Xander ,'Touched'
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I know this is Buffista Converstation #something, but oh, Moulin Rouge. Yes, the characters are paper-thin. Yes, nothing but a re-telling of La Boheme. But it's So. Damn. Pretty.
Me four. But then again, I'm openly Baz Luhrmann's bitch.
I watch the El Tango de Roxanne scene over and over-- it's just one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Besides that red dress that Satine wears.
Moulin Rouge is a total Bollywood film and its worth should be judged on that basis.
Also, I had a total "hair standing up on the back of my neck" moment when I first watched the movie and the Roxanne song started up, because I wasn't expecting it and we slid so smoothly into it that recognition hit me like a bucket of champagne. You can't buy moments like that, just hope that you run across them.
I love that scene so much that I have a hard time listening to the original song. I'm all like "Your voice is not gravelly enough, Sting! And you do not have a violin playing creepy minor-key accents! Improve!"
Huh. Roxanne was the only part of the film that I disliked.
Huh. Roxanne was the only part of the film that I disliked.
And so between the both, you see, they licked Baz Luhrmann clean.
I love that scene so much that I have a hard time listening to the original song. I'm all like "Your voice is not gravelly enough, Sting! And you do not have a violin playing creepy minor-key accents! Improve!"
Ha, yeah, the radio keeps playing the original song, and it makes me want to listen to the MR version instead.
Huh. Roxanne was the only part of the film that I disliked.
Me too.
You know, I don't think the new Holmes movie can be any worse for the canon than Young Sherlock Holmes or a number of other movie variations we've seen in the past.
I loved YSH, but then again, I was also seventeen and nursing a mad crush on Anthony Higgins (Rathe).
I also absolutely love the score to that film and wish to high heaven I could find it.
I, uh...I had that score. On cassette tape. Unfortunately, I think I sold it at a yard sale. For, like, a dime.
Hey Miracleman, what's up? Did you hear there's some "science fiction" movie out? Space Trek or something like that?
I'm all like "Your voice is not gravelly enough, Sting! And you do not have a violin playing creepy minor-key accents! Improve!"
I completely agree.