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Sing along! Milli Vanilli: The Movie at Universal?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a little bit of oddness on this day of my birth. Jeff Nathanson (who went from SPEED 2 to back to back Spielberg movies (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and THE TERMINAL) will write and direct a Milli Vanilli biopic for Universal.
I'd love to see this movie with a soundtrack a half-second out of whack, but Nathanson seems to want to make a respectful and serious film. In all seriousness, the story of Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan is a very sad one and the drama and tragedy involved I'm sure is incredibly appealing to Nathanson.
He's gotten the support of Pilatus estate and the cooperation of Morvan.
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Going to be an instant classic
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NO BLAME THAT MICHAEL BAY,I KNOW THIS WAS HIS IDEA.
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and then have someone dub over their voices. Wouldn't that makes for an ironic style choice?
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Oh dear God. Okay at least people like Ray Charles and Johnny Cash were worthy of biopics. This is getting out of hand. What, are they gonna have a long, emotional scene where they have to give back their Mickey Mouse Award. $20 says the title of the movie will be Blame it on the Rain. What's next...Achy Breaky: The Billy Ray Cyrus Story?
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Forget those two! Stop, collaborate and listen, do a Vanilla Ice biopic . . . the rise from nothing . . . the hair . . . the baggy pants . . . the Queen/David Bowie lawsuit . . . the sudden disappearance into the obscurity from whence he came . . . it's all there!
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No no no...David Bowie's song goes "Ba ba ba bababa ba". My song goes "Da da da dadada da. See the difference? Don't worry Mr. Van Winkle, America was laughing with, not at you.(I think)
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if they use CG wimps...get it?sigh...
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Anyone remember an episode of the Super Mario Bros cartoon where the bros took Princess from the mushroom kingdom to the real world to see Milli Vanilli? Can't remember if it was 'Super Show' or the show for 3 or 'World'...
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You old git!!
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Feb 15, 2007 5:58:14 AM CST
Oh great, another film that makes us Germans look bad.
by derlanghaarige
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Now get back to work
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this is a story worth telling, and would make a good film in right hands.For the life of me, I never understood why people overreacted so wildly when they found out Milli Vanilli mimed. Who cares? It's pop music - it's not supposed to be genuine.
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How did this happen?
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...that Milli Vanilli just set the template for all the other boy bands who lip-synced or had session singers standing in for them on recordings. Theirs is a sad and sorry cautionary tale and, i am sure, with the right treatment, would make a great movie. Just keep that AWFUL music to a minimum and show the tv debacle in all it's glory.
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Have a smashing day.
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Been reading this site and your articles for a while now.. happy birthday man, have a great day!
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http://www.seniorsguidetocomputers.com
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I remember listening to Casey's countdown show one weekend before the truth came out about Milli Vanilli. Casey told a story about how Rob and Fab came to the US knowing no English and that the producers had to teach them how to pronounce each word in each song and that at no time did MV really understand what they were singing about. Hopefully they can include that in the movie somehow. Maybe with Casey in the studio recording the voiceover. With Casey played by John Cena.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtsprr-qdn0
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...that was bad and superficial about popular music at the end of the 1980's-early 1990's. They were the epitome of manufactured bubble-gum pop, a pair of pretty faces, a couple puppets trained to dance for the masses (who gave their approval buy purchasing millions of copies of the album). It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last. Thank God Nirvana dropped Nevermind when they did. The musical zeitgeist had to change for the better.
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As they didn't perform on their own songs, I'll pay homage by not attending any screenings. Debt repaid! Although... technically I already did my part by not buying any of their 'music' in the first place.
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"And together we made chart topping song. We even won a Grammy award.. for a while." gee, this thing writes itself ;)
Anyway, The Terminal wasn't that good. Just couldn't buy the point where Hank's character seems to go from not speaking English, to having a broken English vocabulary, seemingly within a scene change (or it may have been a few hours story-wise, but it was still unbelievable). And Catch Me If You Can was based on a book written by someone else. Seems the saga of Milli Vanilli is in apt hands. -
But it's not like Milli Vanilli were the first. Phonies are an integral part of pop music, all the way back through The Monkees and those awful all-white acts they would get to cover music by black artists in the fifties.Also, contrary to popular opinion, Nirvana didn't get rid rid of a god damn thing. I'm not dismissing their music, but the corporate machine that churns out disposable crap year after year is far too strong to be defeated by a Seattle three piece - as evidenced by the phenomenal success of all that Pop Idol garbage.
