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Summary: Spectacular Spectacular!
Review: Its a whirl of colors, emotions, costumes, and song, all playing supporting cast to a doomed love story that makes its audience mourn for Satine and a lost romance. Risky yes - musical revival could have been stoned to death in today's society, but Baz Luhrman went with his gut feeling. And that's part of why its such a success: Moulin Rouge presents itself with an array of sparkle and buzz, and doesn't give a hoot if you don't love it. Which, of course, we do.
If the Oscars ever created an experimental "Best Chemistry" award Nicole Kidman [Satine, the Moulin Rouge's "Sparkling Diamant"] and Ewan McGregor [Christian, the brilliant writer who sweeps Satine off her feet with his prose]would win it hands down.
But they deserve much more for their solid performances as the doomed lovers in 1899 Paris. Nicole Kidman was absolutely robbed of the Oscar - she flies around a room on a trapeze, sings Marilyn Monroe songs while doing high kicks in a corset, and cries enough tears to flood the screen. If that's a combination that doesn't scream "BEST ACTRESS!" then nothing is. And darling Ewan, who manages to sing with tender compassion but still comes off as entirely masculine, didn't even get a nomination! Maybe that's just my humble opinion, but I'm sure many would agree that both were looked over on Oscar night.
Buy the DVD version - its well worth the investment. Its loaded with commentaries, deleted scenes, and lots of music and choregraphy bits.
And if you don't cry, or at least find yourself humming the tune of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" in the shower the next day, you may want to see if your heart strings are properly attached.
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Summary: Nicole Kidman Proves to be outstanding-Ben N. at the movies
Review: Wow this movie was good Nicole Kidman was spectacualr in her own dazzling way she made the film 100 times better with drama and love intrest with Ewan Mcgregor a good actor that stands his ground by the way this is a musical film so if you exoect something else then dont because this is something to love not hate Moulin Rouge is a 4-star masterpiece good, good, and more good
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Summary: best movie
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. You have to get through the first about 20min. untill its really good. It is entertaining at the beggining but just a little weird. Ewan McGreagor makes the movie! His voice is sooooooooo gorgous! Him and Nicole Kidman will just blow you away. The story line is amazing. It is a hopeless romace pretty much. This is a buyer. You have got to watch it!
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Summary: musical brilliance
Review: moulin rouge kick started the musical back into being, and i am very glad that it did. if not for moulin rouge there may not have been as good of a chance for chicago to make it. moulin rouge showed people that the musical can still be a quality movie and still have what it takes to be considered, for instance, academy award material. at the heart of this film is the doomed love story between nicole kidman and ewan mcgregor. both of these performers carry this movie so well and ewan should have received an academy award nomination right along with nicole. who knew that the two of them had such good voices? there is also the musical aspect of the move. you cannot have a good musical without killer songs. i have to be honest i got a chill the first time the screen went into the moulin rouge and you were introduced to the patrons of the club. the song lady marmalade and smells like teen spirit fit perfectly into this situation. by the way the lady marmalade song released on the radio was one of the best songs of the year. i listened to it over and over again, and still do. the other songs are awesome too. i like the mix of songs put together while they are on top of the elephant. all those classic songs joined to gether perfectly and nicole and ewan's voices blended so well together. the song of this movie help explain the tone throughout the movie. if there is a happy moment in the movie the songs will be upbeat. if you see love on the screen you here a love song. and when there is heartache in a scene the actors sing about and the songs work so well. i am focusing on the music because that is the main part of a musical. i am not trying to disregard the acting because it is equally as good. i love this movie and i think it is fantastic. if you can still find the double disc get it because i dont think there are many left. rediscover what made musicals so great in the past and embrace what they are becoming now. these types of movies are what can cause you to have a really good time while watching a movie. if you dont like this movie then you dont know good cinema.
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Summary: moulin rouge
Review: This was one of the dumbest movies that I had to suffer through in years. Whoever directed this movie got into the same mushroom patch with the author Revelation in the NT.
