Movies
Related: About this forumLa Coliniere
(1,992 posts)but a masterpiece of a hot mess music was great and I enjoyed seeing Buddy Guy, a lifelong blues favorite of mine.
Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)a kennedy
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(37,113 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(21,283 posts)I just started streaming it and ended up stopping. I'm far from a prude, but I take issue with films that use dialogue/slang that's inappropriate for the time. It takes place in the 1930s. People didn't talk openly about sex at that time, and they certainly didn't discuss oral sex. It was just ick, and had NOTHING to do with the story.
hunter
(40,852 posts)My great aunt talked freely about her adventures in Hollywood of the 'twenties and 'thirties.
The slang wasn't quite the same, but it was just as explicit.
She'd also talk about some of the erotic art she'd seen in her travels.
Living by the Hays Code was not her thing.
bif
(27,226 posts)Really didn't care for it.
La Coliniere
(1,992 posts)In other words, its an elevated B movie that critics have overpraised to high heaven like its on the same level of Citizen Kane or The Godfather.
RainCaster
(13,888 posts)It felt like a good movie for the money, since it appeared on my streaming service. So glad I didn't see it in a theatre, I would have felt ripped off.
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