I initially saw the trailer for this and thought….wasn’t there a Hendrix biopic a number of years back with Andre 3000? What happened to that? It’s wild how many movies based on true stories/people that just fall though the crack, often even with A-list folks attached.
Looks nothing like Bob .
Markled that is what happened.
The trailer has gun fights in it lol. I just don’t think of that stuff when I think of Bob Marley.
It was ok, not what I expected.
Gee I wonder what details they could have left out of the film?
Quoting Wailers’ lead guitarist Al Anderson at length from Gary Steckles’ *Bob Marley: A Life* (2008):
“I’d noticed Bob’s strange behavior pretty early on. After rehearsals he would start frantically cleaning up the mess. We thought he was obsessive-compulsive or something at first. He would just pick everything up and put it all in a garbage can, trying to get it as full as he could. But the weird thing was, it was always a different garbage can. I don’t know where he kept getting them. Sometimes it was an old crate or something, but there was always someplace waiting for the garbage. Then one night the Wailers were out pretty late in Kingston. Bob stayed home, said he wasn’t feeling so hot. Somehow we ended up in a different neighborhood than normal, drinking, and we get a little turned around. And we see this hunched over guy shuffling down the street throwing garbage everywhere. He walks past us like he didn’t even know us – but it was Bob! And he was carrying the trash can from earlier, about half full. And there’s all our garbage all over the streets of Rae Town. We were like “Was that really Bob?” So the next time he ducked out, we followed him. Sure enough it was him, throwing trash everywhere. Next day we asked him about it. At first he denied it, but then he basically flipped out. He threatened to leave the band. After that we just ignored it. We had to. The first time we went on tour, we’re loading the van with our instruments, clothes, booze… and here comes Bob hauling a huge bag of garbage. We didn’t really know what to do. We tried to talk him out of it but he started getting aggressive. In the end we had to strap instruments to the roof and throw the garbage in the back. Along the way Bob made us stop so he could throw garbage onto the streets. After this we just had to let him do it. I mean who were the Wailers without Bob Marley? I don’t know what his problem was. Maybe he wanted the world to be an uglier place. He was kind of dark like that.”
Wonder how they’ll display his immense homophobia…
I haven’t seen it yet but as a huge Marley fan the doc that came out a few years back was really good and I’m not sure this can top it. They interviewed the mans grade school teacher it was awesome
I’ve always been annoyed by celebrities that people prop up to be these infallible idols, when really they’re just as scummy, fake, and vile as the rest of us.
They just have more money and more fame is all.
Bob was no saint. Far from it.
People don’t like hearing their heroes are scumbags.
I haven’t seen the movie, nor will I because the trailer for it was quite enough for me to understand it to be revisionist Hollywood bullshit (like most Hollywood “biographies.”)
But if they were truthful in their retelling, it’ll make a lot of people who worship Marley very, very upset.
How does Bob Marley like his donuts?
Wi’ jam in
A few reasons imo:
1. The actor portraying him doesnt really look like him. Or at least how we all remember him to look.
2. To most people we only know his music. We don’t know anything about his family, or anything really. His personal life is a mystery as media didn’t cover him much during his lifetime.
3. He died young so we know even less than we would someone with a long career.
One would think because his life was a mystery we would be more curious, but we aren’t.
Last thing, we think of him as a super cool musician and I think many don’t want to learn of negative things that would color our opinions of him. Part of his aura is the mysterious nature of his life and early ending.
He was a quack, bigamist, abuser of women, and crackpot who believed in a crockpot religion. When he got sick and had signs of cancer, he refused all medical treatment. Then he died of malignant melanoma.
Any movie about Bob made by the babylon movie system is destined to fail.
You can often tell by a trailer if a movie is going to suck and it was glaringly obvious with this one
If you have been to Jamaica, Bob Marley is an icon for a poor, oppressed country who desperately needs one. Was he a perfect man? No. But he spread positive messages around the world. He got shot at his own concert trying to bring political parties together. The Jamaican people are very proud of him. I love his music.
Jimmy is not quite popular with millenials and zoomers. Not famous lead, not famous director. No good reviews. This project was
Doomed from start
I shot the sheriff doc is good. Watched the trailer for this and thought well now I’ve seen the film I don’t need to watch it.
The Markle effect.
The clips I’ve heard of the accent he’s doing almost sounds like parody, the trailers do not make me want to see it
Obviously can’t speak for everyone, but that goddamn trailer was obnoxious. It literally played forever before almost all movies I watched in cinema. And it was just that one trailer.
Even if I were interested in a Marley biopic, that trailer turned me off so damn much. And I’m so damn happy I never have to see it ever again.
I’ll tell you what happened: the film industry has churned out about 500 biopics of former musicians over the last five years. People (like me) are sick of watching this same shit. We’re going to run out of legends soon and get to the point where we’re watching biopics on Milli Vanilli. I’ve never seen One Love, but I can tell you some scenes I would expect to see in it:
– A teacher/parent/figure of authority tells a young Bob Marley that he won’t amount to anything and he should give up music.
– We see a younger Bob Marley tinkering with a guitar and writing an early version of one of his hits.
– A dramatic song name reveal: “what’s that song called?” “..Three Little Birds.”
– He is faced with some tough calls about the business side of the industry, but he appears out of his comfort zone as he just wants to write music.
– He’ll change in some way when he becomes famous and someone from his past will make him feel bad about it.
– All well-known anecdotes about his life will be recreated (I would expect to see him visit his friend’s soup kitchen and then decide to apportion some of his royalties from No Woman, No Cry to keep it open).
Happy to be corrected by anybody who has actually seen it.
It’s not true at all. Bob Marley was also a terrible person.
Movie just opened today..how is there a think piece on “what went wrong” already out?
