I find the backlash to this really BASIC. It's an interesting story, with a classy enough cast and creative team. It might well end up being shit, but I think it's worth the benefit of the doubt (and I'll deffs see it either way)
I think with this more than probably any other biopic I can think of, it just feels both tasteless and redundant. her entire life was played out in the tabloids so what's to reveal? we've even had her diaries. imagery of her is burned onto everyone's retinas. why watch someone playing dressup as Amy in a shoddy wig? and it was all relatively recent so going there already feels crass. it's just a big ol' what's the point? who actually wants this? I think it will bomb.I find the backlash to this really BASIC. It's an interesting story, with a classy enough cast and creative team. It might well end up being shit, but I think it's worth the benefit of the doubt (and I'll deffs see it either way)
Rehab, the lightning bolt single that of course changed everything, is not even heard until the last 20 minutes of the film. You Know I’m No Good doesn’t feature, at all. Tears Dry On Their Own plays over the credits. For someone who released so little music, this is just… absurd.
And to state the obvious: Amy Winehouse was not just once-in-a-generation voice. She was a born interpreter of song who, even before she was a star, had put in her 10,000 hours at the altar of true masters like Ray Charles, Etta James and Donnie Hathaway.
Much has been made, too, of how much weight Abela has lost for this role. I would first like to make it emphatically clear that I find the actors-starving-themselves-for-awards thing to be irresponsible-verging-on-disturbing – would Dr Oppenheimer have been any less Dr Oppenheimer without Cillian Murphy’s press tour-friendly one-almond-a-week diet? – but… no one in this film is skinny enough.
It’s like me listening to ASFMOH HANG ON
“cringeworthy” according to The Telegraph
“so bad it made me gasp in horror” from the Standard
I didn't realise the Bob Marley one did so good