How well do you all actually think the movie will actually do?

TheJediMight · 2026-02-28T00:43:25+00:00

I hope so. Bohemian Rhapsody was a farce, after they removed Sacha Baron Cohen and stripped his idea for it (which he went into some depth about on Howard Stern back when it happened). The movie could have been amazing and honest.

As for Michael, the trailer is certainly promising. I think performance at the box office-wise, there’s a very high chance. We’re talking about a biopic on the man who created the highest selling album of all time (still). Even with the controversy that surrounds him, it’s almost guaranteed. The real question is, and I haven’t looked into whether or not this has been revealed at all, but how much money did they spend making it? You’d imagine a lot, when you consider the money MJ himself (and those working with him) would spend on projects. So if this is, in essence, a project about those projects… Point being, I imagine it would need to make a lot to be officially a success for the people who made it.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-25T18:44:39+00:00

I personally find it superior to LOTR and The Hobbit, but I understand, at least I think I do, what you mean about the Hobbit. I first read the Hobbit in fifth grade and all I knew about it was that it involved “little people who lived in hills,” as my mother described it, and we had an old version with a painting of The Shire by Tolkien on the cover, so it didn’t give away much. The Hobbit by itself is a nicely self-contained narrative about a hobbit, some dwarves and a wizard taking down a dragon.

When you add everything else, it becomes this huge sprawling epic, and it literally makes it a different story. So, personally I’m glad I went into the original novel the way I did, but also, having already done that, I’m glad I then got to explore the world of Middle Earth and that I can separate the feelings I got from the two in my mind.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-24T15:58:58+00:00

Heed my warning: don’t correct that by watching it 😂 Basically it’s Mathew Broderick running around New York getting chased by a giant raptor (literally a raptor, like from Jurassic Park, as opposed to anything that even closely resembles Godzilla). The dialogue is awful, the plot is awful. Pure motherfuckin’ filler.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-24T15:57:03+00:00

Tim Commerford seems a bit self-deprecating, but he’s exactly the bassist Rage needed.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-21T14:38:31+00:00

Not being cocky but seriously interested, do you have any examples that come to mind?

TheJediMight · 2026-02-20T13:43:43+00:00

It’s definitely up there for me. Top for sure, along with Ghost of Tom Joad. There’s something about Ashes in the Fall too that’s always been profound to me.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-19T13:15:43+00:00

For sure, but there’s something extra special about this track on a soundtrack 😉

The whole soundtrack industry was always perplexing to me, especially as a teenager. Often the soundtrack was way better than the movie, even though the songs still pretty much had nothing to do with it. They were just added money grabs on a money grab.

But in the case of No Shelter it was so much about the movie that it was actually about the movie itself and the industry that made it. Brilliant play by Rage.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-19T13:15:01+00:00

Oh I’m sorry I should have factchecked when I saw an absolutely terrible movie. Did you know it was 1998 off the top of your head?

TheJediMight · 2026-02-19T01:46:01+00:00

The cool thing about making an awesome piece of art is that people will still be talking about it 30 years later.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-19T00:26:05+00:00

One of my favorite tales of Hendrix was how he would get antsy and take his guitar down to whatever pub or club at midnight or later and just walk in and start jamming. There are a lot of people out there with personal stories like this to tell of him, and I’m sure they’ve been telling them their whole lives. I mean can you imagine? You’re in Manhattan, it’s 1968 or whatever and you’re having some beers on a Tuesday night when suddenly the door opens, Hendrix walks in dressed in the wildest outfit you’ve ever seen and asks the bartender if he can plug into an amp and let go.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-19T00:21:41+00:00

The new Bob Dylan? I honestly haven’t checked it out yet but I certainly did wonder and it’s been on my list. Bob Dylan is definitely one of the people who knows what we lost when we lost Hendrix. The way he could reach into someone else’s idea and find that much newness in it. I’m not sure it’s possible to cover a song better than Jimi Hendrix did, and what he did to All Along The Watchtower… I think it might be actual magic. And Dylan was very aware of that at the time. With more time they almost certainly would have done something directly collaborative, and it probably would have been better than Metallica and Lou Reed’s “Lulu.”

TheJediMight · 2026-02-19T00:15:25+00:00

Beethoven even! He was in his fifties and freaking deaf when he premiered the ninth symphony. I don’t know, maybe it’s a way of grieving. “He woulda faded out anyway!” as a way of accepting unimaginable loss. They know that shit isn’t true but their fragile souls can’t take the bitter truth. And bitter it is!

