He's great in it, though.
"The movie was okay. 3D gives me a headache."
Whenever you end up seeing it, Camp is good in Loving (if in an even smaller part), and amusingly he pretty much switches roles with David Jensen in it.
I just about died when I saw Loving and there was a nighttime driving sequence in it with a score cue that sounds almost exactly like an orchestral version of the main Special theme.
I actually think he's been stepping away from those kind of roles recently. He even played Elvis pretty quietly.
I just saw Loving, and was so pleased to see Shannon playing completely, totally normal.
I thought Midnight Special was absolutely terrific, and Shannon's quiet devotion really helped bring it to those heights for me.
I'll join in while we're at it.
The weird thing is they chose exactly the wrong live material for the album. The best performances from the movie ("Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Exit" going into "In God's Country", "Running to Stand Still", "With or Without You", etc.) are left out in favor of the band at their absolute most obnoxious and self-important…
Did you hear the version of that Bono did with Jools Holland? I love the album version but it just slays with the full-blown lounge arrangement.
It's such a profoundly scuzzy, ugly piece of work (with a guitar solo that sounds like it's being fueled by pure hatred) and I just love it.
Not going to argue with you on either of those songs, at least. "Stay" is maybe the greatest song ever written.
For the second time this year, I feel like Nichols' uber-quiet approach is turning off as many as it's working for, and it once again really moved me. This movie does more with bare, plain sentences and wordless looks than so many movies do with big speeches.
It's kind of obnoxious as the stadium singalong "everybody needs to love each other!" anthem it's become, but even knowing that in the back of mind, the album version still utterly destroys me.
I love the first four songs and "Breathe", the middle three songs are all atrocious, and the rest is solidly good.
Bono purring "Sexy bewwwwts" on a loop is the elevator music on the trip down to Hell.
That song is absolutely incredible, especially the solo that sounds like it was fed through a drive-thru speaker.
I'm going to ask you to show your work on them apparently regaining the perfect equilibrium for No Line on the Horizon, though. That's a solid, nicely experimental album with an absolutely disastrous EP shoved in the middle.
I agree, because it's been their defining achievement for decades before him saying so.