We did a whole month of horror movies and one even sneaked in last week since it was still Halloween week. We're sick of them. Pea soup sick.
So we're going with the next scariest genre, musicals. But wait!, these are actually "music" movies. Think Rhinestone or Trick or Treat and not The Apple or Here Comes Santa Claus. Hold on, I mistyped. Never, ever think of Rhinestone.
I got into the history of hip-hop when Boing Boing began featuring Ed Piskor's Hip-Hop Family Tree series. I started watching movies like Beat Street, Rappin', Style Wars, Big Fun in the Big Town and Wild Style. Here's Piskor's depiction of the beginning of Wild Style.
And if you read the rest of the series you'll recognize people in the film like the Cold Crush Brothers. This movie is like if someone made a movie with Chuck Berry and Little Richard in 1954.
I once joked in an invite that a movie (Vigilante) was "so 80s and New Yorky it will be like Ed Koch is spray painting your JVC RC-M90 boombox". With Wild Style's hip-hop/graffiti bent this is an even realer possibility.
Glitter had the misfortune of being released on September 21, 2001 when America was too busy saving up for Zoolander on the following weekend. Of course it's also bad enough to be in IMDB's Bottom 100.
I kind of wish Sparkle had ended up being worse. We could have had Shiny Period Music Drama. Curse you Sparkle for being adequate!
Here's What Happened Last Week:
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