Greatest Music Biographical Film?

Greatest Music Biographical Film?

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Ive seen The Doors, Amadeus, Sid and Nancy, and Tina/Ike. I think I saw Straight Out of Compton too but I don't remember for sure.
Larry Fishburne has always been a favorite going back to high school or even before. Pretty easy choice really. He was amazing as Ike Turner.
 
DerekJohnson said:
Surprised Yella didn't include Bohemian Rhapsody
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I'll be honest, Stalin, I've never seen the film.
My relationship with Queen is complicated and my confirmation bias seeps in on this one. I appreciate their talent and greatness, but their sound doesn't do it for me much of the time. I can't take the constant bombast.
Also, Mrs Snow loves Queen and over plays the shit out of them on her shitty little Amazon sound device thingy. She's not allowed to touch the record player.
 
Music biopics are mega overrated and lazy. I think they get made a lot because they're super easy, already have built in audiences, stars want to play musical heroes, and a lot of studios I think have or are connected to record labels so it's a win-win.
 
WoolleyDoog said:
Music biopics are mega overrated and lazy. I think they get made a lot because they're super easy, already have built in audiences, stars want to play musical heroes, and a lot of studios I think have or are connected to record labels so it's a win-win.
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Val Kilmer is fucking awesome as Jim. So it Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and the dude in the recent Elvis movie. All the films have some Hollywood cheese, but I enjoyed them.
My sleeper music biopic is Love and Mercy. Paul Dano is excellent as young Brian Wilson and the collapse of the Beach Boys is my all time favorite rock subject to discuss in great detail.
 
YellowSnow said:
WoolleyDoog said:
Music biopics are mega overrated and lazy. I think they get made a lot because they're super easy, already have built in audiences, stars want to play musical heroes, and a lot of studios I think have or are connected to record labels so it's a win-win.
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Val Kilmer is fucking awesome as Jim. So it Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and the dude in the recent Elvis movie. All the films have some Hollywood cheese, but I enjoyed them.
My sleeper music biopic is Love and Mercy. Paul Dano is excellent as young Brian Wilson and the collapse of the Beach Boys is my all time favorite rock subject to discuss in great detail.
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Love and Mercy was great and an underrated subject. Pretty rare to see people who actually fully disappear in a zenith. I have enjoyed a chunk of music biopics and they have a low floor.
 
WoolleyDoog said:
YellowSnow said:
WoolleyDoog said:
Music biopics are mega overrated and lazy. I think they get made a lot because they're super easy, already have built in audiences, stars want to play musical heroes, and a lot of studios I think have or are connected to record labels so it's a win-win.
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Val Kilmer is fucking awesome as Jim. So it Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and the dude in the recent Elvis movie. All the films have some Hollywood cheese, but I enjoyed them.
My sleeper music biopic is Love and Mercy. Paul Dano is excellent as young Brian Wilson and the collapse of the Beach Boys is my all time favorite rock subject to discuss in great detail.
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Love and Mercy was great and an underrated subject. Pretty rare to see people who actually fully disappear in a zenith. I have enjoyed a chunk of music biopics and they have a low floor.
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The Greatest Beach Boys collapse of 1967 is like none other in rock history. SMILE wasn't going to be on the level of Pet Sounds or Sgt Pepper, but if they had done it right and finished the damn thing, it would have been critically successful and kept them relevant.
 
YellowSnow said:
WoolleyDoog said:
Music biopics are mega overrated and lazy. I think they get made a lot because they're super easy, already have built in audiences, stars want to play musical heroes, and a lot of studios I think have or are connected to record labels so it's a win-win.
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Val Kilmer is fucking awesome as Jim. So it Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and the dude in the recent Elvis movie. All the films have some Hollywood cheese, but I enjoyed them.
My sleeper music biopic is Love and Mercy. Paul Dano is excellent as young Brian Wilson and the collapse of the Beach Boys is my all time favorite rock subject to discuss in great detail.
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Good call, Love and Mercy is up there with Amadeus for me. Not much Hollywood cheese and the studio scenes where Brian’s recording Pet Sounds & Good Vibrations are incredible
 
I haven’t seen most of them, but I saw this one many tims growing up, as it was a favorite of Mom and Pops…saw it so much that I believed that Jimmy Stewart was actually Glenn Miller…

 
YellowSnow said:
DerekJohnson said:
Surprised Yella didn't include Bohemian Rhapsody
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I'll be honest, Stalin, I've never seen the film.
My relationship with Queen is complicated and my confirmation bias seeps in on this one. I appreciate their talent and greatness, but their sound doesn't do it for me much of the time. I can't take the constant bombast.
Also, Mrs Snow loves Queen and over plays the shit out of them on her shitty little Amazon sound device thingy. She's not allowed to touch the record player.
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I'm not a Queen guy either.
 
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