HERE’S MY considered opinion of “Moulin Rouge”: It sucks. There’s no need to get defensive. It’s no big deal. A lot of movies suck. But then again, a lot of movies don’t snag eight Oscar nominations. Okay, okay, calm down. The truth hurts, I know. In fact, the movie’s suckiness was, in fact, a bit of a disappointment to me, too. I rather like several of the actors involved, and I adored director Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” a few years back.

Sadly, I was one of a very small number of people who seemed to realize how bad “Moulin Rouge” was. After the Oscar nominations came out, there were those other awards, you know, the ones that are supposed to predict the Oscar winners, and everywhere I looked this crapalicious pseudo-musical was being feted.