The only ones that really rise above that and into my Best Picture contenders are either testament to amazing ensemble acting ( Walk the Line, Ray) or something really innovative ( 24 Hour Party People). Films about true rock and roll acts rarely rise above ***, which makes La Bamba, which earns a 75, the highest rating for a three star film, one of the better ones. #LA BAMBA MBOX OFFICE MOVIE#It was a good movie and Lou Diamond Phillips was clearly a rising star (and was still rising for a few years with Stand and Deliver and the Young Guns films before stalling out) but to me it was all about the music.Īs an Adult: It’s often all about the music. Thinking about it before re-watching it the other night, the only scenes in the film that I really remembered as scenes (and not just clips from the video for the song) was the final moving scenes when Esai Morales, as Ritchie’s older brother Bob, runs to his mother’s house in the hope of catching her before she hears the news. But again, what I really cared about was the music. When I finally had a chance to see the movie, on video, I enjoyed the story, watching a local LA boy hit it big before his tragic death. I just loved the music, especially the title track, “Come on Let’s Go”, “Summertime Blues” and most especially “Crying, Waiting, Hoping”. I didn’t care at the time that I was learning new versions of old hits. More importantly, since I didn’t see this film in the theater, the soundtrack came out, a soundtrack that my brother Kelly bought during a summer that he and I shared a room. I hadn’t yet seen The Buddy Holly Story but I had a vague notion of The Day the Music Died because of growing up with “American Pie”. In fact, I had a tendency to believe that any song that I didn’t know who was singing it (“Eve of Destruction”, “American Pie”, “The Longest Time”) that it was being sung by The Beatles (when my brother John corrected me on these, he explained that he could understand if I had thought “Eve of Destruction” was sung by Springsteen, but by The Beatles? I explained that I assumed every major song was sung by The Beatles.). Yes, I had been watching videos on MTV for a few years but I didn’t know that much, especially about older music. Number of Times Watched as a Kid: 5 or soĪs a Kid: I wasn’t that much into music yet in 1987.First Watched: on video when first released.Award Nominations: Golden Globe – Picture (Drama).Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña.Producer: Bill Borden / Taylor Hackford.Revisiting Childhood Movies Part XXI: La Bamba
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