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Pirate Radio
Nov. 13th, 2009 11:28 amthere's this episode of The Simpsons, where Homer goes to college and believes that the environment is defined by Animal House and Caddyshack - that The Man is trying to keep Homer & Co down because The Man is Against Fun. if The Man is Against Fun is a loose sub-genre of film, then that's where Pirate Radio falls.
it feels like an exuberant 1980s movie about the 1960s. (all you really need to know about the way The Man is handled is that one of them is named Mr. Twatt.) as such, it's very fun. while it's based on real events, it's in no way historically accurate.
this is a recut of a film released in the spring in the UK as The Boat That Rocked. Pirate Radio is twenty minutes shorter than the UK version, and supposedly the original cut of the film was three hours. what we have now is a breezy series of vignettes that doesn't demand much of us. sometimes it's really nice to watch a film that doesn't ask much of you.
i laughed a lot. the soundtrack is pretty great. you could do a lot worse on a rainy day.
it feels like an exuberant 1980s movie about the 1960s. (all you really need to know about the way The Man is handled is that one of them is named Mr. Twatt.) as such, it's very fun. while it's based on real events, it's in no way historically accurate.
this is a recut of a film released in the spring in the UK as The Boat That Rocked. Pirate Radio is twenty minutes shorter than the UK version, and supposedly the original cut of the film was three hours. what we have now is a breezy series of vignettes that doesn't demand much of us. sometimes it's really nice to watch a film that doesn't ask much of you.
i laughed a lot. the soundtrack is pretty great. you could do a lot worse on a rainy day.
