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RIP David Bowie

I'm looking forward to Starman as it's set in a golden time of childhood for me. It's hard on film producers to do a film about such a well loved icon, and do it without his music, but if the story holds up to it then I give it a chance.
 
It's a stinker!

You’d also have to put up with Johnny Flynn doing Noel Fielding doing Bowie in the lead, looking gallingly dissimilar to the man, mumbling and smoking his way through an underwritten and quite unfocused impression of the young Bowie, who was never this dull, but even if he was? Film something better. I think they call that cinema. Finally, you’d have to put up with every third character saying “You’ll never be as big as that Marc Bolan!” Which really ought to play to the cheap seats considering the presumed audience for this is someone who doesn’t know a goddamned thing about English rock music in the early ’70s. Anyone who does will be too insulted to make it through the opening, which puts Bowie in the famous red space suit from Space Odyssey because it inspired Space Oddity , which for rights reasons, THIS MOVIE CAN’T EVEN PLAY!

 
In his 50 year career he went through a vast cornucopia of hairdos.
Is it me, or did every one look cool, even in hindsight?4e31b409211d33eadf720f03ac1f2136.jpg
 
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