The Blues Greats (2004)
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The Worst Film Ever
Awesome Movie
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Very good film. Don't look for any high quality production values. In fact, at times, even though the movie is from the 1960's European blues tours, the film has the appearance of one of those hokey 1930s and 40s musicals. A couple of times, i expected Abbott and Costello to show up with the Andrews sisters.Nonetheless, the music is great. This was a wonderful series of concerts that revitalized the careers of many American Blues artists (it is a famous series of tours across Europe mentioned at the very end of the movie Cadillac Records). For myself, the highlights were Matt Guitar Murphy (who was immortalized as a fry cook in The Blues Brothers). Always, Muddy was great and Amos Milburn was new to me, and quite a treat. Enjoy!