yeah a (40-year-old, gay) friend of mine wrote it up too.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
broadway is a bore but this movie, my god, the best!
― sunny successor, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd go for free.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Cheyenne Jackson has some great big ol' thighs. Even the critics noticed.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and between Xanadu and Can't Stop the Music, I pick the former. Both are way better than The Apple tho, imho.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
C.J. wears tube socks very well.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post -- OUT.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL, that's right, you like that one the best don't you? That would have to be the one camp classic I'm not into. Literally the only one.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, next time I karaoke, I am SO singing "Suddenly."
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
A fine choice. :-)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Gorgeous song.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I should also add that, unlike a lot of other DVDs I've reviewed and disliked, I held onto my copy of The Apple. I'm not giving up so easily on that one.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Wise man.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
sigh
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
The real question is: should this particular canon be expanded to include Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Wiz?
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
probably not so much that it would include Thank God It's Friday, tho
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
CANNON *pow*
I see why you only post those butch photos in WDYLL.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Artist's rendition of Ned and I fighting over The Apple:
http://www.realfightgear.com/images/Gallery/full/4-1119970026.jpg
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Wuss.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
you and Ned should have a picnic at Susan Sontag's grave.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Loving Xanadu = bad taste(lessness). Loving screwball = arid, stuffy taste.
I know which side I'm on.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eric H., Friday, 13 July 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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
god this movie is right up my alley. imagine following up your lead turn in The Warriors to rollerskating with Olivia Newton John.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 10 March 2024 07:10 (one month ago) link