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 One of the best, 2007-07-30
Certainly one of my all-time favorite movies...Almost Famous single-handedly got my hooked on classic rock music. Besides the great soundtrack, this movie is touching, moving, engaging and amazing in almost every way. So many themes are evident. It's a character study, a comedy, a drama. The actors are sincere. It evokes so many feelings while watching and in the end it is simply heart-warming. Near perfect film-making here.
Immortal, timeless, enduring, touching and stunning!!!, 2007-07-23
If you want to read about the plot, go to someone else's review, or peruse the back of it in a store. I am sure you know what it's about. What Cameron Crowe has done, is design a world that seemingly you feel a part of. This utopia where dreams in fact can and do come true, where if you just have some guts and some brawn and go with your heart, the road may lead to a different path than you first intended, where music placed in the most perfect of scenes can transport you to a time of endless love and karma and you can, if only for an hour or two, wonder why the world can be so cruel and unkind. Kate Hudson is radiant. I fell in love with Penny Lane. I wanted to run my fingers through her hair, let her cry on my shoulders, sing to her. I feel in love with Billy Crudup, his passion for music ignited another fire in me that was brewing for some time: to get out and see the small things that perhaps in the day to day heydey of living, I take for granted. If you haven't seen this yet, take the plunge, watch more filmmaking that crosses the threshold from simply a movie, to a journey.
That my fine friend, that in all its joyous craft and benevolence is what Almost Famous is to me. A journey of the heart, a journey of the soul and a journey of a boy and a dream and the perservarance to give it all he could. Truly something that finally deserves 5 stars in my book. Cameron Crowe is a powerhouse with this motherload!
So grab a handful of this and run with it, it deserves a place in your heart as well.
Almost Famous, 2007-07-18
Set in the early 1970s, and based on actual events in the life of writer-director Cameron Crowe--once an underage Rolling Stone scribe himself--"Almost Famous" is a beautifully observed coming-of-age drama that captures the spirit of an era with soulful warmth and bittersweet insight. Crudup, McDormand, Hudson, and wide-eyed newcomer Fugit all deliver vivid, well-rounded performances, while a brief early appearance by Philip Seymour Hoffman as real-life gonzo critic Lester Bangs remains indelible. Crowe's songs of innocence and experience will rock your world.
I am a Band-Aid, 2007-07-01
Over the last few years I have followed a few bands around and do so for the music, and nothing else. This movies spoke to me like none other I have seen before. I have seen the band fights, the drugs, the drinking, and the heartaches. I have also felt the same heartache that Penny Lane felt when she fell for Russell. I even have a tendency to steal things like William does in the movie. Even if you don't hang with bands this movie is a lot of fun. I give this movie 6 out of 5 stars. It's a new look at bands and how they really bond and work with each other.
 A Review of the Theatrical Version - please view the Director's Cut for a fuller experience, 2007-06-02
I truly enjoyed this film, over-enjoyed it in fact. There are far too many wonderful scenes, great joints of dialogue, and an overflow of brooding young men and women. I felt like I had no character on which to focus my sympathy. I wanted to focus on the perspective of the young writer, William Miller (played expertly by Patrick Fugit), but the film wouldn't let me. I wanted to envision Russell Hammond (played genuinely by Billy Crudup), but I couldn't decide if he was a rock star, a little boy trapped in a man's body, or a surrogate father to William. I didn't understand Kate Hudson's Oscar nomination, but I understood Frances McDormand's. And why the hell Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn't nominated, I'll never understand. Something was going on in this movie that confused me.
I think the greatest flaw in this movie - the theatrical version, at least - is that there are simply too many great performances and too many fascinating characters for the film to center itself. I'm positive that the director's cut is the version to see. The theater cut was pieced together with an air of sadness in order to meet a marketable time limit. I felt like I was missing a lot of back-story, supporting roles, and important moments. If you have never seen this movie, avoid the theatrical version. It is severely dismembered, and it's clear that the director (Cameron Crowe) had more to show the viewer. The director's cut is over forty minutes longer, and I look forward to seeing it.
I probably should at least attempt to place this movie. The film covers the 1973-74 tours of the band Stillwater. There were an actual band back then, but the majority of their representation is fabricated for the sake of the movie. Most of the music in the film is representative of the time period and not so much from the band. Thus, this is not a true biopic, but an imagined biopic, a movie about a band that was, as the title states, almost famous.
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