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That Thing You Do is the best.
Take us there, Skitch.
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That Thing You Do is the best.
Take us there, Skitch.
That's an interesting thought. I feel like you would do your best to just follow their actual career path, but maybe not.Big Al 1992 said:
Fantastic! Gets you to think if this happened to one of us - do I release songs in chronological order, start with the rockers or the ballads or the folksy stuff? Would I mix songs up from different albums? New song every month, week, day? Can't wait to see this.
Render said:
No one will believe this, but my dad actually had this exact same idea for a movie like 3-4 years ago. Just replace the Beatles with Bruce Springsteen, and its the same movie. Also, his version was much darker - feelings of guilt and fraud ultimately culminated into the guy committing suicide.
My only addition was the ending. The screen cuts to black when the singer offs himself. Couple seconds later, the picture fades back in. The camera pans up a suburban driveway, then the front porch steps of a typical home. We see a newspaper with the headline "SINGER ENDS HIS LIFE". We hear guitar strumming, and as the camera continues to pan up, we see a kid Bruce Springsteen strumming a guitar. End.
Oh well. Maybe we should have pitched it when we had the chance!
This might even be the more interesting point, though one that's obviously impossible to quantify.BarryProfit said:
I get your point but the Beatles were transformational, no one had ever really written music like that before. I suppose someone would have been transformational in their void but it would have obviously been much different. Whether we would we have eventually gotten to where we are today is hard to say.
What's also hard to fathom is the ripple effect of greatness and innovators - the influence they have on their peers and those who follow is even greater than their direct output.
Seems like a cool movie.
The Beatles literally changed the world. It's not an exaggeration. Their contribution to Western Civilization cannot be overstated.fig96 said:This might even be the more interesting point, though one that's obviously impossible to quantify.BarryProfit said:
I get your point but the Beatles were transformational, no one had ever really written music like that before. I suppose someone would have been transformational in their void but it would have obviously been much different. Whether we would we have eventually gotten to where we are today is hard to say.
What's also hard to fathom is the ripple effect of greatness and innovators - the influence they have on their peers and those who follow is even greater than their direct output.
Seems like a cool movie.
I mean, without the Beatles would we have Coldplay? Foo Fighters? And all the bands inbetween that influenced music along the way.
aTmAg said:
I never had an idea for a movie.. but I thought that it would be cool if I could go back to 1800, bring a set of good speakers, a bunch of movie track CDs, set up in a concert hall somewhere, and then pretend I was producing the music with my hand gestures or something. Just to screw with their minds.
Maybe I should bring a machine gun with me.MaroonStain said:aTmAg said:
I never had an idea for a movie.. but I thought that it would be cool if I could go back to 1800, bring a set of good speakers, a bunch of movie track CDs, set up in a concert hall somewhere, and then pretend I was producing the music with my hand gestures or something. Just to screw with their minds.
You would be killed within a week.
G Martin 87 said:
Just saw it earlier today as well. Perfect, from start to finish. I haven't loved a movie this much in years.
If you were in your teens or older in the 70's, bring tissues. You'll need them. The guy next to me audibly gasped and was in tears immediately. He wasn't the only one, either.
Yes, dumb on my part. I thought even that might be too much of a hint. I took it out.Bruce Almighty said:
Weird that you spoil tagged that. How will people know to bring them unless they choose to click on the spoiler?
Absolutely...100%OldArmy71 said:
Question:
I am 70 and have a 10-year-old granddaughter to whom I sing Beatles songs all the time. She finally can name them all. I have shown her the trailer and she's in, mostly because of Ed Sheeran.
She knows drugs are bad; she's heard bad words; she knows drinking too much is bad.
What about sex/nudity? I read somewhere there's a scene in which two people get drunk and get on a bed, but don't have sex.
I don't want to deal with the sex/nudity thing yet. Is it suitable for a 10 year old?
Common Sense media will always tell you the exact "inappropriate" things in a movie.OldArmy71 said:
Question:
I am 70 and have a 10-year-old granddaughter to whom I sing Beatles songs all the time. She finally can name them all. I have shown her the trailer and she's in, mostly because of Ed Sheeran.
She knows drugs are bad; she's heard bad words; she knows drinking too much is bad.
What about sex/nudity? I read somewhere there's a scene in which two people get drunk and get on a bed, but don't have sex.
I don't want to deal with the sex/nudity thing yet. Is it suitable for a 10 year old?