tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post8735563992622002474..comments2024-03-23T21:46:50.843-04:00Comments on the passionate moviegoer: the contrarian: Randall Kleiser's "Grease" (1978)joe baltakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-51411239582192018552007-08-27T14:04:00.000-04:002007-08-27T14:04:00.000-04:00Don't feel too badly, Joe. I liked "Grease 2."Dav...Don't feel too badly, Joe. I liked "Grease 2."<BR/><BR/>Dave KehrUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429023008910887213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-31521538168493133902007-08-24T20:28:00.000-04:002007-08-24T20:28:00.000-04:00Close, carrie. It's "Smoke on your pipe and put t...Close, carrie. It's "Smoke on your pipe and put that in!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-2443381109417517242007-08-24T20:19:00.000-04:002007-08-24T20:19:00.000-04:00Travolta, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden and Edd Byr...Travolta, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden and Edd Byrnes make "Grease" the word. Interestingly, I hated it in 1978 and find that over time what I had written off as Robert Stigwood rotgut has aged very nicely.<BR/><BR/>As for "West Side Story," it has such a great score and choreography that I forgive everything else. And does Rita Moreno really sing the lyric in "America" :<BR/><BR/>"Put in your pipe and smoke that in" ????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-44293535437265712882007-08-24T15:16:00.000-04:002007-08-24T15:16:00.000-04:00Sorry for the double post. No idea why that happe...Sorry for the double post. No idea why that happened.<BR/><BR/>I can't argue too much about Chakiris and Moreno, though I'd be tempted to award them, too, if only for the "America" number. Nah, scratch that. Best Supporting Performances of 1961: George C. Scott (The Hustler) and Ruby Dee (A Raisin in the Sun).<BR/><BR/>And you should be glad that Turner keeps showing West Side Story -- that's 3 hours you don't have to watch or TiVo. Gives you a chance to enjoy something besides movies, like... um... give me a minute... :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-37231440438171352382007-08-24T15:08:00.000-04:002007-08-24T15:08:00.000-04:00Love the score and, of course, the dancing in WSS,...Love the score and, of course, the dancing in WSS, and the artiness of it still holds up. But everything in-between? Eww! The acting (aside from the performances of Russ Tamblyn and Natalie Wood) is embarrassing. I still can't believe Oscars went to Rita Moreno and George Chakiris, both of whom look as if they're pushing 30 in the film. Oh, don't get me started. And forgive me, I'm not trying to convert you. It's just that the film really gets on my nerves, a problem that's exacerbated by the fact that Turner seems to show it every week!joe baltakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467420961490314339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-46704624574545160202007-08-24T15:05:00.001-04:002007-08-24T15:05:00.001-04:00The funny thing about Grease, the movie, is that w...The funny thing about Grease, the movie, is that while I've never thought it was great, I enjoyed it immensely both times I saw it (and both times were in the theatre, upon original release in '78, then at a screening at Mann's Chinese in the late '90s).<BR/><BR/>Got to disagree big-time about West Side Story though. Finally got to see it on the big screen just a couple of years ago (though I had seen the "America" number that way at a Robert Wise tribute in the early 90s, with Wise interviewed by Leonard Maltin). It's not perfect, but it's hard to miss with that music, those lyrics, that dancing. Eh, diffrent strokes, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18439960.post-28575683516380811902007-08-24T15:05:00.000-04:002007-08-24T15:05:00.000-04:00The funny thing about Grease, the movie, is that w...The funny thing about Grease, the movie, is that while I've never thought it was great, I enjoyed it immensely both times I saw it (and both times were in the theatre, upon original release in '78, then at a screening at Mann's Chinese in the late '90s).<BR/><BR/>Got to disagree big-time about West Side Story though. Finally got to see it on the big screen just a couple of years ago (though I had seen the "America" number that way at a Robert Wise tribute in the early 90s, with Wise interviewed by Leonard Maltin). It's not perfect, but it's hard to miss with that music, those lyrics, that dancing. Eh, diffrent strokes, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com