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Keira tin can sing! Nice feel good movie about music making today
This is a experience adept flick about musicians making an album. Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley play producer and song author who squad upwardly to make a demo filmed all over the city. The songs are pleasant and the characters are sympathetic and likable even Hailee Steinfeld as Mark'southward daughter. There is a prissy dynamic between the characters which makes the movie enjoyable to lookout man. At that place is almost as much music equally a musical merely it doesn't experience much like a musical.
Who knew Keira could sing and so well? She doesn't take the most powerful voice only her singing is musical and right for the type of songs. Marking looks suitably scruffy for the fallen on difficult times composer. Prissy cameo by Ceelo Light-green and Adam Levine who sings quite a few songs.
Movies like this are pleasant and uplifting to watch - if you want a suspension from action or violence of summer blockbusters.
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Really a pleasant surprise - delightfully not full of cheese!
I was expecting a cheesy film. I am non into musicals and then was hesitant to commit to this motion picture, in a theatre. Only, I was pleasantly surprised. I detect some of Ruffalos work, similar Now you see me, to be hard to sit through. I did non dislike that moving picture, but I hated his performance. Part of it was how vapid the graphic symbol was. In this picture show information technology is the opposite. He is charming, roguish, creative, and delightful to lookout man. Quite frankly I did non retrieve Knightly was up to this either. Was I ever surprised. She was great. Well written, well directed, and very proficient overall. In these days of Hollywood losing its edge, and producing more and more depression quality, derivative work, it is refreshing to see a film similar this one. And I did not fifty-fifty need to use my earplugs. Transformer this film was not. Thankfully.
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From the first
Can a song save your life? Or a film about it? The former question is what the movies championship originally was going to be. But lets get back to Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley, both of whom are exceptional in this. There is also Adam Levine (he plays sort of a version of himself or what the general public thinks of him and he's doing a great job too) and Catherine Keener.
Put this bandage together with a really good script, that actually avoids quite a lot of the typical romantic comedy clichés. You genuinely don't know where this is going. It might take to do that this is get-go a moving picture virtually music and then nearly human love. So it's dear for music first and so the rest. Information technology doesn't mean, it doesn't love it'south character though. Quite the contrary! They are very nicely drawn, which makes this a very entertaining lookout man.
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Groovy story, beautiful scenery, simply listen for the fantastic musical score
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Ahhhhhh, another evening well spent with Mrs. Shullivan. This is a feel good picture that was such a pleasant way to spend an evening forgetting the troubles in the globe for a few hours. Marker Ruffalo stars as Dan, a former successful record producer who has fallen into a deep slump both in his business organisation and personal life. Dan is separated from his wife Miriam (Catherine Keener) and rarely sees his teenage daughter Viloet (Hailee Steinfeld).
Dan's business concern partner Saul (Mos Def/Yasiin Bey) has just fired Dan for more than one reason. As a tape producer Dan still has an old soul for music. Earlier firing Dan, Saul asked Dan when was the terminal time he had a striking. I call back Dan would accept preferred to respond to his old partner by stating "this forenoon". But Dan would be responding as if he had heard Saul ask when was the concluding time he had a $striking, and not a hit.
Subsequently being fired, Dan is binge drinking when a stranger on the subway easily him a pamphlet telling Dan that God is with him. Immediately after getting off the subway Dan stumbles into withal some other music bar and he has an epiphany. He hears an angel singing named Gretta (Keira Knightley) and Dan envisions more than than merely Gretta on her acoustic guitar. This scene is both rare and memorable for both Mrs. Shullivan and myself. You see (really the bar patrons don't see) Dan envisions in his mind while Gretta is singing solo on the stage, Gretta playing with the accompaniment of a full orchestra, which includes a drummer, guitarists, violin and a cello.
Of course Dan cannot resist introducing himself to Gretta and advises her that she is going to get famous with her songwriting and singing. The film evolves with Gretta and Dan sharing their about personal pains which include their relationships that have dissolved. Gretta'south sometime boyfriend who she lived with for five (5) years was a singer named Dave (Adam Levine) whose career has just skyrocketed when Gretta discovers that Dave has been cheating on her with a girl named Mimi. Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley brought their characters to life. They were then entertaining with their very strong performances, their personal relationship that it will bring the audience close to 1 another hoping for a happy ending. Music is life, and life is music.
As they say, "if it doesn't kill you, it volition make y'all stronger". And so Gretta continues with her songwriting and she wants the downtrodden Dan to produce her first album. So a new journey begins when Dan's onetime business partner declines to produce Gretta'south album so Dan recommends to Gretta that they produce the album on the city streets and landscapes of New York city as their sound stage. Gretta'due south only friend in New York a former London lad named Steve (James Corden) agrees to be their sound man for the album, and Dan enlists the financial assistance of an old client named Troublegum (Cee Lo Green) to hire a drummer and a atomic number 82 guitarist.
