A few words about…™ – Blue Hawaii — in 4k UHD

trajan007 · Nov 10, 2022

Nice to to hear. Personally I thought Elvis's acting was fairly decent.The acting here doesn't require Hamlet.

Robert Harris · Nov 10, 2022

trajan007 said:
Nice to to hear. Personally I thought Elvis's acting was fairly desent.The acting here doesn't require Hamlet.

The acting here wasn't up to TV standards.

trajan007 · Nov 10, 2022

Angela Lansbury was fun to watch.

borisfw · Nov 10, 2022

Glad to hear that this is a solid release. Completely disagree with your assessment of the film. But that's your prerogative. I find Blue Hawaii a very well made and entertaining film.

Robert Crawford · Nov 10, 2022

IMO, Elvis's best movies were "King Creole" and "Flaming Star". Not surprisingly, his directors in those two movies were Michael Curtiz and Don Siegel.

trajan007 · Nov 10, 2022

borisfw said:
Glad to hear that this is a solid release. Completely disagree with your assessment of the film. But that's your prerogative. I find Blue Hawaii a very well made and entertaining film.

trajan007 · Nov 10, 2022

BLUE HAWAII was the best Elvis movie period. I would put VIVA LAS VEGAS a close second.

John Hermes · Nov 10, 2022

I think Elvis did a good acting job in several films, particularly King Creole. I find him very pleasant and charismatic in Blue Hawaii and many of his other films. I believe his acting is completely adequate.

dpippel · Nov 10, 2022

Robert Crawford said:
IMO, Elvis's best movies were "King Creole" and "Flaming Star". Not surprisingly, his directors in those two movies were Michael Curtiz and Don Siegel.

Gotta agree with you here, and I'd throw Viva Las Vegas into that pile as well because, well, Ann Margaret.

Still, Blue Hawaii is entertaining enough and is a very pretty time capsule. I'm happy to hear that Paramount didn't screw it up. Thanks for the review, Mr. Harris!

Robert Harris · Nov 10, 2022

John Hermes said:
I think Elvis did a good acting job in several films, particularly King Creole. I find him very pleasant and charismatic in Blue Hawaii and many of his other films. I believe his acting is completely adequate.

Agreed. Adequate.

Keith Cobby · Nov 10, 2022

Best film Viva Las Vegas, hope it gets a 4k.

mskaye · Nov 10, 2022

Robert Harris said:
The acting here wasn't up to TV standards.

I saw it many years ago and apart from the kitsch factor, it kind of "blue." Like most of EP's films sadly.

Alan Tully · Nov 10, 2022

Well, you're either a fan or you're not. I was born in 1950 & started to get interested in music around '63-'64, the British beat boom; The Beatles, Stones, Kinks & The Animals, & Elvis just seemed so old fashioned, & all those duff musicals didn't help.

John Hermes · Nov 10, 2022

trajan007 said:
Nice to to hear. Personally I thought Elvis's acting was fairly decent.The acting here doesn't require Hamlet.

I can't wait to hear Laurence Olivier sing "Rock-a-Hula Baby".

Robin9 · Nov 10, 2022

Alan Tully said:
Well, you're either a fan or you're not. I was born in 1950 & started to get interested in music around '63-'64, the British beat boom; The Beatles, Stones, Kinks & The Animals, & Elvis just seemed so old fashioned, & all those duff musicals didn't help.

Well, I'm not a fan and haven't been since I was fourteen years old and discovered I much preferred singers like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. But I've always got along with Elvis, the movie actor. Frequently he was saddled with inferior material but when he was given a decent screenplay and/or a good director, he was pretty good . . . . . . in my opinion. Others, I know, disagree. I like his work in Love Me Tender, Follow That Dream and Kid Galahad and I enjoy the film he did with Hope Lange.

I'm probably going to buy this Blue Hawaii disc. I saw the film when it first came out and I was in my teens. I didn't think it was any good . . . . . but I'm probably going to buy the disc anyway! Incidentally, is my memory of the film correct? Does it include the old Ralph Rainger standard Blue Hawaii which Frank Sinatra included on his Come Fly With Me album?

RichMurphy · Nov 10, 2022

I loved the scenery and of course, Angela Lansbury as Sarah Lee, not Sara Lee. "Fetch me a Mai Tai, Ping Pong."

Scott Merryfield · Nov 10, 2022

trajan007 said:
BLUE HAWAII was the best Elvis movie period. I would put VIVA LAS VEGAS a close second.

I always refer to Viva Las Vegas with my wife as "that Ann-Margret film that also had that singer guy from Mississippi. What was his name?" LOL.

She was smokin' in that film.

Dick · Nov 10, 2022

Robert Harris said:
The acting here wasn't up to TV standards.

I have to disagree that Elvis

Robert Harris said:
The acting here wasn't up to TV standards.

In BLUE HAWAII, perhaps not. But I must respectfully disagree that "No matter how good a singer Elvis was, he just wasn't a quality actor."

In the above-cited KING CREOLE he was, I think, excellent. He was quite effective in FLAMING STAR. In JAILHOUSE ROCK, he was no slouch. He was, I think, mismanaged and tossed into a pile of crap movies that were only intended to sell record albums, singing a half-dozen completely forgettable songs in films with terrible scripts that had little or no plot.

By 1960, he was squeezed into identical roles that offered no personality beyond his singing ability. Illegal immigrant "Colonel" Tom Parker bled Presley, took huge sums from his earnings, exploited the shit out of him. He surrounded Presley like prison walls when the singer was at his most vulnerable. He pretty much didn't allow Presley to take on any serious parts, just junk that contained a bunch of rubber-stamped songs, which produced soundtracks that ultimately sold millions of copies but did not allow Presley any room for creative growth.

So, Robert, I believe he was simply held back from finding better dramatic roles by a possessive asshole of a manager, and had he been allowed to continue taking challenging roles, he might have really left his mark as a fine actor. He had it in him.

Robert Harris · Nov 10, 2022

Dick said:
I have to disagree that Elvis

In BLUE HAWAII, perhaps not. But I must respectfully disagree that "No matter how good a singer Elvis was, he just wasn't a quality actor."

In the above-cited KING CREOLE he was, I think, excellent. He was quite effective in FLAMING STAR. In JAILHOUSE ROCK, he was no slouch. He was, I think, mismanaged and tossed into a pile of crap movies that were only intended to sell record albums, singing a half-dozen completely forgettable songs in films with terrible scripts that had little or no plot.

By 1960, he was squeezed into identical roles that offered no personality beyond his singing ability. Illegal immigrant "Colonel" Tom Parker bled Presley, took huge sums from his earnings, exploited the shit out of him. He surrounded Presley like prison walls when the singer was at his most vulnerable. He pretty much didn't allow Presley to take on any serious parts, just junk that contained a bunch of rubber-stamped songs, which produced soundtracks that ultimately sold millions of copies but did not allow Presley any room for creative growth.

So, Robert, I believe he was simply held back from finding better dramatic roles by a possessive asshole of a manager, and had he been allowed to continue taking challenging roles, he might have really left his mark as a fine actor. He had it in him.

We’ll never know, and if the talent was there, it’s a huge loss.

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