Classic or dud: Baz Luhrman

um, orson welles' adaptation of macbeth?

Forbidden Planet

My Own Private Idaho

Throne of Blood.

ran. who can understand those japanese!!!

I don't know if any of you have actually seen Moulin Rouge yet, but I've seen it three times now and I think it is an amazing and beautiful film that deserves respect. You should not judge a movie based on a director's previous films because people get better as they gain experience, so I think it pesimistic to hate a movie before it even comes out. It is not "making fun of our beloved songs" it puts them in a different light so we can appreciate them in new ways. Take Your Song for example. It definitely has a different tone to it in Moulin Rouge which adds a more simple and romantic note (and, I must say, Ewan McGregor does it justice). Most people don't like musicals because they say they're chessy. By taking songs we already know and like and incorporating them into a story, we should be able to appreciate the story and how the songs add to it so that it isn't just another cheesy musical. Baz Luhrman should be given credit for taking chances and for breaking the norm. There are not many films as bizarre as Moulin Rouge, and Luhrman is brave in putting it out there. He has an incredible sense for color and cinematography. Angles and mirrors and flashes engulf you into a world unlike any we've known and when it is put to creative music and an emotional story and the film is truly an artistic masterpiece.

I saw Moulin Rouge and it was a great movie. Not only does it hold your interest from start to finish, but it is both funny and touching. It runs like a Shakespeare play, and manages to use popular music in a way I've never seen. In short, I wanted to be entertained, and I was. What more can anybody ask for from entertainment? It's a form of art, which as we all know, is very subjective.

I think MOULIN ROUGE is the best movie i have ever seen! It's such a beautifl romance. You come ut feeling like you just wanna love everyone . It reall ymakes you beleive that "The Greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return".I am on my 16th time seeing it, and i plan on going back. I am already on the waiting list at DVDNOW.com for when it hits DVD.

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hanley, you related to this guy? your style seems reall y similar.

Moulin Rouge was a spectacular work of art! It isn't supposed to have substance ... it's a musical. Did Grease have substance? And for that matter, even though it isn't supposed to be substantive, it is. It's a beautiful love story with a tragic ending that moves one to tears. Baz Luhrman is innovative and creative. His movies only get better with age as well. I've seen R + J over 30 times and plan to watch Moulin Rouge just as many.

The goal of a movie is to entertain ... and I've never been more entertained by any other pair of movies. I like being transported to fantastic dreamworlds, set to beautiful soundtracks. And that is exactly what Luhrman has done for me, twice.

Romeor and Juliet inspired my young daughter to read other books from Shakespeare. Thank goodness that she saw the movie as she would still have been reading "Fear Street" books!!!! The book and movie has inspired her so much that she is now pursuing a career in teaching. She just saw Moulin Rouge and enjoyed that as well.

Has that inspired her to change her plans and become a dissolute fin de siecle wastrel?

I've seen Moulin Rouge countless numbers of times now.. and it only gets better each time I saw it.. With every viewing I discover new things inside the movie.. and its just a brilliant piece of work.. So.. as to the whole Classic or dud thing.. Baz is neither.. Baz is "Spectacular, Spectacular".. but moreover.. a genius.