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Post by kenlarsson on Jul 9, 2022 12:36:31 GMT -5
So who wants to watch a flick about a middle aged cowboy with a tragic past take a his last and only shot at making it in the music business in Nashville? Cliched as that description sounds I think it's a great flick. The film is shot as a documentary though it is fiction not a real doc. Actor Stephen Dorf comes from a family of successful songwriters (his father and late brother) and the musicians and songwriters in the flick are real Nashville pro's and the music is excellent. Good stuff, highly recommended.
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 14:34:21 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Jul 9, 2022 14:34:21 GMT -5
Amazon Prime. No can see. 56% on Rotten Tomatoes
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 15:21:21 GMT -5
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 9, 2022 15:21:21 GMT -5
Is it gonna get to the big screen? Looks Purdy gud.
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 15:35:31 GMT -5
Post by John B on Jul 9, 2022 15:35:31 GMT -5
Amazon Prime. No can see. 56% on Rotten Tomatoes You pay for shipping?
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 17:05:28 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Jul 9, 2022 17:05:28 GMT -5
Amazon Prime. No can see. 56% on Rotten Tomatoes You pay for shipping? Never. If you bunch trinkets together so your total purchase is over $25 per order, there's a free shipping option. Every time. It says that it'll be 4 to 5 bus days. But the order almost always comes within 2 or 3 days. There's a big Amazon distribution center in the metro area, and the trucks are trolling our neighborhood daily.
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 17:27:45 GMT -5
Post by t-bob on Jul 9, 2022 17:27:45 GMT -5
A brief review - and I watched it - I was bored or something - One star & half star.
We soon hit the road to Music City with the man himself, who duly lives up to his humble and good-natured reputation as he commandeers his late father’s pickup and chats with an unseen camera-holding friend who occupies the passenger seat. The minute he spies the twinkling nighttime skyline of Music City, an excited Wheeler pulls over and boot scoots down the alley that leads to the Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry. Presumably, this is where Dorff begins to connect with non-actors such as the guard who won’t let him enter through the stage entrance or a diner waitress the next morning who wonders about the camera while supplying plenty of syrup for his pork sausage. Wheeler’s plan is to hit open-mic nights at such venues as Bobby’s Idle Hour and Douglas Corner, hoping to be discovered.
As luck would have it, he spies a Nashville notable, songwriter Bobby Tomlinson (among several cast members playing themselves, including Dorff’s “Blade” co-star Kris Kristofferson), on a tour bus who promises to check out one of his shows where Dorff assumes the guise of Wheeler in front of unsuspecting actual patrons. One thing leads to another and, just like that, Wheeler soon lands in the recording studio at Curb Records. But just when everything seems to be too good to be true, it turns out—rather abruptly and disappointingly—that it is.
If you are looking for a small yet pleasant diversion from politics this weekend, “Wheeler” will be available on demand as well as in theaters. However, there is one timely anecdote that Dorff’s character tells while driving that ties right in with current affairs. Wheeler, a history buff, considers it “pretty damn hilarious” that many people are upset about illegal immigrants these days. Why? Because his ancestors migrated from Tennessee to Texas in the early 1830s when it was owned by Mexico, which offered free land and low taxes to those who moved there. Eventually, the situation led to the Battle of the Alamo. After that, Texas became its own country until it was annexed into the United States nine years later. His summation: “Basically, at the end of the day, we’re all illegal immigrants.”
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Post by epaul on Jul 9, 2022 17:30:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip. I will watch it. (never been to Nashville)
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 18:46:09 GMT -5
Post by jdd2 on Jul 9, 2022 18:46:09 GMT -5
... (never been to Nashville) That sounds like a good line for a song.
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Post by TKennedy on Jul 9, 2022 18:59:32 GMT -5
Speaking of good hooks I was having a drink with some folks the other day and a guy said something about an ex-girlfriend or wife to the effect of -
“I was two beers away from remembering her”
We all immediately said what a great line to write a song around.
