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Date Viewed	Venue	Note
04.25.21	Internet	I'm not a particularly big Beach Boys fan, but I happened across a scene from this movie on youtube where Paul Dano's Young Brian Wilson directs some wrecking crew musicians during the making of Good Vibrations. That scene is basically all I want from biopics... I want to live in the moment where the band or musician or whoever gets inspiration or records songs that I love. I don't totally love Good Vibrations but the quality of the scene made me think the whole movie might be good. And it was! In particular, I love how "internal" the film is... Hopping back and forth in a non-linear way, the movie seems told from Brian Wilson's genius brain. I think this is helped tremendously by these musical pieces that Atticus Ross puts together... kind of like sonic soups of all these familiar beach boys tunes mixed together and simmered until they meld into one overall vibe. Watching with headphones really put me there, helped by both Paul Dano and John Cusack. Paul Giamatti's in this too, which surprised me. Had no clue, but I will say I feel like the last thing I saw him in was Straight Outta Compton where he's playing a pretty similar role. So overall I have to say it's a good movie if it's a biopic (which I don't typically like) about a band i don't particularly care for. Success!