I must say that Moulin Rouge took me completely by surprise. From the previews, I thought it would be a standard, boring period piece costume drama, and I had zero interest in it.The fact it was a musical starring Nicole Kidman and Euan MacGregor should have peaked my curiosity but the swings and tophats and coquettish frills just made my mind glaze over. I did not expect the heavily postmodern, oddly effective collage of contemporary love songs delivered in over-stimulating baroque and encrusted valentine sets. I didn't expect that every shot would be pushed to the extreme, each moment of the film an overloaded symbolic allegory to ...something... well, something emotionally hard-core, that's for sure. It's an operatic plot with an audacious amount of dramatic catharsis crammed into every scene. Somehow it's okay. NK is excellent and so is EM. They embody their larger than life characters with never so much as an ironic quiver. (note: just found out the director, Baz Luhrmann, also did "Strictly Ballroom," which I also loved...yeah, I'm a big softie. Hit me with your best shot and paint me with a broad stroke brush.)
Oh my god we've lost another one. That was a terrible movie and if I ever see it I know it will just be worse.
not everybody likes singing.
I was a little embarrased liking it as much as I did, saw it more than once.
i have never seen the film but i think this is because a friend of mine burned a copy of the cd for me. to this day i don't if he gave me the cd as a joke or if he actually likes it.
jimlouis, don't be embarrassed. embrace your inner frenchman.
Ok, doing that; now what?
wear your sweater over your shoulders.
I had to share a studio with someone who kept playing the movie's soundtrack. I almost lost it entirely. I hate her to this day because of it. She also disliked the smell of fresh brewed coffee. Two strikes.
switch to decaf maybe ?
The short version.
(No dwarf joke intended.)
oh the debauchery! Those can-can girls meant a lot to me, but now that they are used in a S**pR**te ad I feel besmirched.....oh wait. I already felt besmirched before that. Anyhow. Tonight my friend B. accused me of "being high" when I watched Moulin Rouge and as a matter of fact, I was. That could be a factor. I still like it anyway because I can't think of anything else remotely like it and also Nicole Kidman and Euan MacGregor are both both hot and aloof which makes for grade-A movie romance. And they sing which is STUPID but so crazy it just might work.
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I must say that Moulin Rouge took me completely by surprise. From the previews, I thought it would be a standard, boring period piece costume drama, and I had zero interest in it.The fact it was a musical starring Nicole Kidman and Euan MacGregor should have peaked my curiosity but the swings and tophats and coquettish frills just made my mind glaze over. I did not expect the heavily postmodern, oddly effective collage of contemporary love songs delivered in over-stimulating baroque and encrusted valentine sets. I didn't expect that every shot would be pushed to the extreme, each moment of the film an overloaded symbolic allegory to ...something... well, something emotionally hard-core, that's for sure. It's an operatic plot with an audacious amount of dramatic catharsis crammed into every scene. Somehow it's okay. NK is excellent and so is EM. They embody their larger than life characters with never so much as an ironic quiver. (note: just found out the director, Baz Luhrmann, also did "Strictly Ballroom," which I also loved...yeah, I'm a big softie. Hit me with your best shot and paint me with a broad stroke brush.)
- sally mckay 8-15-2004 1:45 am
Oh my god we've lost another one. That was a terrible movie and if I ever see it I know it will just be worse.
- joester 8-15-2004 8:08 pm
not everybody likes singing.
- sally mckay 8-15-2004 9:14 pm
I was a little embarrased liking it as much as I did, saw it more than once.
- jimlouis 8-15-2004 10:25 pm
i have never seen the film but i think this is because a friend of mine burned a copy of the cd for me. to this day i don't if he gave me the cd as a joke or if he actually likes it.
- nanmac 8-15-2004 11:07 pm
jimlouis, don't be embarrassed. embrace your inner frenchman.
- mark 8-15-2004 11:08 pm
Ok, doing that; now what?
- jimlouis 8-16-2004 4:24 pm
wear your sweater over your shoulders.
- sally mckay 8-16-2004 4:57 pm
I had to share a studio with someone who kept playing the movie's soundtrack. I almost lost it entirely. I hate her to this day because of it. She also disliked the smell of fresh brewed coffee. Two strikes.
- bunnie 8-16-2004 8:40 pm
switch to decaf maybe ?
- bill 8-16-2004 9:03 pm
The short version.
(No dwarf joke intended.)
- alex 8-16-2004 9:18 pm
oh the debauchery! Those can-can girls meant a lot to me, but now that they are used in a S**pR**te ad I feel besmirched.....oh wait. I already felt besmirched before that. Anyhow. Tonight my friend B. accused me of "being high" when I watched Moulin Rouge and as a matter of fact, I was. That could be a factor. I still like it anyway because I can't think of anything else remotely like it and also Nicole Kidman and Euan MacGregor are both both hot and aloof which makes for grade-A movie romance. And they sing which is STUPID but so crazy it just might work.
- sally mckay 8-17-2004 6:34 am