Come utterly unanticipate "Music and Lyrics"

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A washed up singer (Hugh Grant) is given a couple days to compose a chart-topping hit for an admiring teen sensation. Though he's never written lyrics in his life, he sparks with an offbeat younger woman (Drew Barrymore) with a flair for words.

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the background on the official page clearly implies the name of the band was simply Pop!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

QUICK WRITE A SONG!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure it's terrible but i know i'll end up seeing it just like i had to go see that godawful "grace of my heart" fiasco

― shanghaied by the dragon lady (get bent), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Not helping at all:

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

what's up with Hugh Grant and all the films based around Reality TV?

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Trivia! Hugh Grant's character in About a Boy was living off the royalties of a popular song his father wrote.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I see the stupid posters for this everywhere... Are we out of Doomsday prophesy already??

Look at California! It's freaking SNOWING. Stephen Hawking on BBC news talking about the world breaking down into an apocalypse of weather-is-just-as-bad-as-nuclear-weapons-and-we're-fucking-ourselves speech. A huge chunk of the Arctic Shelf has broken off and travelled down to the Antarctic, lodged itself against the ice THERE and is preventing penguins from migrating correctly. Polar bears are moving down south and mating with grizzlies because it's too damn hot!

A movie about that would be way more interesting.... I'm freaking out.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

The Day After Tomorrow blew, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

As their chemistry heats up at the piano and under it, Alex and Sophie will have to face their fears – and the music – if they want to find the love and success they both deserve.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

whatever happened to dollar movie theatres? I know it's a rhetorical question but I would see this kind of offal at a dollar movie place.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

we still have them here in denver.. there are like 3 of them.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen any since I moved from Colorado. :(

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

and that was fifteen years ago

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Day After Tomorrow blew, though.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), January 18th, 2007

Obviously, you are forgetting that it featured people outrunning the cold, and even better, WOLVES!!!! Wonderful.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I can't tell if that means "they outran the cold, and it also had wolves in it!" or "not only did they outrun the cold, they outran wolves! WOLVES! You can't outrun the wolf, he's nature's cheetah!"

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

teh cheetah being so unnatural and all

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i bet music and lyrics would be better if it had wolves.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

You can't outcute Hugh Grant, he's nature's cheetah!

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you mean koala?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

I just had to google "nature's cheetah" to reaffirm that it wasn't a Will Ferrell line or something. It's too good.

― Zwan (miccio), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

There should be high speed killer koalas, the better to make tacos with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm thinkin about things like the supernatural's baby panda, and the unnatural's weredolphin.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Cast adrift when a terrorist attack blew up the cruise ship he was on, 4 yr. old Adolph Brenner was rescued by dolphins who had mutated slightly..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wtf are 4 year olds doing on cruise ships? I mean the only reason anyone goes on those things is to chow down, booze up and fuck around and I don't think any of those are big in 4-year-old 'what I want to do today' agendas.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's what makes him an 'unnatural' weredolphin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Young Teen Gamer is really an accent all its own, isn't it? (A Champions write-up using the word polymorph, "8.5 years later...," and his name is ADOLPH FIN.)

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I bet his nemesis is would-be tyrant Theo Verlord and his tough as nails henchwench Anna Skicker.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't his nemesis be Atu Nanet?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, you're thinking of the time when his wife collaborated with Theo Verlord to ambush him, making it look like a simple maritime accident. "You know what that is, don't you Adolph?" came the familiar voice from behind him, as his werefins struggled helplessly against the reinforced mesh. "You know what you're trapped in." Treachery! He'd recognize those dulcet tones anywhere! The conspiracy must have run deep if even she had turned against him.

"Et tu, Nanette?"

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

That killed the thread?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

ligamenocide?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

as bad as this probably is, the "clown above my bed" line is still funny

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

Back to weredolphins.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 05:31 (eighteen years ago)

Heheheh. Drew Barrymore's purse looks like a giant flask in that picture.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 06:16 (eighteen years ago)

worst film title ever

― vita susicivus (blueski), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

imagine asking someone to see this, as a date (as is suggested by the poster).

