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Old 04-08-2016, 12:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I wish Whiplash was about music.
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I really enjoyed "Love and Mercy", about Brian Wilson and his ups and downs. Of course it helps that I am a big fan of the beach Boys' late 60's/early 70's period.

I thought it did a very even-handed job of portraying the tensions in the group. It would have been very easy to do a hatchet job on Mike Love, but rather than doing that the producer just presented things in a way to show how different were the perspectives that Love and BW were coming from; Love was interested in commercial success, Brian in music as art.

There is something remarkable about a film that manages to make the song "California Girls" sound threatening, almost sinister.
Did you ever see Summer dreams? I saw it as a kid and liked it even though i barely knew about the Beach Boys.
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Did you ever see Summer dreams? I saw it as a kid and liked it even though i barely knew about the Beach Boys.
No I didn't. But from the title, I suspect it would be a very different film from Love and Mercy.
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I really enjoyed "Love and Mercy", about Brian Wilson and his ups and downs. Of course it helps that I am a big fan of the beach Boys' late 60's/early 70's period.

I thought it did a very even-handed job of portraying the tensions in the group. It would have been very easy to do a hatchet job on Mike Love, but rather than doing that the producer just presented things in a way to show how different were the perspectives that Love and BW were coming from; Love was interested in commercial success, Brian in music as art.

There is something remarkable about a film that manages to make the song "California Girls" sound threatening, almost sinister.
My thoughts exactly. Even Eugene Landy wasn't portrayed as a classic villain, and I think that's the way Brian would have wanted it. Fantastic movie.

(I'll be seeing Brian and Al in concert this summer--for the the second time, btw )
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