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Summary: Baz Luhrman Creates the Perfect Love Story
Review: If you ever believed in truth, beauty, freedom and above all, LOVE, buy this DVD! I've watched mine a dozen times and I love it more every time I watch it. I'd become a Ewan McGregor fan after seeing his angelic portrayal of Christian on the big screen and ended up being a HUGE Baz Luhrman fan after viewing the DVD. You've never experienced a more perfect dramatic presentation of innocent love! Top Hats off to Baz!
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Summary: Oscar nomination?? Why on earth for?
Review: I could not wait to see this movie.
You get lured in by certain takes in the pre-vieuws and by the music. Of course the costumes where great. The whole story is like a running joke of existing songs and a love story nobody really cares for. Truly it is now questionable why
so many other good movies do not get the nominations they deserve. Why was this one even mentioned?????
Hopefully this dusty old Oscar institution will be modernized.
Why not involve the largest group of judges: the public.
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Summary: good for your soul
Review: no matter how you like it(or not), it's still one of the more intersteing movies in recent momory. This is the first dvd I've ever purchesed since I got my dvd drive, and I've to say the sound and the picture qulity are quite stunning on my little flat screen tv and my semi-high end audio system. This alone worth the price of the dvd.
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Summary: Yes it can, can, can...
Review: For movie lovers that can enjoy music, dance, acting and put together like no one ever has. Then this is your movie. :)
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Summary: Pathetic Excuse for a Movie
Review: This is an absolutely abysmal movie. During the early moments of the film I kept thinking surely it will break out of this intolerable and convoluted visionary and musical mess and give us intelligent film-making. It never did. How on earth this film has garnered any of the awards or nominations it has is beyond me. To attempt to juxtapose turn of the century Paris with Elton John and Madonna lyrics as well as references to tunes such as The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" and the Sweet's "Love is Like Oxygen" is utterly ridiculous. Watching this film, or attempting to watch it (I made it only about half way through it), is an absolutely tortuous undertaking.Don't waste your time on this wretched mess!!!
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Summary: This movie was a scrumptious feast!
Review: At first I was taken aback by the bold imagery and seemingly out-of-place music. However, it didn't take long to become completely captivated with Harold Zidler and the Moulin Rouge. This movie has all the makings of a Shakesperian tragedy with a musical score that is surprisingly likeable and well-done. Bravo to the actors for both their marvelous acting AND singing on this Oscar-worthy film, as well as to Baz Lurhmann for bringing something innovative and downright infectious. A+!
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Summary: Music is gone
Review: Moulin Rouge is an experiment. Films daring at being bold, new and fresh are the most audacious since it has very much to risk, it stands on shaky ground. This movie is the proof of it. Visually interesting, funny to an extent, a mega crew, handsome actors and what seems to be, I believe miles of edited film; this movie is well crafted in terms of just that: craft. One can not say it is a bad movie, or poorly acted, because it is not; yet to believe it to be something more than an experiment and raise to Oscar level is as hallucinatory as the movie and its director. On the other side, at the first ten minutes of movie, the director lets us in the story and from very short one is aware of the sequence of events and the main plot of the screenplay; making the almost next two hours unbearable to watch and provinding very little new or surprasing events in the plot. Nicole Kidman is well articulated, nice, her singing is well performed, yet very "withing herself", since the writer has offered very little possibility for real acting, this film`s gendre dwells more on the cabaret-vaudeville one, so exaggeration and excess are the tone. Ewan`s singing is in bad shape. At the lower and middle tones, his voice remains much of its candor, yet at certain levels it is truly annoying: it becomes flat, dull and opaque, he must be two entire tones below the actual pitch and his voice does not blend well with that of his counter part. Thus this movie being a musical and having a bad lead is not good news. To this matter, that of music, the best scene in the movie is that of the number of Roxane. Here true intention, real acting and art are evident. Pity the movie remained at being an experiment and did not trascend above shallow limitation, the director seemed too interested in making his public dizzy by so many unnecessary cuts, angles and there must have been hundreds of cuts by minute; Daz should have researched with a neurologist about the number of scenes and cuts by minute that the human brain can tolerate without reaching dangerous levels.
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Summary: message to ghost rider and others who didnt like it
Review: This movie is one of the most exceptional movies i have ever seen. Thank you Baz Luhrman for thinking it up and Nicole Kidman and Ewan MgGregor for giving such amazing performance's. And as for you people who rated this movie horribly but didnt watch it (Ghost rider) you shouldnt talk becasue the beggining was a little hectic and for a good reason. Anyone who says this movies was quick and jumps around too much has obviously not seen more then the first 15 minutes nor did they see what Baz Luhrman was trying to show the audience.
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Summary: Come what may....
Review: ...I will love this film until my dying day. Moulin Rouge is well deserving of it's 8 Oscar nominations and it should have been nominated for at least 2 more: Baz Lurhmann as Best Director and Ewan McGregor as Best Actor. This beautiful film didn't direct itself and McGregor's subtly stunning performance is absolutely the heart of it. Not that Ms Kidman doesn't deserve her accolades but like she said in her Golden Globes acceptance speech "Work with him. He makes you better". The two make a very convincing couple and one could easily see why the naive poet would fall so quickly for a lovely courtesan and why the cynical courtesan would be won over by and fall so deeply for the young poet's earnest and passionate love. They both look breathtakingly gorgeous(and to contradict the person who called them digitally enhanced, she's really THAT fair and Ewan's eyes are really THAT blue) The film shifts easily from tragedy to comedy and back and forth again. Although the plot is simple, as most myths are on the surface(it is based on the Orphean myth), it reveals deep human truths and does so in a colorful, exciting way. There is a lot of symbolism revealed in the visuals and how the scenes are set up. Two interesting motifs are found in the way McGregor's Christian and Kidman's Satine are often framed; he looking out of his window and she gazing into her mirror. The music is really used in an imaginative manner, especially on the Love Medley. Nicole's voice is fragile and lovely and does a fine job of conveying her character's soul, while Ewan's powerful and enthusiastic voice does the same for Christian. This isn't even taking into account Jim Broadbent's portrayal of Harold Zeigler, the King of the Moulin Rouge underworld, Richard Roxburgh as the "evil" Duke or John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec, whom some might say was over-the-top but really this just increased the character's poignancy as you see how desperately he wants the kind which Satine and Christian have. A wonderful, unique film all around. To paraphrase a line Christian says to Satine early in the film, what has been created is quite modern and might feel a little uncomfortable at first but if you're open, you might enjoy it.
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE!
Review: I am shocked to see these negative reviews in here. It is not deserving the negative reviews at all.
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