more haters need to come out and express their hate for this amazingly hateable movie
it's like the worst music video ever made or something
― iatee, Monday, 9 March 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate this.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Monday, 9 March 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
prefer the comic
― s1ocki, Monday, 9 March 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
in theory baz luhrmann's other movies could also be the worst movie ever made
but I am never going to watch them
― iatee, Monday, 9 March 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
you are the donk of baz luhrmann
― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 9 March 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Strictly Ballroom is actually pretty good.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 9 March 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm quite amazed to hear that Luhrmann is not gay.
He was, one understands, gay before the marriage. And still declines to identify as straight.
― Bernard's Butter (sic), Monday, 9 March 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I find this radically defensible.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Which means I am all the worst qualities of gay males without any of the good ones.
Baz is the Tom Robinson of Aussie auteurs
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the idea that there is a difference between people who saw this and knew what florida was, so that it felt like a "modernizing" production, and people who saw this but really had no idea about florida and so the setting was as imaginary as Verona had been to shsksp's contemporaries
I know where Florida is, motherfucker.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
cosign, easily my fave of his movies
― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Moulin Rouge! has some great set pieces but doesn't hang together for me.
I suspect I wd prefer the Ethan Hawke Hamlet (which really is good)
― Dr Morbius,
omg gtfo
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
It is!
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
it is pretty good
― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Leo as Gatsby in 3D, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1655573/baz-luhrmann-considering-3d-great-gatsby.jhtml
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
been wanting to see this for so long, really must get round to it
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that Baz Luhrmann can get anywhere near The Great Gatsby seems like a terrible thing
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Leo as Lassie.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
all i needed to know about this film was: benny blanco from the bronx =/= tybalt from verona ... and i was not disappointed.
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
this movie isn't good but leo and claire are both gorrrrrrrrrrrrrrgeous and do good jobs; every time the movie takes a fucking breath to let them hang out and speak actual full lines it's better than the zeffirelli. pete posthelwaite's good too i seem to remember.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh and yeah leguizamo.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
i still wanna play tybalt. peace?
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
leguizamo kills it
will never really be able to separate "this movie" from "seeing it at age 11"
― max, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
or from "wearing the CD soundtrack out in 6th grade"
― max, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
cast of upcoming adaptation by carlo carlei
Hailee Steinfeld ... Juliet Paul Giamatti ... Friar Laurence Ed Westwick ... Tybalt Douglas Booth ... Romeo Kodi Smit-McPhee ... Benvolio Christian Cooke ... Mercutio Lesley Manville ... The Nurse
― max, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
chuck bass at tybalt is kind of inspired, he will be "good" but not good, or good but not "good" or whatever
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4NzExMjA4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjE3NDMxNw@@._V1._CR0,0,1365,1365_SS99_.jpg Part, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do.
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2OTEwMDUzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODU1NTQwMw@@._V1._CR0,0,333,333_SS99_.jpg What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4NzExMjA4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjE3NDMxNw@@._V1._CR0,0,1365,1365_SS99_.jpg I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me.
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2OTEwMDUzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODU1NTQwMw@@._V1._CR0,0,333,333_SS99_.jpg What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward!
― max, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
have never seen this film, but Baz's Gatsby is gonna make it look good.
I saw R&M at the Public Theatre about 25 years ago w/ Cynthia Nixon, Peter MacNicol and Anne Meara (aka Ben Stiller's mom) as the Nurse.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago) link
i love leguizamo inordinately. this isn't a terrible film, it's just one of those things made more terrible by a cohort of its fanbase
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
the production & costume design on this movie is crazy good
i love leguizamo in it, and also harold perrineau's mercutio, though despite all this i'd say simply ballroom is the only luhrmann i really like
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
Leguizamo claims to be 47
HAHAHAHA
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
I love him. I feel like 47 could be right, no?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
I know people who did downtown improv with him in '79, and he was out of high school
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
52 if he's a day
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
if only yer taste in politics and baseball teams were as good as yer taste in films, morbz ;_;
i despise baz lurhmann's films generally.
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
moulin rouge shares honors with napoleon dynamite as the worst "good" film that i turned off well before the halfway point b/c otherwise i would've hulk-smashed the DVD player.
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
at least i made it through romeo + juliet ... and was rewarded with radiohead at least.
― wad of baloney (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
"rewarded"
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
Douglas Booth ... Romeo
That's just good twink-casting right there.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I thot we were agreed on politics, Eisbaer? fuck em all
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
Just wanted to share this glorious pan of ELVIShttps://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/elvis-review-baz-luhrmann-1234728121/
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 26 May 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
Watching this for the first time in foreverrrrrr and- had forgotten how good the opening brawl is- I always remember how great Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio is, Leguizamo’s Tybalt also incredible- soundtrack remains on point, Talk Show Host for that initial scene with Romeo is so great - I have NO memory of this sauna with Juliet’s father and Paris- you really get the textual sense of “These are two stupid and overly dramatic teenagers” in this adaptation, I was laughing at Romeo scribbling in his diary while sulking on the beach- what was going on with Juliet’s mother and Paris like
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 16 March 2024 16:20 (six months ago) link
Luhrmann's first couple of films are really good including this one
Leguizamo same, sadly misapplied talent
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:06 (six months ago) link
WHY UNCLE, TIS A SHAME is a fucking banner of a line Also, “give me my sin again”
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:22 (six months ago) link
Banger *
MAKE A MUTINY AMONG MY GUESTS?
Also love how Leguizamo delivers the 'peace? Peace?' line.
Seen this so many times through teaching the text that I have no distance from it at all. Love it. I must say 'the boys the boys' a couple of times a week.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 16 March 2024 18:44 (six months ago) link
Yeah that’s a superb delivery and the pause & crunch is insanely greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux2FgZizcrc
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 16 March 2024 22:36 (six months ago) link
So great, lurzman struck serious gold here, everything else he’s done has been completely not my thing at all, this is so weird and dreamy and sensational
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 March 2024 00:15 (six months ago) link