Who here remembers "Xanadu"?

[Taverner]

Quite possibly the GREATEST movie ever made!

It had Olivia!

It had disco!

It had roller skating!

It had roller disco!

It had Gene Kelly!

It had the Tubes!

It had ELO!

[Guava Jelly]

1. I love that movie!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uud6WGEVbrw
Gene and Olivia

[Taverner]

3. It was bad, it was good, it was bad at being good but good at being bad

A true classic!

[WhollyHeretic]

2. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan; A stately pleasure-dome decree"

or is that a different Xanadu? :shrug:

[zonkers]

8. You beat me to it.!!!!

[Deja Q]

4. I like the font and Olivia with a purple glow cannot be missed.

Seems silly otherwise.

[GOPisEvil]

5. My God, did that movie suck-diddly-uck.

In fact, it may be so horrific that it has some entertainment value.

[Taverner]

6. It actually does

Just watched it again the other day - man oh man were they off!

It is a classic!

[Alexander]

7. You mean the 11-minute Rush song?

Oh, THAT Xanadu. ;-)

[Elidor]

11. To find the sacred river Ralph...

Prior to reading Coleridge, I always wondered why anyone would name a river after someone named Ralph.

Great jam, though! One of their better pieces.

[idgiehkt]

9. Gratuitous ELO on the soundtrack

you can never get enough ELO!

[JackBeck]

10. I'm a bad gay.

I've never seen it.

[terrya]

12. Of course. And if you loved the movie....here's the Off Broadway production.

Yes, "Xanadu" will be an Off Broadway show this Spring. :-)

http://www.bgay.com/bae/hollywood/aeho61128c.htm

[L A Woman]

16. there was an AWESOME play of it in West Hollywood about 5 years ago

it was truly the funniest thing I have ever seen. It was the movie, word for word (no changes at all) but on stage with actors who looked and sounded like Olivia, Michael Beck and Gene Kelly. and it was SO FUNNY! I can't even describe it but I had tears streaming down my face. I can only hope that is what they are doing off-Broadway. it played at the Zephyr Theater in WeHo and it was sold out for its entire run.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

13. Ahh...Olivia. My first crush.

Well, probably not my first crush. But my first celebrity crush, defninitely.

Oh, the movie was horrible. But I couldn't stop staring at Olivia as she skated across the screen. (I think that was the point)

Oh boy, was that movie horrible.

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. OMFG... The only tolerable part was the Tubes...

:yoiks: My husband loves that movie. :(

[Lautremont]

15. I saw it in the theatre.

I had one just down the street, so every week I just went to see whatever was there. One week, this was there. I was nine and didn't really know what to make of it. Beside me, in the darkness, my little brother began to softly cry.

[Dukkha]

17. wow I was just thinking about that "movie" today

it's like Flash Gordon on acid

[L A Woman]

18. and don't forget who directed it...

Robert Greenwald, director of many recent anti-Bush documentaries. Olivia once said that she asked him, during the making of Xanadu, what kind of music he liked. He replied, "I don't like music." :-)

[elfrangel]

19. I love that movie!!!

My sister does too, in fact her daughter is named Kira after Olivia's character.

[Montauk6]

20. Never saw the movie but I've always dug "Magic"