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06-13-2005, 10:26 PM
|  | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
Strictly Ballroom is on Plex tonight, and G went to the gym. :reverend:
I've probably seen this movie 100 times, but I watch it again anyway. Same with Moulin Rouge. Demented? *sigh* |
06-14-2005, 10:27 AM
|  | Glamorous Hollywood Star! | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Hollywood, California by way of Birmingham, Alabama
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my all time favorite films. I'm not quite as keen on 'Moulin Rouge' which I thought was excessive. I found it assaultive in the theater (although, when it worked, it was one of the few films I've seen with the emotional resonance of opera) and much better in the scaled down proportions of home video.
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06-14-2005, 10:29 AM
|  | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
I've never seen Strictly Ballroom, but I think I'd like it. I love Ballroom Dance.
I thought I would hate Moulon Rouge, and waited a long time before seeing it on Video. I LOVED it! |
06-14-2005, 11:16 AM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
MNM, I only saw Moulin Rouge on video... in fact, anything released since the midnight show of Phantom Menace that I've seen has been on video. Someday I'll get to go to the show when the movie doesn't have DISNEY, PIXAR, or DREAMWORKS on the title screen, right?? But I'm assuming that's why I have this love for it. I can see how on the big screen it might have been over the top. The can-can scene... was that horrifying?
Wormie, you haven't SEEN it??? OMG. Stop on the way home and rent it. TODAY! |
06-14-2005, 11:22 AM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
Well, maybe not tonight, but I WILL rent it!!! |
06-14-2005, 11:41 AM
|  | Geeky goof | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Boston, Mass.
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
Strictly Ballroom is a must-see, Wormie.  I liked Moulin Rouge too, though I think you have to be in the right mood. His Romeo and Juliet was way too over-the-top for me. |
06-18-2005, 02:47 AM
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
I dunno, I challenge anyone to get to the theater before me and the, err, me and T to see Mad Hot Ballroom.
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06-18-2005, 06:03 AM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re Am I the Only Sucker for Baz Luhrman? | |
*sigh* Maybe in a year or so I'll be able to go to a grown-up movie, right? Right?
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