STEWART COPELAND

Not to long ago, a special edition DVD of Rumblefish was released. I had seen it when it was first released 20 or so years ago. I recalled not liking it too much. I am a huge film fan, and Coppola is one of my favorite directors (even though I am not sure how to spell him name) so the film really paled in comparison to his masterpieces. However, the soundtrack of course had an immediate impact on me and still is probably one of my very favorite SC works.

Anyways, Netflixed the special edition just for the heck of it yesterday. A friend of mine is letting me stay at his place for a few days. Really nice place. One of those condos in Vegas where DiCaprio and Toby Maguire also have a place. Anyways, the place is decked out with a 60 inch plasma with probably the sweetest surround sound systems I've seen.

If you're like me and you haven't seen Rumblefish in awhile, GO GET THE SPECIAL EDITION DVD. It is GREAT!. Looks GREAT. Sounds GREAT. Much better than I remember. A can't recall a movie where Stewart's music just married so perfectly with the film (coincidentally, Very Bad Things was on Showtime last night).

In addition, there is a 12 minute documentary called, "The Percussion Based Score" which features Stewart talking about how he came about making the soundtrack. Contains some cool vintage clips. FANTASTIC. Unfortunately, Stan Ridgeway is not part of the documentary and little is mentioned about Don't Box Me In. However, the disc does contain the video for Don't Box Me In. Great to see Stewart playing guitar.

Just wondering if anyone also has recently revisited Rumblefish and what their impressions were.

I've always loved this film, but I really appreciated it more after taking a film class in college where we discussed Coppola's techniques. I think it's one of his more underrated works and I liked it even more after seeing the behind-the-scenes extras on the DVD.

I know it by heart. Every single scene. Every single part of the soundtrack matching the scenes.

I also cry every fucking time at the fishbowl scene.

Mickey Rourke's best movie ever, too. He is one despicable rotten human being, and I loathe him (anybody who has read Permanent Midnight knows why), but the Motorcycle Boy character was sublime.

Didn't read Permanent Midnight. What's the skinny on that? (Also, is that the book that the Ben Stiller movie was based on?)

Yep, don' waste time on the movie, it was abysmal compared to the book (a biography of TV screenwriter Jerry Stahl, who penned ALF).
In the book, a chilling narration of his all-consuming drug addiction, he happens to describe his relationship with some actors (another I remember is Cybyl Shepherd), and one day he visits Mickey Rourke, on the downhill side already, and Rourke had a guy sitting by him and went on and on like "See this piece of s**t, this MF, this subhuman moron.." and all insults and humiliating words and commands under the sun. The guy never answered a word and did everything Rourke said.
Stahl found out that Rourke PAID A SALARY to this person just to be the object of his abuse.
Needless to say, since then my stomach churns whenever I see the guy, and not only for the botched plastic surgery.

PHHHHHTH!... and I do that all day at work for next ta nothing!. Maybe I should get my face all stitched up like a leather gymbag.

SO the new DVD has a 12 minute doc on the soundtrack? Cool !

but like....couldn't they have made it a bit longer? Jeeze they kill ya with a little brief clip of this or.....we want longer !

anyway, great to see all this stuff coming out.

BB.

i loved everything about that movie. if i was gay, i would totally go for diane lane too, but that's beside the point.

i MR was great as MB.. they were all good! i loved the photography too - brilliant!

"PHHHHHTH!... and I do that all day at work for next ta nothing!. Maybe I should get my face all stitched up like a leather gymbag. "




Bongo, you ARE officially the funniest!!!!