Guilty pleasure bad musical is AT LONG LAST LOVE. I despise Burt Reynolds in this movie - he can't dance a step and the singing is adequate. But as I written before about it, the thing I love is that they do entire versions of the songs. I think it's stupendous that each of the four main characters gets a verse of the title song. One rarely gets to hear all the marvelous lyrics to Porter's songs, and here we get them. I wish the leads had been better, but Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, and Eileen Brennan make all their moments count. It was a terrible idea to record the songs live. People who aren't primarily singers come off sounding really awful, and even the good singers like Kahn can't be heard and their best.
I taped the movie off the Fox Movie Channel some months ago, and will probably do a DVD of it the next time it comes around.
I LOATHE Ross Hunter's LOST HORIZON. Can't stand any of the songs, and though people like Peter Finch try really hard to make it into something, it's ghastly from the word go.
I, too, would like to see SONG OF NORWAY one day. I've read about how awful it is, but I'd like to see for myself.
Boy, we've got some BIG splits among us with this topic. I love THE PIRATE, and I think Gene Kelly is at his sexiest. No, the score is only a hair above mediocre, but it's serviceable, and I think it's ravishing to look at and a good deal of fun. But different strokes, I guess.
I've never thought MAN OF LA MANCHA was as terrible as others do either. Frankly, I prefer it to CAMELOT. A CHORUS LINE, of course, has to rank as the WORST botched stage-to-film musical.
BK, I believe I COULD GO ON SINGING is in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. At least, my laserdisc is, and it IS a Panavision movie. If the new DVD is 1.85:1, then it has been reframed, and that will NOT make me happy.