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I'm with Alice. Chicago. Big deal. Great movie. Overly praised. It got the critical reception Dancer in the Dark should have gotten.

Maybe they're trying to milk the Academy Award sets they have Chicago included in. For those who want a good deal and special packaging ( ), Chicago comes with Frida and LIfe Is Beautiful.

It's a money-making scheme from the studios, and frankly, I don't care. I'll support a good film - ESPECIALLY a musical.

Musicals are so rare, and studios in the recent past have been afraid to produce them. MOULIN ROUGE changed this for live-action films, LITTLE MERMAID did for animated films.

The BBFC have classified some specs for this release:

* Class Deleted Musical Number (4 minutes)

Featurettes
* VH1 Behind the Movie (36 minutes)
* From Stage to Screen (27 minutes)
* An Intimate Look at Director Rob Marshall (20 minutes)
* Colleen Atwood Costume Designer Piece (5 minutes)
* John Myhre Production Designer Piece (6 minutes)
* When Liza Minelli Became Roxie Hart (13 minutes)
* Chita's Encore (5 minutes)

Extended Musical Performances
* All That Jazz (6 minutes)
* When You're Good to Mama (4 minutes)
* Cell Block Tango (8 minutes)
* We Both Reached for the Gun #1 (7 minutes)
* We Both Reached for the Gun #2 (4 minutes)
* Mr. Cellophane (4 minutes)
* All I Care About is Love (5 minutes)

Rehearsal Footage
* Musical Performances (3 minutes) (This has no song title next to it, so I assume it's either an intro or a reel of other songs not listed below)
* All That Jazz (3 minutes)
* All I Care About is Love (3 minutes)
* Nowadays (2 minutes)
* I Can't Do It Alone (4 minutes)
* Hot Honey Rag (3 minutes)

With all of these features put together with the "making of" from the original disc (which the press release confirms is being ported over), you've got a whopping 200 minutes of supplements, most of which are new minus the deleted scene, "making of" and VH1 special. Now if only they'd include the trailer...

I have the first one and the cd so I'm not going to upgrade. I wish they would add Class back into the movie for this DVD. They did for the last couple weeks in theaters they re-sent out the movie with it back in. It would be cool if they did.

Yeah to what ^ Said........

I too have the first one + the soundtrack.........

so unless they have "Class" Back in the movie then This Is A NO BUY!

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And to RJKD23: How Could you say that Nasty-Ass cover is BETTER than the BLACK one........ ...[]
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If I DO buy this, Hopefully this will be in a Amaray Case so I Replace the UGLY Bizarr-o Silver Cover ( ) with the Regular Sexy 30's-type Black cover ( )............

I am so excited about this release. Ever since the bare-bones edition was released, I was dying for a 2-Discer (which was inevitable). As pinky said, it's no Moulin Rouge!, but, what is? I'm still so happy! I'm gonna have to put this on my Christmas list and trade in my bare-bones now !

*tlm

P.S.- Krystal, I agree about the cover. Both of the ladies look very (as usual ) sexy, with a sexy background. Perfect

TheLittleMerman wrote:I am so excited about this release. Ever since the bare-bones edition was released, I was dying for a 2-Discer (which was inevitable). As pinky said, it's no Moulin Rouge!, but, what is?

Try watching Dancer in the Dark, the musical starring Bjork and the best picture of 2000! Not only does it showcase all original music, it's a complete tragedy with no light-hearted comedy which is sort of an ironic statement in terms of genre. I'm still mad because whenever someone brings up the topic of musicals or modern-day musicals, I always recommend Dancer in the Dark and to this day, no one has told me they have given it a try. I don't see what everyone is so afraid of, especially when half the people here gush at horrible psuedo-musicals like The Phantom of the Opera.

Anyway...I just put the Chicago soundtrack on my iPod and I'm really digging it for a second time. The Catherine Zeta-Jones numbers are the best. I don't know if I'll skip this after all. Maybe it reallly was a worthy Best Picture winner in a contentious year (4/5 movie nominated that were really good, an Oscar rarity).

Prince Eric wrote:Try watching Dancer in the Dark, the musical starring Bjork and the best picture of 2000! Not only does it showcase all original music, it's a complete tragedy with no light-hearted comedy which is sort of an ironic statement in terms of genre. I'm still mad because whenever someone brings up the topic of musicals or modern-day musicals, I always recommend Dancer in the Dark and to this day, no one has told me they have given it a try. I don't see what everyone is so afraid of, especially when half the people here gush at horrible psuedo-musicals like The Phantom of the Opera.

