Saw the trailer for this today -- Cheadle looks like he nailed it.
Saw the trailer for this today -- Cheadle looks like he nailed it.
I know a lot of people are going to hate this movie sight unseen just because of the apparent large amount of fiction applied to it. As a Miles fan, I don't care. I think this will be very entertaining and if it turns young people on to Miles' music, so much the better.
I was really looking forward to a straight biopic, but from what I've read, that's not at all what this is (despite it still being called a "biopic").
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Beware of Mr. Davis
I agree, whatever it takes to get people interested in his music. However, this film is trash and I'm sorry for this. A chance to do something really good has, once again, gone by the boards. IMHO of course.
The older I get, the better I was.
Agreed. I haven't seen it yet, but I've read all the reviews and know what it's about (it's a caper film with a fictionalized plot) and therefore feel capable of disagreeing with the premise. Even if I end up enjoying it, the kind of film that I was hoping for (a real biopic) wasn't made here, and because of that I think this was a lost opportunity.
I'll probably still want to see the movie once I can see it on cable or Netflix, but I'm not shelling out money to see it in the theater.
The album that's getting released to go along with the movie (not the MD anthology) looks to be about as bad as I'd feared.
Oh boy. Sorry to hear this. I enjoyed the James Brown story. It is what it is. But to me, this is bigger. This deserved some serious thought in an overall better surrounding and motif. I've read the reviews and I continue to be disappointed. This is something that should have been great. I think I'm still missing the mark on what I'm really trying to say on this project. What should be said.
The older I get, the better I was.
The music sounds good, so I'm in.
There's a million bio's out on the real Miles Davis story including his own.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor are both top-notch in my book, but holy moley this movie looks awful. Is this a comedy because the trailer plays like a bad SNL fake movie parody.
It's Hollywood. You're not going to get the real story. You may get some of it, if you're lucky. Don Cheadle's great. The movie looks like fun. I agree that if
it introduces people to his music, great. Again, Hollyweird does not equal reality. I'll check it out. Look at the interview above.
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