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| ACTORS: | Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Todd Haynes |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 06 November, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717951002105 |
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Customer Reviews of Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Goldmine Velvet Goldmine is a movie for those familiar with the Glam Rock era. Even if you aren't, the storyline, music, costumes, and undertones of Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic beliefs will keep you interested. People of heterosexual, homosexual, and bi-sexual natures will all find something of interest. Clearly, this is an adult film, based loosely on Iggy Pop, and David Bowie, and the era in which they rocked. As a fan of David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Oscar Wilde, Eddie Izzard, and glam rock, this movie could do no wrong with me. There are subtle clues to follow while watching the film that most will miss the first time viewing. But having a keen eye is guaranteed to explain more of the movie than most will comprehend. While the movie may move from past to present and will surely loose some viewers, I enjoyed seeing the characters as they were and as they became.
Any fans of Placebo, will enjoy seeing them in the movie playing a glam rock band of the times. Having owned the soundtrack for some years, it is played regularly, and I am even thinking of purchasing an extra soundtrack incase I wear out the one I have now. Anyone who enjoys concerts, music videos, or the fantasy of being a musician or being around musicians will enjoy this film.
Other films I recommend are Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde.
Cute boys don't save the movie.
As a "young person" who loves David/T.Rex, etc. I was very excited to see this movie.
Even though it has a lot of attractice glam-rock boys, the movie is completely long and boring. The rise to stardom for the main character is exactly like David Bowie's, including the clothing, style of music, etc. The difference was David Bowie was amazing and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, though beautiful, has um, no charisma. He somehow dissapeared even though he was the star of the movie. It made the whole situation rather frusturating, because everything was so obviously copied.
For some reason, Ewan goes from Iggy Pop to Kurt Cobain in this movie, and all his songs end up as grunge rock...which they didn't have in 1970's. Obviously the director was trying to make a statement about decadence and debauchery or something, but that's a little clicheed anyway. If you know nothing about glam rock, this MIGHT be a good intro to the scene, but a much better idea is to buy Ziggy Stardust or Electric Warrior.
Overall, this movie was probably much more dissapointing to fans of the genre than people who were totally unfamiliar with it. the music seemed to be David Bowie-esque but somehow really lacking, except for some T. Rex and Lou Reed.
Just like a Prancer, a Gypsy dancer pt. 2
In addition to my last review, I should point out, after reading reviews saying "this isn't what Glam was really like"... The movie isn't supposed to be a historically accurate. "The ages live in history thru their anachronisms" (Oscar Wilde). The movie is "a work of pure fiction", and if you try to degrade it into fact, you're missing the beauty of it. It's a fairy tale. Glam rock, Oscar Wilde, etc... are merely vehicles for it to play out.