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Summary: Not Enough Adjectives to Properly Describe How Bad It Is
Review: Here's a few adjectives to give you an idea of just how bad this film is: atrocious, HIGHLY overrated, badly acted, the worst film that I have ever seen, proof that Hollywood hype can dupe most people into thinking something is good with a few shiny costumes and a couple of big names, unoriginal, Christmas plays by 6-year olds are better than this, I would give it minus 3 stars if I could, so horrible you may want to give up tv and movies for a few months, monstrously unintelligent, disjointed, and a smash up derby is able to touch you more emotionally than this utter garbage.
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Summary: "Spectacular spectacular!"
Review: That's basically the fastest and most effective way to describe Baz Luhrmann's groundbreaking and much discussed musical, which is to say the movie is simultaneously self-redundant and its like nothing you've ever seen on heaven or Earth. It may well be the single most beautiful piece of filmmaking anywhere in the last ten years. That said, you have to get past the silly and predictable plot. That its characters are clichés is often said to be "the point," but that doesn't mean it's a very good point, and having the characters code us into their emotions by singing pop songs rather than period pieces seems both juvenile and condescending. Nicole Kidman, though fundamentally miscast as a sexpot, works hard and sings creditably as Satine; Ewan MacGregor is also miscast but sings superbly as Christian. But the real stars are the sets and costumes and camera effects: the whole thing is like an incredibly beautiful dream you want to relive over and over again. I know of no other recent Hollywood film that allows you to enter its own world of visual beauty the way this film does, and for that director Baz Luhrmann and his astonishingly gifted wife Catherine martin, the film's set designer, deserve full credit. Not only was the film groundbreaking but so was the DVD, which brought all kinds of tricks and enhancements which changed forever Hollywood presented DVDs. The "Green Fairy" sidebars are marvelous and show you exactly how Martin ingeniously planned her sets; the commentary also has terrific insights from her and from the film's magnificently talented cinematographer, although some of the other pretentious comments (a few by Luhrmann but particularly those by his co-writer Craig Pearce) make you want to cringe with embarrassment.
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Summary: Spectacular, Spectacular - not
Review: When I saw the previews for Moulin Rouge, I truly thought that it was going to be a good movie. I like musicals and I like both Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. So when I saw it on HBO, my brother and I decided to sit down and watch it. By the end, I was cheering - because it was over. I could write a long review, or I could summarize it - I didn't like the acting, I didn't like the costumes, the choreograpy was terrible, the camera work was sub-par, and the unoriginal music drove me crazy. The dramatic parts were stiff and the humerous parts did not make me laugh. What a disappointing, terrible movie.
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Summary: A Note For All You Moulin Rouge fans!
Review: Rating: PG- 13 Sexual Content
Favortie Song: Elephant Love Meldey or/and El Tango De Roxanne
Favortie Character: Christian is a writer who has a ridicule yet beautiful obessession with love and I couldn't believe my ears Jedi playboy could sing he has the best voice in this movie!
Reasons Why It's Good: 1. Casting is terrfic 2. Costumes thank goodness Catherine knew how to draw out those sketches 3. Awesome making of the film I love the making cause it showed my favortie part of my favortie songs and we got to see what Ewan acted like off the set which would be a ordinary guy that drinks 7 Up and loves to laugh. 4. The Music Ewan and Nicole have very good vocal levels as well as the supporting cast Richard Roxburgh, Jim Broadbent etc and the songs are well composed! 5. EWAN IS A HOTTTIE!
Scale: 1 to 100 a 99 this movie is good for teens and people who are beginning to date the song Come What May is kind of marry like type song because Christian and Satine kept the song between them and Christian knew whatever may happen that they would be together.
Moral: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return - As quoted by Christan
Note: I have wrote a remake of this when Louis a seventeen year old writer ventures into a bohemian world and he falls in love with the main attraction at the Moulin Rouge Ginger a.k.a Teh Sparkling Diamond and he gos on a dazzling adventure that has intrigue, danger and romance! Louis and Ginger are more serious he kisses her all the time in this film and in two scenes they are holding hands.
Bottom Line: The movie Moulin Rouge is great and so is my version of it! Toodles!
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Summary: A minus 10
Review: If I could rate a movie minus 10, this would be the film. The French have had three simple words for awful; viz., affreux, terrible, and atroce. Now there is another one: the film, Moulin Rouge. This was a bad movie. It was best example I've seen of somebody trying to film a nightmare.
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