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Re: Love & Mercy Blu-Ray/DVD Official thread
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Just a reminder that posting non-official links to download copies of the film since it has been released commercially will not be allowed on this forum, nor will requests to provide such links. Anyone doing so will be subject to a ban.
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Re: Love & Mercy Blu-Ray/DVD Official thread
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Entertainment Weekly has published an exclusive deleted scene (
1 of 4 included in the iTunes Extras
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Link below for the curious among us..
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/25/paul-dano-love-and-mercy?utm_campaign=Contact+SNS+For+More+Referrer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=snsanalytics
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Re: Love & Mercy Blu-Ray/DVD Official thread
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The Blu Ray is #20 on Amazon's Blu Ray list.
With the numbers NPP put up, it's pretty obvious where Brian Wilson fans shop.
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Quote from: KDS on August 25, 2015, 01:35:34 PM
The Blu Ray is #20 on Amazon's Blu Ray list.
With the numbers NPP put up, it's pretty obvious where Brian Wilson fans shop.
Amazon's sales lists tend to skew towards the older demographic, especially looking at physical media. Older folks tend to buy CDs and BDs/DVDs, so we typically see Brian or McCartney and people of that era hit higher on Amazon's physical sales charts than they do on the overall charts.
However it happens, though, it's good to see Brian product higher up on the charts.
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Enjoyable deleted scene. I bet the Mike Lovers among us would've loved if that was left in, his big line sounds like something out of Smiley Smile! Abel does an excellent job playing Mike both aggressively and sympathetically. You can see his side. Why Love was so sniffy about the film, I can't understand. He comes off ok, really. Killer hats too.
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on August 25, 2015, 03:45:47 PM
Abel does an excellent job playing Mike both aggressively and sympathetically. You can see his side. Why Love was so sniffy about the film, I can't understand. He comes off ok, really. Killer hats too.
Abel was great. I thought he portrayed Mike to be quite a pr*ck, which he very well could've been. Then again Brian always said he was a goofball in the studio and here we only see the serious side.
I did crack up at his "sunny down snuff" line.
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Would be great to see a version with those scenes included. The more the better.
I read a review a few days ago where the writer said it was too long and that the studio scenes should have been trimmed. For me and I'm sure most here they made the film. The recreation and hearing those instruments being tuned was worth the price of admission alone.
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Quote from: Pretty Funky on August 25, 2015, 05:41:51 PM
Would be great to see a version with those scenes included. The more the better.
I read a review a few days ago where the writer said it was too long and that the studio scenes should have been trimmed. For me and I'm sure most here they made the film. The recreation and hearing those instruments being tuned was worth the price of admission alone.
I know the bed montage is the climax of the film, but when I initially reviewed the film after seeing it for the first time I was so blown away by the studio scenes I made the comment that there was no climax to the movie because the whole thing was a masterpiece from beginning to end...basically because of all the studio scenes.
A huge thanks goes out to Bill Pohlad for getting it. This could've been another 'Walk The Line' or 'Ray', but this film has a life of its own. It's not pandering to a majority of movie-lovers, it's geared for us die-hard fans. We really got lucky.
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Re: Love & Mercy Blu-Ray/DVD Official thread
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I'm with you guys, the more scenes the better. Back in June, Oren Moverman did an interview with Collider and mentioned that the first real cut of the film was 2 hours & 20 minutes. I would love to see that some day. Who knows, an 'Extended Cut' of
Walk The Line
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on August 25, 2015, 03:45:47 PM
Enjoyable deleted scene. I bet the Mike Lovers among us would've loved if that was left in, his big line sounds like something out of Smiley Smile! Abel does an excellent job playing Mike both aggressively and sympathetically. You can see his side. Why Love was so sniffy about the film, I can't understand. He comes off ok, really. Killer hats too.
Glad that scene was cut. Aside from being inaccurate as regards location (in a movie that's nearly always on the ball in this respect), it's a clumsy, heavy handed piece of exposition/setting up. The movie I saw had a fine, balanced hand on the tiller. Pohlad made the right call.
Anyone else notice the dialog lift from the
American Family
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So how do you think Mike Love comes off in the film overall, Andrew? Sympathetically? Kind of my main point, deleted scenes aside. I dunno, Movie Mike almost makes a better case for his side than his defenders. You can see why he'd feel frustrated and left out in those studio scenes 100000% more effectively than a large Buick's worth of Cam Mottery. Maybe the hats are just inherently more sympathetic, but I feel for the guy. Throwing in that sweet little "Good Vibrations" writing moment was a nice touch as well. ML of 2015 I have a hard time empathizing with, but I can completely get his 60s art vs family business mindset and the film does an excellent job of depicting it. Pohlad indeed nailed it and walked the tightrope with some style. Talk/discuss.
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My opinion of how Mike was handled was that while initially his character was handled fairly, by the time of the pool meeting he was wearing a black hat, or at least a dark gray one.
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A bit of a dark gray hardass by that point, yeah -- but certainly a well-motivated one. It wasn't just EVIL MIKE LOVE RUINING BRIAN'S BEAUTIFUL DREAMS. You got what was important to him and it wasn't exactly pure evil or the devil's work. He was just a guy trying to keep the family business ticking along in the midst of a chaotic circus. Look how out of control BW was portrayed by that scene, that's no white hat for sure. I thought they did a great job not going full blown Heroes and Villains.
Otherwise there would've been sharp legal elbows, mmm?
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Indeed. Not the all-out malign influence that might have been reasonably expected.
Still don't care much for the deleted scene, though.
