https://www.earwolf.com/s...-get-made/

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This is magic. Thank you for recommending this...and I've found a new podcast, too! Brilliant.

I love shit like this so thanks for posting it.

I prefer the guys at We Hate Movies and keep hoping they'll do UTCM or GB one day

https://art19.com/shows/we-hate-movies

SimonCharles said:

This is magic. Thank you for recommending this...and I've found a new podcast, too! Brilliant.

Glad you liked it. Its their job to basically trash (in a humorous way) every movie reviewed so it was a nice surprise to hear the many positive comments. If you listen to other episodes you can tell they genuinely, for the most part, enjoyed UTCM. Paul, Jason and June are podcast greats in my opinion. I reccommend checking out earlier classic episodes on Burlesque, The Last Dragon, Over The Top, and Staying Alive.

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eduJ said:

SimonCharles said:

This is magic. Thank you for recommending this...and I've found a new podcast, too! Brilliant.

Glad you liked it. Its their job to basically trash (in a humorous way) every movie reviewed so it was a nice surprise to hear the many positive comments. If you listen to other episodes you can tell they genuinely, for the most part, enjoyed UTCM. Paul, Jason and June are podcast greats in my opinion. I reccommend checking out earlier classic episodes on Burlesque, The Last Dragon, Over The Top, and Staying Alive.

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I've a feeling I shall be working through their back catalog, that's for sure.

This link led me down a YouTube rabbit hole and I stumbled upon this review


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfytjV4Ytyg

At about 36 minutes in, they posit the idea of "what it turned out that Prince was a vampire in this movie" and, you know what? That would have improved it a lot and I could actually see it. Makes the bats and the Bela Legosi eyes shit make more sense.

Hilarious...and respectful of his Genuis.

I wish they wudve researched the lifelong friendship of Scott Thomas and Prince...touching.

Thanks for posting!

jdcxc said:

Hilarious...and respectful of his Genuis.

I wish they wudve researched the lifelong friendship of Scott Thomas and Prince...touching.

Thanks for posting!

Agreed. I love shit like this where funny people take a huge but affectionately aimed shit at a well meaning but relaly shitty film.

I think the "Prince is really a vampire" folks are really onto something and the more I think about it , the more I like the idea. It would explain SO MUCH of the weird shitthat happens in this crazy movie.

Wouldn't begin to explain Grafitti Bridge but, well, you know...baby steps.

herb4 said:

This link led me down a YouTube rabbit hole and I stumbled upon this review


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfytjV4Ytyg

At about 36 minutes in, they posit the idea of "what it turned out that Prince was a vampire in this movie" and, you know what? That would have improved it a lot and I could actually see it. Makes the bats and the Bela Legosi eyes shit make more sense.

That was cute. SO easy to get stuck down one of those rabbit holes. Wasn't aware of MovieBitches. Thanks!

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"Prince is thé 'femme-fatale' in this movie noire."

''...garçon, garçon..."

"I'm not sure if he knows how to kiss"

"all of the passion was feeling so very wrong"

In the grotto; "candles, fingers intwined, candles, fingers intwinded..."

"They keep reffering to colours, why is this movie not in colour ?"

"the camera moving is makin me nauseous"

"why were there bats in there?"

"...Tricky and Christopher as a gay couple..."

"...all these things are normal in the Prince world."

"Christin Scott Thomas is 32... becomming 21"

LOL

But two of 'm didn't see the movie Purple Rain 'yet'.

I also love the story that Prince brings soup to his neighbours (in Minneapolis), and crashes their birthday party.

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I loooooooooove this.

And indeed, maybe we should see the movie UTCM not as a movie.

That doesn't make sense really.

But rather as a very long video (like an exteded 12") full of Prince jokes from his own bizarre young world and how he likes us to see him in this new (fake) luxury.

And most important, there's no need to understand the story.

This is an absurd humorous movie - more like a Salvator Dalí kind of bizarre video.

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herb4 said:

This link led me down a YouTube rabbit hole and I stumbled upon this review


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfytjV4Ytyg

At about 36 minutes in, they posit the idea of "what it turned out that Prince was a vampire in this movie" and, you know what? That would have improved it a lot and I could actually see it. Makes the bats and the Bela Legosi eyes shit make more sense.

This is hilarious. Thank you.

I kinda agree with their take. It's a bad movie, but brilliant and loads of fun. It has too much in it, with a lot of it just Prince having fun. But there could actually be a good movie made from it, but it would require editing and some rewrite and it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun. It'd be one of those 50s Rock Hudson/Doris Day type movies.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Prince should never have been allowed to direct not one but TWO movies Astonishing. Big, bad, evil oppressive Warner bros, letting prince direct films without any experience directing.

Oh Pleeze...WB threw pocket change at these movies, which prolly broke even over time.

mediumdry said:

I kinda agree with their take. It's a bad movie, but brilliant and loads of fun. It has too much in it, with a lot of it just Prince having fun. But there could actually be a good movie made from it, but it would require editing and some rewrite and it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun. It'd be one of those 50s Rock Hudson/Doris Day type movies.

Exactly. P's biggest mistake was taking over the Director's Chair IMO...and that horrible ending.

Too bad the podsters didn't know about Prince's love for this era of old glam b&w Hollywood. Cudda referenced Girl O My Dreams, Condition of the Heart, his Marilyn Monroe crush.

Also, I never saw the Bela Legosi eyes scene as "rapey."

I fail to see the brilliance of UTCM, and think that it was a cheesy, bad movie, always have, always will.

looby said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

looby said:

I fail to see the brilliance of UTCM, and think that it was a cheesy, bad movie, always have, always will.

They agree it was a cheese fest but they also see how many classic film ideas are used...like it was several other kinds of movies in one. How in its own absurd way it works.

Yeah, and as bad as I thought it was, I still own it on DVD, along with his other movies. Although I never watch it, I just had to have it for my Prince collection, because of my love for the man.

eduJ said:

https://www.earwolf.com/s...-get-made/

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Thank you! This was great.