NouveauDance said:

FruitToAttractBears said:

It may not be a cinematic masterpiece, but I have seen much worse. As for the storyline it may be a bit corny but it is sweet too.

DanceWme said:

Y thank u! That's a compliment,2 me!

So DaveDare 79, how did you like it?????

sexxydancer said:

sexxydancer you make me feel so normal in my Prince obsession!

Seriously, I purchased GB a few months back and I just could not get into it - the story had too much going on, the dark sets, Ingrid as a lead was not doing it for me, the acting was poor as well. However, Prince looked sooooo yummy in that movie. I watched the E&F and Tick Tick Bang performances over and over again. And there is one scene where he is walking with Ingrid after ridig the motorcyle and the wind blows his hair- whew, save me!

GB actually had some great music. I absolutely love some of the songs from it.

My favs were:

NPG
The Question of U
Joy in Repetition
We Can Funk
Tick Tick Bang
Thieves (such a tease though, the remix just set it off!!)
Can't Stop
E&F

These are all awesome songs to me.

Of all Prince films, i don't think u can beat UTCM.

sexxydancer said:

ur welcome !

FruitToAttractBears said:

Worst than Joh Travolta in battlefield Earth? That's the worst movie of all time.

It is like one big long video.

You still gotta love it though~lol

Graycap23 said:

I just did a thread in GD for worst movie..and believe me..battlefield earth doesnt come close to worst compared to the ring..lol.

DaveDare79 said:

is you're report comming or am i checking back for nothing?

DanceWme said:

ha... what about that stupid flick Napoleon Dynamite?

Graycap23 said:

that was really stupid..im sooooo glad i didnt go see that in the movies..lol

i think dave got stunned by gb's suckiness and has been scarred for life, therefore he hasn't shared his thoughts on the movie yet.










seriously man, how'd you like it? we're all dying to know here! :bitingmyfingernails:






still kicking myself in the ass for actually making myself watch the movie when i first saw it edit
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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

He may have cancelled his account

NDRU said:

that'd be one helluva reaction..."oh. my. god. i cannot BELIEVE he actually [i]did that...i--i quit. it's just too much. i'm leaving the org and selling all my prince stuff, tout suite!"

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

We are all taking kind of a sick pleasure in reading "I'm so excited to watch the sequel to Purple Rain."

It's like hazing and we've all paid our dues already.

NDRU said:

agreed

I think there are at least ten things about Graffiti Bridge that are good.

I just saw Graffiti Bridge for the first time last month. It is really just like one long music video. It makes PR and UTCM look like Oscar contenders.

BoySimon said:

name all ten things!

SoulAlive said:

... and they can't all be Prince
Ten different things!

1. Release It
2. Jill Jones - sorry, sexist, but, she's dreamy.
3. Getting Miko to deliver the line, "She's three fine". That's genius.
4. The 'duelling money'.
5. Elephants and Flowers - wonderful Adam Ant retro thang goin' on.
6. Prince's delivery of the "She's two fine" line that prompts Mikos response.
7. Jerome playing a Gameboy while Prince sings Tick Tick Bang. Funny.
8. Tick Tick Bang. I LOVE!
9. Joy in Repetition.
10. (and the only actual good thing to come out of GB) Claude Debussy's "Danse Sacree, Danse Profane". The most moving music. Fooled me at the time. I sat there and thought, "Wow, Prince writes classical stuff too!". Nope. It was Debussy. It IS superb.

BoySimon said:

what about T.C. Ellis and his Oscar-worthy performance?

"I told you,kid,you should have let me rap!"


and who can forget Ingrid Chavez's beautifully spoken lines....

"It's just around the corner"


this movie is a big turd

SoulAlive said:

naw...this movie is Poop Mountain.

Guys, sorry for the belated response! I only just got around to watching it this afternoon.

Okay, you guys were right - this was shockingly bad

I was like WTF! throughout the opening scenes, and then most of the film, and then one major WTF (!!) when the end credits rolled up.

The best way to describe it, I think, is if you take the little acting/story segments from the "Sign O' The Times" concert movie, and made them into a film. I always found those segments from SOTT concert movie really baffling and incomprehensible. Well, Graffiti Bridge just felt like 90 minutes of that.

It was a *very* different experience to when I first saw Purple Rain. In PR, my jaw dropped literally at the musical performances of songs like Darling Nikki, Computer Blue, Let's Go Crazy, I Would Die 4 U. He's so kinetic and plays guitar and piano etc. In GB he's so much more static, and I wasn't all that impressed with any of the musical performances. Even The Time - I've seen much more exciting performances by them in concert footage etc. The lip synching was pretty poor too, especially on Still Would Stand All Time at the end (maybe it was a DVD technical fault?)

I guess there were some things I kinda enjoyed:

- Prince's performance of Thieves in the Temple - that bit that sounded slightly stuttered/remixed was cool.
- Prince's performance of Elephants and Flowers.
- Morris Day's dialogue ("You betta put some treble on that tone Grace or you gonna be pullin' some Stacey Adams outta yo' ass!")
- backing music in some club scenes was from The Time's excellent "Pandemonium" LP (songs like 'Jerk Out').

I also didn't like the fact that this is supposed to be the sequel to Purple Rain. It's not how I pictured the Kid's life turning out when the PR credits rolled up at the end. I don't think I want to associate it with PR in my mind! Purple Rain was set in a real city, a real world, and at least it had a stab at making some sort of statement. This was some sort of surreal neon fake world that just looked like, well, a set. Like the SOTT bits I mentioned before.

Although UTCM gets some stick for not having *enough* musical scenes, at least it integrates it well into the film's story (GIRLS AND BOYS bit is AWESOME!!), whereas GB feels like a long music video. Maybe if Prince had got some outside help from actual film-makers who know how to do this stuff (like PR, and I hear he did it with UTCM too).

The Melody Cool and the Tevin Cambpbell bits were pretty embarrassing now. That's the other interesting thing - just how early 90s now looks more cringeworthy than the 80s stuff. I think PR looks kinda cool and kitsch nowadays, whereas this just looks pretty lame.

Oh well, my Under The Cherry Moon DVD arrived today - I just bought it. Now that movie, I can watch LOADS! I love it. I prefer Prince's playful/flirtatious "Christopher Tracy" persona to his brooding "The Kid" persona anyways.

So now GB is officially my least favourite Prince album and least favourite Prince movie (I guess I reckon it's his nadir!)

ah! so you did live to tell yer tale, dave...your reaction to the movie was the same as mine when i first watched gb. it left me feeling like "what was THAT?!" i've grown to at least like the movie, because it's just so train-wreckish.

BoySimon said:

Great - thanx for that. That's one thing I really LIKED in the movie - Claude Debussy's "Danse Sacree, Danse Profane". I'll have to get hold of it!

SoulAlive said:

1. The Lighting Was Expressive, almost to the extent of a painter painting with light.

2. The stage settings and props were imaginitive and relivant.

3. The distractable items were minimalist.

4. The Costumes were Dramatic and relivant to the charactors.

5. The Graffiti Bridge ( a gateway within the mind of prince to the underdefined heavnly land, built with the steping stones of life, and know as a hidding place for reflection.)

One may say he's hidding at the Graffiti Bridge right now.

BoySimon said:

Correction,...I believe it was actually Jimmy Jam that was playing the Gameboy during the song! I'm going by memory because I've made a complete recovery and don't want to blow it by watching the movie again!