― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 April 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Dunno.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Billy Crudup w/ bad facial hair, what's the point of THAT? F Balk into pillar is the highlight.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Almost Famous was a bit "meh". I'm not interested in actual groupies, only conceptual groupiedom. Plus, the journalist irritated me a lot more than Christian Bale blokey.
― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
But what I like best are the opening credits to Velvet Goldmine.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon Future Coffee (Ex Leon), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Velvet Goldmine for blount's reasons and for the soundtrack. I used to have a VG poster on my wall in college.
xpost the opening sequence of VG is great! The kids in platforms running to get tickets!
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't know if I'd call the theory of Velvet Goldmine the best film ever, but it's certainly an era rife with the potential for great storytelling. I heartily agree that its execution places it firmly in the running for worst film ever.
Still, Velvet Goldmine doesn't give me the fucking shivers of abject loathing that Almost Famous (which I'd place alongside The Big Chill and The Committments in the pre-packaged nostaliga department). Ugh.
Moreover, with the celestial exception of the afore-mentioned This Is Spinal Tap (admittedly a parody and thus excluded from the running), I cannot think of a film about fictional bands that doesn't fail miserably.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Ewan Mac is the only recent trou-dropping actor who had something worth showing.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Among the many annoying things in AF- "I am a golden god!"
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I am still annoyed a full version of the fake 80s corp rock song by Shudder to Think, "People Rocking People," has not surfaced. (You can hear it playing at a couple of points in the 1984 sequences, as in the start of the bar scene.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I love the short scene in VG where the girls are playing with their Brian and Kurt dolls.
Toni Collette's accent work, weaving between affected English to New Yawkish is yet another piece of evidence in my case for the absolute dominance of Australians when it comes to English language accents.
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
It's nice as both Haynes' tribute to himself and as an element in the film in general -- it works regardless of whether you know Superstar or not.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM -- I couldn't really tell you what VG was "about." Then again, I can't even remotely recall what The Big Sleep is about, either, and I've seen it about 15 times. It totally doesn't matter.
― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
...but, like it's sibling This is Spinal Tap...it's a parody.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish, Thursday, 21 April 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Uh, hell yeah.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. The plot isn't what the movie is about. The movie is about glitter, debauchery and flash.
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Then again there's Kozelek.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link
We have now officially punctured the flimsy battlements of rational thought and are now skipping willy-nilly through the wilderness of insanity.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link
(Nothing wrong with that. It's just... well... English Kate should be able to explain more the whole connection between slashfic and that peculiar sort of fanhood that, well, uh, never mind.)
Also, no one ever talks about Toni Collette's fantastic Liza-in-Cabaret-as-Angie-Bowie tour de force.
DUDE! I keep on forgetting to give Toni Collette as not-Angie the props it deserves! She's one of the major reasons why I like that film as much as I do. She's, like, totally on fire. Burning the celluloid down.
I also liked Bale's "MOM! DAD! That's MEE!" yelp.
Awwwww, one of the scenes that makes you like Arthur more and more as the movie progresses.
Heh. Why am I not surprised that you would easily be able to name that song, Ned? Anyway, I had no idea that was the (a.) artist behind the song and (b.) the name of the song itself. Wow. That was a good approximation of soulless '80s AOR, wasn't it? Very convincing.
― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link
But you are good and not evil, so the other Robinsons referred to must be the evil ones.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 April 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
His career really didn't take off. I forgot he was in Spun. Also really creepy in Queen of Earth.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 June 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
finally saw the “Untitled” cut aka Bootleg version if you hate the movie you’ll still hate it obviously but imo it’s better than the theatrical cut, has a lot more moments btw characters, it benefits from being a bit slower paced there is an extra scene where Stillwater do an on-air radio interview with Kyle Gass playing a stoned radio dj that is hilarious & perfect(imo you could put it in the dictionary under “Album Oriented Rock radio station”)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 July 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stillwater-almost-famous-cover-story-1165517/
William Miller's Stillwater story
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 August 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Velvet Goldmine coming to Criterion!
https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/veyf4w/so_i_was_at_the_premiere_of_the_new_restoration/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 June 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
LOOOONG overdue, just waiting on whenever the formal announcment is.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 June 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link