Beach Boys movies

[Aegir]

Lets tidy this subject up.

Endless Summer (1974) Album
American Band (1985) Documentary
Summer Dreams  (1990) TV Movie
Endless Harmony (1998) Documentary and Soundtrack
American Family (2000) TV Movie

...any corrections welcome.

Wow, how uncreative.

[joe_blow]

From a pure production point of view I'd have to say American Family seems to be the better movie. That said, I did prefer the Murry character in Summer Dreams. The use of actual Beach Boys songs in AF sounded better to these ears. If you sit down and look at all the inaccuracies of the movies I am sure you could form a completely different opinion.

One of my favorites was how Brian came down to the studio fully bearded  in his robe (a la the It's OK Special Belushi/Ackroyd scene - oh no let's not bring another TV special into this) to a session for Add Some Music (where Dennis was eager to get back to the Manson orgie for another round). Mike Love's smugness in the movie also was something that irritated more than a bit.  Also have to love how they constantly take quotes from interviews and add as dialogue (BW - "I'm just a hard working guy"- MW "If you love me Audrey you'll.... ML - "If the world meditated it would  be a whole different...")

[mutedtrumpeterswan]

Endless Harmony also has a fantastic soundtrack...

the final release of Loop De Loop with the original demo: Sail Plane Song
and Soulful OldMan Shunshine

There is a large quantity of great previously unreleased material on the EH soundtrack, including one of the best Smile snippets of all IMO, Brian playing an informal, early version
of H & V, I'm in Great Shape and Barnyard on the piano, a priceless glimpse of his passion,
vision for the album and unadulterated, raw inspiration during that fragile era. Wonderbill,
Barbara, 'Til I Die alternate mix, Long Promised Road from Carnegie Hall, All Alone many years before the POB/Bambu Legacy edition, what an embarrassment of riches!

[Andrew G. Doe]

I enjoyed the subtle editing of Endless Harmony on several occasions...