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

YOU WILL SEE THIS ON A PLANE

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, I love Hugh Grant. And Drew Barrymore. I will totally watch this. I'll have wait until it is stuck in front of me on a plane though, or it's on the telly, because I can't actually imagine paying money for it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

we will see it

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Godspeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

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"YOU WILL SEE THIS... ON A PLANE. THE FLIGHT... WILL BE...LONG

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone remember a song called "Doomed to visit Disneyland" ?

This film is like that feeling.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

I keep wanting to Sharpie a giant cartoonish cock rising from Drew's crotch in that poster.

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oddly, this is one of the films I have been mostly anticipating this year. Barrymore and Grant. In a film about 80's pop music. How bad could it be (it also seems very pro-pop).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone remember a song called "Doomed to visit Disneyland" ?

http://www.halfacow.com.au/pages/images/hac50.gif

― oh oh pee (kit brash), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Well done there!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

chow down, booze up and fuck around

M. White should write a self-help book with this title

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Pete.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

My wife's Hugh Grant love, it turns out, is more than overbalanced by her Drew Barrymore hate. Which is weird, considering she liked "The Wedding Singer" enough. Anyway, we shan't be seeing this this weekend, which is fine. But now she wants to go see Judi Dench try to get into Cate Blanchett's arty culottes. This, kids, is what "date movies" are like when you've been with someone for HALF YOUR LIFE.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Notes on A Scandal... ? It seems the feedback is good!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

tell me the 'clown above your bed' line in full please.

sounds like it might be quite funny.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hugh Grant was pretty funny on last week's Top Gear.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I will be going to pick up chicks whose boyfriends refused to go see Music & Lyrics on Valentines Day. It strikes me that this is a 100% winning sitch.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

What are they, standing at a bus stop or summat?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

I only want to see this if they go to Ishtar.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Okay I have a pending retraction on my "Oh, Pete" if he manages to pull.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Perfect.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

NATURE'S CHEETAH

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

In the trailer, Hugh Grant's old group appeared to be a Wham! knockoff. I still have no intention of seeing this film.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 9 February 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, by "teen sensation" is Drew meant to be popular with teens, or a TEEN SINGER? Because she's hot but I'm not buying her being 17.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 9 February 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

According to my bartender friend, Jasper, she was standing next to me a month ago and I didn't notice. Apparently she didn't even come up to my chin.

I will not be flying after this is out of theaters for the FEAR.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Friday, 9 February 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

This was pretty good. I get kind of pissed off that it's pretty much impossible to jusge whether such films will be worth seeing, because most reviewers seemingly have no interest in or understanding of romantic comedies.

I saw it the same day as Rocky Balboa, and it occurred to me that they were basically the same film, only Music & Lyrics was a more feminine take, not just because it was singing not boxing, but also because Hugh Grant reaches his goal through human cooperation, rather than by reaching deep into himself and making weird speeches to people.

Haley Bennett as nutso Britney-alike was wonderfully bizarre, And the song they wrote together was just lovely! Much better than the Dreamgirls songs anyway. As was Pop!'s big hit, for that matter.

― Alba, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, this film was pretty okay! One of the best Hugh Grant films.

― jel --, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that the title is pretty bad, though.

― Alba, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

My parents made L and I go see this with them. While I'm normally a sucker for romantic comedies and can't help but think Drew Barrymore is adorable, I thought it sucked. I laughed exactly twice. I actually wanted to like this but in the end, I just couldn't.
I will agree with Alba on one thing - Pop!'s big hit was great. It reminded me of "Pop Goes the World" by Men Without Hats for some reason. Unfortunately, that was the only redeeming thing about the whole movie for me.

― ENBB, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

imagine asking someone to see this, as a date (as is suggested by the poster).
the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique)

I was going to ask my partner to come and see this on Valentine's Day, as, in real life, I really am the Hugh Grant washed up musician character (albeit, played by Chopper Reid) and R really is the lyric writing Drew Barrymore character (albeit played by Pat Benatar). But I just couldn't bring myself to do it on the day. I just couldn't. Too cheesy. But maybe it's one for a video night when she's feeling vulnerable and in need of chocolate and blankets eh? Definitely.

― moley, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

"le come back", in french

― RJG, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

WE HAD THE VIDEO NIGHT. It was great. I think it is one of the greatest movies ever made, in fact. Even though the title does suck imperial dogs' balls. It had me hooked right from the opening clip, and yes, Haley Bennett stole the show as a cross between Britney and Shakira.

