Aloha, Bobby & Rose

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Summary: Aloha Bobby & Rose
Review: Fun movie with great music from Elton John and others. Released in the late 70's has become a cult classic

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Summary: Oh,the memories!!!!!
Review: I remember watching this movie when it came out and when i saw the dvd release i knew i had to have it. This movie has been stuck in my head for 17 years. It is not a great movie(it is good though) and it is a little overdramatic at times but i just love this movie. The soundtrack is just unbelievable. I also liked the way they placed little eva's "loco motion" right when they had the accident in the VW bug. They don't make movies like this anymore and i believe it caputured what it was like growing up in hollywood in the early 70's.

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Summary: Great B-Movie
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out, I was 16, and this was my first teen-movie. It's basicly a 70's teenager "make-out" movie, the kind where you bring your date to the movie primarily to "make-out" [kiss]. The movie is generally about nothing and basicly goes nowhere, but for me, that's the beauty of the film. We didn't have MTV back then, so I remember really enjoying the great sound track of the hit 70's songs of the day as Bobby and Rose drive around in Bobby's Camero. It's a movie that I could never forget and when I had the chance to buy it on DVD some 25 years later, I couldn't resist. Watch how Rose gives Bobby a thorough look over in the mirror of the pick up truck, it's cool. The title of the movie is clever, Rose's fantasy is to go to Hawaii, and "aloha" of course, means "hello" and "goodbye". In this movie Bobby and Rose meet [hello] and then part [goodbye]. This is the kind of B-movie you either love or dislike, I loved it.

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Summary: Great B-Movie
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out, I was 16, and this was my first teen-movie. It's basicly a 70's teenager "make-out" movie, the kind where you bring your date to the movie primarily to "make-out" [kiss]. The movie is generally about nothing and basicly goes nowhere, but for me, that's the beauty of the film. We didn't have MTV back then, so I remember really enjoying the great sound track of the hit 70's songs of the day as Bobby and Rose drive around in Bobby's Camero. It's a movie that I could never forget and when I had the chance to buy it on DVD some 25 years later, I couldn't resist. Watch how Rose gives Bobby a thorough look over in the mirror of the pick up truck, it's cool. The title of the movie is clever, Rose's fantasy is to go to Hawaii, and "aloha" of course, means "hello" and "goodbye". In this movie Bobby and Rose meet [hello] and then part [goodbye]. This is the kind of B-movie you either love or dislike, I loved it.

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Summary: Great B-Movie
Review: I saw this movie when it first came out, I was 16, and this was my first teen-movie. It's basicly a 70's teenager "make-out" movie, the kind where you bring your date to the movie primarily to "make-out" [kiss]. The movie is generally about nothing and basicly goes nowhere, but for me, that's the beauty of the film. We didn't have MTV back then, so I remember really enjoying the great sound track of the hit 70's songs of the day as Bobby and Rose drive around in Bobby's Camero. It's a movie that I could never forget and when I had the chance to buy it on DVD some 25 years later, I couldn't resist. Watch how Rose gives Bobby a thorough look over in the mirror of the pick up truck, it's cool. The title of the movie is clever, Rose's fantasy is to go to Hawaii, and "aloha" of course, means "hello" and "goodbye". In this movie Bobby and Rose meet [hello] and then part [goodbye]. This is the kind of B-movie you either love or dislike, I loved it.

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Summary: An underrated film for lovers of L.A. noir.
Review: I've read the other reviews of "Aloha Bobby and Rose" and although I can see how most viewers would only react to the more obvious flaws of this film, I feel that "Aloha" is a terrific piece of contemporary film noir despite it's problems.

Try to see this film in context of the best of the B and sub-B film noirs of the '40s and '50s and you'll understand why "Aloha" deserves a second look. Like the other fine B noirs, "Aloha" is working within a formula subgenre storyline of star crossed lovers on the run whose luck finally runs out. I'm thinking of films like "Gun Crazy", "Raw Deal" and even parts of "Out of the Past" and perhaps pieces such as "Detour" and "They Live by Night". What's in common? The stories are often flawed with cliche plots and predictable turns.

