Adam Lambert’s ‘Les Mis’ review on Twitter

MANILA, Philippines – American Idol season 8 contestant Adam Lambert took to his Twitter account on December 30 and let out a series of tweets that summed-up the singer’s review of Tom Hooper’s Les Miserables film — thumbs down.

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Here are the tweets he posted:

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

Anne Hathaway as Fantine and Enjolras were the exceptions for me.

— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012

Helena B Carter and Sasha B Cohen were great too.

— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012

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

Eponine’s voice was cool too…

— 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

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?

— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012

Sorry for being so harsh but it’s so True!

— Adam Lambert (@adamlambert) December 30, 2012

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Watch the musical trailer of Les Mis here:

A fan tweeted Les Mis star Russell Crowe about Lambert’s tweets, to which the star coolly replied:

“I don’t disagree with Adam, sure it could have been sweetened, Hooper wanted it raw and real, that’s how it is.” 

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Lambert welcomed the new year in Asia with a concert in Bali, Indonesia. – Rappler.com

(‘Les Miserables’ is showing in the Philippines on January 16.)