Through the making of their first album, Dan brings in the balance of the musicians which include a keyboard, violin, cello, and fifty-fifty his daughter Violet strums a hateful base guitar solo. The songs that Gretta sings effectually the streets and edifice tops of New York city are stunning both visually and through the music score are captivating songs. Much credit must be given to writer/manager John Carney whose previous torso of work includes the 2007 musical film Once, and the 2016 musical moving-picture show Sing Street. If you lot see the name John Carney in whatever film credit at that place is a much stronger possibility of a hitting film. You won't go wrong with Begin Over again which is a beautiful, melodic, warm and a feel expert motion-picture show.
It is deserving of a 9 out of 10 rating.
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For the music lovers.
3 1/2 out of 4 stars.
John Carney is back with a new musical. His 2006 film "In one case" is ane of my favorite films of all time and I was interested to see where Carney would go next. Watching the trailers for "Brainstorm Over again" didn't give me much promise for it, but just enough for me to go out and see it. I enjoyed it much more than than I expected though.
"Brainstorm Once again" is very like to "Once," except Carney has a bigger budget and famous pic stars. It deals with Dan and Greta (Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley, respectively) who after beingness cheated on by their onetime boyfriend/girlfriend meet upward and record some songs together. Ruffalo is great as the downwardly on his luck, charming, but often drunk, music producer Dan. Knightley also has a solid performance. Adam Levine does a good job of beingness a jerk and James Corden is hilarious as Greta's busking friend Steve. The films has themes of love, fatherhood, and the way we use music in our lives.
"Begin Once again" is for all the music lovers out at that place who enjoy creating music. The movie is filled with characters whose religion is music. Look at Dan's motorcar and how he has a music cable hung upwardly on the mirror next to a cross. There'due south a peachy moment when Dan listens to Greta perform for the commencement time. What is only a phonation and guitar slowly grows into something much bigger and beautiful. The soundtrack is more poppy compared to the folk songs in "Once," but they are nice to listen to.
This pic is the motion picture y'all kind of accept to be in the mood for to actually enjoy. It can exist anticipated and sappy at times, but information technology does it well. If you accept it for what information technology is, yous'll enjoy it. "Begin Again" is a musical treat this summer that will leave you wanting to listen to more music and maybe even creating some of your own.
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Potent movie with two convincing lead performances.
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(Also don't read this if y'all want to avoid spoilers for "Once".)
"Brainstorm Again" was written and directed by John Carney, responsible for the wonderful 2006 music flick "Once" and here, with a much more prominent cast, he did not allow me downwardly either. This movie was originally intended to go by the title "Can A Song Save Your Life?" and I'yard glad they inverse it, as admittedly it did sound a little pretentious. "Begin Again" fits the story very well as well.
The first half has many leaps in time, and so we come across how Ruffalo's and Knightley'south characters meet for the start fourth dimension from their own perspectives. I liked that a lot. What I besides liked was Knightley's singing, peculiarly in these scenes when at that place is no orchestra or band playing. Something raw most it! Back to the scene where they meet for the first fourth dimension (or I should probably say where she sings and he listens): He had a few drinks earlier and imagines her voice going together with a total orchestra. This was possibly the highlight of the whole movie for me. Really well washed and information technology left a lasting impression. I wanted to swing with Ruffalo'south character there.
Now that I mentioned my favorite already, here is some more scenes that I deemed significant:
The ending was expected, if you have seen "Once". It seems a bit of the director's trademark to pick something that the audition will not totally love, but empathize. Yous wonder during the whole film if they become together (it probably even looked more that style in "One time" than here). I have read dissimilar interpretations hither, but my thoughts were that Levine'due south character played the song the way she wanted him to and she sees how the audience loves that version and is deeply impressed. Obviously, we see Ruffalo'southward graphic symbol getting together with his ex-wife over again and information technology seems like Greta makes the same decision.
I indicator is the ear-phones she sends back, which is a bit of a sign that at least their romantic relationship is gone. These played a major function in an earlier scene, where they connect by sharing their playlists and both listening them at the same fourth dimension by sharing the earphones just the way Ruffalo's graphic symbol did when he met his wife years agone. In the end he sits on a bench back together with his wife and these ii sharing the earphones. Before at that place is a scene where he gets in a car with Greta and the wife (Catherine Keener) looks at him through the door. Afterwards on, it is exactly the other mode around. Ruffalo's character gets in the machine with his ex-wife and Greta looks at the 2. Nice parallel here.
Adam Levine, I'thou not actually familiar with his music except one or two songs and I would not call him a especially gifted actor after watching this one, merely the role seemed good for him. He gave a credible operation.
What stayed in mind was the Jerry Maguire quote from early on on. These two are not completely the same, simply really there are a few parallels. I won't go further into detail here in guild to avoid spoilers for a tertiary movie.
Hailee Steinfeld was not a highlight here. She gave a wonderful performance in "True Grit" and is possibly the most talented actress under 20 correct now, but her character's development was just so predictable just like the whole transformation that came from her bonding with Knightley's character. She looks upwards to her, dresses differently and evolves character-wise, but at that place was nothing fresh about her storyline. Information technology has all been done many many times before. She made the most of it, only I felt she was a bit wasted here.
