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Summary: Simply Stunning
Review: This movie had the power to make me see it 5 times. To leave me wanting to see it again, and cursing the theaters for dropping it. It made me laugh with complete joy and cry in utter misery and sadness with each viewing. Simpky listening to the "Come What May" reprise is heartwrenching, and brings tears to my eyes. I felt Christian and Satine's pain- shared it with them. I fell in love the minute the curtain parted and Toulouse started to sing...."There was a boy...a very strange envhanted boy..". "Moulin Rouge" also introduced me to the amazing, fantastic, wonderful, fabulous(insert similar words) acting talents of Ewan McGregor. Since, I have watched Emma, Trainspotting, and StarWars Episode One: The Phantom Menace, and have yet to be disappointed. He really will just take your breath away...and [...] can that boy sing. Nicole Kidman is stunning as the star of the Moulin Rouge- "the sparkling diamond". You cant keep your eyes off her as she graces the screen with her talent and beauty. Baz has yet another masterpiece on his hands, and I personally cant wait until the Red Curtain Trilogy comes out on DVD, where I here there will be a two-dvd special for his latest and greatest creation. I know I have rambled, but it is only out of love for this film. See it, and be amazed.
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Summary: Shakespeare In Love Done Right
Review: This movie, which begins go gaudily and with an unparalleledly jumbled mishmash feeling that it sent more people than I've ever seen walking out during the first half hour, turns increasingly serious, focused, and, above all, passionate. Despite a cartoonish character or two and a series of musical sequences which manage to be off in a variety of different ways--- almost always with the volume turned down too low (which is odd given the volume of the visuals) and always with a kitch anachronistic flair that only occasionally works, this movie tunrs out to be rather emotionally charming, compelling, and in the end, tragically satisfying. The script is for the most part quite clever in pulling off farce, tragedy and romance and manages to give the audience just enough information in the beginning to foreshadow part of the impending emotional tone of the end---we are told right off that she will die, and yet we do not know the circumstances which are to color that death. Much like in American Beauty, there is such a wonderful dramatic and emotional tension and curiosity built in when the fate is known but not its cause. It is as though the knowledge of death turns one's attention away from how things must end to looking to see how we can feel about what goes before the end. It feels like a dramatization of our own condition when we see our deaths as inevitable and turn our attention not to where we will end up, for there there is no happy ending, but rather to how we will live in the meantime, for in the end, "all men die but not all men really live..." to quote a film starring a different aussie. Anyway, not to wax to existentially, the sense of tension is spectacular when you know it ends badly but not how. Normally one knows the bad guy simply will lose. But here we know she will die, does that mean that the bad guy might win? And Kidman is beautiful, as always in more ways than one. So emotionally captivating. Ewan McGregor also does a fine job here. In the end, this felt like Shakespeare in Love as it would have been had it not been written as one big inside joke for literary people who get to feel all excited by jokes because they are the only ones who understand them and who then acclaim the movie because of how good they felt leaving the theatre. Despite the obvious similarities to "Shakespeare in Love" in love triangle, passionate romance of youth, playful revisionism and the crossings of art and love, this film exhibits a vision of love with quite a bit more depth than the sex and rhetorical prowess that seemed all the "true love" of "shakespeare in love" seemed really to be about at bottom. This film's praise of love has more gravity and credibility for more closely sticking with Shakespeare and the classical tragedians' sense of the power of tragedy, amidst its comedy and revelry. How almost Dionysian... All in all, quite a satisfying film despite being musically hit and miss.
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Summary: In a word, crap.
Review: Trying to be as open minded about this 2 hour MTV style fantasy, within the first 10 minutes I could see what I was in for. And "Moulin Rouge" held true to it's overtly cheezy and glitzy tongue-in-cheek style. I'd get more fulfillment from watching MTV for two hours, and I wouldn't feel as if I was wasting my money on someone's cinematic wet dream. Nicole and Ewan's singing and acting was good. It's just too bad it had to be wasted in this wreck of a movie that is obviously trying to be original, but only succeeds in creating a period piece set somewhere between broadway and pop culture.
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Summary: An eye Fest!
Review: It's just hard to talk about this colored movie, very difficult, you just have to see it for yourself. The only thing I can say is: This movie is a must see for any movie fan. And of course, Nicole and Ewan are great here too.
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Summary: Like the teacup ride at the carnival.
