― matt simbols (mattsimbols), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
STOP SMILING!
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Under The Cherry Moon wasn't bad either, only it wasn't bad for a movie that should have been a one-off by a one-off himself. Had St. Paul of the Family, or Jesse Johnson, or Andre Cymone been the main star of that movie, then I doubt it would be given this many pannings.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
GET FAILED
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jim M (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
PERSON WHO HAD: It has this scene in it that represents what it's like to have sex with Prince.PERSON WHO HADN'T: Are there blowing white curtains and feathers?PERSON WHO HAD: OMG I thought you said you hadn't seen it!
And that is why you should take it very, very, very seriously.
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jim M (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I think my favorite cinematic Prince moment is when he's inexplicably taking a bath with Jerome at the beginning of "Under the Cherry Moon" (which, btw, is NOT saved by the musical sequences)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Graffiti Bridge and Under the Cherry Moon both suck, however, and I have only been forced to watch both at the behest of the wife, who has thankfully toned down (at least in this respect) her Prince obsession in her "old age".
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Before the movie started, a friendly guy came over (I was alone) and tried to pick me up - I was too dense to get it (though I got the hint when he gave me his card). Him: "Do you collect bootlegs?" Me: "What?... oh, Prince bootlegs... uh, no..."
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Seeing it again, well yeah, sorry, it's not Citizen Kane.. boohoo, dudes. It still is a fun movie, though.. without having to resort to "so bad it's good"-ness like Can't Stop The Music, The Apple, or Xanadu.
You could attribute the "so bad it's good"-ness to Under The Cherry Moon, however.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
wait, Great Balls of Fire is fucking awesome!!!! serrrious love it!
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― douglas eklund (skolle), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
slocki has the best take on this movie... "awesomely bad".
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
that's all i have to say on the subject.
― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
This movie is a classic. End of story. It's a Prince thing--you might not understand.
― Makkada B. (Makkada B.), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grabbing Thistle (Bimble...), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 28 July 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I rented the video. Oh my god.
I mean, oh my fucking god. I'm not much of a Prince fan, but oh my gucking fod. Why didn't I just buy the thing? It was only $24. I'm ashamed.
His career was spotty, that's how I feel about it. But here he was in his element. He was godlike.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
purple rain is a movie
― chaki, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Excellent album. Pointless movie. And the fact that it may be Prince's best movie says more about the rest of them.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The whole "Take Me With U" sequence. Oh my god. I'm an anglophile, but even I have to admit you'd probably have to be American to even do that.
I ordered two CD's by the Time, just so you know.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
That fucking Lisa girl is so hot.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Look I can't stand it. I really can't stand it. I can't even find this damn thing for downlaod, soundtrack wise. I'm going to have to buy the DVD I think. Why does God hate me right now that I can't find the fucking soundtrack for download?
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
It's 8 bucks on iTunes.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh god, thank you so much. I can't stand it. Don't you know in the novie when those girls come in you know Wendy & Lisa. I can't stand it. I must have the goddamn soundtrack. I must have it now. I really can't stand it. I'm going to buy the DVD I swear but the store isn't open tomorrow. I used to have it all on vinyl 18 billion years ago.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 12:29 (sixteen years ago) link
But they don't have the whole thing on iTunes.
Fuck it, I'm just going to go back to the movie.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
It's all about the Wendy & Lisa man. I only wish their "solo" album had been successful.
I waited so long for this song. This title track Purple Rain I waited so very long. God.
I would Die 4 U
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Really I bought that damn Wendy & Lisa LP it wasn't very good.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The movie almost ruined the album for me. I love the album, but the movie had my sides splitting at times with how bad it was.
Appolonia's tits almost saved it. Morris Day stole every scene he was in.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I once ate a pot brownie and went to a Purple Rain screening. Then I laughed uncontrollably during the whole sequence where Prince is being beaten by his Dad.
great great movie. Prince shooting his wad at the end = one of the most brilliant moments in all of cinema.
