What are you listening to, right now................
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Yesterday
Danny Boyle film about a pub musician, struggling to make it, who has an accident during a worldwide incident called The Blackout.
He wakes up and is the only one who can remember The Beatles. He starts playing their songs and everyone is freaking out about how good he is.
Really enjoyed this with the family. There are some great and unexpected twists, and let me tell you the world hasn't forgotten only the Beatles - keep your eyes and ears open for that stuff.
Ed Sheeran is fucking great, as is Robert Carlyle. The American agent character is a little OTT tho.
5 Judes out of 5 Dudes.
Beatles are bad enough but Ed Sheeran ?!?! I'll pass thanks.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you're just pissed off that he's a successful ranga and you're just a ranga.
I know having hair is a distant memory for you and I understand how it's confusing that many of us do but my lid is brown with the odd grey. It's only the facial hair that is a few shades of red.
But enough about me, Ed's music is fucken diabolical. No two ways about it.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you're just pissed off that he's a successful ranga and you're just a ranga.
Seeeeerve
Ed Sheeran can get fucked though
Also I hate the Beatles, so will avoid this like the plague. Already told my son straight up I wasn't taking him.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you're just pissed off that he's a successful ranga and you're just a ranga.
Seeeeerve
Ed Sheeran can get fucked though
Also I hate the Beatles, so will avoid this like the plague. Already told my son straight up I wasn't taking him.
Well um no.
I'm glad we agree on the "merits" of the music in question though. I put the Beatles success down to the amount of LSD their fans took.
Ed Sheeran songs are played by dorky suburban Mums who drive big SUVs and their hubby's who only feign interest in the desperate hope of getting a root once a month.
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA The laziest premise possible. Just an excuse to play Beatles songs. Sounds like another turd from a filmmaker who has only made garbage since Trainspotting.
Now that's not true. the "28" movies are awesome.
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Damn, there’s some edgy musical cool bois on this thread. 😝
@NTA I wouldn’t give it as high a rating as you but it’s still a fun film, but I might be in the bag for it a wee bit as I had the same idea buzzing round in my head as a book for years (I’ve only ever had two ideas for books, this premise and a book on Maori rugby and Malcolm Mullholland published his when I was about halfway through writing mine).
@Tim I would argue with you but your entertaining penchant for obscure, low budget and downgrade movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s makes it hard for me to get the energy to shitfight with you despite how wrong you are. 😏
Edit: Also I don’t know Ed Sheehan well enough to know at the time whether it was actually him or an actor, so I guess he did ok.
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@mariner4life Praise be!!! I hate the beatles, I feel like it's such a dirty thing to say as well but Paul McCartney is the most annoying whiney voiced person to ever exist.
Now... John Lennon is a different story. I like him.But ditto, no chance I'd ever watch that film even with Ed in- love his music hate his face
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Hating the most popular band of all time... ooooh! You're all so edgy and hip
except @mariner4life who gave up his hipster beard and is just a shouty old man now.I don't particularly fanboi on the Beatles - there are some absolute classics there that, harmonically, are structured in a way that nobody else was able to replicate. And there was a lot of shit as well.
The rating was for the film itself.
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I put the Beatles success down to the amount of LSD their fans took.
That may have been true from a certain point, but would be ignoring the first 3-4 years of their pop stuff before Sgt Pepper.
As for Ed Sheeran - dude can rock a stadium, and for a gormless ranga with coke bottle glasses is clearly doing something right. Respect.
If you want to really hate on a band for producing nothing but shit, try The Doors.
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@NTA could just be our preference, it's not about being edgy or hip, I just don't like their music or Paul McCartney. I like plenty of bands/Artists that are of the same status.
I also like the doors.
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I like the Doors
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@RLx31 of course. Music is subjective by nature.
Jim Morrison is only remembered as talented because he died early, tho.
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@RLx31 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
John Lennon is a different story. I like him.
Lennon was a twat - but I like lots of his Beatles music. I think he's easily the most unlikeable Beatle but everyone loves him as the cool one - so WTF do I know?
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@RLx31 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
John Lennon is a different story. I like him.
Lennon was a twat - but I like lots of his Beatles music. I think he's easily the most unlikeable Beatle but everyone loves him as the cool one - so WTF do I know?
Harrison is my favourite
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@RLx31 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
John Lennon is a different story. I like him.
Lennon was a twat - but I like lots of his Beatles music. I think he's easily the most unlikeable Beatle but everyone loves him as the cool one - so WTF do I know?
Harrison is my favourite
I like McCartney because it's not the done thing to do.
However, I always feel that we may have lost the best years of Harrison. I don't know much about writing music but I tend to think that Harrison may have had some pumping tunes in his head in the early Beatles days when L&M were dominating.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@RLx31 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
John Lennon is a different story. I like him.
Lennon was a twat - but I like lots of his Beatles music. I think he's easily the most unlikeable Beatle but everyone loves him as the cool one - so WTF do I know?
Harrison is my favourite
I like McCartney because it's not the done thing to do.
However, I always feel that we may have lost the best years of Harrison. I don't know much about writing music but I tend to think that Harrison may have had some pumping tunes in his head in the early Beatles days when L&M were dominating.
His solo album in the 80s had some decent stuff on it
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@RLx31 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
John Lennon is a different story. I like him.
Lennon was a twat - but I like lots of his Beatles music. I think he's easily the most unlikeable Beatle but everyone loves him as the cool one - so WTF do I know?
Harrison is my favourite
I like McCartney because it's not the done thing to do.
However, I always feel that we may have lost the best years of Harrison. I don't know much about writing music but I tend to think that Harrison may have had some pumping tunes in his head in the early Beatles days when L&M were dominating.
His solo album in the 80s had some decent stuff on it
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I wasn't saying that he didn't write some awesome songs, but I think that maybe (and this is off the top of my head with nothing to back it up) that there's a type of song that younger musicians write (more raw) and he had little opportunity to record them. I'm sure some of his early solo stuff was from his younger days but I feel that he may have reworked some of it etc. If any of that rambling makes sense?
This could also be a reflection of my preference for early Beatles stuff.
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@Nepia the later stuff was more experimental whereas the early stuff sounded like they recorded it their garage. My mum is a big Beatles fan, so by extension was I. Funny that I actually prefer to listen to the Stones now, their music has aged well. I like Harrison's solo stuff too
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia the later stuff was more experimental whereas the early stuff sounded like they recorded it their garage. My mum is a big Beatles fan, so by extension was I. Funny that I actually prefer to listen to the Stones now, their music has aged well. I like Harrison's solo stuff too
I'm not a Stones fan, don't really like any of their stuff - I think we had a thread where we discussed them.
I prefer the recorded in the garage stuff, although TBF I like the later (experimental) stuff too.
