"La Boheme" gets the Guy Ritchie Treatment

Rating: 1/10 (4 February 2006)

Yes, I know that it was actually directed by Baz Luhrmann, but "Moulin Rouge" has all the car-crash visual energy of "Snatch".
Unfortunately, the movie is as desperately shallow as "Snatch" as well. Who decided that dressing the (let's face it) grim and terminally depressing story of "La Boheme" up in glitter and skimpy costumes, then filming it as a 2-hour long pop video was a good idea? I suspect that the cast and director were having so much fun making this train-wreck of a musical, that no-one wondered how long its appeal would last for.
In a century's time, people will still dress up, then sit grimly in opera houses and endure "La Boheme" sung in a foreign language because it's a "classic". I wonder if anyone will still watch (or even understand) "Moulin Rouge" that far into the future?