Bob Dylan bio pic hitting theaters next week. Being a big fan of his, I'll likely check it out but not going in expecting too much as I am not sure how accurate it actually is. Will be interested to see how Chalamet does with trying to play Bob. I guess he plays his own instruments and sings the songs, from what I have heard he isn't half bad but we will see.

Soundtrack listing below...

1. Highway 61 Revisited – Timothée Chalamet (3:45)
2. Mr. Tambourine Man – Timothée Chalamet (2:31)
3. I Was Young When I Left Home – Timothée Chalamet (2:04)
4. Girl from the North Country – Timothée Chalamet & Monica Barbaro (2:04)
5. Silver Dagger – Monica Barbaro (2:33)
6. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Timothée Chalamet (3:05)
7. Wimoweh (Mbube) – Edward Norton (1:51)
8. House of the Rising Sun – Monica Barbaro (2:08)
9. Folsom Prison Blues – Boyd Holbrook (1:44)
10. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Timothée Chalamet & Monica Barbaro (3:08)
11. Masters of War – Timothée Chalamet (2:25)
12. Blowin’ in the Wind – Timothée Chalamet & Monica Barbaro (2:52)
13. Subterranean Homesick Blues – Timothée Chalamet (2:27)
14. Big River – Boyd Holbrook – Timothée Chalamet (1:41)
15. The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Timothée Chalamet (3:14)
16. When the Ship Comes In – Timothée Chalamet & Edward Norton (2:19)
17. There But for Fortune – Monica Barbaro (1:43)
18. It Ain’t Me, Babe – Timothée Chalamet & Monica Barbaro (3:37)
19. Maggie’s Farm – Timothée Chalamet (3:08)
20. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – Timothée Chalamet (2:21)
21. Like a Rolling Stone – Timothée Chalamet (3:23)
22. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Timothée Chalamet (2:21)
23. Song to Woody – Timothée Chalamet (2:20)

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I’ve heard his “Like a Rolling Stone” and it sounds like a karaoke treatment.

I’m unconvinced anyone can get a Dylan movie right, especially after “I’m Not There”.

Who's playing Soy Bomb?

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For the movie, they should find a guy who can sing.

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I want to hate Chalemet but I actually like his work. Bob Dylan is a twat. Maybe I'll watch it streaming.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

My thoughts more or less.

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I love Bob Dylan's music, but have zero desire to see this movie. He's not at Beatles level for being done to death, but he's getting there.

The movie was ok for the first 65% or so. Many historical inaccuracies. I was actually pretty impressed with the performance by Chalamet. The fact that he actually learned guitar and harmonica is impressive. His Dylan accent was in and out throughout the movie. At times it’s spot on and other times it’s very light. Meh. The last third of the movie was a lot of inserted items taken from other places in time, like when one of the fans called him Judas from the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival. Yuck. I wouldn’t recommend seeing this in the theater but maybe you’d enjoy it streaming.

Wanted to try to go with the wife so she could understand why I was a fan. She didn’t know all of his songs so she was surprised some were his. I might be able to dust off a few of my boxed sets after some wine or beer and have her hear a few deep cuts I have which she might understand a bit more now with context.

Overall I’d probably give it 2.5 stars. I loved the period look of the film and Chalamet was really quite good if I’m honest. The historical inaccuracies bother me and the last 35-40 minutes were a bit cringeworthy to me.

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I have a lot of people disagreeing with me on this assessment but I thought the movie, as a movie, sucked. If you wanted to hear Dylan music, you enjoyed it. As a biopic, it gave me nothing. There was no history, no enlightenment of his process, no character development. If you only used this movie, you'd think his work was completely detached from social movement and that he was just a typical poser musician.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That may actually be true. I've heard Dylan answer questions about the social import of his lyrics with stuff like, "I don't know what you're talking about. It was a breezy day in Hibbing."

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down to get it!

Dylan was too "woke" for my liking.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I cancelled him when he used "The N Word."

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down to get it!

a humanist who didn't particularly like any individual humans. There were lots of those coming out of the 60s

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Well you just soured my interest in seeing this.

The Elvis movie really ruined the music biopic thing for me. Hollywood has to spend more years making it up to me for that piece of shit movie.

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My favorite Dylan movie is the youTube clip of Quincy Jones trying to nurse him through his 3 lines of "We Are the World" with a room full of world-class singers looking on while he looks like he'd rather be anywhere else in the world other than recording that song.

Man, that's really something. He's SO bad.

I saw it the other night and this is a pretty solid review. There was absolutely no reason to make this movie. Also, there was an awful lot of facial shots of people staring at Bob Dylan while dumbfounded by his brilliance and women staring at Dylan while quietly fuming.

not sure how anyone could disagree with your review. I didn't think the movie sucked, but as a biopic it definitely sucked. Learned absolutely nothing about Bob Dylan. But, as a movie I was entertained so can't say it sucked in that sense. But I will say there was no point in making this movie if this is the movie they were going to make.

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I was not surprised by this. As someone who enjoys his music/writing, he has very carefully crafted this image/mythology that he just 'appeared' and there is nothing to learn.

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that only makes it even worse. Sounds like this was a great opportunity to finally pull the curtain back and learn who he is and how he got there. They didn't even address his childhood once other than a throw away comment that he changed his name.

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I thought the movie was okay but certainly not great. I thought the music was over-all good but I am curious what Dylan himslef thought about the story. To me, he came off as pretty much a pompous ass and a bad friend.

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