bkw said:

Is that the one where he humps the the floor, licks the mic stand and simulates oral sex?

My rating of the movies:

Purple Rain **** out of ****
Graffiti Bridge * out of ****
Under the Cherry Moon ** out of ****

I have a question about "The Question Of U" video (which I love, by the way). Fairly early in the video, when Prince sings "Must I become naked? No image at all?", the sounds appears to fade out for a brief time. Does this happen on everyone's DVDs or do I have a bad copy?

UTCM is the greatest movie of all time!!!!

i got mine at circuit city....all 3....

i watched UTCM the other night, not expecting it to be all that wonderful.....but it was!!! i especially love the bathtub scene i think the performances are worked better into the storyline in purple rain, however.

anyone find any easter eggs yet??

Haven't found any easter eggs. All I've discovered is a minor mistake - on my GB DVD in the scene selections it lists 'Still Would Stand All Time' as 'Still Would Stand All TimeS'.

TheDeacon said:

I watched Graffiti Bridge last night , i fogot that rosie gaines was in the movie, she look's very thin

who is the Keyboard player ????

it's not so much a movie as a video album .....in the first 30 min. there is like 4 performances .

also the quality of the video's on the DVD are not good, i have better versions on VHS . if you compare the videos with the corresponding scenes in the movie especially round and round , there is a huge quality difference !!




peace
Mark

UncleGrandpa said:

The artist who did that illustration is Olivia De Berardinis, and she does much better stuff that that!

The mural you mention I remember was a cardstock foldout in a Playboy I had back in '86 (okay, y'all just get off my back! What's a 15 year-old boy supposed to do?!?!?!?!?!!!!! ) They had done a whole article on Olivia, and that pic was the centrepiece. It might have been the July issue, I don't know... summertime, definitely.

Oh, and if I recall correctly... the centrefold is fuckin' HAWT!!!!!

undre the cherry moon was the bomb!!!
graftitti ? should'nt have never made it on screen

That reminds me, I gotta get them DVD's. But I'm broke right now.

Maybe next week.

i just picked up UTCM today...
in the theatrical trailer the deleted scenes are in it.hmm.

seeing girls and boys video is a rare treat.

and mountains in color too.

all in all.i'm glad that i got it.

I watched Under the Cherry Moon last night and have to say it's better than Purple Rain in all honesty. I liked it so much that im gonna watch it again tomorrow.
As for GB, it's still in the shrink wrap on my shelf and i dont know if i want to open it after all the negative comments.

Well, since I'm the last post, I'm gonna have my say! I absolutley loved UTCM. I had seen it once a long time ago, but bascially forgot about it. Re-watching it again on dvd, I fell in love with it!!! I love the storyline and the black & white was billiant. GB is a different story. I found it hard to watch. I didn't care about the characters and there was a lot of underlying themes. It was disjointed and boring to watch. PR was awesome. Great movie all around, but the special features make it a must. I really enjoyed the interviews with Wendy & Lisa. The plus to all these dvd's is the videos that come in the special features. No where else can you get these. If your a true Prince fan, you need to pick them up!!

Anxiety said:

WHAT'S THAT? THE LIVE VERSION????? OH...that changes everything. Because ? Of U live version is banging!!

SnowQueen said:

Also, notice on PR DVD that the scene selection has one chapter titled "Like Father, Life Son".

I like this picture. Prince is trying to listen in on Mary & Tricky's conversation.

"Tsk tsk, what a pity, sometimes life can be so shitty..."

solandsky said:

I don't think it was dreadful at all. I enjoyed the music and I enjoyed the overall message. It was like it was some kind of sign at a really difficult time in my life. "It's just around the corner". I can never listen to "Still would stand all time" with dry eyes.

I just watched Grafitti Bridge yesterday and by the end my mouth was just wide open.

I hated it, and did not understand what the fuck the movie was about, i was so confused and lost and never want to see it again.

jayaredee said:

To this day, I cannot understand why Warner Bros. allowed Prince to write and direct this movie - and I cannot understand how Jam and Lewis wound up with a seat on this train wreck. They were the most succesful songwriting/production team in pop at the time - it's not like they needed the paycheck.

