24 Hour Party People: C or D?

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Michael Winterbottom's Factory Records epic - who's seen it? Is it any good? Is it at all true-to-life?

― J Blount, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

me/not very/no

― mark s, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

part three is not the reason for part two

― mark s, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

me/yes very/no

― DavidM, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

suave address, David.

I saw "24 Hour Party People" and enjoyed it greatly. Being neither a member of a Factory band nor part of the Factory records circle I can't vouch for its accuracy. But it is a fun film covering lots of the kind of music I like.

Great soundtrack, obviously.

― DV, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There's some monster thread on this sucker in the archives, isn't there? *thinks*

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For what it's worth, I liked it. Coogan did get too close to Partridge at times though, especially early on, and was I meant to find Ian Curtis' suicide the funniest part of the film?

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Me/Bluh/I firmly believe it is

― Graham, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The description of this movie in the nytimes yesterday went something like "the story of a British journalist who helped to invent punk rock".

Ahem.

― Nicole, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That Tony Wilson, he gets everywhere!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Does anyone know much about the cameos? I heard Mark E. Smith makes an appearance. True? For long?

― Andrew, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I thought Almost Famous was about the journalist who helped to invent punk rock.

― J Blount, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark E Smith's in the queue at the Hacienda early on. Howard DeVoto's a cleaner, Tony Wilson himself plays a TV director... and some other stuff.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think it's hilarious. Several folk I know are in it, either just as passers by or in a more involved way (one of my besties is the dark haired young journalist on the Happy Mondays' Tour Bus). Me and everybody I knew went to the recreated Hacienda up in a derelict factory in Ancoats.

It's production values are a bit sloppy, but hey, it's funny, and it's about the city I love. Steve Coogan does it in his sleep but THAT'S THE POINT DON'T YOU SEE.

The guy who plays Rob Gretton is uncannily true to life.

― misterjones, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Me/yes/yes (in as much as Tony Wilson is a lying bastard).

One of many, many good British films this year, individual, small but with epic scope and one of the freshest biopics in a very long time (using the narrative structure to actively reflect the personality of its subject).

― Pete, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The 24 Hour Party People thread

― N., Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Some 24HPP thoughts made it onto this thread too. I still don't understand Pete's hobbit thing.

― N., Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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