Pirate Radio

[ericadawn16]

aka The Boat That Rocked

So, I liked it. It didn't live up to Love, Actually but I'm not sure what could at this point...

However, I do have three nitpicks...

1. It has the last forty years of rock condensed into three minutes or so at the end. Let me repeat this: The most influential leaders of rock for the last forty years are represented at the end of the film and who does that include?

Taylor Swift!!!

and no Green Day!!!

How can you show Taylor Swift as a representative of rock and not Green Day? Unless he was trying to equate her a to a flavor of the month, like he did by showing Milli Vanelli?

I admit it, I'm an old-fashioned girl who remembers singing this song in chorus in grade school that went "I'm a little bit country""and I'm a little bit rock'n'roll" because they were separate entities!

2. No Beatles? Seriously? How can you have a film taking place in 1966 Britain and not have something? Something other than a mention? I'm sure someone will claim it was too expensive which boggles my mind when every other stupid commercial is using a Beatles song and this was a feature film with a much large budget. You couldn't at least have had a few lines of the Beatles' remake of "Act Naturally"?

3. Twatt! Yes, he was forbidden to use the police boats...and then what? Throughout the film, you can tell that he's becoming annoyed with his boss and his job. Wouldn't his boss allowing people to die, even if they are possible criminals, be that final straw? I was really hoping that he had commissioned a private shipping/fishing vessel at the very least...

Comments

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Getting the rights to original Beatles music is almost impossible. The only way Beatles music could have been included would have been from a cover band and I'm assuming Richard Curtis didn't want to go that route. Sony owns the pubiishing rights to the Beatles catalog (other than George Harrison) which is why they have whore'd out their music to every commercial enterprise under the sun including credit card companies and Macy*s, but the original recordings belong to the Beatles/Apple and there is next to no way they will allow it to be used for anything. Which sucks because the Fabs were definitely benefited by the pirate radio stations in the UK.

The Taylor Swift thing is just...*boggles*

[biggles1025.livejournal.com]

Because I know for a fact that the British release of the movie was longer, I got a feeling that there might have been something else with Twatt that just ended up getting cut. Because it does seem like his character got abandoned just when it sounded like he was having a change of heart, so maybe there was something more with him that we just didn't get in the American version.