Chasing Sound - The Les Paul Story DVD

Advantages: This is a moving show about the french revolution.
Disadvantages: You will never be able to look at the french without thinking of this.

...Last year at around this time I was having the most tiring yet most enjoyable week of my life. I had spent the whole weekend practicing with a band for our school production of "Les Miserables". This musical is based on the book "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo and is a story about some of the poor people in France during the french revolution. It is about hteir struggle against those people who are rich. The play starts in a slavery prison where the prisoners are forced to mine for most of the day. The main character, Jean Valjean, soon gets set free and goes off to start a new life, and is given money by a priest. The police, being ignorant and ill-informed, immediately assume that jean valjean has stolen the money, and they begin to chase him. Most of this story is the struggle that Jean Valjean has to endure to try to forge a proper... Read review

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Advantages: It's probably the best sitcom ever - excellent twists in the story
Disadvantages: Some of Penny's insults are awful!

...becoming far from 'just good friends'! Sounds like the same old story, I know, but you really have to watch it - it's such a funny sitcom! So what's so good about the same old boy-meets-girl story? Well, the script is hilarious, to put it bluntly. It's quite an intelligent comedy which I think makes a refreshing change from the fast-growing childish humour on sitcoms these days. The sitcom was written by the great John Sullivan (who also wrote the long-running comedy, 'Only Fools and Horses'), and the theme tune written by Ronnie Hazelhurst and sung by Paul Nicholas (who also plays Vince). The series was directed by Sue Bysh, and directed/produced by Ray Butt. In my opinion, they couldn't have picked better actors and actresses for the roles if they tried. Every character is just brilliant, and each has fabulous lines! Another key advantage... Read review

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Advantages: Good Story, A Classic
Disadvantages: What happened to the end????

...Well, I have bought this on dvd and I was thoroughly impressed with it. Liam Neeson plays Jean Valjean with ease. Geoffrey Rush as Javert - was he type-cast ????? A brilliant Javert. The film follows the story quite well but I was a bit shocked at the following few things: Eponine - Where was she? She never appeared in the film at all, but does actually play a big part in the story (love triangle between Cosette, Marius and Eponine). Javert's Death - Again, why end the film there? There was so much more story left - Valjean not wanting Cosette to know about his past, Marius finding out that it was Valjean that saved him and the death of Valjean. Despite all this, the film is very watchable and I would watch it a few times... This story teaches us lots of different things....... Read review

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