Baz Luhrmann, you are my guy 4L. What an awesome movie. I'm sickened by the level of greatness that movie possessed. But I mean, who can be surprised? This was a Baz Luhrmann film after all. Austin Butler put his SOUL into his performance as Elvis Presley. What a beautiful film. Super duper kudos to the whole cast and crew. And I give a special shoutout to makeup as well as the editing crew. They did their thing!
I know some will have complaints about the extravagance of the film, but 1) it's about Elvis, what did you expect? and 2) It's a Baz Luhrmann film, what did you expect? Baz Luhrmann was the perfect guy to make an Elvis movie, he completely gets how to put on a show, just like EP himself. - Letterboxd
Omg you just reaffirmed my want to go see it cause those trailers had me hooked im ngl. i was actually gonna ask you if you wanted to go to the theater w/ me to watch it cause we both wanted to see it but thats okay bc i can just talk to you about it after i watch it. this actually makes me much more interested in baz now that you’ve mentioned him and ik if you like a movie to where you talk about it like this then its probably good. also loving the blog i will comment more often.
ReplyDeleteAhh, dang! I wish I had known, it would have been so fun to see it together, and you could have used one of the free tickets my family has for the Cinemark in Fayetteville. I'm trying to watch Romeo + Juliet on HBO next because Baz Luhrmann has only directed 6 films and I love his distinctive style. After seeing Elvis, I'm officially putting him on my list of favorite directors which is James Gunn, Taika Waititi (just for his revamp of Thor), and now Baz! He's really cool because of his involvement in various aspects of movie production. For Elvis, he wrote, produced, and directed, not by himself of course, but it's still a high level of involvement, which is what he's known for. Definitely call/text me when you watch it, you're totally gonna love it and follow it up with an Elvis phase, which will be cool.
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