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 Ken Hanke |
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Posts: 49842 (09/18/01 09:50 AM) Administrator |
I'll pass...
John, despite your detestation of the film, what's the latest on MOULIN ROUGE!? First it was Dec. 18, then it was announced for January, now I'm hearing November... |
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Jobla |
MOULIN ROUGE | ||
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Posts: 795 (09/18/01 02:05 PM) |
At this point, Ken, there's no official consensus as to when, exactly, we will be "gifted" with a DVD release of MOULIN ROUGE.
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kevin g shinnick |
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Posts: 12184 (09/18/01 06:14 PM) |
Cannot wait til BUCKAROO BANZAI is finally on DVD!!
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Jobla |
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Posts: 795 (09/19/01 02:44 AM) |
November 6th is the latest date listed for M.R. We shall see (well, not all of us).
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Richard Valley |
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Posts: 54081 (09/19/01 12:20 PM) |
>>At this point, Ken, there's no official consensus as to when, exactly, we will be "gifted" with a DVD release of MOULIN ROUGE. <<
My vote is for a defective disc that won't play the movie . . . |
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Bavafreak |
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Posts: 5693 (09/19/01 03:06 PM) |
Or maybe they'll have mercy on the public and just rerelease the John Huston classic instead.
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Ken Hanke |
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Posts: 49842 (09/19/01 07:28 PM) Administrator |
Uh, Troy, have you seen either one? (And, by the bye, the Huston "classic" is not related to this.)
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MD Walker |
Re: MOULIN ROUGE | ||
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Posts: 744 (09/19/01 11:51 PM) |
Is someone insinuating that Mr. Hanke likes the Nicole Kidman vehicle of destruction titled Moulin Rouge? How dare you insult the man thusly!!!!
(Ken, if you really did like Moulin Rouge, we need to talk about the debilitating damage the Carolinas have had on you. There is help ya know!) Michael |
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MD Walker |
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Posts: 744 (09/20/01 12:03 AM) |
Just wanted to take a moment to see what everyone's favorite Anchor Bay releases on DVD have been.
I love SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES even though they pooched it by not including Bradbury's audio commentary from the laserdisc release. Other than that, great looking title at a very reasonable price. Likewise for GARDEN OF ALLAH. Marlene Dietrich looks fabulous in this Technicolor feature. Not sure what I make of the movie (just watched it for the first time) but it looks great and for $8.00 how could I really go wrong while watching Charles Boyer mope about like Keith Richards on an early Sunday morning without his wake-up heroin of the day? Or Basil Rathbone striding about in his cape, eager to prove to everyone that he isn't really Sherlock Holmes??? Michael |
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Ken Hanke |
Re: MOULIN ROUGE | ||
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Posts: 49842 (09/20/01 12:35 AM) Administrator |
<<(Ken, if you really did like Moulin Rouge, we need to talk about the debilitating damage the Carolinas have had on you. There is help ya know!)>>
Michael, I hate to tell you this, but I think more highly of MOULIN ROUGE than any new film I have seen since 1975. |
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Richard Valley |
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Posts: 54081 (09/20/01 12:44 AM) |
>>Michael, I hate to tell you this, but I think more highly of MOULIN ROUGE than any new film I have seen since 1975.<<
There are rooms with rubber walls for people like that . . . |
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Bavafreak |
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Posts: 5693 (09/20/01 01:13 AM) |
Uh, Ken, yes I have seen the Huston classic, which I'm guessing you don't care for. So, uh, yeah to that question.
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Ken Hanke |
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Posts: 49842 (09/20/01 01:05 PM) Administrator |
No, I don't care for it, but then I don't much care for most of Huston's work, so it's not that surprising. In any case, apart from the title and the setting, the two films are unrelatted. True, Lautrec is a character in the Luhrmann film, but the film is certainly not a biopic on him. In any case, though I have no doubt you would loathe MOULIN ROUGE!, it is a film you have not seen.
