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02-10-2009, 08:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Darlington, SC | | | "Once," the movie
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I was home sick yesterday, laying on the sofa wathching TV. I started watching this movie called "Once," with Glen Hansard and a female singer. It was one of the best movies I have ever seen.
The songs and musicianship were phenomenal. I looked this movie and the actors up online, and it turns out that the soundtrack won a grammy, and Glen Hansard is the vocalist with The Frames. They're great as well. And the female star has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard.
Isn't it awesome when a low budget indy film turns out to be so much better than most of the overpriced crap that keeps coming out of hollywood?
My favorite part was when the guy hires a band off the streets, rents a studio for the weekend, and goes in to cut a demo CD. The sound engineer is really unimpressed when they're warming up, and thinks they're a bunch of newbie hacks. Once they get playing the first song, and the song builds up, he 's like, ***? These guys are good. I also like the scene where the five piece band is practicing in his small bedroom.
That movie just seems so real. Way to go Irish rock, and low budget indie films. |
02-10-2009, 08:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Yeah, very inspirational movie, very moving too. I love the tension in their friendship as he is unwilling to move on as well as her aprehensions to reconcile with her husband...but yeah, the soundtrack is 10000% worth the money.
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02-10-2009, 08:14 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Oslo, Norway | | They won an Oscar as well for best original song or what it's called. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8yLvb0gZM
And yes, the soundtrack is awesome. And their liveshow is great too
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02-10-2009, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Not so amazing that they ended up a couple after the movie, eh? Their chemistry was really good.
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02-10-2009, 08:20 AM
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Fantastic movie, fantastic soundtrack.
Enjoyed it immensely, and recommend that if you haven't seen it, you do right away.
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02-10-2009, 08:32 AM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | I thought it was a great movie. The more I think about it, the more I want to see it again! |
02-10-2009, 08:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | What's nice is if you buy the DVD, they give you "falling slowly" for free from a website...the song they write in the music shop...if you like that soundtrack, you'd do well to pick up the album "the Swell Season" which is where practically half the music and the inspiration for the movie came from.
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02-10-2009, 08:45 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Manchester UK | | | I agree, brilliant film. The least Frames album 'The Cost' is very good. |
02-10-2009, 02:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | boy was that a great date movie when it came out in theatres...
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02-10-2009, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas | | | From what I understand they're no longer a couple.
Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all...... It's a neat love story, lovely film. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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