Lame Movie
Okay, I’m prepared to be hated.
While I was in London, I couldn’t sleep one night and I watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time. Am I the only one who thinks this movie totally blows? All that wide angle shooting is really wonky. Everyone’s acting like they’re on a bad rip-off of “All in the Family”. The love interests are not that attractive. The highlight is perhaps a cameo by Fran Dresher… which says a lot.
Not to mention, the movie ends with a gang rape scene.
What? Yes. Why is this never mentioned?
What the hell is going on here? Everyone who was old enough to see this in the theaters is always going on about how this captured the times. Really?
Oh yeah, and the climax of the film is this buddy of Travolta's comically falling off a bridge to his death. The last shot of the movie freeze frames on Travolta hugging this girl in her Manhattan apartment as he realizes the moral of the story - When your girlfriend is gang raped in a car and your buddy falls off a bridge, it's time to stop dancing and settle down. What?
Im just glad someone else agrees with me :)
I'm so excited to see Juno! Can't wait!
They say the same thing about re-reading Jack Kerouac's novel that inspired a generation. It hit a nerve and exploded in the sixties. But those who were old enough to read it then, beware of re-reading it now, you might be disappointed and wonder....what was I thinking? The moral maybe "Don't Look Back"
You had to have been there to understand it's phenomenon. Cheesy post sixties zeitgeist. I can't even remember anything about the film but it's Travolta, the suit, dancing and the music!
BTW I loved Juno and post film discussion at the FIND screening.
you only settle down if you've got a really great white suit... and those shoes.
and swear that you'll never, ever make a sequel.
ps denver? paris on the platte. it's small, it's quaint, no one will find you.
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Just experienced the exact same realization with my mother in law the other night. She was really excited to see John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz (http://imdb.com/title/tt0067433/); a film she really dug in her twenties. She thought of it as a sweet romantic comedy then.
It was interesting to see Seymour Cassel (Max's father from "Rushmore") from an earlier and apparently more angry time. I think we could all agree that his handlebar mustache was very groovy.
However, we were all left wondering what the hell happened since the 70's when it was apparently cool to stalk, beat, yell at, and similarly abuse women as a courting device. What the...? I think the same can be said with SNF.
I was personally enlightened that the behavior of the men in the movie matched closely with some angry homeless people I see on the bus. Before I thought it was misplaced anger. Now I'm starting to think of their behavior as arrested development.
The fact that we see things differently today must be part of of some big scheme... why was it successful in its own time? ;) Let's see what people say about Juno in 2040
Just generally one of the most depressing movies ever. It's like a Rat Pack movie if the Rat Pack were a bunch of douchebags.
it is what it is. its like a shitty classic?