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At Long Last Love: Musical Hell Review #17
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Original Air Date: August 5, 2013
Your'e the top--this tribute to early Hollywood musicals, however, is the pits.
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"Business Casual football" - so The Room WASN'T the first to do it!
Rose Weldon I thought of The Room too.
My thoughts exactly!
The Room was more like Black Tie Football
The Kennedys did it, too, at least as per Jackie O!
Wow, Burt Reynolds looks embarrassed throughout, as if he lost a bet.
You know what the worst part is? I think there's a potentially great movie buried in there somewhere, but the execution is way off. John Waters said that "the movies you remake are the bad ones, not the good ones!" THIS demands a remake, and I think they can improve it: tighter screenplay, actors who can really sing and dance, etc.
I will say this, though: I desperately want Cybill Shepherd's outfit at 15:52-15:58. It's fantastic! The fedora, the black gloves, the two-tone pumps, gimme, gimme, gimme!
Well, Burt made it clear to Bogdanovich throughout that he couldn't sing, but he was made to go through it. Again, as someone noted, for someone who isn't a singer, the fact that he can be on-pitch is an achievement in itself, but Cole Porter's music doesn't suit him. Clearly, when All Dogs Got To Heaven was made, the songs were written with his limitations in mind.
Fair and true enough.
there is definitely a good movie.... somewhere here.
Along with _Cop & A Half._
The fashion in this movie is the one thing of quality in this
4:05
Reynolds: "You ever get bored?"
Kahn: "Never!"
Yoda: "You will be. You will be."
LOL!
You know a movie has serious problems when even Madeleine Kahn and Eileen Brennan come off as untalented.
If anyone needs me, I'll be watching Clue.
Cybil Shepard looks _so eerily similar_ to Maureen McCormick from her _Brady Bunch_ days in this movie that I kept feeling like this is some _bizarro alternate universe_ where Marcia was put up for adoption by Carol and made it big in Hollywood but didn't have the love, guidance and values Carol provided nor the sisterly/brotherly comradery of her sisters and brothers and that turned her into a whiny, irresponsible primadonna.
10:47 Oh, so that's where Tommy Wiseau got the idea to have people play football in wedding tuxedos. Seriously, why the hell would you play sports in nice clothes like that? My parents would kill me if I decided to play paintball while wearing one of my nicer shirts yet these people are running around, potentially getting grass and mud (and blood, if they're not too careful) stains on things you'd wear to a tea party.
Eh, they're rich. What they can't clean, they can just buy anew.
I think I figured it out. Porter wrote numbers like "But In the Morning No" and the much better "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" in "Kiss Me Kate" because he had to have long-running music where two actors could entertain the audience while the stagehands changed the sets.
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare" also makes for a fantastic eleven o'clock number.
@@MusicalHell I saw the revival on Broadway, and it does. But I guess they took out the first number cause I don;t remember hearing it.
Has anyone notice how white everything is? Not in terms of the casting, but EVERYTHING ELSE!!!!!
Seriously, the sets, the wardrobe, the lighting, EVERYTHING IS THE COLOR WHITE!!!
It's like those fucking "minimalist aesthetic" rooms. Everything is white, there's no color or variety, and I hate it! I want saturated colors!
8:30 Good Grief! Mickey, Goofy, and Donald did a better rendition of that song, and one of them has an infamous speech impediment! :/
Hold on... That song didn't come from Disney!?
The song was featured on an old Disney sing-along songs video (Friend Like Me I believe). I thought Disney made it up just for that video until I saw my local high school's production of Anything Goes.
I first heard of that song from _I Love Lucy_ sang it.
This movie has made me 50% more anti-capitalist
If only Robert Dinero walked around aimlessly in the background in an army uniform, then wed have the ultimate prequel of hollywood history
The pisser here? It's clear that a lot of money was spent here---and the actors are working their asses off. A shame.
You don't need to gender-flip the creepy, rapey scene for it to be extremely disturbing.
LaydiNite True--I was more pointing out the double standard of playing sexual assault on a man for laughs.
