Boy that's for sure. And some of those lines are just great insanity.
"You ROTTEN pussy!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
A glimpse or two of the thighs in motion.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHQHd2jdlo
original trailer.
i know virtually nothing about it but this film looks appaling.
― pisces, Saturday, 22 March 2008 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
onj at her purrtiest
― gershy, Saturday, 22 March 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
She was lovely.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 22 March 2008 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― suzy, Saturday, 22 March 2008 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Nicole, Monday, 24 March 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:JJCmidZEb886kM:http://pixhost.eu/avaxhome/avaxhome/2008-03-16/caratulaabjpggt9_405_orig.jpg
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Eric H., Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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 successor, Sunday, 29 June 2008 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
The touring version of the musical is appearing near where I live in a few weeks. I'm tempted.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sarahel, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
The soundtrack is so, so good.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Most of it is ELO, right?
― sarahel, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Half-ELO, half-ONJ.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ELONJ
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
With appearances by the Tubes and...
...and:
Cliff Richard! :O
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm Alive was my jam when I was 6 years old.
― sarahel, Monday, 23 November 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
the guy who directed this much later directed all those lefty documentaries like "outfoxed". weird.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The title track is a geeky miracle imo.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
sdtrk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>movie
― the butt is like a wailin' guitar solo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 November 2009 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, yeah. Reasonable minds can disagree and all, but I can't imagine anyone prefers the movie.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 23 November 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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!"
― lindseykai, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh no they di'nt!
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hi dere
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread seems to foreshadow the legendary FT April Fool's lawsuit without actually mentioning it.
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh wait, that suit was a month BEFORE April Fool's. Freaky Trigger served with cease and desist order
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
That order.
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
In the end, it was Xanadu! that killed ILX.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.vintagesnowdomes.com/themes/layout-1-both/images/kaneSnowGlobe.jpg
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Can you use your connections to get me backstage?
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
You two better watch it, you're turning into the Sunshine Boys In The Band.
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
God. Dammit.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry.
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think you appreciate the depths of my hatred toward that movie.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― tipsi power (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, I meant The Sunshine Boys.
― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2008/Sunshine2.jpg
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEs1po--gk
so foxy around 0:20
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I am listening to the Broadway Cast Recording of this and this 'Cheyenne Jackson' is no ONJ.</3
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Also defs did not need an "aren't we hilarious???" version of "Evil Woman," but I got one anyway.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
the broadway musical is fun, in a 'this is an easy target we're slaughtering but still enjoy the ride' kinda way.
― yelawolfenstein (San Te), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link