My sisters and I saw Les Mis on Christmas Day: we actually scheduled Christmas dinner around it! Then we all sat in the theatre after going "whoah, what just happened." I, too, liked Russell Crowe; I thought he did great. But we all thought that Marius was the sleeper surprise of the show: both his acting and singing were fantastic.
I'm going to have to disagree with you about the Hobbit, though. I was bored. IMHO they could easily have cut every scene that didn't have Martin Freeman in it, and then it would have been wonderful! (What was with that whole subplot about Thorin and the orcs? Thorin isn't the hero of the Hobbit--otherwise it would have been called The Dwarf, and noone would have read it!) I did like the stone giants, though. And yes, the riddle scene was great. Have you seen this person's mash-up preview for a "modern" Hobbit? Someone should really do this!
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Date: 2013-01-21 09:46 pm (UTC)From:I'm going to have to disagree with you about the Hobbit, though. I was bored. IMHO they could easily have cut every scene that didn't have Martin Freeman in it, and then it would have been wonderful! (What was with that whole subplot about Thorin and the orcs? Thorin isn't the hero of the Hobbit--otherwise it would have been called The Dwarf, and noone would have read it!) I did like the stone giants, though. And yes, the riddle scene was great. Have you seen this person's mash-up preview for a "modern" Hobbit? Someone should really do this!
http://suricattus.tumblr.com/post/40705287026/ophidiae-dduane-sherlockspeare-roane72
Oh, and have you seen this hilarious review of Les Mis:
http://randyreport.blogspot.ca/2012/12/review-of-les-miserables-by-sam.html