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There are a LOT of people grumbling about the number of biopics represented among today’s SAG noms and BAFTA longlists, particularly in the acting categories. It seems the number is increasing every year.
I just finished watching Being the Ricardos and found is serviceable, fine, watchable, but I have no need to watch it again. Biopics, to me, feel like homework (often with a hefty dose of revisionism) and they have little reason to pay a repeat viewing.
Are there any biopics that you can go back to watch again and again?
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There are a LOT of people grumbling about the number of biopics represented among today’s SAG noms and BAFTA longlists, particularly in the acting categories. It seems the number is increasing every year. I just finished watching Being the Ricardos and found is serviceable, fine, watchable, but I have no need to watch it again. Biopics, to me, feel like homework (often with a hefty dose of revisionism) and they have little reason to pay a repeat viewing. Are there any biopics that you can go back to watch again and again?
Bohemian Rhapsody but only the 20 final minutes. And All people told me that. Bohemian Rhapsody is Awful but Everybody loved and still love the 20 final minutes
ReplyCopy URLI’m not inherently against biopics. They can be creative, fascinating, and rewarding in their own rights. The problem is that so many biopics are resoundingly mediocre. This is partially because they usually don’t get made without the blessing of the subject or their estate, which means they can’t go as deep as they should. It’s also because they’re usually swings for the Oscar fences that rarely ring true. In any case, they’re not going away anytime soon.
But seriously, in our post Walk Hard world, why do we still have movies like Respect?
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This post was found to be inappropriate by the moderators and has been removed.If I want to learn about someone, I’ll just go check their Wikipedia page.
Biopics are mostly uninteresting, uninventive and with absolutely zero aesthetic value.
But to give credit where credit is due : Black Venus and Benedetta are great. Judas and the Black Messiah and Marie-Antoinette were pretty good. I disliked At Eternity’s Gate but it was an interesting film.
ReplyCopy URLI like certain biopics, I generally prefer the ones that focus on a brief but representative period of the person’s life rather than trying to be cradle to grave. Then it’s much easier for the figure to be a character in a story, rather than the story having to be the character.
Like for example, I’ll admit, I really liked Being the Ricardos. And I wouldn’t group Kidman’s performance in with other biopic performances because if anything she actually actively DOES NOT do an impersonation, at least not one of the version of lucille ball the general public today knows when she so easily could have. She wouldn’t be my first choice, but I won’t be furious if she wins.
ReplyCopy URLMy favorite biopics
Love and Mercy
Walk the Line
Rush
Elizabeth
Chaplin
The DownfallI love biopics even though I’m tired of hear they are going to do many of these in the future, i don’t think biopics are bad for acting, if you embody that real life person, you deserved all the accolades, for example Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin, he was so marvelous in that movie that even Chaplin’s daughter praised his performance, she said it was like her father’s spirit possess Robert, I’m ok with someone winning for a biopic, the problem is when the biopic is not good and the acting looks more like a cosplay than embody the role.
ReplyCopy URLThe Wolf of Wall Street
Love and Mercy
I, Tonya
Vice
Mank
Judas and the Black MessiahThose are just a handful from the last decade that I’ve watched multiple times.
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Although, with the exception of Love and Mercy, I see these as films about America’s failures more than they are about any particular historical figure.
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