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A love song to both the power of both music and determined political resistance.
An impassioned, funny and monumentally likable myth-making comedy.
Technically a great biopic, but it's an even rarer and more precious animal: a great rock 'n' roll movie.
Overall the feel, the music and the spirit of the biopic is a fresh take.
A jubilant, exciting look at a movement known primarily for its irascible nature.
Good Vibrations reminds us of the role punk music played in expressing the frustration and rage of a disenfranchised generation.
The film does most things by the book but it's still an interesting biopic about a person that you probably won't be familiar with.
The team behind Good Vibrations have made a film that is determined to live up to its title, and does so.
Chock full of vigour, great punk tunes and larrikin wit, this feel-good film tells the story of Terri Hooley, a man who brings music to a battered 1970s Belfast.
An extraordinary labour of love about an even more extraordinary labour of love.
The gleaming, beaming centrepiece of this boisterous period piece is [Richard] Dormer's magnetic performance. Continually risking himself and his tiny store, he channels the passion and defiance embedded in the music he loves.
If the recent Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith was too sugar-sweet for your liking, this relatively ragged affair will do the trick just nicely.
Great performance Richard Dormer, passion and inspiration.
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Hits them emotional high points far too early in the film and is just kinda lost interest near the end.
Another good film that set in a record store. The fact that it's based on a true story is even better.
This Irish film written by Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson and directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn was a refreshing viewing after the previous monster packed 2 hours. Refreshing, inspiring and invigorating, it stars Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Adrian Dunbar, Liam Cunningham, Karl Johnson and Dylan Moran. The film is a chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene. [img]http://images.mymovies.net/images/film/cin/350x522/fid12597.jpg[/img] The movie starts in a little bit awkward way - telling us the story of a happy kid who lost an eye because of bullying of the other kids - and shows a kid with a bow and arrow hitting Terri. Maybe there were other options but, anyway, at the end worked well. Later we find out that Terri Hooley (Dormer) became a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it, by chance, he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city's nascent underground punk scenes. Inspiring and encouraging the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader and some kind of protector of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an alternative punk Ulster with no religious divisions, to bring his city back to life. I really loved the music, and most of it was provided by bands released by the Good Vibrations label, such as Big Time, I-Spy and The Pressure's by Rudi, Self Conscious Over You, Justa Nother Teenage Rebel and You're A Disease by The Outcasts and Teenage Kicks by The Undertones, as well as Stiff Little Fingers, another Northern Irish punk band around at the same time but not released by the label. The soundtrack also includes songs by The Shangri-Las, Small Faces, David Bowie, Hank Williams and Suicide - quite a variety. If you like movies with a heart and soul give it a go. It's worth it!
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