steve wrote:The guy playing Rodney Bingenheimer looked and sounded pretty close.
The movie looks pretty bad though. I've never seen a movie about being in a band that was anything like being in a band, and if a movie about a punk band could do that, it would be a major achievement.
It's like movies about painters. There is just no way to portray the long, uninteresting stretches that are so important to doing anything creative. If you've only got 2 hours and want to show some creativity, it's going to be the sudden bursts of inspiration, not developing a concept of how to do things slowly over months and years.
I thought Pollock did a good job of limiting its scope and pulling together a sense of who he was, and it steered well clear of him as a painter. But the subject matter works in the favor of that film - Pollock didn't paint much after his brief period of success, and that unproductive period is more interesting to watch than when he was being productive.
Judging only by the condensed bits I've seen, this movie is going to make a touching and tragic story out of the whole thing. Which strikes me as a ridiculous way to frame the story of Darby's Crash and probably inaccurate. Seems useless - of all the things you could pull out of that story and era, why that?
Still, I'll put it in the netflix queue and watch it some night in a year or two, right after I finally get around to watching "Fatal Flying Guillotines".
