My feeling is they did a better job on this movie by not adding any padding. Trying to make a bigger movie out of it would have detracted from it like we have seen in other attempts to expand a small story into a big movie, the one that most annoys me being the Jim Carrey "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and the…

There's quite a story to this, it's just not been told until this point. Go see it, you might be surprised. It's actually pretty good. I think it deserves better than a C+, at least.

I noted Elvis mentioned to Jerry in a throwaway line that he'd had to throw the Beatles under the bus to carry off the badge. Until he said that I was wondering if the writers had ignored Elvis's fondness for the Beatles.

In 1970, Elvis was at his leanest, hot on the heels of his amazing comeback TV special, so physically Michael Shannon is a fine match. It is asking quite a lot to ask viewers to imagine that face, which looks like it's caught a few punches, is equivalent to Elvis' perfect, almost feminine beauty. But Michael Shannon…