Baz Luhrmann

[Grapes]

Does this guy suck or what?

You know, I already had him pencilled in for a junk kick after the "Everyone's free to wear sunscreen" debacle.. now after watching part of Moulin Rouge (with sound off and closed captioning), I'm upgrading that to an extreme junk kick, which basically means I will boot him so hard that he teabags his uvula.

I'M COMING FOR YOU BAZ

[robyn]

1) He didn't write 'everybody's free to wear sunscreen', he just read it.

2) I love Moulin Rouge, I wish I lived in that movie.

[Grapes]

I know he didn't write it, and neither did Kurt Vonnegut.

What he DID do was make some cheesy ass music video out of it, with a generic beat and schmatlzy grafix, riding the coattails of what was originally a half decent (if overly folksy) speech.

And if you liked Moulin Rouge so much, WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO LI-.. oh.. nevermind.

[robyn]

Yeah, everybody's free totally would've been better if it had a Bill Murray makeout sequence.

[Grapes]

Where is the damn eye rolling emoticon.

[robyn]

Bill Murray wouldn't want us fighting like this, Dave. He'd want us making out with men old enough to be our fathers.

[Liqwid]

romeo and juliet is such a great movie...

i love baz

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by robyn

1) He didn't write 'everybody's free to wear sunscreen', he just read it.

2) I love Moulin Rouge, I wish I lived in that movie.

1) That's not him reading. The original song, Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) was written in the 80s, the big rant was a newspaper article in the NYT, and the only association really that Luhrmann has with the song was that the guy singing Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) is the choirboy from William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, which he produced/wrote/directed. They accredited it to him because it's from a compilation CD of a bunch of songs from his various movies, plays and productions.

2) Moulin Rouge was one of the best musicals I've seen. It's sad you don't like it Dave. Frankly, the Marmalade/Teen Spirit mashup was pretty fucking cool. The whole first 30 minutes blew my mind.

[Grapes]

Bill Murray wouldn't want us fighting like this, Dave. He'd want us making out with men old enough to be our fathers.

If that means, in my case, waiting until I'm old enough to be some hot young girl's father and then making out with her, then I'm totally on board!

[robyn]

Unprecedented levels of creepy, Dave!

[Grapes]

Still hate this guy.

[robyn]

Here's Baz having a Moulin Rouge fantasy <3

[Grapes]

Funny, I was expecting shoulder length hair.

The pose is about right though.