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Summary: You love it or you hate it
Review: This looks like one of those movies that people either love or hate. I won't say I hated it, but I sure didn't love it. It's too busy, frantic and noisy. The story is pretty thin and predictable. The characters are mostly caricatures. Some of the musical numbers were quite entertaining but overall, I felt that this was aimed at the viewer with a short attention span and a high tolerance for visual pyrotechnics.
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Summary: more than meets the eye?
Review: I LOVED this movie! Not only was it a huge, fun, campy extravaganza the entire way through, with excellent music to boot, there were things in it that I normally love in theatre or musical productions which most movies seem to lack. For example, the oddity of the cinematogrophy--the dreaminess of some parts, the obvious lip-synching, and other things you may pick up on--are because the entire thing is through the memory of the narrator. Sometimes in a movie you see only what the main character sees; in this one, the bias and fuzziness of memory are added. In a stage when most of what we get from Hollywood seems to ride on action/violence and sexuality and little else (not that this one doesn't have some of both, especially the latter), Moulin Rouge stands out.
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Summary: What a movie! This is what movies are for!
Review: What a great movie! It's unique and special, uncompromising in it's vision. Nicole Kidman is gorgeous! I think she has become one of the great movie stars of this age. She is mysterious, beautiful, talented and accessible. What Moulin Rouge offers is an on-the-edge experience, something daring that is completely missing from Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park III or any other movie this summer. You can't watch Moulin Rouge with expectations of something average. It's cutting edge and daring, traits that are so lacking in big-time cinema. Bravo to Baz Luhrmann for making this experience possible.
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Summary: ~*~TRUTH~*~*~BEAUTY~*~*~FREEDOM~*~*~LOVE~*~
Review: ...The entire theater was shocked to have seen something like this. Throughout the film we had all laughed, cried, and been utterly bewildered. 'Moulin Rouge' is full of drama, suspense, romance, laughter and tears. There was an intriguing plot, superb acting (with believable characters), original costumes, entertaining music, and much more. It's not often that all of this elements can come together to make a film as touching, original, and heartfelt as 'Moulin Rouge'. I hope that 'Moulin Rouge' will get the Oscar nominations that it deserves! 'Moulin Rouge' really does deserve a 'Best Picture' nomination. I had no idea that Nicole Kidman had such a great voice. If she ever dropped acting, she could most defintely pursue a singing career. I was already aware of Ewan McGregor's amazing voice because of his small singing bit in 'Emma'. I was overjoyed to be able to hear him sing again! In order to enjoy this masterpiece, you have to accept Baz Luhrmann's uniqueness and just let him take you to another world in order to enjoy 'Moulin Rouge' to its fullest. I must admit, the first fifteen minutes were a little strange to me, probably because I was so shocked to see something like this! The movie does get better if you don't like the first fifteen minutes. Baz Luhrmann's cleverly angled camera shots and neat film editing make 'Moulin Rouge' a movie to remember. Moulin Rouge is unlike anything I have ever seen before. 'This story is about...love...at the Moulin Rouge' ~Christian 'Moulin Rouge'
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Summary: One of the most romantic movies ever!!
Review: When I went to watch Moulin Rouge, I didn't know anything about it. I thought it would be a drama based on Toulousse-Latrec's life. Then, the music started. Then I felt like dancing and singing and crying.....it is one of the most romantic movies I have ever seen. Ewan McGregor's face, eyes, voice show so much love for N. Kidman that I said to myself: "My God, I wish I was loved this way!" IÂ'm only waiting for the DVD release of this movie to watch it over and over again.....
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Summary: If I could I'd give it 10 stars!
Review: Moulin Rouge is the best film I have seen in a long while! It is seriously the definition of a moving picture! Every square inch of the screen is interesting in this classic love tale! Baz has certainly topped himself from the great "Romeo and Juliet". Who knew that Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman had such beautiful voices!
