ARTHUR (1981) Retro Movie Review
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This is my review for what is regarded as one of the best comedies of the early 1980s "ARTHUR" starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, directed by Steve Gordon
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I think I might give this movie a shot.
I just noticed something. The plot somewhat like James Cameron’s Titanic. We have the rich main character who is incredibly unhappy with his life and going forth with his arranged marriage. He then falls for a working class girl and has to make a decision to choose between her or his family. Differences being a gender swap, Arthur being a comedy while Titanic is a drama and the relationship in Titanic ending in tragedy from what you described of the ending to Arthur.
Just saying.
Quite a connection....it just shows that family, power, and money can consume a person to the point of possibly losing your soul?
Awesome movie
The magic of this movie is 100% due to the charm and chemistry of the two leads.
At the time Arthur came out in the theaters in 1981, I was 12 years old and being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional household. As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of TV and went to the movies as a way of providing myself with escape and comfort from my misery.
Back then I was going to the movies with my then best friend. We were a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. And we went to the movies together once a week, every week for a lot of years from the 1970s-1980s. We saw literally hundreds upon hundreds of movies over the years.
We tried to see every new movie that came out regardless of plot, genre (he loved horror films, I preferred comedy), critics reviews, who was starring in it, etc. So there was no particular reason we went to see Arthur. It just happened to be a new movie that was just released.
As much as I loved the moviegoing experience in itself, as an abused, neglected child, there were a small handful of movies that hit me in the very right places at the very right time. Arthur was one of those movies. Right from my very first viewing, it quickly became one of my all time favorite movies and remains that to this day. In the years following, whenever Arthur popped up on tv, I'd drop everything to watch it. Today I own the movie on DVD.
So, I say to the cast and crew of Arthur, from the bottom of the heart of an abused boy, thank you all so very, very much.
I am in my 50s I remember this coming out I did not go to the theater but I do remember getting it on VHS. If you look it up this is one of the first handful of movies that were ever released on VHS. I remember us renting it and I watched it over and over but I had not seen it since my twenties so at least 30 years. I found it much more entertaining now as an adult than I did in my twenties. It's super funny and as you stated there is tragedy underneath the laughs but it all turns out good in the end when Hobson his Butler passed away that really tugged at me. I think the funniest part of the movie is when Dudley goes to his future father-in-law's house to pick up his future bride that whole sequence is hilarious when he keeps focusing on the moose hanging off of the wall.
Hi Mr Robinson glad you liked Arthur I think you would enjoy Arthur 2 on the rocks a great movie
I always felt that Arthur 2 on the rocks was the better movie, this one is good too tho.
Hmm??.....interesting?....seen both....but A2 doesn't resonate to me like the first?
That's weird, I think this one is way deeper actually, A2 is a goofy movie.(enjoyed both)
Spot on, brother.....
It’s really strange that I remember when movies like this came out and were huge and yet now no one seems to remember these films at all. Thanks for bringing them up so that a new generation can discover them.
Also the title song for this film was a constant on the radio back then. Don’t know where it charted but you couldn’t escape it at the time.
You’re welcome, and thanks for the feedback! One of the few good things to come out of 2020, was having the time to discover all of these older classic movies that nobody seems to talk about today.
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I sorta like how the ending sort of establishes that the matriarch
really had the last say among the blowhard male fathers in the film, and
that she always had arthurs back.
I kept hearing the theme music to this at the hotel I work at. I kept thinking it waa from a TV sitcom from the 80s... Nope. Never did see the movie 🍿 did see the ads for it on TV.