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Summary: Come on -- be wild and crazy :)
Review: ...My daughter (16) loves it. I tolerated it in the name of being a good Dad :) When all is said and done, it is a nice love story -- gotta love those. It does have great music throughout. Nicole Kidman (always easy on the eyes :) and Ewen McGregor did an excellent job in this. For the Amazon crowd over 35 (like me) -- when folks say this movie is fragmented and frenzied, think of the movie Tommy (Rock Opera). So, if you make it through to the end, I think you'll be left with a good feeling. I made it and ultimately look back on it fondly (but will live a fine life if I never see it again). My daughter has seen it 10 times and will probably wear out the tape.
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Summary: The Emperor Has No Soul
Review: If there has ever been a film undeserving of the accolades it's received, it's Moulin Rouge. From beginning to end, there's not a trace of true soul or emotion. The acting is uniformly over-the-top, the script is arid, the musical numbers are occasionally fun,...and the only thing that sticks in the memory afterward are the sets...
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Summary: Best musical: Moulin Rouge
Review: I think this movie its just the best musical I've ever seen. It's ammazing. I really recommend it
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Summary: The Greatest Movie Of All Time
Review: WELL THIS MOVIE IS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF 2001.
IT WAS PACKED WITH GREAT MUSIC AND GREAT ACTORS.
THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS MOVIE I WAS SHOCKED BY HOW MUCH GOOD WORK THERE WAS DONE ON THIS FILM.
AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A BORING OLD FILM ABOUT LOVE ETC ETC,BUT I GOT THE OPPOSITE,I LOVED THE MOVIE.
I LOVED NICOLE,EWAN,AND THE REST OF THE CAST.
OOOOHHHH AND I LOVE THE THEME SONG TO THE MOVIE "COME WHAT MAY",
ITS A WONDERFUL AND BEATIFUL SONG.AL IN ALL I GIVE THIS MOVIE A BIG 2 THUMBS UP!!
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Summary: One of the best movie of all time
Review: I was one of those who did not get a chance to watch Moulin Rouge in theater, but my friend was raving about it so much; especiall about Ewan McGregor's singing talent. I bought the DVD as soon as it came out and was intrigued from the beginning. When Ewan McGregor started to sing "Your Song," my mouth just dropped and I just fell in love with his voice! From beginning to end, the characters, their songs, and the visual effects take you through an emotional roller-coaster. One minute I'm laughing and the next minute I'm crying my eyes out! I've watched it for about 20 + times and the the last scene between Christian and Satine still tug at my heart and makes me cry for them. This movie breaks out from the normal mold of film making. I hope that this is just the beginning of a new era in musicals and we can enjoy many, many more to come!
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Summary: Indigestion
Review: Given the conservative nature of most current mainstream films, Moulin Rouge has been rightly applauded for taking cinematic risks. However, the simple taking of risks is not, in itself, a guarantee of great cinema and, for mine, the thinking behind this film is confused and ultimately unsatisfying.
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On my first viewing, the blinding tempo of the editing, with shots often lasting less than a second, was startling; it was also physically irritating. Certainly, it's unusual for the big screen, but it's also redolent of formulaic video clips on MTV or the like - hoardes of box stepping dancers, with the star attraction up front, all digitalised jump cuts and jitter - we have, actually, seen this before. So it's not so unusual after all, and the question then becomes, does this technique add to the viewing experience? ( Which is close to asking whether one wants to see a two hour long dance video clip.) I think the elaborate sets and spectacle would have been even more impressive if normal editing techniques had been employed. More crucially, the main characters might have established more of an emotional connection with the audience, so that when tragedy strikes later in the film, something approaching a catharsis might transpire. The excitement generated by the opening seems artificial, one distraction layered upon the other, until the characters and the story are lessened, if not lost, instead of being heightened.
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There is extensive use of models and CGI to allow otherwise impossible shots of the cityscape of period Paris. The opening is thus visually arresting but, in principle, this has been done before (go back to Olivier's Henry V from 1944 for one example) - the digital 'flying camera' technique is then repeated several times, until its impact is diminished, and this again reminds of images routinely used and reused in music video clips.
