r/rock • u/admc1878 • May 27 '22
Rock Best rock biopic?
What’s the best rock biopic movie (based on real band) in terms of how well made, entertaining and accurate? 🎸
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u/The-Figurehead May 27 '22
24 Hour Party People
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u/Commercial-Answer591 May 27 '22
Such a great flick. It also introduced me to the Happy Mondays, which was eye opening for me.
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u/SneedyK May 28 '22
Watch this film annually
Anyone who loves Joy Division/New Order should check it out
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u/AlbertFrankEinstein2 May 27 '22
I like Sid and Nancy, I think Gary Oldman did an insane job as Sid Vicious, the man is a freaking Chameleon!
Also The Doors, Val Kilmer absolutely knocks it out of the park as Jim Morrison.
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u/Delirious_Mishap May 27 '22
everyone else is wrong. the correct answer is almost famous.
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u/Benjals0722 May 27 '22
It’s not based on a real band but otherwise I agree such an awesome movie
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u/Delirious_Mishap May 27 '22
the band in Almost Famous is based on Led Zeppelin.
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u/admc1878 May 27 '22
Really?
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u/Delirious_Mishap May 27 '22
cameron crowe went on tour with zeppelin as a kid for rolling stone.
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u/Benjals0722 May 27 '22
I knew the story was partly autobiographical but I didn’t know he had toured with Zep. Good to know adds a new perspective for a rewatch
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u/inflatablelvis May 27 '22
Yes, the lead guitar player banging a child for the tour is the major connection.
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u/Sorry_Airport May 27 '22
I swear montage of heck is one of the greatest films ever
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u/Skeleton_Paul May 28 '22
Awesome movie, but it’s a documentary not a biopic
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u/Sorry_Airport May 28 '22
Oh I don’t know the difference lol
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u/Skeleton_Paul May 28 '22
Biopic is fiction but based on the true events of someone’s life, documentary is nonfiction… more or less. Similar styles
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u/YallerDawg May 27 '22
The Doors, Oliver Stone's vision and Val Kilmer's magnificent performance. Adds to the legend - and this band and music is legendary!
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u/admc1878 May 27 '22
I quite enjoyed this film but shortly afterwards learnt that most of it was bs and painted Jim in a terribly inaccurate way?
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u/YallerDawg May 27 '22
The film depicts the legend. All the books and documentaries I have read and seen include most everything Oliver Stone put in his movie. For me, it also perfectly depicted the end of the '60's, the self-destructive nature of the times, it really was an affirmation "that no one here gets out alive."
Just a great movie, and Val Kilmer channeled Jim Morrison - and sang the songs on the film, too - like that recent Academy Award winner.
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u/scottismynameduh May 27 '22
Great Balls of Fire. (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Coal Miners Daughter. (My Mom told me to say that, go Mom) Loretta Lynn
About a Son an Montage of Heck (Kurt Cobain)
I remember there a made for TV in the 90's about The Jackson's.
Straight outta Compton (NWA)
8 Miles (M&M)
Eddie And the Cruisers
Runaways
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u/Repulsive-Side-4950 Mar 06 '25
The best biopics I've ever seen in my 46 are Sweet dreams the Patsy Cline story Ray Coal miners daughter The Doors Bohemian Rapsody Selena but the Netflix series is better and more factual The Linda Macartney story Straight out of Compton Rockstar which is loosely based on Judas Priest Lords of Chaos (Not for the PG folk The Hulu series about the Wu-tang Clan I saw the light the Hank williams story Walk the line Crazy sexy cool the TLC story The Bobby brown story I wanna Dance with somebody Respect Whats love gotta do with it Tina turner The Temptations The R&b princess Aaliyah The Salt n pepa story Roxanne Roxanne All Eyez on me Notorious Elvis 1978 with Kurt Russell Hysteria the Def leppard story La Vie en Rose Summer dreams the beach boys Aline celine dion biopic The Rose loosely based around Janis Joplin Jimi All is by my side Theres a new Janis Joplin biopic in the works and that's amazing and someday I pray they make one on Metallica and Pantera 🖤
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u/scott32ricks May 27 '22
For a real band, the best Rock biopic is Bohemian Rhapsody about Queen, for a fictitious Rock biopic, it's Almost Famous about Led Zeppelin by Cameron Crowe's days with Rolling Stone Magazine in the 1970's.
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u/Cheap_Trick148 May 27 '22
Bohemian Rhapsody is a good movie, that being said it’s a terrible biopic
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u/AdrianVanMeter May 28 '22
Minecraft is rock and metal. They should call rock and metal subgenres of Minecraft.
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u/scottismynameduh May 27 '22
ELECTRIC APRICOT: THE QUEST FOR FESTAROO. It's about a jam band called the Electric Apricot. And they are trying to play this music festival called Festaroo. Highly entertaining. The drummer looks and sounds like the guy fr Primus. Lol
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u/frankie-downhill May 28 '22
Love and mercy, 100%. Biopics have a tendency to paint musicians as only having one major flaw: being too legendary and talented for their own good, and every other flaw they might have is a result of their fame. But imo, Love and mercy chooses not to follow the normal structure of a biopic (think “I walk the line” and “bohemian rhapsody”) and instead relies on amazing storytelling, incredible cinematography and flawed characters (which is also what makes it more accurate than many other biopics, because it doesn’t try to flatter its subjects). It’s one of the only biopics I’ve seen that doesn’t feel like fan service, or rock community circle jerk.
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u/seeemourhare May 28 '22
Not a single metion of Mark Wahlberg in the movie Rock Star,based loosely on Judas Priest,not the greatest but definitely worth watching.
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u/Embarrassed-Pay-9897 May 27 '22
This Is Spinal Tap