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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:38 PM
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I am watching Moulin Rouge
I still can't get over Nicole Kidman in it. She was not only amazingly beautiful but also both sang and acted flawlessly. Just astonishing.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:42 PM
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1. My favorite movie!
Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 05:43 PM by Revolutionary_Acts04
I've seen it way too many times. I know it forwards and backwards. :)

They both(her and Ewan McGregor, although I'm very partial to him :loveya:) were amazing in it. They sang, acted, and looked gorgeous. :D
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:09 PM
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3. I had forgotten how good Ewan was
He was a little weak on the first few numbers but Come What May is unbelievable as was the later number where the Duke gets hit by the black man (I am unsure of the title but Roxanne was one of the songs).
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:14 PM
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4. Yeah Roxanne and then what Ewan sings is just something that
Baz Luhrmann wrote, I think. It's just a few lines...


"His hands upon your face,
his hand upon your hand,
his lips caress your skin,
It's more than I can stand.

Why does my heart cry?
Feelings I can't fight.
You're free to leave me,
but just don't deceive me,
and please believe me when I say I love you."


:7
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:19 PM
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5. Yeah that is it
His sence of rythum there was nothing short of flawless. You could set a metronome by him. Plus his tone fit perfectly what his character was feeling. Awesome.
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Shredr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:33 PM
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16. When he breaks into "Your Song"
I always go weak in the knees.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 10:55 AM
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42. That was our wedding song...
Love it! :) The movie was a little overwhelming the first time I saw it, but I still enjoyed it.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 05:43 PM
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2. A great movie
and it cemented my love for Nicole. She's the greatest living movie star (which is quite different from being an actress).
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:23 PM
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6. I know some of my friends Will hate me but I LOATHE THAT FILM!
Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 07:23 PM by ChavezSpeakstheTruth
I felt insulted by its content
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:26 PM
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7. you are scum
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:30 PM
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10. I know
:(
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:29 PM
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9. Well, this friend agrees with you
I despised that movie. I like to think that I have my romantic side, but it was nauseating to the extreme. Plus, I just didn't care that much about the "these people living in the 1890's singing songs by Elton John and Madonna" schtick.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:32 PM
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14. And the Nirvana reference!
:puke:

It was beautiful and had John Leguizamo as Toulouse Lautrec, that's why I saw it but - DAMN!!!

It was really really bad!
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:50 PM
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19. My daughter convinced me to watch it a second time
and I ALMOST really liked it because after getting past the movie messing with the time-space continuum I was able to appreciate the music and costumes Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor really were amazing.

Viewing it a third time might get me all the way to enjoying the actual story, but I'm not masochistic enough to try.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:18 PM
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20. Hand over your gay card... NOW
and take off those fabulous clothes and put on something ill-fitting and out of style.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:26 PM
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22. I never had any clothes that were fabulous
:(
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:27 PM
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23. not you....
we KNOW you dress like a schlub in a vain attempt to project some semblance of heterosexuality. It's Terrya who's being kicked out.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:02 PM
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29. I win!!!
:)
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:17 PM
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32. Self deleted my moronic comment
Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 10:06 PM by terrya
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 09:13 AM
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39. I rather liked it!
:)
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 10:59 AM
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45. Thanks, CStT. I self delete myself sometimes.
I want to give a good impression to my friends. :-)

T
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:28 PM
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25. I knew that that would do it.
May I say in my defense that just today, I was listening to a new favorite cd, John Barrowman's "Swinging Cole Porter"? A gay man...singing songs composed by a gay man? It's quite gay, actually.
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Atlas Mugged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 10:45 AM
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41. What the hell was that 'Like a Virgin' number about, anyway???
Edited on Sun Feb-13-05 10:48 AM by Atlas Mugged
That's all I've seen of it, and I was immediately repelled.

So what if I'm gay, and don't care for it, anyway? As for clothes, I'm wearing D&G and Custo as I type, and I'm flying out to see The Gates Project this week. Just becase I don't like 3 minutes of a movie enough to bother seeing the rest of it, I can't sleep with men anymore?

Just assume there's a stupid little smiley face here so no one takes great offense ------>

I hate those things, too.
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Shredr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:35 PM
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17. What about it?
Do you hate that they use modern songs in a period musical? I know that bothered a lot of people. Do you hate musicals in general? The frenetic pace? The simple story line? I just got swept away in the spectacle of the whole thing. To me, it's an experience. Tear it apart and maybe the pieces aren't the best, but it comes together so beautifully.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:44 PM
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18. I guess its the first
Edited on Sat Feb-12-05 07:45 PM by ChavezSpeakstheTruth
I can't abide with something which could have been a glorious musical (and as a film buff I was extremely psyched by the beauty of it) cheapened it with tawdry modern references!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:20 PM
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21. Me too...
I just wanted to kick the asses of eeverone involved in it, from location PA to Elton John.

