Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 6 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 7 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Not surprised to see LL Cool J win this so handily, but very surprised to see Roy Orbison poll so low.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Sunday, 7 March 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
About this soundtrack....
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
This soundtrack is great, the movie... not so much. I'd never seen it before last night. I like Spader and some of the locations are gorgeous though. Maybe it's just the nearly four decades of rich kids descending into addiction films since, but every single beat played out exactly like you knew it would. Interesting to read that there was apparently a lot of studio meddling to make it "less decadent", maybe there was a better film in there somewhere.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
There is. The novel's trash, but its ersatz Didion-esque approach was too much at the time, therefore the Cautionary Tale approach.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
film is bad yep but still worth watching for peerless 80s aesthetics and really beautiful score by thomas newman
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 23 December 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
It has a scene where Robert Downey Jr breaks into his dad's mansion's mirrored weight room to steal Robert Palmer's Riptide so he can get cocaine by selling it, what more does one want out of a movie.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
Watch Bright Lights, Big City and you'll want to apologize to Less Than Zero
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 24 December 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
Tho I think BL, BC's soundtrack exposed me to New Order
The BLBC soundtrack album was pretty great. M/A/R/R/S, Donald Fagen, Konk, Depeche Mode, New Order...as a 15-year-old I was mesmerized.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 24 December 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
I won't waste energy defending it, but I actually like Bright Lights--seen it two or three times. Mostly I like a few of the performances: Fox, Frances Sternhagen and John Houseman (more my idea of The New Yorker than a certain recent film), even Robards' hammy drunk.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 December 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
I read the book but never saw the movie.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 24 December 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
This was peak era for porno with titles that parodied popular films and yes, there was indeed a film released around the same time entitled "Bright Lights Big Titties"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161325/
― sarahell, Friday, 24 December 2021 08:03 (two years ago) link