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Just how fucking classic is Josie and The Pussycats?

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Otherwise known as the "tom you goddamn coward come out fighting and justify yr. knee-jerk position" thread.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New angry answers.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was pretty useless - I thought the jokes were bad, the songs were bad, the plot was predictable, the acting was OK in places but little more. From what I'd read about it I was expecting something wittier, maybe cleverer. I've got no deep reasons or justifications Sterling, sorry.

― Tom, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

all the songs were the same song and that song is by the primitives: admittedly i did not stay to the end (or even i think the miggle); i was mostly bored and disappointed, and i hate alan wassname, the tim curry of our age. I *did* in fact say — non-ironically, obv, since irony doesn't exist — that it was the "greatest film evah made", and i can't now remembah what at grrr. Something brilliant.

― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"bbc 7" in austin powers is the greatest rocksong-that-only-exists-in-a-film ever written ever

― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Josie and the Pussycats is rockin'. Maybe this is a North American vs. European thing. (mark s please not clever omission of the phrase "the pond" as I do not with to displease you) One thing...what spawned this thread? I know we talked about Josie elsewhere, but I don't see that under New Answers...?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tha indie-guilt thread of all things. I'll come back later to this and try to explain why tom is deeply wrong.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lithping alwayth pleatheth me, sean

― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sinkah: wuz it at "take the chevy to the levy" or perhaps "smells like teen spirit"?

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I spent 10 hours trekking around (and to) Tunbridge Wells to go and see it. I've since bought the DVD, CD Soundtrack and theatrical poster. Yes it rocks.

It could do with some more subtle plot devices though.

― Graham, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.aol.com/psic0rps/Josie/josie001.gif

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it was at ten o'clock sterling, i do not recall the last thing i saw happening (secret treacherous get-out clause: tom's tv screen is really really wickle)

― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn, I typo'd. How thtupid.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, Josie has lisping gag if you stay til the end. Also, have you seen Crossroads?

― Graham, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, lithping gag.

― Graham "the th is for...", Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hells yeah. Last movie I saw = Not Another Teen Movie.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ahem sterl spiderman ahem ahem spiderman

― Josh, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't seen it yet. will see it with gf as whole date thing.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Songs not all the same; some lean towards r&b; most take off on the Go-Go's. Good, but not as good as the similarly Go-Go-ish Fabulous Disaster CD, which I seem to be the only person in the universe to think is Fabulous. (Never did see the Josie movie.)

― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

About this much *hold index finger against thumb

― cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Josie & The Pussycats is one of the greatest music films ever made, fullstop.

Used to have arguments with BF about this coz he refused to see it. I say, it is the Spinal Tap of the Boyband/girlgroup era. I don't care about the plot, the characters, the music, the comic etc. But the whole assasination of the music business as a whole is SO FUCKING CLOSE TO THE TRUTH that I don't think many people read it as the wicked parody that it truly is.

An inspired film. The first five minutes, the Backdoor Man or whatever it's called. "Du Jour means friendship!" Come ON!!! Sheer genius. They even have a freaking aural exciter in the studio! Sheesh! And the scene where they explain the existence of "Behind The Music" - that alone was worth the price of admission.

Classic. Utter, utter classic.

― speak of the devil, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Kate, dump what'is'face and marry me, okay?

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"But the whole assasination of the music business as a whole is SO FUCKING CLOSE TO THE TRUTH that I don't think many people read it as the wicked parody that it truly is." - yeah, it's not like they don't BEAT YOU OVER THE FUCKING HEAD with it. Movie - Dud, Movie Soundtrack - Dud, Cartoon - Dud, Cartoon Soundtrack - 60% Classic, Comic - Classic. Rosario Dawson is hot and talented, Rachel Leigh Cook is hot and talentless, Tara Reid is every other North Florida spermburping sorority girl made good.

― J Blount, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, like i say, ewing's tv screen = micro-teenytiny and so none of this came across => even though i really wanted to like it (spiceworld = way bettah)

― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(erm sorry tom and starry and lixi i am not dissing yr tv or yr hospitality oops)

― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No no guilty as charged on screen tininess. Your lack of acclimatisation also explains your wacko Eurovision opinions.

― Tom, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoyed the movie but the single released from the soundtrack is ace in the absolute extreme

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can marry me too, Jim.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I kind of enjoyed it, but sort of not.

I mean, aren't there *real* issues regarding the pop-music-machine mindlessly selling this shit to kids - be it an image, 'cool', or just pepsi - whatever. It seemed yet another very American approach of ridiculing anything that may or may not resemble 'political consciousness' or even critical thinking...\

A 'No Logo'-esque backlash...

― Michael Dieter, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan Freed to thread!

― J Blount, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

J, isn't Alan Freed decomposing somewhere;>?

And here I thought loving the kitsch that is "Josie and The Pussycats" was wrong. I admit to being Val, so there;>

― Nichole Graham, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...
i hated it but i laughed

― simon trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)


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