I really hate the idea of a modern musical biopic-- the newest one is about Bob Dylan . . . A Complete Unknown-- because if you want to see a movie about Bob Dylan, just watch Dont Look Back and observe the man himself, not a Bob Dylan impression by someone who wasn't even born when Dylan was the voice of a generation-- I can understand a movie like Amadeus or Lisztomania because there's no film of those folks, but I refuse to see Ray and Walk the Line and Rocketman . . . it's much more fun to see a film about a fictitious band, like Spinal Tap, or a fictitious band that becomes a real band, like The Commitments, than it is to evaluate a musical impersonation for 120 minutes (and the most fun of all is when a tribute band nails all the songs, but looks nothing like the original musicians).
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did you, um, see 'a complete unknown'? 'cause it's really well done, and young timothee is a more than passable mimic of bob's vocal stylings. as does monica barbaro as joan baez. there's a ton of music in the film, as one might imagine.
People stop me on the street all the time because they confuse me with Timothee Chalamet. And Jason Alexander.
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