I agree that there are some less than great GK movies, I don't think his performance, other than the dancing, in Xanadu was very good for instance. But no one could act in that for some reason. I hold the director of that film responsible, the whole thing was ill conceived and badly executed.

At one point I probably would have agreed with you. As a massive Singing in the Rain, and as I thought at the time, Gene Kelly fan, I sought out more of his work, and time and again I was disappointed. SITR was SUCH a high point in movie musicals and in his career and was just SUCH a perfect film, in terms of…