The US v. John Lennon

[Documad]

What a pointless movie. Recycled film clips you've seen a million times. Every photo montage is a cliche. The most obvious song cues. Modern American history for simpletons.

And it's so poorly made. Nine out of ten shows on the History Channel are put together better. I am shocked because I usually like any 70s documentary, no matter how bad it is.

[cosmo105]

thank you for that. i'd been sort of curious about it, and the green party organization at my school has been screening it...but it looked so stupid to me.

[Documad]

It's all the same talking heads who describe the Vietnam era in every single TV documentary. Except that they put in Geraldo instead of Gloria Steinem.

I'd rather watch a 90 minute long interview with Yoko. The few minutes of commentary she provides is the best part.

[cosmo105]

GERALDO?!

christ. really though, as much respect as i have for the man musically, the image of him as this really revolutionary deep thinker is so misguided. :rolleyes:

i love Yoko's crazy ass.

[Documad]

Hey, the movie told me he was an intellectual at least a dozen times so it must be true. :)

I always feel bad for Lennon. He gave all of his lengthy interviews during the most embarrassing era of his life and then he went into seclusion and then he got murdered. So he's frozen in time. If he had lived, he would have gotten some perspective and laughed at himself. Almost all of the other 60s icons got to do that.

The Dixie Chicks movie is much better, but I'm a big fan of the director.

[GreenEarthAl]

My friend Christina just saw it and had a life change over it. Went out and bought a John Lennon CD and had herself a life change.

My girlfriend Heather and I saw it and we both rather enjoyed it. But, then, we had never seen any of those 70s film clips, hadn't ever heard about Newtopia, and Heather hadn't really gotten that perspective on the late 60s early 70s before. Plus we saw it shortly after having seen Sir, No Sir and Bobby, so all three seemed pretty complimentary. (I've always thought of the RFK assassination as a watershed moment of the 20th century even moreso than the JFK assassination).


Strange, the perspectives in life. Last Sunday we had a Hip Hop service at church. The reverend talked about Hip Hop vs Hip POP and record companies driving mindless materialism and anti intellectualism, etc. Heather and I thought it was fairly boring and not much of anything new. Now our whole congregation is going on and on about how corageous and insightful the sermon was and how far he went out on a limb and, almost a week later, there are still intensifying email discussions about how inspiring and innovative it all was.

Everything's always new to somebody I guess. I wish old John Lennon clips and songs were old hat to me. I think it would be good if that historical perspective was more readily available to everyone. I guess that's why they made a movie about it.

[cosmo105]

when you're a Science/History/Discovery channel nerd like Documad and me, you've seen it all :D


i remember being so pissed when we moved because we had to pay extra for the science channel! that was when Cosmos was being shown again, in its updated glory, for the first time. and i had been waiting for years for that. i was so heartbroken that i didn't get to watch some of the episodes! then steger went and bought me the whole set on dvd for christmas and the 13-year old Carl Sagan nerd in me cried. :o