My Dinner with Jimi

therealshell · 05 Aug 09 :: 07:08

This is a pretty cool little movie mostly about The Turtles, a band that you will know if you are over, umm, thirty years of age. It is specifically about Howard Kaylan, the lead singer of The Turtles, and his dinner with Jimi Hendrix. The Beatles, the Moody Blues, the Doors and other seminal 60's acts are portrayed. The chap playing John Lennon apparently nailed what the late, great Lennon was like when he was drunk (ie: he was a dick), and the guy that plays Jimbo Morrison gets across that the Lizard King was mostly a happy tippler (according to Kaylan on the commentary track), not the charmless chap portrayed in Oliver Stone's movie.

Justin Henry, playing Howard Kaylan, is very good, too. It makes me feel very old when I realize that he played the precious sprog in Kramer VS Kramer way back in 1979 :witsend:

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 09 :: 15:31

Sounds fascinating. Kaylan can be quite funny. I didn't think Morrison was charmless in Stone's film. I just watched it again on cable a couple of weekends ago in fact. He's actually quite adorable in the first hour or so of the movie. Maybe you have to be a chick to appreciate that. I'll definitely keep an eye out for this movie. Justin Henry can still act. I just wish people would give him more chances.

therealshell · 05 Aug 09 :: 22:29

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

Sounds fascinating. Kaylan can be quite funny. I didn't think Morrison was charmless in Stone's film. I just watched it again on cable a couple of weekends ago in fact. He's actually quite adorable in the first hour or so of the movie. Maybe you have to be a chick to appreciate that. I'll definitely keep an eye out for this movie. Justin Henry can still act. I just wish people would give him more chances.

I think that perhaps you have to be a chick to appreciate Jim Morrison, as portrayed in Oliver Stone's movie; to me, he comes across as a dink of the greatest magnitude. I would have crossed the street to avoid hearing him babble

Justin Henry is good in My Dinner with Jimi, but he didn't even attempt (to my ears) to try and approximate Kaylan's Bronx accent. Also, Henry is the "star" of a direct-to-video flick called "Snuff," that sounds kinda icky.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 09 :: 22:51

All "artists" are dinks of one kind or another, I think. Especially musiscians. And Stone, I believe, was projecting a bit of his own celebrated dink-hood into Morrison on that one. LOL!

Eeeeeewwwwww, I don't think I wanna see any movie called Snuff. Not even for growed-up Justin Henry. Nah-ah.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 05 Aug 09 :: 23:13

I'm mostly familiar with Kaylan because he played (what else?) a stoned-out hippie named Captain Cloud in the hilariously silly 1983 movie, Get Crazy. He was great!

therealshell · 06 Aug 09 :: 02:24

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

All "artists" are dinks of one kind or another, I think. Especially musiscians. And Stone, I believe, was projecting a bit of his own celebrated dink-hood into Morrison on that one. LOL!
Eeeeeewwwwww, I don't think I wanna see any movie called Snuff. Not even for growed-up Justin Henry. Nah-ah.

The distressing thing about SNUFF is that it is about exactly what you think its about.

One to avoid.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 06 Aug 09 :: 03:35

I very much appreciate the warning!

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