Brian Wilson biopic 'Love and Mercy' directed by Bill Pohlad starring Paul Dano

I'm one of the few people who liked the pretty square Ray in part because the actresses were strong.

If, in my wildest dreams, a royal trux biopic gets made.. It NEEDS to involve swamp creatures and talking coyotes and shooting ranges and baseball

A hawkwind biopic where the band is constantly heard but not seen.. All just festival travellers and bikers lost in the spacerock

Psych Revival Parking Lot

yessssss!

I'm Not There was awful

There's no way it'll be as good as the Brian Wilson scene in Walk Hard

Dewey Cox: [speaking of his complex song] It's still not finished yet. I'm hearing... more Aboriginal percussionists. And I want an army of digeridoos. Fifty thousand digeridoos!

<puts microphone to goat's stomach>

I like Dano a lot but every time I see him I keep thinking of the scene where Daniel Day-Lewis murders him in There Will Be Blood and then get the giggles

He looks more like Lionel Messi than Brian Wilson in that publicity pic. Missed opportunity to cast Bill Pullman as Landy-era Brian and, in his acting debut, Bill Clinton as 'prop him up behind a keyboard and send him out on tour' era Brian.

He looks more like Lionel Messi than Brian Wilson in that publicity pic.

ahah. otm !
"Football's Up".

Has anyone seen this?

did it actually come out?

OTMFM. As opposed to "based on a true story" movies (which are arguably of some merit if it's a compelling story), biopics are usually just boilerplate "and then this thing you already know about happened, and then this other thing you already know about happened" chapter books with an optional "and then he/she/they died" epilogue. They may be able to salvage a decent performance from the wreckage, but it's almost always wreckage.

the ian curtis film, "control," was the worst example of this. each horribly-staged and unconvincing scene had no reason for being except for people in the audience to say things like "i know this! this is when they debuted at a club!" "this is the scene when they're signed to factory!" the way they staged his death was particularly grotesque in its lack of any purpose except to fetishistically recreate the mise-en-scene of his suicide.

one of the few movies that seemed genuinely offensive to me, as in stomach-turning

did that jimi hendrix biopic even get theatrical distribution btw? it just turned up at the video store this week. i'm assuming by its general non-reception that it's horrible.

I don't know anyone that's ever seen it, but a Hendrix biopic without any Hendrix music seems pretty pointless.

it doesn't have hendrix music? i assume the estate wouldn't license any of it? whoops!

i imagine the brian wilson biopic directed by gus van sant and just being like five 15-minute-long shots of him sitting at his piano in the middle of a pile of sand in his living room, composing fragments of "til i die."

title: "busy doin' nothin'"

I don't know anyone that's ever seen it, but a Hendrix biopic without any Hendrix music seems pretty pointless.

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hendrix movie also had a controversial scene where he hits his gf, kathy etchingham (who denied such a thing ever happening).

idg the casting of John Cusack as beaten-down adult Brian AT ALL.

yeah ridiculous

it doesn't have hendrix music? i assume the estate wouldn't license any of it? whoops!

I believe this was exactly the case. I kept waiting for it to turn into The Johnny Handricks Story, ala the Jackie Jormp-Jomp biopic:

http://videos.criticalcommons.org/transcoded/http/ccserver.usc.edu/8080/cc/Members/ironman28/clips/30rockJanisMontageH264.mov/jpeg/30rockjanismontageh264-mov.jpg

There was a Brian Jones movie a while back that did the same thing--they had to stick to songs the Stones did covers of.

Trivia: director is son of Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad.

i hate biopics on the whole, but i've been saying for years that BW's would make one of the more remarkable ones

I do know someone who saw that Andrex 3000 pic. he said it was awful

The Brian Wilson one could be great if based on Nick Kent's piece on him. It's one of the single best pieces of rock writing I've ever read, and it tells the story so well.

most biopics are pretty bad though some are entertaining. i'm a little intrigued by don cheadle's miles ahead thing since it is focusing on mostly on 70s electric miles and that 5-year recluse period, which doesn't strike me as the obvious traditional-biopic period to focus on w/r/t miles

another one where there's unlikely to be any actual musi

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If it's 2 hrs of a decrepit miles in a musty brownstone with blackout curtains, reluctantly entertaining visits from Lester Bowie and Cicely Tyson I'm for it.

otm

if you want the above in book form - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miles-Go-The-Lost-Years-ebook/dp/B004L62GBU

LaSalle is a clown but this sounds promising

i'm pretty certain this will be awful, i'd put a little money down on it in fact.

cusack seems like he wandered into the wrong movie

Most of the reviews have been good, but I guess I have to accept Brian Wilson as genius.

what a leap for you

He looks more like Lionel Messi than Brian Wilson in that publicity pic. Missed opportunity to cast Bill Pullman as Landy-era Brian and, in his acting debut, Bill Clinton as 'prop him up behind a keyboard and send him out on tour' era Brian.

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I'd go with Jeff Daniels for post-Landy Brian.

https://divergentsuk.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/jeffdaniels.jpg

good call!

well AO Scott likes it

Another bio-pic? Do people even give a shit anymore? The Brian Wilson brand has become quite the bore.

Cusack on the role and doing shit movies to pay for the good ones

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/john-cusack-love-and-mercy-career/

also:

Back in 1988, William Hurt was going to play Wilson opposite Richard Dreyfuss as Landy

Do we finally find out how Brian Wilson became Spider-Man?

bitten by radioactive Phil Spector

So I saw this tonight because there was nothing better to do. It's not a great movie, a little ghoulish at times, but far better than it has a right to be. There were parts that I enjoyed, mainly the studio stuff.

Definitely not awful, let's say.

Basically the same--I liked it a little better. My favourite parts were also the creation of Pet Sounds. Cusack is good...as John Cusack. It never felt like I was watching Brian Wilson. Dano, on the other hand, yes. Giamatti was scary at times.

sounds like a renter

yeah i'm tempted to rent this and get up and make a sandwich if/when i'm bored by the cusack stuff

After portraying Nixon and Wilson, I'd like to see Cusack continue to portray an increasingly ill-fitting string of people from real life. Maybe late-period Orson Welles could be next?