Love & Mercy

[Quality Start Machine]

The Brian Wilson biopic. Paul Giamatti is outstanding as Eugene Landy, Elizabeth Banks is really good as Melinda Wilson, except for one thing that isn't her fault - the director (Bill Pohlad) is hell-bent on bathing everything positive in blue (at the very beginning of the movie they foreshadow this by telling you blue is a peaceful color or something like that), so her eyes get a little spooky looking.

Paul Dano and John Cusack play BW in the Pet Sounds/Smile and Landy segments of his life, respectively. They're both actually really good.

And Jake Abel plays Mike Love in all his bellendy splendor.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, even knowing any biopic of a pop star means they'll be dead within a year. Except Loretta Lynn, who just kicked the Grim Reaper in the balls and sent him off.

[Tonker]

The Brian Wilson biopic. Paul Giamatti is outstanding as Eugene Landy, Elizabeth Banks is really good as Melinda Wilson, except for one thing that isn't her fault - the director (Bill Pohlad) is hell-bent on bathing everything positive in blue (at the very beginning of the movie they foreshadow this by telling you blue is a peaceful color or something like that), so her eyes get a little spooky looking.

Paul Dano and John Cusack play BW in the Pet Sounds/Smile and Landy segments of his life, respectively. They're both actually really good.

And Jake Abel plays Mike Love in all his bellendy splendor.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, even knowing any biopic of a pop star means they'll be dead within a year. Except Loretta Lynn, who just kicked the Grim Reaper in the balls and sent him off.

I can't watch this film.  As much as I love Brian Wilson, I loathe Mike Love more: I'd get thrown out of the cinema for shouting at the screen.

[Quality Start Machine]

The Brian Wilson biopic. Paul Giamatti is outstanding as Eugene Landy, Elizabeth Banks is really good as Melinda Wilson, except for one thing that isn't her fault - the director (Bill Pohlad) is hell-bent on bathing everything positive in blue (at the very beginning of the movie they foreshadow this by telling you blue is a peaceful color or something like that), so her eyes get a little spooky looking.

Paul Dano and John Cusack play BW in the Pet Sounds/Smile and Landy segments of his life, respectively. They're both actually really good.

And Jake Abel plays Mike Love in all his bellendy splendor.

I enjoyed it quite a bit, even knowing any biopic of a pop star means they'll be dead within a year. Except Loretta Lynn, who just kicked the Grim Reaper in the balls and sent him off.

I can't watch this film.  As much as I love Brian Wilson, I loathe Mike Love more: I'd get thrown out of the cinema for shouting at the screen.

Mike Love is a marginal character, as is appropriate.

Giamatti as Landy is the compelling character, other than BW.