Did Disney smother the Jimi Hendrix movie??

LA said:
Yeah, I saw it last year and the movie felt very vague in some ways. It would have been far better with actual hendrix music and a more developed script. Andre Benjamin's acting wasn't all that great either, but I give them a 'C' for effort - if you will.
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Wow, that isn't exactly a ringing endorsement. Would you say it's even worth watching, or is it a waste of two hours?
 
orejon4 said:
Wow, that isn't exactly a ringing endorsement. Would you say it's even worth watching, or is it a waste of two hours?
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It's worth watching but it isn't by any means a great film. Only slightly insightful, if you will. They did show some things about Jimi that I was not aware of.
 
LA said:
It's worth watching but it isn't by any means a great film. Only slightly insightful, if you will. They did show some things about Jimi that I was not aware of.
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And they made up some stuff too. The woman whom Hayley was playing told the media Jimi never physically abused her as portrayed in the film.
 
orejon4 said:
I was just wondering whatever happened to it. I don't even remember its release and then today I saw it being advertised on pay-for-view on television. Weird. Did anyone here catch it at the cinema?

I'm not a big fan of what Disney does to its non-kiddie movies, by the way. Got my fingers crossed that they don't take whatever's left of Star Wars and render it hollow.
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Well, Disney is doing a good job of getting out of the way and allowing Marvel to do whatever it wants.

I decided not to see it after reading about the whole phony physical abuse element the writer (a black dude who directed the movie as well) added to the storyline. It did garner mostly good reviews though.
 
I've seen it (it was released in the UK last year).

The film isn't very good. The performances are good but the film is poorly written and is edited weird. The film is boring as well.

The Hendrix family probably didn't licence the movie because it shows Jimi's domestic abuse.

Hayley Atwell has done some sexually explicit stuff in World Without End and Black Mirror so I doubt Disney is blocking the movie because of Atwell doing anything not family friendly.
 
JamalSpunky said:
And they made up some stuff too. The woman whom Hayley was playing told the media Jimi never physically abused her as portrayed in the film.
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Well if that's the case, that's pretty shitty that they would make him a woman beater. Like how the fuck do you do that to someone's legacy? What a low innacurate blow.
 
LA said:
Well if that's the case, that's pretty shitty that they would make him a woman beater. Like how the fuck do you do that to someone's legacy? What a low innacurate blow.
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Crazy. With his entire dense, brief career that's influenced music for generations and you have one of the film's focal points a non-existent domestic abuse situation??

In so many depressing ways Hollywood is so stereotypical.


Anyway, there's so many better concert excerpts and actual documentary films about Hendrix that feature his music(which the family does allow his music to be featured in) that I'm really not desperate to see a major studio bio pic on Hendrix.
 
LA said:
It's worth watching but it isn't by any means a great film. Only slightly insightful, if you will. They did show some things about Jimi that I was not aware of.
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You and JamalSpunky have convinced me - they won't get any of my meager pennies and I'll wait for the cable broadcast.

JamalSpunky said:
Well, Disney is doing a good job of getting out of the way and allowing Marvel to do whatever it wants.

I decided not to see it after reading about the whole phony physical abuse element the writer (a black dude who directed the movie as well) added to the storyline. It did garner mostly good reviews though.
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I hope Disney stays out of Marvel's way. I heard they've been chucking out entire swaths of the Star Wars Expanded Universe to suit them, however.
 
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