I'll definitley remember to rent that next time Eric! I remeber seeing a poster for Dancer in the Dark in 2000 at my local video store, but I was only 11, so it probably didn't interest me. I'll pick it up some time! BTW, I really like Phantom, but I'm always up to new musicals

*tlm

TheLittleMerman wrote:

Prince Eric wrote:Try watching Dancer in the Dark, the musical starring Bjork and the best picture of 2000! Not only does it showcase all original music, it's a complete tragedy with no light-hearted comedy which is sort of an ironic statement in terms of genre. I'm still mad because whenever someone brings up the topic of musicals or modern-day musicals, I always recommend Dancer in the Dark and to this day, no one has told me they have given it a try. I don't see what everyone is so afraid of, especially when half the people here gush at horrible psuedo-musicals like The Phantom of the Opera.

I'll definitley remember to rent that next time Eric! I remeber seeing a poster for Dancer in the Dark in 2000 at my local video store, but I was only 11, so it probably didn't interest me. I'll pick it up some time! BTW, I really like Phantom, but I'm always up to new musicals

*tlm

Glad to hear it! Just remember that the director is Lars von Trier, so the picture is politically fused and may come across as mysogonistic depending on your point-of-view. (I think it's more of a feminist approach, but I can't speak for everyone, even though I wish I could. ) It's also three hours long, but it never drags and the numbers are very memorable, so time flies. If you would like to hear parts of teh soundtrack, search for the Selmasongs website on Yahoo! "You've Seen It All" should be available in its entirety somewhere on the web, as it's the "antheme/theme/love song" of the movie and was the one that recieved the Academy Award nomination. It should have won, too. It's a miraculous conversational duet that embodies the heart of the film. Think of Bjork and Thom Yorke as the prelude to the amazing coupling of Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.

Prince Eric wrote:Glad to hear it! Just remember that the director is Lars von Trier, so the picture is politically fused and may come across as mysogonistic depending on your point-of-view. (I think it's more of a feminist approach, but I can't speak for everyone, even though I wish I could. ) It's also three hours long, but it never drags and the numbers are very memorable, so time flies. If you would like to hear parts of teh soundtrack, search for the Selmasongs website on Yahoo! "You've Seen It All" should be available in its entirety somewhere on the web, as it's the "antheme/theme/love song" of the movie and was the one that recieved the Academy Award nomination. It should have won, too. It's a miraculous conversational duet that embodies the heart of the film. Think of Bjork and Thom Yorke as the prelude to the amazing coupling of Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.

Sounds great! Hm..Lars von Trier. He did Elephant, right? That movie toyed with my emotions so much! Anyways, I can't wait to see it! Ohh... we went OFF TOPIC

*tlm

Prince Eric wrote: "You've Seen It All" should be available in its entirety somewhere on the web, as it's the "antheme/theme/love song" of the movie and was the one that recieved the Academy Award nomination.

It's "I've Seen It All".

Alice wrote:

Prince Eric wrote: "You've Seen It All" should be available in its entirety somewhere on the web, as it's the "antheme/theme/love song" of the movie and was the one that recieved the Academy Award nomination.

It's "I've Seen It All".

Well thanks for pointing out every little innacuracy in my posts. It was a typo, man. I'm glad you care that much.

Prince Eric wrote:
Well thanks for pointing out every little innacuracy in my posts. It was a typo, man. I'm glad you care that much.

No, problem....

Björk, and many other artists, deserve to have their song names written correct.....

I don't believe I pointed out every little inaccuracy in your posts, because if i did I would have busted your balls over spelling Björk's name as "Bjork".

Alice wrote:

Prince Eric wrote:
Well thanks for pointing out every little innacuracy in my posts. It was a typo, man. I'm glad you care that much.

No, problem....

Björk, and many other artists, deserve to have their song names written correct.....

I don't believe I pointed out every little inaccuracy in your posts, because if i did I would have busted your balls over spelling Björk's name as "Bjork".

Do you think I have the time, or even care, to make sure I put the rigth derivation of "O" in Bjork?

P.S. Right is mispelled, I know. That's just for you.

TheLittleMerman wrote: Sounds great! Hm..Lars von Trier. He did Elephant, right? That movie toyed with my emotions so much! Anyways, I can't wait to see it! Ohh... we went OFF TOPIC

*tlm

No, Gus Van Saint did Elephant.

Lars von Trier has done lots of films including Dogville and its just released 'thematic' sequel Mandelay. He also did the original (and superior) The Kingdom Danish(?) TV series, which was remade as Stephen King's Kindom Hospital for the US (amazingly Stephen King not only mucked it up, but got his name on the title!)

He along with others, is the founder of the Dogma method of filming.
http://www.stud.u-szeged.hu/Papp.Vivien ... essay.html