― moley, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, another friend was just talking about this movie to me. (But she only loved the video and hated the rest of it.)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

Well, sir, she is a fool and a floozy. I sneer at her, take my leave of her, whisk up my cane and walk swiftly from the room.

― moley, Thursday, 21 June 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

this was surprisingly great.

― akm, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

watched it w/my kid, the only context in which cuet is enjoyable.

― m coleman, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

What did your kid think? Cuet or not, for the older male partner in a music/lyric relationship with a female, this was a kind of mini Spinal Tap for me.

― moley, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

far as I could tell he liked it tho the 80s video parodies required some tedious humor-erasing explication.

is the spinal tap reference a positive? were you laffing or cringing?

― m coleman, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sad that I never realised my dream of Sharpie-ing a cock onto that poster.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

(x-post) Erm, a bit of both.

― moley, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

itrox. cmon some levity did no one no harm.

― whatever, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

We lent it to a friend and now we want it back! We miss it.

― moley, Friday, 1 August 2008 12:43 (seventeen years ago)

Huh. I saw this on a plane. It was actually way more engaging than I thought it would be, although movies on planes always have kind of an edge in that department. I don't remember any of the details now, but I did like the songs.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 August 2008 13:04 (seventeen years ago)

Saw the Transformers movie on a plane and watched without the sound. Felt like I didn't need it.

Morbidly curious about this movie, probably will never see it. I just never watch movies. =\

― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:17 (seventeen years ago)

I thought it was pretty insipid and trite.

― o. nate, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

Though to be fair, I pretty much can't stand Hugh Grant and have little use for Drew Barrymore, so that may have prejudiced me.

― o. nate, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

I'm more or less indifferent to 99% of people in movies, so...

― RabiesAngentleman, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

My feelings towards Hugh Grant go way past indifference into the realm of active loathing.

― o. nate, Friday, 1 August 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

still lovin' it.

― whatever, Friday, 20 February 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

v. cute.

― s.clover, Friday, 31 July 2009 13:27 (sixteen years ago)

typically tho, the female protag's charcter is pretty wafer-thin.

― s.clover, Friday, 31 July 2009 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

i am watching this on TV right now -- hugh is singing (someone is singing, hugh is miming)

also: get bent is wrong about "grace of my heart"

― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Warner+Bros+Premiere+Music+Lyrics+Arrivals+kt1H3ciztcWl.jpg http://concertaddicts.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/roger-daltrey.jpg http://www.topnews.in/usa/files/Bruce-Springsteen-supports-Barack-Obama.jpg

^acting

― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:48 (fourteen years ago)

ooh it features glee's mr schuster

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

"Pop goes my heart" has stuck with me since first and only viewing

― ...options. (Ówen P.), Friday, 18 November 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

i am quite enjoying this even tho grant brings my skin out in itchy blotches

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

Actually, it fused together with an I'm from Barcelona song to form a supervirus

― ...options. (Ówen P.), Friday, 18 November 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

but what abt "Words and Music"

― H in Addis, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:06 (fourteen years ago)

i can't get across --and nor does that photo -- how grizzled hugh is in this movie, he really does look like bruce and roger (also it's his crap haircut)

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:08 (fourteen years ago)

"Words and Music" the book turned into a movie starring who as paul morley, who as kylie and who as alvin lucier?

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)

ha, well more with kylie as june allyson, well mebbe not
mark, give us our casting call

― H in Addis, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:15 (fourteen years ago)

bill murray as alvin lucier

http://www.nndb.com/people/069/000086808/lucier-crop.jpg

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:27 (fourteen years ago)

this was actually one of the better recent rom-coms.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 18 November 2011 00:34 (fourteen years ago)

notwithstanding drew barrymore's general amateurishness (which is occasionally appealing but mostly frustrating).

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 18 November 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

the main problem i'm having is HG's rather bland transatlantic accent when singing, compared to his fruity-brit-abroad tones when speaking (literally no one speaks like this in the UK)

drew is playing way against her strengths (which are zip and pep and vim)

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

also her hair is dull

― mark s, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

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