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Summary: Ne York disco scene and dumb italian hoods a laugh riot
Review: Maybe the best of the 70's for it's comic value alone and it's way groovy disco-era tunes, SNF its completely entertaining. Joey, Double-J, and the band of merry idiots are hysterical, and Travolta shakes it on the dance floor making all viewers pumped to deck out in polyester and hit the clubs. It's a riot!
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Summary: A must have for anyone's video collection!!!
Review: This movie is almost as old as I am and I still love it!!John Travolta is amazing.You can't help but want to get up and dance.Its a perfect depiction of the disco era, since this is the movie that epitamized it all!!!!!
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Summary: A fantastic movie gets a quality release on DVD.
Review: "Saturday Night Fever" is often credited as having started the disco revolution, whether or not that is a good thing depends on your taste. But having dismissed this movie when I first saw it, I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it have seen it on DVD years later. While the costumes, music, and decor are unquestionably dated (and tacky at times), the impact of the movie is not lost today.John Travolta is excellent as young Tony, a working-class kid from Brooklyn with the talen for disco dance, but not much ambition for anything else. He's a womanizer, a racist, and a simpleton in the ways of the world. That is until he meets a woman who challenges him, and partners with him to win a dance competition at the local disco. In between, we learn of his family problems, his hoodlum friends, and his other troubles he encounters (and no doubt causes). He lives for Saturday Night, where he is king of the dance floor. The dance scenes are exciting as ever, with Travolta giving 110% in his role. Evvery aspect of this movie fits. The Paramount DVD, while not exactly packed with extras, makes for a quality Special Edition. There is a 30 minute "Highlight" from VH1's Behind the Music, which is always fun to watch, but I would have loved to have the extra 30 minutes included (it's a 1 hour show). The deleted scenes fill in where they are needed, but the real gem is the Director's commentary, which gives valuable insight into the trails and successes that went into making this film. The transfer itself is nice, but is a bit grainy in parts, showing the limitations of the source print. But that is not a serious flaw. Anyone who loved "Saturday Night Fever" will no doubt be interested in this special edition. The relevant issues of wasted youth, violence, racism, and dysfunctional family life are all key to this movie, and should make it appealing to those who think of it as "a campy disco flick". It is a great story with a killer soundtrack which is, while dated, still fun to watch and listen to. The DVD brings it back to life and adds some quality extras.
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Summary: Classic comes to life again on DVD
Review: If you didn't come of age during the late 1970's you might not have appreciated the impact this movie had on an entire generation. The melted down PG version shown on network tv leaves the viewer loving the music, embracing the characters, and maybe or maybe not relating to the whole Brooklyn, NY disco dance scene of that time. But THIS is the version to see...unedited and as raw and impactful now as it was then.
This awesome DVD honors the 25th Anniversary of the film's release, presented in widescreen format, complete with interesting director's commentary, deleted scenes and more. It will give you a true appreciation of what SNF did for movies, music and the '70's generation as a whole. It didn't just entertain the masses: IT DEFINED THEM.
This "R" rated version has all the cussing, sex and vulgarity that "shocked" the critics back then, but by today's standards is mild. Without going through the whole story point by point, since most everyone knows it so well, suffice to say this is one of the best DVD versions of a classic film I've ever seen. The timeless music is magical once again (nobody does a soundtrack like the Bee Gees), and though you wouldn't catch a guy in a nightclub today wearing a tacky white suit, somehow Travolta and his cronies made it look soooo very cool to be shaking his stuff in polyester.
I just loved this film as a kid, and it's still dear to my heart as a "grown up" -- enjoy.
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Summary: A Classic!
Review: This is the ultimate gang movie taken to a new height, that being a dance club or discoteque as the clubs were called in the 70's and 80's. John Travolta was a young actor with a lot of energy, gives a performance of high caliber as as likable street tough (Tony Manero) who works in a paint store by day and goes with his buddies to the 2001 Oddessy club in Brooklyn at night where he transforms into the ultimate club dancer.
One night he meets Stephanie, an older woman who tries to make Tony "grow up" and train to compete with her in an upcoming dance contest. Along the way Tony has to deal with his deadbeat father, his mother who only loves his priest brother, his brother who needs to quit the priesthood and find himself, Annette who is Tony's ultimate "groupie," and Tony's friends who seem to be getting into scrapes with a rival gang.
The movie is full of memorable lines and the clothes that Tony wore, especially the white suit, caused a fashion revolution.
Probably the be movie for getting a feel for life in the late 70's.
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Summary: good acting
Review: The best thing I like about this movie is the redeeming and tender last scene when travolta and stephenie are sitting on the window ledge with the love song "How deep is your love" leading on to the ending credits. cute ending.