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Richard Valley |
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Posts: 54081 (09/20/01 03:05 PM) |
>>I have no doubt you would loathe MOULIN ROUGE!, it is a film you have not seen. <<
Lucky, lucky man . . . |
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Daisy Hilton |
Real Reel Musical Instead | ||
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Posts: 5784 (09/20/01 03:07 PM) |
As much as Miss Daisy appreciates MOULIN ROUGE (the lack of chemistry between the two leads was a major LETDOWN), at least I know that the dvd release of a different kind of musical only weeks before MOULIN ROUGE's, will have a special place on the shelf in my den:
FUNNY GIRL! William Wyler's stylish film of the Broadway hit, Jule Styne/Bob Merrill score, Irene Sharaff costumes, Olive Oyl herself, Kay Medford, Walter Pigeon, Ann Francis, Omar Sharif, and a young lady with an enormous amount of talent: The Babs Herself: Barbra Streisand! Hello, gorgeous! What a debut! What a score! What a film! In those testaments to mediocrity fondly called "The Oscars," Babs got one-half of one for her performance as legendary (but highly fictionalized) Fanny Brice; sharing the other half of the accolade was a Miss Katharine Hepburn, who did something wonderful with Peter O'Toole that same year: THE LION IN WINTER. Whether you love her, or hate her, there's no denying that when Fanny sings "I'm the Greatest Star," you're watching a gal who knows just what she's doing! Although the theatrical score was truncated severely for the film, augmentation ensued with several true Fanny Brice songs, including the phenomal black on black finale: "My Man." Coming soon from Columbia Home Video, bless their hearts.  We are just surrealist pilgrims; melting clocks in marble halls.
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MD Walker |
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Posts: 744 (09/20/01 08:22 PM) |
>>Michael, I hate to tell you this, but I think more highly of MOULIN ROUGE than any new film I have seen since 1975.<<
Ken, I hated to hear you tell me that. Really? Since 1975? I've seen the film in question. Nicole Kidman was the only thing I liked about the film. Well, I take that back, John Leguizamo was very good as well. Ewan McGregor...well, essentially he McSucked. Writing stank pretty bad as well. I'd place a slew of films since 1975 above this gaudy mess of musical bilge. I trust your opinion on most film stuff but I guess this is where we really see things differently, ala your dislike of THE GRIFTERS, whereas I really liked it. But for the purpose of fun and creating some zinging posts back and forth, I'll name a few films I think far more highly of than MAUDLIN SPEW (sorry Ken, it's the film that nauseates me, not your opinion of it) Since 1975: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS MEMENTO GODS AND MONSTERS THE IRON GIANT GLADIATOR PI ED WOOD EDWARD SCISSORHANDS BOTTLE ROCKET BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION THE LAST EMPEROR THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION THE BUTCHER BOY DARK CITY 12 MONKEYS (hell, anything by Terry Gilliam!!!!! For crying out loud man, have ye gone mad???) OK, I'll give ya second to breathe, but watch your step crazy man cuz I could just send you half of the movies from the IMDB in an email..... Michael |
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Ken Hanke |
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Posts: 49842 (09/20/01 08:47 PM) Administrator |
Offhand, Michael, I feel like we saw two different films, since I disagree with every point.
As for your list: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS -- good, not great to me MEMENTO -- very good, again not great--just misses GODS AND MONSTERS -- excellent THE IRON GIANT--haven't seen it GLADIATOR--don't want to see it PI--hated it ED WOOD--excellent EDWARD SCISSORHANDS--excellent BOTTLE ROCKET--didn't do anything for me BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION--see above THE LAST EMPEROR--see above THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION--good THE BUTCHER BOY--excellent--closest to getting to where I'd put MR DARK CITY--didn't make it through it 12 MONKEYS (hell, anything by Terry Gilliam!!!!! For crying out loud man, have ye gone mad???)--didn't care for it, but I haven't liked a Gilliam picture since BRAZIL. Come to think of it, I didn't like anything before BRAZIL... I can name a LOT of excellent films from 1975 up to MOULIN ROUGE!, but none of them had the impact on me that it had. |
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MD Walker |
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Posts: 744 (09/20/01 10:17 PM) |
GLADIATOR--don't want to see it
I could understand not wanting to see this due to all the hype (which, thankfully I didnt hear until a few weeks after I saw the film) but I shall have to proclaim thee officially "Derelict in his Oliver Reed duties". One must really see Gladiator for no other reason. Reed is fantastic in the film. He's the best part of the film. As for this Moulin Rouge business, I shall have to steal from the great reel of The Philadelphia Story as I yell out to Richard...."The help has been in the sherry again!!!!" Michael |
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Ken Hanke |
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Posts: 49842 (09/20/01 11:06 PM) Administrator |
I may see it for that reason alone, but that would indeed BE the reason.
As for our MOULIN ROUGE! divergence...well, I saw it 8 times on the Big Screen, usually late at night when it was just myself and other theatre employees (I was amazed how it impacted most of the rest of the staff), and it just kept getting better to me. (In addition, most of us knew when to nip into the theatre to catch individual sequences.) Ah, well, it is close to my idea of an ideal film, regardless...I am sorry to part company with some on the topic, but that is how it is. Since it had been 26 years since any film had made this powerful an impression on me, I had long given up ever having it happen again. I am not sorry that it did. |
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Richard Valley |
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Posts: 54081 (09/21/01 02:23 AM) |
It sucks.
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