Wendy and Lisa; performances; Modernaires; mirror gimmick; cable rewatchability; Jill scene; puffy shirt; Sex Shooter; music rivalries; Chappelle’s Prince; Minnesota music; The Time
Wendy/Lisa acting, mockery, style and stage chemistry loved. Eponymous first album fantastic, a favorite B+ album; personal favorite part of Prince experience.
Convincing performances despite singing over recordings; Modernaire song liked and absence from album regretted, invented-word meaning debated.
Morris/Jerome mirror among best gimmicks without firm number-one rank; timeless comedy and gender presentation discussed.
Easy cable drop-in viewing; hilariously weak subpoena dialogue, stage gestures, puffy shirt linked to Seinfeld, Sex Shooter, Chappelle impersonation and Minnesota scene.
Minnesota music diversity and showing each Sex Shooter singer delivering her line admired; Apollonia dubbing and lack of singing experience reported.
Title reportedly chosen when director heard Purple Rain anthem at First Avenue concert.
Time underrated and charismatic, later revival recognized. The quoted review describes stagecraft; contrast with Prince partly disputed.
Opening eleven or twelve minutes, Let’s Go Crazy into Jungle Love, electrifying. Stage and stylized audience choreography make club a character; balcony synchronized dancers a favorite.
Take Me with You motorcycle and false Lake Minnetonka initiation memorable. Bad dialogue part of charm; purification request not explicit undressing instruction, cold-water danger reported.
Beautiful Ones romantic-rivalry scene called Prince greatest performance in the film and one of the great performances ever. Slow push into Apollonia reaction and intense commitment praised.
Wendy and Prince synchronized stage connection praised; Wendy iconic and an unusually good actor in this cast.
When Doves Cry montage leads through father material into Computer Blue; song reportedly supplied overnight. Clarence Williams performance improves, with darker characterization discussed.
Darling Nicky provokes Apollonia and Billy; Computer Blue transition follows album sequence and balances music with action.
Discovering fathers written music and working out Purple Rain loved; Morris family insult especially cruel.
Purple Rain dedication and song meet enormous buildup. Ending there possible, but encores and audience connection defended.
Final three-song ending selected, despite argument it could end at Purple Rain. Band relationship matters more than romantic resolution.
Other final choice is Apollonia/Morris date into Beautiful Ones, a personal favorite section of any eighties movie.
Ebert three and a half stars; Siskel and Ebert both reportedly included it in1984 top ten, no ranks supplied. Praise for combining condensed emotional drama with music and romantic chemistry.
Prince reportedly dreamed the critics hated it, opposite of their actual response.
Waugh reportedly reused the Felon prison location; making a lower-budget trial version before a fuller film is defended.
No budget was located and a 3.4 million gross is reported.
The explained hierarchy runs from unaffiliated wood through PEN 1 and Nazi Low Riders to Aryan Brotherhood leadership; Redwood’s removal elevates Money and explains his outside status.
The reported bookshelf contains The Book of Five Rings, The Art of War, New King James Bible, selected Nietzsche, The Prince, Deep Black: Jihad, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Aztec Revenge, an uncertain Of Mind and Matter title, and The Human Animal attributed to Karen Sequoia. The last two identities are uncertain rather than externally verified.
Relativity reportedly bought U.S. rights for 3 million before its 2015 bankruptcy delayed release two years, damaging the lead’s breakout timing.
PEN 1 is explained as Public Enemy Number 1 from Orange County; the Beast is reportedly loosely based on a man whose name is transcribed as Stephen Single, with source name uncertain.
Coster-Waldau reportedly married former Miss Greenland, actress/singer Nukaaka, in 1998.
Jack sexuality, impotence/recovering alcoholism speculative; drink-making counterevidence and scout/artistic excitement analogy, no settled orientation.
Jack sexuality, impotence/recovering alcoholism speculative; drink-making counterevidence and scout/artistic excitement analogy, no settled orientation.
Jack/Amber sleeping arrangement and Cheryl Lynns later partners guessed; unused script parents-house purchase too weird.
Little Bills wife did not deserve death; Hartley character motivation reported. Dirks dad beaten down, silent bedroom cutaway haunting.
Amber documentary one-and-done, Paradise Lost and Look Who’s Talking sequel jokes.
Todd dancer versus dealer, possible club clientele uncertain; transition by83 inferred.
Roller Girl GED assumed and removing skates1989 hypothetical, smell/health jokes.
Dirk video comeback versus guessed1987AIDS death by Holmes analogy, neither established; Buck Spotify cofounder country-only joke.
Save Reed over Dirk because many gifts, agreement; recalled top20 Reed2 above Dirk, One Bullet proposed.
Imagined mixtape rest: Culture Club, Naked Eyes, Duran Duran, Prince, Nicks, Journey Separate Ways preferred over Wheel in Sky, Tubes, Corey Hart, final-sideB Jump; Safety Dance addition begins.
Imagined mixtape Safety Dance disputed for style, Give Me All Your Loving accepted; Devo deleted-scene cue and Whip It suggestion.
Ringo whereabouts never resolved, dead/hiding possibilities.
The opening highway truck stop is said to borrow from an unnamed Jackie Chan movie, with windshield action, a badge demand and cocaine revealed by gunfire.
The Rambo insult breaks the actor/character boundary; a personal first encounter is compared to Vanilla Ice in Ninja Turtles 2 and Boys to Men on Fresh Prince.
Jack Palance and his fellow villains drive by; the exaggerated villainy is compared with Brad Wesley in Roadhouse.
The billion-dollar operation’s dark television-filled lair, tiny henchman crew and convenient villain drive-by make little sense.
Desert scenery is compared with Another 48 Hours and Lethal Weapon.
The trial, laundry-chute trip and prison electrocution are nominated; the apparent pain and obligatory Stallone groan are enjoyed.
The prison escape includes apparent betrayal later revealed as help, a dead helper, a villain bossing guards, rain, a fan obstruction and an improbable cable jump.
Huge survivable drops and the lavish strip club with Hatcher drumming lead to Cash evading police in a wig.
The Cockney henchman is recalled from 48 Hours and its sequel; dangling him from a building and grenades echo other action films including Commando.
The simultaneous final fights are praised as a device also used in Double Impact.
The arrival at prison, with litter, fire and relentless jokes despite fear, is a favorite; another selection picks the escape.
Cash being shot, chasing the assailant and confronting him at the station is recalled as an omitted scene candidate.
