Saturday Night Fever-Fluff Nothing More
Saturday Night Fever is a slice of life look at the subculture of the disco scene in the 1970's. Or at least that's the film school line of crap many are often feed. Saturday Night Fever is a seriously overrated film. Its essentially fluff built around a bunch of dance sequences. Declaring the film to be little more than a sort of gnarled and twisted musical disguised as serious art may be taking things too far, but Saturday Night Fever is far from an a classic as many would want to claim and is much closer to camp. The film as social commentary is, on a superficial level, accurate, but Saturday Night Live, should in no way be misconstrued as having any real significance. Echoes of this film as art comes mostly from the now social security aged intelligentsia that seek to find meaning in the empty vacuum of the misguided activities of their youth.
In the long run, Saturday Night Fever will likely be remembered more for launching one John Travlota, thanks a lot by the way, and its soundtrack. A definite box-office success, Saturday Night Fever was a hit because the film tapped into the goofy hysteria of the disco craze and the brainless subculture that arose around it. How truly significant of a phenomenon or relevant to cinema is a film, whose sequel, Staying Alive, was directed and co-written by Sly Stallone? End of discussion old folks and cinema professors, Saturday Night Fever is fluff.
Story C-
Acting C-
Visuals B
Originality/Innovation D+
Enjoyability Grade C- (The silliness factor, brings up the fun factor.)
Home Theater/HD Factor C+
Overall Grade C- (Wildly overrated in nearly every way imaginable.)
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