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I have just been forced to watch some bits of MOULIN ROUGE, the movie. I hated it before I ever saw any, and the pieces I have seen have done nothing but make me loathe it. It is absolutely the opposite of anything I want to see in films, not to mention wrecking one of my favourite songs. (I loathe Elton John, but one has to concede that he wrote some damn good songs, and none better than "A song for you".)

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i agree... that movie is so irritating and over-the-top

Obviously it became an Easter movie :) We had it on TV, too (didn't watch, not interested).

Ha ha! My friend that I saw it with hated it so much too! I was able to enjoy it, just because I like Ewan McGregor so much, and I love Popcorn and Diet coke enough to carry me through most movies.

Also, I've been told that I have terrible taste in movies!

I guess I have high expectations. But I found the thing pretentious and horrible. I would rather watch an unpretentious but well-made episode of Diagnosis Murder, which makes no demands on you and lets you follow an interesting story, than put up with an eye-raping set of visuals for the sake of someone's crassly wrong-headed aesthetics.

I've never seen Moulin Rouge or had the urge to see it. However, I found myself compelled to locate a recording of "A Song for You" purely out of curiosity and wasn't able to find it by Elton John. I did, however, find a recording by the Carpenters. Maybe it was a remake?

Sorry, I was writing this on a spurt of anger and got the title wrong. It is "Your song."
So excuse my forgetting,
But these things I do -
You see, I've forgotten
If they're green or they're blue.
Anyway, the thing is,
Whatever they're in,
Yours are the sweetest eyes
I've ever seen.
And you can tell everybody
This is your song.
It may be quite simple but,
now that it's done,
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind
If i tell everyone
How wonderful life is
When you're in the world.

Pretty sure I've got a couple of lines wrong there, too.

aha! The lyrics to "Your Song" are much better than the other, as well. Sorry for changing the subject. ;) lol

Hee ... I love that movie. From what I understand, it's a love-it-or-hate-it experience, and also kind of a chick-flick. What exactly didn't you like about it?

Visually, it was revolting. It was the equivalent of an abstract painting, where you have to focus on each blot of colour equally, and drew attention away from the cnetre of the story. There was absolutely no attempt to focus your view on the main characters and bring out whatever it was that they saw in each other. The colours were obscene, the staging grotesquely artificial, and it generally looked designed by someone who had a violent hatred against romance and wished to produce the vilest caricature of it you could possibly imagine. And Baz Luhrman actually admitted, as if it was something to be proud of, that he had reduced as much as possible the content of the story. The moron claimed that this was a natural feature of musicals. Suuurrrrrre. Like SINGING IN THE RAIN, WEST SIDE STORY, MY FAIR LADY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.... git.

I don't know jack about Moulin Rouge, never saw it, but your description of abstract paintings is right on. As well what romantic musicals are not.

I found out how to enjoy it-- have it on in the background, while you're writing or gaming or knitting or cooking. Then the beautiful outfits and cool songs will come through, without the bone-headed storyline.

Well, but in that case, why not just buy an Elton John CD - or of whichever of the songs you like most - and spare your TV altogether?

Because I usually am sharing the TV with many other people, and what I want is not an object.

Oh. Beg pardon.

Bah, why should you? They don't. ;^)

You're not alone. I also loathe this movie, and all people ask me when I say it is "WHYYYYY?"

Why? I think it portrays an over-dramatic and outrageous plot with horrible music, that's why. Ewan and Nicole are good singers in a bad movie.

And in reply to myself, I feel the same way about RENT which gets me even more snake looks than my dislike of MOULIN ROUGE... oh well.

The MOULAN ROUGE, if I remember correctly, has as its central idea that characters will speak the words to popular rock and roll songs to each other as if this were the poetry of romantic dialog. Am I thinking of the right movie?

If so, this was the film that convinced me America was spiritually and morally dead.

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