I can't stop watching it . The songs, costumes, actors, and scenery makes this movie a masterpiece.
shareI absolutely agree. When I discovered it in 2007 I couldn't stop watching it. I would guess I watched it every day for over a month and then I slowed down to only watching my favorite parts. Now I only watch it once a year or so but I love it just as much every time.
There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy...
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The Academy made a massive mistake. Chicago won this film's Oscar.
"I know it looked like I fell... but it was all part of my plan!"
You know , I ususally don't care about dramas like those that typically gather Oscar attention, and thus I haven't seen the movie Iris , where Jim Broadbent actually won Best Actor in a Supporting Role, but I remember back then thinking pffff, dude should have won that award for Moulin Rouge!.
I doubt I'll ever give it a try , but I'll always be satisfied the guy won an award that year cause he deserved it for how awesome Zidler was.
Moulin Rouge lost out to A Beautiful Mind, not Chicago; that was the following year.
shareA beautiful movie indeed! Great rhythm and great music
shareAgreed, it's very beautiful.
share“Beauiful”? It’s an oversaturated,saccharine mellodrama filled with mediocre pop tunes and a gay-a-picnic-basket sensability.
shareThis is something we disagree on. Story aside, the sets and the costumes are really beautiful. Visually, I think it's stunning. I love the movie, but I can understand not liking the treatment of the pop songs, or the story.
shareI love this movie! It's a colorful, spectacular, unique, deliberately ridiculous, wildly entertaining ride... with a little bit of a point. It's a way cool movie that's against being cool and in favor of joy, it's about opening your heart to love, and cheesy music, and people you're not supposed to love, and not giving a rat's ass if the cool people think you're a dork. It appeals to my unconventional uncool dorkiness!
I don't insist that you like it, but that's why I do.
I grant that it’s ridiculous, but that does not appeal to me, but it doesn’t make you a bad person, Otter. It was PERFECT demo material for me selling high-end video hardware when the DVD was released, part of Baz Lurhman’s “Velvet Rope” series. The scene with the old white men in tuxedos and top hats singing Smells Like Teen Spirit was my go-to demo for showing customers the difference between mediocre and high-end HD TVs. The white men are dressed in black and white, in front of a dark grey array of curtains, and was shot in very low light. It looks like a minstrel show on an indifferent TV. You can see their faces, their white gloves and their shirts and ties. On a QUALITY set, like a Pioneer Elite or a Sony XBR, you saw every detail. You saw the background curtains. You saw the totality of their evening garb. You saw the textures of the Beaver skin in their toppers. Black levels are the single most important factor in moving picture visual quality. This movie made me a lot of money. Even though I think it’s silly.
shareHow can you even suggest that liking this movie could make me a bad person??? At worst, it makes me a person with bad *taste*!
And of course thinking about this movie makes me realize that enjoying what you love is more important than good taste. And yeah I understand that not everyone gets this movie, but I've always found it enchanting, but then I never played it over and over at work! Nothing like associating a work of art with your job to bleed all the joy out of it, you know?
This movie is downright ugly
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