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Summary: Voulez Vous... (You Know The Rest)
Review: It was a brave attempt, I must say, to make a circa 1900 musical with songs from the 1960's and up. However, I must say that you leave the cinema with the feeling that this movie was incredibly cheap. How cliche` is the repeated incessantly line "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return"? It could have been a lot better. I think that a better actress should have been picked to play Sadine. Given the subject matter of Vaudeville girls prancing around with men, a film of this genre teeters dangerously on the brink of seeming like a Burlesque act itself, instead of the noble classic it pretends to be. Nicole Kidman is rather shallow and watching her act, you really do get the feeling that she is nothing but a pretty-faced courtesan being dressed up in pretty costumes and lace, and then removing them until she is scantily clad--although she is pretty. In fact, the thing I kept thinking as I watched the movie is that I liked her hair. The whole conflict with the villain seemed rather overdone and insignificant compared to the drama it caused. A lot of the can-can scenes with the dancers were also kind of weird. They tried too hard to make them intense and ended up with a sort of chaotic tornado funnel which seemed purely erratic and confused. I was not too impressed with the ending, although I must say that it was original. Ewan McGregor seemed to do a pretty good job, though. And, on the positive side, I was truly stunned to learn that Nicole Kidman and him did the singing themselves. They were rather talented for non-singing actors.
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Summary: The Magic of Moulin Rouge
Review: From the second that this movie took off, I knew that I loved! From the camera angles, to the exotic colors. Now, this would be a bad choice for those of you who don't like musicals, but the music, AND ESPECIALLY SINGING in this movie are fantastic. The way that they tie famous songs into the story line is finominal, and it is also extremely nice (for a change) that Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman could keep you liking their relationship on a non-sexual level was amazing! The complex characteristics and charm to all the characters is also amazing! Satine, the exotic, (but fragile) can-can dancers/cortisan, Christian, the sweet, bohemian spirated penniless writer with an obsession with love, the duke, though not totally complex, is appauling, and Zidler, who though he wants the best, tries to stay out of any trouble. The set's, story line, characters, and music to this movie are awesome, and I would recomend it to anyone who has a love to theatre, or good movies!
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Summary: YUCK
Review: It was the worse film I saw this year. I walked out. It was very difficult to watch.
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Summary: Oy Vey!
Review: I must say I walked into the theatre with high expectations and the first 30 minutes I was in heaven. It was beauty, breathtaking, exciting, and amazing. But somewhere after the 7 minute love medly between Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman I started to doubt the quality of this supposed FILM...and decided that it was just a movie. There's a difference between FILM and a MOVIE. I hold Ewan McGregor in high respects (even though he is doing the new Star Wars installments) and Nicole Kidman I could take or leave. I'm not saying this is a bad film, because its not...Baz's idea to take songs like Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" and Elton John's "Your Song" and put them in a movie set in the late 1890's is silly and sounds original and new yet doesn't work for me...much like "A Knights Tale" (oy vey!). Baz as a director is amazing and I was highly amazed at how he did this. I was going to say how much I loved the cinematography, but I was slow to realize...this was all done with computer...which is fine...but I guess its the indpendent film lover in me that bashes this movie which loses its originality within the first half hour. The whole idea of this movie is taking unoriginal ideas and putting them all into one movie and adding crazy effects to make them look original, sorry, its not working for me. The dialogue is all overused dialogue I've heard and I've heard the music before too...so basically all that's left is the acting talent...Ewan was bright eyed and beautiful in this film and had a youthful dazzle to him. ....By the end I was weary of it as a whole and I had seen it all before. I will give kudos to Mr. Luhrmann to trying to take a familar love story (poor poet falls for beautiful prostitute and she in return falls for him) and putting a spin to it. Though, I can't fully like this movie because for one it never finds itself, I never get a full definition of the characters...I think I know they love each other, but thats where it becomes hard because even though they sing "I love You" and that "There is no greater thing than to love and be loved", but I just didn't feel moved or anything. I go to see a movie to have it move me, to change my prespective...and thats why I went to this movie. But I left disapointed, weary and tired of the formulaty. But in the end, without the singing and the crazy computerated cinematography what is this movie? Just your run of the mill love story...love is great, and I believe in it...but I believe in a love that is more than this......, you'll never find any enlightments to love in a romance movie, because love is much more than that. Well, enough ranting. Good try, Mr. Luhrmann.
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