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- benjic, on 05/21/2009, -1/+5I read Biodome: The Remake. Now, I'm sad.
- BenRag, on 05/21/2009, -1/+4buried for insulting the great film that is Ghandi
- Pirate45, on 05/21/2009, -1/+4One good biopic that's out there is the one about L.A. punk band The Germs called "What We Do Is Secret". It's not as good as I would have hoped but it's pretty entertaining.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3it beats the old remake
- davincih, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3That's especially true if the subject is still living, though Oliver Stone's W was surprisingly good.
- Browzer, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2I just see absolutely no point to biopics. You can't trust them. They are only 2-3 hours long. 99.99% of the dialogue is fabricated. Events are compressed, chronologically re-arranged, or left out altogether. If you want to learn *really* learn about someone, you need to read 6 biographies about them by different people and an autobiography (if one exists). Then you may have a *vague* clue about what the person was like.
I think Scorsese is wasting his time with a Sinatra biopic. I did like "The Aviator", but only because I pretended it was a total work of fiction. - valarking, on 05/21/2009, -1/+3There are plenty of excellent directors who are known for biopics. Take Scorsese and Herzog for example. It's easy to get carried away with stuff like the GWB biopic, but it's a legitimate genre of film.
Also, keep in mind that, while the article likes to bash on Scorsese, his biopics brought us Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino. - DRNOOO, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1no prequels are the new remake
- Pirate45, on 05/22/2009, -0/+1Love that song. I wish Darby was still with us. :(
- jonmlm, on 05/21/2009, -1/+2awful, uninformed rant. front page?
- michaelpinto, on 05/20/2009, -1/+2I've always found documentaries to be much stronger than biopics unless the subject has been dead for over 100 years or so.
- valarking, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1I read the article.
Yeah man ***** those biopics like The Last Temptation of Christ, Malcolm X, Patton, Downfall, Frost/Nixon, etc.
Now that you put it that way, it's completely different! It completely justifies saying "They cloud their own selfish money grabs in a cloak of selfless public works do gooding." about the likes of Scorsese. - DDRSkata, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1Standing in the line we're abberations
Defects in a defect's mirror
And we've been here all the time, real fixations
Hidden deep in the furor
What we do is secret! Secret!
We're influential guys for the D.C.C.
We can lie so perfect
And we've got a party line to every call
It's a very short circuit
What we do is secret! Secret!
Licensed to drill with the torch in our lives
Walking on shallow water
Progressed to the point of no distinction
Dementia of a higher order
What we do is secret! SECRET! - reddfoxx1562, on 05/21/2009, -0/+0It seems that you didn't read the article.
Every biopic you mentioned was illuminating the life of a character/person that is NOT well-known.
This article is bitching about things like Elvis or Bruce Lee, or other real humans that everyone already knows a lot about. - reddfoxx1562, on 05/21/2009, -0/+0This was actually one of the best articles I've read on Digg.
- dnc34, on 05/21/2009, -5/+3Meh, I prefer bioshocks
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