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Showing posts with label gene kelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gene kelly. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Xanadu (1980)

A Musical romance directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Gene Kelly.
A painter reproduces album covers on a larger scale and meets a woman who was on one of the covers. He also meets an old jazz musician and they open a dance club.
Not good at all. What I want to talk about here is not lack of originality or crappy music. I'm not discussing how this won more bad awards than good ones or how terrible a film it is. I want to point out Don Bluth's animation sequence. That's why I watched it. The male and female lead actors turn into fish and birds. That may seem inconsequential until you see them and their similarity to those in The Sword and the Stone (1963). So similar, in fact, that I expected the characters to become squirrels at any moment. The posture of this bird reminds me of when Wart turned into a sparrow (image). I rate this bad because it was damn near torture to watch. Don't inflict this upon yourself or anyone you know.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Pirate (1948)


A musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
A womanizing actor comes to town and is attracted to a woman who is going to marry a man who she does not love. The actor then does anything he can to keep her from marrying the other man.
I watched this because of Judy Garland and didn't really enjoy much else about it. I've got movie overload (336+ films in 5 months) so I'm giving it o.k. because it wasn't great, but it had Judy.