Comment on [Article] "How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter" Has anyone been following his later work?

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t even know it was a thing: en.wikipedia.org/…/Weird:_The_Al_Yankovic_Story

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  • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It only initially released on Roku’s streaming service, but I think it’s available elsewhere now.

    It is NOT meant to be historically accurate, which makes it funnier IMO.

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I'd go so far as to call it a parody of other rock star documentaries 😉😉

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      • Nyxon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Weird Al takes secular pop songs and makes them into wholesome parodies, for his movie he took his wholesome life and made it into a secular drama parody. Loved it and Daniel Radcliffe was perfectly cast.

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    • maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yea and there’s something about the way the film does it … unless you know going in you could almost be fooled into thinking it’s a serious and accurate biopic (at least for much of the film) … which was really fun to watch … because then there’d be some line or event which is clearly too ridiculous and it all lands but still the mostly serious tone is almost the punch line.

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      • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly that. It’s like the movie is all rising action. It just keeps getting more ridiculous.

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    • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is NOT meant to be historically accurate, which makes it funnier IMO.

      Probably the best stance when dealing with someone like Weird Al

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought that made it kinda pointless. I wanted to see Al’s actual story, and instead I got some weird 2 hour long SNL skit. There were some pretty good parts, like Another One Rides the Bus at the Hollywood party, but the shit with Pablo Escobar was just a waste of screentime IMO.

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      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You just go back to 2002 and watch vh1 behind the music, easy

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      • atocci@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The scene where they record My Bologna in the bathroom across the street was true to life, so there's that.

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• MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The camera work to make Daniel look shorter than he actually is, was such a nice touch.

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