History YMMV / PurpleRain

* NarmCharm: The film is hardly a Best Picture winner, as it's a pretty obvious music-selling vehicle for Prince. Nevertheless, the soundtrack and the fact that it stars ''Prince'' still endears it to many.

** In re the song "Purple Rain," The Kid tells Wendy and Lisa "Nobody cares about your music." They would later release five albums on their own, all flops.

** There is one scene in which The Kid and Apollonia listen to a demo tape in which a woman is supposedly crying played backwards. Also crosses into FridgeHorror when you stop to wonder, how did The Kid get the tape recording of a woman crying?
** The {{domestic abuse}} scenes taking place in The Kid's house are quite disturbing, especially for anyone that grew up in a rough childhood.
** When The Kid returns home to the house quiet, his home a mess, and when he turns on a light, his father shoots himself in the head.
** The Kid's hallucinations alone are nightmarish, flashbacking back to him finding his father's near-dead body on the floor with the gun next to him, the chalk on the floor where his father's body use to be and ending with a hallucination of what appears to be The Kid hanging himself in the same basement. This frightens The Kid enough to cause him to destroy the basement.

* AwardSnub: The soundtrack lost the 1985 UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for Album of the Year to Music/LionelRichie's ''Can't Slow Down'', though it did win an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Original Song Score[[note]]The prevailing theory is that the rock-oriented Grammy voters were split between this and Music/BruceSpringsteen's ''Born in the USA'', letting the pop and R&B blocks push ''Can't Slow Down'' to the win.[[/note]], though none of the songs were nominated.

* AwardSnub: The soundtrack lost the 1985 UsefulNotes/Grammyaward for Album of the Year to Music/LionelRichie's ''Can't Slow Down'', though it did win an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Original Song Score[[note]]The prevailing theory is that the rock-oriented Grammy voters were split between this and Music/BruceSpringsteen's ''Born in the USA'', letting the pop and R&B blocks push ''Can't Slow Down'' to the win.[[/note]], though none of the songs were nominated.

* AwardSnub: The soundtrack lost the 1985 Grammy award for Album of the Year to Music/LionelRichie's ''Can't Slow Down'', though it did win an Oscar for Best Original Song Score.[[note]]The prevailing theory is that the rock-oriented Grammy voters were split between this and Music/BruceSpringsteen's ''Born in the USA'', letting the pop and R&B blocks push ''Can't Slow Down'' to the win.[[/note]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** The Kid is a {{Jerkass}} who bullies Wendy and Lisa and restricts their creativity. In real life, Music/{{Prince}} was a huge {{Jerkass}} to Wendy and Lisa, who eventually split with Prince. Happy viewing!

* NightmareFuel: Believe it or not the film has some creepy moments. Aside from the treatment Apollonia occasionally receives there is one scene in which The Kid and Apollonia listen to a demo tape in which a woman is supposedly crying played backwards.
** Crosses into FridgeHorror when you stop to wonder, how did The Kid get the tape recording of a woman crying?

* JustHereForGodzilla: The only reason anybody would watch this is for the music. And the {{Fanservice}}.

** The Kid is a {{Jerkass}} who bullies Wendy and Lisa and restricts their creativity. In real life, Music/{{Prince}} was a huge {{Jerkass}} to Wendy and Lisa, who eventually split with Prince and apparently never spoke to him for the rest of his life. Happy viewing!

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:
** "It doesn't matter if your art is personal as long as it pleases the crowd."
** The movie seems to suggest that while raping or beating up women is not really acceptable, anything else (playing cruel pranks on them, tossing them into garbage bins for a cheap laugh) is fair game.

** The domestic abuse scenes taking place in The Kid's house are quite disturbing, especially for anyone that grew up in a rough childhood.

* SoBadItsGood: The film is hardly a Best Picture winner, and much of the film is a pretty clear Prince music-selling vehicle. Nevertheless, the soundtrack and the fact that it stars ''Prince'' still endears it to many.

* HilariousInHindsight: "Let's Go Crazy" contains the lyric, "Let's get nuts". Prince would later do the soundtrack for [[Film/Batman1989 a film that contains that line in dialogue]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The Kid is a {{Jerkass}} who bullies Wendy and Lisa and restricts their creativity. In real life, Music/{{Prince}} was a huge {{Jerkass}} to Wendy and Lisa, who eventually split with Prince and apparently never spoke to him for the rest of his life. Happy viewing!