tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post5839706065817163443..comments2024-03-17T10:11:46.952-04:00Comments on Film Experience Blog: #96 XANADUNATHANIEL Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-88289049607190810912010-08-09T14:38:30.009-04:002010-08-09T14:38:30.009-04:00I love this movie. I used to play dress up, trying...I love this movie. I used to play dress up, trying so hard to look like Kira, and dance around listening to the soundtrack on my Walkman (hey, I was 11 at the time). I couldn't roller skate, though, which made the whole endeavor quite comical!<br /><br />I would also like to mention the excellent performances of The Tubes in the movie and soundtrack.Less Lee Moorehttp://popshifter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-62481648237010640312008-04-20T00:13:00.000-04:002008-04-20T00:13:00.000-04:00Um, note: Vince Welnick from the Grateful Dead is ...Um, note: Vince Welnick from the Grateful Dead is in this movie! Easy to spot, as he is playing keyboards. I think the orange jumpsuit band may even be his early group the Tubes. I love to rollerskate an think this movie does well by Terpsichore (the muse Kira embodies), Yay for the muses...and what a long, strange trip this whole movie is.Calliopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745088049267817073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-61028570250110129352007-04-10T18:43:00.000-04:002007-04-10T18:43:00.000-04:00I was there when Zanadu was released. I saw it at ...I was there when Zanadu was released. I saw it at the movies a number of times. I loved it. I had the soundtrack. I still know every song by heart. I have never been ashamed to love this movie and when my daughters recently danced to Zanadu (yes some kids danced with roller skates) for a school musical homage to movie musicals, I re-lived Zanadu through their eyes and they loved it too! I actually don't remember it as a flop. Only through Internet bloggs such as this and others have I come to realise that those who appreciate it have to work hard to defend it.<BR/><BR/>So thank you once again Nat for your beautifully stated opinion on a movie I love but others just don't get. Cheers!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-85900960652483411782007-04-09T21:48:00.000-04:002007-04-09T21:48:00.000-04:00lol... the things you pointed were exactly the thi...lol... the things you pointed were exactly the things i most liked about it, especially the songs. as i watched i realized i knew most of them and didn't know they were from a movie.Lucas Dantashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10819278292554693395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-33814412822075813292007-04-09T16:51:00.000-04:002007-04-09T16:51:00.000-04:00Yep. Definitely a guilty pleasure from my mis-spe...Yep. Definitely a guilty pleasure from my mis-spent youth. And I am not even all that fond of musicals (but I am that fond of Olivia). So how have I managed to miss "Grease" all these years?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-19972377951976390092007-04-09T15:56:00.000-04:002007-04-09T15:56:00.000-04:00Great post. I'm so glad you took this one on. Th...Great post. I'm so glad you took this one on. Thanks!Neil Sarverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02832804229444976459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-19056673815762989592007-04-08T16:35:00.000-04:002007-04-08T16:35:00.000-04:00Blessings on your house for this review. "Xanadu" ...Blessings on your house for this review. "Xanadu" is one of my favorite movies...I utterly loved it when I was a tyke and totally got that it was utterly clueless about itself. (I also love it for it's early-80s innocence.) I recently compared "Xanadu" to "300," a movie that tried so hard to erase every bit of potentially homo material they ended up with one of the most hilariously queer, and clueless, movies ever committed to celluloid.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02623191460863933721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-2734282690704405212007-04-07T23:08:00.000-04:002007-04-07T23:08:00.000-04:00Now Glitter was something I had immense fun with. ...Now <I>Glitter</I> was something I had immense fun with. It's a debacle, but a hilarious one. So incredibly inept.Glenn Dunkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05424659636310160482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-50703152367761935282007-04-07T21:40:00.000-04:002007-04-07T21:40:00.000-04:00That was an hilarious review, Nathe. Keep up the g...That was an hilarious review, Nathe. Keep up the good work!<BR/><BR/>You are forgetting when a girl falls in her skates and they didn't cut the scene! Hahahah! So funny...<BR/><BR/>Probably the director and producers were like "Black gal falling in her skates?, You got it!"<BR/><BR/>Hahahaha = DPaxton Hernandezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311147658112558727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-14919880241935306292007-04-07T13:05:00.000-04:002007-04-07T13:05:00.000-04:00You forgot to mention that no one taught Olivia Ne...You forgot to mention that no one taught Olivia Newton-John how to stop in her roller skates. As I recall, several scenes cut right as she's about to collide with a wall, or with nothing—she's just bravely keeping her eyeline on the camera while she rolls into the Great Unknown. (If you hold your ear up to the TV, you can hear the dim voice of a PA whispering on the set, or at a casting meeting, "But can she skate?")<BR/><BR/><I>Xanadu</I> is fun for all the reasons you state, but I'll always take Mariah, her immortal housecat, and "Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)" in <I>Glitter</I> instead. To each his own pop-diva insanity.NicksFlickPickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607501848596529493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-12691509608258376292007-04-07T07:38:00.000-04:002007-04-07T07:38:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Uncle Gustavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08501032829800803300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-16585685385975056902007-04-07T07:25:00.000-04:002007-04-07T07:25:00.000-04:00Gene Kelly? I hope he dimensia, because that's the...Gene Kelly? I hope he dimensia, because that's they only thing that could explain that!J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17126912928153855523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-65927936210387632802007-04-07T04:55:00.000-04:002007-04-07T04:55:00.000-04:00Oh, one more thing.I remember being horrified upon...Oh, one more thing.<BR/><BR/>I remember being horrified upon seeing Gene Kelly in this movie. Like, I had to skip straight to the credits just to make sure it was him. Scary.Glenn Dunkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05424659636310160482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-32075107692998069922007-04-07T04:53:00.000-04:002007-04-07T04:53:00.000-04:00Wow. I really need to see that again. Maybe with y...Wow. I really need to see that again. Maybe with your commentary in mind I may enjoy it more than I did before (which wasn't much). I did love the "Xanadu" sequence and that bizarre scene where like some old school jazz band and disco group compete? I'm not entirely sure how it went but I remember something along those lines.<BR/><BR/>It really does sound like the sort of ridiculous thing I love. Definitely checking it out again.Glenn Dunkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05424659636310160482noreply@blogger.com