Is there any reason he is called Longlegs? He doesn't have long legs. Did the film just need a cool title?
When the answer to probably at least a dozen 'wtf is that moments' (or sub plots) is 'devil stuff!' that's just lazy/sloppy/poor writing and makes watching it pointless.
Bad film is bad
If thats your gripe then I'm not sure the genre is for you homie.
Sometimes the best movie experiences are when you go in blind, went to go see "A Real Pain" with Jesse Eisenburg and Kieran Culkin. Cousins who use to be close travel to Poland to visit their holocaust survivor grandmother's hometown, it's light at times and very powerful at moments, just a great down to earth story.
I didn't realized until the next day that Jennifer Grey was the Marcia character, she's unrecognizable. Jesse Eisenberg wrote and directed, Emma Stone was a producer, it was excellent.
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Tried to watch Purple Rain for the first time. Yes it’s dated, but the porn-flick level acting, dialog, and plot combined with dated music…we lasted 15 minutes max. Switched to a newer movie we hadn’t seen…Gladiator. It delivered
Tried to watch Purple Rain for the first time. Yes it’s dated, but the porn-flick level acting, dialog, and plot combined with dated music…we lasted 15 minutes max. Switched to a newer movie we hadn’t seen…Gladiator. It delivered
Dated music? You sound… delirious doot doot doot doo doo.
Tried to watch Purple Rain for the first time. Yes it’s dated, but the porn-flick level acting, dialog, and plot combined with dated music…we lasted 15 minutes max. Switched to a newer movie we hadn’t seen…Gladiator. It delivered
'Newer Movie?'
That movie was released 24 years ago.
Were you not entertained?
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Purple Rain is iconic it's one of the best rock and roll movies ever. I have so much to say (Prince's music is so much better than anything being released today) but I'll let Siskel and Ebert talk it up instead.
Purple Rain is iconic it's one of the best rock and roll movies ever. I have so much to say (Prince's music is so much better than anything being released today) but I'll let Siskel and Ebert talk it up instead.
Purple Rain is pretty bad and nonsensical as a movie, and also mostly not rock? In any case, absolutely no chance it's even in discussion for being a top tier rock movie. Purple Rain is in fact of the movies that defined the idea that rock movies are terrible as movies.
As for pure music, this is obviously a matter of taste, but I'm very partial to Jim Steinmans delightful maximalism which was in full display in Streets of Fire that came out the same year.
The closing song of that movie is a forgotten Steinman gem.
Other than those two scenes, that movie also sucks, although IMO in somewhat more entertaining ways. I mean, Prince is a good protagonist character, but he doesn't have a sledgehammer duel witha leatherclad Willem Dafoe.
As for rock movies that don't suck,.just a quick list from the top of my head...
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Backbeat (The Beatles)
Moonage Daydream (David Bowie, posthumous)
The Doors
Heavy Trip (metal comedy, a must see for metal fans)
Bohemian Rhapsody (very average, but still better than Purple Rain)
School of Rock
8 Mile is in many ways the same movie as Purple Rain, just a massively better movie, and probably has the best closing number of any music movie ever? A musical number that closes several story arcs for the main character, and it's also a boss battle. That's just hard to beat.
Tried to watch Purple Rain for the first time. Yes it’s dated, but the porn-flick level acting, dialog, and plot combined with dated music…we lasted 15 minutes max. Switched to a newer movie we hadn’t seen…Gladiator. It delivered
How could I have forgotten to include that, I just rewatched it 2 weeks ago. That opening performance of "Tell It To Me Now" on the street at night with the natural acoustics and Hansard's voice at full volume on the edge of cracking is unreal. I love that guy.
By the way, here he is at Shane McGowan's funeral, in case anyone hasn't seen. Incredible.
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