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Movie Review: Almost Famous - Bootleg Edition (2000)
The longer, director's cut of the movie. Having seen the original quite a few years ago I only noticed 1 new scene. The movie follows a brighter-than-average teen who gets his big break to write for Rolling Stone magazine. His first assignment is to follow around Stillwater, a band on the verge of making it big. He befriends, the band, their band-aids, and is privy to all the excitement, politics, and in-fighting that follows the group across the country. This longer version is still fantastic and quite possibly the best rock n' roll movie ever. The music is great and it's amazing to think how the actors played all their own instruments and did a multitude of performances to prepare for their big concert scenes. The story is based on the real life experiences of the film's director, Cameron Crowe. 9/10
Movie Review: Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Directed by, and starring, Christopher Guest (the mind behind that other great rock movie, This is Spinal Tap) 'Waiting for Guffman' is a hilarious, nearly completely improvised comedy. With a cast including Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (of SCTV fame) it's easy to see how such a project would succeed. Without cracking a smile, the cast persorms the ridiculous story of an no-talent, former New York theatre drama as he casts a crazy ensemble of not just untalented, but plain awful local actors in a musical that he hopes will make it to broadway. It's all played very serious which makes it all the more funny. 8/10
Movie Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
I really like the original BBC radio play and I really like the err, trilogy of books. I really didn't like this movie though. The only funny moments in the movie are the cut scenes where computer graphics would demonstrate small entries from the Guide. I'm sure that many were disappointed. 5/10
The longer, director's cut of the movie. Having seen the original quite a few years ago I only noticed 1 new scene. The movie follows a brighter-than-average teen who gets his big break to write for Rolling Stone magazine. His first assignment is to follow around Stillwater, a band on the verge of making it big. He befriends, the band, their band-aids, and is privy to all the excitement, politics, and in-fighting that follows the group across the country. This longer version is still fantastic and quite possibly the best rock n' roll movie ever. The music is great and it's amazing to think how the actors played all their own instruments and did a multitude of performances to prepare for their big concert scenes. The story is based on the real life experiences of the film's director, Cameron Crowe. 9/10
Movie Review: Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Directed by, and starring, Christopher Guest (the mind behind that other great rock movie, This is Spinal Tap) 'Waiting for Guffman' is a hilarious, nearly completely improvised comedy. With a cast including Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (of SCTV fame) it's easy to see how such a project would succeed. Without cracking a smile, the cast persorms the ridiculous story of an no-talent, former New York theatre drama as he casts a crazy ensemble of not just untalented, but plain awful local actors in a musical that he hopes will make it to broadway. It's all played very serious which makes it all the more funny. 8/10
Movie Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
I really like the original BBC radio play and I really like the err, trilogy of books. I really didn't like this movie though. The only funny moments in the movie are the cut scenes where computer graphics would demonstrate small entries from the Guide. I'm sure that many were disappointed. 5/10
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