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This Movie Wasn't Bad, It just wasn't for the Moneyed Generation

posted 16 years ago by TriumphReq
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The people that liked this movie the most at the time just weren't the people who could buy the tickets. They were kids. It was the right movie just the wrong time for it to come out. I saw it when I was a very little kid and loved it. Now that I've seen it again it turns out it was a very good movie. It's definitely good that it was not a cheesy ugly roller derby movie. It's too bad the audience then were cheesy ugly roller derby fans.

The song with Gene Kelly gives me a lump in my throat when I think about what it might be like to be an old man with lost loves. I watched it again with my girlfriend and she liked it. I am not gay. I am not into being a "cult follower". I just believe this was an excellent performance of Gene Kelly and a good story about hope and lovesickness.

Soon this will be in the top ten most underappreciated movies of all time.

[–] ms-zanadu 16 years ago

" Soon this will be in the top ten most underappreciated movies of all time. " ---- I agree this movie does deserve way more recognition than it received . Here's hoping that we do see it very soon in the top ten . Since it had such a very positive storyline as well ( and is now a classic ) . Thanks so very much tropicalgreen2003 for your most excellent subject post .

[–] scotbpens 16 years ago

It's too bad the audience then were cheesy ugly roller derby fans.

Really? That's certainly news to me. In which city?

I can't imagine why Xanadu would have attracted roller derby fans, since the movie tried to capitalize on the brief roller-DISCO craze and had nothing to do with roller derby.

All the universe . . . or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?

[–] TheSteelHelmetReturns 16 years ago

I disagree. Xanadu could only be made during the Disco era and Disco was on the way out when the film was released - IMO, it came out too late.

[–] AndrewTarek 15 years ago

The fact that this flick appeals to any other demographic is a good thing, ultimately. I love it cuz it gives a window into Southern California in 1979-80. ONJ is beautiful...like radiant! The movie is like my childhood in SC, and the time of Xanadu is at the end of the 70's--which was a beautiful time, before the 80's kicked in.