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vulnavia9 05:22 pm UTC 07/09/08 |
| In reply to: | re: To Hell and Back - rockfenris2005 11:30 am UTC 03/26/07 |
| I just finished watching this. Despite the discrepancies/inaccuracies, I liked it. Especially since I feel like I've already read/watched almost everything Steinman-related I can find, haha. I thought it was kind of funny how they lifted a lot of the dialog verbatim from the Classic Albums interviews. Michele > > Who else has seen this film? What do you make of it? > > I saw the film years ago. Grace, a Steinfan friend of > mine, did an interview with Throne a few years ago. I lost > it in my clean-out but he talked about consulting with Jim > about the character and etc. It was really quite > interesting. > > I can't accept it for many reasons. I know it's difficult > to research Loaf and Steinman but if I can do it, > high-paid executives can do it. So here are my problems > > * Meat Loaf's mother was not a smoker > * Meat Loaf's father died in the 70s not in the 1980s > after "Dead Ringer" > * Meat Loaf auditioned for "Souvenirs" at the Public > Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, where Jim was so > amazed he wrote in the character of Rabbit and a song > "More Than You Deserve". It was a song that existed before > the show and Michael Weller had to write it into the > script. "Souvenirs" was changed to "More Than You Deserve" > and the rest is history. > * There is no evidence Jim was ever on the set for "The > Rocky Horror Picture Show" (LOL don't even get me STARTED > on Lily's theory ;-) > * They completely dropped "Bad For Good" and made it look > like Meat was struggling with "Dead Ringer". Yes, he was. > But that's not the point. > * We just presume Steinman's solo successes aren't > relevant to the story so they all happened. > * I like Jim playing the intro to "Frying Pan" and > describing it like it's King Kong. I can imagine Jim doing > that in real life > > It was a lot of small mistakes and sloppy research that > ruined it for me. I'd pay to see the sequel "To Hell And > Back II: The Monster Is Loose" in a Norma Desmond-style > "Sunset Boulevard" flick. That would ROCK lol > > The workings of a true rock ego out of control. (There is > something tragic about Meat. He went through all that > psychology in the early 80s about not being a "star". By > the late 90s he's accepted he's a "star" because all his > contracts and agreements make everyone list him as a > "superstar".) > > | |
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