list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Moulin Rouge on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Moulin_Rouge/189192/default.aspx Title: Moulin Rouge
Year: 2001
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Plot: The third film from pop-music-obsessed director Baz Luhrmann tweaks the conventions of the musical genre by mixing a period romance with anachronistic dialogue and songs in the style of his previous Romeo+Juliet (1996). Ewan McGregor stars as Christian, who leaves behind his bourgeois father during the French belle époque of the late 1890s to seek his fortunes in the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. Christian meets the absinthe- and alcohol-addicted artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo), who introduces him to a world of sex, drugs, music, theater, and the scandalous dance known as the cancan, all at the Moulin Rouge, a decadent dance hall, brothel, and theater that's the brainchild of Harold Zidler (Jim Broadbent). Christian also meets and falls into a tragically doomed romance with the courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman), who becomes the star of the play he's writing, which parallels the couple's romance and utilizes rock music from a century later, including songs by Nirvana, Madonna, The Beatles, and Queen, among others. Loosely based on the opera Orpheus in the Underworld, Moulin Rouge was shown in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:12:17 GMTMoulin Rouge2001Baz LuhrmannThe third film from pop-music-obsessed director <a href="/players/P___100353/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Baz Luhrmann</a> tweaks the conventions of the musical genre by mixing a period romance with anachronistic dialogue and songs in the style of his previous Romeo+Juliet (1996). <a href="/players/P___196980/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ewan McGregor</a> stars as Christian, who leaves behind his bourgeois father during the French <I>belle époque</I> of the late 1890s to seek his fortunes in the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. Christian meets the absinthe- and alcohol-addicted artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (<a href="/players/P____41614/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Leguizamo</a>), who introduces him to a world of sex, drugs, music, theater, and the scandalous dance known as the cancan, all at the Moulin Rouge, a decadent dance hall, brothel, and theater that's the brainchild of Harold Zidler (<a href="/players/P_____8575/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jim Broadbent</a>). Christian also meets and falls into a tragically doomed romance with the courtesan Satine (<a href="/players/P____38065/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Nicole Kidman</a>), who becomes the star of the play he's writing, which parallels the couple's romance and utilizes rock music from a century later, including songs by Nirvana, <a href="/players/P___100711/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Madonna</a>, <a href="/players/P_____4797/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>The Beatles</a>, and Queen, among others. Loosely based on the opera Orpheus in the Underworld, Moulin Rouge was shown in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide123Tag Target (>10)1281073http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u42289ey26v.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Moulin_Rouge/189192/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/hautecritique/archive/2009/6/11/42615.aspx Post By: hautecritique
Post To: The Haute Critique on Spout
Post Date: 6/11/2009 1:41:52 PM
Body: Where to begin?  We are talking about a film that is eight years old, but if you’ve been there and done that you know that it is worthy of a Critique.  If not - then download it (with full surround sound of course) and watch it.  You will be glad you did. The movie begins perfectly.  The red velvet curtains open.  Are we watching a movie, or a live show at the theatre?  Layers within layers within layers.  Its a movie about a show about a song about a story about a love between a boy and a girl who must disguise their affair in the collaborative writing of a musical spectacular about a boy and a girl who must hide their affair from  . . . you get the picture.   The higher perspective loves layers and Moulin Rouge is the gift that keeps on giving. But it doesn’t stop there - oh no.  Baz Luhrmann decided to fabricate a musical almost entirely out of what we would now call “remix” songs.  Each of the major songs in the movie are alchemical concoctions of myriad pop hits.  Elton John, Madonna, David Bowie, Joe Cocker all make an appearance, mixed together in belle epoque cocktail that will leave your head spinning and your senses dazzled.  Try to follow the thread of exactly what boy and girl are saying when you constantly have to identify “material girl” as a Madonna song, remember what that song is about, how it fit into its cultural context and then link that back up to the phrases before and after it - within the context of the point in the movie in which it happend.  Beautiful. Then there are the visuals.  Let me first suggest that you are well strapped in and with plenty of munchies on-hand *before* the green fairy makes her appearance. This is a Moulin Rouge spectacular spectacular, after all.  You have bejewled beauties swinging from high trapeeze (to the tune of Nirvana of course) and courtesans living on top of an elephant that must have been imagined by a string theorist.   You have song and dance numbers replete with vein-popping, foot-stomping energy and narcoleptic Argentinans stomping out a tight tango (yes, to the tune of Roxanne).  And if you’ve managed to keep your chin off the floor as the love story drifts past singing moons and animated frogs, you get the quasi-closing bollywood-meets-the-Bohemian extravaganza to make sure that you are right there with towelie having absolutely no idea what is going on.  But loving it. And, of course, the characters.  We’ve already mentioned the narcoleptic Argentinian, but this film is full of em.  Jim Broadbent does an insane job gnashing his teeth and rolling his eyes as the owner of the Rouge.  But nothing comes close to John Leguizamo’s brilliantly absurd Tolouse-Lautrec who somehow manages to get cast as a magical sitar that only speaks the truth in the awe-inspiring conclusion.  And what a relief - in a film that is linked and cross-linked, fiction within fiction within fiction to, finally, run into the pure unvarnished, obvious Truth. This is a film that has the wisdom to remind you in the end credits what it was about: Beauty, Truth and (most of all) Love.  Whew!  After all of that, you very much need the help.  And, amazingly enough, in-spite of the sound and fury, you really do get the sense that Love is somehow somewhere contained therein. No related posts. Originally posted on:The Haute Critique
]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:41:52 GMThautecritiqueThe Haute Critique on Spout6/11/2009 1:41:52 PMWhere to begin?  We are talking about a film that is eight years old, but if you’ve been there and done that you know that it is worthy of a Critique.  If not - then download it (with full surround sound of course) and watch it.  You will be glad you did. The movie begins perfectly.  The red velvet curtains open.  Are we watching a movie, or a live show at the theatre?  Layers within layers within layers.  Its a movie about a show about a song about a story about a love between a boy and a girl who must disguise their affair in the collaborative writing of a musical spectacular about a boy and a girl who must hide their affair from  . . . you get the picture.   The higher perspective loves layers and Moulin Rouge is the gift that keeps on giving. But it doesn’t stop there - oh no.  Baz Luhrmann decided to fabricate a musical almost entirely out of what we would now call “remix” songs.  Each of the major songs in the movie are alchemical concoctions of myriad pop hits.  Elton John, Madonna, David Bowie, Joe Cocker all make an appearance, mixed together in belle epoque cocktail that will leave your head spinning and your senses dazzled.  Try to follow the thread of exactly what boy and girl are saying when you constantly have to identify “material girl” as a Madonna song, remember what that song is about, how it fit into its cultural context and then link that back up to the phrases before and after it - within the context of the point in the movie in which it happend.  Beautiful. Then there are the visuals.  Let me first suggest that you are well strapped in and with plenty of munchies on-hand *before* the green fairy makes her appearance. This is a Moulin Rouge spectacular spectacular, after all.  You have bejewled beauties swinging from high trapeeze (to the tune of Nirvana of course) and courtesans living on top of an elephant that must have been imagined by a string theorist.   You have song and dance numbers replete with vein-popping, foot-stomping energy and narcoleptic Argentinans stomping out a tight tango (yes, to the tune of Roxanne).  And if you’ve managed to keep your chin off the floor as the love story drifts past singing moons and animated frogs, you get the quasi-closing bollywood-meets-the-Bohemian extravaganza to make sure that you are right there with towelie having absolutely no idea what is going on.  But loving it. And, of course, the characters.  We’ve already mentioned the narcoleptic Argentinian, but this film is full of em.  Jim Broadbent does an insane job gnashing his teeth and rolling his eyes as the owner of the Rouge.  But nothing comes close to John Leguizamo’s brilliantly absurd Tolouse-Lautrec who somehow manages to get cast as a magical sitar that only speaks the truth in the awe-inspiring conclusion.  And what a relief - in a film that is linked and cross-linked, fiction within fiction within fiction to, finally, run into the pure unvarnished, obvious Truth. This is a film that has the wisdom to remind you in the end credits what it was about: Beauty, Truth and (most of all) Love.  Whew!  After all of that, you very much need the help.  And, amazingly enough, in-spite of the sound and fury, you really do get the sense that Love is somehow somewhere contained therein. No related posts. Originally posted on:The Haute Critique http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/_Australia_and_all_things_Australian/591/37755/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: indieabby88
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Post Date: 11/30/2008 2:05:10 AM
Body: I just saw "Australia" with the fam tonight. Not a bad movie, considering the dreck that Baz Luhrmann has put out previously. Actually, when you compare it to "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo + Juliet" it's pretty great. But, in the context of general cinema, only pretty good. My point (and I do have one) is that while watching this movie, I noticed many many references to other (better) Australian movies, which in turn got me thinking about how much I love Australian cinema. It was more or less my introduction to independent film, so it holds a pretty special place in my heart. I wanted to know if anyone here had particular favorite Aussie films and/or directors. Mine will always be Peter Weir and "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Every time I've watched it with someone, it's been a crazy experience, from the first time I saw it with my parents to a few months ago, when I watched it with my roommate and we both ended up yelling at the screen.
