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Summary: My new Velvet Goldmine
Review: Amazing Amazing Amazing. Every time I saw this movie I loved it more. If the gods of Hollywood smile on me, Come What May will be nominated for best song from a movie (if you are reading this after the 2001 Academy Awards, please ignore my pertaining statements), and I may be able to see the luscious Ewan McGregor and the truly enchanting Nicole Kidman sing live for the awards ceremony. I really can't find the words to express the feelings that Moulin Rouge evoked in me... Moulin Rouge contains the presences (lyrics/melodies) of David Bowie, Elton John, Marilyn Monroe, T. Rex/Marc Bolan, Madonna, Paul McCartney, the Police, Patti LaBelle, Joe Cocker, Nirvana, Dolly Parton (or Whitney Houston, depending on who you associate with "I will always love you"), Kiss... Impressive (& eclectic) list? Trust me, there's even more. Watch this movie. Buy this movie. You won't regret it. Timeless music with an even more timeless and beautiful love story. How can you go wrong?Also recommended: Strictly Ballroom. Only our dear Baz could make a movie about professional ballroom dancing enjoyable.
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Summary: I felt Mauled
Review: This was pure torture to watch. Everything was garish and overdone, the camera movements especially. I thought I was gonna vomit from motion sickness during the can-can scenes. And the music...god! I wanted to shoot myself when I heard the first few strains of Nicole's and Ewan's weak voices barely hitting the notes. It was painful listening to them! But even more painful was hearing the songs of Elton John, Dolly Parton and that Up Where We Belong song in this movie. GAH! Bad singing and Bad music adds up to BAD MOVIE! I won't even go into the story since there is none, by the way. It tries to cough up a credible love story with its straw thin plot and miserably fails. After hearing Nicole's first cough, I was fervently praying that her character would just die right away and end the movie so we could all go home and forget the nightmare that was Moulin Rouge. This was a movie made for those suffering from ADD. The colors, bad pop music, and frantic movements, they're all a bad copy of MTV. At least MTV features people who can sing.
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Summary: Rocky Horror meets Topsy Turvy meets Cabaret
Review: A perfect embodiment the cabaret-at-the-end-of-time motif. The best camp of the decade. Have other reviews mentioned the full length version of The Police's Roxanne that begins as an a capella tango and ends as a Busby Berkeley fantasy? And that the drama's intensified by deeply shadowed noir lighting? It's but one of many loose adaptations of classic rock in this cinematic wonder. This movie deserves a huge screen and sound (I saw it at a theatre and everyone was transfixed).
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This is my fave movie of all time! I love the soundtrack also!
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Summary: entertaining!
Review: reminds me of the rocky horror picture show!!
very entertaing movie and musical!
ewan's voice is amazing and nicole a pleasant suprise.
bought the cd---but music is better while the movie is being viewed.
don't miss this one!!!!!!!!
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Summary: See the new Moulin Rouge
Review: SUPERB. Music,Great for the modern generation. Lighting efect, contrasts and editing, Fantastic.The actors Oscar for them. I just came out of the theater with hope in seeing it for sale.I guess I will have to wait until it comes out. I still say GREAT. I went to see it thinking I was going to see a new version of the Jose Ferrer, how wrong I was. All diferent.
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Summary: A magnificent movie masterpiece!
Review: If you've ever been in love, then you will love this movie. It's quite simply the most romantic film to grace the silver screen in at least a decade, if not longer. It brings to mind the golden days of Hollywood when everything at the movies seemed to shine with a radiance and magnificance that most movies today seem to lack. And the soundtack is brilliant! It encompases almost every important song from the last century and puts a new spin on them all. Imagine a can-can dance medley featuring Madona's "Material Girl" and Marilynn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" that takes place in the middle of a 18th-century Parisian brothel. Or picture a duet by the film's star-crossed lovers (i.e. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, just in case you didn't already know who starred in this movie) that features such hits as Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and John Lennon's "All You Need is Love" (along with other great selections by David Bowie, Elton John, Phil Collins, U2, Paul McCartney, and many more) that is performed on top of a building shaped like a giant elephant. And, if you're still in doubt about this film's "unique" spin on some old classics, then I guess the idea of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" being portrayed as a Broadway-esque song and dance number performed by two middle-aged men wouldn't even give you pause to think, right? Riiiiiiiight. (Note my sarcasm there, LOL.) As far as the plot goes, there is a boy (McGregor, who has such a compelling singing voice that, in all seriousness, I would pay good money just to listen to the man sing the ABC's song). And, upon his arrival at the infamous Parisian nightclub/brothel that the movie is named for, he meets and falls in love with a girl (Kidman, who looks simply ravishing and has a fairly good singing voice as well). But she is a courtesan (for those who don't know that that word means, let me simplify - she's a high-paid prostitute) who is promised to another (the evil Duke of Monroth, played by the wonderfully over-the-top Richard Roxburgh who is quite hiliarious - and, trust me, that's a good thing). Add to that John Leguizamo's spledid portrayal of real-life painter Toulouse-Lautrec and a fun play-within-a-play plot twist and you have a movie that's well worth the price of admission! I could keep talking about how wonderful and special this film is for many more paragraphs, but I suppose I should cut this short. So I'll end with this final thought: this is a must-see movie, I kid you not. Anyone who loves romance, anyone who loves music, and anyone who loves glamorous movies (not to mention anyone who loves actors Kidman and McGregor, or director Baz Luhrman) should see this movie. