Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!TJacobs.ES@XEROX.ARPA From: TJacobs.ES@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Purple Rain Message-ID: <559@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jul-84 12:13:50 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.559 Posted: Mon Jul 30 12:13:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:48:36 EDT Lines: 24 Over the weekend I went and saw "Purple Rain" with Prince in his first motion picture role. I went in after having heard several raving reviews from the newspapers, so I went in expecting something good. I wasn't disapointed. Purple Rain requires several preconditions from the viewer in order to enjoy it. First, and most important, is that you must like Prince's music. The movie had a lot of small night-club preforming and thus felt as though you were watching an MTV video [especially when seen in a stereo]. Second, you REALLY like Prince and his music. During the 110+ minutes of this movie, there is at most only 10 total minutes without music. This is supposed to be a semi-factual account of his life. I don't know for sure which parts are real and which are made up. So, my reaction? I've liked Prince ever since "Little Red Corvette" so I liked "Purple Rain". My feelings leaving the theater [Edwards University] were that I had just sat through a really good, long MTV style video. That's the best way I can describe it. Some people leaving the same theater left with lesser reactions because they didn't know who Prince was or had never heard him. Gary Franklin [a lame KCBS movie critic] would probably give this movie a 3 on his rating scale, but it would get an 8 on mine. I recommend it. --Tom