Another scene I actually loved was the moment when the two key characters really make a connection, namely when Ruffalo's character tells Knightley's character that information technology was his wife who cheated on him. The hug from behind is 1 of the virtually cute shots of the picture show year 2013.
Other than that, at that place were quite a few record characterization references, which I did not find too interesting, but if you are more into the bodily physical creation of music, you may disagree. I liked seeing Mos Def again though, viii years after his excellent operation in "16 Blocks".
A negative signal would be the inclusion of constabulary (rooftop, metro station). I did non actually like how they used it to evidence how the central characters were then alternative and only did what they liked to the level that it was illegal. No need to bring that in. It just seems forced to make them even more than likable, but the 2 already were anyway.
Greta's ideal friend was played by James Corden. Random notation: He will replace Craig Ferguson as host of "The Late Late Show" in 2015. Solid performance, zero outstanding. I liked how he was the polar opposite to Adam Levine's character: a street musician, neither rich nor famous, simply completely accurate. Another interesting snippet is how both men (one early, one at the end) inquire Greta to come up to the stage and sing and she merely did it for Corden's character.
There is a reference to alcoholism included too, but this is not what the movie is about, so I liked that they did not get further into detail. Had they elaborated on information technology, it might have left a more than serious aftertaste that could accept injure the overall picture.
For the near part, everything worked very well and with the exception of some very minor criticisms (Ruffalo's spoken language confronting Levine'southward character at Greta'south flat felt to cocky-indulgent, Levine risking a longtime human relationship with Greta for Mimi not likewise apparent). In the cease, this is not really a dearest story, just much more nigh forgiveness. However, the most important thing here is the music of course.
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The music in our lives
I was a big fan of the group the Frames and was very excited when I learned about "Once" directed by John Carney and starring Glen Hasard both members of the Frames. I enjoyed information technology quite a bit, simply it had an almost documentary like feel to it. Begin again for me was a argument about how music affects our lives and how different songs can take on different meanings for all of united states. For my wife and myself , Ben Folds the Luckiest has a special significant in our relationship, to most others, it is simply another song.
I loved how Begin Again opens with a rather bland sounding song being sung by Kiera Chivalry in a small-scale nightclub as Ruffalo stands enthralled. Then for the next 15 minutes we discover why.
The moving picture uses music in that mode several times and I felt it really worked. Your enjoyment of the film volition probably exist greatly determined past what you lot think of the music. I happened to love information technology. Even that banal song before long takes on all new significant. The entire cast is great and Ruffalo certainly delivers one of his strongest performances.
I have not seen Words and Pictures. My express noesis of the film is that information technology might accept a similar theme when information technology comes to music in our lives. This is a footling experience adept movie. The kind of film that is a welcome respite in Summer blockbuster season. Last year we had the Style Way back to fill this niche. This year is is Begin Once again.
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Terrific songs, good acting, a squeamish tonic for troubled times
I was a large fan of ONCE - I did not see Brainstorm Once more when it start came out and simply recently watched it and I loved it. One must be in the right mood for this winning, open up hearted movie - it can exist easily passed over equally sappy or sentimental merely I thought the story of two damaged people meeting each other at just the right time - to be in that location to help one some other - is very well done and Knightley and Ruffalo are wonderful together. But what really makes the whole bundle work is the fantastic songs - many people were involved with the writing of the music - including Carney the author-director but the main person behind the songs is Gregg Alexander - a very underrated, very talented musician who was the ring The New Radicals in the 90'southward. He has a way of writing tricky melodies and Lost Stars is a marvelous song - I recollect my fav scene though is when they are on the rooftop and crank out that song west/ Ruffalo jamming with his girl. Brought a smile and a tear. I'k a sucker for Carney'due south films considering I as well loved SING STREET!
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Don't judge a book...
John Carney is one of the few people working in movies today whose next piece of work I am always eager to come across. Along with a few others such equally Richard Linklater, he has proved to me that you can have a premise which has been explored many times before and view information technology from a dissimilar perspective to create something that feels original and fresh. His previous piece of work 'Once' did this and is among my favourite films.
Suffice to say, when I saw the trailer for Begin Once again it simply did not grab me. My first worry was that it looked 'too Hollywood' (read every bit 'cliche and predictable film churned out to brand coin with piddling care or idea for the story it is telling'). I felt a lilliputian worried going in to see the film that somehow Mr. Carney had fallen foul of the big producers, making sacrifices to the story in order to go some 'names' into it.
Yet, around twenty minutes in, my hopes returned and I knew it was going to exist special... and it just got better from in that location. the film builds on the story and characters as it goes on, making me intendance about them, showing me things I had never seen before in similar movies and above all, making me recollect. As the credits rolled, I was wiping my eyes, partly from the wonderful soundtrack simply mostly considering Begin Once again is a magical motion picture. Information technology nevertheless has the 'spark' that I felt in his previous pictures, a huge amount of love, passion and care that has brought it into existence - not simply a half baked idea thrown out there to pay back impatient investors. The soundtrack, performances and well-crafted script took me on an emotionally rewarding journeying, leaving me feeling inspired, uplifted and a trivial nostalgic for times gone by. yep, I am gushing, but it really is going to exist hard to beat out for flick of the year for me.
