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Post by elmsyrup on Jul 13, 2004 1:05:59 GMT
Can people tell me why this is good, and so critically acclaimed? I've just seen it and HATED it, though the scenery looked good in its way. But even that, along with the rest of the film, was garish and overdone with no real sense. There was no storyline- it was just a bunch of elaborate music videos really. The script was dodgy("this is a story about a time and a place but also about love"), no acting (hysteria instead) and Nicole Kidman did very little, the camera moved around her and did the acting for her. Plus the music was so incredibly gimmicky, throwing together shit songs with no coherence and amazingly making them worse. Tacky tacky tacky!
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Post by mikemk on Jul 13, 2004 8:27:42 GMT
I can well understand why you don't like the film, as you really do need to be in the right frame of mind for it, otherwise the whole effect will appear overblown, over the top, and over long. I can do no better than direct you to this review: www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2001/06/060104.htmlI think there is always a problem approaching a film years after it came out to huge critical praise - can it ever live up to its reputation. I'm afraid I am possible the only person in the world who hates "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" as being trite, dull and obvious, for just such reasons.
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Post by si on Jul 13, 2004 9:37:24 GMT
There was no storyline- it was just a bunch of elaborate music videos really. In terms of attempting to update the musical genre for an MTV generation, it was very successful then? Didn't you thrill at certain points? I love Your Song, Tango Roxanne and The Show Must Go On (I heart the part where Satine sings the my make-up might be flaking/but my smile still stays on part). I saw it three times in the cinema (which I never, ever do) and just got such a rush from those sequences -- although I admit that those are the strongest in the film, sections like Lady Marmalade/Smells Like Teen Spirit aren't quite as successful. As for Nicole's acting! Doesn't she break your heart in this? Knowing that Tom had publicly humiliated her, she broke her ribs and eventually miscarried during filming, I just think you can see all of that in his performance. She gives two performances -- her comedy scenes aren't as strong as her dramatic ones. Um, I can't really defend it, I don't know how. Which isn't really a very good argument. If you hated it, what can I do? As MikeMK said, it's difficult to explain after the fact -- it was very much about a time, in particular for me, it reminds me of a certain time in my life.
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Post by trollte on Jul 13, 2004 9:47:01 GMT
I really like this film but would have to agree you have to be in the right mood for it. Films about people falling in love always make me cry. (See Beauty and the Beast, Edward Scissorhands) Actually it's just weirdo's falling in love that makes me cry.
And... my supreme moment in this film is when Satine sings a few lines from Gorecki. If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here
It was so unexpected to hear one of my favourite beautiful love songs. I really like the medally of love songs too. Hurrah for love!
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Post by si on Jul 13, 2004 9:59:21 GMT
And!
It's got Kylie in it.
Singing The Sound Of Music/Children Of The Revolution.
Which she referenced at the start of kylie:fever:2002 when the stage went green and they played The hills are alive...
It must be genius.
And Satine says Sarah Bernhardt's her favourite actress (Zidler: A real show, in a real theatre and you'll be... Satine: A real actress!) and I visited her grave when I went to Paris last year.
I think I'm a Moulin Rouge fanboy.
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 13, 2004 10:00:57 GMT
Films that everyone loves but that I really hated:
Shrek : I found the first one boring and as funny as toothache but when I tell people that I have no interest in seeing the second for this reason they look at me funny.
Trainspotting : it's like watching an episode of He-Man with a hideous moral that sledge hammered home to the detriment of the film. Plus any film which actually pays Ewan Bremnar to pollute the screens must be burnt.
Jackie Brown : Zzzzzzzz
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Post by si on Jul 13, 2004 10:04:38 GMT
Less worthy but...
Dirty Dancing The Bodyguard Pretty Woman
I think you had to have been there.
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Post by mikemk on Jul 13, 2004 10:18:22 GMT
The Blues Brothers - what is wrong with me? I have actually lost friends over this film, but I still find it the dullest thing since the invention of Mother's Pride.
But then, I also hate "I'm not in love" by 10CC with a passion bordering on insanity. It still reminds me of school discos and the loneliness of the only gay in town.
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Post by billybathgate on Jul 15, 2004 13:13:29 GMT
I think I'm the only gayer who has yet to see Moulin Rouge.
I have no intention for that to ever change.
I have also never seen Rocky Horror, or The Blues Brothers.
I would probably rather gouge my eyes out with a spork than sit through any of them.
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Post by si on Jul 15, 2004 14:04:59 GMT
I have also never seen Rocky Horror, or The Blues Brothers. My boyfriend hates Rocky Horror. I really can't understand. But then, any opportunity to dig out old pictures. Huzzah, Jail Bait lives on.
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Post by elmsyrup on Jul 15, 2004 16:43:55 GMT
I don't like Rocky Horror and I don't like Casablanca. Or Citizen Kane for that matter. Boooo-ring. I do like the Simpsons episode where Mr Burns is Citizen Kane though.
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