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loving-elvis · 2 days

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My favorite 50s!Elvis photos, part 152 of ∞; ✨Friday Smiles✨

#Happy Friday everyone!!#Please enjoy this beautiful boy and his beautiful smile today 💖#50s Elvis has me in a stranglehold #Love of my life #Elvis Presley

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dreamingofep · 1 year

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Elvis with dogs is one of my favorite things on this earth🥰

#elvis presley #elvis photos #elvis movie #elvisaaronpresley #50s elvis has me in a stranglehold #elvis history #elvis #elvis fans #Elvis army #elvis 2022

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star-shard · 2 years

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Ever wants to see Elvis fanfiction written by a psychopath made into an 80s family movie?

Heartbreak Hotel (1988)

Lemme just say this one is bad folks, not in a 'so bad it's good' way but, just, yeah just bad. Due to the stranglehold EP media has on me I checked it out, but I hope I'm the last one to do so.

From gaslighting Elvis into believing the reincarnation of his mother has come back to him, to kidnapping him into what I can only assume is eventual stockholm syndrome. Ya kno, fun for the whole family...

There is both some kind of 'love' and hate for the king in this one, let's talk

Okay, this movie is something... the premise being that a high school boy kidnaps Elvis Presley for the purpose of dating his lonely mom. Right off hijinks must ensue.

Let me give mild praise where it's due, (and I do mean mild.) The soundtrack is good, you got some of EP's best songs. The hotel in which the movies takes place in is named 'Flaming Star', nice nod. Seeing the fight scene from Loving You recreated in an 80s/50s style diner is directed pretty corny but theres something like admiration there.

And that's it, thats the only good words I'll give this one.

So. The main kid's plan to kidnap Elvis, is to use a local pizza maker to look like the man's dead mother, giving her a black wig and 50s styled dress, addressing EP with a letter from 'Satnin', and hint throughout his concert that his mother is reincarnated and come back to see him. Which. Sick. Come on now, that's sick. And then our lead proceeds to drug and kidnap him. It's briefly addressed for half a second by the other characters but then quickly forgotten/forgiven/never addressed again.

Dude some trashy writing is one thing. But this was just bad and weird. Come on, now...

From there 'Elvis' only fights back briefly at being kidnapped and then gets guilted to staying a while, all the while his 1970s persona is viciously mocked for being 'uncool'.

If it went full on insanity maybe it could at least be seen as that, but then it devolves into just a run of the mill family flick, just EP going full domestic with his kidnappers. Teaching a little girl not to be afraid of the dark, rocking out in a talent show with the teenaged boy that kidnapped him. Which is 'cute' here and there but considering the context, that devalues those scenes a smidge.

Naturally he has some friction with the teen boy who thinks Elvis is lame, EP throws out all of the stuff in the hotel to make it look like Graceland. Cause... yeah, that makes sense.

I wish I could say it was laughably bad. But the movie is convinced it's a heartfelt family romp, which just makes it a bit of a mess.

The movie keeps referencing the dad that left the main family and you think a more weighted moment might come to tie that plot point up with a bow but no, at the end Elvis tells everyone goodbye, gets on a plane, he bounces and the credits roll.

I get that a lot of people look down on his 70s run, it's only recent that people look on it with admiration or empathy. But jeeeeeez, this one is uncomfortable.

As for the Elvis performance, yeah lackluster as the rest of the flick. The actor isn't awful, but it's your run of the mill impersination.

It's nuts because Jerry Schilling was a consultant on this.

Idk, a ball was dropped by someone.

Skip it.

#Elvis #Movie review #Heartbreak Hotel (1988)

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loving-elvis · 2 months

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