(itās also about film but) itās about when the movie business changed from silent films with instrumental music to ātalkiesā with dialogue and composed music synced to the film. thereās a musical movie being made with popular stars EXCEPT the female lead is a horrible singer. so they have to replace the recordings of her singing with recordings from an actually talented singer (who is not famous). antics ensue, many fun song and dance numbers, someone falls in love, etc
Aug 14, 2024
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The songs, the dream ballet, Cyd Charisse's green dress, Donald O'Connor's performance of Make 'Em Laugh, Gene Kelly doing one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history with a fever, Debbie Reynolds emerging out of a big cake, this film has it all.
IMDb has a lot of fascinating facts about this film and it sounded like a terrible project to work on but wow what a film
Apr 28, 2024
iāve recād this before and iām reccing it again hereā¦ the musical numbers are over the top with set and costume design (photos here donāt do it justice) and i wish movies nowadays looked this way
Apr 4, 2025
In college I was a musical hater, in a blind blanketed statement these movies were not for me. Singin in the Rain then changed my life. Many of my favorite movies I watch initially to a mixed feeling or review, but am pulled back to for some strange reason, with this reason normally being it is destined to be one of my favorite movies!
Filled with joy around every corner, Singinā in the Rain is a movie of its time. Colorful and happy as ever, Gene Kelly proceeds to tap dance for half the run time and itās perfect. Ugh itās truly timeless!!!
Side note: I think that tap dance needs to be brought back. One of the most sexy masculine things ever used to be Gene Kelly tap dancing. Why canāt we bring this back!!! Normalize tap dancing please it looks so cool and fun.
Apr 7, 2025
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i had it for a little over a year until i was like wow this is actually terrible! i genuinely think it has negatively impacted society by ruining peopleās attention spans, having a horrific algorithm, and most of all by the most mind-numbing or outright harmful trends -
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a million times cooler than the lackluster āsleekā tech color palette used today
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