Thread: Last movie you saw - and rate it

Originally Posted by elsid13

Motherless Brooklyn - 8/10. Had the old school gum shoe feel with some great acting. Norton was really good.

Good lord I forgot all about that movie! Watched early on in quarantine. Yes, Norton was great in it!

Light of my Life - 7ish/10

Casey Affleck is great. I love the slow burn - found myself really invested in the characters. At one point about 70% of the way through the movie I was thinking it was a 9/10 but it kind of falls apart in the end for me. Still a good flick.

I Care A Lot
8/10

A tad stupid in a few parts, but that's me being picky. This was a great film with A+ performances across the board.

Bee Gees: How Do You Mend a Broken Heart 9/10

Wonderfully paced and bittersweet documentary about The Bee Gees on HBO Max. This band always seemed to be on the periphery of my life since I was born the same year they really blew up but I had no idea their careers spanned all the way back to the 50’s. Covers lots of ground with old interviews and a new interview Barry Gibb that offers a heartbreaking perspective on their highs and lows. Can’t recommend this enough.

Considered watching that last night, maybe the wife and i will give it a go.

Originally Posted by Northman

Considered watching that last night, maybe the wife and i will give it a go.

Yeah I have always been neutral on The Bee Gees but that movie really spells out how special they are. You get taken in by the first few minutes.

I enjoyed that Bee Gees doc a lot too. Great way to spend some time, and eye-opening too.

I said this back in January in the "What are you watching" thread:

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

The Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart

Astonishing how many great songs they wrote, long before the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Even after the "disco sucks" revolution, they still wrote numerous #1 hits for other artists because they were basically banned from radio.

As MO would say, don't @ me! Definitely a great watch.

Sad that only Barry is still alive.

Originally Posted by MasterShake

Bee Gees: How Do You Mend a Broken Heart 9/10

Wonderfully paced and bittersweet documentary about The Bee Gees on HBO Max. This band always seemed to be on the periphery of my life since I was born the same year they really blew up but I had no idea their careers spanned all the way back to the 50’s. Covers lots of ground with old interviews and a new interview Barry Gibb that offers a heartbreaking perspective on their highs and lows. Can’t recommend this enough.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

I said this back in January in the "What are you watching" thread:

Amazing, the wife and i loved this and like some of you i never even knew about some of their earlier stuff (which was actually good).


10/10

Originally Posted by Northman

Amazing, the wife and i loved this and like some of you i never even knew about some of their earlier stuff (which was actually good).


10/10

Yeah, I immediately went to go check out their 60's stuff which as Noel Gallagher said in the documentary sounded like early Beatles. I had only ever really know them from Saturday Night Fever (of which I inherited the original on Vinyl from my parents years ago lol) and always thought they were talented but never new how many times they rose and fell over several decades. Too bad they got caught up in the Disco backlash, because the songs they wrote for others (Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, etc.) would've been great Bee Gees records. My parents have a few pictures from seeing them in concert back in 1979 at McNichols I should see if I can dig them up.

Originally Posted by MasterShake

Yeah, I immediately went to go check out their 60's stuff which as Noel Gallagher said in the documentary sounded like early Beatles. I had only ever really know them from Saturday Night Fever (of which I inherited the original on Vinyl from my parents years ago lol) and always thought they were talented but never new how many times they rose and fell over several decades. Too bad they got caught up in the Disco backlash, because the songs they wrote for others (Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, etc.) would've been great Bee Gees records. My parents have a few pictures from seeing them in concert back in 1979 at McNichols I should see if I can dig them up.

^All this.

I said that to Missy last night that the early stuff sounded exactly like something the Beatles and/or Beach Boys would play. Im actually going through catalog now and am surprised they werent bigger than they were during that time period. When it came to the stuff they wrote for other artists (like the Rogers/Parton song) she was shocked that it was written by them. But we both agreed that once you listen to those songs from the respective artists you can definitely hear the Bee Gees compositions in them.

I finally got around to watching The Irishman last weekend. King was wrong.

Originally Posted by Northman

^All this.

I said that to Missy last night that the early stuff sounded exactly like something the Beatles would play. Im actually going through catalog now and am surprised they werent bigger than they were during that time period. When it came to the stuff they wrote for other artists (like the Rogers/Parton song) she was shocked that it was written by them. But we both agreed that once you listen to those songs from the respective artists you can definitely hear the Bee Gees compositions in them.

Yeah I remember hearing Islands in the Stream all the time on the radio growing up, now I can ONLY hear it through that lens!

Currently loving this tune.

Don't mean to make this about the Bee Gees, but this is pretty awesome: