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Summary: This movie Kicked
Review: i really loved this movie and highly recomend this to any hendrix fan. wood harris had him down! they only thing that was different is he doens't look that much like him...but when he is on stage he had his moves down and mix that with good acting you forget about who's playin. Also i loved the guitar playin in the movie..i just wish they would sale the sound track.....if anyone knows that its for sale email me i'd love to buy it!
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Summary: Horrific
Review: I would rather have my eyelids pinned open and be forced to watch Gigli for 24 hours strait than live through another 20 minutes of this horrific movie. O. My. Gawd. This is seriously the worst rock-n-roll movie of all time. I said: ALL TIME WORST. It is so bad I almost cried. The poor actor can't even play a chord. He would just slide his hand up and down the neck flipping his fingers around. Oh, this is sooo sad. The only thing sadder is that some people (obviously being sarcastic) gave it more than 1 star in their review. I am in tears. Jimi, if you can hear us, we apologize for this atrocity.
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Summary: Hendrix
Review: I've watched this film at least 10 times because I was impressed by Wood Harris' performance as Jimi Hendrix. All we ever remember about Hendrix is that he was a brilliant guitarist and drug user. Harris brought out the artist's sensitivity, humbleness, sweetness and vulnerability. After watching this film I am inspired to read and view materials about this wonderful individual who died much too young trying to make his contribution, musically, to world peace. Hendrix should be re-released in movie theatres around the country.
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Summary: Wow... could it have been made any worse?
Review: If the original Jimi Hendrix Experience were put together as poorly as this movie, he wouldn't have had nearly the notoriety that he did during his lifetime.To say this movie is a poor representation of Jimi is an understatement. This movie presents Jimi as a bumbling, babbling boob! Jimi was an intelligent, articulate man who was quite existentialistic and philosophical in his thinking. Take the scenes where they replicate his classic 1967 Monterey Pop performance. Jimi speaks to the crowd between tunes, at times laughing and making comments in a loose and relaxed manner. On this movie, Jimi is presented literally stammering unintelligibly, making almost no sense, and coming across as a total embarrassment. For the true Hendrix fan, it's very disappointing to watch. The only positive thing I will say is the wardrobe was very well replicated. The clothes Jimi wears were well researched. Faithful and realistic to Jimi's life and the way he performed, absolutely not! No one can ACT Jimi on stage. Jimi was a total original, one of a kind, never to be repeated. The makers of this movie would have been better off splicing the original footage. As it is, this movie never uses the original soundtrack for scenes such as the Woodstock Festival, probably because they weren't able to get the rights to do so. So, what you have here is an actor playing Jimi and some studio guitarist trying to play in the style of Jimi. The Star Spangled Banner becomes the Star Mangled Banner. The performances are far inferior to the original and sure to turn-off young, prospective fans. Steer clear of this movie; don't waste your money. It's a Stinker with a capital S! Take your money and buy one of the true Jimi DVDs or videos that are on sale at Amazon. You'll get the man and his music and be a lot happier than if you waste it on this movie.
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Summary: Jeez! What A Stinkeroo!
Review: Jimi deserves so much better than this. Wood Harris' cartoonish Hendrix comes off as a complete dope. His take on Jimi's unique way of speaking, his mannerisms and stage antics are more caricature than tribute. Jimi was about (many say *was*) his music -- without it, what's the point of the film? Due to the estate's refusal to sanction or license the use of Jimi's music for the project, Wood Harris was left to poorly approximate Hendrix's singing style to the soundtrack of some hack guitarist who played so badly they wouldn't even identify him in the credits. And believe me, I looked for the guitarist's name in all of that small print. There is absolutely nothing to commend this film, despite some fine work from some of the supporting cast -- particularly Billy Zane as producer Mike Jeffrey. This is as cheesy as made-for-TV films get. I tried to give this DVD "no stars", but ... wouldn't allow me to submit without a rating. Totally unwatchable. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
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Summary: HE IS JIMI DAMMIT
Review: Jimi was Jimi not Hendrix that they chose to call the movie by his last name should have been a tip off that they didn't love him like we did. The best guitarist there ever was. Rock on.
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Summary: YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!
Review: Lets face it, any movie made about Hendrix would have been difficult to portray; you cant match his mind. Even though Wood Harris did the best job anybody probably could have done (even though "they" did make Jimi seem like a mindless "doots"). But in all fairness it probably wasn't Harris's decision anyway. I enjoyed the visual recreation of Monterey and Woodstock, and the character look alikes in Jimi's life. The film also sensationalized his drug use and sex life (FOR WHAT!!!). I would have given the film TWO stars if they had omitted that alone! They portrayed his death as a "drug overdose" which I think was an insult to his legacy.If anyone wants to really find out about Hendrix, buy an authorized autobiography. ( Jimi Hendrix, Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek is a good one!) To quote Billy Cox: "Jimi Hendix was a true natural, a genius, and one of the greatest musicians that ever lived". Let that be his epitaph. For those who don't know, check out the discs, "Band Of Gypsys", "Live At The Fillmore East", " The Baggy Rehersal Sessions", "Blues", "Electric Ladyland" or this new DVD "Wild Blue Angel" to see (or hear) Hendrix the musician, rather than the sensationalized stoned aloof rock star this film portrays. I would also like to mention people in Jimi's life that contributed to the music: Billy Cox, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding. Your contributions are not forgotten. Peace to all.
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Summary: SOMEONE PLEASE KILL ME!!!!!!!!!!
Review: My God I'm depressed!!!!!!!! I just rented this "movie". (I use that term lightly) Not one redeeming quality. I wanted to turn it off about ten times while watching but, like a train wreck, I couldn't look away. Wood has Jimi's moves down, but that's about it. He made him seem like kind of a [dolt]. Bad acting, bad production, bad British accents, bad bad bad bad bad!!!!! I pray they make a real film along these lines in the future. I could have done better than this.
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Summary: It was Good!
Review: The reason the soundtrack was bad was that the producers could not get the legal rights to the songs. They had to redo the songs, so they are not as good as you would want them to be. Other than that this movie is great. Once you get used to seeing Wood Harris as Hendrix, and not the man himself, it is excellent. I definetly recomend this to everyone, ...
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Summary: Typical TV Movie
Review: This made-for-cable movie is an honest attempt to boil down Jimi Hendrix's life and music down to less than two hours. Unfortunately the producers were unable to obtain the rights to any of Jimi's songs, so the musical score is entirely made of up his covers (Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower, Wild Thing, etc.) plus some unattributed jamming. You get the typical 60s montages (JFK, Malcom X, the Beatles, Dylan, etc.) along with the cookie-cutter dialogue and vastly oversimplified story. Despite some good performances, the script doesn't really offer the scope to examine why Hendrix's music was so revolutionary, or the problems that led to his early death. There's not much fire here, either, as the film suffers from wooden pacing and is never especially absorbing. The documentary film "Jimi Hendrix", also available on DVD, is a far better way to gain an appreciation of this artist.
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