10.29.09 MUSICIAN BIOPICS, SO HOT RIGHT NOW
This is the first trailer for Nowhere Boy, based on the memoir by John Lennon’s half sister, Julia Baird. I’m sure everyone’s sick of slick music biopics by now, but Lennon seems like an obvious subject, even if Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, et. al. flicks got made first. It’s got a few other factors going for it as well that give me hope it won’t be the usual hokey tear/penis jerker.
- It narrows its focus on John’s early schoolboy days when he met Paul, rather than all the later stuff that’s already been written about ad nauseum
- No big-name actors trying to win an Oscar
- No Beatles songs in the trailer, so at least you know it’s not a cheap ploy to sell more Beatles records
- Made by British people, and British people are smarter. Sorry, it’s true. That’s why God made them uglier to even things out.
That’s Aaron Johnson playing the lead, with Thomas Sangster as Paul. Maybe now he won’t have to be known forever as that adorable little wiener face pus bag from Love Actually. “Waaah, help me, Dad, I’m in love.” What did you say? Son, you better take your ass outside and start throwing rocks at cats if you don’t want to get belted until you piss blood. All I’m saying is, Love Actually would’ve been a lot better if that kid had been raised the by Liam Neeson in Taken rather than Liam Neeson in Love Actually. You want her to like you? Hmm. Have you tried killing a terrorist and leaving it on her doorstep?
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MUSICIAN BIOPICS, SO HOT RIGHT NOW
Liam Neeson in Taken couldn’t have had a son b/c the awesome would’ve destroyed the movie universe.
Also, who wants to kidnap a dude into a prostitution ring?
I always thought they should have gotten a Mexican kid to play that role from ‘Love Actually’. Everybody knows that’s way too young for a British kid to have a beard.
You know how in Love Actually, the tall English prat flies to Milwaukeee(?), walks into a bar and has a couple of American darlings fawn all over him because of his accent; was that realistic?
*crosses fingers of one hand whilst booking a flight with the other
I’m gonna throw something out there, feel free to do with it as you like. But I would totally nail the fat chick from Love Actually.
You mean Keira Knightley?
I really liked the opening scene from Lord of War. I think that should be the focus of the Lennon biopic. Production, transportation, usage, and ultimately, the bullet cam right into that commie. 3 1/2 minutes long and everyone goes home happy.
The Mighty Feklahr never realized Winston Churchill felt so strongly about Lennon: “He alone could have found the way back to the causeway . . . The Russian people were left floundering in the bog. Their worst misfortune was his birth . . . their next worst his death.”
That was for you, MIZ.
Thanks Fek. I’ll try to remember something poignant to relay to you next time I’m watching DS9. WHY DON’T THESE HALF ASS STATIONS HAVE THE BALLS TO RUN THAT SHOW ANYMORE?
I can totally see the boom mic.
Speaking of Brits, any word on a new season of The Young Ones?
Following that naming convention, I move that we change the title of the Johnny Cash Biopic to ‘A Fetus named Sue’.
I also can’t wait for Bob Seger’s biopic, ‘Like a Pile of Loosely-Packed Sediment’.
Or Neil Diamond’s ‘Zygote You’ll Be a Girl Soon’.
Speaking of DS9, can you imagine the messed up shit Odo would be able to do to get someone off? It would be like a toned down version of one of Geordi’s holodeck programs!
*left hanging for high five*
They canceled it before he could learn to do the ears!
Donk, I’m eagerly awaiting the Bruce Springstein biopic, Born to Crawl.
Burnsy, I would too.
So what MIZ? Why would you wanna fuck his ears anyway?
* freak
Where are we going, fellas?
To the top, Johnny!
Where’s that fellas?
To the toppermost of the poppermost!
Love, Actually is a lot more depressing now that Liam Neeson actually is his character in the movie. Minus Claudia Schiffer, of course. Sha-wing.
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