Miles Ahead Movie Trailer

[Teasing the Korean]

This looks like utter crap. I won't waste my time watching this on Netflix, in a theatre, in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox, or whatever. 

 

 

[Dmitry]

I've got nothing else planned for April 1, so  I'm thinking of going to see it on the opening day...if there are any local theaters that will be showing it.

[Scott Dolan]

April 1st? 

AHA!!!!

This whole thing is just an elaborate April Fools Day hoax! 

[Rooster_Ties]

I still have some hope that this Miles movie will be OK, but also really don't want to get my expectations too far out of whack.

For instance, the recent Jimi Hendrix biopic "Jimi: All Is by My Side" was a huge disappointment (despite having been directed by the same guy who directed "12 Years a Slave").  The acting was great, and André Benjamin (André 3000 of Outkast) did an admirable job as Jimi.  But the story was just awful, and really did very little to shed any new light on Jimi, and if anything, shed the wrong light on a bunch of stuff that either didn't happen at all, or didn't really matter in the long run (or probably both).

No amount of "expectations management" going into it would have changed my experience of it, I realize, but I'd rather not get burned again so soon.  (At least the recent Brian Wilson biopic was good, though admittedly I didn't know that much about the whole Beach Boys/Brian Wilson thing.)

[Scott Dolan]

I'm still holding out hope that it's a bad April Fools joke. 

[JSngry]

Y'all done forgot how to have fun at the movies. Wait til it comes to your neighborhood drive-in, you'll be all up in it then!

 

[Scott Dolan]

Fun at the drive-in usually had nothing to do with the movie...

[Late]

On February 15, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

This looks like utter crap ... in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox, or whatever. 

Instead, this is a good read.

[Teasing the Korean]

16 hours ago, Late said:

Instead, this is a good read.

Thanks, I never read that one.  I will seek it out. 

EDIT:  Do you have an Amazon link?  I can't find it. 

Edited February 18, 2016 by Teasing the Korean

[skeith]

I just saw the trailer last weekend....in the trailer Miles spends more time with a gun in his hand than he does with his horn........

[jazzbo]

Well. . . he was retired. :D

[Stefan Wood]

Walking Tall Part 3???

 

[skeith]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Well. . . he was retired.

[duaneiac]

1 hour ago, Stefan Wood said:

Walking Tall Part 3???

 

Well, since it's a movie about Miles Davis, shouldn't the title be Walkin' Tall?  To be followed by the sequels Workin' Tall, Steamin' Tall and Relaxin' Tall  . . .

[skeith]

Stefan and Dauneiac

 

You guys crack me up!!!

[clifford_thornton]

I don't know why this has to be a documentary as told by Ashley Kahn. It's a movie and if it gets people to listen to the music and enjoy themselves, fine by me.

[Scott Dolan]

It doesn't have to be, Clifford. But a nice biopic of one of the most influential musicians in history would be nice. 

Maybe something in the same vein as Ray, for example. 

[gmonahan]

The trailer sure doesn't enhance my optimism, but I like Cheadle, so I'll probably go see it.  And probably regret it.  Hated, hated, *hated* "Whiplash" even though I admired J. K. Simmons's performance.

 

 

gregmo

[Rooster_Ties]

1 hour ago, gmonahan said:

Hated, hated, *hated* "Whiplash" even though I admired J. K. Simmons's performance.

There was a lot I strongly disliked about "Whiplash" too, even hated, but a lot I liked too.

The acting was outstanding, esp. Simmons, but the whole mind-fuck power-play aspect of the storyline was absurd, and pissed me off deeply.

A great but DEEPLY flawed film, but one I'll probably never watch ever again.

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, gmonahan said:

The trailer sure doesn't enhance my optimism, but I like Cheadle, so I'll probably go see it.

For sure. I fail to see how "Miles Davis" firing "guns" at "white people" is not going to be a hootload of entertainment. I mean, what, is Tarrentino the only guy who's allowed to "go there" these days? Is the irony of that not obvious? Only "white directors" get  to make retro-Blaxploitation flicks these days?

Go, see, enjoy, watch a "Miles Davis" movie. We still got all the Miles Davis records in the world, don't we?

[clifford_thornton]

'zactly.

[skeith]

Really?????....my impression was that rather than portraying Miles as the musical genius he was .....the trailer gives the impression that he was mainly a gangster who occasionally played music....it could be the white guys deserved to get shot...but my fear is that a lot of white guys will give this movie a pass based on this trailer.

[duaneiac]

But if this movie proves to be a commercial success, perhaps I should dust off and complete my screenplay for Thelonious Monk Vs. The Ninja Vampires From Mars . . .

(And yes, I can already hear the skeptics saying, "well you needn't" . . .)

[JSngry]

Oh, but you should!

[gmonahan]

17 hours ago, duaneiac said:

But if this movie proves to be a commercial success, perhaps I should dust off and complete my screenplay for Thelonious Monk Vs. The Ninja Vampires From Mars . . .

(And yes, I can already hear the skeptics saying, "well you needn't" . . .)

Now that one, I would *definitely* go see!

 

 

gregmo