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Get on up (2014 James Brown film)

  • 20-11-2014 6:37am
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    charlie_says
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    See this is getting it's Irish release later this week. Biopic of the legendary musician James Brown.

    I'd imagine the music to be fairly great in it, but I wonder if it will deal with JB being know as very difficult and rude in the music business, even though he was highly respected by people he worked with he was notoriously hard to get along with due to his incredibly high standards and short temper.

    The above will be breezed over if his family/estate are heavily involved in the production.

    The guy did have a crazy life and to me was probably the most influential 20th century musician by a country mile. Could be good.

    edit: I was lucky enough to see him in Dublin about just over month before he passed away. Rocking show. Awesome.


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    MakeEmLaugh
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    charlie_says wrote: »
    See this is getting it's Irish release later this week. Biopic of the legendary musician James Brown.

    I'd imagine the music to be fairly great in it, but I wonder if it will deal with JB being know as very difficult and rude in the music business, even though he was highly respected by people he worked with he was notoriously hard to get along with due to his incredibly high standards and short temper.

    The above will be breezed over if his family/estate are heavily involved in the production.

    The guy did have a crazy life and to me was probably the most influential 20th century musician by a country mile. Could be good.

    edit: I was lucky enough to see him in Dublin about just over month before he passed away. Rocking show. Awesome.

    I'm truly surprised this received such lukewarm reviews – 2/5 in The Guardian? Shame on you, Mr Bradshaw!

    One of the best biopics I've seen in a long time. The complex, ambitious chronology shuffling was a hundred times more interesting and illuminating than the standard A to B to C biographical films we normally see.

    And, without a doubt, Chadwick Boseman deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance as Brown. As much as I liked seeing Steve Carrell out of his comfort zone in Foxcatcher, there's no way he was more deserving of being on that shortlist than Boseman.


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