]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:05:10 GMTindieabby88Friends of Foreign Flicks11/30/2008 2:05:10 AMI just saw "Australia" with the fam tonight. Not a bad movie, considering the dreck that Baz Luhrmann has put out previously. Actually, when you compare it to "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo + Juliet" it's pretty great. But, in the context of general cinema, only pretty good. My point (and I do have one) is that while watching this movie, I noticed many many references to other (better) Australian movies, which in turn got me thinking about how much I love Australian cinema. It was more or less my introduction to independent film, so it holds a pretty special place in my heart. I wanted to know if anyone here had particular favorite Aussie films and/or directors. Mine will always be Peter Weir and "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Every time I've watched it with someone, it's been a crazy experience, from the first time I saw it with my parents to a few months ago, when I watched it with my roommate and we both ended up yelling at the screen. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/26/37686.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 11/26/2008 3:01:22 PM
Body: I might as well get this out of the way first: I loved Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia. I was on the fence about seeing this, especially once I heard about the 165 minute running time, but I gave in and boy was I glad. It’s a sprawling epic with nods to classic films of the 30s and 40s, and besides featuring the eye candy combo of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, it also introduces Brandon Walters, who is possibly the cutest child actor alive. If there was some sort of scientific cuteness scale, he’d break it. Despite the beautiful vistas and the sweeping storyline, not everyone is loving it. After the press screening I attended, a bunch of us gathered on the street outside the theater to debate reactions. It was oddly dividing: people either hated it or loathed it. I’d spent part of the week with a friend from Australia, and he’d denounced it as cheesy, because they have two Aussies in the lead roles: Jackman doing a faux “crikey!” Australian accent, while Kidman actually has a faux British accent. He said most of his friends in Sydney felt the same way. Here in the States, Australia’s detractors are saying a lot of the same things. So, I’m taking the top five critiques of Australia and refuting them. I might not be able to change the critics’ minds, but I’m hoping you’ll at least give the movie a chance in theaters. Spoilers ahead! Somewhere Over The Rainbow “Umpteen choruses of “Over the Rainbow,” the Wizard of Oz tune that is sung whenever a tear needs jerking.” Peter Travers - Rolling Stone “You’ll also get a bit tired of hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and references to Oz again and again.” Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper There’s a pretty strong effort by Luhrmann to link Australia to The Wizard of Oz, and not just with this song. However, I have to take issue with these two critics. Maybe they don’t remember the movie that well, but it’s not sung often. Kidman first performs a comical rendition of the song because she can’t remember the words to it, and later Nullah sees it on the screen, basking in the glow of his first movie ever. It is played on a harmonica several times, but that’s because it becomes the song linking Lady Ashley and Nullah together. When he tells her, “I’ll sing you to me,” he means with that song. When he inherits the harmonica from the ill-fated accountant, of course he’s bound to play it –a nd yes, your heart is made of black ice if you don’t feel a twinge or two whenever he does. The Running Time “Long before the second hour of Australia (which feels like the fifth)…” Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly “When this storyline is resolved at only ninety minutes, the film gets another fresh hour out of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1941…” Matt Goldberg - Collider Yes, we get it: the movie is long. But where was it ever written that films should always be two hours long at max? If I’m being entertained and I’m still drawn in by the story, then I don’t mind how long it stretches on. Although I’m not lobbying for a director’s cut version of Australia that rivals Che in length, I certainly didn’t find the movie to be too long. Yes, there are separate story arcs throughout, but even when the movie is over, you’re still wondering what’s going on the the main characters. Especially Nullah, who heads off into the Outback on walkabout with his mystical grandfather. It’s Sappy “You may find yourself drowning in high-fructose Aussie corn syrup…” Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune “Australia is what you get when the film projector overheats and the only thing that comes out is pure corn syrup.” Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com Can you name one Baz Luhrmann film that isn’t sappy and overtly saccharine at times? Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge… they’ve all had those moments, so why would Australia be any different? It’s a sweeping epic fantasy love story, and if you can name any massive romance movie for me that doesn’t have even the tiniest bit of schmaltz in it, then I’ll buy your movie popcorn for a month. Several main characters get murdered in this story, aboriginal children are ripped from their homes, and the Japanese bomb Darwin, including a mission full of kids. If a filmmaker can’t balance that out with loads of happier moments and some cinematic sugar, then you’d just wind up with a depressing mess. You look for those cheesy moments to balance the mood, and even though in Luhrmann’s case you can see them coming from a mile away, they’re just as welcome. The Special Effects Are Bad “The CGI sequences – the cattle stampede, the Japanese bombing raid – that look so glaringly, absurdly fake” Tom Maurstad - The Dallas Morning News “The BLUE SCREEN EFFECTS WERE DOWNRIGHT AWFUL. I felt like I was watching 10,000 B.C.” - Kevin McCarthy - Big Daddy Kev’s Movie Reviews This was one of the big ones that people were talking about outside my screening, and I also wonder if these same people saw Moulin Rouge. That didn’t really look like a nightclub in the middle of Paris, it looked stylized and cartoonishly fake. Likewise, Australia goes to great lengths to create scenes that aren’t meant to look “fake” exactly, but they’re meant to imitate the style of films from the 30s and 40s that often featured fake sunsets and night skies. Luhrmann is creating fantasy here, so why would he try going for photorealism? It’s meant to look larger than life, grand, and completely garish and fake at times. You’ve taken the twister into Oz, and it’s not meant to look like a documentary that was shot on location. Besides, the CGI attack on Darwin, which many people say looks fake, looked pretty darn realistic to me. It looked better than Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, and that wasn’t so shabby either. Maybe everyone should just go back to using miniatures so people will stop talking about CGI. Nicole Kidman Can’t Act “Why won’t Nicole Kidman’s face move?” Stephanie Zacharek - Salon “Think Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen, without the facial expressivity. Geoff Berkshire - Metromix Chicago These truly baffle me. I mean, Zacharek becomes so obsessed with Nicole Kidman’s face that she ends her review by talking about the nearly magical qualities of her ultrasmooth forehead. Either I didn’t pay enough attention to Kidman’s face or else it didn’t annoy me, but she had plenty of facial expressions to go around. She has looks that range from shock, to surprise, to anger, to adoration, to sadness… what do these people expect? No, she’s not as rubberfaced as Jim Carrey, but she certainly doesn’t look like a Botoxed angel made of alabaster. The last time I checked, this is the same Kidman who won an Academy Award for her role in The Hours. Do they think she’s had her facial muscles severed since then? I thought she did a bang-up job throughout the film, and yes, her face does indeed move quite a bit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:01:22 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/26/2008 3:01:22 PMI might as well get this out of the way first: I loved Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia. I was on the fence about seeing this, especially once I heard about the 165 minute running time, but I gave in and boy was I glad. It’s a sprawling epic with nods to classic films of the 30s and 40s, and besides featuring the eye candy combo of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, it also introduces Brandon Walters, who is possibly the cutest child actor alive. If there was some sort of scientific cuteness scale, he’d break it. Despite the beautiful vistas and the sweeping storyline, not everyone is loving it. After the press screening I attended, a bunch of us gathered on the street outside the theater to debate reactions. It was oddly dividing: people either hated it or loathed it. I’d spent part of the week with a friend from Australia, and he’d denounced it as cheesy, because they have two Aussies in the lead roles: Jackman doing a faux “crikey!” Australian accent, while Kidman actually has a faux British accent. He said most of his friends in Sydney felt the same way. Here in the States, Australia’s detractors are saying a lot of the same things. So, I’m taking the top five critiques of Australia and refuting them. I might not be able to change the critics’ minds, but I’m hoping you’ll at least give the movie a chance in theaters. Spoilers ahead! Somewhere Over The Rainbow “Umpteen choruses of “Over the Rainbow,” the Wizard of Oz tune that is sung whenever a tear needs jerking.” Peter Travers - Rolling Stone “You’ll also get a bit tired of hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and references to Oz again and again.” Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper There’s a pretty strong effort by Luhrmann to link Australia to The Wizard of Oz, and not just with this song. However, I have to take issue with these two critics. Maybe they don’t remember the movie that well, but it’s not sung often. Kidman first performs a comical rendition of the song because she can’t remember the words to it, and later Nullah sees it on the screen, basking in the glow of his first movie ever. It is played on a harmonica several times, but that’s because it becomes the song linking Lady Ashley and Nullah together. When he tells her, “I’ll sing you to me,” he means with that song. When he inherits the harmonica from the ill-fated accountant, of course he’s bound to play it –a nd yes, your heart is made of black ice if you don’t feel a twinge or two whenever he does. The Running Time “Long before the second hour of Australia (which feels like the fifth)…” Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly “When this storyline is resolved at only ninety minutes, the film gets another fresh hour out of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1941…” Matt Goldberg - Collider Yes, we get it: the movie is long. But where was it ever written that films should always be two hours long at max? If I’m being entertained and I’m still drawn in by the story, then I don’t mind how long it stretches on. Although I’m not lobbying for a director’s cut version of Australia that rivals Che in length, I certainly didn’t find the movie to be too long. Yes, there are separate story arcs throughout, but even when the movie is over, you’re still wondering what’s going on the the main characters. Especially Nullah, who heads off into the Outback on walkabout with his mystical grandfather. It’s Sappy “You may find yourself drowning in high-fructose Aussie corn syrup…” Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune “Australia is what you get when the film projector overheats and the only thing that comes out is pure corn syrup.” Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com Can you name one Baz Luhrmann film that isn’t sappy and overtly saccharine at times? Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge… they’ve all had those moments, so why would Australia be any different? It’s a sweeping epic fantasy love story, and if you can name any massive romance movie for me that doesn’t have even the tiniest bit of schmaltz in it, then I’ll buy your movie popcorn for a month. Several main characters get murdered in this story, aboriginal children are ripped from their homes, and the Japanese bomb Darwin, including a mission full of kids. If a filmmaker can’t balance that out with loads of happier moments and some cinematic sugar, then you’d just wind up with a depressing mess. You look for those cheesy moments to balance the mood, and even though in Luhrmann’s case you can see them coming from a mile away, they’re just as welcome. The Special Effects Are Bad “The CGI sequences – the cattle stampede, the Japanese bombing raid – that look so glaringly, absurdly fake” Tom Maurstad - The Dallas Morning News “The BLUE SCREEN EFFECTS WERE DOWNRIGHT AWFUL. I felt like I was watching 10,000 B.C.” - Kevin McCarthy - Big Daddy Kev’s Movie Reviews This was one of the big ones that people were talking about outside my screening, and I also wonder if these same people saw Moulin Rouge. That didn’t really look like a nightclub in the middle of Paris, it looked stylized and cartoonishly fake. Likewise, Australia goes to great lengths to create scenes that aren’t meant to look “fake” exactly, but they’re meant to imitate the style of films from the 30s and 40s that often featured fake sunsets and night skies. Luhrmann is creating fantasy here, so why would he try going for photorealism? It’s meant to look larger than life, grand, and completely garish and fake at times. You’ve taken the twister into Oz, and it’s not meant to look like a documentary that was shot on location. Besides, the CGI attack on Darwin, which many people say looks fake, looked pretty darn realistic to me. It looked better than Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, and that wasn’t so shabby either. Maybe everyone should just go back to using miniatures so people will stop talking about CGI. Nicole Kidman Can’t Act “Why won’t Nicole Kidman’s face move?” Stephanie Zacharek - Salon “Think Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen, without the facial expressivity. Geoff Berkshire - Metromix Chicago These truly baffle me. I mean, Zacharek becomes so obsessed with Nicole Kidman’s face that she ends her review by talking about the nearly magical qualities of her ultrasmooth forehead. Either I didn’t pay enough attention to Kidman’s face or else it didn’t annoy me, but she had plenty of facial expressions to go around. She has looks that range from shock, to surprise, to anger, to adoration, to sadness… what do these people expect? No, she’s not as rubberfaced as Jim Carrey, but she certainly doesn’t look like a Botoxed angel made of alabaster. The last time I checked, this is the same Kidman who won an Academy Award for her role in The Hours. Do they think she’s had her facial muscles severed since then? I thought she did a bang-up job throughout the film, and yes, her face does indeed move quite a bit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Re_Take_the_red_pill_Recast_THE_MATRIX_1999/563/32529/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: lbenschwartz
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Post Date: 7/14/2008 1:35:21 PM
Body: If you're going to go through the trouble of remaking The Matrix, why wouldn't you make it a musical? Better yet, a Baz Luhrmann musical spectacular that makes Moulin Rouge look like a quaint summer stock production of Sunday in the Park with George? Bigger, badder, and with a beat anyone can dance to... The Matrix Is Gonna Get You Robert Downy Jr. ... Neo Russell Crowe ... Morpheus Catherine Zeta Jones... Trinity Eddie Izzard ... Agent Smith Madonna ... Oracle John Leguizamo... Cypher Common ... Tank Jack White ... Apoc Chris Brown... Mouse Milla Jovovich ... Switch Iggy Pop ... Dozer Jonathan Rhys-Myer ... Agent Brown Jamie Campbell Bower ... Agent Jones
]]>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:35:21 GMTlbenschwartzFilmgaming7/14/2008 1:35:21 PM If you're going to go through the trouble of remaking The Matrix, why wouldn't you make it a musical? Better yet, a Baz Luhrmann musical spectacular that makes Moulin Rouge look like a quaint summer stock production of Sunday in the Park with George? Bigger, badder, and with a beat anyone can dance to... The Matrix Is Gonna Get You Robert Downy Jr. ... Neo Russell Crowe ... Morpheus Catherine Zeta Jones... Trinity Eddie Izzard ... Agent Smith Madonna ... Oracle John Leguizamo... Cypher Common ... Tank Jack White ... Apoc Chris Brown... Mouse Milla Jovovich ... Switch Iggy Pop ... Dozer Jonathan Rhys-Myer ... Agent Brown Jamie Campbell Bower ... Agent Jones http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/6/19/31418.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 6/19/2008 12:01:05 PM