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In the commentaries, the writers, Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, seem convinced that the crashing together of different genres and disparate elements is inherently a good thing. I think they have failed in judging what elements complement and mutually elevate each other, in contrast to those which merely intrude and detract from the work as a whole. There's the feeling that if another association occurred to them, they forced it in, and that the paring down process was not guided by a single strong vision. They sound a little too enamoured of their own brilliance. It's particularly telling when they come to discuss the final scenes - in terms of story resolution, they admit that they were unsure how to end the film: the story was unclear in their own minds, and yet throughout the commentary they have been paying lip-service to the idea that everything must be subservient to the needs of the story - in the commentary they bluster through the inconsistencies, but you can hear their confidence wane.
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In a way, you can hardly blame them. An enormous amount of money was thrown at this film, and Lurhmann and co. must have been surrounded by lackeys all too ready to canonise them as creative geniuses. You wonder who was around to challenge their ideas on artistic (as opposed to economic) grounds. So when Baz suggests combining French bedroom farce, with the operatic tragedy of La Boheme, themes taken from nineteenth century French novellas with the whimsy of Hollywood musicals, nobody is there to ask whether all these elements combine well or combine badly.
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So overall, there are numerous incongruent elements struggling for the viewer's attention and sympathy: there are comedic elements - but they make the mistake of not being humorous; there are tragic elements, but the tragedy hardly seems tragic; there are sexual elements which stop short of being sexy; opera with the melodramatic action but no Mozart or Puccini to lift this musically towards the sublime - although it is lifted sufficiently (by Madonna Ciccone and Reginald Dwight et al) to be passable as entertainment.
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It's as if two chefs decided to create a new dish by combining a large number of tried and tested ingredients into the one big pot. None of the produce is particular fresh, and copious spices are required to disguise this fact. After two hours on the boil, the dish is ready, and lo and behold, it's a kind of casserole - unfortunately, one that's likely to leave the discerning viewer with an upset stomach.
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Summary: A GREAT DVD
Review: I know you all think that "Moulin Rouge" is just a [cheesy] Baz Lurman flick, but let me you- it is one of my favorite movies! It is told hauntingly and romantically. It features both great dance and musical sequences, and great, heart-wrenching performances by both Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman as Christain and Satine, the Sparkling Diamond. A must for any DVD junkie.
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Summary: hated it
Review: I like Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGreggor, and John Leguzaimo, but I couldn't get past the first 30 minutes of this music video. I guess you could call it a musical, but Richard Rogers must be positively spinning in his grave.
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Summary: extremely impressive!
Review: I loved this flick --- as the woman behind me in the theater said "How was this passed up for an Academy Award?" This is like MTV with a plot -- fast-paced, colorful, hilarious. Ewan MacGregor and Nicole Kidman perform all their own songs --- they have incredible voices too. There are send-ups of "Like a Virgin" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and let's not forget the remake of Patti Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" courtesy of Pink, Mya, Lil Kim and Christina Aguilera. There is also an Indian bhangra version of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" -- did I mention this film has it all? The Moulin Rouge is a sort of turn-of-the-century [movie] where Kidman's character Satine reigns supreme. But she falls for a playwright (MacGregor) whom she thinks is a duke she is supposed to be pretending to lust for in order to seal a deal for her boss. He in turn falls for her. But she is promised to the duke. This is a love story like no other -- haunting yet delightful, sad yet funny, with an amazing cast of ribald characters and a lively musical score.
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Summary: MAKES YOU SMILE, MAKES YOU CRY AND MAKES YOU SING!
Review: I thought this was one of the best movies I have ever seen I saw it 4 times in the theaters and bought the DVD the day it came out. The soundtrack is also worth it. The songs were perfect for this movie and this movie was perfect for me. It included singing and dancing and heartbreak. I recomended this to all my friends and they all fell in lvoe with it too. This is totally worth buying...I promise that if you like singing in a movie and a love story then this is for you!
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