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Purple Rain: Moments
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Purple Rain is a [G]reat film. It's entertaining as hell—a film that perfectly captures what it's like to be on the cutting edge of a musical sea change. Clichéd as the plot may be, it's roughly autobiographical. The film, and its soundtrack (which sold 10 million copies), are pivotal moments in rock history. It's ... the defining work—artistically and musically—of one of the true geniuses of contemporary rock, the enigmatic Minneapolis native Prince Rogers Nelson.
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A true career-defining moment, 1984’s Purple Rain took Prince from a level of good popularity – 1982’s 1999 spawned a lot of sales – to the heights of rock megastardom. It was the kind of enormous hit that almost no artists experience more than once.
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Purple Rain is a difficult film to review. On the one hand, it's a well-filmed bunch of amateurs doing their best to act, but not doing that great a job of it, in a rock and roll musical. On the other hand, it's one of the defining moments in rock history. How do you review something that's objectively mediocre, but subjectively fantastic? When in doubt, rely on one simple question: is it entertaining? And in the case of Purple Rain, the answer is a resounding "yes." Flaws notwithstanding, this 20th Anniversary set is a quality release for a significant film.
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