@Filmdrunk Mancini, as your usual you don't understand a shit. Tom Hooper's Les Miserables is a MOVIE not the play, 2 DIFFERENT things and it's with this in mind that must be watched and judged, comparisons with any theatrical version doesn't make sense. Hooper did not want mannerisms and theatrical virtuosity for his movie, he asked for realism, because what works in theatre cannot work in a movie. In a motion-picture adaptation it's important to hear the emotion and acting they put in to their singing, which is something that can transform a song from that of a recording artist, to that of an actor. Les Miserables will be one of the big contenders at the Academy Awards 2013, the Tony Award winner Jackman as Valjean got a Golden Globe nomination and 2 SAG Awards nominations, a type of awards that are not assigned to cats strangled. Insiders and professional critics have predicted for him an Oscar nomination too and likely a win. In Les Miserables he used a 'sing-talking' technique, Rex Harrison won an Oscar in 1964 using the same singing style in My Fair Lady. For a good start of the new year, you should urgently do something about your well-known inferiority complex towards Jackman, now is becoming pathological...

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