KingSausage said:

Unless I'm mistaken (and I often am) today is the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release of Graffiti Bridge. How will you celebrate? Eating hot peppers? Pissing on plants? Running people over?

WEIRD! I did not know this, but, reading about the era in Matt Thorne's book, I was in the mood, and...

I'm watching it right now!! Robin Power's doing that #1 song right now...

By watching something else.

Cricket is getting on my last nerve.

"Baby don't spit me out."

got this info from Wikipedia:

The film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Prince), Worst Director (Prince), Worst Screenplay (Prince), and Worst New Star (Ingrid Chavez).

Despite media hype of it being the sequel to the massively successful Purple Rain, it was a commercial and critical failure and was included on several Worst-of-1990 movie lists.

The title "Graffiti Bridge" comes from a now torn-down bridge located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The bridge was torn down in the early 1990s to make way for new construction,^[4] but to this day remains a local legend.

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Making faces and not acting is not what we need Skipper.

Celebrating by pretending Prince never made that awful movie.

underrated album...the novie is not nearly as bad as people say, either

No, it is bad. Even the music videos are bad.

MST3K needs to return.

How will I celebrate? By asking Prince to refund my fi' dollas (again).

I am celebrating because it is 25 years ago today since I watched that monstrosity of a movie. Fucking embarrassing to watch, even when you're on your own, let alone when watching it with other people around!

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KingSausage said:

Unless I'm mistaken (and I often am) today is the 25th anniversary of the theatrical release of Graffiti Bridge. How will you celebrate? Eating hot peppers? Pissing on plants? Running people over?

We're gonna change the world, the only thing that's in our way is you.



Yeah, that's some ridiculous lyrics.
Skipper was in some serious nervous breakdown at the time.

Not much to celebrate, I guess.

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The elephants and flowers gif, if someone has it.

RJOrion said:

the movie is not nearly as bad as people say, either

Yes,it is

SoulAlive said:

RJOrion said:

the movie is not nearly as bad as people say, either

Yes,it is

I am afraid it is even worse than people say.

I watched it with my bf for the 9877856564th time the other day and we did our usual piss take commentartary. I fucking love this movie.

[edit] And of course how could I forget the classic line....

https://instagram.com/p/9...kyelectric

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Well GB is such a bad movie indeed,

However the music is fantastic (the Prince songs at least).....

thedance said:

Well GB is such a bad movie indeed,

However the music is fantastic (the Prince songs at least).....

I agree with you barring "Tick Tick Bang", bad as the movie and to me strongly in the league of the worst tracks ever released by P.

The other P songs with maybe "God Is Alive" and "The Grand Progression" added and a better sequence and no segues would have made a classic P album.

INGRID WAS THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO PRINCE

It's people around Skipper we have to blame.

A movie is something storyboarded, planned and pre-produced.

There must have been a hundred opportunities to speak about the disaster this was.
It was a train wreck happening before their eyes.

And yet, everyone kept his mouth shut. What a bunch of pussies.

Skipper acted a like a whore afterwards.

Heck, GB was prostitution as well. It's Lovesexy disguised as Purple Rain,
it's an attempt to sell vague spirituality concepts, whereas "Hold on 2 your soul"

was a genuine message.
Or maybe it was a multi-million dollar self-analysis,
with Morris playing the evil / greedy / addicted-to-celebrity side of Skipper,

and Skipper hoping to turn out as a saint,
in short a rich man's whining no one cared about.

GB does not work because it's not honest.
GB does not work because it screams that Skipper has no respect whatsoever for the audience.
Nobody digs his movie, except for himself.
He just likes to look at his own reflection in the monitors, that MoFo Paula Abdul clone.
With a stupid smile, that dumb extatic expression he wears all along.

After the failed attempt of bringing his "Love Is God" thematic to the american table,
Here's Skipper doing threesome with Diamonds and Pearls (the suggestive shots in "Cream" and "Gett Off"), riding the Rap trend like your average opportunist, leaking hundred millions contract rumours in the press.

New Power Generation? We want to "change the world"?

Bleah, and boo.

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starkitty said:

INGRID WAS THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO PRINCE

Her album was one of the best Paisley Park releases, so no

bonatoc said:

After the failed attempt of bringing his "Love Is God" thematic to the american table,
Here's Skipper doing threesome with Diamonds and Pearls (the suggestive shots in "Cream" and "Gett Off"), riding the Rap trend like your average opportunist, leaking hundred millions contract rumours in the press.

I agree with this, as much as I adore Diamonds and Pearls and his other '90s albums it kind of feels quite sad to see him doing his own thing to the next year kind of following the crowd. Not that parts of GB weren't typical of the time, because they were. Especially the movie, it stinks of early '90s. But it felt more original because it was Prince and because he brought the whole spiritual side to it.

Admittedly I much more prefer the persona of Prince as The Kid presented in Graffiti Bridge (spiritual kinda guy) to his more 'Morris Day' persona. He did once say that The Kid and Morris actually represented two sides of himself.