Cathy got me the Blu-ray for Christmas. We watched it together.
After I watched this the first time, I liked it quite a bit. The longer I thought about it, the more I liked it. Dangerous Business has been in my head often, and I’ve been suggesting the movie to almost anyone I can.
The second viewing was actually better than the first! While I had really liked all of the music/songwriting sequences the first time through, I felt like the plot was almost an intrusion into that bliss. This time through, the plot wasn’t bad at all. It felt like there was more of a continuity from the song sequences into the plot ones, and it felt more like two people from another movie stumbling into a big-budget action movie. The tone of the delivery and the photography changes.
I was more aware of a variety of continuity gags. Every time they’re on stage, they invariably kick a microphone at some point. Dangerous Business is remixed into different instrumental versions for background music (as well as a piece of music used in the Mission: Impossible series, in a very pleasing easter egg).
There’s one complaint that I have, and it’s hard to blame them for. There are passages where most of the dialogue is whispered. I wish the mixing were better for those scenes. I think those play better in theaters though.
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