Suspicious Minds is great rightBut can it be great if it’s so damn depressing?Dude is simply sobbing out the verses
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
He’s sabotaging its greatness and doesn’t give a damn
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
yes, it totally can still be great! my favorite sub sub genre is upbeat songs with sad lyrics/delivery bridge over troubled water is the most mounful secular gospel song you ever heard
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
send one up for Ronnie Tuttty for taking care of business, drumwise.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Imagine living your life thinking Elvis is anything but a classic.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Tutt was so great. Knew exactly how to exploit the dynamics and subtexts of every song, no small feat for an Elvis collaborator.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
I hope Baz Luhrmann’s take isn’t popular. He has a way of cheapening everything he touches.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
Ronnie Tutt was the rhythmic pulse connected between Elvis, Neal Diamond and Jerry Garcia. That is crossing a couple different worlds.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Obviously Neil...must have had Cassady on the brain.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
If not Patricia.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Now imagining Elvis as Hud.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
“They call it polk…salad” *rimshot* “Hud!”
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
Listening to Tutt & the band on those early Vegas shows & it’s stunning AND entirely believable that they could do what, three shows a day? and just holding it down in the most incredible ways like sure you prob have to take a ton of uppers to do it but you still have to play like a motherfucker to meet Elvis where he’s at and goddamn they all could, but especially Tuttalso loved his playing on the Roy Orbison black and white night concert
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
Trailer for Baz Luhrmann's new Elvis movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDLRvjHVOY
I doubt I was ever going to watch this. I've never liked Luhrmann - it feels like he uses every single idea that comes to mind as if none of them are awful when most of them are - but even if it wasn't him directing or writing, I'd be reluctant.
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 February 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
Does not sound appealing.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
For a lot of it it seems like it's gonna be The Tom Parker Story, which would be a much better and more interesting movie. But yeah, it's gonna suck, in a hilariously inept way. Luhrmann sucks.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 18 February 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
It's going to be amazing for all the wrong reasons. Can't wait.
― pplains, Friday, 18 February 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link
i like Baz, especially when he taps into a personal obsession (like Gatsby)… i am open-minded & will definitely see iti find what he overdoes visually sometimes (not always) can distract from how well he can get to the heart of a story and i love an exploration of the Elvis myth i loved Austin Butler as Tex in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, and the trailer is too choppy to tell but i think he has the abilityto pull off the necessary magnetism & childishness… but omg his face is so OVAL & plain. i am sad at the lack of prominent cheekbones & incredible angles possessed by E. alas, Butler is but a mere mortal :/
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 February 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
will it even be halfway as good as the Kurt Russell biopic?
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
i dunno...if you asked me what kind of elvis movie i always dreamed of seeing i'd say a respectful adaptation of guralnick's "last train to memphis," but interest in elvis seems to have dried up to such an extent that maybe what we really need is a reminder of how weird and unlikely and compelling this guy was, and i do kinda get that from this trailer. maybe elvis's story is just inherently powerful enough to me that it kinda works for me even when i cringe at the delivery.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 18 February 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
There was also a Jonathan Rhys-Meyers thing at some point.Yes, interest sort of varies. The ILM Elvis poll had something like 17 voters.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
It looks like Luhrmann's taking The Dewey Cox Story as his model, with the jokes omitted.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 February 2022 03:23 (two years ago) link
i dunno...if you asked me what kind of elvis movie i always dreamed of seeing i'd say a respectful adaptation of guralnick's "last train to memphis"
Same here. That book had a big role in making me an Elvis fan. IIRC it inspired a very short-lived network TV series of Elvis in his youth that was cancelled quickly due to low ratings, and there have been attempts to turn the book into a movie but it's been languishing with different producers and may have had the rights kicked around different parties after many failed attempts at getting financing.
This one seems to be taking the opposite approach, but I liked how Guralnick brought Elvis down to earth. Instead of some grotesque myth of Americana, he portrayed him as a real, poor kid in the rural projects finding his way out through what he heard on the radio every day. Amusingly, Hanks read both Gulranick books as research for this new movie...to be fair he really only needed them for info on Colonel Parker.
― birdistheword, Friday, 18 February 2022 03:34 (two years ago) link
There was also a Jonathan Rhys-Meyers thing at some point.
