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#26

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 2:10pm

I had mixed feelings on Moulin Rouge. I liked the songs and the visuals, but the story (or lack of one) bothered me. I didn't like that Satine was sick basically whenever the movie wanted her to be. It didn't really make sense to me that someone sick with consumption would be doing big production numbers every night. I think they could've had her die of something else.

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

#27

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:15pm

One of the great movies of the past ten years. It will probably become a classic. Kidman, McGregor, and Broadbent are fantastic.

#28

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:24pm

I hated every repugnant, repulsive, nauseating second of it. You're actually talking about how good some of the singing is?! Did I find Nicole "somewhat annoying"?????? No wonder musicals are so lousy today. Oh well, to each their own!

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#29

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:26pm

actually talking about how good some of the singing is?!

Who are you talking to?

#30

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:28pm

The people posting on this thread, sexy Max!

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#31

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:33pm

I agree-Can't sit through it. The scene where Ewan is reading poetry and Nicole is pretending to get aroused just triggers something and I can't look at it anymore. It's like a series of cute ideas cobbled together with not much story.

#32

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:37pm

It's horribly filmed. The camera doesn't stay still for more than 3 seconds. Musical numbers are poorly rendered, and the entire look and everyone in it, is grotesque. That there is nothing compelling about the "story", is the least of its problems.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#33

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:38pm

love it. and i love, love.

XING
PED

#34

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:40pm

Freak!

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#35

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:41pm

love makes the world go round. love lifts us up where we belong. all you need is love!

XING
PED

#36

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:42pm

Ok, it wasn't the best story or anything. But it's romantic and has pretty people in it, so I enjoyed it.

"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
-cheezedoodle

#37

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:42pm

I loved it when I first saw it, but I should also mention that I'd never been to a musical. After seeing about 20 musicals, I watched it again, and I wasn't nearly as impressed, especially with the music. What's so great about taking lyrics from popular songs and stringing them together. I'd have more of an appreciation for it, if all the music was original.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

#38

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:43pm

Ah, poor Babe. You found those people pretty? Ah...

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#39

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:44pm

Yes!!! Ya gotta admit CM, Ewan is pretty. Come on.....

"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
-cheezedoodle

#40

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:46pm

I already said I found everyone grotesque. That doesn't mean pretty! Not a fan of the man. But if you find him pretty, then okay.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#41

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:47pm

when i first saw it in the theatre, i was like "wtf" for the first 15 minutes. until they got to the "elephant love song" then i was hooked. it just clicked from there.

and, yes, both of them did their own singing.

XING
PED

#42

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:48pm

I am a bit of a Moulin Rougue junkie..."a bit" meaning I used to watch it every single day...and still cry at the end....every time.

and I want Ewan.

Now.

Honey, I don't produce theater. I am theater.

#43

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 4:56pm

They should have actually filmed the Green Fairy singing Olivia's "Physical" as was originally planned. I'm sure I would have enjoyed that bit.

#44

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 5:07pm

cm2, you probably don't get it since you're australian.

XING
PED

Updated On: 10/10/05 at 05:07 PM

#45

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 5:11pm

I love this film. Love it. There, I said it. Love it.

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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch

#46

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 5:18pm

I love it too. cried all three times in the theatre.

that being said. I definately understand the reasons for the haters of this film. it is different, definately, and Nicole kidman is annoying (not just in this film-thats kind of her character-that annoyingly attractive blonde chick.

anyway, just like Robb0 said, "it clicked" and either it clicked for you, or it didn't. it clicked for me. I love the BAz's style, the cinematography, the costumes and sets.

I like everything EXEPT for that scene that beerchild was talking about with the poetry scene. I understand the style and the joke it was going for, but a comedianne Nicole is not. I hate her in that scene. I just want to punch her in her face.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

#47

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 5:20pm

FU, RobbO. Funny, I wanted to punch the entire cast!

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

#48

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 5:21pm

FU? i cannot find that on the map. is that next to FI?

XING
PED

#49

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 7:36pm

Moulin R. is certainly frenetically paced and edited, but I did enjoy it. I am a big fan of Baz Luhrman's--'Strictly Ballroom' is on heavy rotation in my house--and Moulin Rouge is very much the logical outcome of giving Baz unlimited $$$ to make a film.

I certainly understand why musical theatre purists would find M.R. so offensive, in the same way that the professional dancers I know were totally put off by the film version of 'chicago', but taken on its own terms, I find it a crazy (in a good way) ride.

"They have never understood, and no reason that they should. But if anybody could . . . " --SS

#50

re: Moulin Rouge

Posted: 10/10/05 at 7:38pm

I love STRICTLY BALLROOM. It's a very entertaining film, and features Paul Mercurio's spectacular ass, in tight pants.

ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

Updated On: 10/10/05 at 07:38 PM

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