Michael Ledo
Dan (Mark Ruffalo) is a record producer who just got fired from the label he founded. He is separated from his wife (Catherine Keener) and his part time daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) who is the typical hurt movie teen needing a father figure. While trying to get drunk he hears Gretta (Keira Knightley) give a really rotten night club performance, although Dan hears something great.Gretta has just broken up with her rock star boyfriend (Adam Levine). She agrees to do an album with Dan recording outdoors in different parts of the city with Dan cashing in favors to get background musicians.The film was not a good life drama. It was not a comedy and the music was fair. It has indie appeal to aspiring writers/singers as well as indie lovers who don't know a bad movie when they see one. Knightly gave us her typical role and looks, seemingly phoning this one in. Dan was hardly likeable. And in two minutes time Gretta can solve all of the teen's problems.I have trouble understanding the praise for a so cliche filled movie. Is this what society has come to? Mulligan seriously? Mommy make it stop. It hurts. Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
leplatypus
I pick this one for Keira and it was a good opportunity to test my theory that actual American movies are totally disconnected with their audience (explaining that they are so bad!)… In short, the American movies offer today a restricted choice of characters: either Law, either Criminals, Either Vigilante, Either prestigious elite (doctors, lawyers, and entertainment). So this one belongs to the last category being a meeting about a new artist and an old famous producer, and it's not even a biopic! So who's really care about that? How many relatives of friends have you got with an album career? Zero, like me, so really I can't enter this movie and I'm already bored since the beginning!After, we have the complete track: the writing session, the session, the recording, the video, the live performance, all this with the same really poor songs and it's just excruciating! If that was not enough, the movie adds the usual rebel teen because the parents split (see JP3 for example)… and as expected, it's poor drama, fake feelings and lost time… At last, the movie shows clearly how America evolves for the worst: teen dress like prostitutes, parents look like bums, young wear beards and don't want to work much and homes are slums!! In a way, I have never found NYC so bad and so decadent… Compare to old movies from 70s or even 80s and this generation looks totally without taste…Indubitably, one of the worst movie for Keira!
johnpendarvis
This thing struggles mightily for a "Commitments" kind of vibe, and except for one major problem, pretty much succeeds....trouble is the problem is so front and center, it ruins the whole thing......the music....it's awful. Derivative, wobbly pitch, trite lyrics, it's absolute garbage. I had to mute the performances to get through it. I find it hard to believe people could actually enjoy that phony, screeching drivel.