― Romeo Jones, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't stop playing the title track for this. And the whole thing he goes into with "I Would Die 4 You/Baby I'm A Star" after that is almost as brilliant.
I wanted to see Lisa's tits, though! We never get to see that in the movie. This film was kindof a sexual coming-of-age for me, though.
Like I said, the title track...and that moment where he kisses Wendy in the middle of it. Jesus H. That just kills me.
― Bimble, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Bimble = my mom in 1984
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 06:15 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^
LOL
― Eisbaer, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
This film is perfect while drinking Stone IPA late into the night, home alone. Very comforting. And yes, the acting is bad and the music is great. It's a fucking classic, get the fuck over it.
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 06:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"Don't get my seat all wet."
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 06:41 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL, Amen to that.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 06:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Bimble, at least we can agree on this movie. Stone cold classic.
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, and I did actually put a tape recorder up to the TV last year so I could record the piano piece his father plays.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I think when this is over it's time for 24 Hour Party People. But I'm not yet certain.
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Heheheheh. Oh christ, now don't get me on a roll! I've played New Order videos all day already.
why don't we chat, ilxor? You got AIM or what?
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Bimble, I'm on my BlackBerry right now. I apologize.
This is stephen, by the way. New anonymous ilx name.
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I mean it doesn't get much more anon than that!
Why are you apologizing for being on your Blackberry?I guess you don't have any instant messaging program?
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I have BlackBerry messenger. Which I think is useless to non BlackBerry users. I could be wrong though. Oh well, I toast to you Bimble. Someday we will chat.
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I can't see how that BlackBerry shit would work. I have sent you an email through the ILXor email system, though. Look for it in spam folder if necessary, etc.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Found it and replied. Cheers!
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Lovely! And cheers to you!
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:19 (fifteen years ago) link
would this film have been improved by subbing in vanity for apollonia, and 'nasty girl' for 'sex shooter'?
― Deep House, M.D. (haitch), Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Gosh...that's a fantastic question. I'm tempted to say yes.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 28 September 2008 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Definitely.
― ilxor, Sunday, 28 September 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/local/261566281.html
The impact was felt from the Iowa border to the Iron Range, said Wendy Turri, municipal wastewater manager for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Most cities that used the bypasses were able to discharge sewage into rivers or other bodies of water not used for recreation, she said. But in Mound, an overwhelmed sanitary sewer system forced the discharge of contaminated wastewater into heavily used Lake Minnetonka.
heh heh heh
― j., Tuesday, 3 June 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
"...it’s at least patently funny that the first fiction feature ever produced in the Tuareg language, which is spoken by about 1 million people in parts of Algeria, Libya, Mali, and Niger, is nominally a remake of Purple Rain. Or, sort of: there is no Tuareg word for “purple,” so Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai actually translates to 'rain the color of blue with a little red in it.' Constructed around the personality of naturally charismatic lead Mduo Moctar and set in the world of Tuareg guitar music in Agadez, Niger—most internationally recognized for the work of Bombino (who is, come to think of it, signed to a subsidiary of Prince’s former record label)—Akounak gushes with pure, earnest enthusiasm for its sweded source material."
http://www.screenslate.com/whats-showing-today/friday-may-8-akounak-tedalat-taha-tazoughai-at-anthology-film-archives
http://www.screenslate.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/150508-Purple-Post.jpg
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 May 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
that's not lake minnetonka
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
“Why can’t they be disco,” Corman asked. Arkush responded, “You can’t blow up a high school to disco music.”
lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
saw this again last night in the theatre. obv still a 'bad' movie from a technical perspective, but a great 'bad' movie and those performances are next level. sensitive Prince and Morris Day oozing w/ swagger, what's not to love.