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: "Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love"
Review: The FILM is alive with the Sound Of Music. Baz Luhrman's Moulin Rouge tells the story of Satine-a Parisian coutesian under the possession of the Duke, and Christian, the naive sensitive poet who has traveled "into the bohemian revolution to write about truth, beauty, freedom and above all things love." This breathtaking imaginative journey has swept the audiences off their feet-including critics (EW has named "Moulin Rouge" Best movie of the year and (if not all ready released) has a full cover-art magazine entitled "The Verdict"...which happens to be our very own Rouge.)The movie will make you laugh, cry, swoon, love, sing, dance, and surley affect you for years to come. I've had sleepless nights (sad I know) just hoping that Moulin Rouge will gain the recongnition it deserves from the Oscar Awards. Words can not describe how BEAUTIFUL this movie is. The DVD which is released November 6th is something I can't wait for. A two disc-set is released with tons of special feautures, one in which you will be able to "stroll" in to a scene and walk around the set. Moulin Rouge is a bizzare mad whirlgig of a beautiful show, in which its an understatment to say, the shows "Spectacular! Spectacular!"
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Summary: "The greatest thing is to love ... and be loved in return"
Review: Baz Luhrmann has incorporated so many levels of meaning into "Moulin Rouge" that it takes repeated viewings to catch it all and integrate it. This is a movie that stays with you after the theatre, that makes you listen to the soundtrack over and over, that might even change your life. Rarely is there a film that exposes the illusion of the material side of life and reminds us that all we really have to give in this world is our own selves,
and that truly "the greatest thing is to love ... and be loved in return" "come what may" ...
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Summary: The best movie of 2001...and of the last 10 years
Review: I am absolutely in love with "Moulin Rouge." I have loved movies but I have not been IN love with a movie to this degree since I was two or three years old and I saw "The Wizard of Oz" for the first time. Much like "The Wizard of Oz," this is an incredibly magical movie. In fact, it is not just a movie, but an awe-inspiring experience of cinematic art the likes of which have never been seen before.
What is "Moulin Rouge"? It's a grand opera, a pop/rock spectacle, a heartbreaking love story, a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions, a dizzying ride through a mythical version of Paris. Blending every cinematic technique known to man, which are all then turned on their heads, Baz Luhrmann has created the best movie I have ever seen. After seeing "Romeo and Juliet" and "Strictly Ballroom," I thought the man had potential, but had not yet found the right story or movie to display his unique visual talents. After seeing "Moulin Rouge," I know he has finally become a great director.
And what of the actors? Ewan McGregor is perfect as the lovelorn, penniless poet, Christian. And he has a singing voice that will absolutely knock your socks off. And then there's Nicole...oh Nicole...what can I say about Nicole? This is without a doubt the best performance of her career thus far. She is funny, insane, bubbly, but also sad. And she herself proves to have an extremely sweet, beautiful voice herself. And the chemistry between the two is absolutely amazing. I have never truly believed two movie characters were in love as much as these two: their passion enflames the screen.
What would a great musical be without music? "Moulin Rouge" has plenty of that. It has an absolutely brilliant score, which uses over thirty modern-day pop and rock classics, and turns them into the stuff of opera and showtunes. Believe me, you will never hear songs such as "Like a Virgin," "Roxanne," or "Smells Like Teen Spirit" the same way ever again.
This movie has everything: an amazing story, perfect acting...and some of the most striking visual imagery I have ever seen in any movie. There are some moments of this film where my jaw just dropped. I can not describe how beautiful this film is. But, beyond the visual acrobatics, this movie has substance. It attempts to examine what being in love truly is, and it succeeds. I never cry at movies, but I cried at the end of this movie.
When I saw this movie in New York City during its limited release, before its countrywide release, I fell in love. The audience burst into applause at the end of each song, as if they were actually at a live musical or opera. At the end, the movie, the director, Nicole, and Ewan got a standing ovation. How often does a movie inspire that type of response? I would recommend that everybody buy, not rent, "Moulin Rouge." There are so many moments in this film you will want to watch over and over again.
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