The brilliance that is Chicago.
 

I saw it when it first came out and liked it. I saw it on the bus to the Grand Canyon and loved it, and I'm watching it again now on TV (recorded). It's a brilliant movie. Everyone is just so good. I love the puppet dance, Mr. Cellophane, Queen Latifah... everything is just so well done.

Just had to sing its praises. The move I watch it the more I love it.

I thought Moulan Rouge was a lot better to be honest.

I thought Chicago was better than Moulin Rouge!...

Yes, Chicago was leagues better than Moulin Rouge! ... in my humble opinion.


Come to think of it, Moulin Rouge was one of the worst movies I've seen to date.

I couldn't stand Moulin Rouge!'s seizure inducing editing techniques. Plus, I didn't find the singing much more pleasant than listening to a cat get butchered.
Chicago, however, ruled! w00t!

Haven't seen MR yet, but I agree that Chicago was an incredible experience. Very entertaining and very funny.

wow a thread where chicago fans come out. :thumbsup: most threads i've seen involving this movie involve mostly complaints about it winning all of those oscars and ect.

This was one of the worst Oscar winners of recent years. A servicable but thoroughly unspectacular movie with lazy, haphazard direction and a miscast, too-old Richard Gere for the Billy Flynn role. Latifah was a good pick for Mama Morton, I'll give it that.

I thought I would hate this movie, bought it blind on advice from my girlfriend. Great great movie. I didn't like the Queen Latifah part too much. Everyone else was really enjoyable though. thumbs up

Haphazard direction? An elaboration would be appreciated---that seems like a harsh adjective to use in what most people consider a (if nothing more) a solid film.

Well, Adolphe Menjou who played the Billy Flynn role in Roxie Hart was 52. Gere was 53 in Chicago but had a much younger, sleeker and slicker look than Menjou, IMO. I thought Gere was cast perfectly, one of the best roles of his career. I think he was robbed of an Academy Award nomination.

Word!

Nothing special. Didn't catch it in theaters but got it as a blind buy. I enjoyed Moulin Rouge far more.

Both movies are great in their own way.

I loved the "They both reached for the gun" sequence, but thought that Mister Cellophane was a very weak performance ... it just didn't strike a chord with me.

<i>"lazy, haphazard direction"</i> - indicates a total lack of appreciation of movie-making and the function of the director or an understanding of the material.

<i>"miscast, too-old Richard Gere"</i> - guess you wanted some teeny-bopper flavor of the month to play a world-weary and cynical lawyer.

Same here.

How does the film compare to the stage production? We saw Chicago last fall, and loved it. Haven't seen the DVD yet, it's on my Netflix list, but I'm somewhat worried I'll be watching it thinking 'Boy this sucks compared to the live'.
'Mister Cellophane' of course wasn't as integral as some of the other songs, and its usefulness even in the stage version could be debated.

Hated Moulin Rouge, hated, hated, it. Alas, this the love for Chicago thread. I loved it the first time I saw in the theater, grew to love it more the second time I saw it in the theater, loved it when I bought it on DVD and loved listening to the soundtrack over and over as well.

this movie sucked ass. anyone can look good dancing if you are changing the camera angle every 1.6 seconds....awful terrible camerawork. It gave me a headache.

:up:

IMHO...

Chicago = Classic Musical

Moulin Rouge = Neo Musical

How can you call it a musical when the leads can't even sing (most likely dubs)? And winning the Oscar. Once again, proving it's nothing but a popularity contest.

Everyone in the cast - repeat: <i>EVERYONE</i> - did their own singing.

Richard Gere, for example, starred in the original London stage production of <b>GREASE</b> long before he made movies, and Catherine Zyta-Jones also worked in musical theater.

Please don't make false statements based on your lack of knowledge.

The singing wasn't dubbed.

Even if it had been, I think you could call The King and I, West Side Story and My Fair Lady musicals although none of the lead actresses did their own singing and they were all dubbed by Marni Nixon.

Wow Mr. Broadway, no need to get all fiesty. I don't suppose bird cage is your favorite movie?