X is for Xanadu
Apr. 27th, 2012 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonWhat--you were expecting some other song? ;)
I will say this--the movie is pretty painful to watch, not so much for the acting but that the dialogue is pretty horrid, mainly due to too many rewrites. It's a film out of time--it's a pretty decent old school "let's put on a show in the barn" musical mashed up with a roller disco theme (it was also inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth movie Down to Earth).
On the plus side?
--Gene Kelly hoofing it.
--Electric Light Orchestra.
--The Tubes!
--Don Bluth cartoon sequence.
--I first learned about the nine muses of Greek mythology in this movie.
--I learned the name came from not Citizen Kane but a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem.
--I learned about how album covers are made and how they can be reproduced for sales purposes.
--It's actually a pretty decent soundtrack.
I will say this--the movie is pretty painful to watch, not so much for the acting but that the dialogue is pretty horrid, mainly due to too many rewrites. It's a film out of time--it's a pretty decent old school "let's put on a show in the barn" musical mashed up with a roller disco theme (it was also inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth movie Down to Earth).
On the plus side?
--Gene Kelly hoofing it.
--Electric Light Orchestra.
--The Tubes!
--Don Bluth cartoon sequence.
--I first learned about the nine muses of Greek mythology in this movie.
--I learned the name came from not Citizen Kane but a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem.
--I learned about how album covers are made and how they can be reproduced for sales purposes.
--It's actually a pretty decent soundtrack.
