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226  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love and Mercy - News and Reviews - First clip is out. on: July 16, 2015, 01:29:19 PM
I've talked about this a bit in my various observations about L&M but I would like to get other peoples interpretations.

There are two shots of 'Brian Present' (1970s) in bed.  Both shots last no longer than 4-5 seconds each.   What is your take on those two momentary interludes?  What do they mean?  How do you interpret them?
227  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find on: July 16, 2015, 01:14:29 PM


Whoops, sorry I thought this thread was about Iron & Wine.
228  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find on: July 16, 2015, 11:37:34 AM
Ladies and Gentlemen...  Captain Beefheart!

229  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find on: July 16, 2015, 11:35:36 AM
Umm...

Brow

230  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find on: July 16, 2015, 11:32:51 AM
I don't remember the Beach Boys Honky-tonk period....

231  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find on: July 16, 2015, 11:25:55 AM


"So you're Dustin Hoffman, huh?"

 LOL

"Loved you in Tootsie!"
232  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find on: July 16, 2015, 10:28:16 AM
Mike doing his best 'Tricky Dicky'.

I bet that shirt is louder than the band was that night.

233  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love and Mercy - News and Reviews - First clip is out. on: July 16, 2015, 08:49:36 AM
Nothing new here...press junket interview with Bill Pohlad

http://www.londonlive.co.uk/news/2015-07-15/bill-pohald-talks-love-mercy
234  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date on: July 16, 2015, 08:37:02 AM
Can we merge all these L&M bluray threads. I think there are currently three of them.

Quite frankly, half this board could be a merged thread.  Cool Guy
235  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy Blu-Ray News & Discussion on: July 16, 2015, 07:57:23 AM
I look at it this way, we could be getting no Deleted Scenes and no Commentary Track.  That would be very unfortunate, IMO.  Having followed the project since its gestation, I'm eager to get every last kernel I can. 

The Featurettes while likely nothing more than longer EPK's may end up surprising us, you never know.  There's no running time listed on those, they may end up being revealing.

Also something to note, the press release on Blu-ray.com says Special Features subject to change.  Maybe there will be additional Special Features.
236  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Beach Boys breakfast cereal on: July 15, 2015, 10:44:10 PM
Cap'n Crunch

237  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Love & Mercy Blu-Ray News & Discussion on: July 15, 2015, 10:02:13 PM
Blu-ray.com reports the following:

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Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced that it will release on Blu-ray director Bill Pohlad's film Love & Mercy (2014), starring John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, and Jake Abel. The release will be available for purchase on September 15.

Synopsis: Love & Mercy is an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson (portrayed by both John Cusack and Paul Dano), singer and songwriter for The Beach Boys. The film intimately examines the unique journey and ultimate salvation of this musical icon, whose success came at an extraordinary personal cost.

Special Features:
A California Story: Creating the Look of Love & Mercy" Featurette
"A-Side/B-Side: Portraying the Life of Brian Wilson" Featurette
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary with director/producer Bill Pohlad and executive producer/co-writer Oren Moverman

I feel VERY happy about this.  I'm sad about the lack of an Isolated Film Score, but maybe the soundtrack/score can be released separately at some point by Capitol even as a download.

These extras are exactly what I was hoping for otherwise.

...

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=17179
238  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye is at It again on: July 15, 2015, 09:50:04 AM
Don't forget Danny Kaye.
239  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye is at It again on: July 15, 2015, 08:53:26 AM
Minutemen, did someone say, Minutemen?
240  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date on: July 15, 2015, 07:04:27 AM
Really though, stuff like the truck is a close enough approximation that only small percentage of people would notice.  Quite honestly, I wouldn't have known or noticed if it hadn't been pointed out.

The look and feel of the film is so authentic that those things, which I frankly consider to be minutia, don't detract from anything.  Unless you let it! Smiley
241  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date on: July 14, 2015, 07:40:04 PM
Non-Criterion DVD artwork almost always sucks.

This is true.
242  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date on: July 14, 2015, 06:59:08 PM
Maybe it'll grow on me! Smiley
243  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date on: July 14, 2015, 06:49:28 PM
Cover art now up on Amazon.  I'm underwhelmed by the artwork, personally, but really it's the contents that I'm most looking forward to.



No product details yet.
244  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Beach Boys related names, streets, buildings in your town on: July 14, 2015, 09:51:23 AM
There is a sex shop in Dublin City called "good vibrations"

That takes excitations to a whole new level.
245  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Priore's Claim that The Beatles heard Smile tapes in early 1967 on: July 13, 2015, 02:15:41 PM
What Howie says makes complete sense. 

Lennon/McCartney were already on a trajectory to write what ended up as "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".  They were sprinkling in the experimentation with stuff like "Rain" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" that was so very groundbreaking.  They may have been inspired by what Brian was doing but most definitely in an aspirational way.  Like, "let's see where we can push this".

The only thing that will always amaze me though is that, regarding Brian, he could do all of it.  Lennon/McCartney were a tag team that probably wrote a lot on their own after the early days while occasionally bouncing ideas.  But they also had George Martin producing.  That's not a knock on them at all, just more reason to be astonished by Brian's prowess.  And yes, I know Van Dyke was part of the songwriting process..
246  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date on: July 13, 2015, 02:07:48 PM
UPC for the DVD: 031398224723
UPC for the Blu-Ray: 031398224778

Eagerly awaiting both.  Hoping for deleted scenes and/or an extended cut.  Commentaries by Bill Pohlad and Oren Moverman.  Downloadable Atticus Ross Film Score.  And maybe a nice making-of or background/featurette on the project.

247  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye is at It again on: July 13, 2015, 12:03:21 PM
I prefer feminists that are a little more feminine, but I digress.  I only mentioned that one critic had used that line to prove a point.  

There are no portrayals of women in L&M where they might be construed as a "bimbo".  Marilyn is young and perhaps unsure what to do for Brian as his psychosis sets in.  Melinda is a strong and assertive lady who is handling her business and freely chooses to invest her energy in helping Brian out of the morass.  Carol is in the movie for all of 1-2 minutes tops and she's shown to be a top shelf studio musician, nothing more - nothing less.
248  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Publishing Rights of Beachboys Songs on: July 13, 2015, 11:27:53 AM
My understanding is sorely incomplete, but the basic outline seems to be that Irving/Almo still hold the SOT publishing catalog, and that while it was adjudged to have been sold behind Brian's back (I think it was decided that Murry forged his signature), Brian got a one-off payment of $10 million in April 1992, but not his publishing back. Said $10 million was soon whittled down to $0 following the December 1994 award of $5 million to Mike and the $5 million paid to Brian's lawyers, who rejected an out of court offer of $750,000. Brian then sued said lawyers, and rightly so IMHO: don't know the result of that one but I suspect he won. Hope so.

Anyone know better (not hard) please chime in.

All I can do is shake my head at that.  Poor Brian.
249  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye is at It again on: July 13, 2015, 11:08:09 AM

 Elizabeth Banks performance in the movie has caused at least one reviewer to call L&M the feminist movie of the year.
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Please don't ruin this movie for me before I've seen it.

Strong female characters are not a good thing?
250  Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Beach Boys related names, streets, buildings in your town on: July 13, 2015, 08:59:43 AM
I'm in Columbus.  Good to know there's several Ohio folks on here.
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