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Greg - 2006-07-15 21:03:22
>>>til that awful movie with the dead baby boomer<<<< Okay--entirely out of context with the point of your glob, though I love love love Gladys Knight beyond words--but THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THAT WAS THE WORST MOVIE AND IT NEARLY MADE ME HATE MOTOWN. Um... I'll spare everybody the socio-political commentary--lets just say this movie didn't have enough dead boomers. It made the average episode of Friends look like a genuine portrait of life in America.
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Tom G> - 2006-07-16 01:09:26
I'm not sure I would go so far as to call it the WORST movie, but it's certainly one of the most overrated. I think Kasdan can write a decent screenplay but let him direct it and he just goes too far.
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Paula - 2006-07-16 09:08:05
Wow, he diercted the Bodyguard, too--that was a genuine stinkeroo, but didn't it do really well? Or mebbe it was just the soundtrack.
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2fs - 2006-07-16 22:12:27
I rather like Tuxedomoon's version...
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Baby Party - 2006-07-17 13:25:18
I like Knight's Killing Me Softly, a song that has acquired an undeserved cheesy reputation. I believe Bill Murray's lounge lizard character used to sing it.
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Michael - 2006-07-17 17:24:36
The dead baby boomer, who wound up completely cut out of the movie, was played by Kevin Costner. That film, a kind of slick remake of Sayles' "The Secaucus Seven," only with mega-successful instead of normal people, not only suddenly made Motown respectable instead of a rich guilty pleasure (few would openly admit loving it, Motown wasn't considered culturally "hip" prior to this film), but made Motown songs and an obligatory scene of everybody dancing around for no apparent reason into necessities in practically every similar glossy drama/comedy made for the next three decades. Breathtakingly influential film, mostly for the worse. In fact, most films like this made since this one were only about quite successful people, now that I think about it. Look at "You've Got Mail," in which even the old lady bookstore assistant was secretly a millionairess from buying Microsoft stock at the beginning of the company (like most of the bookstore assistants we encounter in life).
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