Body: We’ve all seen enough Christopher Walken impersonations to think we could do one ourselves. We might even be able to copy those impersonations exactly — in fact that’s probably what most of the lesser acts do: copy the more famous impersonations done by Jay Mohr, Kevin Pollak, etc. But few of us would really get it precisely correct. To properly ape Walken, we need detailed instructions. Meet Naathan, an Asian-American posing as a British-Asian, who does a great Walken. And in this near-30-minute video from a couple years ago, he teaches us just how he does it. First, he displays a few different Walken voices, such as the whispering Walken and the “normal” Walken voice we mostly associate with the actor. Then, he isolates the ingredients of the impersonation, such as the New York accent, the exaggerated tonality, the pauses, etc. The best is that he points out where most people error. For example, he says that too many impersonators emphasize every word, which he claims is more Stephen Hawking than Christopher Walken. He also stresses the difference between doing Christopher Walken and impersonating Christopher Walken. And, after presenting what may be the only impersonation of Ewan McGregor’s singing voice in Moulin Rouge, he teaches us how to sing like Christopher Walken. [via Fark.com] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:01:05 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com6/19/2008 12:01:05 PM We’ve all seen enough Christopher Walken impersonations to think we could do one ourselves. We might even be able to copy those impersonations exactly — in fact that’s probably what most of the lesser acts do: copy the more famous impersonations done by Jay Mohr, Kevin Pollak, etc. But few of us would really get it precisely correct. To properly ape Walken, we need detailed instructions. Meet Naathan, an Asian-American posing as a British-Asian, who does a great Walken. And in this near-30-minute video from a couple years ago, he teaches us just how he does it. First, he displays a few different Walken voices, such as the whispering Walken and the “normal” Walken voice we mostly associate with the actor. Then, he isolates the ingredients of the impersonation, such as the New York accent, the exaggerated tonality, the pauses, etc. The best is that he points out where most people error. For example, he says that too many impersonators emphasize every word, which he claims is more Stephen Hawking than Christopher Walken. He also stresses the difference between doing Christopher Walken and impersonating Christopher Walken. And, after presenting what may be the only impersonation of Ewan McGregor’s singing voice in Moulin Rouge, he teaches us how to sing like Christopher Walken. [via Fark.com] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Everybody_Seems_To_Love_But_I_Hate/190/29837/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 5/23/2008 2:39:18 PM
Body: [quote user="jaysjunk2000"]Here are my top 5 +: 1) Moulin Rouge (2001) Why? Why? Why? I had almost forgotten this movie maybe because my mind had blanked it out because I was so pissed that everyone loved this piece of crap. Now I will be the first to say I don't like musicals but I have had season tickets to the opera (which I love) and can sit through most musicals. This must have been created to make the masses feel cultured because they know the songs, and it is set in france so it's like a foreign film. The movie I also associate with this one is A Knight's Tale (2001) which I begrudgingly sat through 20 minutes of before I turned off my DVD player and then cleaned it with bleach just to get the stench out. 2) Election/Rushmore/Little Miss Sunshine/The Life Aquatic ... These are what I call Emo Comedies, but they seem to be all Emo no comedy. The sad lives and even sadder characters that keep doing stupider and stupider things that make me want to scream at the TV but that would make me seem more insane. I want those 8 hours of my life back. 3) Anchorman/and any other Will Ferrel movie except for Elf (2003) which I thought was actually funny and watch it at least once a year. I guess I am too old to understand the comedy or something like that. I found Talladega Nights to have a few amusing moments but am amazed he did not get lynched by the American racing fan public who this film was making fun of. 4) Mulholand Drive I give this film a 2 thumbs up for the 2 chicks rolling around topless scene but a film that I have to read web reviews to figure out what happened in the last 20 minutes doesn't cut it in my book. I like indie films and films with twists but when stream of consiousness imagery is strung together which can only be pieced together using far fetched implications does not a good film make. Don't get me wrong I like what David Lynch did with Dune (1984) except for the whole weirding weapon thing which any loyal reader of Dune will complain about. 5) Titanic (1997) , again I give it 2 thumbs up for the topless scene but god what mindless pap people will say is great. I'm glad the topless scene hapens early on so that I could nap through the rest of the movie. Unfortunately I didn't sleep hoping it would turn actiony. Hey I know I was grasping at straws but there could have been another topless scene.[/quote] Hey thanks for the contribution. I feel the same way about some of these. Some I have seen, and some I haven't. But I find you to be quite an interesting person. You frequent the Opera for instance yet a good amount of topless action is enough to get you through a movie, and you know enough about Dune to reveal your sci-fi geekiness. You don't like ambiguous endings. And although you are seems surprised that someone made a movie that would make fun of NASCAR fans, you still seem to think little enough of them that you would expect them to lynch someone!
