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26 November 2007

I'm Not There (posible spoilers, although this movie is virtually spoiler-proof) Anybody else seen it? If so, what did you think? (Anyone on the fence about seeing it should read the linked article.)
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We saw it last night and I'm still digesting it. I'd like to see it again before rendering a final verdict (it's pretty dense and over two hours long), but overall I'd say that I liked it a lot - it doesn't work 100% of the time, but then again what does? Plus, it's nice to see a few chances being taken.

Some of the acting is on the stiff side (Julianne Moore, whoever played the Albert Grossman part), but Cate Blanchet is amazing, as one might expect. And given that Dylan has re-invented himself many times over the years, the use of different actors and different film stocks makes perfect sense.

If you're totally unfamiliar with Dylan, this probably wouldn't be a good place to start. It helps to have some knowledge going in, although you don't need to be an obsessive Dylanphile to get something out of it. Science Girl is a pretty casual fan and she quite enjoyed it; I'm a little higher up the geeky scale, so I think I may have caught some references that she didn't. That said, I'm sure I missed as much as I caught.
That said, I'm sure I missed as much as I caught.


For example, I missed "posible spoilers" in the title. What the hell is a posible spoiler - when I reveal that the role of Robbie Robertson was played by GI Joe?
posted by bmarkey 27 November | 00:13
I was down in CA visiting my family. As families everywhere do over the holidays, we tried to settle on a movie that we could agree on.

My wife lobbied for this movie. She and my daughter loved it. I liked it well enough. My mom, sister, and brother HATED it. Absolutely hated it.

It was an awkward dinner, afterwards.
posted by danf 27 November | 16:11
I think that's the way it's gonna shake out - folks are either going to love it or loathe it. You must choose, danf, YOU MUST CHOOSE!
posted by bmarkey 27 November | 16:21
Well, I had a lot of his music on LP's. It is fascinating to remember how clueless everyone was about what it must have been like to BE him, back then.

And, faced with all the adulation, he behaved pretty much the only way he could to stay sane. So I liked it, for that. And Blachett was wonderful.

It is also making me want to get ahold of a copy of Desire. One of the ones like but don't have digitally.
posted by danf 27 November | 16:38
What did you make of the Richard Gere stuff? that seems to be the part that nobody likes.

I think I got what Haynes was going after there: that's the post-motorcycle crash/rehab Dylan, hiding out from fame up in Woodstock and eventually coming back to music (and Americana) with The Band (Basement Tapes, Big Pink, etc.) Science Girl didn't get it at first, but after I gave her my take she said that it made more sense.
posted by bmarkey 27 November | 17:03
I liked the Richard Gere segment also. By that point, his fame and notoriety were such that in order to do ANY music at all (which is what he was born to do) he had to reenter the marketplace of popular music, with all the freaks and geeks.

Although I spent a lot of time in the moving KNOWING that my fam. hated it, and feeling guilty that they were dragged to it, over Enchanted.
posted by danf 27 November | 17:07
I spent a lot of time in the moving KNOWING that my fam. hated it, and feeling guilty that they were dragged to it, over Enchanted.


Ouch. Yeah, you might have been better off splitting into two groups and meeting up afterwards.

I can't imagine seeing it with my family - Mom would go just because I wanted to see it and then spend the entire time baffled as to why, and Dad hasn't seen a film in a theater since Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid was first released.
posted by bmarkey 27 November | 17:11
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