Craptacular, Craptacular

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2003)

Every so often something comes along, whether music or film, that takes an audience and polarizes them, to where they either love or hate the work completely. There is no middle ground. It's a rare phenomenon, but it happens. Here are some examples of what I mean. Prince. Tom Green. Howard Stern. Phish. Think about them. You either love or hate them. Nobody buys into any of these artists half-way. If you like what they do, you love them, and spend all your free time trying to convince your friends how great they are. I'm sure Prince is a genius, I'm glad you think so. I've heard it a million times. I can't stand him. That said...
I don't fault Baz Luhrmann as a filmmaker, I have no hard feelings towards the guy. His films are just not for me. I've seen strictly ballroom and Romeo and juliet. I hated both. Like I said, his stuff is not for me. I saw this in the theatre when was released. I was so motion sick after ten minutes, I left the building and had to kill an hour and a half 'till my friends came out. Months later I watched a friends dvd and still had the same impressions of the movie (and yes I watched the whole film completely to the end, painfully)

First of, it is cut way too fast for a movie screen. Even a bit much for a tv screen

The contemperary music was really really irritating. A horrible device to express whatever Baz was trying to get across.

The film was a series of pointless scenes connected together with no pause for anyone not drinking a tanker of mountain dew to comprehend.

I really hated this film. This was a beautiful film ruined by two major things. It should have been conceptualized without the horrible dimes-store covers of classic rock songs, and edited completely completely different.