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| trunks1022 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj tek
but did get shorty come out in 1983 ? no. |
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| kid nyce |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj tek
yeah, i know.. but i see the darkside creeping within you these days... |
you know its on when she's posting parties and organizing get togethers and even worse - SHE IS STARTING THREADS!
i dunno she's definitely on the dark side...what's next? |
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| LuNaSeA |
| quote: | Originally posted by kid nyce
you know its on when she's posting parties and organizing get togethers and even worse - SHE IS STARTING THREADS!
i dunno she's definitely on the dark side...what's next? |
holy crap, this is like anakin skywalker's story... if he were a she and she were a clubber.. :clown: :thepirate wahahah! |
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| Highmay |
April 15, 2005
MOVIE REVIEW | 'IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG'
The Untrue-to-Life Adventures of a D.J. Who Goes Deaf
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Back in the days of raves long gone, the English radio D. J. Pete Tong, a dance-music guru and the occasional subject of media profiles and gossip, was bequeathed an unusual claim on immortality when his name became part of Cockney rhyming slang. The phrase "It's all gone Pete Tong" is patois for "It's all gone wrong," and is now also the title of a faux documentary about a D. J. (not Pete Tong) who goes stone deaf. In "It's All Gone Pete Tong," everything that can go wrong generally does, mostly to surprisingly sweet effect.
The faux documentary has become such an established cliché that it even has a reigning auteur in the form of Christopher Guest, the prankster behind "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show." The Canadian filmmaker Michael Dowse, who wrote and directed "Pete Tong," isn't a purist like Mr. Guest, who faithfully mimics the conventions of fly-on-the-wall-style documentary, thereby making a mockery of the form and its claim on the truth. Mr. Dowse takes a less rigorous approach to his sendup, one that eases into faux documentary form principally during intermittent talking-head testimonials and some phony television bits. The rest of the time, the story assumes a more familiar fictive mode as it tracks the sideways adventures of Frankie Wilde, an Ibiza-based club D. J. played with genuine heart and talent by Paul Kaye.
Taking a cue from "Citizen Kane," a touchstone to which this film pays fleeting, cheeky homage, Mr. Dowse tells his story mostly in flashback. At the height of his fame and before his hearing went, Frankie lived in a mansion on the Spanish island, where he swatted away bikinied beauties by the dozen and ruled the island's cavernous clubs. With a body that looks like a couple of twisted-together pipe cleaners and a jagged yellow smile that speaks to the enduring excellence of British dentistry, Frankie makes a curious king of clubs. But he is royalty among these sun-drenched mortals, as well as catnip for groupies like his wife, Sonya (Kate Macgowan), and parasites like his manager, Max (a fine Mike Wilmot). As it happens, Frankie spins gold, not just vinyl.
When we first meet the D. J., he is in the grip of a mondo coke habit that would make a goner out of Al Pacino's "Scarface" Tony Montana. Coke builds Frankie up, giving him the energy to spin for thousands of flailing, cheering clubgoers, but it also brings him down, down, down. If Frankie's rise and fall don't yield any new truths about bad habits, it's because addiction often tells the same old sad story and typically leads to just two possible endings: recovery or death. But "It's All Gone Pete Tong" is primarily a comedy, so it gives nothing away to say that Frankie's addiction isn't really the point, but the means to an unexpected end. That said, the fanged, stuffed monster that rides shotgun with Frankie during his binges is genius.
This fiendishly perverse homage to "Harvey" aside, Mr. Dowse plays it safe. Because he more or less stays within the parameters of the faux documentary (and the biographical picture), there isn't much room for him to cut loose. He wrings soft humor from the usual sources, including a phony music video and different talking-head experts whose blathering turns out to be as clueless as it is essentially self-serving. Mostly, though, he gives Mr. Kaye room to push at extremes as Frankie loses his hearing and then his grip. The British comic turned actor (best known for his satirical celebrity journalist Dennis Pennis) appears in almost every scene and he carries that weight admirably. He manages the very neat trick of keeping you interested in a character who doesn't merit our affection but earns it nonetheless.
"It's All Gone Pete Tong" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes considerable drug-related humor, adult language and some violence, nudity and sexual high jinks.
Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company |
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| LuNaSeA |
nice review !
i think if highmay were a film reviewer, he would be the bill o'reilly of films. :stongue: :haha: SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!!! :wtf: :toothless :toothless :toothless :toothless |
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| blitzm |
| I enjoyed watching this movie on Monday. If you're in the mood for a crazily funny movie, this is it. I couldn't get over that crazy coke badger, I nearly died laughing, haha. This move had my laughing like a maniac and I didn't mind a bit :) |
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| PvDOBseSSioN |
i just saw it last nite @ da union square theatre and all i can say is :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: WOW!!! i was so impressed by the whole movie. it was a bit weird at times but the whole storyline is good and the movie really flows. it was also cool seeing tiesto, pvd, pete tong .... in ibiza
what did u guys think of cream @ amnesia huh???:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: it is the best place to be it really does make you lose your mind, plus that place has the best sound system in the world, it really will make you go deaf, it gave me permanent ear damage i know that:mad:
but anyway, great movie and i cant wait for it to come out on dvd |
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| LordQuinnTrance |
Here is a link to the trailer watch:
trailer |
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| mcb001982 |
just got back from watching the movie with trancaholic "nice to meet ya" the movie was really good......i liked it.....one thing that i noticed in the movie was the club that they were at in ibiza with the giant visual equalizer screen that was freaking hot and i wish there was a club around here that had something like that... one thing that did bother me about the movie is that it was supposed to be a true story....and wasn't frankie wilde around in the um.....late 80's early 90's.....but his manager had the new bluetooth headset for his motorala :D
all in all......great movie and worth seeing |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by TranceAllStars
Thank you Daniel I was about to go and find the old news clippings. BTW Exorcist is ALSO BASED ON THE TRUE STORY before we will start bringing up all "questionnable" cinematography done throughout the years. |
The Exorcist:
| quote: | | The inspiration for the book (published 1971) on which the movie was based dates back to a real episode of exorcism that occurred in 1949. Writer William Blatty was at Georgetown University and had read a Washington Post (20 August 1949) account by Bill Brinkley ("Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held In Devil's Grip") of an exorcism, involving a 13 year-old boy in Mount Rainer, Maryland. The exorcism of "Roland Doe" (pseudonym) took place between January and April 1949 by Father E. Albert Hughes and Father William Bowdern. |
Hardly disturbing. Even without this weak link to realism, the filmmakers could always quote the Bible as their "true story". After all, it introduced audiences all over the world to the devil and his ambitious plans.
The Amityville Horror:
| quote: | | Despite still being promoted as a true story, it is in fact a hoax. Convicted killer Ronald DeFao Jr's attorney William Weber concocted the story with the Lutzes. Weber wanted to use the publicity to get his client a new trial, while George Lutz needed a way to get out of the mortgage due to his failing business. Weber confessed this on a radio show in 1979 and the Lutzes fessed up in 1992. |
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| quote: | | In 1995 George and Kathy Lutz admitted, under oath, that their story is a fabrication. |
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| quote: | | Although the book on which the movie is based claims to be a true story, it is in fact fiction. |
All quotes are from IMDB.
There's a more elaborate rebutal at snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp
which debunks both Amityville and Exorcist.
Summary: Scepticism should be the default attitude when hearing that a horror movie is based on a true story. |
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| trancaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by mcb001982
just got back from watching the movie with trancaholic "nice to meet ya" the movie was really good......i liked it..... |
Nice to meet you as well! And yes, great movie.
| quote: | Originally posted by mcb001982
one thing that i noticed in the movie was the club that they were at in ibiza with the giant visual equalizer screen that was freaking hot and i wish there was a club around here that had something like that... |
I've been there. It's "amnesia" in Ibiza. Last time I was there I managed to faint, and had to crawl my way to a taxi - missing out on PVD that night.:(
To add insult to injury, Mix-mag's readers voted the club "best foreign club", PVD "best DJ", and Cream (the organizers) "best organizer" that year. All I got from the night, was 30 minutes of warm up, a blast of dry ice in the face, my head knocked into a wall, and strange looks from the doormen.:whip: |
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