I just wanted to get this off my chest...So I got the bluray editions of PR,UTCM and GB a couple of months ago and I put in UTCM and start watching just to check out the quality.I didn't plan on watching the whole movie but I got caught up in it and I was having fun reciting my favorite lines with the movie,laughing and pretty much enjoying the movie then I get to the part towards the end where they're at the boats and like an involuntary action my finger just hit stop on the remote.I realized I was unable to watch the rest of the movie.

Now I am a 41 almost 42 yr.old grown ass man and I couldn't bare to watch Prince die even if it was just a movie.It's even hard for me to write the words "Prince die"...so I'm just wondering is it just me or does anyone else have a hard time watching the ending to UTCM?

dbpdexter said:

I just wanted to get this off my chest...So I got the bluray editions of PR,UTCM and GB a couple of months ago and I put in UTCM and start watching just to check out the quality.I didn't plan on watching the whole movie but I got caught up in it and I was having fun reciting my favorite lines with the movie,laughing and pretty much enjoying the movie then I get to the part towards the end where they're at the boats and like an involuntary action my finger just hit stop on the remote.I realized I was unable to watch the rest of the movie.

Now I am a 41 almost 42 yr.old grown ass man and I couldn't bare to watch Prince die even if it was just a movie.It's even hard for me to write the words "Prince die"...so I'm just wondering is it just me or does anyone else have a hard time watching the ending to UTCM?

Probably. I haven't watched it since I saw it two Christmases ago with my son who had never seen it before. We laughed at the death scene. I certainly wouldn't now...

I'm a 49-year-old dude, and it doesn't bother me. It's so corny and hokey, I can't take it seriously, or even equate it with real life like that. It's just 27-year-old Prince being Prince.

Well, I'm a 55 yr old female and that scene never bothered me in all the gazillions of times watching it...until 4/21...now I fast forward through it.

Maybe one day I'll be able to watch it again...but not now...not yet.

TrivialPursuit said:

I dislike the ending but not because of any connection to Prince's real death. NOt even because of the acting--Prince's death scene may be OTT but Jerome's crying scene is ridiculously bad. I dislike it because it ruined the tone of the movie.

I have a feeling that if the movie had a happy ending, the film wouldn't have been as criticized at the time--it would have been seen as just the light-hearted entertainment it mostly was. The death scene seemed to strip the film of all of its tongue-in-cheek humor. Bad move on Prince's part considering the ending he was originally forced to do was not sad.

Doozer said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I'm a 49-year-old dude, and it doesn't bother me. It's so corny and hokey, I can't take it seriously, or even equate it with real life like that. It's just 27-year-old Prince being Prince.

I was definitely being kind when I called it "slightly over the top."

Yes, you were! haha

My mother died on April 21, 2012, so Prince is taking a far distance 2nd place in all the April hubbub melodrama anyway.

"He's just a baby!"

I made the mistake of watching this a week after Prince transitioned & I got chills hearing Tricky say "he's just a baby... not him, not now!" because thats exactly how I was feeling.

i started to watch it a few days after and i did not finish it for that reasnon

Doozer said:

Well, I'm another 42 year old dude. Prince's tragic real-life death doesn't connect to his slightly over-the-top acting when he's shot in UTCM for me. It is much harder to listen to Sometimes It Snows In April for me than it is to watch the ending of the film.

Ditto. SISIA is nuclear accident zone for the moment. I stay away from it.

But, UTCM, on the contrary, I would smile. It's the perfect way to show death the finger.
That pirouette he does, I'd laugh, maybe a tear would roll, but in the end he would make me smile.
We have to thank him for that. He kept it a comedy all the way.
We had fun, didn't we.

bonatoc said:

Doozer said:

Well, I'm another 42 year old dude. Prince's tragic real-life death doesn't connect to his slightly over-the-top acting when he's shot in UTCM for me. It is much harder to listen to Sometimes It Snows In April for me than it is to watch the ending of the film.

Ditto. SISIA is nuclear accident zone for the moment. I stay away from it.

But, UTCM, on the contrary, I would smile. It's the perfect way to show death the finger.
That pirouette he does, I'd laugh, maybe a tear would roll, but in the end he would make me smile.
We have to thank him for that. He kept it a comedy all the way.
We had fun, didn't we.

pleeze ..with that chocolatly blood dripping...its a laugh