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Anyone else find biopics extremely boring?

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    #32
    trashcan
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109634725#Comment_109634725

    Yep, an awful travesty of a film, and I thought Remi Mallak was terrible. Did he get an Oscar nomination for that ? If you compare it to Rocketman, the Elton John film released around the same time, that was miles better.



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    bnt
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    It definitely helps to have an interesting subject. I had read a little about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (the creators & stars of I Love Lucy), so knew enough to enjoy Being The Ricardos with Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem. It also helped that it wasn't a "straight" biopic, since the writer (Aaron Sorkin) compressed several important events in to a single week to heighten the drama.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #34
    Strumms
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    I found I’m Not There enjoyable … Serpico too. which is a film I haven’t seen in about 15 years but might rewatch it during the week.



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