Completely forgot to liveblog my thought's during last night's viewing because I was super hungry for pizza and then totally forgot I get really opinionated watching blockbusters (??) so I just yelled at the TV screen for two and a half hours. Sorry I wasn't here. TL;DR Hathaway TOTALLY deserved that Oscar, the musical score was a total disappointment, Russell Crowe was actually good (you're all just mean), and whichever lighting guy didn't show up for filming needs to be fired because half the movie was me squinting my eyes like an ER nurse investigating an assault victim - all I could see from head to toe was black and blue and I couldn't understand the context behind any of it. If Tom Hooper makes another B-list musical adaptation with terrible CGI and lazily directed musical cues I will personally come to his house and beat him to death with a steel chair.
Also lol I couldn't even blame the movie for the pacing Victor Hugo spends at least twenty pages describing the Paris sewer system because why not and at least half of the book was cut from the musical because it is completely worthless and means nothing. Though I do wish that they had spent a little more time near the end explaining what was going on because I just straight up got whiplash during the last ten minutes of the movie.
(also mildly underrated I just remembered at least 1/8 of the book is dedicated to Marius' backstory but it is not touched on AT ALL. whoever wrote the screenplay for the original musical deserves to be punted like a football over a cliff.)