Good Times
by William Friedkin
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Actor: Cher, George Sanders, Norman Alden, Sonny & Cher, Sonny BonoDirector: William Friedkin
Brand: SONNY & CHER
Cinematographer: Robert Wyckoff
Editor: Melvin Shapiro
Producer: Lindsley Parsons
Producer: Steve Broidy
Writer: Nicholas Hyams
Writer: Tony Barrett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Good Times
DVD Review: Violent and silly - for diehard S&C fans ONLY!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this for my wife who was a big fan of the TV show, and we watched it together with our 5-yr. old, expecting an evening of '60s silliness and perhaps a few good songs. By the time we were half-way into the movie, our daughter couldn't handle the excessive, gratuitous violence, and neither my wife or I could figure out how William Friedkin (director of The French Connection, The Exorcist, and other immensely successful films) could have directed this atrocity. The script is terrible, and Sonny and Cher appear to be sleep-walking their way through it. They obviously knew something about comedic timing, as their hugely successful show demonstrated, so how could this movie have turned out so bad, with acting so flat? The story itself, the making of a film within the film, may hold the clue: Cher did not really want to make this movie, so it is thus Sonny Bono's vanity project. In the plot line, Sonny demands that if a S&C movie is made, he have total artistic control; if this is in fact true of this abominable film, then it was a gigantic mistake. Sonny Bono was a businessman in hippie clothes, as his true identity emerged as a conservative Republican congressman in the 1980s. But he was absolutely talentless as a singer, and mediocre at best as a songwriter - proof of the latter is that Cher's best work came after the break-up of the duo. The violence in the movie may be more the product of Friedkin's handiwork, as he may have reluctantly agreed to directing this mess, but it is inexplicable and pointless all the same. There is definitely a streak of mean-spiritedness that runs through the script, and isn't helped by Sonny's somnabulent delivery and Cher's abject boredom throughout. Veteran actor George Sanders is the only one able to acquit himself in the movie somewhat, but just barely, by playing to type as a heavy.
As is obvious from all the positive Amazon reviews of "Good Times", diehard Sonny and Cher buffs may like this piece of violent silliness for its nostalgic content, but for the initiate who wants to understand what all the fuss was about, stick to the television show compilations. At least they are better scripted, by far.
Description of Good Times
In their one and only movie together, singing duo Sonny and Cher star in this "happy" (The Hollywood Reporter), "affectionate" (Los Angeles Times) and "loveably surreal" (American Cinematheque) film aboutwho else?Sonny and Cher! An "impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) from OscarĀ(r) winner* William Friedkin, with a hilarious script by Tony Barrett, Good Times is good, great and downright groovy! Husband-and-wife singers Sonny and Cher couldn't be hotterthey even have an offer to star in a movie! Trouble is, Cher doesn't want to do it and the script stinks. Now Sonny has ten days to write a new script. He has great ideashe could be a cowboy, the king of the jungle or a private eye. But he still has to convince his dynamite babe to sing the same tune! *1971: Director, The French ConnectionBestsellers in DVD
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