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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

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Interesting fact.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story premiered at TIFF on the same day Queen Elizabeth died. Obviously nobody expected her death, but when she appeared in the final sequence there was an audible gasp-like reaction from the audience, since nobody knew how to react to it.

[moviemosaics]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

directed by Eric Appel, 2022

[chazraps]

The Weird Al biopic is fantastic - as in the tremendous extras on the newly released 4K/Blu Ray! Here's my full review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34A1iFU1Gw0

[jayfinch]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

[watchingalotofmovies]

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story    [trailer]

Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.

It's a brilliant idea to make a biopic about 'Weird Al' Yankovic in the same vein as his music parodies songs. And it's just as entertaining. Watching it just makes you smile.

The lead is excellently cast. Daniel Radcliffe feels born to portray a fictional version of Yankovic. And he seems to be having a blast.

An extensive, "real" portrait of Yankovic.

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has brief use of police lights at night, machine gun fire, flashes of strobe lights at a concert, and rapidly-changing still images. A drug trip scene uses extreme strobe lights as things get intense and loud, slowly going back down after the scene gets quiet.

Some very brief disorienting camera work is used during the drug trip scene.

Flashing Lights: 8/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: An abusive parent is depicted. Brief song lyrics allude to vomit. Religious abuse is described in a flashback scene. 

Image ID: A promotional poster for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

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remi wolf's cover of telepatia

technically an amazon music exclusive! link to photoshoot ❤

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Here is my latest film review for Birmingham Public Library!

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"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story"

The funniest thing about the movie is thinking about the handful of audience members who believe this story is 100% true and real, and that's one of the film's biggest problems.

It rarely pains me to pen a negative review of a film that I genuinely didn’t like, but it’s difficult to admit that “Weird” is a massive disappointment. As a lifelong ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic fan (I own all of his albums and have seen him live in concert, internationally, more than any other artist in my lifetime), it’s fair to say that my expectations were high. In what should’ve been a slam-dunk…

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Review

Parody films are far and in between. They are not a huge genre but a niche genre. There are a few good ones like the Naked Gun Series, Hot Shots, and Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping. Weird The Al Yankovic Story is a parody of a musical biopic similar to Yankovic’s career parodying popular music songs.  Just like his career, this film is pretty funny considering how and what he became famous…

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Check out my YouTube review!

'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' is now streaming on Roku and it is such a fun time!

Daniel Radcliffe has never been better and Evan Rachel Wood was great.

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'Weird,' But True: This is the Most Accurate Movie Review Ever

Weerd. (CREDIT: The Roku Channel) Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Evan Rachel Wood, Toby Huss, Julianne Nicholson, Rainn Wilson, Spencer Treat Clark, Tommy O’Brien, Jack Lancaster Director: Eric Appel Running Time: 108 Minutes Rating: Unrated (It’s a little over-the-top, but fun for all ages) Release Date: November 4, 2022 (The Roku Channel) What’s It About?: Did you see that fake trailer for a Weird…

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This is somewhat of a continuation of the post I made recently: but I think Marco and Cassie’s relationship dynamic is a very interesting one. They are on the surface of it the advocates of opposing ideologies, and the closest emotionally to Jake so that he is always feeling the contrasting pull of both. And by connection they are the resident “smart ones” of the group, the ones that tend to notice things others don’t and make the most cogent intellectual arguments. Except that (in a running theme of the series of the contrast of how each character is viewed by others vs. reality, and how those roles they are stereotyped into in the pressure cooker of war affect them) only Marco is really acknowledged and named by the others as “the smart one”, as an appellation constantly referred to them when they are being introduced (Rachel is the brave one, Jake is the leader, Tobias is the one who is a hawk, etc.). Yes Cassie will sometimes get a shout out as being deep or emotionally understanding, but never “smart”, even if she has about as many moments of finding the intelligent solution or realizing something as Marco does. And I think this speaks to how Cassie’s ideas seem too out-of-left field, she thinks “differently” and is likely to be dogpiled by everyone as a result, while as noted in one of the books (can’t remember which) Marco’s complaining and cautiousness (and by extension his ruthlessness) says what everybody thinks but doesn’t want to say, just on a more intelligent and insightful level, it’s the same “genre” but with more insight. Even Cassie herself internalizes it, referring to Marco as the smartest one and herself as a dumb tree-hugger.

Interestingly, the only time I can think of she is referred to as “the smartest one” the way Marco often is by Marco himself in #45. In this book, Marco wants to rescue his mother but, from his position of logical ruthlessness, thinks it would only harm others for his own personal benefit. And then Cassie is the one who is able to come up with an objective reason why saving her would benefit them and their cause, and Marco responds by thinking that “I just wouldn’t again forget that, in some ways, Cassie is the bravest and smartest of my friends”. He appreciates Cassie and her intelligence because when someone else, like Jake, tries to tell him do act with his heart, there’s not much of an argument to it and it is something he can easily debunk, it’s all just foolish and not pragmatic. But Cassie is smart enough to actually make him believe, by his own logic, that he can dare to hope for himself.

There’s also the dynamic between them of selfishness/personal gain vs. selflessness, where it quickly becomes unclear who is supposed to represent what. But just a recap if you haven’t read that: I talked in my earlier post about how Cassie’s fundamental drive/motivation is that the animal world is cold, running on just survival, of oneself and those genetically close to oneself (as she realizes in #9 and has a bit of a breakdown about), and to prove there is something more and the world is not senseless, every sapient being has to use their ability to morally reason (as she articulates in Megamorphs #2) to do whatever an animal wouldn’t. Marco starts out as the opposite, the one out of all the Animorphs who is most associated with personal “survive and protect one’s family” goals. In the early books, he is the most concerned about the risk of death they run, for himself and how it would emotionally crush his father, and often points out that the people they are helping are not people he personally knows or is related to, so why should he risk his life for them? When he decides to fully commit himself to the war, it’s not out of some far-reaching altruism but because he now knows his mother is a Controller and he might be able to rescue her. Contrasting Cassie’s desire to transcend the reasoning of an animal, the ruthlessness that Marco desires is “animal-coded” in #15, where he loves the shark morph for giving him the simple and ruthless animal instinct that allows him to escape his uncertainties and insecurities. 

But something strange happens along the way. Step by step, Marco transitions from using the shark’s logic, the animal ruthlessness, for its typical purpose of survival of one’s genes to expanding it to the whole planet, being willing to appropriate that animal instinct for the benefit of all of humanity even at the expense of his personal benefit (being willing to sacrifice his mother no matter how much it emotionally destroys him) – appropriating the logic of selfishness for a selfless cause, and taking the same risks even though he’s given up on saving what personally matters to him from it. And Cassie’s fundamental driving principle of avoiding that self-serving logic also means avoiding the “animal’s action” even when it would have a great utilitarian benefit, which gradually starts to look an awful lot like selfishness. In #19, Cassie is willing to risk her friends’ torture and death, and in the long run the enslavement of humanity, so she can convince Aftran that there is another way besides parasitism. This makes perfect sense with her convictions, as the animal logic would say the Yeerks are biologically forced to be humans’ enemies, and humans for their own survival must see them as enemies to kill, but her beliefs means she must try to find a way that they can use their sapience to transcend that, otherwise what would be the point of living and winning in the first place? But it’s still a different kind of selfishness; not a selfishness for one’s own preservation, but that of potentially causing much suffering of others so one can personally feel morally sound and avoid despair. And I just love that dynamic where it quickly becomes unclear within the character foil relationship who is supposed to be the selfish or personally driven one and who is supposed to be the selfless, caring for everyone person. Just a fascinating dynamic.