1980's music in a story set in 1880's??

Rating: 1/10 (18 March 2002)

I will be blunt I severly disliked Moulin Rouge. The main reason is that the film had the character from the 1880's singing various songs from the 1980's. Potential Spoiler uphead. To hear Richard Roxburgh sing the song "Like a Virgin" by Madonna, makes a ground glass in a garbage disposal sound pleasant. The tragic love story line in the movie was decent, however the historical inaccuracies of the music severly damaged the movie in my humble opinion.