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"Les Mis: Visually impressive w (with) great emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers... It's an opera. Hollywood's movie musicals treat the singing as the last priority... Anne Hathaway as Fantine and (Aaron Tveit as) Enjolras were the exceptions for me. Helena B (Bonham) Carter and Sacha B (Baron) Cohen were great too," he said.
The entire Hollywood cast, including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried, sang live on set but Lambert insists the stars' vocals should instead have been pre-recorded and digitally enhanced.
"With that cast, they should have studio recorded and sweetened the vocals. Eponine's (Samantha Barks') voice was cool too... I felt like I should ignore the vocals and focus on the emotional subtext - but the singing was so distracting at times it pulled me out.
"The industry will say, 'These actors were so brave to attempt singing this score live' but why not cast actors who could actually sound good? Sorry for being so harsh but it's so true!"
I have no idea who "Adam" is. I do know that Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe sing exceptionally well and did a exceptional Oscar winning performance as did all of the cast. Again "Adam" who???
All Adam does is scream. He's not even a singer. He sucks. Why should anyone even care what he. Thinks? Is he mad that no one asked him to star in a role or something???
So, hiring an actor who has won 2 Tony Awards doesn't qualify as hiring an actor who can sing?!? :S
I agree...!!
At least they sound better than Adam
