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Saw it last night with Mrs Choc and our son. All of us really enjoyed it despite age differences (65, 58 and 25). Dylan's song writing took it to a new level despite sharing the limelight with Elvis, Beatles, etc. Didn’t realize how Johnny Cash influenced him. Great movie…especially for those of us who grew up in that era. The movie is about his early years and transition from acoustic to electric, strained relationship with Joan Baez, etc. Highly recommended.

Planning on seeing this soon. Would IMAX be worthwhile on this?

Probably not. I’d say IMAX is better for action films. A regular big screen with good sound quality would do the trick.

Saw it yesterday....A+

I-Max screen would not have made it any better...imo.


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I wore the grooves out of Highway 69 and Bringing All Back home, but I don't know if I'd recognize an early Dylan song if I heard it on a good quality sound system. The two just don't go together in my experience.

61. But I digress. This wasn’t original footage. The live performances recreated were very good “live” sound quality.

LOL! I don't know what I was thinking!!

I think Timothée Chalamet does a remarkable job singing and playing the guitar himself as Bob Dylan.

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Can remember when he went electric with Al Kopper, Mike Bloomfield and members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, at the Newport festival. Then toured with the Hawks who later became the Band. Times were changing indeed.

Norton was no slouch as Seeger.

Going to see it New Year’s Day at a place with recliners that serves food. Today was sold out.

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I was a pre-teen and remember folks crying tears over this in Laguna Beach.
I thought some one died, I laughed about it and they got pissed.

Interesting stuff about Dyan in the movies:

https://quillette.com/2025/01/01/unmasked-and-anonymous-bob-dylan-movies/

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I was in flight school when this came...heard it on MTV:cool:

Love it.

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I always thought that video with the cue cards was amazing and different. I'll need to watch Don't Look Back. I'll be all up to speed on Bob by late this afternoon...

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I couldn't say how well Dylan was portrayed, but from what I've read this was accurate. The cast was excellent. Nice period piece about a significant part of music history.

Dylan and Suze Rotolo (name changed to Sylvie Russo in the movie).

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The kids and I saw it last week, I really enjoyed it.

Interesting first-person account I read. When Dylan came offstage after playing "Like A Rolling Stone" electric in Newport 1965, he was reportedly "shocked" at the booing and a tear was supposedly rolling down his "left cheek", then he went out and played one acoustic song, "Its All Over Now, Baby Blue".

So you can find videos of both performances on Youtube. I watched "Baby Blue" and, later in the song when the light on his face is just right, you can see the track of that tear down his left cheek.

Lots of people have put a lot of energy into interpreting Dylan's songs. Who is he referring to or talking to in this song, is it so-and-so or such-and-such? I think they often get it wrong, because Dylan is - in my view - often referring to and talking to himself. "Baby Blue" is one example.

Very few people at the theater when I saw it...between Christmas and New Years Day.
Surprising because normally that time is packed.

When it hits Netflix, I'll watch it again....well worth a second watch.

I've been listening to Patti Smith's Nobel Prize rendition of "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," and been kind of mesmerized by it. I think her stumbles in this performance make it more endearing. The power of this song and her performance sometimes brings a tear to my eye.

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Did a little checking into it out of curiosity and found this video, which was interesting:

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I was listening to this and wondered how it ranked among the songs Joan Baez wrote. Not surprisingly, it was considered #1. Years later he apologized for the way he treated her.

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finally saw it on the small screen on American Airlines. Great movie. Need to see it on a bigger screen though my Bose noise cancelling headphones did a great job on the sound track. Check out the 1967 movie Festival.

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I watched the movie a couple more times since it started streaming on Hulu, and it gets better each time. Kudos to Timothée Chalamet for his portrayal of Dylan, including learning to play guitar and sing like Bob. I need to watch The Brutalist now on to see how Adrien Brody won the Oscar and the Golden Globe as best actor. This scene I think conveys Dylan's emergence as a true talent in the movie:

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still haven't seen it, but very excited to watch this evening

I didn't know bots watched movies. How did you like it, anrew?