Ouch!
Les Mis├â┬⌐rables may be raking in the rave reviews, but it sure doesn’t have a fan in Adam Lambert!
At least, not as far as the music goes!
The outspoken Idol alum took to Twitter yesterday and went on a rant about the flick — and he didn’t hold anything back!
Adam initially tweeted:
Les Mis: Visually impressive w great Emotional performances. But the score suffered massively with great actors PRETENDING to be singers.
— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012
…it’s an opera. Hollywoods movie musicals treat the singing as the last priority. (Dreamgirls was good)
— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012
Lambert didn’t dog on everything in the film, however, making it clear that he thought Anne Hathaway and Aaron Tveit were the exceptions, and that Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen were “great too.”
As for Adam’s suggestion on how they could’ve made Les Mis better?
Adam wrote:
And I do think it was cool they were singing live- but with that cast, they should have studio recorded and sweetened the vocals.
— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012
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.
— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012
While Adam apologized for coming across as harsh and perhaps negative, he also voiced that they should’ve just casted actors who “sound good” from the start!
Since he grew up with the musical, he admitted that he had high expectations, but still urged his followers to see it for Anne’s astounding performance!
Maybe Adam would’ve had a dream fulfilled, had he been cast in the flick???
Well… you do know what they say about opinions! LOLz!
[Image via WENN.]
