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Subject: I'm with you. Moulin Rouge stinks

Author:
Mark7

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Date Posted: 16:03:49 05/19/02 Sun
In reply to: Pam 's message, "Re: Has anyone seen..." on 23:21:55 05/17/02 Fri

I also like musicals, but this one seemed to me to be the creation of a brain fried by drugs.

The fact that it received so many prises irritated me more than the movie itself.

The tempo was insane, and it moved from one scene to another, and one song to another without any rhyme or reason.

To me, Moulin Rouge was to music and musicals what all you can eat is to cuisine.

It gives indigestion, and doesn't do much for the palate.

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JeffF
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Date Posted: 07:52:48 05/20/02 Mon

I collect musical albums and I've seen a lot of stage and screen musicals. Moulin Rouge has a great soundtrack, but the movie itself gets tedious very fast. There are some enjoyable moments, but the film thinks so highly of its own importance, that it quickly becomes an overblown bore.

Dana, if you want to see an enjoyable awful musical, on the level of Plan Nine from Outer Space, get the video of At Long Last Love. This is truly awful, but fun to watch and see how bad it gets. Burt Reynolds and Cybil Shepard are both totally miscast. Neither can sing or dance, and the dialouge is unbelievable bad. One of the best awful movies of all time.

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Author: Dana [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 08:18:13 05/20/02 Mon I'll definitely put At Long Last Love on the bad movies to see list. I can't imagine either Burt or Cybil singing and dancing so it does sound fun in a terrible way. G The one that sticks in my mind is Paint Your Wagon. I've never seen it in its entirety but Clint Eastwood singing was astoundingly awful, yet entertaining. ~Dana

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Wistle Dixie!
Author: Mark7 [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:01:20 05/21/02 Tue Poor Eastwood! I love his westerns, but Joyce Wells "Are you going to pull 'dem pistols or just stand there and wistle dixie" is much more his style than singing. You're right, paint you wagon is comical, not harmonical...