still love that they reframed Prince's rock 'n roll yells at the end of "Computer Blue" to be rage-yells at Morris Day being with Apollonia in the club. Prince getting slapped still hilarious. sexual writhing during "Darling Nikki" awesome display of risque performance art. "Computer Blue" choreo fantastic. Prince's frenetic dancing in "Baby I'm a Star". so good
really not good to be a woman in this film tho - they're either portrayed as not wearing much clothing, getting slapped with brute force by their lovers, or being thrown in a dumpster.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:33 (eight years ago) link
fortunately Wendy and Lisa got better treatment (<3 them)
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's weirdly regressive gender-wise, which is weird in the context of Prince's music, except for Wendy and Lisa as noted
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
Wendy mocking Prince by playing the "Let's Go Crazy" chords sarcastically a nice moment of defiance.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
I do love the implication in the film that Wendy and Lisa are the ones that actually wrote the song "Purple Rain"
Morris & Jerome's "what's the password"/"who's on first" comedy routine is p good
the shot of Prince playing the guitar break in "Let's Go Crazy" while standing, backlit, on top of his amp is such a perfect moment
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
"what's with this one song shit?"
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
poor dez with his tepid modernaire song. I'm like uh I know which of your three acts you should drop.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 April 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
I saw this wednesday night in a one-off screening on 42nd st. It was nice to be in that crowd.
Is the backwards female moaning track when he brings Apollonia in his basement 'Electric Intercourse'?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 April 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
haha I love that this line is in there, because at first you think it's just going to be glossed over in a typical "it's only a movie!" fashion that they just came out and did one song but then the mgr actually *is* pissed about it, as one would realistically expect
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
nah Electric Intercourse is an actual song, a ballad, in the vein of Another Lonely Christmas
xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
movie needed more mirrors IMO
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
i love Sparks, him Jerome and Morris are so great
Morris kind of doesn't get much more good material in the last ~30% of the film though.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
fucking love P's lair full of dolls
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
people were clapping, singing along, laughing, probably crying too. It was a nice crowd to be in right now
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
cab driver very easily hoodwinked by Apollonia
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
i also like the idea of getting revenge on a lover that spurned you via a conveniently timed setlist choice
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
haha yeah it does build up this mythology of performance, where things that are happening onstage are actual parts of a larger melodrama
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
other highlights
Apollonia foisting a fancy-assed guitar upon Kid and then saying "I'm joining Morris's band" like she expected any kind of positive reaction to that news.
only thing that woulda improved Prince's "whAAAAaaaaT?" woulda been a record skip sound effect.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
this is playing here now. should i see it tonight?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
went to a showing last night. yes.
― dc, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
Go see it. It is almost an audience participation movie, like Rocky Horror.
― Radio Free European Son (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
yeah I was kinda sad that my crowd didn't make more noise last night.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 29 April 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link
FUCK'S WRONG WITH YOU KID
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 29 April 2016 23:34 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, April 29, 2016 5:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Some but not all of the regression is there to characterize Morris as the heel, but its regression is not in fact particularly "weird in the context of Prince's music," which is not as progressive as has been claimed recently.
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Friday, April 29, 2016 5:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well they, or, more properly, the band as a whole, did, if not exactly in the way they movie indicates - he, not they, came up with the basic chords, but the band and Wendy especially fleshed the music out before he wrote the lyrics and presumably vocal line.
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
(some of which incorporated bandmember vocal contributions)
And that's true of a lot of his stuff, something else under-discussed since his death
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
I think the movie itself is a pretty good guide to just how seriously or not you're supposed to take it
― Comprehensive Nuclear Suggest-Ban Treaty (benbbag), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
the scene where he tricks apollonia into skinnydipping in lake non-minnetonka and then leaves her in the dust of his motorcycle peel out
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:17 (eight years ago) link
He is such a fucking dick in that scene
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
the way he frames it as "oh I triiiied to tell ya" despite the pregnant pause between his last sentence and her striptease and then him standin there all like "ok yeah i wanted to see some titties. WHAT?!"
