Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

lawdog1 · 2024-11-18T11:34:58-0500

shogun said:
Does anyone like those musician biography movies? Feel like the recent ones were made for the purpose of trying to win oscars.

I’ve said on here before that they’re not my thing. I prefer music documentaries.

I don’t think that they’re created specifically to be Oscar bait so much as it’s a genre that has historically done well with the Academy, going back to movies like Amadeus and La Bamba in the 80s (and probably some before that).

jayt1202 · 2024-11-18T11:56:10-0500

I usually enjoy music biopics, especially those where I'm not that familiar with the subject matter. I also don't really get too caught up in historical inaccuracies as these films are meant to entertain and the directors/writers may change things that either don't translate well on screen or aren't that important. Like in the last Elvis movie I realize it was a highly dramatized account and they left out much of his dark times later in his career.

pmatic · 2024-11-18T12:03:17-0500

We have Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson coming next year.

Wonder when Prince is going to get a movie.

noskey · 2024-11-18T12:31:13-0500

shogun said:
Does anyone like those musician biography movies? Feel like the recent ones were made for the purpose of trying to win oscars.

As a movie they can be entertaining and good. As a historical retelling of somebody's life, these are usually bland and miss too much of any problematic issues any one person may have had.

Walk Hard is still the GOAT music bio movie