]]>Fri, 23 May 2008 18:39:18 GMTRisseladaTop 55/23/2008 2:39:18 PM[quote user="jaysjunk2000"]Here are my top 5 +: 1) Moulin Rouge (2001) Why? Why? Why? I had almost forgotten this movie maybe because my mind had blanked it out because I was so pissed that everyone loved this piece of crap. Now I will be the first to say I don't like musicals but I have had season tickets to the opera (which I love) and can sit through most musicals. This must have been created to make the masses feel cultured because they know the songs, and it is set in france so it's like a foreign film. The movie I also associate with this one is A Knight's Tale (2001) which I begrudgingly sat through 20 minutes of before I turned off my DVD player and then cleaned it with bleach just to get the stench out. 2) Election/Rushmore/Little Miss Sunshine/The Life Aquatic ... These are what I call Emo Comedies, but they seem to be all Emo no comedy. The sad lives and even sadder characters that keep doing stupider and stupider things that make me want to scream at the TV but that would make me seem more insane. I want those 8 hours of my life back. 3) Anchorman/and any other Will Ferrel movie except for Elf (2003) which I thought was actually funny and watch it at least once a year. I guess I am too old to understand the comedy or something like that. I found Talladega Nights to have a few amusing moments but am amazed he did not get lynched by the American racing fan public who this film was making fun of. 4) Mulholand Drive I give this film a 2 thumbs up for the 2 chicks rolling around topless scene but a film that I have to read web reviews to figure out what happened in the last 20 minutes doesn't cut it in my book. I like indie films and films with twists but when stream of consiousness imagery is strung together which can only be pieced together using far fetched implications does not a good film make. Don't get me wrong I like what David Lynch did with Dune (1984) except for the whole weirding weapon thing which any loyal reader of Dune will complain about. 5) Titanic (1997) , again I give it 2 thumbs up for the topless scene but god what mindless pap people will say is great. I'm glad the topless scene hapens early on so that I could nap through the rest of the movie. Unfortunately I didn't sleep hoping it would turn actiony. Hey I know I was grasping at straws but there could have been another topless scene.[/quote] Hey thanks for the contribution. I feel the same way about some of these. Some I have seen, and some I haven't. But I find you to be quite an interesting person. You frequent the Opera for instance yet a good amount of topless action is enough to get you through a movie, and you know enough about Dune to reveal your sci-fi geekiness. You don't like ambiguous endings. And although you are seems surprised that someone made a movie that would make fun of NASCAR fans, you still seem to think little enough of them that you would expect them to lynch someone! http://www.spout.com/blogs/capeach/archive/2008/5/21/29694.aspx Post By: CaPeach
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Post Date: 5/21/2008 7:05:56 PM
Body: This movie, believe it or not, is full of hidden meanings. I picked up on it the 5th time I sang along with them. I love the songs so much, I bought both music CD's. If I mentioned everything I enjoyed about this movie, it would mostly be about the music. I understood the story the second time I saw it. So it could have had more hints and premises leading up to the fast paced jokes. I should have paid more attention to the brilliant deep reds & gold colors of the different backgrounds to help me along. It was visually stunning from props to costumes to special-fx. I will love this movie 'till my dying day.