Between the scenes, I likewise loved how information technology discreetly touched on some important issues with throwaway lines, addressing things which people take for granted these days: 'Music is for the ears, non the optics.' and 'don't dress like you are easy' being two of them. Image is and then ingrained into art these days, the majority of people all seem to judge a book by information technology's embrace without looking inside. And the same could be said for this moving-picture show also. On the exterior it looks like notwithstanding some other generic, manufactured Pop Idol... but if you sit down down and watch information technology, I think you will be pleasantly surprised that it has something profound to say and says information technology well.
Thought provoking, life affirming and highly recommended!
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Extramly underrated
This movie helped me get through a stage in a life and definitely helped me .dear it yep it has its flows but whatever
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Intelligent, Entertaining, Warm and exciting.
"A motion picture almost mod advances dismantling the art industry every bit we know it by replacing the high-paid middle-men with IT, bringing creative person closer to audience." Doesn't sound like a thrilling blurb, but this motion picture brings the story to live with incredible writing, dandy music, wonderful performances and a vivid vision. Merely like in "In one case," this not-love-story side-steps the romance plot Hollywood unremarkably uses like a crutch and focuses on the struggle and triumph or creative endeavor. (most mainstream stories end with the message that the only happy ending ends in breeding. This tale recognizes the value of humankind'south other artistic capabilities.) Not that the film'south all esoteric and above family unit. There are all kinds of emotional wounds we endure in this life, in our families. Rather than a sub-plot focused on starting a family, this story's sub-plot focuses on both growing potent after a family fails (harder) and on repairing another failed family (hardest).
And that's all below the point.
Music! What wonderful music they used in this picture show, from the soundtrack to the original performances. The fashion they bring the performances and the artistic procedure to life - the pain, the joy, the failures and triumphs - is just thrilling. This is the kind of film that will make you want to become up and Brand STUFF. And so put information technology out there considering yous tin. You don't need the eye-men anymore. You don't demand the industry.
To create is the highest expression of humanity and and then, perchance, making art (like this film) that inspires creativity in others is yet a step above.
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A refreshing film ...without explosions?
I knew almost nothing about this motion-picture show - hadn't fifty-fifty seen the trailer - when I drug my married woman to see it last night, and we were both very pleasantly surprised. The characters are drawn in such a way that they are both like-able and relatable. In the end, the picture show builds emotion with the audition not by ways of incredible stretches of the imagination, only through a gradually reinforced empathy. I have seen all the summer blockbusters, and the single largest failure in most of them is that they create shallow characters that the audition does not intendance nigh.
The dynamics used in this movie crusade an engagement in the audience that is necessary in ANY flick for it to be great. This one is not to be missed in the CGI-filled summer.
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If music exist the food of love
Once once again, Carney wins me.
I'll permit the other reviewers introduce you to the characters and the plot, I'll but say this -- for me, this is a perfect movie. It took agree of me from the start, took me down to the depths, upwardly to the heights, and never allow me get until the final frame. Perfect execution: casting, performances, writing. The actors just nail it, especially Knightley and Ruffalo, though I would have liked to take seen more washed with Catherine Keener.
I rarely watch movies twice, but there are people I want to share this with, and I ordered the soundtrack equally soon as I returned abode.
How will they finish this, I kept thinking toward the stop. The answer? Perfectly.
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"In one case" twice: does lightning strike again?
"Begin Over again" (2013 release; 100 min.) brings the story of Greta (played by Keira Knightley) and Dan (played by Marc Ruffalo). Every bit the motion picture opens, nosotros find Greta reluctantly going on phase in a small-scale bar venue to play a song, urged on by a friend. By consummate coincidence Dan, a veteran of the music business, is in the audience, and loves what he's hearing. We later on learn the groundwork of how these two characters ended upwards in that very place, as things have not been going every bit planned (and I'm being balmy). Dan tells her he wants to tape an album with/for her. Along the mode nosotros get to know the side characters (Dan's wife and 14 yr. old daughter--both estranged from Dan), and Dave (played by Maroon five'south Adam Levine), Greta's boyfriend who has just hit the large fourth dimension. To tell you more would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.
Couple of comments: as a full general thing and contrary to apparently many other reviewers, I did non "fall" for this moving-picture show like I did for "Once", writer-managing director John Carney's previous tale of romance and music. In fact, when it comes down to information technology, this motion-picture show is nothing more than that a re-imagined "Once", ready in a different city and with different leads, but in the end it is nothing more than than a variation of what we've already seen. Lightning does not strike again: as sincere and moving and impossible Once was, equally contrived and unoriginal and cocky-axiomatic Begin Again is. There are still a couple of keen scenes in the picture, reason I'm giving it 5 stars out of x, and which I cannot describe in more details so as not to give away anything.
And so just when you lot've remember you lot've seen it all, comes the ending of the moving picture. Wow, just wow. The irony of it all. (For more details, please see my comments in the movie'south give-and-take threat here on IMDb, under "The Ending (spoilers obviously)".
