Watching "The Commitments" on DVD. What a great movie.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

(Watching James Brown)
"Maybe we're a little... white.. for that sort of thing?!"

"The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. The Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!"

[Dudley_DUright]

1. As I recall there is a great cover of "Mustang Sally" in that movie

Outstanding sound track. I have always meant to pick it up and now thanks to your post, maybe I will. :-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Go get it. You won't regret. But don't bother with the "Vol II" album.

[JimmyJazz]

2. It's a great movie with a great soundtrack!

Now, I think I'm going to have to rent it myself.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Another great line...

"Mr. Rabbitte, you've been on unemployment for the last 2 years. Are you telling me you can't get a job?"

"We're a third world country. What are you going to do?"


And

"It's much better being an unemployed musician than an unemployed pipefitter!"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. "You're missing the point.

The success of the band was irrelevant. You raised their expectations of life, you lifted their horizons.

Sure we could've been famous and made albums and stuff, but that would have been predictable.

This way it's poetry."

[xmas74]

5. I need to order that. I've wanted it for a long time!

[okoboji]

7. love it

and own it!

[elshiva]

8. "When I stop laying it on you, you're gonna come back

for more." Great line from the Otis Redding cover (the song is "Hard to Handle")

[tigereye]

9. that is one of those movies

that I can watch anytime! It's on my fave rock and roll movie list. Great songs.

[elshiva]

10. Fave rock and roll movie list

Commitments
Hard Day's Night
Help!
Hedwig & the Angry Inch

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Hedwig rules too. What incredible music.

[elshiva]

13. Favorite song "Origin of Love," because it tells how

queers were created by the Divine powers.

Also, "I'm the new Berlin wall! Try and tear me down!"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. I love the "Yankee Go Home With Me" sign she has in the opening scene.

[elshiva]

18. I have a still of her and her wings with

"The Yankee Go Home With Me" in my bathroom. One of the greatest queer movies of all time.

[tigereye]

16. High Fidelity- another one I can watch over and over

Spinal Tap
Velvet Goldmine ( well, not over and over)
Almost Famous
Help!

and a great Austrailian movie about a wanna be famous band with lots of silly brashness, fun sex scenes and a bit of social commentary, the name of which I cannot summon from the recesses of my brain. :)


here's a synopsis of some r and r movies

http://www.epinions.com/content_2498601092

[driver8]

21. I love "High Fidelity"...when I saw it with my wife, I said,

"These guys remind me of me and my friends." My wife says, "Those are you and your friends!" Actually, I'm not that much of a music geek, but the characters did remind me of a lot of guys I worked with in college radio.

[tigereye]

23. several of them reminded me of buddies from music stores

( they did not suffer the "musically ignorant" lightly.) ;)

and of college radio guys I knew/know as well. :hi:

[CBHagman]

12. Thoroughly entertaining.

And if you like Roddy Doyle adaptations, be sure to watch "The Snapper," too, even if it doesn't have the same soundtrack. It does have Colm Meaney, who is in "The Commitments" and always worth watching.

[elshiva]

15. Snapper is great! So is "The Van" another Roddy Doyle

film. Lovely movie about a fish and chip van. Nice ordinary people and believable.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Colm Meaney was a pleasant surprise, I had seen the movie in theaters

on first release, but just watching it tonight, I was like, WTF, it's the Star Trek Engineer! And he was very good as Jimmy's dad.

[driver8]

19. This is my favorite movie!!!

I love everything about this movie -- the story, the music, the characters...and some of the funniest dialogue ever.

"What do you play?"
"Play? I played some football at school."
"No, what instrument?"
"I don't."
"So, what are you hear for then?"
"Well, I saw the line outside...I thought you were sellin' drugs."

"He's in the band, is he?"
"Yeah, he said God sent him."
"What?"
"He said God sent him"
"On a fucking Suzuki?"

..."and you George Michael...you ever call me a fucking ejit again and you'll get a drumstick shoved up your hole -- the one you don't sing out of."
"Yeah, yeah..."
"It's comin' -- so keep the vaseline handy!"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. The ending (just before the "where are they now") is just magic.

I only wish I'd first seen this movie when I was in high school. It would have affected me about a billion times more than it even did, which was a lot.

[Patiod]

22. The audition scene has been copied, but never bested

One of my favorite movies.