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My father and grandfather were career US navy captains who commanded aircraft carriers and submarines, and they did not spend every day while on leave or at leisure in their dress blues.
If you have any appreciation for the Blues, or just a good use of excellent music, that alone is reason to go see it.
While there is a definite prurient appeal in watching Ricci fall out of her skimpy outfits, her performance is risky and mature--not a trace of Wednesday Addams to be found, and she easily holds her own with Jackson, who personifies "the blues" in his portrait of a flawed, God-fearing man.
While heavy-handed, the scene where Lazarus sings Rae a song in the midst of a lightning storm/blackout is compelling, as is a scene inside a jumping blues club that makes you wish you were there.
For those who loved "Wayne's World"..."The Blues Brothers"...and hell, even "Raiders of the Lost Ark," you will find much to like (but probably not love) in "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny," a fictional epic about the formation of the JB (Jack Black)/KG (Kyle Gass) band.
I watch Lackawanna Blues every time it comes on.
It is a thoroughly human story about some very imperfect people in a backwoods southern town, and really speaks to the root of the blues.
It tells the story of a broken blues man and the nymphomaniac he aims to cure not just for her sake, but also his own...yet it's so much more than that.
Beautiful camera angles and the lighting makes the feelings and the blues even touchable.
Get past the various things like skinny girls in white panties ... get past Justin Timberlake, accept his character Ronnis (which he plays very well) ... get past "Snakes on a Plane" and see how mercuricul Samuel L. Jackson is ... as he has transformed himself into a very believable Mid-South blues man.
But what I truly feel is that this movie has a high level of eye opening for what blues is...what it stands for...and mainly were it comes from: life...heart...pain...sorrow...and above all...spontaneous feelings!!
The feeling of the film is jazz and blues, and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of Kahlua and Butterscotch.
Although it is over 30 years old, there is a great possibility that even now you will see your loved ones giggle away the blues with a showing of this fine flick.
In Mississippi, the former blues man Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) is in crisis, missing his wife that has just left him.
Ed Molinaro (Hill Street Blues) also has a tiny part; one of his first after leaving the soap world.
Lackawanna Blues).
This really doesn't do the blues justice.
Someone blind anyway) apparently narrating from outer space (?) and telling us the life stories of various blues musicians.
This is a good device to show us why the old Blues greats were really so great, but it doesn't make for compelling viewing.
It's a shame for Wenders, Scorsese and especially for the Blues.
And the attempt at overcoming the low budget by filming at claustrophobic angles on mist-shrouded sets lit in garish blues and oranges as if by some bargain-basement Vittorio Storaro fails utterly -- the film just looks cheap, shoddy and thoughtlessly made.
Not only that Wenders only displays a very limited musical spectrum of Blues, it is his subjective and personal interest in parts of the music he brings on film that make watching and listening absolutely boring.
Second time through you realize how horribly the sister's husband is dissed by her friends in the backwoods blues bar.
In that same scene the sister's blues song is a real tear-jerker if you're the least bit sensitive and like that kind of music.
Her performance feels like the climax of the story; a blues story with the good guys being "people of color" in their element in backwoods, SC.
I admit, the first time I watched Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, I didn't think it was very memorable in any regard.
Look for the elements of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: Dick's womanizing, Perry being an aspirin junkie, Perry playing blues guitar.
However, the juxtapositioning of the wife's career as a rising blues singer against the husband's gathering loneliness and his almost Freudian need for filling the emotional and physical "void" or "hole" while she's away along with the clever use of minimal effects and settings is nicely done.
Kelly even changes the navy blues he actually wears into a white "Pomeranian" navy uniform with blue stripes on it.
the episode was about to come on and it was titled "birthday blues" and to this day it is most favorite episode, it's sad, with a happy ending, and you see Kimmy Gibbler in a way she doesn't act in other episodes, she actually shows her serious side.
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