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Wheeler
Jul 9, 2022 20:46:53 GMT -5
Post by david on Jul 9, 2022 20:46:53 GMT -5
Speaking of good hooks I was having a drink with some folks the other day and a guy said something about an ex-girlfriend or wife to the effect of - “I was two beers away from remembering her” We all immediately said what a great line to write a song around. I agree that it is a great line. I think you need to write that song! Hopefully, it will not negatively impact your marriage.
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 9, 2022 21:39:58 GMT -5
I did the Ryman tour about ten years ago. It ended on the stage and everybody, except me sauntered off. I asked the guide if she minded if I played a song. She gave me the go ahead. I walked up to the dead microphone and played Hey Good Lookin. The great acoustics gave the 20 or so folks standing by the back row the ability to hear me. They gave some enthusiastic applause. I was tingling all over.
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Post by millring on Jul 10, 2022 6:01:21 GMT -5
I was two bears away from remembering how greatly homophones can affect life.
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Post by TKennedy on Jul 10, 2022 8:02:04 GMT -5
Well I watched the movie last night. I really liked it. Wheeler’s meteoric rise in the course of what looked like just a few weeks in Nashville took a few liberties with what I think is reality but the documentary-style format was cool and the casting of actual Nashville personalities into the primary roles was well done. Really fun to see what a room full of seasoned studio session players can do to a song they just heard and charted a few minutes before. I would recommend it, especially if you are a musician. BYW, thanks for adding a new word to my vocabulary John
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Post by millring on Jul 12, 2022 6:20:51 GMT -5
I guess I'm enough of a music dreamer to have enjoyed it. Like Terry, I had to dismiss my inner skeptic that the wheels could turn that fast in Nashville. I think it might have helped that narrative become more believable if they had gotten permission to use the music of a Darrel Scott or a Chris Stapleton or a Hugh Prestwood for Wheeler to have been pedaling in the first place. THEN when everyone like his music THAT much, it would have come across as sincere. As it stands, I cynically saw a snake oil salesman in every glowing word about Wheeler's songs -- whether Kristopherson or any of the others.
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Post by TKennedy on Jul 12, 2022 10:21:46 GMT -5
I agree John, I was waiting for all the praise and adulation to be a way to his pocketbook. I visualized an ending with an unexpected hefty bill for the demo session and lodging, an empty billfold, and a hearty “we’ll get back to you”
I should whip myself for bring such a cynic.
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Post by TKennedy on Jul 13, 2022 21:40:14 GMT -5
Speaking of good hooks I was having a drink with some folks the other day and a guy said something about an ex-girlfriend or wife to the effect of - “I was two beers away from remembering her” We all immediately said what a great line to write a song around. I agree that it is a great line. I think you need to write that song! Hopefully, it will not negatively impact your marriage. This is a VERY rough draft of what I came up with. I plan to refine it quite a bit. Suggestions? I probably won’t repeat the last chorus.
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Post by epaul on Jul 13, 2022 21:54:05 GMT -5
A little misty eyed here. Now that's a song.
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Wheeler
Jul 14, 2022 7:04:48 GMT -5
Post by TKennedy on Jul 14, 2022 7:04:48 GMT -5
A little misty eyed here. Now that's a song. Exactly the effect I was hoping for Paul.
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Wheeler
Jul 14, 2022 9:47:48 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Jul 14, 2022 9:47:48 GMT -5
Well I watched that trailer. And I thought he sounded like every other guy that the Nashville music machine spits out. Talented? Yes ! But like millring and Terry above, I'm always skeptical of these movies/TV shows that show some lonely downtrodden simple soul rolling into Nashville/LA/NY and wowing the powers that be with their overwhelming genuine sincere talent.
It don't happen like that.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 14, 2022 10:05:00 GMT -5
PS - As I've told before, I took a Songwriting Clinic with Darrell Scott a few years ago. And when I got there it was a drizzly day. The door to the building was locked. So a bunch of us hunkered down in another building doorway. Then loping across the lawn comes Darrell Scott with a naked guitar in his hand in the drizzle rain. He unlocks the door and we all scramble into the building. I ask him about carrying a guitar in the rain. It was a Takamine. He said, "I've had this guitar forever. It's the one I hocked in Nashville when I first got there."
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