Movie Review: Studio 54
This will be reasonably quick. Studio 54 is a film about the club in the late 70’s that elevated debauchery and exclusivity to a new level.
The wierdest part of the movie is the actors who are in it. Mike Meyers as Steve Rubell playing a somewhat serious role as the decadent club owner. Neve Cambell the debutante TV soap star trying to break into the mainstream any which way she can. Watching them gives you a wierd shit moment.
There are better movies that cover this time period. My personal preference remains The Last Days of Disco.
Studio 54 tries to explore the fascination America and the world had with Studio 54. The claim is that Rubell allowed the pretty little people to hang with the rich and famous. So everyone wanted to be in. They wanted to be part of the club that let them for a brief night be one of the special people. It wasn’t an exclusive club, it was a club that anyone could go to if they were hot enough.
But do we really need an entire 2 hours to explore that theme? The movie itself has obvious moments that make one groan. The love interest, the death, the speach, the “you are irrelevant young man, I made you” moment, the father rejecting the son’s lifestyle etc…
You could skip this movie entirely. Although watching Mike Myers ask Breckin Meyer for a blowjob is both funny and repulsive at the same time.
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Add comment March 31st, 2006
