i saw it this week. it thought it a was a piece of crap. i saw it described in flyer as "as a meg ryan movie set at a rave". another way of putting it, aaron spelling productions present...it was a turgid and conventional plot that happend to involve a rave. as a piece of film making it was it plain dull. the plot plodded along, with large sections of tedium. but what are you going to do. the fun and excitement of a rave is the personal experience of dancing your arse off. as it sas at body and soul 'dancing is not a spectator sport'. it's something which is pretty much innefable in the language of film. i think it's telling to compare it to the welsh movie human traffic which was which was quite enjoyable light entertainment.
i guess it's the 'saturday night fever' of rave. unfortunately it justn't doesn't come anywhere near 'snf'. just remember when disco's utter commercialsation resulted in a backlash and the death to disco movement, the beats just went underground mutating into house. it's time again to submerge... btw, i'm no fan of trance and so haven't listened to any of it for quite some time (since the early days of harthouse/eye q). the music that digweed played, is that representative of the stuff he plays? is it representative of trance? james "John Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/22/2000 02:13:41 PM To: "313" <313@hyperreal.org> cc: (bcc: James Bucknell/Magazines/Hearst) Subject: [313] FW: Groove > Groove is coming to the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor > July 28-31, and will be showing at 9:30 p.m. each night. Has anyone seen this yet? Any thoughts? The only reports I hear are from big-media outlets, so when they trumpet it as the first "true" rave movie, it makes me more than just a bit uncomfortable... Still, it should be interesting -- and if you *had* to do a trance soundtrack (and I'm sure they did), you could definitely come up with some cheesier people than the names that show up here: John Digweed, Hybrid, Hardkiss... I believe the director Greg Harrison is an MSU graduate, for what it's worth... .John. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
