What Film (Movie) Have You Just Watched?

[Mekong]

14 minutes ago, bust said:

Kong would enjoy this based on many discussions we have had over the years.

Not sure that I would TBH, checked the IMDB write up 

U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure

1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City.

By 1982 U2 had already released Boy and October, Talking Heads had previously released Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime the Eno years were over, Blondie had already split up as did the Clash in 82 after  6 years. The Cure had also been together for 6 years by then, so far from being visionaries WLIR were essentially playing mainstream UK pop music since that is what Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears were.   

Indie music 1982 included The Smiths and Durutti Column (that’s just Manchester) or REM stateside 

 

[bust]

1 hour ago, Mekong said:

Not sure that I would TBH, checked the IMDB write up

Not really a good review by IMDB.

A lot of who you mentioned had never been heard of in Amerika and it delves a lot more into the politics and influence of the record labels. The music component is on a small portion.

[Mekong]

Well Talking Heads and Blondie were American, are you trying to tell me a “Cutting Edge” radio station in NYC  had only just picked up on them in 1982, doesn’t sound very “finger in the pulse” to me unless checking the pulse of a corpse.

in 1977 when the Buzzcocks released Spiral Scratch  on their own label was the birth of Indie, half the bands listed were pop music not new wave.

Typical American pap 

[Coss]

as an aside... 

Rock the Boat: The Story of Radio Hauraki 1965-1970

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/rock-the-boat-radio-hauraki-1996

They got a small ship and spent their time slinking about,  between the islands off Auckland, to give us, music unapproved by nanny state...

[bust]

3 minutes ago, Mekong said:

Well Talking Heads and Blondie were American,

Yes but none of the mainstream stations would play them. They are only 2 of the list you mentioned. Record labels would not release a lot of "new" music locally so  Denis McNamara used to import them and wait at the airport for them to arrive

[Mekong]

Parallel Lines (1978) broke the band into the rock mainstream thanks to hits such as “Picture This,” “One Way or Another,” and the disco-influenced “Heart of Glass.” Eat to the Beat (1979) was similarly successful

Blondie were mainstream in America in 1978

Source

[bust]

Just thought it worth mentioning, the doco is not about Blondie

[Coss]

Sleeping Dogs - 2024 - 1h 50m

A film starring Kiwi Russel Crowe. An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.

This very good, Crowe has learned how to act well and the director Adam Cooper's debut, is phenomenal. Gripping.

Mind you,  I remember when Crowe was "Russ le Roq" and was sniffing around my sister in the Auckland in the '80s.

Interesting wiki info: Through his paternal grandmother, he is a direct descendant of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, the last man to be beheaded in Britain. Wiki
 

The above is not to be confused with another good movie:

Sleeping Dogs - 1977 - 1h 47m

Also with Kiwis, A New Zealand man recently estranged from his family gets unwittingly caught up in a revolution. Sam Neil when young.

[Stickman]

23 minutes ago, Coss said:

Sleeping Dogs - 2024 - 1h 50m

A film starring Kiwi Russel Crowe. An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.

This very good, Crowe has learned how to act well and the director Adam Cooper's debut, is phenomenal. Gripping.

Mind you,  I remember when Crowe was "Russ le Roq" and was sniffing around my sister in the Auckland in the '80s.

Interesting wiki info: Through his paternal grandmother, he is a direct descendant of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, the last man to be beheaded in Britain. Wiki
 

The above is not to be confused with another good movie:

Sleeping Dogs - 1977 - 1h 47m

Also with Kiwis, A New Zealand man recently estranged from his family gets unwittingly caught up in a revolution. Sam Neil when young.

 

I'm no fan of Russell Crowe. Seems to be an arrogant hot-head.

I did quite like Romper Stomper though. Remember that one, Coss? Caused a bit of a furore when it was released....imagined it would be even less well-received now.

[Coss]

I was 32 and distracted when that came out, so other than to note that little "Russ le Roq" seemed to have had some success, as an actor, I didn't pay it much heed.

By distracted I mean, I had discovered Thailand.