Bob Marley: One Love 2024. Bopic on the rise to fame and his sad demise.
Confession time, I am not a fan of raggae music, not that i don't like it, I don't have a great understanding of it, both either culturally and its preaching of Jah and Rastafari or musically in it's simplicity. Although I do own a few decent compilations of Bob Marley (yes Legend is one of them) and a nice cd box set of all of his Island Records Exodus and all. (i clearly like my reggae in convenient packages)
What surprises me most about this particular film, how dull it is, the live music scenes, instead of being a celebration or a an act of defiance they are dull slow run through a selection of Bob's bigger hits. The studio workout are better, but they again do come across like, The Doors working out Light My Fire (watch Oliver Stone's The Doors to see what I mean)
Overall the film plays on the usual stereotypes, , the amount of ganja the guys some is phenomenal, and the police and punks when they hit London is almost comical.
At the end of the film there is a montage of Marley's archive footage both in concert and in interviews' now that is the Marley I want to see, vital and alive and vibrant.
A very dull 5//10
Ps I have a great Lee Scratch Perry compilation, which is lively, funny and features a spattering of great cover versions. (you see I like my Reggae music in nice packages) I am a cultural dinosaur.
PPS favourite reggae album, PIL Metal Box...I defy anyone now to groove to that bad ass.
PPPS I also have a Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare album in which they cover spaghetti western music which is pretty enjoyable.
Confession time, I am not a fan of raggae music, not that i don't like it, I don't have a great understanding of it, both either culturally and its preaching of Jah and Rastafari or musically in it's simplicity. Although I do own a few decent compilations of Bob Marley (yes Legend is one of them) and a nice cd box set of all of his Island Records Exodus and all. (i clearly like my reggae in convenient packages)
What surprises me most about this particular film, how dull it is, the live music scenes, instead of being a celebration or a an act of defiance they are dull slow run through a selection of Bob's bigger hits. The studio workout are better, but they again do come across like, The Doors working out Light My Fire (watch Oliver Stone's The Doors to see what I mean)
Overall the film plays on the usual stereotypes, , the amount of ganja the guys some is phenomenal, and the police and punks when they hit London is almost comical.
At the end of the film there is a montage of Marley's archive footage both in concert and in interviews' now that is the Marley I want to see, vital and alive and vibrant.
A very dull 5//10
Ps I have a great Lee Scratch Perry compilation, which is lively, funny and features a spattering of great cover versions. (you see I like my Reggae music in nice packages) I am a cultural dinosaur.
PPS favourite reggae album, PIL Metal Box...I defy anyone now to groove to that bad ass.
PPPS I also have a Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare album in which they cover spaghetti western music which is pretty enjoyable.