Am I supposed to take Purple Rain (the movie) seriously?

slocki has the best take on this movie... "awesomely bad".

that's all i have to say on the subject.

This movie is a classic. End of story. It's a Prince thing--you might not understand.

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.

purple rain is a movie

Excellent album. Pointless movie. And the fact that it may be Prince's best movie says more about the rest of them.

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.

That fucking Lisa girl is so hot.

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?

It's 8 bucks on iTunes.

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.

But they don't have the whole thing on iTunes.

Fuck it, I'm just going to go back to the movie.

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

Really I bought that damn Wendy & Lisa LP it wasn't very good.

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.

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.

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 = my mom in 1984

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.

^^^^

LOL

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.

"Don't get my seat all wet."

LOL, Amen to that.

Bimble, at least we can agree on this movie. Stone cold classic.

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.

I think when this is over it's time for 24 Hour Party People. But I'm not yet certain.

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?

Bimble, I'm on my BlackBerry right now. I apologize.

This is stephen, by the way. New anonymous ilx name.

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?

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.

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.

Found it and replied. Cheers!

Lovely! And cheers to you!

would this film have been improved by subbing in vanity for apollonia, and 'nasty girl' for 'sex shooter'?

Gosh...that's a fantastic question. I'm tempted to say yes.

Definitely.

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heh heh heh

"...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

that's not lake minnetonka

good curative to all the "well that movie couldn't be made today!!" shit like so much of it was just ugly and dumb and hateful

the big thing about 80s and to a degree 90s media that really offputs me now is how stalkery behavior got presented as romantic time and again.

like mom started watching LA Law, which I of course hadn't seen as a 6 year old, so it was my first time seeing it, and so they're showing Michael Kuzak basically uncomfortably stalking and manipulating Grace, and I'm watching through 2024's lens going "oh man he's going to be a villainous character and Grace is going to spend season after season trying to get the firm to see his snakiness and then, oh wait, nope, he shows up at her wedding and easily talks her out of it and they're a power couple on the show after that. she even shows up to his house once to apologize for her 'rudeness' in telling him to fuck off due to his stalky behavior!

oh god yeah

i watched st. elmos fire in my peak watching all kinds of old garbage on streaming during covid that movie absolutely toxic

was actually a little surprising to see Miami Vice of all shows have an episode where it handled the rape and prolonged abuse of a victim quite sensitively and actually criticized law enforcement's own enabling of the rapist through inaction.

i mean it's dated in the sense that it's a complete fever dream of the 1980s, i don't think anything could be *more* 80s than Miami Vice but i was watching it recently and i agree it holds up a lot better than most

Glitter > any Bob Dylan movie

xpost yeah there's no actual realism or grounded elements, the style was the hook. i do find it funny that they almost never arrest anybody, pretty much every perp winds up in a body bag

like imagining how much time they would have had to spend doing desk work while each shooting was investigated in real life

...then Crockett would light his twelfth Marlboro Red around her and she dies of lung cancer in 1997.

i always loved that sonny crockett's super secret undercover name is sonny burnett

'hey boss the guy I'm working with is named Sonny, didn't this cop named Sonny actually like give a deposition in open court against one of your guys last week, is that something you want me to look into'

'nah there's lots of Sonnys here, let's close the deal"

the pilot ep where 3 of the 4 participants in a drug deal are undercover cops made me laugh, always wondered if there was ever a deal that was all cops because everyone got so undercover nobody knew who was who anymore

haha i'm sure it's happened

that’s basically the plot of The Man Who Was Thursday except with anarchists instead of drug dealers