Koete Posted May 2, 2014 Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted May 2, 2014 Report Share Posted May 2, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Good Lord, is Singing in the Rain ever a tedious film... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Insulting Gene Kelly? That's a paddling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pan-dub Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Good Lord, is Singing in the Rain ever a tedious film... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 I'm with Ian on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Thank you, fans! Coming up next: why Casablanca is rubbish because it's in black & white, and why Die Hard is ridiculous bullshit. Et voila - Armond White achievement unlocked! I'll say this much: the dancing is superb and there are some really funny bits throughout. But it's an hour-long movie stretched out to 1 hour 45 minutes because of all the shoe-horned in dancing that has very little bearing on the overall story. I don't like unfairly projecting motivations on people, but a cynical me would think that Gene Kelly was either over-indulging himself (as co-director) or being over-indulged by using the film as a platform to show off just how great at dancing he is. And he is, unquestionably; but the film overall is really disjointed as a result. Even the title and the (iconic) dance sequence which goes with the title song has nothing to do with anything plot-wise. I can pinpoint the exact moment of "tedium". At the beginning of the third act, Kelly's character pitches to the studio boss the contemporary dance sequence he wants to start off the film within the film, before it switches to the Cavalier era. There is then a 10-15 sequence of Kelly dancing, without any of the other characters within the film. After this stage, there's only so much time for the Lina subplot of trying to force Kathy to become her official dubbing girl, which is effectively all of two scenes long. It could have been longer, but there simply wasn't room in the runtime - seemingly - because Kelly and O'Connor had to needlessly dance in a speech therapist's office for 5 minutes before subjecting him to a game of human buckaroo. I mean, I don't care for Grease either, but at least all of those songs/numbers tie in with the plot. Maybe it's just that because I have been watching a lot of other classic films lately - Sabrina, Roman Holiday, Snakes on a Plane - that I thought I was ready to appreciate the film with fresh eyes. It turns out that whilst I can enjoy the acting and the calibre of the dancing, the story is dragged out and badly paced, hence "tedious". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pan-dub Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 True about the 'Gotta dance' section: at Fort Wilson that where Mother presses fast-forward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Well Casablance is rubbish, just not because it's in black and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Well Casablance is rubbish, just not because it's in black and white. Agreed - Casablance is just a poor man's version of Casablanca. A poor man with a speech impediment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 3, 2014 Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Well Casablance is rubbish, just not because it's in black and white. Agreed - Casablance is just a poor man's version of Casablanca. A poor man with a speech impediment. Damn your eyes and damn your duckpond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 The Commentaries from the Recalled Criterion releases of Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and Goldfinger have resurfaced. The full story is at the link but basically, Broccoli and Eon objected to how candid the people on the commentary ended up getting so all the Laserdiscs got recalled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Today, I have watched for the first time: Jackie Brown: Thoughts in Hey, An Actor! #6 Chronicle: Pretty good, without rocking my world. I will now watch BASEketball, which I've seen many a time, purely for shits and giggles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted May 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 Baseketball is one of my favorites. Pretty much anything Matt and Trey make is genius. Even if they didn't write it, their performances were perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 BASEketball is one of my all time favourite comedies. One of the few movies I'm always in the mood for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted May 11, 2014 Report Share Posted May 11, 2014 I thoroughly agree, gentlemen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted May 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 Make sure to check out Orgazmo also. It shows their early fascination with Mormons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pan-dub Posted May 12, 2014 Report Share Posted May 12, 2014 And Cannibal: The Musical is a bizarrely odd romp including G-Fresh as chief of the Japanese Native Americans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 13, 2014 Report Share Posted May 13, 2014 Rifftrax is doing a Kickstarter for getting the rights to riff live on Godzilla (1998). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 The Twin Peaks Blu-ray will include 90 minutes of deleted scenes from Fire Walk With Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Man, oh man, do I hope tonight's episode of Hannibal will have an uncut version on the Blu-ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 What the fuck could they have possibly cut?? I'm surprised they got away with Mason cutting off his own face, feeding it to the dogs, and eating his own severed nose on network TV! In other news, this series keeps finding ways to make me scream/scar me every week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Exactly, morbid curiosity at what (if anything) they made them cut, because I have no idea how that made it on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.