But a hardcore noir fan overlooks those drawbacks as a rule, and instead looks to the more subtle aspects of the film: atmosphere, theme, and an overall stylistic approach that demonstrates the work of a filmmaker whose vision overrides the limitations of the material and the budget. So I'd like to make a case for "Aloha Bobby and Rose" being a somewhat great film, when judged by those criteria.

Visually the film has a gritty look that underscores the irony of it's LA pop culture setting rife with neon and palm trees, shiny paint jobs and a searing sun that smokes through the smoggy LA afternoon. This picture, more than most I've seen, has captured a special feel of L.A. that reminds me of what Raymond Chandler might have put on film if he had been a low-budget movie director in the early 1970s. Only a few others, such as "Straight Time", "Chinatown", "Cisco Pike" and "Night Moves" have been able to depict the city so poetically with it's dark contradictions and sense of fate and impending doom that lies just beneath the surface of the city.

The casting and performances are dead-on, and the dialogue is terrific, perfectly mirroring the laconic "gearhead" "half smart" teenagers from the '70s whose characterization seems to have become a template that has changed little in 25 years.

Unquestionably there are tremendous problems with this picture. For example, there are parts where the editing seems crude and almost thoughtlessly executed. Conversely, segments of the storyline are overlong and could have stood some sharp trimming.

But on the whole, "Aloha Bobby and Rose" is a picture very much worth watching again with a forgiving and appreciative critical eye. Give it a look and tell me what you think.





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Summary: To Counter the Self-Gratifier in North Miami
Review: It's easy enough to review an accepted classic piece of literature like "Atlas Shrugged", for instance, and give it kudos, then savage everything not of that caliber over and over again and establish just tons of reviews. I thank the other reviewers for seeing this B movie as an enjoyable piece of escapism though with an unfortunate and contrived ending. As our "hero" (Paul LeMat of "American Graffiti") walks through the poolroon, Elton John's "Benny and the Jets" plays like his personal theme song (much like a car boombox I suppose). Despite a rough beginning, Bobby and Rose become a couple and things look promising for an otherwise low-income future, thanks to a new adult friend played to the hilt by Tim McIntire ("American Hot Wax"), a man with a lot of money and not a lot of couth. Leigh French plays his equally off-center girlfriend. There is a good soundtrack which also includes "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love For Me?") by Junior Walker and ther All-Stars. Dianne Hull is Rose, a young unwed mother struggling with a mixture of attempted maturity while hoping to fulfill her fantasy of getting to Hawaii. Noble Willingham (C.D. Parker on "Walker, Texas Ranger") also makes an appearance. This movie may be a guilty pleasure, but I enjoyed it as others did. Too bad some folks down in North Miami can never hope to have Bobby and Rose's adventure, however brief, but they can savage other artistic efforts in between bouts of self-gratification. Aloha, Palmetto Head.

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Summary: Awesome
Review: overall good story line of a young mechanic in a impressive 68 camaro finding a woman he loves and both being apart of a instore holdup and being chased by the cops. VERY IMPRESSIVE CAR SCENES

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Summary: Aloha Bobby & Rose
Review: This is such a stinker Mystery Science 3000 wouldn't show it. So awful that the only reason for it to be remembered is because of its awfulness; a pointless, poorly-acted, nihilistic, dumb, senseless, plotless, clueless, phony, joke of a picture.

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Summary: Absolute, rock-bottom worst movie I've ever seen
Review: This is such a stinker Mystery Science 3000 wouldn't show it. So awful that the only reason for it to be remembered is because of its awfulness; a pointless, poorly-acted, nihilistic, dumb, senseless, plotless, clueless, phony, joke of a picture.