Remake please but properly this time!

I just watched this from Blockbuster On-line tonight. When I had Showtime and Flix it was on all the time like most movies on those channels. I was always too late to catch it and never paid much attention.

Recently I have been getting into Paul Weller's "other band" The Style Council. In the liner notes it said "Have You Ever Had It Blue" was in the soundtrack of this movie. I then regreted not seeing it when I had those channels I figured I'd give it a shot on DVD.

I was excited to see on the DVD sleeve that David Bowie, Sade, and Ray Davies were all it it too. I'm American but love the UK and most of the music that has come from there since the 60's.

This film annoyed me most of the time. I know it was a musical and really the plots (if any) are all over the place. Also in its defense, it was made in 1986. As a kid that year I remember it being a drought for good movies, TV, and music that year as it was. There were a lot of trippy movies that came out that year like "Modern Girls", "True Stories" (David Bryne of The Talking Heads flick) and "Howard the Duck". Most of the stuff that came out was crap. Seemed like all the ideas were gone, the ideas artists had didn't work, or everyone was on drugs while making the art.

I loved the color and the style. It was true 1980's even though the story took place in 1958. However I was kind of shocked and offended that it turned from a meaningless comedy and romantic farce,into trying to get dramatic at the end with race riots and a guy out of the blue acting as a new Hitler!

I always thought Patsy Kensit was hot but I never knew how she got into acting because I always thought she was real bad. Figured maybe she was a model or singer. I know she had a rocky personal life marrying a few rock stars and none of those panned out.