Search & Destroy: Movies About Real Musicians

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or "biopics", if you will...

search: 24 hr party people
destroy: great balls of fire

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

S: ...drawing a blank here...
D: Everything else.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

backbeat was OK

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy: sid & nancy.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Bird

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember enjoying The Seven Little Foys--and, of course, The Sound of Music!

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

is bird really good? i've almost rented it about a dozen times but something always makes me stop

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Bird has its moments.

xpost, yeah, I haven't seen it for years but I enjoyed it. Forest Whitaker's sax playing scenes are bunk though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

ess-Velvet Goldmine(a parody closer to reality than reality)
dstrx-The Johnny Knoxville Gram Parsons abortion

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

S: What's Love Got To Do With It?
D: The Doors

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

S: Genghis Blues, The Power of ~~Sound~~ Salad

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, duh, S: RAY.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized how shocking it is that no one has made big-budget Miles or Coltrane biopics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

S: The Buddy Holly Story, Amadeus, What's Love Got To Do With It?
D: So many made-for-tv crap fests that end up on VH1

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Bird is worth watching if only for Forrrest Whittaker's performance. But the film is a bummer and doesn't celebrate Parker's music enough.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Destroy: La Bamba (except for Esai Morales' performance as Richie Valens' ner-do-well brother).

Valens actually says in this: "I'm going to be a star. And stars don't fall from the sky, do they?"

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

they shouldve pasted the audio of a plane going NYEEERRRRRR BOOM just as he said that

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: "24 Hr. Party People" (seconded, thirded or whatever)

Destroy: "Sid & Nancy", "The Doors", "Backbeat", and, like Snappy sez, every Vh1 movie ever made (especially that one about the almost-reunion between Lennon & McCartney,...sweet fuckin' Buddha that was unwatchable).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The VH1 Beach Boys and Def Leppard movies were both pretty good.

― robertw, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm kinda remembering the Beach Boys one. Ended with an "ultra-soulful" Dennis going down the tubes? that one was ok.
But "Man in the Mirror"? *shudders with moral terror*

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Straight, No Chaser
Destroy: ah, I dunno...

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Bird is worth watching if only for Forrrest Whittaker's performance. But the film is a bummer and doesn't celebrate Parker's music enough.

The scene where Bird goes into the theater where the rock-and-roll yakkity saxman is playing to the crowd with his rhinestone encrusted horn suddenly made rock so ... tacky for me.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Do documentaries count? Theremin was fascinating.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"The scene where Bird goes into the theater where the rock-and-roll yakkity saxman is playing to the crowd with his rhinestone encrusted horn suddenly made rock so ... tacky for me."

But it's supposed to be tacky!

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Hail Hail Rock and Roll

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The movie where Kurt Russell is playing Elvis is fun and it was made by John Carpenter to boot. There are a bunch of familar faces in the rest of the cast. The scene where Elvis shoots the TV has to be the origin of Snake Plissken.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

I like the one about Def Leppard a lot!

― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Saturday, 25 September 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)

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