Xanadu! A place where nobody dared to go!

you and Ned should have a picnic at Susan Sontag's grave.

Loving Xanadu = bad taste(lessness).
Loving screwball = arid, stuffy taste.

I know which side I'm on.

Maybe one reason I love Can't Stop the Music in particular is because it so successfully fucks up screwball conventions and reveals them for the lameness they are.

Boy that's for sure. And some of those lines are just great insanity.

"You ROTTEN pussy!"

"arid," hehe...I'll take your word for it, Babyface.

http://www.stephenrahn.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/catfight.jpg

Those aforementioned thighs.

A glimpse or two of the thighs in motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHQHd2jdlo

original trailer.

i know virtually nothing about it but this film looks appaling.

onj at her purrtiest

She was lovely.

Okay, any film from 1980 that had ONJ and ELO and those ribbon barrettes and roller skates/legwarmers and Greek myths and Gene Kelly (did they pay him shitloads to be in this???), was to 12-year-old me, JUST FINE. Mostly because I liked or had ALL of those things.

I'm sorry, but I can't say anything bad about this film.

Although deep down I know it must be a cringingly awful rubfest, I have not seen it since I was seven so I am going to keep on believing it is classic and wonderful

I have watched it again since I last posted to this thread, and I still cannot find fault with it. Classic and wonderful.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:JJCmidZEb886kM:http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2008-03-16/caratulaabjpggt9_405_orig.jpg

Watching it again, it was even more apparent to me that Xanadu is maybe not a good movie done badly but a bad movie done well? Or maybe vice versa. I'm not sure. This movie stands well apart from most of the other camp touchstones. I was laughing at it pretty rarely.

This movie came out when I was 8 and, being as impressed by white boot rollerskates and neon as any 8 year old in 1980, I downright worshipped this movie. I got the cassette soundtrack of Xanadu that Xmas. I left it in the back window of our car with my other tapes while we were visiting extended family on Xmas day. Of course, Xmas day in AUS is stupidly hot and when I came back to the car I spotted my tapes all melted in the back window. I almost started crying until I looked closer and saw that Xanadu was the only tape, in a pile of crumped plastic and tape ribbon, that was in no way melted. MAGICAL!!

sunny's story is so amazing!

I just saw this movie for the first time...it's a shame Ms. Newton John has forgotten how to glow since then. Maybe she used up all her neon-emitting powers during its filming.

The touring version of the musical is appearing near where I live in a few weeks. I'm tempted.

i had the soundtrack album to this - i think i was 5 or 6 when it came out. now i kinda want to listen to it again, but it might be at my parents house, in which case i should remember to bring it back w/me on Thursday.

sunny's story is indeed awesome.

Every time a Xanadu-thread rises to the top of New Answers, it makes me smile.

(And a little sad, I guess, for lost youth. I said it before, but Olivia Newton John was lovely.)

The soundtrack is so, so good.

Most of it is ELO, right?

Half-ELO, half-ONJ.

ELONJ

lol

With appearances by the Tubes and...

...and:

Cliff Richard! :O

I'm Alive was my jam when I was 6 years old.

the guy who directed this much later directed all those lefty documentaries like "outfoxed". weird.

Cliff Richard and ONJ did this big, syrup-y ballad on the disc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcUVa2CWDnk

Makes me happy and sad at the same time.

I was surprised by all those songs in the super-long montage at the end that ONJ sings that didn't end up on the soundtrack, esp. the one where all the muses are in tiger-stripe pantsuits & there are a great many close-ups of wiggling Olivia Newton Buns.

The title track is a geeky miracle imo.

sdtrk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>movie

Oh, yeah. Reasonable minds can disagree and all, but I can't imagine anyone prefers the movie.

Ned, as a fan of the movie, I don't recommend the musical. At all. They took everything that's charming and kitschy about the movie and ruined it with lowest-common-denominator attempts at humor. Ex: The muses act as a Greek chorus, spouting such hilarious lines as "Oh no she di'nt!"

Oh no they di'nt!

Eric, if you come to NY this year I will try to use my B'way connex to get us tix to Cheyenne Jackson in Finian's Rainbow.

hi dere

This thread seems to foreshadow the legendary FT April Fool's lawsuit without actually mentioning it.

OK, now that I know who's who I have to say sorry, dudes, but I won't be joining you but instead will be going across town to see whatever Kerry Butler is in.

Oh wait, that suit was a month BEFORE April Fool's. Freaky Trigger served with cease and desist order

That order.

In the end, it was Xanadu! that killed ILX.

http://www.vintagesnowdomes.com/themes/layout-1-both/images/kaneSnowGlobe.jpg

Can you use your connections to get me backstage?

You two better watch it, you're turning into the Sunshine Boys In The Band.

God. Dammit.

Sorry.

I don't think you appreciate the depths of my hatred toward that movie.

No, I don't. I've never even seen it. All I remember is the following bit of business from The Odd Couple. Felix is trying to teach Oscar some kind of Eastern European line-dancing steps, holds up his fingers, snaps them, moves his foot and says:

Felix: I saw it in Zorba The Greek.
Oscar: And I saw it in The Boys In The Band!

Haha, I meant The Sunshine Boys.

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2008/Sunshine2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEs1po--gk

so foxy around 0:20