It's one of two movies I've walked out of, and that's saying something, since we rented it.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:14 PM
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31. Psst... (I'm with you.)
Even if there's something odd about us, at least we know we aren't alone.

I thought it stank on ice, and I can't get through it without giggling. All my friends love it, too.
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livinginphotographs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 10:39 AM
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40. I second that.
A horrible, horrible, horrible film. Even my ex-girlfriend, whose favorite films consisted of Pretty Woman, Titanic, Love Don't Cost a Thing, Drumline, etc. thought it was rotten.

I'd rather watch Showgirls than that piece of crap again.
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Atlas Mugged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 10:55 AM
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43. 'Showgirls' is high art!!!!
I love 'Showgirls'. For all the wrong reasons, of course.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 12:29 PM
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50. I found it just plain creepy
including Nicole who by the way has joined the Joan Rivers I CANNOT MAKE A NORMAL EXPRESSION BECAUSE I'VE BEEN BOTOXED OUT THE WAZZOO club.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:28 PM
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8. I have yet to see it. It is one of those things that I want to do, and
yet forget to do. :hi:
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:30 PM
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11. egads, woman!
You haven't seen Moulin Rouge?! And I've been nice to you all this time? Harrumph!

I gotta make up for two years of niceness!

You're a grumpy harridan and your dog is ugly and your children are decidedly below-average in charm and intelligence. Your choice of presidential candidates is sub-par and I suspect your choice of hair conditioner is abysmal.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:32 PM
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13. But....but.....I've seen the trailer dozens of times....
...and it's Biolage.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:18 PM
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33. Uh-oh. I hate to see what will be said about me.
Here I'm trying to get accepted into the "right" Lounge cafeteria table, but I fear I am doomed now.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 10:04 PM
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35. YOU?!
You too?!

You are a tasteless troglodyte of questionable hygiene. The darkness of your soul is exceeded only by the mildew between your toes. It is unlikely you were conceived within the bonds of marriage, and you recycle insufficiently.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 10:05 PM
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36. Damn, you're good... nt
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Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:32 PM
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12. If you lived near me, I'd gladly loan you my video
:-)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 07:33 PM
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15. Why thank you for being a sweeter DUer than Dookus...
;) :hi:
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:27 PM
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24. Feh
if you lived near me, I'd come over, tie you down and force you to watch the movie. How sweet is that?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:37 PM
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27. SWWEEET!! It's be the most exciting thing thats happened to me
since the kids were born. :P
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Chicago Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:35 PM
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26. Drink Absinthe and enjoy it even more! (nt)
eabsinthe.com
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 08:50 PM
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28. I tried absinthe once
and it was sublime. It has been nearly five years since I last had any alcohol so no absinthe for me. I am so glad it isn't commonly sold here, as addictive as vodka was for me absinthe was even worse.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:13 PM
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30. I didn't like it either...
and I earlier declared my love of drag queen movies on another thread, so I seriously doubt it has to do with my straightness.....

I think it was the use of popular music in a musical; and cheesy picks to boot! Why didn't they just WRITE the songs? That's just tacky and lame. The film was visually breathtaking but the story seemed dumb to me, lots of musicals have dumb stories....but really great music. Oh well....
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 09:21 PM
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34. Yeah, the story was dumb as it gets, and I love musicals, even modern ones
I felt like I could have written it, only not had the nerve to submit it.

I feel vindicated in this thread.
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 10:05 PM
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37. Ignoble harpy n/t
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-12-05 10:09 PM
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38. Well, I was just swept away by it. I wish I had seen it in the
theatre, but we did not see it until we rented it, then we watched it 5 times before it had to go back, which pretty much seals it.

We own it, and "Ballroom Dancing" and "Romeo & Juliet" as a boxed set.. The Red Curtain Trilogy...all Baz Luhermann (sp) movies.


I got a kick out of the juxtaposition of the songs and the period, and
was totally blown away by the singing !!!!!!
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 10:58 AM
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44. Just bought it at Best Buy at a 2 for $15
DVD sale...I also bought

Footloose
16 Candles
Quills
Talk Radio
Original soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera (Broadway cast)


Thus is how my most recent trip to one of my favorite stores, Best Buy, ended last night.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 11:22 AM
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46. I love it too
I've seen it about 8 times

:hi:
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 11:42 AM
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47. Nicole was wonderful, but I couldn't get into it.
For some reason the movie visually over-stimulated me. It was hard for me to look at it.

I guess there's something wrong with me. :(
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 12:07 PM
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48. She was pretty but I loathed the film and never need to see it again
Ugh.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-05 12:29 PM
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49. Truth. Beauty. Freedom. Love. --- The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn...
Edited on Sun Feb-13-05 12:29 PM by arwalden
... is just to love and be loved in return.
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