Cloreen said:
. Come on, just look at the color photos posted on this thread. Why bother wearing that glittering gold suit if you are going to convert to black and white? Why film the sparkling azure blue of the Mediterranean if audiences are just going to see it as dull gray? Once again look at the color photos here. The film is a stiff of all stiffs but in color at least the film would have been dazzling to look at. It would have had some value. . The black and white doesn't add class at all. It just is an insanely pretentious move by an inept amateur filmmaker. Prince believed his audience would say, "Oooh, black and white. This must be art." No, instead we said, "What a dope. The guy spends millions to film on the spectacular Cote d'Azur and he films it in black and white." I'd certainly be interested in seeing the movie in color. Perhaps I would feel differently about it when it's playing in front of me. But judging by the photos on this thread, I strongly prefer the black and white. The color looks cheap and gaudy. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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SoulAlive said: sexton said:
Perhaps,but the time period in the movie was clearly the 80s.There's no getting around that. UTCM takes place at least after 1941. Here's the proof. When Tricky says "Cuz it's a full moon and I'm a werewolf, bitch!" he reveals that people in that world acknowledge a relationship between full moons and werewolves. That relationship wasn't established until Curt Siodmak wrote the screenplay for the 1941 hit The Wolf Man. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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jayspud said: leadline said:
Absolutely. I was surprised as I knew the film so well, I always wondered who made the cut. Usually it's cut for tv not the other way. It was rated 15 in the UK so it can include nudity. Isn't the film pg13? Surprise, surprise.
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The ghetto blaster is also kind of a give away. Life Matters | |
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. The damn movie was cheap and gaudy! Come on, have you ever watched the movie? It ain't exactly a Bergman film. . The movie was horrendous. Take Prince out of it would you have any interest at all in seeing a laughably simplistic story set in the French Riviera...and filmed in black and white! If you like the music from the film (I sure do) then just play the damn album! That film is a bad joke. Terrible. A deserved winner of The Razzie for worst film of the year. | |
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JustErin said: I think the film looks lovely. I quite like the cinematography and costuming - even without the color.
I always thought it deliberately mixed different eras. Surprise, surprise.
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TrivialPursuit said: As this is discussed, it reminds me of the actual set of The Adams Family, shot in black and white. The set was actually very colorful, and purposely so,because pink or gold translated differently than having everything a monotone color to begin with.
So did Prince know that and is that why he had so much color in it only to go BW? Surprise, surprise.
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Cloreen said:
. The damn movie was cheap and gaudy! Come on, have you ever watched the movie? It ain't exactly a Bergman film. . The movie was horrendous. Take Prince out of it would you have any interest at all in seeing a laughably simplistic story set in the French Riviera...and filmed in black and white! If you like the music from the film (I sure do) then just play the damn album! That film is a bad joke. Terrible. A deserved winner of The Razzie for worst film of the year. Of course it would be terrible and uninteresting if Prince wasn't in it! I enjoy the movie a lot, but I don't pretend it's good. It's an enjoyable and somewhat fascinating glimpse into what a musical genius did when handed the director's seat for the first time. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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It's a tongue-in-cheek film and everything about it is tongue-in-cheek, including all the anachronisms and the B&W idea. And that's what makes it timeless. Life Matters | |
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CherryMoon57 said:
The ghetto blaster is also kind of a give away. True. But my theory is way more fun! "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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Of course it was, although I did wonder for a moment... Life Matters | |
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Can I just throw this out there... Prince's Parade album, looks like it say EVOLUTION down the side. The movie is about Christopher's long fought civil WAR: One two... The evolution WILL BE colorized!!!! Just sayin. Surprise, surprise.
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Wow. Life Matters | |
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Cloreen said:
. The damn movie was cheap and gaudy! Come on, have you ever watched the movie? It ain't exactly a Bergman film. . The movie was horrendous. Take Prince out of it would you have any interest at all in seeing a laughably simplistic story set in the French Riviera...and filmed in black and white! If you like the music from the film (I sure do) then just play the damn album! That film is a bad joke. Terrible. A deserved winner of The Razzie for worst film of the year. Oh shush. You are zero fun. It's a campy movie. Enjoy it for what it is. Prince. But I don't really think you like him anyway so I don't know. I will buy this on bluRay when they release it in color and I will watch it everyday. Surprise, surprise.
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I recently watched this (or, tried to) for the first time. Good God, it was awful. I knew, going into it, that it would be poor, but I didn't expect it to be on the level of Plan 9 From Outer Space. . You could watch the color-print film, but it'd be like painting a turd with bright colors. | |
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A re-release on blue ray in both colour and black and white would be cool. With some bonus footage maybe Thank you Prince for every note you left behind 💜 | |
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I would like to see both. Then we could make real comparisons. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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CherryMoon57 said: If they ever release this,I would surely buy it! | |
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. So you believe that Prince's goal was to make a campy movie? That's what he wanted? And what was his goal for GRAFFITI BRIDGE? To make a shitty movie? That's he wanted? . Boy, the guy really is a genius filmmaker. He achieves what he sets out to do.
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Fuckin 'ell. Calm down ya loon. I'm of the opinion Under The Cherry Moon wasn't much cop, in fact it's pretty bad, but the music was glorious. Better than the skiffle garbage Presley was hawking back in the 50s anyway.
You're an expert on Kurosawa as well I see. Marvellous. We'll expect a treatsie on the underlying problem of Rashomon not being shot in marvellous Technicolor, and how it impinged and ultimately denigrated it's central theme on the vagaries of justice then.
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I'd like to see it in color if such a version was added to a reissue of the B&W version. Out of curiousity. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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What would be really cool is if there was an alternative ending with All My Dreams played in a concert sequence in colour | |
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A really high resolution version in vibrant colour would have a bit of a documentary feel by showing Prince in motion in what is more of a theatrical, Musical style production than Purple Rain. the colour along with resolution would give it a feeling of watching the guy in action because we all have the B&W version in the context being the fun / campy movie ** do something,before we're gone , and we're just a rock where a world went wrong...** | |
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My copy is certainly a 15 rated and also here on the imdb, of course at the time in the UK we did not have a rating such at PG-13 and 12 rating wasn't introduced until 89 and 12A 94. Nowadays I don't know what it would be, ratings are more generous e.g. Olympus has Fallen was just a 15 and that had way mor violence and a torture scene. | |
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I really appreciate your response on that, really interesting and that makes a whole lot of sense. I have had this question for over a decade and you have answered it for me! Thank you. | |
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I would love 2 C it in color, seeing all the color images from the movie are so tasty
But I love it in Black n White too
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If a color version comes out, I will never watch the black and white version again. "You always get the dream that you deserve, from what you value the most" -Prince 2013 | |
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Warner bros should have demanded he do it in B& W ,he would have done it in colour then . | |
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. The music is good in Under the Cherry Moon, but who cares? A movie isn't an album. If you're going to waste everyone's time and money making a movie, then it has to stand up as a movie. Under the Cherry Moon fails to work on any level as a film, and therefore it is a turkey. This is an objective fact, currently being added to Philosophy 101 classes in major Western universities. | |
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