Favorite Fictional Band Movies
POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Friday, September 5, 2008 17:18
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Also, don't overlook "Velvet Goldmine". It's pretty visually amazing. As with anything Todd Haynes touches, it's a bit hard to follow, but it's pretty wild to watch. He gets the whole "glam rock" era down pretty well. Venus In Furs/Spiders From Mars, and all that. Some new original songs mixed in with some classics like Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love" and T Rex's "Twentieth Century Boy".
Worth a look.
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i really liked Once.... great songs
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this is a little off track, but i enjoyed Across the Universe... well most of it anyway
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Originally posted by deadlockvictim:
this is a little off track, but i enjoyed Across the Universe... well most of it anyway
So did I - and I was afraid I wouldn't. At the beginning of the movie, I had a bad feeling. Of course, seeing the "Revolution Studios" logo on the opening credits didn't help... They're the ones who brought us such classics as "The Fast and The Furious" - and their musical resume isn't much better, being behind the utterly unwatchable movie version of "Rent".
Mike
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Originally posted by deadlockvictim:
i really liked Once.... great songs
Without trying to step on the story, and wihtout trying to be spoilery, I have to say that it's not just the songs, although they are fantastic. It's the whole *feel* of the movie, the way it's done like a low-budget documentary, the feeling that you're watching this guy's career and relationship spring into being before your eyes, the whole organic, very natural feel of it all.
The only thing I *didn't* like on first viewing was the ending; I was yelling, "But what happened to them?! How does it all work out?!" And then I realized that that's real life - you don't know how it all works out, you just have to ride along.
Mike
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Does Jesus Christ Superstar count?
If not, then Streets Of Fire, definitely.
Chrisisall
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The Rutles: All You Need is Cash
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
And then I realized that that's real life - you don't know how it all works out, you just have to ride along.
i don't think this really needs a spoiler alert, but just in case....
From IMDb.... an anonymous critic writes the following.. (pretty good summation i suppose)
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I write these for friends and if you love movies you are a friend: I saw a movie last night that was so good that I have spent the last hour looking up information about it on the Internet Movie Data Base and related links. I have included the Fox Searchlight website for the movie at the bottom of this review so you can hear the music. So now I know that is was made in 17 days and at a cost of less than $150K and reflects a Dublin of 10-15 years ago when Dublin was much poorer and more working class.
And, I would be much poorer in life and spirit, and my heart, like most of us, covered in scar tissue from life, would not seem so vulnerable and new, if I had not seen this movie. A simple story of a street musician in Ireland, singing covers during the day for Euros, and his own music at night for cents. A verging on middle aged man, still living with his Da, repairing vacuums in a tiny shop and writing songs to his lost love in his tinier bedroom. Approached by girl, an immigrant, who loves his songs, understands the pain that gave them life, and soon they are in a music shop with the girl playing the piano and together they prove that art isn't produced from big budgets or green lit by ten vice presidents and that seventeen days and a pittance can make me get goose bumps just trying to write a review of what I saw in a dark theater with ten other people in a complex dominated by Shrek, Pirates, and Spiderman.
I knew a woman once who only read novels about unrequited love. What a wonderful phrase: unrequited love. Archaic, unrequited, love, universally known and unknown, and as a friend said about the movie and its songs: no great art came from happiness. But the movie isn't sad, it's pulsing with life and music and incident and the process of how art is made. I have always been a sucker for movies about how art is made: Shakespeare in Love, Topsy Turvey, as examples, but in both those, art that was known. In Once, on the streets of Dublin, an Irishman and a Czech girl, remind us of how, to my generation, the guitar was king, a guitar, bass, drums and piano a symphony orchestra, and there was no power like the power of rock and roll. In all generations, love sought, found, lost, and sometimes regained is the stuff that brings us to the theater, to the book, to the movie.
I'm in the midst of reading a book by an Irishman, a detective novel, the hero a reader, and the author uses the book to list books he likes: from one...'the body moves on, the mind stays and circles the events of the past.' This must be true of the writer/director.
You won't forget these people. I can't forget their songs. We should all meet, my movie loving friends, and talk about this movie in a bar in Chicago I know that has great music on the jukebox, cold cold beer, and is dark enough so we would all look good. Neil Young sang: only love can break your heart, Once asks 'how often do you meet the right person', and as fellow movie goers I ask how often can the right movie be made, shown in your local, and break/make you heart at seven of a beautiful summer's eve? It's the best movie of the year. Maybe of the last five years. But, I am not a dispassionate critic, I loved it.
ya think he/she liked it..?
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As a kid, I loved the Streisand/Kristofferson version of "A Star Is Born" - but mostly just because I thought Kristofferson's band, The John Norman Howard Speedway was the shiznit. I loved the song "Hellacious Acres". :)
In a totally nonfictional sidestep, I really wish someone would do a biopic of Nick Drake's life and too-early death. His music is stark, heartfelt, and heartbreaking. The songs on "Once" remind me quite a bit of Drake's style - usually just him and a guitar, sometimes joined by a cello or a piano. He was unique, and far, far, FAR ahead of his time.
Also in a nonfictional vein, "Control" was pretty fantastic. It chronicles the rise of Joy Division, who went on to become New Order after the untimely death of singer/songwriter Ian Curtis.
But Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" - a semi-biographical look at the last days of Kurt Cobain - just sucked.
Mike
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