how the heck can people like this movie so much? its about a bunch of annoyingly self-absorbed people doing a bunch of self-absorbed things. they talk all the time about absolutely nothing! there was no plot, nor loveable characters in the whole thing, the only character i almost liked was tom played by robert sean leonard. this movie was no where near as deep as it was percieved. and it went no where, except to the realization disco was dead.
shareI agree 100%. Everything about this movie is just annoying : the characters, the lack of a plot, the nightclub the go to...
and speaking of the nightclub, let me clue everyone in here : NO MANHATTAN NIGHTCLUBS WOULD EVER BE PLAYING TOP 10 DISCO-ish MUSIC EVER !!! I don't care if it's 1979-1981. No way would they be playing Blondie, Rod Stewart etc...
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You're just wrong on that. I was at Studio 54 during this era and the other top NYC dance clubs, and that's exactly what they played. What do you think they played? Blondie was hitting it big in those days, and Rod Stewart's hits were intended for the clubs and people loved dancing to his stuff -- as well as Rod Stewart being someone you would see AT the clubs hanging out, dancing, collecting women. There's no comparison in current life to anything like there was back then.
What was inaccurate about the club was in reality there was more cocaine, it was ubiquitous and visible, and everyone was doing it. Also, the vibe was almost always equal parts: (1) famous people (designers, models, rock stars, actors/actresses, politicians); (2) flamboyant "fabulous" gay men who were able to live out loud in these clubs as in very few places in those day; (3) preppy wealthy college and post-college people; and (4) bridge and tunnel "guido" people from Brooklyn and Queens. All mixed together and were cool with each other.
This video might give you a bit more flavor of what it was like -- listen to the background music (tho this was a few years prior to when this movie was supposed to be):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dl726_FKhc&NR=1
Yes, it's one sorry representation of the Disco era.
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I could not agree with you more. Horrible movie!
shareThis movie was just terrible.
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I just caught this on Flix tonight.I dig offbeat movies,but this just kinda ...well...for lack of a better term....sucked ass.
shareI also saw this on Flix. I didn't mind that it went nowhere because I'm into movies like Dazed and Confused, but I think the dialogue killed it for me. There was potential for this to be a good movie, the cast had chemistry, but the movie was very uneven.
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This movie had some great moments, but it mostly dragged. It did have potential.
I did like seeing Kate Beckinsale acting for a change. I'm so used to seeing her in thrillers, it was nice to see her in this type of a role. Plus she looked cute so did Chloe Sevigny.
Unfortunately it seems a movie that will just appeal to a limited fanbase.
It is not bad. It is different.
There is no exciting complication that drives the story forward. It meanders along without any dramatic buildup and climax. That is its style. Even the themes and ideas are subtle and unconventional.
I am a fan of Whit Stillman. I really liked Metropolitan. But the first time I watched his other two movies, I didn't really get into the mood of the film or digest the point of it. It took a second viewing for me.
I suppose you just have to write off the viewing experience. You were willing to try it and found you didn't like his films. Though I respect that you are able to articulate why you didn't like it.
The dialogue is pretentious and the movie is crap.
shareI love this movie. It captures a time in the US when we were so self-absorbed that we thought a single club in NYC could define a people and a decade. It could not. But everyone that was going there thought it was the end all. That's the point. Pretentiousness is what it's trying to convey. These people even Sevigny are nothing more than good luck or bad luck ... no substance .. no idealism ... shallowness and emptiness. That's it. That's the point. I think/. .
The end scene where Tom goes off on the merits of disco is fn ridiculous and embarrassing. Why they'd inlucde that is beyond me.
The end scene where Tom goes off on the merits of disco is fn ridiculous and embarrassing. Why they'd include that is beyond me.
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Well, I'm a HUGE disco fan (one of the few occasions when I'll go to a club is when there's a disco/old school/80s retro night) so I liked the music. I saw this movie when it was released in theaters, but having seen it again recently, I realized why it was so forgettable--nothing redeeming about it except perhaps for the cameos from some of the cast of "Metropolitan", a film I happen to like.
Anyone else want to THROTTLE Kate Beckinsale by the end of this film??? She didn't know SH*T and STILL kept talking and talking and TALKING and TALKING.
Maybe it's not facinating material for a movie but you exactly described the disco scene of the 70s.
shareI totally agree. THis was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I kept waiting for there to be some kind of plot or development or something compelling. It just fell flat in every possible way
share I know this is hardly a revelation, but the film really wasn't about disco. If you watch it hoping to see dopes dancing to "Fly robin Fly" I understand why you would be disappointed.
It's a backdrop film about yuppies trying to start life in the city in the early 80's. There's not a "Tony" in the bunch. Everything was about to change for them and it wasn't because the club and the era that made it famous was coming to an ignominious --and criminal-- end. I liked the Stillman films.
I don't care what it was supposed to be about. It was horrible movie with no plot
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I've watched it a bunch of times, hoping each time that I may finally 'get it', but nup, it's pure garbage.
The actors (leads and extras) all look bored, Sevigny looks like she's about to fall asleep most of the time. The dialogue is a total wankfest, especially that 'disco will never die' spiel at the end.
It's usually compared to 54, but at leas that was fun!
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Why even refer to this slosh as a movie?
Is it meant to be a bad joke?