Here's a few to pick from. Feel free to add more.

The Jacksons: An American Dream (Michael Jackson, The Jackson Family)

I'm Not There (Bob Dylan)

Selena (Selena)

The Temptations (The Temptations)

In His Life: The John Lennon Story (John Lennon)

Little Richard (Little Richard)

Elvis (Elvis Presley)

Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)

Ray (Ray Charles)

Cadillac Records (Etta James, Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess)

The Runaways (Joan Jett)

Notorious (The Notorious B.I.G.)

Sinatra (Frank Sinatra)

EDIT:

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Frankie Lymon)

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As I said before, give me a feature lenth in-depth documentary over a glossy, thin biopic anyday. I can't say I have seen hardly any music based biopic's to be honest. They just don't interest me.

musicjunky318 said:

Here's a few to pick from. Feel free to add more.

The Jacksons: An American Dream (Michael Jackson, The Jackson Family)

I'm Not There (Bob Dylan)

Selena (Selena)

The Temptations (The Temptations)

In His Life: The John Lennon Story (John Lennon)

Little Richard (Little Richard)

Elvis (Elvis Presley)

Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)

Ray (Ray Charles)

Cadillac Records (Etta James, Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess)

The Runaways (Joan Jett)

Notorious (The Notorious B.I.G.)

Sinatra (Frank Sinatra)

Notorious sucked no wonder i'm a tupac fan

babybugz said:

musicjunky318 said:

Here's a few to pick from. Feel free to add more.

The Jacksons: An American Dream (Michael Jackson, The Jackson Family)

I'm Not There (Bob Dylan)

Selena (Selena)

The Temptations (The Temptations)

In His Life: The John Lennon Story (John Lennon)

Little Richard (Little Richard)

Elvis (Elvis Presley)

Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)

Ray (Ray Charles)

Cadillac Records (Etta James, Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess)

The Runaways (Joan Jett)

Notorious (The Notorious B.I.G.)

Sinatra (Frank Sinatra)

Notorious sucked no wonder i'm a tupac fan

You right about that. Got a lot of stuff wrong in that biopic and it was just ghetto mess!

Some of my favorite biopics are:

The Temptations

Walk The Line

Ray

Selena (seemed like a docu-drama/fairy tale fantasy to me, but cool!)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (Another one that got a lot of stuff wrong, but entertaining nonetheless)

Cadillac Records (Columbus Short's performance as Little Walter should've got more notice)

The Doors

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^It pains me to see Derek Luke waste his talent like he is. But then again opportunity is incredibly scarce for black actors in Hollywood. He probably has no other choice but to play Puffy.

musicjunky318 said:

^It pains me to see Derek Luke waste his talent like he is. But then again opportunity is incredibly scarce for black actors in Hollywood. He probably has no other choice but to play Puffy.

So true. He does have alot of potential as an actor, but hey...to each its own!

My all time favorite biopic is La Bamba.

musicjunky318 said:

^It pains me to see Derek Luke waste his talent like he is. But then again opportunity is incredibly scarce for black actors in Hollywood. He probably has no other choice but to play Puffy.

Or appear in a Medea/Mr. Brown stage play.

MickyDolenz said:

musicjunky318 said:

^It pains me to see Derek Luke waste his talent like he is. But then again opportunity is incredibly scarce for black actors in Hollywood. He probably has no other choice but to play Puffy.

Or appear in a Medea/Mr. Brown stage play.

EXACTLY!

Add "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" to the list...

purplethunder3121 said:

Add "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" to the list...

Yea that was great.

automatic said:

My all time favorite biopic is La Bamba.

Dang forgot that one. Love that movie!

But how could we forget these two?

silverchild said:

automatic said:

My all time favorite biopic is La Bamba.

Dang forgot that one. Love that movie!

But how could we forget these two?

^^^ I was just wondering if anyone had added this! Watched it over and over when it came out.

thesexofit said:

As I said before, give me a feature lenth in-depth documentary over a glossy, thin biopic anyday. I can't say I have seen hardly any music based biopic's to be honest. They just don't interest me.

I agree with you 100% on this one. I've seen biopics that sucked, either it had bad acting in it or it was inaccurate. Hell, I'll take Unsung, Biography Channel or Behind The Music over the movies.

I have to say Ray, La Bamba, Lady Sings the Blues, and What's Love Got To Do With It because of the great acting although Lady and What's Love Got to Do with it had inaccuracies.

Other than that those made for TV biopics are garbage. The Jacksons An American Dream was cute, Disney-type movie that takes me back to when I was younger, but it had too many flaws, left out information and inaccuracies I can't take it seriously.

I suggest reading the books instead of watching the movies. The books (as well as the documentaries) are 10 times better than the movies.

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The Temptations

Walk the Line

Ray (though it got a little too corny near the end with Ray talking to his mother)

What We Have Is Secret

What's Love Got to Do With It (though they were off on years on important events and that "rape" scene was put in, which almost destroyed the film especially when it wasn't true)

The Doors (Val Kilmer as Morrison... )

La Bamba (the scene after Ritchie dies... )

Back Beat

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That's about it.

musicjunky318 said:

Here's a few to pick from. Feel free to add more.

