Greatest Music Biographical Film?
Greatest Music Biographical Film? 16 votes
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
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.
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The Doors
I find most biopics corny
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The Doors
Surprised Yella didn't include Bohemian Rhapsody
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Amadeus
It's a terribly corny genre. Amadeus is a legit wonderful film that never feels like a corny biopic at any point, which is why it gets my vote.
Best Pic Oscar of 1984 of course.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
Walk Hard
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Amadeus
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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Amadeus
Great flick. Cox wasn't a real person though you bonio.
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
Buddy Holly was second
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Amadeus
Imagine a world where Gary Busey is an academy award level actor. I miss America damn it!!
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What's Love Got To Do With It?
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The Doors
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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The Doors
The Doors rules though. I'd damn near put it in like a perfect movie category.
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Amadeus
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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The Doors
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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Amadeus
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.
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Amadeus
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
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The Buddy Holly Story
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…
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The Doors
I'm not a Queen guy either.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
Huh?
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
No love for the Von Trapps?
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Amadeus
No one loves Julie Andrews more than Yella. But the Von Trapps weren’t really musical superstars like the normal fodder of music bio pics. Just doesn’t fit well in this genre.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
The Queen one. Effort and detail re-enacting possibly the best live performance of the 80's at Live Aid, or as I like to now call it, 'Aids: Live! at Live Aid', was the cherry on top.
