The Last Days of Disco
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Movie Reviews of The Last Days of Disco
Movie Review: Where is Metroploitan
Summary: 3 Stars
Why is it that Whit Stillman's best work is still not available on DVD. Will the appropriate people please remove their heads from their arses.Movie Review: Deceptive title. Two hours wasted when I could have had a root canal.
Summary: 2 Stars
The title of this movie is a tad deceptive- it and the soundtrack are the only thing disco related to this soap opera of a movie that carries a script worthy of a "Sex and the City" episode. There are some, albeit very few, interesting plot twists. But basically this movie is mostly worthy of a late night movie made by and for Cinemax. Pity too. I'm a huge Chloe Sevigny fan (and not for "Brown Bunny" reasons), but her talent is minimally utilized, as is that of her co-stars. I realize this movie is largely about recent college grads and their pretentious entrance into the real world, with the disco night life as a back drop. But their trials and tribulations have little to do with the disco life itself. "The Club," the flick's disco night life place to be, is merely what Central Perk was to the TV show friends- a gathering place to gossip about relatively juvenile adventures in love (or reasonable facsimiles of), and their recent and up to now short durations in the working world. The minimal glances into "The Club" itself is archetypal. Were it not for an admittedly clever twist that explains a lot of the behavior of that disco's employees earlier in the movie, the dialogue would be largely mundane, uninspired and testing of the viewers patience. The pay off isn't rewarding enough to rescue one from that experience. Kate Beckinsale's character is the stereotyical pain in the [...], nose in her friends' business nuisance, and she plays that well. But an annoying character does not a good movie make. And for a movie of this title, the dance scenes are minimal in quantity and display. Were it not for a friend letting me borrow his copy, I wouldn't have even dropped a single dollar to rent this flick. To be fair, the soundtrack is outstanding and solely keeps one following the movie's events. But that's hardly a reason to waste a couple hours watching this film's paint dry. You could probably buy the soundtrack and have a more entertaining experience.Movie Review: A Whitewashed 1980 New York
Summary: 2 Stars
In my opinion, Whit Stillman's "The Last Days of Disco" is not nearly as good as the director's "Metropolitan" or "Barcelona". The characters are not as intriguing, and the overall effect of the movie is that it does not capture the atmosphere of 1980-81 New York City. At that time, a certain sleaze and grime pervaded the city. It was an era of dimly-lit, crime-ridden, graffiti-covered subway trains and crime-ridden, gritty, trash-strewn streets. There were two opposite ways in which music and culture reacted to these conditions. The punk movement embraced the chaos of the streets. By contrast, disco papered over the problems with nihilistic glitz and cocaine-fueled glamor. A surface optimism covering over a deep pessimism.
Stillman's 1980-81 New York does not capture this pathos. The New York of "The Last Days of Disco" resembles the more orderly city of the late 1990s and today. Had Stillman's characters been interacting in a more true-to-life, grimy 1980 New York City - rather than a whitewashed one in which the trains are miraculously graffiti-free and the streets are clean and safe - I think the movie would have been much more compelling.
Movie Review: Run away. Run far, far away.
Summary: 2 Stars
Being a writer myself, I can appreciate the talkie movie. Your Friends and Neighbors is a perfect exampe of a talkie movie that works. The Last Days of Disco is not. The dialogue isn't very witty, the subject matter is boring, the characters lack any flare, and plot is merely a structure to hold together countless uninspired conversations. Watch Barcelona or Metropolitan, much better films. Leave this one alone.Movie Review: Moves slowly at first... ok ...but not quite as good as the sexy cover shot!
Summary: 2 Stars
The best part about the movie is the cover. Kate Beckinsale looks grrrreat! Chloe can act as well. I first reviewed this film and trashed it after watching the first 1/2-3/4 but then went back and finished it and surprisingly enjoyed the rest of it. Ok but worth $150 because it's out of print? No way.