to have only just seen Les misérables?

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What a truly fantastic film.
I am now looking into watching the stage show. I laughed, cried and shouted at the screen.

Justifying this pointless thread with a Q.

So... How many of you have watched a film years after it has been released and thought WHY didn't I watch this sooner?

Id seen the show at the west end years ago- FOUR TIMES! I loved it.

didnt want to see the film, cant stand Russell Crowe .Helena bohnam Carter or Sacha Baron Cohen, and Hugh Jackman i can take or leave him.

but watched it. nothing else on. and................

I LOVED IT! all the above were excellent (except Helena, she always plays the same person all the time IYKWIM), Amanda Seyfired and Eddie Redmayne could have had their songs done a key lower (she sounded like a sick canary!) but the rest were brilliant! and Anne Hathaway had me in floods!

thoroughly loved it. was a sobfest from start to finish.

I've seen the stage musical many times.

Saw the clip of Anne Hathaway singing and couldn't bring myself to watch the film.

Watch cat milkman's link. Colm wilkinson and Ruthie henshall show how to do it properly.

Amazing film, the stage show is just incredible and I would love to go again.
I saw the film at the cinema with my mum, and when it finished I burst into tears! (Disclaimer-I am a musical theatre geek and this sort of thing happens often in my life!)

It's the only musical film I have managed to get dh to watch and enjoy. In fact he has watched it since without me as he liked it so much.

My film I didn't watch for years and years was shawshank redemption

Micah, I thought Anne Hathaway was brilliant! But then I've never been a fan of Ruthie Henshall, she's a bit too tits and teeth for me!

My dd ran out of the cinema at the end she was a bit overcome and had to compose herself in the toilets i went in and it was filled with sobbing messes

Anne was very good i liked her even if her fantine took a week to die !

I watched about almost an hour and utterly hated it. I only kept watching for that long because so many people rave about it I thought it must get better. Awful acting, mostly boring songs, ott over-emotional drivel. Dh agreed.

Before I actually saw it, I was very about Eddie Redmayne as Marius. Even through teh film I muttered to my DH that I didn't think MArius was quite as drippy as he was being portrayed. and Then he sang Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.

You know those moments when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up? By the end of the song I was a quiet snotty mess and the lady next to me was handed half a pack of tissues which she shared with her DH.

I love LM - fantastic story, vastly superior to bloody Titanic which is a pile of sentimental crap full of Hollywood anachronisms with amazing special effects.

I've seen the stage show of LM four times over the years and saw the film twice at the cinema. It's very moving. I think you get more of the individual characters in the film because the camera concentrates on them whereas the stage show makes you feel more involved with story, if that makes sense. Weak link as far as singing goes is Russell Crowe and the Thenadiers are a bit too comic rather than sinister in the film.

I love Les Mis, have it on DVD. Saw the stage show over 20 years ago and cried all the way through the second half.

The 10th anniversary dream cast shows you how it should be done. Perfect! Sends shivers down my spine every time.
Have seen 3 different stage show versions, all excellent. The film version was grim!

I love it too. I even love Russell Crowe in his own way.

Have been debating a trip to "That there London" and going to see it but a friend told me the theatre is very small so the orchestra is diminished and it is not as good as when I saw it last on tour.

What do you all think? Is it worth seeing?

I also watched for the first time on Sunday and loved it! Wish I'd seen it before.

I don't love the film. I've read the book many times and first fell in love with it when I was an impressionable, left wing teenager. The stage show is superb. My DD has always loved the music and the anniversary concerts (10th and 25th) but saw it for the first time on stage on her 7th birthday. She was very disappointed in the film and even she recognised that Russell Crowe didn't have the depth or power to portray her favourite character.

We're fans of Les Amis in this house (my username is a nod to my favourite scene in fact). Enjolras steals the show for me and he was wrong in the film. Plus they cut Grantaire's solo in Drink With Me which is brilliant when done well.

The Thénardiers were pantomime villains and Javert was terrible. Eddie Redmayne sings like Kermit and next to Cosette doing a tortured canary impression, it's tough to sit through. It's not an awful film but Les Mis is beautiful and can be done so much better.

Colm's cameo made me very happy indeed.

Hopefully, I'm going to see the stage show again soon. Some friends (and dd) are depserate to go again so we're going to go as a pre-Christmas present to ourselves.

Watch the 10th Anniversary concert... The ultimate cast, all so involved in their stories and thrilled at just being together again.....

I never ever want to watch it. I still mourn the hour and a half I spent wasted on Mamma Mia.

The stage show, on t'other hand, is spectacular.

Les mis, not
Mamma Mia.

I'm terrible for being more determined to avoid stuff the more hyped up it is, no idea why and I'm actively trying not to do it now.

Anyway, despite being pretty into musicals and the like I only finally listened to the original cast recording and then watched the concerts in the last couple of years. What finally got me to do it was meeting and lusting after a chap who was in it back in the 80s. He's got a glorious voice so I went hunting for anything I could find with him singing which inevitably led me to Les Mis.

I bloody love it and I'm annoyed with myself that I resisted for so long. I'm absolutely desperate to see it live now.

I thought Les Mis was total crap

Samsam123 you so crazy.

But what did you really think of it samsam?

Yanbu! I saw it in the cinema but only went as a friend wanted to see it but no one would go with her...I agreed, only on the basis that she bought the popcorn because I wasn't watching (and I quote) "that monumental pile of shit" without something to get me through it!

I loved it. Absolutely bloody loved it! Have watched it again since and still loved it! It's magnificent!

I'm apparently the only person who loves Russell Crowe in it!

Total pile of shite. I fucking hate musicals. People singing when they could just speak gets right on my tits. My cousin was in the stage version when I was a teenager and we had to go. I sat praying for the interval for 90 mins and then for the end for the rest.

Titanic is also a pile of sentimental crap.

I have a habit of getting teary watching films on planes - The Descendants (was right after my nanna died, I wailed), I Am Sam, American Sniper.

Not rtwt but iv tried to watch it 3 times from the beginning and end up switching it off 20 mins in as I can't stand the constant singing.
I seen that it was going to be on yesterday and thought I might try again .

Il just stick to watching the older one.