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:26 (eight years ago) link
I like this movie because it look intersting
― MatthewK, Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:11 (eight years ago) link
I saw this movie when it came out and I was in 10th grade. At the time I thought it was both ridiculous and amazing. The only thing that's changed in the intervening years is that when I saw it I didn't like Morris Day's music at all, and now I do, a lot.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:17 (eight years ago) link
Does Morris Day still perform?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
Nah, he doesn't have the time
― Vinnie, Saturday, 30 April 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
fp me if you must
― Vinnie, Saturday, 30 April 2016 03:02 (eight years ago) link
Boomboom
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 April 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
Saw Purple Rain for the first time last summer. People were ecstatic, very much an audience participation movie. I remember a big laugh when the blonde girl looks at the slip of paper and said "Apollonia??" Saw it again last night, that didn't get a laugh. Oddly, it was pretty much the same mood, the giddiness of a rock concert. Not somber at all, which was really surprising. Amazing moment when Prince and Apollonia first have sex: woman behind me screaming "HUSBANDS! BOYFRIENDS! LESBIAN PARTNERS! WATCH THIS. WATCH THIS. TAKE NOTES." But it was mostly the same innocent excitement and cheering as the screening I saw last year, both capacity crowds in huge auditoriums. I don't know what I was expecting, though. People were happy. It was fun.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 April 2016 12:36 (eight years ago) link
Even worse than I remembered. Siskel and Ebert both including it on their year-end lists in 1984 is a true WTF moment. Like, this is basically Rick Springfield's Hard To Hold with better music.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
I like the Day-Benton teamwork, a couple of concert sequences, the rest is garbage.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 10:29 (seven years ago) link
saw it a few weeks ago at the ICA in london. slightly too snarky crowd maybe, but lots of LOLs all the way through. maybe without that, i might have been more forgiving. but it hasnt aged well. some great scenes with morris and jerome (why didnt they get to do more movies?). interesting for how closely the revolution in the movie seem resemble the real dynamics of the band. but i found the performances to not be as good as remembered - by prince that is. the time and other groups seem to be fine. but prince's performances on the PR tour video are much better. in the film, they look a bit over-acted in a way the songs dont really need (though computer blue is great). also confused at the weird grasp of sense of time/continuity on the montage for the very first song (lets go crazy). best moment though is hearing fathers song (the computer blue bridge) on the piano. amazing.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
saw it in a sold out screening in Manchester in one of the biggest screens last week. people went nuts; standing, cheering, singing, crying, the whole bit, a very youthful stylish crowd. the only time i can recall being drunk in a cinema thanks to the 'purple cocktails' on sale. biggest crowd lols were for his Dad's 'don't get married' speech, and at the bizzare leg moves from Apollonia during the start of the sex scene. it seemed creaky but better lit and shot than i remember.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
and yeah the piano bits were great.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:08 (seven years ago) link
there were lots of whoops and cheers too. but mainly just lots of 'LOL!'
in the cast/crew interviews on the DVD, the director actually gets teary about the 'dont get married' scene. apparently princes dad gave him the same speech.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Morris Day has charisma as an actor, I'll admit, but his whole "Who's on First" bit with Jerome was agonizing.
Is it worth pointing out that the plot makes no sense? Like, his character is this struggling musician who lives at home but he still exerts this Prince-like control over his band where its a big deal if he does or doesn't consider performing one of Wendy and Lisa's songs?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
It's weird you almost have to watch it as several phases of the characters life palimpsested into one
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
in the cast/crew interviews on the DVD, the director actually gets teary
― Hang On To Your Evol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Like, his character is this struggling musician who lives at home but he still exerts this Prince-like control over his band where its a big deal if he does or doesn't consider performing one of Wendy and Lisa's songs?
Is it hard to believe that Prince was like this even when he lived at home?
