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Summary: When Good Cinametography mixes with Bad Plots...
Review: Toss in a bad plot, throw in some musical remakes, mix in some good actors, sprinkle some good cinametography on top and what do you get? "Moulin Rouge." Cranky thinks this is the best musical in the world? What the...? Does he know anything about plots? None of the music is original, and the scenes flip so fast it's irritating. At leaed "Chicago" had really good acting, dancing and singing and had original songs. The music is fun but what annoys me is that it's songs that were already sung by good artists. The originals were so much better. This is not a classic musical. It's merely a mix of old pop songs with a horrible story and good cinamatography. Get "Chicago" or "Cabaret" instead.
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Summary: Dont Have It? Beg Borrow or Steal It.
Review: So you've never seen Moulin Rouge before, or maybe you heard of it but, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, come on you've never even had any bit of appeal for any movie they made, but your wrong. This is an amazing movie, I heard of it at school and was like, "Oh, that movie that had that ugly Christina Agulaira music video, no thanks," so much buzz made me rent it. I saw it the first time and was a little out of the loop afterwards, I mean this was a weird idea of a modern-day musical, and kinda freaky, so I had to watch it again,and then again and about 5 times more. Its amazing love-story fitted with a wonderful plot and music that you already know before you see it it is the perfect combination for another Baz Lurhman masterpiece. If you just want to see if you'll like it just watch the song 'Roxanne' and you''ll see when you can't for the life of you get it out of your head.
It is definently addictive, and if you like Chicago, or even if you don't, or if you like anything of Baz, Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom and soon to be Alexander the Great, then this is a must watch since it is an infiniti times better!!!
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Summary: Wow
Review: When I saw this in theatre I was totally blown away with what I was seeing. Eye-candy is the only word I can think to describe this wonderful film. Kidman and McGregor light up the screen with wonderful vocals. The DVD itself is a force to be dealt with. Music videos, entended and deleted scenes, and tons of extras are packed into the extra disc making this a must have DVD for serious movie lovers.
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Summary: I disagree with most of the comments about this movie
Review: I saw this movie on DVD last night and I don't think that it was all that great as other people have commented on it. First I could not understand why they didn't come up with original music, they had to borrow from "The Sound of Music." Are they kidding? Diamonds are Girl's Best Friend? And when did rap come in to play in the 1900's? The camera action was so fast I had to go in to slow play to see what I had missed.
I had to turn the volume up to hear what the actors were saying
and then when the music came on it was so loud and I had to turn it down. Actors should take alocution lessons and learn to project their lines so we can understand what they are saying. And as for their singing, Nicole and Ewan sounded like two wimps.
Well others may like it, but I am from the old school when musicals were made to be entertaining and the voices could be heard.
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Summary: It had its' good parts.
Review: Such as, the fact that Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor were marvelous actors, and the plot kept you enthralled from step one. The singing was absolutely gorgeous, and the costumes were beautiful. Now, the problems I have with the movies are simple. 1. Without a large screen, the beautiful, slightly dizzying scenes have lost their full impact.
2. You can only watch this movie so many times without it getting on your nerves. I'm looking at this objectively, mind you. I spent a greater part of the year loving everything about this movie. I saw it three times in theatres. But when I got it home, it just wasn't the same.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I hated this movie. The plot isn't original and the acting was terrible. Give me a break people this movie was lame!
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Summary: CAN YOU CAN CAN?
Review: Wow! this movie blow me away, I thought first that this movie sux, so I didn't saw it on the Movie Theather, but when I saw on TV, it capture me, and now is on my top 5 movies of all time, Nicole Kidman has such talent, in this movie were a revolutionary writer falls in love for a cortesan you fall in love with the magic of cover rock music and a loving story!, great should have been best movie of the year at the oscars!, great movie, excellent extras in the DVD. buy it!.
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Summary: Rethinking the musical in bright, bold strokes
Review: Not unlike his previous film "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet," bohemian director Baz Luhrmann makes a mess out of the opening sequences of "Moulin Rouge" a bright, opera-style rethinking of Hollywood musicals. This bold and loud beginning, which takes the aspiring and fairly lousy poet Christian (Ewan McGregor) to the aforementioned Parisian gentleman's club full of tarty courtesans and one sparkling diamond among them, Satine (Nicole Kidman, who arrives dangling on a trapeze, singing "Sparkling Diamonds") is not so promising.
