Vic Sage
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as to the performances, some were appealing, some less so, but they did get me to reconsider the music, which i guess was the point. I liked some of the new arrangements and interpretations, but your mileage may vary.
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He's certain that the menage a trois song would've gone top 40! Damn you, McGuinn! Having just seen it, I can't disagree with anything Edgy says, but i think there is a bit too much damning of the project for what it isn't and what it didn't (and chose not to) do. I liked what i saw more than i didn't like what wasn't there, if that makes any sense. It's not a portrait of the Laurel Canyon cultural scene; it's a more narrowly focused look at the LA music scene of a certain period (65-67), framing it as the response to the Beatles and the birth of folk-rock, and the nature of the feedback loop that musicians were in then, impacted and impacting each other's music as they lived in each other's lives in the canyon. The later artists (Browne, Petty) are commenting in terms of the affect that the music would later have on them (as "echoes" of the canyon). There were some cinematic moves, and i found the piece interesting, even if not the more complete portrait it could have (and maybe should've) been.
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i didn't read your review above, because i just got it from Netflix. My wife was anxious to see it, so we will and then i'll read your analysis.
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i thought the filmmaking was kinetic and stylish, and the performances powerful. I bought it.
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Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)
Vic Sage replied to Frayed Knot's topic in Film Review Forum
A fairy tale love letter to Hollywood of the late 60s, featuring a lot of driving around L.A., staring at signage. But DiCaprio and Pitt have never been better, and Robbie's performance makes the revisionist-history ending work. Pitt is weathering nicely; a little bit Redford, a little bit Tyler Durden. The movie is overlong and self-indulgent (i.e., a Tarantino movie), but well worth seeing. Its not PULP FICTION, but its not HATEFUL 8 either. -
Oh wait, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. never mind.
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did they do something together besides TITANIC?
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you can't imagine a Kanye biopic?
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Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, but that's the Oscar-bait, because who knows if Shailene Woodley is really evoking Tami Oldham in Adrift. But we have a good idea about how well Jamie Foxx captured Ray Charles in Ray because we have have a long lifetime of Ray Charles footage to compare it to. So Rami Malek must be great, or something. What troubles me about biopics of rock stars remains that they've found one more way to milk enormous money out of the classic rock canon, but it's still nearly Herculean for a contemporary rock act to make two dimes from their original music. So, rock and roll is still big business, but only legacy rock and roll that's under glass, and owned by suits, septuagenarians, and heirs. And that's as culturally stale as it is economically unjust. They're monetizing nostalgia. In 20 years, they'll be milking this year's top acts for another bucket of money.
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it was turned into a great musical, SHE LOVES ME, with a lovely score by Bock & Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof)
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Shop on the corner
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Burton & Taylor
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charlie chaplin and edna purviance
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woody allen and mia farrow woody allen and diane keaton
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Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (ditto)
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Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh (who were also married)
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avi
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adam sandler and drew barrymore
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Garden State. Soundtrack is the best of 2004-in-a-bottle (The "life-changing" Shins, Frou Frou, Remy Zero, stirring entries from Iron and Wine and Men at Work's Colin Hay), along with lovely selections from Nick Drake and Simon and Garfunkel. The movie was kinda twee and annoying, full of characters that are mere collections of "interesting" quirks... and it's aged even poorer than it played back then. The music, though... it's an exquisite, lonely little road trip. [YOUTUBE]EKGHkBComjM[/YOUTUBE] This was the first soundtrack that i thought of for this thread. There's another Zach Braff vanity project with a great soundtrack: https://www.amazon.com/Wish-Here-Music-Motion-Picture/dp/B00L47E4JGhttps://www.amazon.com/Wish-Here-Music-Motion-Picture/dp/B00L47E4JG
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I've been with them since the beginning and it was as good a denouement as i could've hoped. Sure, the 2nd act was overlong, but Act I sets up everything great and Act III packed an emotional punch.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Vic Sage replied to Johnny Lunchbucket's topic in Film Review Forum
a lot of bad "method" acting. -
ain't THAT the truth!
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my son asked me if i wanted to go with him last night, but i chickened out. I prefer to see horror films in the comfort of my home. why? cuz i'm a pussy.
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Edgy MD wrote: Color-by-number script missing more than a few numbers. I don't get how it escaped development so underwritten. Plus, the 90s references seem to have come from somebody that didn't really remember the 90s too well. Also, there hasn't been a big movie that so shamelessly offered itself as a military recruitment tool since Top Gun. yup. I still liked it because, you know, superheroes. But its not particularly good.
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It is riddled with all the tropes and clichés of the "rock star biopic" sub-genre, but, unlike Judd Apatow's "WALK HARD: DEWEY COX STORY", a hilarious sendup of those clichés, BORAP is actually sincere about it. And Remi Malek, a great actor whom I love in MR. ROBOT, is acting with his teeth. Still, to give it it's due, the movie looks pretty great and the concert scenes are powerfully effective.