The Jacksons: An American Dream (Michael Jackson, The Jackson Family)

I'm Not There (Bob Dylan)

Selena (Selena)

The Temptations (The Temptations)

In His Life: The John Lennon Story (John Lennon)

Little Richard (Little Richard)

Elvis (Elvis Presley)

Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)

Ray (Ray Charles)

Cadillac Records (Etta James, Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess)

The Runaways (Joan Jett)

Notorious (The Notorious B.I.G.)

Sinatra (Frank Sinatra)

EDIT:

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Frankie Lymon)

[Edited 1/30/11 19:54pm]

I like those ones. Walk The Line was alright.

I can't wait to see the NWA one they are making.

thesexofit said:

As I said before, give me a feature lenth in-depth documentary over a glossy, thin biopic anyday. I can't say I have seen hardly any music based biopic's to be honest. They just don't interest me.

I have to agree with you there.

I love biopics but the deeper I dig behind them nowadays, I find there're more things manipulated in order to sensualize the subject's story for solely entertainment purposes other than telling the plain honest objective truth. And considering Hollywood's long history of this pattern, this brings to mind Seinfeld's joke that "the truth is sometimes a little boring".

And by that logic, thats their way of telling me that I have a short attention span and the only thing that will make me stick around is when they wrap those lies in fancy eye-feasting productions. This is why I only view them as just another form of entertainment and not a credible source.

^ Yeah. As of this point, they can can the bios on Aretha and Marvin, just give me the documentaries, at least three or four hours in length.

silverchild said:

automatic said:

My all time favorite biopic is La Bamba.

Dang forgot that one. Love that movie!

But how could we forget these two?

Great performance.

Borderline bullshit story.

Harlepolis said:

silverchild said:

Dang forgot that one. Love that movie!

But how could we forget these two?

Great performance.

Borderline bullshit story.

Yeah like I said in the previous thread that brought this film up, it really wasn't about Billie Holiday. It was a Diana Ross film from start to finish. But she did some brilliant work in it regardless lol

Timmy84 said:

Harlepolis said:

Great performance.

Borderline bullshit story.

Yeah like I said in the previous thread that brought this film up, it really wasn't about Billie Holiday. It was a Diana Ross film from start to finish. But she did some brilliant work in it regardless lol

Yep, one of the greatest vanity projects IMO, and thats fine by me.

But the thing that really did the movie in for me is when they hired none other than the man who used to abuse Billie and supply her with drugs to keep her in line(along with his small side whorehouse lines), her husband Louis McKay, as the film's advisor.

Hire a pimp to tell Billie Holiday's story, and not only that, but portray him as this good Samaritan who tried to keep her life straight I love it when Hollywood spray a lil' cologne on bullshit.

Harlepolis said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah like I said in the previous thread that brought this film up, it really wasn't about Billie Holiday. It was a Diana Ross film from start to finish. But she did some brilliant work in it regardless lol

Yep, one of the greatest vanity projects IMO, and thats fine by me.

But the thing that really did the movie in for me is when they hired none other than the man who used to abuse Billie and supply her with drugs to keep her in line(along with his small side whorehouse lines), her husband Louis McKay, as the film's advisor.

Hire a pimp to tell Billie Holiday's story, and not only that, but portray him as this good Samaritan who tried to keep her life straight I love it when Hollywood spray a lil' cologne on bullshit.

Yep! After I read up on McKay, I shook my head at Berry and 'em. What were they thinking?!

I love 'Lady Sings The Blues'

I really liked the one for Serge Gainsbourg that came out last year - Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque).

Hmm. Most of them have sucked though. I remember liking the miniseries on TV for The Temptations, but it might not have been as good as I remember.

... uhm, Velvet Goldmine?

Harlepolis said:

thesexofit said:

As I said before, give me a feature lenth in-depth documentary over a glossy, thin biopic anyday. I can't say I have seen hardly any music based biopic's to be honest. They just don't interest me.

I have to agree with you there.

I love biopics but the deeper I dig behind them nowadays, I find there're more things manipulated in order to sensualize the subject's story for solely entertainment purposes other than telling the plain honest objective truth. And considering Hollywood's long history of this pattern, this brings to mind Seinfeld's joke that "the truth is sometimes a little boring".

And by that logic, thats their way of telling me that I have a short attention span and the only thing that will make me stick around is when they wrap those lies in fancy eye-feasting productions. This is why I only view them as just another form of entertainment and not a credible source.

But most people really do have short attention spans. Otherwise documentaries would make just as much money at the box office as biopics.

And docs can be manipulated too. Just ask any Michael Moore critic.

Control (2007)

sextonseven said:

Control (2007)

WHOOOO?

My Favs:

"What's Love Got to Do With It"

"Walk the Line"

"Ray"

"The Temptations"

But when I saw La Bamba, I developed a life long crush on the guy on the right (Esai Morales):

musicjunky318 said:

sextonseven said:

Control (2007)

WHOOOO?

The biopic of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. Look him, the group and that movie up.

I've watched bits of it, I'll watch the full biopic one day.

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SoulAlive said:

I love 'Lady Diana Sings The Blues'