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Brilliant! I just wished you told us how you really felt about the movie instead of tip-toeing around the issue.
It’s a pleasure to be on this planet at the same time as yourself. Keep real!
Brilliant review of Les Mis.. Keep up the great work..
Leda Sanford-
Have you read the 1/7/13 issue of new Yorker with review of les Miz?
Much along the same lines as yours….which, though I am female, I could have written. You left out some of the worst parts….( I, too, commented to my husband about the English accent…huh?…BTW, he teared up several times during the film…is my marriage doomed?!)
Anyway…how about the fact that there were No lyrics that exceeded one syllable? And that every line was predictable, as it would have been if written by a second grader? Actually, soon your twins
Will be able to write better poetry than any in the movie. I would guess they will need to be four or five years old. Hw about the close ups? Was it really necessary to see Anne hathaways tonsils?
Oh god, it was terrible.
Thanks for the laughs….
but are you a Susan Boyle fan?
Kentucky? That explains it all.
Matt, Matt….twins? Anyway, as a professional writer, I was actually HOWLING with laughter and that is quite a feat as I write about sex and Tarrantino-style novels. Once you recover from tour Les Mis induced PTSD, I would love to subscribe to your site…L
Great review…I hardly agreed with most you said, but still enjoyed reading it!
Cried both times I read this. Brilliant!
Friend of your brother joe’s… came here after reading a post of yours he shared. Love your commmentary… will continue to share it! Hopefully if nothing else it will make people THINK!
Quite the funny review and well-written, too. Remind me not to go see Les Mis. I had a very similar experience to yours while watching the Titanic, the movie that won all those awards. How????? I could hardly wait for it to sink. It took an eternity. I even wanted Leonard deCaprio, whom I usually revere, gone…gone to the depths of the cold sea. Didn’t you think that Leonard looked like a 16 year old boy in the role? That made his lady love look like a perv. And how did he stay so clean, considering his lowly work-man position?
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(I see someone has beaten me to it as well!
Oops – forgot to post the actual blog link for the Inspirational Blog Award
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OMG! Just the blog I have been looking for – had this conversation with my grown daughters recently – we all agreed if the movie wins an oscar, we are more than likely not going to like it! I typed in “hated les miserables” and your blog came up. I know where I’m going in the future for reviews! Laughed out loud! Thanks for making my day!
Hey! New reader here from the Conversion Diary blog. Would you, could you, put up a subscribe-by-email widget? And…congratulations on the twins!
Wait, you’re a local?!? I have been following your brilliance on Facebook all this time and not known you were in central KY? Awesome. Spot-on, constantly.