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Summary: Hated This Film 25 Years Ago
Review: When "Saturday Night Fever" came out in 1977 I instinctively hated it. I was 14 years old and the tribal loyalties were drawn. My circle of friends were rockers and we had no time for this fodder for the blow-dried polyester wearing disco boys. Needless to say this film holds up infinitely better than "The Song Remains the Same" or "Pink Floyd at Pompeii". Now that I am free to view this film for what it is and my opinions are not determined by adolescent tribal loyalties I can say this is a real good film. Though this film was a phenomenon, it portrays a gritty working-class milieu not unlike a world portrayed in a Scorsese film. John Travolta is nothing less than dynamic as Tony Manero, the Brooklyn kid who wants to escape the stifling environment of his neighborhood. I am speaking of both his acting and his dancing which is an expression of his desire to break free. Good performances are also delivered by Karen Lynn Gorney as Stephanie, the receptionist who has already crossed the Brooklyn Bridge to the promised land of Manhattan. Donna Pescow is particularly good as Annette, the good girl who will turn bad just so she can obtain Tony's affections. On a note of trivia, Pescow starred in a short-lived sitcom,"Angie" with Robert Hays of "Airplane" fame about a waitress from Philly who marries a rich guy. Pescow kind of disappeared after that which is a shame. To the film's detriment, Tony's family is kind of a cliched Italian-American unit, not unlike an "R" rated "Marty" clan. And Tony's buddies are the worst kind of stupid. The soundtrack, predominated by original Bee Gees songs, is superb. Lastly, not unlike other Paramount DVD issues, this disc is pretty weak on the extras. The VH-1 "Behind the Music" segment included here is particularly uninformative.
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Summary: The start of the Goomba Culture
Review: The Goomba is the direct opposite to the "embarrassed" Italian immigrants of the '20's-'60's, and when I say that, I mean those who were told they must assimilate and hide their heritage. Nowadays, being an ethnic Italian is not only accepted, it's "cool." This started with the likes of "The Fonz" and Travolta's "Barbarino" & "Tony Manero" and continues today with "Joey Tribbiani" and so many others. While these type of characters are certainly not rocket scientists, they are not harmful to the heritage at all, they are not murderers or meatheads.
Rather this complete "360" in characterizing Italians from every other regular American to the Goombas of today, is a dedication to the grandfathers of yesteryear who struggled upon arrival in this country and were told to blend in and not stick out. Sadly, too many surnames were Americanized and today many young people do not know of their heritage. But the Goomba subculture can keep that alive. And that's really what the Bee Gee's main title song is all about. Travolta's strut started it all.
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Summary: Saturday Night Fever
Review: Saturday Night Fever is a classic 70's film to me.It's been a long time since I've seen it and I saw it was coming on today so I checked it out.I still remember every scene like the first time I saw it.The film may not have great acting , cool clothes (though they were then), or decent dialogue.Okay I can forgive it for the dialogue because that how it is suppose to be.Everything in the film represents all those disco people back then and offers something for everyone.The plot is awesome and is filled with great characters even though they aren't at there best.The setting with the bridge and the city is just awesome!The dancing is cool and fun to watch John Travolta doing all those moves just proving how awesome he is.The soundtrack is also really good and chalked full of awesome seventies classics like "How Deep Is Your Love?" by the Bee Jees and tons of other hits.It also has a soft side away from the dancing concerning a relationship with Tony and the girl he dances with.The film is deep at times and then it pulls back and becomes funny with some of Tony's dialogue and his friends.Anyone from that generation will appreciate it.The film just has a great feeling around it and with the music and the feelings all mixed together it really pleases everyone.Make sure to check this one out if you have not already.
Nineteen-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero (Travolta) lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the club, thanks to his stylish moves on the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, Tony fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his family's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Nor can he find satisfaction at his dead-end job at a paint store. However, things begin to change when he spies Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) in the disco and starts training with her for the club's dance competition. Stephanie dreams of the world beyond Brooklyn, and her plans to move to the big city just over the bridge soon change Tony's life forever.
"Travolta's breakthrough performance and John Badham's vibrant NYC locations make this a far more enlightening story of youth and rebellion than the mere kitsch of the film's contemporary reputation."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
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Summary: DVD version is a Winner ! A++++
Review: "Crisp print". great sound. This R rated version is a huge difference from the chopped up version seen on TV and Cable, like seeing it fresh form first time. ONE extra feature I liked was the film of Travolta learning the Dances in Studio,
Some of the best dance moves never made the final cut. Also the VH1 segment gives just enough background to the movie A++++
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