Terrible Packaging
Added 11/16/2009
CD was very scratched from being loose in packaging. Someone probably saved a whole $ .50 or less on cheesey CD case.
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Saturday Night Fever
Added 11/11/2009
This is such a cool movie. Brings back 70s memories and makes you want to move your feet.
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"A True Classic"
Added 10/22/2009
"Saturday Night Fever" defined the late 1970's and made disco the most popular form of music. With a soundtrack headed by the Bee Gees and with John Travolta in the starring role, the movie has cemented itself forever in the hearts of film buffs worldwide. Travolta (who received a Best Actor Oscar nomiation) plays Tony who works at a dead-end job during the day, but is a superstar on the dance floor at a local Brooklyn disco. The movie is widely known for making Travolta a superstar and is the first film to be widely responsible for the huge record sales of its soundtrack, which was the biggest movie album until 1992's "The Bodyguard". The DVD comes with the trailer, 3 deleted scenes, audio commentary by director John Badham, and much more. A sequel, titled "Staying Alive" and starring Travolta, was released in the early '80's and was a commercial flop.
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Defective DVD
Added 10/13/2009
This DVD not only didn't work, but after trying it on the third DVD player it locked it up and it took me ten minutes to get it out of the machine.
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Realistic and Fun Dancing Movie
Added 9/23/2009
No movie has ever had a greater impact on society than "Saturday Night Fever." Other movies have drawn bigger crowds, sold more, and made more money, but no other movie has ever effected any where near as great of a change on society's behavior as did "Saturday Night Fever."
"Saturday Night Fever" is not a clean movie. They produced (at the same time) a PG version ... which also gives us some additional footage ... but that "laundered up" version lacks the punch of the R rated version. This violence, profanity, references to sex, and glimpses of sex are very much the everyday occurences of the street life this movie strives to depict, and the movie makers succeed in bringing this life to the screen in a realistic and believable way.
John Travolta plays Tony Manero ... a true life character ... and the movie follows his life (in Brooklyn, NY) over a period of about two weeks. He is a young man devoted to disco dancing, and in his world of violence, ignorance, and greed, this dancing gives him an anchor of sorts to which he can cling. In these sinful surroundings, Tony also tries to maintain a sort of code of decency and truth, but he is the only one on this team, and it is always an uphill battle. By contrast, Tony's older brother Frank is in the priesthood ... supposedly a bastion of decency ... but decides, in the course of the movie, to leave the church.
Tony works a dead-end job at a hardware store and hangs out with his gang of friends in his off time. He lives at home with his italian family (father, mother, sister, and grandmother), but really lives at the disco he and his friends go to every Saturday night. While at the disco one night he spots a new girl, Stephanie (played by Karen Lynn Gorney), and he engineers a meeting. The two of them agree to partner for an upcoming dance contest, and, throughout the course of their practicing, a mutual affection develops. In Tony, Stephanie finds a person she can at last trust, and in Stephanie, Tony finds someone who not only has dancing talents on a par with his own, but, in her, he also sees a doorway of sorts out of the world he is increasingly coming to detest. The ending of "Saturday Night Fever" is tender and delicate. The movie itself is a roller coaster ride of arguing, violence, and indecency, but the ending is soft and sweet.
The heart of "Saturday Night Fever" is the dancing ... particularly Tony's dancing ... and it (the dancing) is a delight to watch. When Tony and Stephanie begin to dance together, it is as if something right is happening for the first time. The music, provided primarilly by The Bee Gees, is perfect ... giving us upbeat and fun rhythms ... as we imagine ourselves dancing right along with the characters on the screen.
The acting in "Saturday Night Fever" is top-notch throughout ... usually an indication of a good director (in this case John Badham) ... with an emphasis on, not classic good acting, but on realistic portrayals of everyday New York City (Brooklyn borough) people. Travolta is at his best here, I think. Karen Lynn Gorney does a good job as Stephanie ... but, at 31, was perhaps too old for the part. In the performances of Joseph Cali and Paul Pope (as Tony's friends Joey and Double J) we are given two characters that we simply know really exist. Barry Miller is excellent as Tony's friend Bobby C (in a tricky and non-flattering part to perform). Val Bisoglio is excellent (and a little unsettling) as Tony's ignorant father, Julie Bovasso is very good as Tony's mother, and Lisa Peluso does a nice little job as Tony's sister. Sam Coppola is very believable as Tony's boss, and Donna Pescow was well chosen for the part of Annette (Tony's former partner) and she carries it out well. The smaller parts in this movie are all filled out with quality and realistic performances that add a great deal of authenticity to the film.
But "Saturday Night Fever" is a classic cultural film, and is worthy of a look.
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Terrible Packaging
Added 11/16/2009
CD was very scratched from being loose in packaging. Someone probably saved a whole $ .50 or less on cheesey CD case.
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Saturday Night Fever
Added 11/11/2009
This is such a cool movie. Brings back 70s memories and makes you want to move your feet.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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"A True Classic"
Added 10/22/2009
"Saturday Night Fever" defined the late 1970's and made disco the most popular form of music. With a soundtrack headed by the Bee Gees and with John Travolta in the starring role, the movie has cemented itself forever in the hearts of film buffs worldwide. Travolta (who received a Best Actor Oscar nomiation) plays Tony who works at a dead-end job during the day, but is a superstar on the dance floor at a local Brooklyn disco. The movie is widely known for making Travolta a superstar and is the first film to be widely responsible for the huge record sales of its soundtrack, which was the biggest movie album until 1992's "The Bodyguard". The DVD comes with the trailer, 3 deleted scenes, audio commentary by director John Badham, and much more. A sequel, titled "Staying Alive" and starring Travolta, was released in the early '80's and was a commercial flop.
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