I saw the 3 movies at the Cinémathèque suisse (Switzerland’s film archive) in 2016. Watching them in an actual movie theater with other people was a fun experience. But it also made the fact that they're bad movies quite explicit.

olb99 said:

I saw the 3 movies at the Cinémathèque suisse (Switzerland’s film archive) in 2016. Watching them in an actual movie theater with other people was a fun experience. But it also made the fact that they're bad movies quite explicit.

I’d be outright embarrassed watching Graffiti Bridge in public Of the four, I’d take friends to see SOTT – that’s a bone-fide masterpiece in my opinion and I've never actually seen it on the big screen. The Prince Charles is a really interesting little cinema from what I remember - I saw Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep there years ago. I notice that they're showing Tommy Wiseau's The Room in June, so at least Graffiti Bridge will not be the worst film screened there this year!

fen said:

olb99 said:

I saw the 3 movies at the Cinémathèque suisse (Switzerland’s film archive) in 2016. Watching them in an actual movie theater with other people was a fun experience. But it also made the fact that they're bad movies quite explicit.

I’d be outright embarrassed watching Graffiti Bridge in public Of the four, I’d take friends to see SOTT – that’s a bone-fide masterpiece in my opinion and I've never actually seen it on the big screen. The Prince Charles is a really interesting little cinema from what I remember - I saw Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep there years ago. I notice that they're showing Tommy Wiseau's The Room in June, so at least Graffiti Bridge will not be the worst film screened there this year!

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I was. I mean, I love the music and even the album, but the movie is just awful.

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I saw the remastered SOTT movie in a cinema in 2017 (it was shown simultaneously at 100-200 locations across Europe, IIRC). That was a great experience. Some people were even dancing.

why are they even showin graffiti bridge is what i want to know, without some sort of warning about its contents?

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

why are they even showin graffiti bridge is what i want to know, without some sort of warning about its contents?

It would be stranger if they didn't I suppose, since it was a proper cinema release.

olb99 said:

fen said:

I’d be outright embarrassed watching Graffiti Bridge in public Of the four, I’d take friends to see SOTT – that’s a bone-fide masterpiece in my opinion and I've never actually seen it on the big screen. The Prince Charles is a really interesting little cinema from what I remember - I saw Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep there years ago. I notice that they're showing Tommy Wiseau's The Room in June, so at least Graffiti Bridge will not be the worst film screened there this year!

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I was. I mean, I love the music and even the album, but the movie is just awful.

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I saw the remastered SOTT movie in a cinema in 2017 (it was shown simultaneously at 100-200 locations across Europe, IIRC). That was a great experience. Some people were even dancing.

Yeah, but the music isn't strong enough carry the film in the way that it does in Purple Rain for me. PR is pretty questionable in many ways, but the performances just about rescue it. That said, I actually think that Prince showed a glimmer of promise in PR and that things may have been different if he had given himself over to proper direction and collaboration in subsequent films. I don't think that Bowie was a great actor really, but his roles work because he was able to recognise his limits and trust the genius of others. SOTT is Prince focusing on his strengths, and its brilliant.

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As a student in London in the early 90s. I went to the Prince Charles Cinema at least once a year to watch the Rocky Horror Picture show - always so much fun, wild and outragous. I think they showed it on a weekly or monthly basis, can't quite remember.. And there were always audience members having a "new" script, having a dialogue with the story teller in the movie

And I am glad to see it is still on - now apparently in a sing-along-version.

Wouldn't that be cool for Purple Rain - a weekly showing, and peple dressed up and talking along in the film...

Gee, just looked at the UTCM trailer - I never bothered to see that movie - and gee, even the trailer made me feel crinky

https://youtu.be/IwkqXsWPY1k

I seem to recall that the movie got a Rotten Tomatoe award...

Pretty sure we ended up doing a conga around the cinema towards the end of Purple Rain when they screen about 9 years ago. They had purple cocktails too.

theyre showing SOTT now too.

I don't care that UTCM + Graffiti Bridge are not the greatest. I'd pay just for the cinematic experience and the music! I don't go to the movies a lot anymore because of COVID... I just wait for films to be released on Netflix or VOD. I would be ecstatic to see these + Purple Rain + SOTT in a theater. Especially SOTT.