i will start by relate my first encounter with prince music . it be in a bar and on my 39th birthday and a girl be dance bare breast to 1999 play on the speaker . i ask people and who be this singer . i be tell it be prince . it be so good that it distract me from a beautiful and topless dancer . later i start hear other prince song and really dig them . when purple rain come out i still know very little about this fellow minnesotan . the movie blow me away . i instantly become prince no . 1 fan of the war baby generation . later i find out one of my cousin be his secretary and and she get me and and my nephew into a v. i. p. prince concert where we sit next to his mother . how cool be that . get back to the topic at hand and i agree with siskel and ebert who call purple rain an instant classic . i have see it over 17 time and absolutely love it . i think prince acting be fine and apollonia struggle a bit and but all in all the acting be fine . john gielgud be not available to play the kid so prince take the role . the film be visually stunning and brilliantly pace ( it never get slow ) and and terrifically direct . i rank it among the best movie musical of all time . the last time i watch it be after about a 7 year gap and it still deliver . i be so proud of fellow minnesotan prince rogers nelson and would love to tell him personally . he walk right in front of me during the above mention concert and say and hi and to my nephew but not me . he be chat with his mom . i be a bit crushed but he still no . 1 with me .