One of the things I like about Netflix Instant queue is that I see a lot of movies and think, I liked that when I saw it years ago, I wonder how well it holds up. Last night I saw such a movie, Bob Fosse’s semi-autombiographical “All That Jazz” I even liked it better this time. While it might seem like a bit of a chick flick it is absolutely brilliant film making. It tackles a tough subject (death) with comedy, song and dance and does it without becoming trite.
The choreography is stunning and the nusic is perfectly crafted, The closing score, an adaptation of the Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” called “Bye Bye Life” is perfection.
Watching it made me think of someone in porn. When I used to go to the shows I would always take time to hang out a bit with Jeff Marton, Jeff worked for Evil Angel and was an excellent dancer, who told me once that his proudest moment was auditioning for Bob Fosse.
If you haven’t seen “All That Jazz”, you should.
It made me wonder why it is our industry can’t do anything even CLOSE to that good, but I guess if anyone in porn had that kind of talent, they wouldn’t be in porn.
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Amen, brother.
And Amen to Netflix.
Madmen coming in June. Doctor Who already here.
T.
I agree with Mike, a great film, lots of quietly delivered messages about the challenges of life and of health issues. Besides there’s a lot of long legged women looking good.
“… a lot of long legged women looking good.”
Now THAT got my attention, Flyboy. Putting it in the queue now. Oh, and Netflix has completely replaced satellite and cable for us. Best thing about it is the narcissistic factor. It all revolves around ME. I watch what I want, when I want, pause it (no waiting for a commercial to fix that next drink), keep it as long as I want, then return it and and in some cases deny I ever watched it.
My only bitch about Netflix is that they don’t have the tv rights to so many of the current shows, like Hulu does. I want to watch this stuff NOW, not when it comes out on DVD six months from now, but I don’t want to pay another $7.99 to do it.
Hulu is owned by a consortium of the Tv networks and studios. NBC, Fox, ABC…you won’t see Netflix or anyone getting first run TV shows.
Damn it, Tvshooter, you just shot my hopes all to hell! Thanks, btw, I never knew who owned Hulu. I thought it was a private company.
Heres what I do….I cancelled cable all together
I watch Hulu for the TV shows I like….and hey its free
I have netflix at 8 bucks a month for the movies.
Beats 50-100 bucks for cable and Theres nothing I like that isnt on one or the other
I watch them on my HDTV in HD through my Playstation 3 I LOVE it.
and i like hulu better than live TV because I watch when I want to.
Oh and for the record it was a Hulu add on House that made me look at and then buy my new android phone. So ya Id say Hulu works for advertisers.