just forget it

[brockly]

Disco movie that really made you feel you were there -- in an icky way, not a fun way?

Goldmember
Boogie Nights
Thank God It's Friday
Saturday Night Fever
54
Summer of Sam
The Last Days of Disco
Xanadu
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Can't Stop the Music
Nighthawks
Other


vote for boogie

[Sleuth]

The answer is:  because they built it with a screen door

[Find Your Magali]

I love the first 30-40 minutes of The Last Days of Disco -- which absolutely has the feel of an authentic early 80s disco -- but then the movie can't sustain that momentum and really falls into mediocrity, in my eyes.

Boogie Nights is great, of course, but they don't spend a whole ton of time in the disco.

The disco scenes in Summer of Sam felt staged and cramped to me. Not authentic at all.

Haven't seen 54 and not sure I should bother.

I seem to remember a groovy disco scene in "Foul Play," with Goldie Hawn picking up Dudley Moore at the bar.

[prophet]

i think he means poll

[Cecil]

no, hes just getting ready for festivus

[brockly]

no, hes just getting ready for festivus

what?! i don't even believe in jebus.

[Cecil]

festivus isnt about jebus. its a FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US

[brockly]

oh i see what this is about.... fixed

[Cecil]

well, if youre gonna cheat...

[brockly]

New one:

Best use of voice-over narration in a feature film?

Manhattan
Jules and Jim
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Days of Heaven
Sunset Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Fight Club
Citizen Kane
Magnolia
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Manchurian Candidate
The Opposite of Sex
Rebecca
Raising Arizona
A Letter to Three Wives
A Christmas Story
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Royal Tenenbaums
Other

tough one... think i'll probably go with Magnolia though. Apocalypse Now and Goodfellas are pretty damn good too though. There are some other really good ones in there aswell, like other. What's everyone else think?

[MacGuffin]

No "Shawshank Redemption"?

[ono]

I really think the voiceover in Goodfellas detracts from the film and shows an inability to tell a story without using it as a crutch.

*prepares to be crucified*

It's just, I think voiceover should be used sparingly, and the most glowing examples are unobtrusive (such as that of Magnolia).

[cine]

I really think the voiceover in Goodfellas detracts from the film and shows an inability to tell a story without using it as a crutch.

*prepares to be crucified*

You shouldn't be crucified for it. It's not like its a stupid thing to say, but I think its safe to call it ignorant - for the simple fact that I doubt you read Wiseguy. If you did, you would respect the way the film uses the narration more. At least I think you would..

[ono]

Well, I believe a film and the book it's based off of to be two separate entities, so one should be able to appreciate a film on its own terms, apart from the source material.  It's the job of the filmmaker and the screenwriter to make sure the important information is carried over from the source to the film.  The crutch, then, here is the voiceover narration.  Sure, you could praise Scorsese for "breaking the rules."  But I don't.  Because the fact is, the first time I watched Goodfellas, I loved it.  However, the second time through, not nearly as much.  It doesn't hold up to repeated viewings (which is one of the signs of a great film), and one of the major reasons is because of how weighted down it is because of that voiceover.  And this statement is hardly ignorant of the filmic text, especially considering that 1) I have seen it twice, and 2) as stated above, the source material and the film are to be considered independent from each other.

[Alethia]

goodfellas ages like a fine wine.