]]>Wed, 21 May 2008 23:05:56 GMTCaPeachCaPeach Blog5/21/2008 7:05:56 PMThis movie, believe it or not, is full of hidden meanings. I picked up on it the 5th time I sang along with them. I love the songs so much, I bought both music CD's. If I mentioned everything I enjoyed about this movie, it would mostly be about the music. I understood the story the second time I saw it. So it could have had more hints and premises leading up to the fast paced jokes. I should have paid more attention to the brilliant deep reds &amp; gold colors of the different backgrounds to help me along. It was visually stunning from props to costumes to special-fx. I will love this movie 'till my dying day. http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Everybody_Seems_To_Love_But_I_Hate/190/29683/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: jaysjunk2000
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Post Date: 5/21/2008 6:26:26 PM
Body: Here are my top 5 +: 1) Moulin Rouge (2001) Why? Why? Why? I had almost forgotten this movie maybe because my mind had blanked it out because I was so pissed that everyone loved this piece of crap. Now I will be the first to say I don't like musicals but I have had season tickets to the opera (which I love) and can sit through most musicals. This must have been created to make the masses feel cultured because they know the songs, and it is set in france so it's like a foreign film. The movie I also associate with this one is A Knight's Tale (2001) which I begrudgingly sat through 20 minutes of before I turned off my DVD player and then cleaned it with bleach just to get the stench out. 2) Election/Rushmore/Little Miss Sunshine/The Life Aquatic ... These are what I call Emo Comedies, but they seem to be all Emo no comedy. The sad lives and even sadder characters that keep doing stupider and stupider things that make me want to scream at the TV but that would make me seem more insane. I want those 8 hours of my life back. 3) Anchorman/and any other Will Ferrel movie except for Elf (2003) which I thought was actually funny and watch it at least once a year. I guess I am too old to understand the comedy or something like that. I found Talladega Nights to have a few amusing moments but am amazed he did not get lynched by the American racing fan public who this film was making fun of. 4) Mulholand Drive I give this film a 2 thumbs up for the 2 chicks rolling around topless scene but a film that I have to read web reviews to figure out what happened in the last 20 minutes doesn't cut it in my book. I like indie films and films with twists but when stream of consiousness imagery is strung together which can only be pieced together using far fetched implications does not a good film make. Don't get me wrong I like what David Lynch did with Dune (1984) except for the whole weirding weapon thing which any loyal reader of Dune will complain about. 5) Titanic (1997) , again I give it 2 thumbs up for the topless scene but god what mindless pap people will say is great. I'm glad the topless scene hapens early on so that I could nap through the rest of the movie. Unfortunately I didn't sleep hoping it would turn actiony. Hey I know I was grasping at straws but there could have been another topless scene.
]]>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:26:26 GMTjaysjunk2000Top 55/21/2008 6:26:26 PMHere are my top 5 +: 1) Moulin Rouge (2001) Why? Why? Why? I had almost forgotten this movie maybe because my mind had blanked it out because I was so pissed that everyone loved this piece of crap. Now I will be the first to say I don't like musicals but I have had season tickets to the opera (which I love) and can sit through most musicals. This must have been created to make the masses feel cultured because they know the songs, and it is set in france so it's like a foreign film. The movie I also associate with this one is A Knight's Tale (2001) which I begrudgingly sat through 20 minutes of before I turned off my DVD player and then cleaned it with bleach just to get the stench out. 2) Election/Rushmore/Little Miss Sunshine/The Life Aquatic ... These are what I call Emo Comedies, but they seem to be all Emo no comedy. The sad lives and even sadder characters that keep doing stupider and stupider things that make me want to scream at the TV but that would make me seem more insane. I want those 8 hours of my life back. 3) Anchorman/and any other Will Ferrel movie except for Elf (2003) which I thought was actually funny and watch it at least once a year. I guess I am too old to understand the comedy or something like that. I found Talladega Nights to have a few amusing moments but am amazed he did not get lynched by the American racing fan public who this film was making fun of. 4) Mulholand Drive I give this film a 2 thumbs up for the 2 chicks rolling around topless scene but a film that I have to read web reviews to figure out what happened in the last 20 minutes doesn't cut it in my book. I like indie films and films with twists but when stream of consiousness imagery is strung together which can only be pieced together using far fetched implications does not a good film make. Don't get me wrong I like what David Lynch did with Dune (1984) except for the whole weirding weapon thing which any loyal reader of Dune will complain about. 5) Titanic (1997) , again I give it 2 thumbs up for the topless scene but god what mindless pap people will say is great. I'm glad the topless scene hapens early on so that I could nap through the rest of the movie. Unfortunately I didn't sleep hoping it would turn actiony. Hey I know I was grasping at straws but there could have been another topless scene. http://www.spout.com/blogs/doe358/archive/2007/10/17/20902.aspx Post By: doe358
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Post Date: 10/17/2007 10:12:05 PM
Body: The movie kept you wondering about what was going to happen. I liked the fact that she thought Christian was the Duke at first, but was surprised to find out the truth. The ending is emotionally pulling, because of the fast that they were going to be together, and then the sickness takes over. I think they could have had more dancing, but other than that, the movie was amazing, and wonderfully made.
]]>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:12:05 GMTdoe358doe358 Blog10/17/2007 10:12:05 PMThe movie kept you wondering about what was going to happen. I liked the fact that she thought Christian was the Duke at first, but was surprised to find out the truth. The ending is emotionally pulling, because of the fast that they were going to be together, and then the sickness takes over. I think they could have had more dancing, but other than that, the movie was amazing, and wonderfully made. http://www.spout.com/blogs/shelsfc/archive/2007/10/14/20839.aspx Post By: shelsfc
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Post Date: 10/14/2007 6:33:52 PM
Body: This is a classy film, beautifully directed...but I find it hard to watch - it's too sad!!
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