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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Purple Rain
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Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 07:19:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 18 07:19:45 1984
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I guess the most amazing thing about this movie is the number of good
reviews it has garnered.  By most any standards--acting, dialogue,
pacing, fair treatment of woman, it stinks.  This is an inarticulate
little movie about people who are inarticulate, except through their
music.  Not that this last point is deliberately realized.

The love interest is bizarre; you simply can't see what "The Kid" (Prince)
and Apollonia see in each other, other than being Beautiful People.  Prince
treats her like scum, and she laps it up.  In fact, all the women in this
movie are either crawling after their men, or being beaten up, or both.
The theme about the Kid recapitulating the actions of his father is
presented in such a ham-fisted way that it is laughable.

Face it, take Prince's music out of this movie, and you've got a
dog.  In fact, the music scenes are pretty good, if you like concert
footage.  You wonder why they bothered with the third-rate story.
See it in Dolby Stereo or not at all.

Gimme my MTV,
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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