Page 1 of Chicago

Just saw this at Odeon, and have to say I was a little disappointed. Having never seen the show nor heard the music, I went into this completely unknowing.

The music is pretty repetitive, and seems oddly out of place at times. The acting is good, special mention going to Richard Gere. The directing is good too, and I think Rob Marshall deserves an Oscar nom for his work. The story is fairly weak, and predictable.

Overall - an OK film deserving only a couple of Oscar noms, Best Director and Best Sound Editing in my opinion. One to see one on the big screen, but not one I`ll be rushing to own on DVD.

I was disappointed too. The problem is, is that the characters are all so unlikeable, and so you don`t really care what happens to any of them. You`re not even glad at the end, it just left me empty. My girlfriend liked it tho, so it must just be us blokes.

I had high hopes considering I like Moulin Rouge, but this paled in comparison.

I was a little bit disappointed, but was really impressed by the performances. Loved Richard Gere`s tap dance bit! Shame those girls were in the way though when he stripped :)

Laura

He`s about 90 tho, he`d have had saggy man-boobs. Or is that your kinda thing?

I was impressed, although I do heed the criticism that the characters are unlikeable, which I think would be a fault to those audience members who wish to engage emotionally with their predicament. However, it seems to me that the tone is so spiteful and misanthropic that twee Hollywood sentimentality is not sorely missed. I too have no prior experiance with this material, but felt Marshall made modest but effective use of cinematic devices to accentuate the insular theatricality, the result is stranger, darker and more old-fashioned than I had been lead to believe. Easy to admire. Hard to love.

--Mike

Mike used the phrase "old-fashioned", and that`s exactly what I felt about it. I thought it was a movie that could have been made any time since the mid-70s, and it felt locked in some weird time warp. I know lots of people will consider this the movie`s best feature, but did the women really have to spend the entire film clad only in bra & panties? That`s necessary for a stage show where there`s no time for costume changes, but for a movie?

I dunno, I admired the effort but it left me cold.