Bert Reynolds can sing just saying
+MrGabeanator Get your hearing checked.
I recently did thank you
You do in this society that's against male victims.
From what I understand,Bogdanovich actually apologized for this movie...albeit through a full-page ad he took out in a Hollywood newspaper.
snarkus63 Bogdanovich is a good director elsewhere (his adaptation of Noises Off is a must-watch for any theatre geek), and I do see what he was going for in this movie. It just didn't pan out well.
Yes,this was a rare misfire in his filmmaking career.
Wait a second Noises Off got a film!?
Isn't The Last Five Years 1st World Problems the Musical?
"Live Alone and Like It." OK, that's pretty funny.
Pretty people in nice clothes. The Rolls Royce is nice, too. Hillerman looks more "hitler-y" than ever... Shepherd and Kahn are simply gorgeous. That's it.
Based on that, the movie should be five minutes long. And possibly just a slide show...
Fresh off her "Triumph" in this musical, Cybil Shepherd released a recording titled :"Cybil does it-To Cole Porter".
I was watching "Archer" today and caught this reference, in an episode where Burt Reynolds is voicing himself!
Archer: I’ve seen all your other movies, like, five times! “Sam Whiskey,” “Navajo Joe,” “Fuzz,” “Hooper,” “Seamus,” “Shark,” “The Longest Yard,” “Deliverance,” the “Smokey”s, “White Lightning” - obviously, “Gator!” I - I even saw “At Long Last Love!”
Reynolds: Yeah, uh... I -
Archer: I thought you were great!
Reynolds: Really?
Archer: ... I mean... well, I wanted to.
Reynolds: Me, too.
"At Long Last Crap!"
For the first time since February 19, 2020, I'm about to rewatch the "At Long Last Love" episode.
EDITS- 3:43 P.M.: *finishes review 18 minutes later*
I no longer wonder if the director's cut made this movie a little better.
3:46 P.M.: Nowadays, I wonder if the director's cut made this movie a little worse! 🤔
I'm shocked any male falls in love with Brooke!
It;s no worse than anyone falling in love with any of the Kardashians!
I'd also be equally surprised if any lady fell in love with her too. She has, like, no redeeming qualities for any human, no matter their gender, to find appealing in a partner.
13:35 Goes to confront Johnny in the JOHN! The pun was right under your horns!!!
Am I the only one who wants to do what he can to get Diva to work on a Musical Hell episode on Les Misérables (2012)??
Aw, but I loved Les Miserables!
I don’t know why people like LM so much. Maybe it’s because they think disrespecting opinions on their favourite films no matter how flawed they can be is sweet.
I'm surprised you didn't punish Peter Bogdanovich, who directed and wrote this nonsense. He also intended initially to star opposite his then sweetie, Cybil Shepherd, but thought better of it, since he couldn't sing or dance. He then tried to enlist Elliot Gould, who thought better of it. Finally, he got Burt Reynolds, and the rest is history. Medved and Dreyfuss in their THE FIFTY WORST FILMS OF ALL TIME give a critical overview and plot synopsis, in addition to quotes from the critics.
Isn’t First World Problems the Musical the alternate title for Company? (And I say that as a Sondheim fan.)
....You're not wrong.
So, this is 1970s 'Down with Love'?
10:00 No, That would be RENT. This does come very close, though.
Because homophobia, AIDS, addiction, poverty, and capitalism are only first world problems?
Rent was BAD!
At Long Last Love is blessed with wonderful Lionel Newman orchestrations. Cybill Shepherd may not have a great singing voice, but she has a nice sounding one and is beautiful to look at in this film. The rest of the cast is fine. I do think the film would have faired better if the songs had been pre-recorded. They certainly would have sounded nicer. The actors had small speaker devices in their ears and had to sing to the songs on a player piano. The arrangements were added in post. As it is, this is a fun movie and the score is done justice to.
