{"id":158198,"date":"2025-01-21T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediamikes.com\/?p=144745"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:21:34","slug":"blu-ray-review-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/blu-ray-review-saturday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Review: \u201cSaturday Night\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Directed by\u00a0Jason Reitman\u00a0(Juno<\/em>),\u00a0Saturday Night fictionalizes\u00a0<\/em>what happened behind the scenes during the 1975 series premiere of NBC\u2019s long-running comedy series\u00a0Saturday Night Live<\/em>. It\u2019s a well-made tribute that comes from the heart, but never really creates its own identity. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presented as a real time, ticking clock thriller, the film depicts the 90 or so minutes leading up to the famous moment when\u00a0Chevy Chase\u00a0bellowed the very first \u201cLive from New York! It\u2019s Saturday night!\u201d With the camera constantly cruising the claustrophobic halls of Studio 8H, all the players who would become household names by 1976 are introduced.\u00a0Lorne Michaels\u00a0(played by\u00a0The Fabelmans\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Gabriel LaBelle) is frantically trying to keep things together as he tries to revolutionize late night TV, while the NBC executives (Cooper Hoffman\u00a0and\u00a0Willem Dafoe) still aren\u2019t convinced the show will work. The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players \u2014 Chevy Chase (Cory Michael Smith), Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt), Dan Aykroyd (Dylan O\u2019Brien), Garrett Morris (Lamorne Morris), John Belushi (Matt Wood), Laraine Newman (Emily Fairn), and Jane Curtain (Kim Matula) \u2014 rehearse, goof around, and butt heads as they prepare to make TV history. Head writer Michael O\u2019Donaghue (Tommy Dewey), and producer Rosie Shuster (Rachel Sennott), who was also Michaels\u2019 estranged wife at the time, both contribute to and attempt to shape the chaos around them. Musical director\u00a0Paul Shaffer\u00a0(Paul Rust), and host\u00a0George Carlin(Matthew Rhys) both receive one dimensional screen time. Old guard comic\u00a0Milton Berle\u00a0(J.K. Simmons) makes fun of it all, and\u00a0Succession\u2019<\/em>s\u00a0Nicholas Braun\u00a0pulls double-duty as both\u00a0Jim Henson\u00a0and\u00a0Andy Kaufman.<\/p>\n

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Reitman and co-writer\u00a0Gil Kenan\u00a0(who collaborated on the recent\u00a0Ghostbusters<\/em>\u00a0films) did meticulous research, interviewing everyone who was in the building on the day of the show\u2019s premiere. As the disc\u2019s special features reveal, some of those stories conflicted, and others took place on different days but were folded into the movie anyway, making for a jam-packed 109 minutes. Not all of it works, but there is some undeniably great craftsmanship at hand, from the luminous 16mm cinematography to the overwhelmingly impressive two-story set replicating\u00a0SNL<\/em>\u2018s famous Studio 8H \u2014 built in Atlanta for the film. Another highlight is the free-wheeling, jazzy score that was recorded live on the set by Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer\u00a0Jon Batiste, who also doubles as\u00a0Billy Preston, the very first\u00a0SNL<\/em>\u00a0musical guest ever.\u00a0Likewise, the cast was carefully selected in order to inhabit famous faces of 1975, and even the extras were auditioned in order to realistically play crew members. The performances range from effective mimicry to genuinely funny, but too much screen time is given to re-enacting famous bits (albeit in rehearsal mode), like Chase\u2019s Weekend Update segment, Kaufman\u2019s lip sync rendition of the\u00a0Mighty Mouse<\/em>\u00a0theme song, and Morris\u2019 raucous \u201cGet Me a Shotgun\u201d song. The originals were all really funny on\u00a0SNL<\/em>\u00a0in 1975, but the cover versions fall flat in the context of the film. Batiste doesn\u2019t look much like Preston, but he looks like he\u2019s having fun. Which pretty much goes for the whole movie.\u00a0Ultimately, as entertaining as some moments are,<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday Night\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>main issue is that it\u2019s a fairly conventional, even predictable look at what was a very unconventional and unpredictable time.<\/p>\n

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The special features include an audio commentary, and two worthwhile featurettes that go behind the scenes, explaining the film\u2019s genesis, the casting process, the incredible production design, complicated choreography, and more. There\u2019s also some fun Super 8 footage of the cast on set, and a handful of too-brief promotional clips called\u00a0<\/strong>Creating Comedy Icons<\/em><\/strong>. Strangely, there\u2019s a separate doc about Batiste\u2019s score, but it\u2019s just over a minute long. What\u2019s the point of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The commentary is the disc\u2019s highlight. Reitman takes us through all aspects of the film\u2019s origins and production process, and is joined by cinematographer<\/strong>\u00a0Eric Steelberg<\/strong>, production designer\u00a0<\/strong>Jess Gonchor<\/strong>, and costumer designer\u00a0<\/strong>Danny Glicker<\/strong>. With Reitman acting as a de facto moderator, each contributor speaks about their particular involvement when the film presents opportunities, instead of just all talking at once. The track is conversational, insightful, well paced and well organized.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lastly, I would recommend this film to die hard fans of the beloved SNL show. New onlookers who are not familiar (and not too many would fall in this category) with SNL would probably still enjoy the film (as I personally did) because of its hilarity. Picture and sound are great as they should be since this is a new release.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Out of 5 stars\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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