music and lyrics

cloudy house · 19th February 2007

so I took my wife out last night to the movies...saw MUSIC AND LYRICS...I liked it...it pokes some fun at the biz and has some funny 80's stuff...good movie for anyone who's a songwriter...even has a scene with a home based pro-tools rig! I give it a thumbs up...anyone else seen it?
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ShellTones · 19th February 2007

I will rent it on DVD, but I'll have a difficult time buying Hugh Grant as a songwriter (if that's what he plays).

Gotta see it though, if only for curiosity sake.

Gregg Sartiano · 19th February 2007

If you ignore the paper-thin plot, the movie is really, really funny. Hugh Grant as 80's-icon-turned-"retro"-performer/songwriter-trying-to-break-through-again is MUCH more believable than you'd expect. He's either doing many of the "hand shots" on the piano or they got some amazing CGI going -- yeah, the "muso"-piano-doodling stuff does the typical "actor's hands hiding behind the piano" thing, but they don't rely on that. The shots didn't feel "forced" or unnatural.

The banter and nonstop one-liners carry the movie.

Sounds Great · 19th February 2007

Wasn't this already done with Rock Hudson and Doris Day?

19th February 2007	#1
cloudy house Gear nut Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Costa Mesa, CA Posts: 95 Thread Starter	music and lyrics so I took my wife out last night to the movies...saw MUSIC AND LYRICS...I liked it...it pokes some fun at the biz and has some funny 80's stuff...good movie for anyone who's a songwriter...even has a scene with a home based pro-tools rig! I give it a thumbs up...anyone else seen it? <>< mark __________________ no need to pray for more than five minutes, as long as ya don't go five minutes without praying. myspace.com/passionforsouls cdbaby.com/cd/passionforsouls myspace.com/cloudyhousemusic itunes

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Gregg Sartiano Lives for gear Joined: May 2004 Location: Lost Angeles Posts: 1,804	If you ignore the paper-thin plot, the movie is really, really funny. Hugh Grant as 80's-icon-turned-"retro"-performer/songwriter-trying-to-break-through-again is MUCH more believable than you'd expect. He's either doing many of the "hand shots" on the piano or they got some amazing CGI going -- yeah, the "muso"-piano-doodling stuff does the typical "actor's hands hiding behind the piano" thing, but they don't rely on that. The shots didn't feel "forced" or unnatural. The banter and nonstop one-liners carry the movie. __________________ "We need to legitimize peer-to-peer sharing as a business model, because it's already a business. If [the P2P companies] are going to make money on us, we should have a chance to make money along with them." -- Perry Farrell on the failure of national intellectual property policy to keep up with the rapid evolution of online media "Every Internet transmission of a musical work constitutes a public performance of that work. " http://www.ascap.com/weblicense/webfaq.html

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19th February 2007	#2
ShellTones Gear nut Joined: Feb 2004 Location: SoCal Posts: 90	I will rent it on DVD, but I'll have a difficult time buying Hugh Grant as a songwriter (if that's what he plays). Gotta see it though, if only for curiosity sake.

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Sounds Great Gear Guru Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Twin Cities, MN Posts: 15,303 1 Review written	Wasn't this already done with Rock Hudson and Doris Day?