Agreed. Cybill's voice was actually very pleasant. Of the four principals' renditions of the song "At Long Last Love", I find Cybill's the best. She also sang well in "I Loved Him, But He Didn't Love Me". Singing "live", as opposed to lip synching, is no small task, in a film. No wonder it had not been attempted in more than 30 years. Still, the orchestrations are the lushest Porter arrangements I've ever heard. The "MAIN TITLE" overture is superb. Burt Reynolds actually does rather well. Sure, he's a non-singer, but his singing is on pitch, and he really gives his songs everything he's got. (If that ain't much, well, you've got to give him an "A" for effort). This movie is a blast, if you're a Cole Porter fan.
I don't know, that wahwahwahwah horn after each line of You're the Top is fucking dreadful.
3:08- So she's basically Paris Hilton.
The 'musical' kinda gives me 'Springtime For Hitler' vibes. . .
How dare someone make Madeline Khan (RIP) unfunny?! And man is the singing bad (Madeline tries since she could actually sing) and that choreography is horrid. Why were the ‘70s-‘80s thinking we had to see Burt Reynolds sing; that is the equivalent of putting up with Russell Crowe in “Les Miz” alone
Diva, will you please review New York, New York? It's yet another big budget movie musical from the 70s that flopped badly. And it's such a shame because Martin Scorsese is the director and he has a great actor on board in Robert De Niro. It was meant to be a tribute to the golden age movie musicals but just ends up being an unconvincing love story with De Niro as a sax player and Liza Minnelli as a singer who eventually gets more fame than he does.
But it gave Sinatra a great snog to sing.
The Driver Rodney is John Hillerman! (Higgins from Magnum P.I)
Haha! I actually love At Long Last Love, even though I agree with parts of this. I think the script could have used some work, but I find the musical numbers fun enough that they save the whole thing. I went out and got the BluRay out of curiosity and listen to the soundtrack as a comfort listen. I watched it for Burt Reynolds initially but I feel like it's really Madeline's movie and could have used some more of her.
While rewatching this episode, I realized that you had covered movies that wasted their talented casts back-to-back. I know that "At Long Last Love" (1975) was made *before* "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1978) but still! 🤓
Ugh. I re-watched this mess again and it's still dreadful. It tried to be a fun entertaining homage with a great cast but the great cast can't sing or dance in a musical.. It's neither fun nor entertaining. Clunky writing/ no plot. Consider the cast that was wasted in this.
I found the black and white costumes and sets very disturbing to the point of why didn't they just make it B+W? The effect on me was that it just made me hungry for chocolate. (Both black and white)
RE: Bogdanovich's excuse for "Find Me A Primitive Man" - It's probably because the movie may have been made in 1975, but it's set in the 30s.
plus, some women are probably still into that kind of man. Not all, not even necessarily the majority.
@@davidspring4003 Usually that would be within a controlled setting though, like kinky play scenarios. In those cases, consent can be withdrawn via a safeword and the dom will respect that.
I dreamt of making faux-30s movies as a 13 year old in 1972, but I got over that by '75, dreaming of making faux-Monty Python instead. Those cavemen dancing with Madelene Kahn look like the Joe E. Ross brigade. Is the guy with a helmet in the audience an homage to THE PRODUCERS?
That was a clip from the Producers the reviewer edited in for laughs.
A movie is beyond help if even Mildred Natwick doesn't improve it.
Was there a particular reason they kept putting Burt Reynolds in musicals?
"All Dogs Go To Heaven" is the only time I could think when it "worked", but that was only for one song, while the story was strong enough to compensate for his weak singing in other scenes.
This entire film is forking crazy. Where to begin? The vision was eccentric and meant to be some kind of parody in the same vein as the film musical parody 1967 “ The Producers” but minus the genius of Mel Brooks. The cast members are varied and talented BUT THE FILM GOES NOWHERE . Even more annoying is the 1970’s vibe veneering the 1930’s costumes and sets: all in black and white... very distracting. A terribly, stupid film with gorgeous people who are trying but it just sucks.
I saw this when I was in high school. I sat t through the whole thing because I was too stubborn to admit I'd been ripped off. I still consider it the worst movie I've ever seen. It was DREADFUL!
