Greatest Music Biographical Film?
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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?
Nazis.
