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Old November 2, 2003, 02:51   #1
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Just saw "Chicago"
What a flick .

Great movie. Now I haven't seen 'The Gangs of New York' but 'Chicago' is definetly worthy of an Academy Award. I totally enjoyed it. Great acting and singing by Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and Queen Latifah (believe it or not ).

Very worthy choice for the award.
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Old November 2, 2003, 03:45   #2
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I agree. The use of lighting alone is revolutionary.
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Old November 2, 2003, 04:12   #3
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Who cares about the lighting... the musical numbers were great! Especially the one with all the women signing they were innocent and the one where Gere was the puppet master.
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Old November 2, 2003, 04:19   #4
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eh. from what i saw, it was nothing to the broadway production i saw. Catherine Zeta-Jones? nah. i'll take Bebe Neuworth (most noted for her role as lilith on cheers) any day of the week as Velma.

i do have to give props to gere. better tapdancers have worn those shoes, and he filled them nicely.
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Old November 2, 2003, 04:28   #5
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Bah... taking ANYONE over Catherine Zeta-Jones in anything is folly .
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Am I the only one left in the world that cringes when people break out singing and dancing in movies?
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Yes.

Some of the best movies in recent years have been musicals.... 'Chicago', 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut' .
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you obviously haven't seen the stage show. it would have been great when i went to see it, 'cause we got there early and i was flirting with one of the dancers. she seemed interested too, but then my GF had to show up and spoil my fun.
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Yes.

Some of the best movies in recent years have been musicals.... 'Chicago', 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut' .
You have interesting tastes in movies.

I couldn't stand Mary Poppins, I couldn't stand Bednobs and Broomsticks, and even the commercials for Chicago had me laughing.
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you obviously haven't seen the stage show.
All I know is that I've seen Catherine Zeta-Jones and I've seen Bebe Neuworth. Give me CZJ .
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I couldn't stand Mary Poppins, I couldn't stand Bednobs and Broomsticks
Because Mary Poppins and Bednobs and Broomsticks represent the modern musical movie so very well
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Because Mary Poppins and Bednobs and Broomsticks represent the modern musical movie so very well
It's still singing and dancing and general silliness.

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Old November 2, 2003, 04:45   #13
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It's still singing and dancing and general silliness.
And what is wrong with singing and dancing? There is absolutely nothing wrong, of course, with general sillyness. It works well for plenty of movies: Big Lebowski, Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian (hell, Monty Python ANYTHING), etc.
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Old November 2, 2003, 05:21   #14
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Am I the only one left in the world that cringes when people break out singing and dancing in movies?
Actually, an interesting aspect of Chicago is that in a sense all the dancing scenes were quite justified. You had the rest of the movie, representing what was actually happening, and the scenes involving singing and dancing representing how Renee Zellweger's charactor is imagining and interpreting things in her mind. Since she had previously worked in productions as one of the dancing extras in musicals, she tended to see things in those terms. There were only two musical scenes not simply existing in the charactor's mind and those scenes actually made sense and related to the plot. You could actually say that Chicago is a musical in which all the musical scenes actually make sense.
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Am I the only one left in the world that cringes when people break out singing and dancing in movies?
No you're not. I hate it too.
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Will this movie challenge Moulin Rouge as the musical chickflick my friends and I watch while eating chocolate and *****ing about men? I must find out. To the Blockbuster!
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neither chicago, nor moulin rouge, should be called "chickflick"
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Just deal with the fact you like chickflicks. Music, dancing, love and comedy? What, did I like miss the Rambo moment in Moulin Rouge where he uses big guns and big muscles to kill Evil Commie Scum and thus save Satine from Evil Communist TB? pu-lease.
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just because a movie doesn't have blood and guts and gore doesn't mean it's a chickflick.

hey, i DO admit, i do like some chickflicks. some are just nausiatingly sappy and WAY too predictable, but there are some good ones out there. (a good example of a decent chickflick would be "you've got mail")

however, chicago and moulin rouge are definately not
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i didn't mind moulin rouge, and i liked chicago. so now th number of musicals i like is at 4: south park, chicago, moulin, and singing in the rain.
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and i'll admit it. i like chickflicks, which makes my gf happy.

'course, she also likes action movies, so we rarely disagree on movie choices.
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Chicago was good, except the parts where it was musical.
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Some of the best movies in recent years have been musicals.... 'Chicago', 'South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut' .
** cough ** Moulin Rouge ** cough **
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Love? If you meant love of money, then you'd have 'Chicago' . It is definetly NOT a chickflick (not that there is anything wrong with some chickflicks), because there is no romantic angle at all.

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*cough* sucked
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** cough ** Moulin Rouge ** cough **
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Sorry -- I guess I thought you had good taste in musical movies.
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Yes... I do .
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moulin rought was great. well, actually, not great. but i did like leguizamo as toulous-lautrec.
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Down with musicals! Burn them all! Nothing worse than a stupid movie where people break out singing and dancing.

(except Newsies, that movie rocked)
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lighting? WTF!

lighting doesn't make a movie.

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