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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy Blu-Ray News & Discussion
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on: July 16, 2015, 07:57:23 AM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Love & Mercy Blu-Ray News & Discussion
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on: July 15, 2015, 10:02:13 PM
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Blu-ray.com reports the following: 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
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Love & Mercy DVD/Blu-Ray release date
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on: July 15, 2015, 07:04:27 AM
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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!
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Priore's Claim that The Beatles heard Smile tapes in early 1967
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on: July 13, 2015, 02:15:41 PM
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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..
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Carol Kaye is at It again
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on: July 13, 2015, 12:03:21 PM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Publishing Rights of Beachboys Songs
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on: July 13, 2015, 11:27:53 AM
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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.
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