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on August 26, 2015, 08:56:50 AM
So how do you think Mike Love comes off in the film overall, Andrew? Sympathetically? Kind of my main point, deleted scenes aside. I dunno, Movie Mike almost makes a better case for his side than his defenders. You can see why he'd feel frustrated and left out in those studio scenes 100000% more effectively than a large Buick's worth of Cam Mottery. Maybe the hats are just inherently more sympathetic, but I feel for the guy. Throwing in that sweet little "Good Vibrations" writing moment was a nice touch as well. ML of 2015 I have a hard time empathizing with, but I can completely get his 60s art vs family business mindset and the film does an excellent job of depicting it. Pohlad indeed nailed it and walked the tightrope with some style. Talk/discuss.
Ontor - my impression, if we are looking at the same scenes, is that what Mike articulated, represented the position of the other band members.
Subsequent to the movie's release, Brian has said that Mike was a "good guy" and well-treated" in the film. And, I would agree. Why not let Brian have the "last word," here...
And, I don't have the hard copy yet.
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I too can see why the deleted scene was deleted.
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Quote from: filledeplage on August 26, 2015, 09:37:46 AM
And, I would agree. Why not let Brian have the "last word," here...
If Brian had the last word, we'd be talking about lunch! I don't have the hard copy yet either, can't wait to check out the Spector and Murry scenes. Proper black hats!
So in the end... Mike Love was handled fairly, even in the highly qualified words of The World's Greatest Living Neutral Historian. ML made a mistake on this film, they will never have a better film in their lifetimes and he could've said some happy PR stuff, spent a weekend with Abel to show him how to point, dabbled in soundtrack work, fertile cross-promotion to give a small boost to his own operations, gave good interviews instead of saying how Evan Landy's tabloid sale was real interesting. But the Stamos hackjob was worth being involved with. Did that make more money than it cost in legal settlements?
Jack Rieley's words about blowing it ring true still! Let's find them another manager with a dubious resume and the gift of gab.
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on August 26, 2015, 09:40:05 AM
Quote from: filledeplage on August 26, 2015, 09:37:46 AM
And, I would agree. Why not let Brian have the "last word," here...
If Brian had the last word, we'd be talking about lunch! I don't have the hard copy yet either, can't wait to check out the Spector and Murry scenes. Proper black hats!
So in the end... Mike Love was handled fairly, even in the highly qualified words of The World's Greatest Living Neutral Historian. ML made a mistake on this film, they will never have a better film in their lifetimes and he could've said some happy PR stuff, spent a weekend with Abel to show him how to point, dabbled in soundtrack work, fertile cross-promotion to give a small boost to his own operations, gave good interviews instead of saying how Evan Landy's tabloid sale was real interesting. But the Stamos hackjob was worth being involved with. Did that make more money than it cost in legal settlements?
Jack Rieley's words about blowing it ring true still! Let's find them another manager with a dubious resume and the gift of gab.
Not much faith in Brian's authority? Brian appears to "miss nothing" onstage and I would expect that to be consistent across the board. Ever see him tell an audience to clap? Or stop tossing beach balls?
All I have read, suggests that Brian was/is very much "in charge" while working on music in the studio. Leon Russell would likely support that.
This is not about "sensationalizing" or for you, is it? It is a sober movie. And sobering. And I don't mean booze or drugs.
Rieley was a poser. JMHO
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Food for thought there, filledeplage.
Hey, how about that 5.1 mix, huh? Holy Walter Murch, Batman!
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Quote from: ontor pertawst on August 26, 2015, 10:51:29 AM
Food for thought there, filledeplage.
Hey, how about that 5.1 mix, huh? Holy Walter Murch, Batman!
Do you mean the soundtrack? If you do, it was so well-handled. And the Pet Sounds sessions studio scenes were amazing. But they were among the "happy" scenes. The material to be convered required delicate care.
It was well handled. And brilliant to use two actors for Brian.
But it was so intense that I felt as though I was shot out of a cannon by the time it was over. And, wasn't alone.
Hope it acquires some serious acclaim.
It was the story of "our music" that required telling. Big Bravo!
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Looks like the DVD release date is the 15th September. Still no date for the Blu-Ray yet, annoying, as I've pre-ordered it for Blu-Ray. Amazon did have a Blu-ray release date to start with (being Sept also) to which they have changed to quote: "Delivery estimate: We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. We'll notify you via e-mail as soon as we have an estimated delivery date." - Amazon.co.uk ....
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Quote from: Cool Cool Water on September 13, 2015, 10:24:46 AM
Looks like the DVD release date is the 15th September. Still no date for the Blu-Ray yet, annoying, as I've pre-ordered it for Blu-Ray. Amazon did have a Blu-ray release date to start with (being Sept also) to which they have changed to quote: "Delivery estimate: We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. We'll notify you via e-mail as soon as we have an estimated delivery date." - Amazon.co.uk ....
I pre-ordered the Blu-Ray on Amazon and it says it will arrive on September 15th. I'm in the US though.
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Quote from: Rocky Raccoon on September 13, 2015, 10:32:02 AM
I'm in the US though.
I'd probably get it quicker ordering it from Amazon.com.
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There was a commercial for the Blu ray/DVD last night on the History channel. I was watching American Pickers and all of a sudden I'm seeing L&M clips. Nice.
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Quote from: Paul J B on September 14, 2015, 06:59:44 AM
There was a commercial for the Blu ray/DVD last night on the History channel. I was watching American Pickers and all of a sudden I'm seeing L&M clips. Nice.
I've seen a few commercials for it on various channels (ie FX). I've seen more ads for the BluRay than for the theatrical release.
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