Review: Like a teacup ride, you get your ticket, sit down, and experience a whirling kaleidoscope of multicolored jumble. And, like the ride, you get off either feeling exhilerated or sick to your stomach. I saw the movie at the last-chance dollar cinema, since I hadn't been able to convince myself to pay full price. In case you haven't been, dollar cinema audiences are generally less reserved than their first-run theater counterparts, so you get a much clearer idea of how the they're receiving the show. This one was a real mixed bag: There were several people singing along with the songs for the first half-hour or so, until either self-consciousness set in or their neighbors shushed them. On the flip side, a group of about 6 guys sitting near us got up and walked out 3/4 of the way through, never to return. As for our little group, we all enjoyed it. Some parts (especially near the beginning) were somewhat queasiness-inducing, but those didn't last long. After that, things settled into a very straight-forward boy-meets-girl (etc.) plot, and there wasn't quite as much jumble. It could have become boring at that point, but there were so many cool camera effects, unusual points of view, unexpected uses of songs/lyrics, etc., that I hardly had time to think, "What a silly movie!" until after it was over. Nicole Kidman (who is in EVERYTHING lately, it seems) was gorgeous, I had to admit -- and can she SING! (That proves it - life really ISN'T fair.) Ewan McGregor, whom I've never seen before as the lovestruck hero, was PERFECT. His winning smile and wide-eyed expession would've melted a heart of stone. I found his voice somewhat less pleasing than Nicole's, but since he was playing the innocent boy from the country, this suited the storyline. What else? Well, I wouldn't have minded paying full-price to see this, had I known I would enjoy it so much. Everyone who stayed for the end was chatting and smiling, and those few who walked out were, no doubt, somewhere else sulking. I would say if you like musicals in general, and splashy, colorful display, you'll probably love this movie. Otherwise, rent another movie as backup?
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Summary: If only all movies could be this good
Review: The sheer perfection of this movie can not be described with words. It describes the love affair between a young bohemian youth and a dancer from the infamous Moulin Rouge. I don't want to reveal too much to those who have not seen the movie so I will say no more, except to say that anyone who can make a movie3 of this calibur deserves to be enshrined and prayed to as a modern day god. If you have not seen this movie you must. If you chose not to see this movie then you have a screw loose and deserve to be lyched and hung.
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Summary: Enchanting and Inspiring!!!...
Review: UNBELIEVABLE! Anyone who doesnt like this movie is not quite right in the head and they must have ADD. It demonstrates how love can thrive despite social standing. Ewan surprised us all with his acting skills in Episode 1, but who the hell knew he could sing that extroardiny!? Nicole Kidman was another shocker. This movie was the rebirth of the musical. All I can say is, its a damn shame movies like this don't win best picture, best picture goes to demented things like Shakespear in Love or American Beauty. This had better win something.
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Summary: My eyes were opened! A must see!
Review: Some friends of mine finally got me to go see it, simply amazing. Not a movie I thought I would go see but what a great show! The songs, characters, wardrobe, it is a very entertaining and fun movie with a sincere and deep love story. Ewan and Nicole both have amazing voices. I love the use of songs from the 80's and earlier in the movie. Just so many things that made this a wonderful movie to see again and again. I wished I wasn't so stuborn. Now I have to wait until it comes out on DVD before I can see it again. I will be buying this one along with the soundtrack. To Baz, Ewan and Nicole. BRAVO !
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Summary: True Beauty
Review: ...my eyes fill with tears remembering the passion this work of art awakened in me. I went to this film because I was dragged into it by my friends. I was the last one out of the theater because I did not want it to end, and all I feel now is sadness because I miss it, like I would miss the sight of a Holy Angel come down to prove that Heaven exists only to leave me behind on earth yearning to see her again.
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Summary: Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love
Review: WOW! I have to say this movie will be an all time favorite of mine. Its fun, imaginative,and yet, very sad. At the begining of the movie, I was not dazzled, but as the story went on, my eyes were wide open, and I wanted more! I laughed, cried, was surprised, and cried more. This story is captivated from beggining to end, and I cant wait to see it again! True whats been said, you love it, or u hate it. Nicole and Ewan or a kick to watch! The last seen is the most sad, and will have you stunned, and heartbroken. Depending on your sensitivity, you may walk out shaking. LOL!I watched people come out of the theatre. Prepare to be dazzled, Go MOulin Rouge!
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