UTCM is Gone with the Wind compared to Graffiti Bridge. The high-school quality sets, cheesey dialogue...it never had a chance. Sure, parts of UTCM are cheesey and campy, but it also didn't take itself nearly as seriously as Graffiti Bridge did.

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This movie suuuuuuuuuucks!

UTCM is a beautiful movie to watch, if you just put aside some expectations. The production values are high, the B&W is stunning, and of course the Parade music is great. And, even though you've put aside some acting/story expectations, I challenge you not to enjoy watching it.

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GB somewhat fails on all those accounts. Sure, the music is great (at least the Prince songs) but they can't save the movie. If this were to ever see a Blu-Ray release, it would be great to watch a version sans-storyline (just videos).

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I love Under The Cherry Moon as well....

Funny and stylish...

I saw the movie in a theater in Copenhagen back in 1986... very nice...

Graffiti Bridge on the other hand.. this isn't more than a bunch of good music videos, with a very strange dialogue..

I have no idea about what the "plot" is about something about ownership and angels..

Doozer said:

train23 said:

What year was UTC supposed to be set in? I'm sure they didn't have boomboxes

The movie starts out with the French kids boasting about cable TV, so the boombox was obviously released before cable TV was. I think it's not really a "specific" time.

KingSausage said:

Months before UTCM was released,I was reading reports that it would be set in the 40s...lol...but,like someone said,they didn't have boomboxes in the 40s.The movie was set in the present day (1986),it was just inspired by those old,black and white movies from the 40s.

Doozer said:

UTCM is Gone with the Wind compared to Graffiti Bridge. The high-school quality sets, cheesey dialogue...it never had a chance. Sure, parts of UTCM are cheesey and campy, but it also didn't take itself nearly as seriously as Graffiti Bridge did.

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This movie suuuuuuuuuucks!

^^that pic is hilarious

In that scene,The Kid thinks he can beat The Time......really??!! With that ridiculous performance?! LMAO...just one of the many 'wtf' scenes in that movie

I was just going through DVDs this weekend and found my DVD of GB from 10 years ago. I don't believe I ever played the DVD, but I bought it when the other re-issues came out after 2004.

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I mentioned to my wife that I would not force her to watch it, and that I don't even watch it as a devoted fan.

KingSausage said:

Under the Cherry Moon takes place sometime after 1941. Tricky says "Cuz it's a full moon and I'm a werewolf, bitch!" People first associated werewolves and full moons after 1941's classic The Wolf Man. The screenwriter Curt Siodmak invented that shit. Look it up. So unless we accept that UTCM takes place in an alternate universe with no Wolf Man OR in which Tricky and not legendary Hollywood screenwriter Curt Siodmak creates the werewolf full moon link, then it must be after 1941. Evidence, muthafuckas.

Talk about evidence, what about the Shelia E Sister Fate 12" vinyl seen in Christopher and Tricky's room? The movie must be set in 1985.

Seriously, I think it was intended to have a classic 1930s/40s film "feel", not actually set during that era.

"Planet Rock, U just can't stop!"

SoulAlive said:

Months before UTCM was released,I was reading reports that it would be set in the 40s...lol...but,like someone said,they didn't have boomboxes in the 40s.The movie was set in the present day (1986),it was just inspired by those old,black and white movies from the 40s.

Under the Cherry moon was set in 1986, South of France.

It paid homage to old Hollywood snuff movies

Hence Prince getting his acting career slowly tortured throughout until at the end they just snuff him and his career acting out

UTCM is awesome! Prince's BEST movie (I said it).

GB is a bad movie, but, it doesn't suck because it's HILARIOUS! Morris & Jerome steal the show, it's worth watching just for them (and the music, of course).

With a DVD & a remote control you can watch just their scenes. It's a much shorter (better) flick this way and will leave you wondering if they didn't miss their calling as a comedy team.

In my not-so-humble opinion...

^^Morris and Jerome are always fun to watch.They were hilarious in Purple Rain,too.I'm surprised that someone didn't come up with the idea of a TV show for them.....a sitcom.

Personally, I think UTCM doesn´t suck at all. I find it a very enjoyable watch, although I must say it is not a film I´d recommend to or watch with a non-fan. I gave my VHS tape to one of my teachers at uni whose girlfriend happened to be a huge Prince fan, and while she enjoyed watching it, he did not like it at all. The expression in his face when he returned the tape was priceless. He said that watching Prince being in love with himself for the duration of a whole movie was just unbeareable, and that it is one of the most narcicisstic films he´d ever seen.

But I still like it. Wish it had more scenes with Prince playing the piano.

SoulAlive said:

^^Morris and Jerome are always fun to watch.They were hilarious in Purple Rain,too.I'm surprised that someone didn't come up with the idea of a TV show for them.....a sitcom.

Would have been better than New Attitude, for sure:

http://www.imdb.com/title...flmg_act_9

I have shown UTCM to several non-Prince fans, and every one of them has liked it better than Purple Rain. Me? I loved it from the first viewing.

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Grafitti Bridge? I try to pretend it doesnt exist. To be honest, I knew the movie would suck when I bought the soundtrack in the summer of 1990. I still went to the theater on opening night, and walked out embarrassed to be a fan.

UncleJam said:

I have shown UTCM to several non-Prince fans, and every one of them has liked it better than Purple Rain. Me? I loved it from the first viewing.

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Grafitti Bridge? I try to pretend it doesnt exist. To be honest, I knew the movie would suck when I bought the soundtrack in the summer of 1990. I still went to the theater on opening night, and walked out embarrassed to be a fan.

A lot of people say they've done this. I've never walked out of a theatre half way through a movie.

Mind you, theatres are bloody expensive these days, I want my full film at £8 a crack

djThunderfunk said:

SoulAlive said:

^^Morris and Jerome are always fun to watch.They were hilarious in Purple Rain,too.I'm surprised that someone didn't come up with the idea of a TV show for them.....a sitcom.

Would have been better than New Attitude, for sure:

http://www.imdb.com/title...flmg_act_9

I remember that show it wasn't very good.

Angelsoncrack said:

UncleJam said:

I have shown UTCM to several non-Prince fans, and every one of them has liked it better than Purple Rain. Me? I loved it from the first viewing.

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Grafitti Bridge? I try to pretend it doesnt exist. To be honest, I knew the movie would suck when I bought the soundtrack in the summer of 1990. I still went to the theater on opening night, and walked out embarrassed to be a fan.

A lot of people say they've done this. I've never walked out of a theatre half way through a movie.

Mind you, theatres are bloody expensive these days, I want my full film at £8 a crack

Had I watched Graffiti Bridge in the cinema, I would have watched the whole thing, but cringing hard through several scenes. Especially when Melody Cool comes on....aaargh I can still feel it..

Only time I out of a film was 'The Wicker Man' remake when Nicholas Cage comandeered a nun's bicycle by punching her in the face