink and yellow and purple
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Raspberry Rainbow Sherbet
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:34 am
I loved the Les Miserables 1998 movie...just saw it last night!
Although I was very disappointed on how it was not accurate, but I still loved t.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:07 pm
i think the 1998 version is by far very great and underated. With amazing music, with a slice of both the musical and the book within the movie. I really love the suicide scene as well, better then rest of the other adaptation. It's very impossible to cram all of a freakin big book into a two hour film man. Qui Gon Jin and Captain Barbossa did a good job, and I loved Beatrix as well lol . With the fact the rest of the adaptations are MADE FOR TV, this film is much like the 1935 movie.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:58 pm
I don't really want to see the movie after what you guys said of it. I want to see it onstage though really badly!! I was in it, but didn't get a chance to see it.
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:56 pm
I didn't really like the 98 film either. But the alternative isn't much better...
I was at FYE a few years ago and I found this CRAZY film adaptation of the book. It's the full video cassettes long, and actually pretty thorough, but (forgive me stressed ) boring. I'm not sure when it was originally filmed, but it looks like the first version might have been in black and white and in french. It's basically a really long, colorized, dubbed Les Mis, with bad acting...
yuck.
Someone really should make a good movie version.
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 6:07 am
I heard a while ago that a musical film version was in the making, but I've heard nothing of it since. They'd have to get the casting right... meaning real broadway/west end singers instead of Hollywood actors and actresses.
Has anybody seen the (I think it was in 2000) film of Les Mis staring Gerard Depardieu and John Malkovich? Apparently there are two versions, one in English and on in French that's double the time. I'm yet to see the French one because it's so hard to find subtitled, but for a film that's hailed as being the best rendition of the story, I was sorely disappointed by the English language copy. Malkovich was wooden and seemed bored throughout, and though I can't really complain about Depardieu's acting, the rest of the cast was uninspired and... just wrong. Can nobody do the story justice? scream
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:57 pm
GuruLazer I heard a while ago that a musical film version was in the making, but I've heard nothing of it since. They'd have to get the casting right... meaning real broadway/west end singers instead of Hollywood actors and actresses. Has anybody seen the (I think it was in 2000) film of Les Mis staring Gerard Depardieu and John Malkovich? Apparently there are two versions, one in English and on in French that's double the time. I'm yet to see the French one because it's so hard to find subtitled, but for a film that's hailed as being the best rendition of the story, I was sorely disappointed by the English language copy. Malkovich was wooden and seemed bored throughout, and though I can't really complain about Depardieu's acting, the rest of the cast was uninspired and... just wrong. Can nobody do the story justice? scream The French version is better. (It's twice as long, which helps.) Somehow or other "Shojo Cosette" is a decent portrayal, although there's still something irksome about it. Still, it lays out each of the main characters; it has the Friends of the ABC in it and gives them each their own character. Anthony Perkins shines as Javert in the 1979, and it is probably the best portrayal of Javert. Valjean is also portrayed much better than the 1998 version. The 1998 version was just bizarre. Did not like it very much. And hated the way it ended. The happy-ending music should not be played as Valjean's walking away after finding out that Javert has killed himself. There's a okay way to portray Valjean and an a*****e way to do it. I love Liam Neeson, but he portrayed Valjean as much pettier person than he is written. Also, Claire Danes... I'm sorry but Cosette does not argue with Valjean; (she goes and mopes about it, unnecessarily, while the Friends of the ABC's are dying).
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:42 pm
Just saw the 1935 version.
The Valjean is truly excellent (manages to pull off the righteousness without it making him seem like a jerk).
Javert acts his part so well that he's better for the role than Valjean dispite being completely wrong for the part (and you want to give him a hug at many points during the movie).
The bishop was exactly as you'd imagine a bishop to be, and snarky enough to pull off the no-I'm-not-calling-the-police-just-because-the-silver-plates-are-gone without seeming unrealistic.
The young Cosette was cute (in this version, she got to meet Fantine and was going to be left with Fantine with a lot of money for their upkeep). They have Valjean making his decisions at the main decision points.
The Enjolras-Marius conglomeration was interesting and adorable (and had Eponine as the secretary he was having sex with).
Due to the time it was made, during the Great Depression, several interesting things were done with the Friends of the ABCs. They made them a Reform Society and had them staging a protest, deliberately never having them mention revolution.
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