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
it hasnt aged well.
nnnnnnnnnno, no perceptive viewers thought the non-musical shit was good in '84
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
there are certain movies that i just hold to a lower standard. this, dirty dancing, point break...patrick swayze's whole filmography, basically.
― dc, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Dirty Dancing is a better movie than PR, but, you know, Prince.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
i love this movie, of course it isn't good, but it's great
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
its basically like prince's spin on all those terrible youth/teen pics of the 50s etc
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
OK, so I re-watched it for the first time in many years and I have to say …It still sucks. Even worse than I remember. The plot doesn’t make a bit of sense, the story’s self-pitying and pretentious — not to mention misogynistic — and the acting sucks all around. Yeah, I know the musical sequences are good BUT IT’S PRINCE, after all.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 23 May 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, May 17, 2016 9:17 PM (6 days ago)
so wrong. intentionally or not, it's one of the funniest, weirdest, most fucked-up movies ever made. plus prince. can't imagine any sensible person not loving it.
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Really, you can't? Had I seen it when I was 15 or 16, I probably would have enjoyed it. But I was 20 or 21. I thought it was pretty embarrassing as a film, although I loved the music. Now that I’m much older it seems lamer than ever. I mean, take the fanboy glasses off and watch it as a film, not as a 90-minute music video. It’s awful. And there’s nothing even remotely weird or “fucked up” about it. It’s just bad.
― Jazzbo, Monday, 23 May 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
yeah, it's one of the funniest movies ever made, except for a couple thousand made by good comedians.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
I watched it a couple years back fully expecting to hate it. I'd hated it when I last saw it, back in the 80s, as a teen. But no. I loved it. Each image and line is perfect (and, yes, perfectly terrible). People are often at their funniest when they're trying to be something else.
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
I'm assuming the people itt saying Purple Rain is awful haven't watched Under the Cherry Moon (etc).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not getting where this is so bad/funny/fucked up/whatever that its good. It's basically a severely underwritten melodrama that has some fantastic songs in it.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure Magnoli thinks its a great work
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 23 May 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Well, he would, wouldn't he
― The Wally Funk Bible (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 May 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm assuming the people itt saying Purple Rain is awful haven't watched Under the Cherry Moon (etc)
which both pale in comparison to Graffiti Bridge, it should be noted
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 May 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
(in terms of failing-as-films)
contenderizer's description applies more readily to under the cherry moon. still there's a charming haphazardness to purple rain imo
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
i saw under the cherry moon on 35 mm a few weeks ago and imo it's baffling and wonderful
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgvhDBXU4AESgV7.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 May 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
typically stupid simpsons joke. it's not funny, and what's more, SotT is his /best/ movie.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
that seems to be what the joke is saying?
― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
the subtext is that the film is so marginal/obscure that even prince hasn't seen it
which is dumb
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
i'm being literal-minded, maybe, but that simpsons joke is made up of 100% low-grade recycled humor so we're even.
depends on what the meaning of "it" is
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
i think you mean "that"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
http://rinf.com/alt-news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bill-clinton-05.jpg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 May 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
its a bad film in every way. nothing is explained. conflicts arrive without any context for them. resolutions happen without actually being resolved. its never clear if the kid is failing or if he is packing them in at first avenue. tbh i cant remember all the problems i thought of when i saw it, but there were many. it has next to no redeeming features, except some performances. and even those, arent what he was capable of. they are reduced to having to fit the terrible narrative.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 23 May 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
the beautiful ones is among the greatest music performances ever committed to film, worth the price of admission alone, fuiud
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
^^^^^
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 23 May 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link
was so gratified to see that someone had written a standalone piece about that, i think it was in rolling stone. as a raw expression of sexual longing it really has few peers.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
that's not quite right, it's not just raw, it's massively performative, which is maybe part of what makes it so great, that it's this almost ludicrously demonstrative and detailed set of codes/moves telling the story of the most basic pop drama - wanting, not having. and prince just melts your face with it.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link