Posted on 04/26/2007 7:53:38 AM PDT by Clemenza
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Me too. Love the Bee Gees.
Fever was the late Gene Siskel's favorite film of all time, and for good reason. Whatever Travolta may be now, in 1978 he was Tony Manero — and that's good enough for me.
Tony Manero: “You make it with some of these chicks, they think you gotta dance with them.”
Disco was, IMHO, better than that undanceable, downmarket, seven-minute guitar solo dreck that dominated American rock and roll.
Punk, on the other hand, brought excitement back to rock and roll.
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I’d have to suggest that the disco is only marginally better (in my always humble opinion) than an unmedicated root canal.
I’ll take the Allman’s In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, the Grateful Dead’s Space (if you don’t know, don’t ask), or Traffic’s Low Spark of High Heeled Boys over anything in the disco canon.
Punk was out there on the periphery for me...the Clash were as close to punk as I could deal with. I was just never that pissed off, I guess :)
I never could understand the disdain for disco music. It’s upbeat, fun, and makes you happy.
I never could understand the disdain for disco music. It’s upbeat, fun, and makes you happy.
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I never could understand the the appreciation of disco music. It’s repetetive, mindless, and makes you wear ugly clothes.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But he’s the only Republican who can dance better than Hillary though!
I love the opening scene, where the camera tracks from the Brooklyn Bridge to the VZ Bridge, with the BeeGees music coming up, and then Travolta under the el on 86th Street....
I think a lot of the disco antagonism sprang from the fact that the roots of disco is essentially black R and B and gospel and that many of the discophobes just plain did not like”soul”music.
Smooth harmonies,lush melodies and slamming beats highlighted Disco as a genre.The rock fanatics wanted some interminably long jams where self indulgent white kids could let their egos go completely out of control.
Disco music DID get repetitive occasionally but songs like Shame,Disco Inferno,Good Times,and most of the SNF Soundtrack hold up quite well after all these years.
Funny that the stage play of SNF was terrible and closed almost at once, which shows that you can't be Travolta and you can't recapture an era that is gone.
It’s a good movie, great soundtrack, but let’s not forget it’s NOT a “musical”.
It is actually a very depressing movie. Pretty good for what it is.
Eitehr way, I’m not sure I’d ever say it was 1 of the greatest movies!
I don’t either. I liked it as a kid, I still like it.
But then, I’m eclectic. There is very little that’s ever existed that I don’t like (genre-wise). Rap and heavy metal; those I hate as a rule.
Derbyshire must have been swigging port out of the bottle while he typed this.
What day of the week does its thirty year anniversary fall on? Saturday?
I love SNF. I saw it for the first time on a cold night in Dubuque, Iowa. I was with a friend who was just entering seminary school.
Wow. This one article by one man dedicated more thought to this movie than any civilization ought to in an entire lifetime. It was/is a useless, boring waste of film. It is pointless, meaningless drivel; like like most of what came out of the 70’s.
That is just this man’s opinion. Now, The Breakfast Club! THAT was a groundbreaking bit of cinema!
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