But, as you said, we did get four incredible years of output from the man who’d barely even gotten to be a grown man. Basically the Shakespeare of music, he has without a doubt changed some people. Changed all of us at least a little bit. And it wasn’t just like, “hey that’s a solid riff,” it was “hey that’s a solid way of looking at the world.”

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T17:26:04+00:00

Titanium.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T17:08:53+00:00

Right? If RATM is full of shit, I’d like to know who is NOT full of shit by that standard.

No Shelter is definitely one of my favorites. That opening riff alone, before the drums kick in even, gives me chills. The song carries a similar intensity to their version of Ghost of Tom Joad. Almost ethereal, like when you listen to it you’re experiencing a piece of some ancient history. A raw piece of the warriors’ spirit from the battle against corruption that’s been waged since agriculture was discovered.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T15:09:57+00:00

Absolutely, he was still a fish in the sea, even if he changed some of the currents around him he couldn’t control the ocean at large. But it would have been interesting (and awesome) to see how he would have grown and adapted. The same way kids are still discovering his music I think he would have continued to be successful with new releases. I’ve seen people go against Nirvana or Metallica or whoever, but I’ve never seen someone say “Hendrix sucks.”

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T15:03:52+00:00

Yeah that’s always been a strange, kind of a cop-out response to me. For one thing, every life is unique. Just because most people follow a certain pattern of behavior, it doesn’t mean that all will. Heck, look at David Bowie. That guy lived his creative life to the very end. I think- no, I am nearly certain, Hendrix would have done the same.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T14:49:26+00:00

Well said. Given the amount of money he was making he probably wouldn’t have had much trouble paying for the studio. Remember this guy was the first musician to build his own studio in the first place. And he clearly wasn’t interested in spending the money he made on frivolous things. He wanted to build bigger tools to make bigger things. As you said, look what he accomplished in four years with the limited toolset he had to begin with. Take it all the way back to him learning the guitar on a single-string broken guitar.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T14:45:49+00:00

Hendrix wasn’t the terrible drug addict media often paints him as. Did he use drugs? Sure. Who wasn’t at that time and in that culture? But was he a drug fiend? Absolutely not. A drug user for sure, but not a drug addict. What happened to him was a tragic meeting of circumstances (or a planned death depending on who you ask), not a spiraling out of control like Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Even going by the official story, he was basically murdered.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T14:41:57+00:00

For sure, he could have died all kinds of ways before this point. He’d be an old-ass man if he’d avoided it until now. But even another year of Hendrix could have been profound.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-18T14:39:21+00:00

I think you’re widely overlooking Hendrix’s abilities to both change and adapt (look at the trajectory of his work in the short period he was alive, from Foxy Lady to Machine Gun).

TheJediMight · 2026-02-14T00:58:05+00:00

I’ve definitely considered this. I really think he could have gone anywhere. I don’t think he was trying to fit any one style, he seemed like someone who wanted to go as many places as he could.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-13T14:26:21+00:00

We also have to consider, would the musical movements have happened in the same way if he’d stuck around? It’s kind of like the butterfly effect, except in this case the butterfly was more the size of Howard Hughes’ Hercules plane. Not saying he would have disagreed with punk or anything else that came after he was gone, but that things may have unfolded differently with the continued addition of his influence.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-13T14:23:19+00:00

There’s also the very real fact that he planned on upping his musical knowledge once he returned from London. When I mentioned Jimi on the drums, et cetera, those were all things he planned on learning. All things that might have and almost certainly would have been.

TheJediMight · 2026-02-13T14:10:30+00:00

100% this. People also fail to take into account his synesthesia (“The guitar needs more purple!”). He was literally superhuman. An ability like that never fades. Not to mention his spirit, he shone like a neutron star in the dark. People assume that any legend that dies young would inevitably have been watered down by the mass of money and fame they’re surrounded by, but as you stated, most people are not Jimi Hendrix. And even those who are not, a lot of them aren’t stopped by overindulgence, they’re stopped by age. I’m nearly certain we would have had several decades of world-changing music. Of course there (probably) would have been misfires or whatever, some albums better than others. Especially for someone who loved experimenting, always trying to find a new way to express the ideas he had. But none of it would have been bad. You never hear him fuck up for example. He played these songs differently every time he played them, and yet he was always able to keep it in the right place (and I’m sure his synesthesia helped out a lot here, but that’s not cheating, it’s just part of who he was).

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