Hey folks, Harry here... Quint's main fan, Goonie Girl wrote in with this screening of the new Cameron Crowe film. This is the first report from a beautiful lady about this film... and given that Crowe has a lot of fans in the female side of things... well, it's nice to here that the babe loved the film. Here ya go with the latest on Crowe's flick...
Hiya Harry! Like I mentioned last night, I was at a screening of the new Cameron Crowe film. It's currently untitled, but it's listed on the imdb as 'Stillwater' so that's what I'm gonna go with. (typing 'Untitled Cameron Crowe movie' repeatedly isn't much fun) Cameron Crowe was at the screening and I got to talk to him for a few minutes after the movie. He seemed genuinely pleased with the audience reaction. Usually my movie reviews consist of "Oh my GAWD - you SO have to see this movie, it's SO good" or "Oh my GAWD, you SO shouldn't waste your time watching this". Bear with me on this detailed review thing :)
~Goonie Girl~
Newcomer Patrick Fugit plays William Miller, a 15 year old rock and roll fan who gets the opportunity to write an article about Stillwater, an up and coming band, for Rolling Stone magazine. His mother, Elaine, (Frances McDormand) is just a tad on the overprotective side, but agrees to let him go on tour with the band. While at his first Stillwater show William meets Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) and the rest of the 'Band Aids' - make no mistake about it, the Band Aids (Fairuza Balk, Anna Paquin and Bijou Phillips) are not groupies. No way, baby - they are there "for the music"...they "inspire the music"
After proving to Stillwater that he is a true fan, rather than 'the enemy', he starts to earn their friendship, but not quite their confidence. Guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) opens up to William quite a bit, but everything he says and does is basically off the record. Lead singer Jeff Bebe (Jason Lee...in an absolutely brilliant role) is quite unhappy with Russell (as is the rest of the band) but when they're on stage that all disappears.
Without giving anything away, I can say that Stillwater is the kind of movie where each of the characters learns something about themselves. It's not predictable or sappy in any way. I really wish that the other 2 Stillwater band members would have been featured a little more prominently ( but if I had it my way, the movie would have been about 3 hours long.) Zooey Dechanel is wonderful as William's older sister, Anita and I loved Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bang. (founder of Creem magazine). It's a very original movie and I absolutely loved it. In other words...Oh my GAWD, you SO have to see this movie..it's SO good!!
~Goonie Girl~