There's more where that came from. And less. If an old movie axiom says a good film is one that contains three great scenes and no bad ones, "Moulin Rogue" rewrites it: Luhrmann's opera has at least five or six great scenes, two or three stinkers and a horde of in-betweens. I liked it, a lot, as a full film experience: drama, camp, music, drudgery, scamps, tramps, poets, love, heroes, villains. "Moulin Rouge" gets messy, but in a sense it has to; only by coloring outside the lines can it reach certain peaks of human joy rarely found in a theater experience. Sure it's contrived. But it's a hell of a lot of fun. Christian's indoctrination to the Moulin Rouge is a setup, really, to help lure Satine into a turn-of-the-century musical entitled "Spectacular Spectacular" which makes clear in its early lines that this early 20th Century tale is going to thieve from a boatload of love pop songs from today. The ringleader of this hothouse, Harold Sidler (English stalwart Jim Broadbent) has better designs for Satine, as he hopes to auction her off to a high-bidding Duke (Richard Roxborugh) in return for funding the club conversion to a grand opera theater. Unsurprisingly, a clumsy mix-up between the two men leads Christian to a private meeting with Satine (as Kidman vamps in pushups, girdles, teddies and flowing gowns in what seems a nice rebuttal to Tom Cruise's filing for divorce). And Luhrmann, who has to this point held back the dueling solos in the film, begins it in here, with McGregor's rendition of Elton John's "Your Song." McGregor, who proved his pipes in "Velvet Goldmine," convinced me further. His voice is high and light but broad; it goes further just as you think he's hit his vocal climax. "Moulin Rouge" settles down a little bit after that, telling a sad tale loosely based on the myth of Orpheus, who rescued his love from the underworld only to look back upon her and watch her turn to dust. Satine, we learn, is dying from consumption, unbeknownst to all (even Satine) but a small few. Kidman's voice sounds strained at times, possibly purposely so, to show the effect of the disease. The movie stretches out and bombards us with images, colors, sounds, malarkey and love. A medley of love songs between Kidman and McGregor inside a giant elephant house is a high mark, as is duet "Come What May" as Satine and Christian's love song. A Spanish flamenco version of "Roxanne," cross cut with another of Christian's songs and a symphony involving the Duke and Kidman is a giant feat of editing. "Moulin Rouge" rushes through the hearts of the young and in love. It might be just too full of gusto for the older set that will find it blinding and incomprehensible in parts. But Luhrmann has made this film with the same love as elders crafted the Astaire-Rogers musicals. The method has changed, but the divine, happy madness of song remains.
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Summary: Now I realize this was trying to be original...
Review: Or maybe it wasn't. That's the whole problem with this movie. Now I know people try to say this is a "love it or hate it" scenario, and they may be right. I, for one, hated it, from the bastardization of 80's pop hits to the sickening brilliance of color to the cheesy plot and poor acting, I thought this was a decadent, self-indulgent movie whose doubtless enormous budget was ciphoned into all the wrong areas. Both Kidman and MacGregor deserve much better. The camera angles are annoying, and the plot is terribly unoriginal. I can't say it enough - stay away from this movie.
However, I also hated "Romeo + Juliet". I love Shakespere, and I also love musical theater. So maybe you just have to appreciate one or the other.
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Summary: Good New Musical
Review: Moulin Rouge is set in early 1900's Paris. IT features Ewan McGregor as a penniless writer, hwo's come to Paris to write about love.
After meeting a group of Bohemian play writers/actors/composers, and joins them as the new writer. THey take him to the MOulin Rouge, a dazzling night club for rich men.
THe star is Satine, Nicole Kidman, who eventually, after htnking he's a rich duke, falls in love with him.
However, the owner of the Moulin Rouge 'sells' her to the REAL duke, to be his alone. The two hide their love until it is forced into the open by a jealous dancer.
A cascade of brilliant songs and dances, with good acting, vocals and all the rest of it.
Must for Kidman/McGregor fans, or fans of outrageous musicals.
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