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A charming, largely effective twist on a tale that's been told many times before.
You've seen it all before. Strictly speaking, Begin Once again doesn't have the most original of story lines - movies, specifically romantic comedies and sports movies, have long built their predictable happy endings out of opposites attracting, spinning tales of Disillusioned Person A finding inspiration from Disillusioned Person B, and vice versa. The fact that this moving-picture show comes with added original music isn't even that much of an innovation - author-director John Carney did the same thing in Once, his own much-beloved musical romance from 2006. Simply, for all that, Brainstorm Once again remains highly-seasoned because it refuses to settle comfortably into whatsoever one genre. Funny, dramatic, romantic and ideal, the motion picture navigates its cast of characters with much skill and tenderness.
Dan (Marker Ruffalo) is a mess: in one case a groundbreaking executive of his ain indie record label, he'due south floundering helplessly in a life he no longer recognises. He'south alienated his wife Miriam (Catherine Keener) and teenage daughter Violet (Hailee Steinfeld), and his partner Saul (Yasiin Bey a.one thousand.a. Mos Def) has just fired him. Musically-inclined Greta (Keira Knightley) isn't having all that great a time of it either: she moved to New York with her boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine), just he's too busy having his caput turned by fame and other girls as he hits the big time. When Dan hears Greta singing in a rundown bar, he resolves to make music with her - fifty-fifty if no one else believes he can exercise it.
When examined in its broadest strokes, Begin Once more isn't anything special. There'due south never whatever incertitude that this story will turn out well, that its protagonists will help each other move out of their nighttime romantic pasts. Its deliberately quirky-cute plot veers oft towards the corny and anticipated, as Dan and Greta set virtually making the indie-est of indie albums, guerrilla-mode on the streets of New York. Of form they'll see agreeing, kooky people who help them achieve their goal. And yeah, Dan volition notice a manner to bond with Violet in the procedure, simply as Greta figures out just what she wants (or doesn't want) from her relationship with Dave.
But Begin Again is a far better film in its details, largely because Carney lavishes a lot of thought, love and promise on his characters. Dan, for one, grows every bit the film does, the layers of hurt and anger shrouding him and his bad choices slowly peeling abroad to reveal the damaged soul hiding below. There's even something unexpectedly rich virtually the interaction betwixt Greta and stereotypical bastard boyfriend Dave: he is as the wiggle he appears on screen, and nonetheless, Carney lends credence to their human relationship with some genuinely emotional moments, anchored past a vocal she writes for him (Lost Stars). Greta'due south time with Dave, Carney seems to suggest, is not wasted, even if her trust in him might be misplaced. That'south an unusually circuitous thought for a movie that's so evidently slight.
The way the film ends, too, comes as a welcome surprise. Unlike the more than vapid rom-coms for which it might be easily mistaken, Brainstorm Once again chooses to focus on a deeper kind of love story. The love that Dan and Greta eventually share is of a pleasingly unique kind - a connection that isn't romantic or, at least, non purely so. They are also friends and kindred spirits: relationships that typically go short shrift the moment a guy and a daughter are placed in the same scene together.
Having scored a hit with Once, Carney tin at present afford large-name Hollywood actors. Fortunately, he also chose A-list actors who accept quite enough skill and charisma to brand the hokier parts of the script work. Ruffalo again manages to lend Dan, a by and large rumpled mess of rage, his own innate charm and sweet. Fifty-fifty at his most reprehensible, Dan - in Ruffalo's hands - feels more like a lost soul than an unforgivable 1. Knightley makes upwards for her less-than-absorbing singing voice with her near sympathetic functioning in ages. James Corden turns in an agreeable performance as Greta's hapless panhandling friend Steve, although Keener - a fine character actress - is robbed of the opportunity to lend Miriam more than depth (especially considering a revelation that comes later in the film).
Better in its execution than conception, Brainstorm Once more is an amiably tough-minded twist on a plot y'all've seen a thou times earlier. The flick never really reaches spectacular heights, nor does it re-invent the wheel. Merely information technology'south a smart, sweet and mostly very effective take on a story that could have been a hundred times more than predictable and cloying. That, in itself, is quite the accomplishment.
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Pleasant but insubstantial.
I was late to the party on this one. Begin Again had a 'blink and yous'll miss information technology' release and I did. It's not difficult to see why: though information technology is warmly entertaining, it is, ultimately, flimsy and unmemorable.
Written and directed past John Carney, whose biggest hit to appointment remains 2006'due south One time, Begin Again shares a similar theme: a couple making music and discovering themselves.
Gretta (Keira Knightley) accompanies her musician beau Dave (Adam Levine) to New York when he signs a deal with a major tape deal. Only while the world glows for him, Gretta soon finds herself the starting time casualty of his new-constitute fame and wandering Manhattan alone, but for the visitor of former friend and busker, Steve (James Cordon). By take a chance, she is thrown together with disgraced tape label executive Dan (Mark Ruffalo) and, astounded by her raw talent, he signs her upwards for a quirky musical collaboration around New York City.