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At least it’s doing better than Madame Web!
I initially saw the trailer for this and thought….wasn’t there a Hendrix biopic a number of years back with Andre 3000? What happened to that? It’s wild how many movies based on true stories/people that just fall though the crack, often even with A-list folks attached.
Looks nothing like Bob .
Markled that is what happened.
The trailer has gun fights in it lol. I just don’t think of that stuff when I think of Bob Marley.
It was ok, not what I expected.
Gee I wonder what details they could have left out of the film?
Quoting Wailers’ lead guitarist Al Anderson at length from Gary Steckles’ *Bob Marley: A Life* (2008):
“I’d noticed Bob’s strange behavior pretty early on. After rehearsals he would start frantically cleaning up the mess. We thought he was obsessive-compulsive or something at first. He would just pick everything up and put it all in a garbage can, trying to get it as full as he could. But the weird thing was, it was always a different garbage can. I don’t know where he kept getting them. Sometimes it was an old crate or something, but there was always someplace waiting for the garbage. Then one night the Wailers were out pretty late in Kingston. Bob stayed home, said he wasn’t feeling so hot. Somehow we ended up in a different neighborhood than normal, drinking, and we get a little turned around. And we see this hunched over guy shuffling down the street throwing garbage everywhere. He walks past us like he didn’t even know us – but it was Bob! And he was carrying the trash can from earlier, about half full. And there’s all our garbage all over the streets of Rae Town. We were like “Was that really Bob?” So the next time he ducked out, we followed him. Sure enough it was him, throwing trash everywhere. Next day we asked him about it. At first he denied it, but then he basically flipped out. He threatened to leave the band. After that we just ignored it. We had to. The first time we went on tour, we’re loading the van with our instruments, clothes, booze… and here comes Bob hauling a huge bag of garbage. We didn’t really know what to do. We tried to talk him out of it but he started getting aggressive. In the end we had to strap instruments to the roof and throw the garbage in the back. Along the way Bob made us stop so he could throw garbage onto the streets. After this we just had to let him do it. I mean who were the Wailers without Bob Marley? I don’t know what his problem was. Maybe he wanted the world to be an uglier place. He was kind of dark like that.”
Wonder how they’ll display his immense homophobia…
I haven’t seen it yet but as a huge Marley fan the doc that came out a few years back was really good and I’m not sure this can top it. They interviewed the mans grade school teacher it was awesome
I’ve always been annoyed by celebrities that people prop up to be these infallible idols, when really they’re just as scummy, fake, and vile as the rest of us.
They just have more money and more fame is all.
Bob was no saint. Far from it.
People don’t like hearing their heroes are scumbags.
I haven’t seen the movie, nor will I because the trailer for it was quite enough for me to understand it to be revisionist Hollywood bullshit (like most Hollywood “biographies.”)
But if they were truthful in their retelling, it’ll make a lot of people who worship Marley very, very upset.
How does Bob Marley like his donuts?
Wi’ jam in
A few reasons imo:
1. The actor portraying him doesnt really look like him. Or at least how we all remember him to look.
2. To most people we only know his music. We don’t know anything about his family, or anything really. His personal life is a mystery as media didn’t cover him much during his lifetime.
3. He died young so we know even less than we would someone with a long career.
One would think because his life was a mystery we would be more curious, but we aren’t.
Last thing, we think of him as a super cool musician and I think many don’t want to learn of negative things that would color our opinions of him. Part of his aura is the mysterious nature of his life and early ending.
He was a quack, bigamist, abuser of women, and crackpot who believed in a crockpot religion. When he got sick and had signs of cancer, he refused all medical treatment. Then he died of malignant melanoma.
Any movie about Bob made by the babylon movie system is destined to fail.
You can often tell by a trailer if a movie is going to suck and it was glaringly obvious with this one
If you have been to Jamaica, Bob Marley is an icon for a poor, oppressed country who desperately needs one. Was he a perfect man? No. But he spread positive messages around the world. He got shot at his own concert trying to bring political parties together. The Jamaican people are very proud of him. I love his music.
Jimmy is not quite popular with millenials and zoomers. Not famous lead, not famous director. No good reviews. This project was
Doomed from start
I shot the sheriff doc is good. Watched the trailer for this and thought well now I’ve seen the film I don’t need to watch it.
The Markle effect.
The clips I’ve heard of the accent he’s doing almost sounds like parody, the trailers do not make me want to see it
Obviously can’t speak for everyone, but that goddamn trailer was obnoxious. It literally played forever before almost all movies I watched in cinema. And it was just that one trailer.
Even if I were interested in a Marley biopic, that trailer turned me off so damn much. And I’m so damn happy I never have to see it ever again.
I’ll tell you what happened: the film industry has churned out about 500 biopics of former musicians over the last five years. People (like me) are sick of watching this same shit. We’re going to run out of legends soon and get to the point where we’re watching biopics on Milli Vanilli. I’ve never seen One Love, but I can tell you some scenes I would expect to see in it:
– A teacher/parent/figure of authority tells a young Bob Marley that he won’t amount to anything and he should give up music.
– We see a younger Bob Marley tinkering with a guitar and writing an early version of one of his hits.
– A dramatic song name reveal: “what’s that song called?” “..Three Little Birds.”
– He is faced with some tough calls about the business side of the industry, but he appears out of his comfort zone as he just wants to write music.
– He’ll change in some way when he becomes famous and someone from his past will make him feel bad about it.
– All well-known anecdotes about his life will be recreated (I would expect to see him visit his friend’s soup kitchen and then decide to apportion some of his royalties from No Woman, No Cry to keep it open).
Happy to be corrected by anybody who has actually seen it.
It’s not true at all. Bob Marley was also a terrible person.
Movie just opened today..how is there a think piece on “what went wrong” already out?