Bogdanovich was a talented filmmaker but he was completely out of touch with the times. This was the mid-70s. Watergate. Vietnam. Nixon. The cinema landscape was dominated by anti-government, anti-capitalist films like "Jaws", "Chinatown", "Parallax View", "Night Moves", "The Conversation", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Taxi Driver", etc. Nobody wanted to see a 1930s-style white telephone Cole Porter musical. And it's doubtful Madeline Kahn getting her clothes ripped off by cavemen got any laughs during the era of Women's Lib.
Yeccchhhh! I can't believe ANYONE wanted a Blu-Ray on the back of what I just saw
3:30- So, he's a male Paris Hilton?
Cybil and Madeline are so cute in this movie. can we just have a montage of them walking around being cute?
Did you notice the flies in the racetrack scene and in the bathtub scene. I'm loving your videos!
Terrible...Sad...A display of Egos...
7:15 Cybil Shepherd's expression...
Boy, Bogdanovich was big on gray and white interiors, wasn't he? I'd see this movie only to look at Cybill Shepherd ,who looks great here, but an episode of "Moonlighting" would probably be a wiser choice.
By this point Bogdanovich really peaked with 'Paper Moon' and it was all downhill from there. Although he did have a somewhat return to form with 'Mask'.
I keep being told that "They All Laughed" is underrated. I wouldn't know, I haven't seen it.
Dearest Diva: Thanks for saving me the trouble of having to buy the Blu and slog on through!
Wait...this movie made Madeline Kahn UNFUNNY???? The Great Lilly Von Schtupp??? Boring??? Sacrilege!!! The punishment of the screenwriter was insufficient!!! I demand he or she be made to watch this godforsaken movie and Can't Stop the Music for 72 hours straight as punishment!!!
Did anyone notice that in one of the scenes of the audience watching in appalled fascination Find Me a Primative Man the Nazi from Mel Brooks' The Producers who wrote the terrible Spingtime fotr Hitler!!
Your favorite musical ?Then review it like you hate it 😀
Not sure why this movie made me think of New York New York. I think that would be a good recommendation for you to cover!
At Long Last Love: a modern-day Astaire/Rogers movie minus the talent( but with insufferable characters who can't sing, dance, or act).
Shouldn't the aghast and uncomfortable reactions of most of the people in the audience be a pretty good clue that the "Primitive Man" number is in fact supposed to be bad?
No, because the audience is from "The Producers."
Wow, really?? The aesthetic of the shots seemed so similar, I guess I couldn't tell. (Also I could've sworn I saw Brooke in one of said shots, but I guess that just goes to show how well the characters in this movie stand out xP)
There is one shot of the characters looking vaguely confused that is from the movie, but the mass jaw-drop is The Producers.
I am literally watching this movie because of this video. You are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
i didn't know burt reynolds sang
_see_ _also_ : "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," which I was reminded of with this review, then I got to wondering if it might qualify for Diva's docket
This review makes me wonder what you think of Lala Land.
Good music and dance sequences, lousy characters.
Musical Hell Musical Hell episode!! Musical Hell Episode!!
@@MusicalHell ) i agree.
The foreign man reminds of Robert Downey Jr.
you are a rockstar, thank you for all you do!
I think this might be the whitest movie ever made. I mean seriously look at some of the sets and costumes.
Why did this movie use songs from Anything Goes?
It used Cole Porter songs. Some of which happened to be in Anything Goes as well.
I love this movie, it is excrement.
You can't do a musical with people who can't sing or dance
Roger Ebert liked this movie.
My Dad actually likes this movie.
The Cinema Snob review of this was better...
...because ironically, he WASN'T a snob to this charming-as-hell film...
You're just a snob yourself for saying that about every film Musical Hell reviewed!!
Including Les Misérables when she reviews it anytime eventually.
Why are almost all the women wearing gloves? It's annoying. (That's probably my autism acting up.)
Up until about 1960, I wore gloves on special occasions. All women did!
Until the 1960s, it was just common for women to wear gloves when stepping out of the house. While the majority only did it on special occasions, the more wealthy wore them whenever they went out