live forever - a pretentious review.
I watched 'live forever' earlier today
It was fascinating but I was a bit disappointed in how it didn't turn out to be the documentary that it had the potentional to be. although, i can't make a documentary, so i can't throw rocks at those who do, can i? but i was even more disappointed with the fact that jarvis had a total of about 10 minutes on screen; considering the fact that pulp is listed with blur and oasis on the cover of the dvd case, shouldn't jarvis and pulp receive more than a few minutes' mention?
but, i've never been much of a fan of oasis or blur, so i admit i have a bit of a bias for pulp. but really, jarvis didn't get much time at all, and half of it was explaining 'common people'. i know it's a significant song, and i wouldn't want him to not talk about it in this sort of documentary, but there's other things too. oasis and blur weren't the only two bands that were around, so why are you going to make a documentary about britpop and barely give any time to pulp?
i don't like to critise documentary makers, i really don't like it at all, but it just made me a bit disappointed, that's all.
also, because of the fact that i don't listen to oasis or really pay any attention to them, i also discovered that noel gallagher was hilarious but i'm not sure how much, if any, was meant as a joke or if he was really just talking and things came out in a hilarious way.
liam gallagher is a very strange man. he mostly just struck me as being a huge arsehole but i wonder if what all happened with britpop and the fights and the downfall had a huge effect on him - although i'm sure for all the musicians, it had a huge effect -- but just, did it turn him into a huge wanker who seems to not care abot anything? or maybe it's just effects from fame.
like i said, i don't listen to oasis, and therefore i have no feel for who these people are (compared to the fact that i love jarvis but i also think that to someone who isn't aware of him, they could probably preceive him to be a bit of a wanker). so i'm just not really sure. it's just how if felt whilst watching it.
also - no mention anywhere of the manics.
yes, they were not britpop and wanted to stay as far away from that label as possible.
but if you are going to get into the discussion of the social environment of britian that led to britpop becoming big (to it even happening at all, really), i don't know how you can just ignore completely the fact that the manics WERE active at that time, that they too were massively effected by the events of britain at that time, that they had some social commentary too.
maybe people just like to ignore the welsh...hahahaha
but i guess you can't make everyone happy, can you? haha
It was fascinating but I was a bit disappointed in how it didn't turn out to be the documentary that it had the potentional to be. although, i can't make a documentary, so i can't throw rocks at those who do, can i? but i was even more disappointed with the fact that jarvis had a total of about 10 minutes on screen; considering the fact that pulp is listed with blur and oasis on the cover of the dvd case, shouldn't jarvis and pulp receive more than a few minutes' mention?
but, i've never been much of a fan of oasis or blur, so i admit i have a bit of a bias for pulp. but really, jarvis didn't get much time at all, and half of it was explaining 'common people'. i know it's a significant song, and i wouldn't want him to not talk about it in this sort of documentary, but there's other things too. oasis and blur weren't the only two bands that were around, so why are you going to make a documentary about britpop and barely give any time to pulp?
i don't like to critise documentary makers, i really don't like it at all, but it just made me a bit disappointed, that's all.
also, because of the fact that i don't listen to oasis or really pay any attention to them, i also discovered that noel gallagher was hilarious but i'm not sure how much, if any, was meant as a joke or if he was really just talking and things came out in a hilarious way.
liam gallagher is a very strange man. he mostly just struck me as being a huge arsehole but i wonder if what all happened with britpop and the fights and the downfall had a huge effect on him - although i'm sure for all the musicians, it had a huge effect -- but just, did it turn him into a huge wanker who seems to not care abot anything? or maybe it's just effects from fame.
like i said, i don't listen to oasis, and therefore i have no feel for who these people are (compared to the fact that i love jarvis but i also think that to someone who isn't aware of him, they could probably preceive him to be a bit of a wanker). so i'm just not really sure. it's just how if felt whilst watching it.
also - no mention anywhere of the manics.
yes, they were not britpop and wanted to stay as far away from that label as possible.
but if you are going to get into the discussion of the social environment of britian that led to britpop becoming big (to it even happening at all, really), i don't know how you can just ignore completely the fact that the manics WERE active at that time, that they too were massively effected by the events of britain at that time, that they had some social commentary too.
maybe people just like to ignore the welsh...hahahaha
but i guess you can't make everyone happy, can you? haha