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Discussion in 'New Movies' started by xGreenBabyx, Feb 1, 2008.

  1. xGreenBabyx

    xGreenBabyx Member

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    This is one of the if not best movie Ive ever seen. I cant even really put it into words. Just watch it........trust me most of you will like it.
     
  2. ghing

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    i haven't watch this movie yet but I only watched the trailer.. this is a biographical film of Bob Dylan a famous song writer and singer..
     
  3. L.S.D.

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    it was really one the best films i have ever seen.the plot was amazing and the way the director had worked before...Dylan is everywhere and nowhere at the same time!!!and actually i love his character and the way it is depicted.
     
  4. Chris92

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    I wanted to really see it but it wasnt out in any theatres by me.
    Is it out on dvd yet?
     
  5. L.S.D.

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    i don't know what's the thing there,in Greece now is on cinemas
     
  6. soundsystem

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    * POSSIBLE SPOILERS, LOOK OUT! *




    I thought this movie was pretty good, probably as good as a Dylan 'biopic' could be.

    Cate Blanchett was really amazing as the amphetamine-fuelled Blonde-on -Blonde-era Bob, as was Marcus Carl Franklin as 'Woodie Guthrie' (or rather the early Dylan who wanted to BE Woodie Guthrie!). Watching him play and sing Tombstone Blues with Richie Havens was a real treat.

    Christian Bale as Jack Rollins/Pastor John was also good, as was Ben Whishaw as Arthur Rimbaud, the young rebel poet Dylan.

    I can't fault Heath Ledger's performance as Robbie Clark, the movie star who once played the role of Jack Rollins, but I found his storyline rather boring. Although 'biopics' usually suffer in this respect, having to dramatise rather bland and drab details of the subject's personal life (see Walk the Line and others), I would have preferred this section of the movie to have at least attempted to capture the subtlety and ambiguity of the Blood on the Tracks album - a tall order, perhaps.

    I'm still not entirely sure what to make of the Richard Gere 'Billy the Kid' section. The performance of Going to Acapulco in a sort of Sgt. Pepper style but with the leader singer wearing white facepaint a la The Rolling Thunder Revue was interesting - recall that around the same time The Beatles were spending months on a single track and filling their recordings with overblown psychedelia and innovative production techniques, Dylan was holed up in domestic bliss in Woodstock and recording The Basement Tapes and John Wesley Harding: pretty much the opposite of what The Beatles and the rest of the popular music world were doing at the time.

    I liked the way this final section linked back to the boxcar and the guitar that kills fascists too...
     

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