| re: How nice...Jim's mentioned once - in passing!!! grrrr | |
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Vin 04:22 am UTC 09/04/07 |
| In reply to: | How nice...Jim's mentioned once - in passing!!! grrrr - Jacqueline 03:07 am UTC 09/04/07 |
| I don't think I care that Jim is of no significance to this doc. If its not about the songwriting and its not about the "glory days," then Jim really need not be brought up. What would be the point? If its about Meat on tour, well, Jim hasn't really been a part of that for 30 years, less a few guest spots when Bat II first came out. And particularly, since its about the Bat III tour, it really doesn't make much sense to focus on Jim. What irks me is Meat saying he is all improv, all the time. Such bullshit! Meat's show is so by the numbers its absurd. His set has been mostly the same for 15 years, he has maybe 7 or 8 "improv bits" that he pulls out of his ass as he sees fit to entertain the crowd (and they CAN be entertaining, I'll grant it; the man is charismatic.) But fuck, I don't think he has any ability to just do a different song from his catalog on a whim, which is so frustrating. Here's some improv I'd pay to see: "ya kow what, folks: this set-list says "Life is a Lemon," but fuck that shit. This song is called "MORE THAN YOU DESERVE." If he has fun choreographing PBTDL, just imagine how much fun he could have with Aspen during MTYD. "I'm gonna need several volunteers from the audience for the group sex scene, okay?" > > http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934586.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 > > Montreal World Film Fest > Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise > (Docu) > By EDDIE COCKRELL > An Atlas Media Corp. production, in association with Voom > HD, Tenth Street Management. (International sales: Voom > HD, New York.) Produced by Greg Moyer, Sal LoCurto, Jordan > Berliant, Bruce David Klein. Directed by Bruce David > Klein. > > With: Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), Kasim Sulton, Dennis > Quaid. > > At once hagiographic and revealing, backstage docu "Meat > Loaf: In Search of Paradise" follows the > never-a-dull-moment rocker during Los Angeles rehearsals > and an early 2007 Canadian tour in support of the third > disc in the "Bat Out of Hell" franchise. Set for a 2008 > U.S. tube preem on the RAVE hi-def channel, pic's obvious > eventual home is the fan shelf. > "I'm total improvisation continuously," says the burly > singer, and love his shtick or hate it, respect must be > paid to a guy who can take on the physicality of a > theatrical stage show at age 59. Pic's twin tensions arise > from his legendarily unstable health and the ever-mutating > staging of the 1977 hit "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." > Deftly sidestepping the singer's fractious relationship > with original "Bat" partner Jim Steinman, whose name is > mentioned only once in passing, helmer Bruce David Klein's > near-reverential treatment is a nice contrast to the > rough-and-tumble of tour life. HD image fairly leaps off > the screen. Pic's most steadying presence is affable and > unshakably supportive bandleader Kasim Sulton, while a > grinning Dennis Quaid crashes one show to front the band > on Van Morrison's "Gloria." > > Camera (color, HD), David West; editor, Erik Klein. > Reviewed at Montreal World Film Festival (Documentaries of > the World), Aug. 30, 2007. Running time: 90 MIN. | |
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