Dave Wrote:Just as Kenji said, the film is set at the turn of the last century (1899-1900) in Paris, stars Ewan McGreggor and Nicole Kidman, and is a terrific love story.
The direction is very quick paced, fast editing, weird. But after the initial shock of the first twenty minutes you find the groove and a gorgeous film emerges where modern songs are adapted in a musical stage show fashion.
And on repeat viewings the first twenty minutes are just great, the confusion on first watching is because you need to get your head around the directing technique.
I'd recommend renting it.
Dave
Thanks for the recommendation Dave -- and Kenji -- I'll look for it.
Ken V.
Dave Wrote:Just as Kenji said, the film is set at the turn of the last century (1899-1900) in Paris, stars Ewan McGreggor and Nicole Kidman, and is a terrific love story.
The direction is very quick paced, fast editing, weird. But after the initial shock of the first twenty minutes you find the groove and a gorgeous film emerges where modern songs are adapted in a musical stage show fashion.
And on repeat viewings the first twenty minutes are just great, the confusion on first watching is because you need to get your head around the directing technique.
I'd recommend renting it.
Dave
I like to sit in the 3rd or 4th row in the movie theater, real front and center.
Big mistake for "Moulin Rouge." I could see Nicole Kidman's lipstick bleeding (cosmetic term for lipstick leaking into the tiny lines around the mouth). The extreme close ups, so favored by Baz Luhrmann, were more than dizzying from my extremely close up perspective.
I did not really enjoy the film until I saw the video in my living room. But it is a fun ride.
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Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
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A good sountrack can make a movie almost as much as good acting or directing! A few of the ones I like are:
Leathal Weapon
Top Gun
Indiana Jones
Jaws
Star Wars
Far and Away
Starship Troopers
And I always liked The music in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly!
KRW
Leathal Weapon
Top Gun
Indiana Jones
Jaws
Star Wars
Far and Away
Starship Troopers
And I always liked The music in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly!
KRW
True Romance
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Dracula
She's the One
Obscured by Clouds (from La Vallee)
Fantasia
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Dracula
She's the One
Obscured by Clouds (from La Vallee)
Fantasia
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Maggers Wrote:I like to sit in the 3rd or 4th row in the movie theater, real front and center.
Big mistake for "Moulin Rouge." I could see Nicole Kidman's lipstick bleeding (cosmetic term for lipstick leaking into the tiny lines around the mouth). The extreme close ups, so favored by Baz Luhrmann, were more than dizzying from my extremely close up perspective.
I did not really enjoy the film until I saw the video in my living room. But it is a fun ride.
I first saw it in a cinema in Sydney whilst on a holiday, and wondered what the hell I was watching, and then Kylie Minogue popped up as the green fairy and I thought, okay, I'm freaked out now. But by the end I just wanted to see it again.
Dave
Dave Wrote:I first saw it in a cinema in Sydney whilst on a holiday, and wondered what the hell I was watching, and then Kylie Minogue popped up as the green fairy and I thought, okay, I'm freaked out now. But by the end I just wanted to see it again.
Dave
ROTFL! I almost choked on my cheese doodles!
Weird movie indeed. But I thought it was great in a bizarre sort of way.
Susan
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.~Nietzche
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Highlander (Queen -- A Kind of Magic)
Heavy Metal
Little Shop Of Horrors
Hair
Xanadu
Flash Gordon
This Is Spinal Tap
Grease
Saturday Night Fever
Rock Star
Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
Honerable mention goes to the cantina band from Star Wars
There are a lot more, but this is enough for now.
RIK
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Highlander (Queen -- A Kind of Magic)
Heavy Metal
Little Shop Of Horrors
Hair
Xanadu
Flash Gordon
This Is Spinal Tap
Grease
Saturday Night Fever
Rock Star
Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
Honerable mention goes to the cantina band from Star Wars
There are a lot more, but this is enough for now.
RIK
Dave Wrote:I first saw it in a cinema in Sydney whilst on a holiday, and wondered what the hell I was watching, and then Kylie Minogue popped up as the green fairy and I thought, okay, I'm freaked out now. But by the end I just wanted to see it again.
Dave
Oh? You don't like Kylie Minogue? Her scene was fantastic to me!
Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman)
Wild Things (Clinton)
Big Easy
Devil in a Blue Dress
Magnificent 7 (E. Bernstein)
A Partnership in Terror (sampling of Bernard Herrmann's scores for Hitchcock)
Wild Things (Clinton)
Big Easy
Devil in a Blue Dress
Magnificent 7 (E. Bernstein)
A Partnership in Terror (sampling of Bernard Herrmann's scores for Hitchcock)
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