And therein lies my biggest issue with Begin Again: Dan is astounded by Gretta'due south talent, I wasn't. Yes, it is pleasant, her singing is easy on the ear and her lyrics are several ranks higher than the Cheeky Girls, but she's no Leonard Cohen.
Like Gretta's musical output, Brainstorm Once more is twee, piece of cake and simple, it is moving wallpaper that doesn't crusade whatsoever offence. We've seen it before, we've enjoyed it more and concluding time around, in Once, Carney didn't dilute information technology. It strikes me that Carney has poured this ane out to satisfy the teeny audiences who were told they should take loved Once but just didn't get it.
Knightly is fine, Ruffalo is as good equally ever, Cordon is slightly less over the height than usual. The plot is unproblematic, the father/daughter subplot is obvious, everything is laid out very advisedly for the audiences that need life explained fully for them to understand. Begin Again is all just a little scrap plinky plonk, information technology is obvious and idealistic and, particularly in the instance of the family unit dancing sequence, plain embarrassing.
I love the idea of a group of musicians recording an album in the open up effectually New York but there has to be a far better fashion of presenting it to the earth.
Pleasant but insubstantial. Begin Again? Please don't.
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Begin Again
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I knew this film was about singing, and I was interested because of the leading male and female person stars, and this film had positive reviews, plus a fiddling attention during awards season, written and directed by John Carney (Once). Basically formerly successful record label executive Dan Mulligan (Mark Ruffalo) lives in New York, he is estranged from his wife Miriam (Catherine Keener), and sees his fledgling guitarist teenage daughter Violet (Hailee Steinfeld) as oft equally possible, but he is struggling to keep up with the changing music industry. Dan is fired from his job, he goes on a drinking rampage, which leads him into a bar in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where he encounters young and fiercely contained songwriter Gretta James (Keira Knightley) who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend and songwriting partner Dave Kohl (Maroon v's Adam Levine), a newly successful musician, he had an matter with one of his producers' assistants. Dan is absorbed past Greta's music, and offers to sign her to his former record label, she initially refuses, but reconsiders the offer and agrees, they meet with Saul (Mos Def), Dan'due south business partner and co-founder of their record label, simply he does not see the same potential in Gretta, she is turned away. Undeterred, Dan and Gretta work together, recruiting a team of talented musicians, including Gretta's best friend, busker Steve (James Corden), to produce their own anthology together, recording live during the summertime around New York City in diverse public locations, hoping it will be worthy to be published to Dan's label. During this time, Dan and Gretta bail with each other both personally and professionally, Violet is taken nether Gretta's wing to play on the album also, they return to Saul with the completed anthology, he is very impressed with their collaboration, Gretta demands Saul give Dan his job back, an agreement is not reached, merely Dan feels confident Gretta will somewhen be signed to the label. Gretta sees Dave on telly accepting an award, she is critical he is compromising himself for personal proceeds, she expresses her grievances in a song which she records as a phone message, Dave is back in New York to promote his new anthology, remorseful he calls and asks to see her, later on some consideration they do meet. Gretta and Dave both critique each other's albums, Gretta feels betrayed that Dave took the song "Lost Stars", which she wrote and equanimous every bit a Christmas present, she believes the true meaning of the song has been lost with his heavily commercialised version, Dave mentions the audience loving information technology, and the free energy filling the room, he believes music should be shared. Gretta did not intend this for the song, nevertheless, Dave invites her to hear him play the song at the Gramercy Theatre to see the impact, she arrives and hears her original arrangement of it, but he responds to the adoring crowd past slipping back into the commercial version, Gretta realises he is a lost crusade, but she leaves with newfound closure and a smile. In the end, Dan is preparing to move back dwelling house, having fabricated amendments with his married woman, Gretta tells him she does not want the album released, instead preferring to distribute it online for $1, he does return to piece of work with Saul, but he agrees to Gretta'southward request, and helps to promote it, Saul the following day jokingly fires Dan, as Gretta's album has sold 10,000 copies in its first day of release. Also starring CeeLo Greenish every bit Troublegum. Ruffalo is excellent with his creased charm as the done-up record producer, Knightley is fantastic as the heartbroken British singer/songwriter with a swell singing voice, Corden gets many laughs equally her busker friend, and Levine in his first interim role is really good equally well. There are subtle similarities to Once, ii lost souls finding each other to brand great music, of course in this example it is a singer and a producer, and there is the subplot of the singer confronting her onetime boyfriend, the original songs are all lovely, characters talk most creative integrity and the manufactured studio approach, but there is not likewise much to put yous off, you tin can just enjoy it as a good-natured, sweetness and most worthwhile musical one-act- drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Lost Stars". Very good!
