You know "impacted" is not a synonym for "affected," right?

…the thing with Depp is, nothing he does is original: All his most acclaimed works are just pale, SNL-level impressions of greater figures. Witness his terrible, sub-Borscht-Belt takes on Jon Lovitz (Ed Wood), Buster Keaton (Edward Scissorhands), or Keith Richards (Pirates of the Caribbean). No nuance, no subtlety, no…

Only $,1000 to meet Oprah? That's cheaper than hiring a proofreader!

I love how you disagreed with me and yet still say the album's shit.

Kinda reminds me of the time I saw them and both the opening acts blew them off the stage.

…I don't know why she would insist on writing her own material. There are a lot of great songwriters out there.

PLUS, for some reason, Lesa Aldridge, who is not interviewed in the Big Star doc at all, consented to an interview in the last issue of the Oxford American, which was an important addition to the Big Star canon…

The Big Star documentary sucked, at least in part because they are already such a deified band, it seemed like putting sugar on an ice cream sundae.

They finally released a US DVD at the end of 2013…but yeah, it took forever.

Also, the liner notes to the Rhino box set and the Ace Ardent compilation were tantamount to books about Big Star — very well-researched, in-depth reportage that make the film rather redundant.

Actually, there is a rather extensive bio on them, at least here in the UK, in addition to sizable chapters in other tomes.

Good call!

"When you have a band with a whopping 5 minutes of total footage recorded
from their heyday (and no live performances), there's only so much you
can do."

Agreed. Temple is pretty much the only music documentarian who is an honest to god filmmaker, not just a journalist/critic with a camera.

The only music documentary I've seen in the past few years that was at all interesting in terms of style, cinematography, and content was Julien Temple's "Oil City Confidential." He did a nice job of avoiding the "here's a bunch of old white dudes in a room talking in between still photos and music beds of previously…

Totally agree. In terms of content, cinematography, and insight, it was basically a TV movie of the week or a 35mm Behind the Music.

…it acknowledged them, yes, but considering it is one of the few nooks in the legend left unexplored, they could have probed deeper. Particularly the war between his Christianity and (what some saw as) nascent homosexuality, which no one really seemed to want to address and the filmmakers did not pursue with any…

It was fine for a newbie, but for longtime fans, it really had no new information or insight. The smattering of unseen photos and film footage was nice, but hardly revelatory in light of all that's been written about the band in liner notes, books, articles, etc. over the past 30 years.

Praise Xenu, he's back!

It tells me that this writer is, frankly, not a fan and is just perusing Devo's official studio releases on YouTube.