johnnyblaze36 said:
MAROON said:
so is this concert being live streamed?
Yes starting at 7 pm central on nugs.net. Free for monthly subscribers but you can also do a free 7 day trial and cancel. Will be well worth tuning into, especially if you like this movie. Here's a description of tonight as it will be featuring a full ensemble of others:
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Billy's weekend of festivities gets started with tonight's "O Billy, Where Art Thou?" theatrical stage adaptation, featuring actor Tim Blake Nelson, plus Jerry Douglas, Sierra Hull, Duane Trucks, Cris Jacobs, Lindsay Lou, and more.
And now I prepare to get totally flamed. I hate to say it but I didn't care for this film at all. I think much of it has to do with the fact that I went into it with the totally wrong mind frame.
For whatever reason I always assumed it was a serious drama. So I was completely thrown off that I was suddenly watching some sort of avant garde type comedy, although the fact that it's a Coen brothers movie should have tipped me off. So I found myself just totally perplexed and getting annoyed by many of the characters not really understanding what the hell I was watching.
But that's on me and I'm sure I'll give it another shot one day with a different attitude going in after tonight's performance.
On the other hand, the music in it is absolutely fantastic as everyone pointed out and I have listened to the soundtrack twice now and love every bit of it and can't wait to hear them play the tunes off of it tonight. It sounds tailor made for them and I can see why they chose it.
Also, I believe someone mentioned earlier that it won an Academy Award for sound and I can see why. I don't recall ever hearing my soundbar coming through so clear and loud that I thought it was going to shatter the windows. Absolute A+ on that front and award well deserved.
All that said, still looking forward to a killer show tonight as Billy and company do everything at an extremely high level, especially on Halloween.
I think it is very much a grows on you kind of movie. I can't say that I disliked it on the first watch. I definitely enjoyed it, but likewise, I definitely thought it was odd and bizarre and certainly felt unsure about what I was even watching half of the time.
I would say it was probably a few re-watches after that before it really started to gravitate with me and become a part of my quotable lexicon. Of course that was back in the days when you were just on cable, and I would stop down and watch some of it again If I saw that it was on.
The music was a definite hook for me as well though. And over time, I started to see the actors in other roles, and that reminded me of this movie too. I literally cannot see Tim Blake Nelson in any other movie without thinking about his character in this. And he kills me comedically.
The story also grew on me, though, with the realization of the tie in to the odyssey and Homer and all of that. Certainly on first view a lot of that wasn't blatant.
Anyway, maybe it will grow on you overtime too since you know what it is now.
