Rewatched Les Miz today with my SIL. On rewatch, I was even more impressed with Hathaway and the revolutionaries, and less impressed with Jackman. Seriously, I don't know if it was the weird sound in our theater or what, but Crowe and Jackman seemed more on par than I remembered. Seyfried seemed even worse.
SIL, who just read the book but had no experience with the musical, had little problem with Crowe, hated Seyfried, and was disappointed in Jackman (just because she had high expectations I think). I realized that if you don't know the musical parts, it is not very obvious that Crowe is not singing it "right"; however, Seyfried sounds like she is straining regardless.
I cried just as much as the first time. Perhaps more.
I'm thinking about rereading before I watch. At my speeds I think I can, but I might not want to try.
This is fascinating!
Really is. Kills me to think that the matte painting of Sigourney Weaver's apartment building in Ghostbusters was broken.
I accidently stumbled across some Harry Potter slash fiction at work today.
Is anyone interested? I'm not sure I really want to read it because I'm not that much into fan fiction, but if anyone would like to see it, I could send it to you. It's in an email.
Check it out: the macroeconomics of the Hobbit:
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Oh that is just too wonderful for words:
One has to ask whether or not a more innovative monetary policy framework could have ameliorated the impacts of the dragon-induced economic downturn. If the peoples of Middle Earth had abandoned their gold specie standard, and switched instead to a paper currency, they could have revived trade-flows without sacrificing so many lives. Unfortunately, the lack of a central bank, or indeed any but the most rudimentary monetary institutions, was a major obstacle to currency reform.
Just saw Les Miz. I must thank you all for lowering my expectations just enough. Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried were not as bad as I had dreaded. Maybe it's leftover Veronica Mars glow, but I sympathized with Cosette a tiny bit for the first time.
There were some songs I didn't remember and some I was disappointed got cut off, but overall I loved it.
I saw This Is 40 this morning and...I found it kind of scattered and messy and I spent too much time wanting to shake the shit out of the leads to really like it, but some of the moments between the main couple were really small and warm and lovely, and the performances were generally solid, and a couple seriously hard laughs in there.
I missed some of the trailers--it's possible that Melissa McCarthy was in even more movies, but JESUS FUCK. Her I'm-unhinged-spouting-threats lady continues to crack my shit up, and she has me for at least one of her upcoming flicks. Which is to say--there are no scenes after the credits, but don't leave
right
away, because there is a MM outtake or two during them.
Basically, this is the first Apatow movie since The 40 Year Old Virgin that I've seen, and it's clear that casting is a big deal with his movies for me, because Rudd makes a fair amount better, and I'm a Leslie Mann fan too. I didn't like it as much as 40YOV, but I would not change the channel off it on cable if I stumbled on it again.
The two jokes that had me laughing really really hard:
What's the difference between a gay beard and a straight beard? The smell.
(not even vaguely mature, but with the context, and delivery, and...yeah), and the question in an interview between
a Jewish publication and the musician "What makes this album different from all other ablums?"
I know--it's obvious and cheap. And apparently the rest of the theatre thought it cheap. I kinda brayed. But I was alone.
