ABBA: The Movie (1977)
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I don't know that much about ABBA or what even went on during the movie and I watched it all. It felt like a weird, horrifying drug trip but I had a good time watching it even though the film sucked. It was mostly irredeemable except for the shot of the eagle near the end which symbolized my freedom from this film.
Welcome to the movies. Elvis had done it, The Beatles had done it and now the nineteen-seventies super group ABBA have done it. Welcome to ABBA: The Movie. This semi-documentary movie footage of the pop sensation that stormed the world with its simple melodies, gentle harmonies and infectious lyrics is taken while on tour of the Southern Hemisphere during 1977.
LOBBY CARD11 x 14\" printed on heavy stock paper. Used as display in theatre lobbies. Originally made in sets of eight. Some sets have a title card, which contains credits and artwork, essentially a mini-poster. The remaining seven cards are coloured photographic credits and poster artwork showing different scenes from the movie.
STYLE Y/FORTY BY SIXTY40 x 60\" printed on heavy stock paper. Rare since they were primarily used for major motion pictures only. Designed to be used outside the theatre, on an easel, normally at a drive-in movie theatre.
ONE-SHEET27 x 41\" printed on paper. This is the most common size of poster, intended to be displayed in a glass \"marquee\" case. It is the most sought after size by collectors. Since the 1980's most posters are sent to the theatre rolled and maybe slightly smaller measuring 27\" by 40\" and with the advent of backlit light boxes a growing number of modern movie posters are available double-sided and the more traditional single-sided.
THREE-SHEET41 x 81\" printed on paper. These were printed on two or three separate sheets designed to overlap, few survive. Used for larger advertising spaces, normally posted on walls, perfect for huge movie theatres the drive-in, where people could see them from a distance. From the 1970's on, three-sheets were sometimes printed in one piece and issued as \"international\" versions to be used abroad.
FRENCH47 x 63\" (GRANDE) or 24 x 33\" (PETITE) French movie posters normally come with different artwork to either the US or the UK. Like the Italian's some of the artwork is extrememly beautiful.
magicub ... that's how i felt writing this. I'm like. how have i been alive this many years LOL.at least I don't remember ABBA while they were \"happening\" ha hafranlinbuth --i think so yes. I don't get it. But then, you can't really hold the movie against the book and the book i haven't read.
oh yeah. I do actually like that one. But the bad is so plentiful that i forget he made that.but yes, sweet movie that isn't too sugary. plus: dep + dicaprio + steenburgen + JULIETTE LEWIS so, yes, me likey.
Thanks Nathaniel, this was great and worth the wait :)Born in 1972 and living in Sydney, ABBA - The Movie was the second time I went to the cinema (the first was for Snow White or somesuch), but the first time I went the week a film opened! I was 5, but I was so there! It was also the first movie I saw more than once at the cinema (when I was 7) and the first movie I bought on video. I was an ABBA fan from 3 or 4 years old (ie pre-irony) and love them still. So I have no critical faculties when it comes to this movie whatever (well besides realising the flimsy story sux).Part of the appeal is that it's practically a doco of what Australia was like in the 1970s. The concert footage is great, and the lame story just makes me appreciate the concert even more.ABBA truly were a phenomenon in Australia - more people watched an ABBA special on TV in 1976 than the moon landing in 1969 (!), Fernando was No 1 for 14 weeks etc - and the movie captures that.If I recall correctly, the story was made up by Hallstrom on the plane to Sydney and kept changing as they went along. There were only about 3 actors, and Hallstrom mapped out the scenes and there was a lot of improv. ABBA were too busy to be involved, so their irritation and bewilderment when Hughes keeps pestering them as the DJ in some scenes is genuine!
I'm also a huge fan of ABBA, but I couldn't stomach the movie. I tried to sit through it once, but 20 minutes in I was bored silly. It doesn't have the wit of A Hard Day's Night or the in-bred campiness & stupid/funny humor of Spice World. I admire your strength and perseverance in lasting the full 90 minutes.FYI, as a die-hard ABBA fan, I saw Mammia Mia! the stage show a few months ago and it was every bit as awful as it could be. They turned \"Chiquitita\" (my favorite ABBA) song from a dark and haunting number into something light and bubbly to lift the mother's spirits. I wanted to puke. By the end of the show, they just crank out one ABBA Gold number after another.
