I don’t usually agree with John Bennett’s film reviews, but he got it right-on with Mis (Filmland, Jan. 3). My daughter was visiting for the holidays, and when I asked her to go with me I got: “No Dad, it’s boring!”
I should have listened to her. It was beyond boring. Victor Hugo’s classic has been filmed many times. In my opinion the best was a 1995 retelling set in occupied France, which stared Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jean Valjean. Check it out.
Frank Onstine, Blue Lake
This article appears in The Gun Issue.
Well, to each his own, Frank (and John). The 1995 version was a really good movie but… it wasn’t a musical. If you want a musical version, the current version is the one for you. But you clearly didn’t want it and so it goes. Maybe you did want a musical but you didn’t want this one. Ok, fine. It was very closely based on a spectacularly popular stage version that millions found anything but boring. This is the problem with printing “recommendations” based on feelings about artistic endeavors. “It’s boring” tells us two people didn’t like it. Ok, thanks!