Oh boy, I've only popped in the GB DVD and skipped to the videos

observations:

1 - NPG "video"/montage - the Kid's reaction to the angel chick's death is so much funnier than Christopher Tracy's death scnee.
Please, oh please someone get a screen cap of that. it's acting 101 "pretend that you are shocked" crap

hehehehe so funny

2 - Question of U live - amazing performance, but the visuals...oh lord
I like the stripped down concept of the Nude tour, but when he's by himself all alone on that dark stage, he looked like he was running out of ideas!

Ok, great piano intro, cool guitar solo, but there's a 2 second part after his second solo he claps his hand twice and does this gut busting, hand tqirly move that is so Prince-esque!

I dont know if anyone is following me but i replayed it 5 times and pissed myself...no, not true. but its stil funny.

As for his "dancing" he looks like an aspiring dancer working as a part time stripper during the days, bringing class to the raunchy sleazy clientele, like that other bad 80's movie...he's doing these pirouettes, and swings from the pole like a bored 5 year old and then ...oh man, youve all seen it, what was this guy on?! those moves are so laughable.

Last but not least, that hair and beard combo...nuff said

Otherwise, the music was good

ANY EASTER EGGS?

.. I've seen Purple Rain and i have the DVD already but i ain't neva seen GB or UTCM..by the way what the hell is Graftitti Bridge about anyway? i heard it wasn't a good movie and the majority of people say that it was some garbage-but ...was it it like a comedy, drama, romace or what?

Check out these reviews from dvdverdict.com for the movies; the reviewer is a big Prince fan himself and has some interesting insights about the movies:

http://www.dvdverdict.com...rymoon.php

http://www.dvdverdict.com...iti+bridge

Wow. I've finally seen UTCM, after 20 years as a Prince fan, whose favorite album was and still is Parade. And all I've got to say is: Terribly enjoyable Fellini ripoff in the first half, painfully unwatchtable Joan Crawford ripoff in the second.

At least GB has some musical performances in it...

slm4m said:

Really then why does Purple Rain sound like a normal dvd. The other 2 I have to turn up 20 DB to even get it to the same level of sound. Yes I have a sound meter to prove it. Regular video my ass. The sound on the two just suck compared to most dvds.

I am thinking about getting the region 2 version, it has dolby digital 5.1. Doesn't get released until october though. I got graffiti bridge with the dolby digital stereo but haven't watched it yet to judge the sound.

Got them both recently and have to say I love Under the Cherry Moon. I'm glad he waited to do any sort of sequel to Purple Rain, and this to me is the perfect way to stretch and challenge things.

Is it a perfect movie? No. Is it enjoyable? Hell yes. It's well written (which explains the next one we're going to.) well acted, and it just simply looks great. The DVD sounds quite good, still wish it 5.1 (that's only on Purple Rain for those interested) but it sounds good for what it is-the videos are another welcome bonus that show their age a little quality wise but are definitely a positive edition to the package. I love this film. I do, it's just so not what you'd expect him to do after having such success. I'm glad he did it, and I wish he'd do another movie and take chances, but maybe not so much like the next one.

Graffiti Bridge. This one is alright, just could've been so much better. Prince is a great director-look at UTCM for proof. He's a much better director when its someone else's material. I'm all supporting when it comes to his music abilities, but when it comes to a script he needs some help.

It's too scattered in being ethereal and not enough in being an actual film. It's really an hour and a half extended concept music video film that link with dialogue. Even the theatrical trailer doesn't really give you much of an idea on what this is-I doubt Warner Bros. knew.

Morris seems to be going through the motions on this one-he has moments, but it could've been more with them battling at the end instead of the ending it has. I still like it, I just wish someone had been more involved in script writing/editing with Prince.

The DVD has good sound (still wish 5.1), and the videos. The Question of U is a song I still love and the live video is great-the solo alone for me is worth the price of the DVD. Thieves in the Temple seems like it's Prince in a Michael Jackson video. Just didn't seem right. The other videos are great as well. I'm the guy that loves New Power Generation and Round and Round, btw. Worth a look if just to make your own decision.

Great film, good film-go check 'em out.

That's all the time we have-this is subby, and the balcony is closed.