A TV miniseries! RANDY QUAID AS THE COLONEL!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 February 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
ROSE MCGOWAN AS ANN-MARGRET!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 February 2022 04:24 (two years ago) link
I didn't see all of it, but the ending was pretty good, with a dejected Elvis--having just had his dreams of doing good movies and touring abroad quashed by The Colonel--pulling himself together and singing his ass off on the comeback special version of "If I Can Dream".
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 February 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link
Is there a bit with a carnival fire-breather in every BL movie?
― fetter, Friday, 18 February 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
Ha, must be.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
I mean, of course I'd rather see a treatment of the Guralnick books. Teen Elvis bopping around Memphis, reciting MacArthur's farewell speech to anyone who'll listen.
But running the King through a neon pipe filled with Goldschläger and LSD, and featuring Forrest Gump as Col. Tom Parker? Whatever, I'm in.
I'm a sucker for this schtick anyways. Hope this new one also has some Alice Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBay5ARz6A
― pplains, Friday, 18 February 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
I want to watch that now, but seems like I would need a subcription to something called Stringray Karaoke.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Stingray Karaoke even
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
It such an oft-told tale they can't totally make the whole thing up, can they?
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
That trailer depresses me.
What bothers me about Luhrmann's treatment is that it seems disconnected from the experiences of people for whom Elvis' myth had and still has power. I'm thinking in particular of older friends who grew up in the 50s and 60s in Memphis and its environs. I don't think Elvis was ever a freak or a deity to that audience; they recognized him right away. What shocked and thrilled them was the way he combined familiar things that weren't supposed be combined. (How they understood their feelings about him is another question.)
Also in 2022 I'd rather see an Elvis movie that goes a little deeper on race than a tent revival scene + some handwaving lines about MLK. But maybe this will be better than I'm expecting.
― Brad C., Friday, 18 February 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
I didn't realize they were making a sequel to "Walk Hard"
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 18 February 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it's the sequel to Elvis Presley: Classic Or Dud? :-D
― pplains, Friday, 18 February 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
Ugh Baz
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 February 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
Xpost: lol this definitely looks like the sort of movie Walk Hard parodied.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 February 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
Don't have anything to say about this trailer, but thank y'all for reminding me of how good Walk Hard is.
― triggercut, Saturday, 19 February 2022 11:40 (two years ago) link
OTM:
At some point, someone really needs to write the definitive book on 70s Elvis. Ideally someone with modern understandings of disability, neurodivergence, and fatness. Because that story looks very, *very* different from that perspective.— A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs (@500SongsPodcast) February 17, 2022
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 February 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
Trailer:
"President Kennedy has been shot."
*5 sec later*
"Martin Luther King, Jr. has been shot."
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Saturday, 19 February 2022 12:33 (two years ago) link
Tbh Baz is maybe the only person who could hit all the Walk Hard cliche biopic notes and still make it work. At least his stuff doesn’t pretend to exist in reality. Big neon explosion of the myth.The worst part about the trailer is Hanks. Feel like it’s been decades since I’ve seen him actually being a good actor.
― circa1916, Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:02 (two years ago) link
Maybe I should finally read Peter Guralnick’s Sam Phillips book before or instead of watching this.
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
Yeah not a fan of the casting.
He’s such a big actor with a long career that It’s difficult not to see Tom Hanks as Tom Hanks with bad prosthetics and a weird accent.
I don’t want to judge Austin Butler’s performance solely based on looks but he looks like a skinny teenager to me, whereas Elvis looked very manly and “grown up” even in his early 20’s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
He does have the sort of dreamy eyes Elvis had though. Either way I don’t expect a great performance when directed by Baz Luhrmann tbh.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:34 (two years ago) link
I don't even know if I'd want Elvis to look like Elvis in this.
― pplains, Saturday, 19 February 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
I shall sulk if it turns out they haven't given Kurt Russell a cameo.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
Kurt Russell plays an old man who kicks Elvis in the shin at the World's Fair
― Josefa, Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 February 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
Remember when Michael St. Gerard played Elvis 4 times in 4 different movies? Guy really milked his Elvis look
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 19 February 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link