Entertainment For Lively Minds
I'm Not There
Posted by Chimney Singing... on 23 March 2009 - 10:54am.
Good morning everyone and welcome to the week.
I watched the jaw-droppingly pretentious and self-important 'I'm Not There' on Saturday, or rather I watched about two thirds of it before turning it off and watching Caddyshack for the hundredth time instead.
Maybe I wasn't in the right mood but watching Ledger, Blanchett and the lad out of Everybody Hates Chris ham-fistedly regurgitating the excellent footage from Don't Look Back and No Direction Home is not my idea of a good time.
On the plus side, Julianne Moore was able to portray Joan Baez as even more annoying, pompous and self righteous than she appeared in the Scorcese documentary. Quite a feat.
Am I wrong?
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There's no wrong about it
But I disagree with you. I think it's wonderful, and a stylised lesson in how to do a biopic without having to get all literal and chronological.
But
it's not as good as Caddyshack, right?
Is this where Andrew Collins...
...get's his squirrel policies from, then?
Seconded
and that scene with 'Going To Acapulco' is just wonderful.
I'm ashamed to say...
...that I've never seen it.
I'd rectify that if I were you....
It's in the top ten
Looks unwatchable
I laughed when it tanked. The people who made it are way up their own backsides. No one was interested and for good reason. I plan never to watch it.
PS. Bob Dylan is over rated and he doesn't know where the Gates Of Eden are.
what an idiot he is
its left at the nd oif Desolation Row, past Maggie's Farm. Then you go all along the watchtower, down along the cove, down the highway 61. Past the dusty old fairgrounds, cross the highlands. Then 90 miles an hour down a dead end street
and i'll be standing in a doorway and you ain't going nowhere.
But I think Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
are you a hard core dylan fan ?
if yes you will probably like it
if no then you probably wont
not sure how hardcore...
But yes I am a massive Dylan fan and I hated it.
I did however absolutely love Don't Look Back and No Direction Home.
Maybe I'm too basic - chronological documentary biopic would suit me just fine.
I couldn't disagree more
...at least with your first point. Any Dylan fan, hardcore or otherwise, would be more than capable of loathing this film, because it's such an awful film. Todd Haynes misses the mark so spectacularly, in this and the earlier, even worse, Velvet Goldmine, that it's tempting to misquote Dylan back at him: you know there's something going on, Mr Haynes, but you don't know what.
Hmmm
Taste, it's a funny thing, but I don't think you can fairly dismiss it as an awful film. It's not a gritty uncompromising biopic, it's not an easy to follow, linear movie, but the farctured images and the interplay of narratives, the music, the majority of the performances were fantastic. Personally I loved the way that it was essentially about the narrative of a life, but not in the end-to-end, birth-to-death way we've come to expect, or even in the slightly more flashbacky, hallucinogenic way that we've come to accept (like in Ray). Rather it was an explorations of the narratives that build a life, particularly one as public and self-consciously narrated as Dylan's. So dislike it if you will, but you can't dismiss it as a piece of film, or indeed film-making (hell, watch it on mute with your favourite Dylan album playing and it's still visually fantastic).
But then I've never seen Caddyshack, so what do I know...
If you want..
..a linear bio, then try Scorseses effort, me I prefer this random, impressionistic approach than the usual "Here's a little thing I've just written..it's called "What'd I say.." biopic
I have two friends...
...both earnest Dylanophiles. One hated it, feeling that it reflected a cariacture version of Dylan. The other loved it, believing that it reflects the impenetrability of a person who is more myth than man.
I'm personally very fond of the film, with the latter reason playing a major part. I'm not 100% on it (Heath Ledger rang false to me, whose stunt-casting that belaboured the story), but I think it was a genuinely experimental approach that shook up a genre so weighed down by its own formula.
I don't get it.
I've seen Caddyshack at least 6 times, and I've never spotted any Dylan references before.
I am a huge fan and loved it, mainly
because hearing his songs blaring out of the cinema sound system in the company of other people with pretty pictures to look at was a very enjoyable experience. i raved about it to my mate - also a big bobcat, and he hated it.
My conclusion? I don't have one, they're too drastic.