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I'd Rather You Didn't
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You lot've got to hand it to Keira Knightly; not content with spending twenty-one years proving she can't deed she now goes one better and removes some other string from a badly depleted bow by proving she can't sing either. I really shelled out good coin to watch this because someone told me that the soundtrack featured Frank Sinatra performing Luck Be ALady. That was truthful enough albeit it was truncated and for practiced measure out nosotros besides got abridged versions of two more REAL songs, Every bit Time Goes By and For Once In My Life. And there lies the main flaw in the moving picture. The two leads, Keightly and Mark Ruffalo play respectively a performer (I use the discussion loosely) and a failed record producer. Having spent an hour or so producing little more than sounds set to a beat they suddenly decide to reveal to each other the kind of music they actually listen to in private and this is where we get the three 'standards' mentioned to a higher place. What is totally bewildering, notwithstanding, is that having shown they are both aware and beholden of existent music they keep to return to the dross they have been turning out rather than attempting to emulate Loesser, Hupfield etc. I take no doubtfulness this will find its audition though yous probably won't see them in daylight.
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For the love of music.
I don't dearest movies that are about music bands. I e'er get bored of all the scenes where a supposed creative person is on stage singing a vocal to the masses and everybody sings along as if it was a striking, merely the song is accented rubbish. That in itself is plenty for me to end watching a movie.
Surprisingly plenty, in this motion-picture show, they a did a pretty expert chore with the songwriting. Some of the songs are quite enjoyable, and they make the story a little more conceivable. But concord on! What story? A girl who gets dumped by her emerging star boyfriend meets an exec guy from the music industry who falls in love with her singing. And they both spend the whole movie recording her songs around NY metropolis to release an anthology at the end. That'southward it....if anything else happened, please allow me know.
I normally accept points abroad for the music, in this case I give points for information technology. Without the music information technology would be a iv...
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Sentimental One-act Overwhelmed with Unmemorable Tunes
Sometimes you just know when a film isn't for you. This is not the aforementioned experience equally watching a "bad" movie, with deficiencies of script, label and directorial technique. The issue centers over questions of gustation: what viewers expect from a pic and what they are actually presented with.
This is certainly the case with John Carney'southward Begin AGAIN. The plot is straightforward: Brit expat Gretta (Keira Knightley) has a long- term relationship with Dave (Adam Levime) which crashes on the rocks when Dave is catapulted to stardom and has a brief fling with publicist Mim (Jennifer Li). Gretta meets accidentally with done- upwardly producer Dan (Mark Ruffalo) in a New York bar, and subsequently an iffy start, the two of them agree to produce a do-it-yourself album of Gretta's songs, with the help of amateur musicians, Dan'southward daughter Violet (Hailee Stanfield), and some of Dan's acquaintances in the music business. The plot is an onetime one, a recycling of the "Allow's Put on a Show" genre historically associated with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland musicals of the Thirties.
The leading actors try their best with a shallowly-written script, merely nonetheless Ruffalo's Dan comes beyond as someone entirely responsible for his own turn down due to impatience and a fondness for booze. Knightley's Gretta is a passive figure, although apparently a talented song-author, and she really cannot sing.
Withal the potential for graphic symbol-evolution is fix aside in a film with far also many unmemorable musical numbers for its ain good. On several occasions viewers yearn for the singing to end and the plot to resume.
In that location remain one or 2 incidental pleasures: Carney'southward use of New York locations communicates something of the city's infinite riches, although we could have done without the clichéd sequence in Times Square. James Corden rehearses his familiar function of a bouncy best friend (in his pre-Tardily LATE SHOW incarnation).
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I hope you can stay awake.
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The reviews on IMDb give this picture a reasonable rating. Given that I went to see on the big screen. Sorry folks but information technology is 100 minutes long and seemed like a week. There is cipher practiced I tin say about information technology, to say it was awful would exist about right. Keira Chivalry is and then bad in this motion picture, it makes me wonder if she has any acting ability at all. I am yet to encounter her give a decent operation. If this motion-picture show had to be made, then she was miscast. It is a straight to DVD Idiot box film, in other words a waste of near two hours.
There are thousands of better stories and better actors out there, I just become annoyed when one pays good money to watch this slush.
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An Un-authentic Moving picture about Actuality
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John Carney pulled off a miracle with ONCE, a romantic fable fueled by charming acting performances and genuinely beautiful and passionate, original music. In my recollection, it is the one and merely picture show that made me cry — non solely because I cared so much for its characters, but considering I didn't want my all-too-brief glimpse into their world to end. The fact that Carney pulled this off for a paltry $100,000 resulting in an Academy Award winning song and a Broadway musical only makes his feat that much more than miraculous.
So, I was eagerly anticipating Begin AGAIN. Maybe my expectations were too high. You can't fault the interim performances in Carney's second peek into the world of gimmicky music. Marking Ruffalo is, as e'er, multi-layered and heartfelt. His plight, as an alcoholic, divorced A&R man/failed male parent on the skids is vividly drawn. And, if those personal flaws weren't enough to doom his career, his idealistic, balderdash-headed insistence on working with "accurate" artists in an era of derivative, technologically manufactured music pushes him right up to the edge of precarious cliff.
And, hither is exactly where moving-picture show dooms itself. In Ruffalo'south Dan and Keira Knightly's Gretta, Carney has written two characters who refuse to compromise the integrity of their work. This conceit demands that the script, the casting, and the entire ambiance of the movie be authentic -- which it simply isn't.
