ONE DAY MORE - complete song from film — Page 2

I love what they have sam doing.Aaron sounds boring to me. Enjloras's voice should give me goosebumps.Aaron is doing nothing for me.Kinda wish they had Ramin in the movie..now thats a VOICE!

Crowe sounds fine to me.He isn't a great singer but i think he can pull it off. Jackman sounds great as usual.Amanda sounds alot better in this than the heart full of love clip.Eddie sounds fantastic.

I like what HBC and SBC are doing but I cant get into HBC'S voice. eh.

I think marketing is going overboard with all these clips.I love watching them but I feel like ive seen the whole movie.A couple months ago people were complaining that Marketing was doing a horrible job promoting the movie.Now i feel all these clips are a way of them saying "you want more,we will give you more".

Underwhelming, indeed.

The editing is pretty atrocious ... in this number at least.

I just rewatched it and I don't think it's big or grand enough. It is not filmed as the showstopping moment it should be.

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Badly edited, woodenly directed, Jackman and Redmayne look like rank amateurs trying way too hard. Barks has her moments. But the whole thing is embarrassing and amateurish. It has nothing like the "Tonight" like energy of the number on stage, let alone the transporting kick of "Tonight" on screen.

Yup. Sorry. That's my reaction.

Now I'm really in for it, exposing myself to all sorts of ridicule from those who want so much to love this movie.

I want to love it to. But the more clips like this I see the more I think it's a nightmare.

Hugh Jackman was my least favorite of the performers in that clip, perhaps because I expected him to be one of the standouts. His diction and phrasing was odd, and he sounded very strained.

The South Park movie's essential parody of this song was a lot more exciting. The "Quintet" from WSS was more exciting.

A number like this is inherently exciting and rousing.

...so why wasn't it?

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At the risk of sounding like My Oh My, what in the Helsinki is up with the sound mixing? Where is the orchestra? In big, epic songs like this, the actors' voices can only go so far. You need the big bass notes, the woodwind sixteenths on top, the trumpet fanfare...maybe it's just this way for this clip, but in every clip we've seen so far, I feel like my major complaint has been "the orchestra is too quiet." In a musical where so much meaning is derived from repeated motifs and instrumentals, it's just as much a necessity to have a good orchestra as it is to have a good cast. I seriously hope it doesn't sound like this in the theater.

That said, I loved Samantha and how they had her dressing herself up as a boy- it makes a lot of sense; I never liked how she was just chilling by Marius in the stage version. Eddie was really great, and I don't think he has Kermit-the-Frog Syndrome. Aaron was pretty good as well. Both Amanda and Russel are lacking in vocal technique, yes, but I will let it slide because I can picture both Cosette and Javert having those sorts of voices.

Hugh Jackman, though...funny you should mention South Park, Kad, because when Hugh Jackman opened his mouth, my mind immediately went to a South Park character. He sounds so weak, and, IDK...nasally (?) on his upper register. I'm not a singer, so I don't have a more precise vocabulary for his tone, but it sounds like he inhaled helium or something whenever he sings the higher notes.

Edited to add: I don't think I've seen this clip of Valjean and the Bishop posted here yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-phpTMht0

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 09:27 PM

In "Tonight" Wise, Robbins and editor Thomas Stanford expertly and gracefully used cross cutting to energetically overcome the fragmented (when transposed to film without imagination and skill) nature of a composite action set piece.

Hooper, faced with a similar challenge, has patched the disparate elements/soliloquys in clumps that fail to imagistically relate to each other. There is an absence of unifying editorial rhythm. Jackman is passively "on the nose" with the lyrics, leaving him defeated instead of struggling against his obstacles. Having Valjean and Cosette passively riding in the carriage is a disastrous static mistake. Even something as prosaic and simple as packing up to leave would have at least given Jackman and Seyfried something to work with. The editing between Redmayne and Seyfried is choppy and fails to provide any sense of their longing for each other. Similarly, there is nothing that brings Redmayne's inertia and Tveit's passion into the bold relief required. Only Barks and Tveit seem to be naturally in the moment of every take.

Hooper would have seemed a natural choice to make this work. But it's dead on arrival.

Updated On: 12/18/12 at 10:43 PM

E. Davis- the volume on my computer was all the way up, haha. Perhaps it's just my laptop speakers.

I'm actually super disappointed by Aaron in this clip. Considering he's one of the only people in that cast who is a real SINGER (really the only one other than Samantha Barks), he should really shine. Instead he kinda fades into the background, which Enjolras should NOT do (especially in this number). I felt like his voice wan't big and booming enough.

Also, Amanda sounds atrocious, and the entire first half of the song was too disjointed and staccato. For what everyone has been saying about Russell Crowe, I think he sounds better and more natural than both Amanda and, honestly, Hugh. I'm REALLY nervous for Bring Him Home.

It is very poorly edited. Once you establish each character singing, you don't have to cut to them each time they sing. The audience can figure it out. With the frenetic editing of this number, and the almost dizzying nonstop camera movement, the entire number comes across as a jumbled mess.

That's true. Maybe that's part of why a lot of us feel that the song lacked energy.

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