When I say ABBA were too busy to be involved, I mean too busy to be much involved in the making of the movie during the tour, besides being filmed. They picked Hallstrom for the job (he also directed nearly all their videos) and gave him carte blanche while the tour was on.Later, while they were recording 'ABBA - The Album' (released around the same time as the movie in late 1977), there were pickups in Stockholm and they did overdubs on some of the 'live' tracks.
I'm gonna read this after I watch the movie, which I have on my DVR just waiting to be watched (as Par said, it aired down to tie in with Eurovision, which is a big deal). THat it has the guy from Hey, Dad! is both frightening and BRILLIANT!There's a joke going around that if Mamma Mia can't succeed here in Australia then it can't succeed anywhere. I believe the ABBA Gold album has rarely been out of Australia's Top 100 album chart since it was released. The only thing Australia, seemingly, likes more than ABBA is a greatest hits compilation!
I have to admit I like My Life as a Dog, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Casanova, which gave us a lot of Heath Ledger.A friend of mine who loves ABBA did not like the way Mamma Mia! used ABBA's music. I have seen many musicals in my lifetime but waited until just this year to see Mamma Mia! because the movie is coming out and the wonderful Carolee Carmello is currently playing the lead on Broadway. She can do no wrong but the show is really over the top--everything is overdone. Yet I can see this being an entertaining movie because all the roles have been very well cast as far as I can tell--though I don't know anything about the actress who plays the daughter Sophie. But Streep singing Mamma Mia and Dancing Queen and Winner Takes All will be divine.
A great read, though sometimes a bit harsh on the movie, which I adore in spite of itself.Although you're completely right about its shortcomings, I still forgive it.I still get chills when I see the screen go WIDE at the start and the music kicks in. Oh to have seen it in IMAX!Also, enough already with the Hallstrom dissing. My Life As A Dog, Gilbert Grape and Cider House are all supreme if you ask me. And I moderately esteem Chocolat, and don't think it should be entirely blamed for getting a Best Picture nomination that somebody else bought for it. It's still better than your average Ashton Kutcher vehicle!Rob
Nat, that whole piece was hilarious! As I was watching it last night I kept pointing out the exact same things! The Frida-lessness towards the start, the incompitent DJ, etc.The parade you mentioned was \"Moomba\", this weird Melbourne-only festival that celebrates fringe stuff and people jumping off piers dressed like birds. 1. Take a Chance on Me2. Dancing Queen3. I'm a Marionette4. Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)5. S.O.S.or something like that. I was definitely disappointed that \"Take a Chance\" wasn't included in the movie since it was the second (and arguably most popular) single from The Album.BTW, the film's IMDb plot description is this: \"An incompetent radio DJ tries to get an interview with the Swedish pop group during their famous week-long 1977 tour of Australia.\"hahah.Also, I'd never heard that solo Frida song. It's thoroughly amazing.Good call on the Madonna thing. Blighty bitch hasn't toured here in nearly 20 years. And she's not touring with her Hard Candy tour either.
The film concerns the adventures of Ashley Wallace (Robert Hughes), a naïve DJ on Radio 2TW, who normally presents a through-the-night country and western-themed show. In spite of this, he is sent by the station's boss (Bruce Barry) to get an in-depth interview (\"Not an interview, a dialogue\", demands his boss) with the group, which is to be aired on the day ABBA leave Australia. Ashley, who has never done an interview before, fails, mainly because he has forgotten to pack his press card, although the fact that he is unable to buy a concert ticket doesn't help matters. Armed with his trusty reel-to-reel tape recorder, Ashley is forced to follow the group all over Australia, beginning in Sydney, and then travelling, in order, to Perth, Adelaide, and Melbourne, experiencing repeated run-ins with the group's very protective bodyguard (Tom Oliver), as well as his increasingly exasperated boss. Throughout the movie, we see Ashley interviewing members of the public, asking them if and why they like ABBA. Almost all the comments are positive, but one man is driven mad by his ABBA-obsessed twelve-year-old son, and another girl thinks ABBA are over the top.
A theatrical re-release of the film occurred across Europe during July and August 2008 (the same period as the ABBA-themed movie musical Mamma Mia! first hit American theaters) in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Austria. 59ce067264