In ONCE, the lead actors Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova were real, professional vocalizer/songwriters. They wrote and performed their own songs with complete conviction. To play Gretta, Chivalry had to "learn" guitar, which she mimes, simply only barely. Her voice is unexceptional, not ane that would believably attract Dan to risk his last chance on. And, nearly chiefly, Begin AGAIN's songs are at best okay, in full unremarkable.
The idea that Gretta and this thrown-together band could actually record state-of-the-art live performances in public places in New York City is technically possible, but pragmatically preposterous. And, if Dan is truly striving for authenticity, recording Gretta in a cheap digital format would be the last style he would get.
Movies nigh music performance and product are, more often than not, shot without much attending to how it really happens. Directors usually get away with it considering the public at large doesn't know any better. Cameron Crowe's brilliant ALMOST FAMOUS is an example of a moving picture that absolutely nailed information technology. It's disappointing to see a film that pontificates about authenticity, yet fails so miserably to achieve information technology.
The fine actors in this film all accept their moments. Regardless of her musical shortcomings, Knightly exudes enormous charm. Adam Levine is surprisingly genuine and conceivable. Up and comer Hailee Steinfeld and the invariably wonderful Catherine Keener are excellent. The most-deft supporting performance is turned in by Mos Def.
I practice have to complement Carney that his script resists the temptation to allow Dan and Gretta to succumb to their obvious attraction to i another. However, for Gretta to choose to virtually "give" downloads of her album away for a dollar states zilch. It only reinforces the old saying, "I bought information technology for a song." Music is a treasure that should be valued. Music enriches our lives. In that location is no integrity in an "artist" giving his or her work abroad, especially after a grouping of dedicated musicians (with a piece of the dorsum stop) devoted so much sweat equity into realizing those songs.
With BEGIN Again, John Carney has once once again proved he is capable of writing charming characters and excellent dialog. Permit'due south hope he endeavors to accept his next story outside of the music business concern.
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Expected Better! v/ten
Review: This is a sweat motion-picture show about a down and out alcoholic, music producer who hears a song in a bar and gets inspiration to brand the vocalizer famous. After getting turned down past his record producer, partner Mos Def, he decides to cut the album on the streets of New York with the help of a band, who works for free. The storyline did seem a flake jolly for my liking, but the performances were great by the whole cast, especially Mark Ruffalo. Each character brought something different to the projection which made it a watchable film, but I did feel a bit empty at the end. Knightley'due south singing was quite impressive for a first timer, but her annoying grinning and posh English accent became a bit tedious after a while. The director tried to bring some depth to the characters which all went out of the window in one case they went on the road, which was a shame. Anyway, it'southward worth a lookout simply it won't become downwardly as a classic. Watchable!
Round-Up: Maroon 5's lead vocalizer, Adam Levine was a swell addition to the cast and he seemed to burst into song with ease, fifty-fifty though it was his first starring part. Cee Lo too put in a skilful operation but I didn't empathise why his friend started vanquish boxing for no reason. All the way through the film you get this tribute to New York, which I have seen in many Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese movies. Personally I remember it's the stars that brought in the audiences, more than the concept because on paper, I don't think that this film would take worked if the director brought in some B actors.
Budget: $8million Worldwide Gross: $64million (WOW!)
I recommend this picture show to people who are into there road movies about a tape producer who makes an album on the streets of New York with a commencement time vocalizer. 5/10
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Whole more than the sum of the parts ... it works
In spite of a number of structural and script flaws, this tasty trivial gem works besides or better than any half-dozen "experience expert" films that wandered out of Hollywood in the final few years. Recommended.
(One case: a primal script betoken is when 1 of the characters leaves a "voice message" for some other which is actually an entire song. There isn't a voice mail system on the planet which would accept that length of message. Some other oddity is the casting of Hailee Steinfeld every bit a statuesque xiv year one-time teenager, a casting choice made all the stranger by the fact that she was 17 at the time of filming and looked similar she was in her late 20s. In fact this actress, who played the lead in Truthful Dust at age xiii, should have a patent on looking older than she is.)
The adept news? Much the aforementioned way that John Carney's script emphasizes vision as the fundamental ingredient for a successful song, his own vision is more than plenty to compensate for some of the strangeness here, and the film works very much in the style of those classic British comedies of manners nosotros don't run into much of anymore (a la 3 Weddings...) Other notes for the die-hard fans:
* Knightly and Ruffalo spent much of their careers making other actors look adept. Overnice to see them get a take chances to make themselves wait good
* Wow. Who knew Adam Levine could act? Fact is, he is a natural and comes across better here than as a judge in that infamous show. Can't say the aforementioned for Ceelo who is only equally uncomfortable as an actor as he is in reality Idiot box
* is there an award for all-time integrated endmost credits? Non talking bloopers here, but scenes that run in the credits which actually complement the film ... all-time I take ever seen ... if all closing credits were this good, viewers would stay to the very end
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