WARNING: Xanadu "Expert" post ahead:Steve Tannehill said:I saw a preview screening when the movie was released, and went into it cold.
It also suffers from coming out in the theaters within one month of "Can't Stop the Music", the train wreck so hideous it DID kill disco. Most people literally can't remember which was which, especially when Steve Guttenberg roller skates through CSTM's opening credits.Steve Tannehill said:I was surprised to find that it was a roller disco movie, although the music was hardly disco. They must have changed the music when roller disco movies died in the months upcoming to Xanadu.
Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, so long as everyone keeps parroting the Razzies joke, and thinking they made it up themselves.Steve Tannehill said:I wish Universal would release it on blu-ray.
(Maybe I'm misremembering things from that time period).Ejanss said:It also suffers from coming out in the theaters within one month of "Can't Stop the Music", the train wreck so hideous it DID kill disco.
Got a picture of your Xanadu?Radioman970 said:Watched my DVD of it not long ago and had a hell of a time. Was on top of the world with nostalgia even though I don't think I ever saw the movie only listened to the soundtrack since it came out. The final scene is just amazingly funky and all over the place. Cult classic for sure.
Would NOT upgrade. Happy with the DVD. I got the one that came with the soundtrack CD for $5 at biglots. Can't beat that!
What's the Razzies joke?Ejanss said:Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, so long as everyone keeps parroting the Razzies joke, and thinking they made it up themselves.
I remember back during the days when other studios still did HTF chats, one Universal exec did the corny old Criterion April Fool joke of "We're doing a Xanadu:SE, har har". Some fans immediately responded "Cool, are we getting those deleted scenes, and the TV documentary from 1980? Olivia and Michael Beck are still around for commentaries, so...oh, wait, you were going for the cheap gag, weren't you? ".
It was one of ten Razzie Worst Picture nominations in 1980, the first year the awards were given and seemed like a novelty, and for some reason, everyone remembers it as winning--Vic Pardo said:What's the Razzies joke?
Vic Pardo said:I remember wanting to see XANADU when it came out because of Gene Kelly but I never made it to the theater. I've been wanting to see it ever since--on TV, cable, video rental, etc., but...I never did. I think I simply dread having to sit through the parts that don't have either Kelly or Olivia.