Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Purple Rain Message-ID: <907@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 07:19:45 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.907 Posted: Sat Aug 18 07:19:45 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:36:16 EDT Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 23 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 {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA