Great Balls of Fire!

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Jithin K The only knowledge about Jerry Lewis I had was Top Gun and the use of the song in this title. Watching this film, it actually made sense of a lot of things going on in today's world. Like how incredibly dense and creepy people can be and how normalized that actually is in the world. This film just shows the two years of the musician's life. And you gotta admit that the makers did some impossible things with this film. They made a glamorous look at everything he did and also made it look like he was a psychopath at the same time. Every single choice in the film is stupidly convoluted so that, it is morally confusing without any actual depth to it. Dennis Quaid gave his everything to the performance and from what I'm getting to know about the actual musician, he did a really great job at it. Winona Ryder was also pretty good as Myra, especially considering the kind of role that is. The songs were good and mostly integrated okay. Being based on the book by Myra, the 13-year-old cousin Jerry marries, we might think it would be taking more of her side but the film is very ambiguous on which side it is ending up as against the audience side instead of an actual objective look. Taking for and against approach is not only with Jerry Lewis but also with fundamentalist Christianity involved at the time. That is such a fucked up approach. Especially when it comes to marriage, the film made it feel like they are trying to open a discussion about if it is okay to marry your 13-year-old cousin. I mean, they don't justify it but they don't stand against it either. The way they showed the problems in their lives being very individualistic, it's as if the marriage wasn't a problem at all, and that people didn't have any right to an opinion on their lives. Allowing Myra to be a part of the project and then fictionalizing was really such a dick move. Well, even the book this is based on was hijacked from her so she had to write a whole other book. The whole thing not just showed the normalized creepiness of the 50s when it is set on and of the 80s when it was shot. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/02/23 Full Review Audience Member If it wasn't so disturbing to watch it, I honestly think it would have been a great movie but it isn't so yea Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member The movie is good. The movie has some of jerry lee Lewis best songs. The act of the character is good with jerry lee Lewis personality. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review steve d It's a bit uncomfortable but the stars are great. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This film about controversial fifties rocker Jerry Lee Lewis is a must see. Dennis Quaid does a great job at playing Lewis and Winona Ryder is also great as his teen bride/cousin. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member the best movie of all time . Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/20 Full Review Read all reviews

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