How on earth can you get bored in the first half an hour or so of Moulin Rouge?! The first third of the movie is fantastic, completely manic and compelling. I love the film as a whole the only problem is that first third unbalances the rest of the movie as you keep waiting for something to top it and nothing does (Jim Broadbent singing Like A Virgin comes petty close though). Baz Luhrmann's frantic editing and the like tends to induce adulation and contempt in equal measures, but I love his films. Was robbed at the Oscars too (A Beautiful Mind? hah! - and then the mediocre Chicago comes along the next year and wins tons of Oscars despite being nowhere near as good a musical)