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shit sandwich.
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You got me. I want to know if/when I can see this movie.
Oh, and there isn't a man, woman or child alive who doesn't enjoy a monkey doing Kung Fu. -
Anybody want this who isn't a family member? Who wants to watch two talentless dickheads (one who ends up dying) self-destruct? Yeah, it is sad, but why does cinema become a giant worldwide wake/funeral for every "tragic" story of a "fall from grace"?I just don't give a shit beyond "Behind the Music."Make it and give it the dead guy's family as a memorial tribute to the power and majesty that was their art and leave us alone.
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Milli Vanilli. Tragic or not, who cares about these two? And I have to agree with aicmb...kung fu monkey's are great. Those careerbuilder commercials are great too...
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It's in her contract rider, I hear.
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Feb 15, 2007 9:25:35 AM CST
but it is easy being a talentless white guy who blows
by just pillow talk
things up real good in the movie biz.
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You're right--that's why I said they weren't the first, and won't be the last. But they remain a really good example of how pop music can be fabricated and sold off to the masses, usually the younger crowd whose parents fork up the dough for their leisure time activities. I'm a musician myself, so I'm admittedly bias, if not outright biggoted, against "music" that isn't really music. Anyway, Milli Vanilli are memorable for it because they were caught, like a magician whose audience spots the fake thumb or what have you--but we smarter folks knew it was a gag all along. And I agree with BSB.
The remaining half of Milli Vanilla should go on tour with Scritti Politti and use Magilla Gorilla as a mascot, and maybe they could call themselves Pirahna Vagina or something. -
have Galactus eat them. If Galactus took a dump, out would pop Milli and Vanilli.
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Yeah, and they'd bust into a gay little dance, with their headbands and whatnot, all covered with Galacti-defaconfetti. So the purple one would have to step on them.
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perhaps their next movie?what's up Abom?
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Yes, The Simpson Express is on a collision course with the brick wall of destiny. I'm just hoping there will be photos of the deceased Jessica, lying nude supine akimbo in the wreckage.
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The shocking fictional expose on how they WOULD have sung the songs had they actually done the vocals themselves.
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who knew...This movie should just be run out as a comedy..really, that's the only way to approach this.
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Megatron is looking
Like a shiny chandalier
Optimus has chassis flames
That glaze my eyes with tears
A movie full of humans
Whose fates won't amount to much
Because that is what happens
With scripts subject to his touch
Blame it on the Bay
Gonna rape my childhood
Blame it on the plot
Predictable and trite
But whatever you do
At most download the piece of poo
And don't pay to see Transformers
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I can say what I want about how his music isn't worth my time mocking it, but hey--he HAD THAT.
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And one would think that it would be near impossible to throw in a high school football flashback in a giant robot movie...but you would be wrong!
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I laughed, cried, and then threw up a little in my mouth after seeing that pic...looks like she was stuck in a wind tunnel for a wee bit too long...
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she can play Iron Man...no suit needed.
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Feb 15, 2007 9:54:02 AM CST
If VH1 needs to start a film franchise, this is the way
by carmillavondoom
People won't pay to see this in the theater...and the odds of them getting a chance to are about .0001%
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And who will play the MTV vee-jays?
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That's a MAN, Bay-bee! What a scary picture. What guy would want his girl to look like the Joker?
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...where B&B are channel-sirfing, come across a Milli Vanilli video, react in ilent horror, then switch the channel without saying a word? One of the funniest moments in the show's history.
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...Nirvana helped kill cheesy late '80's POP?? Wrong...they didn't touch POP music from their Grungy throne (built of flannel and weed and angst) Pop music has been getting cheesier and stronger for the last 60 years...that's why it's called POP ..it's short for popular..which means dumbed down for the masses...they did however HELP to kill off the HAIRROCK bands that my youth revolved around..Motley Crue, Cinderella, Tesla, which had been on life support for 6 years before they schiavo-ed them anyway...but honestly..it wasn't Nirvana as much as the media wanted you to think it was..It was Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden that really changed the tide to grunge...sure Nevermind is a classic.. but I'll Stack PJ's 10 or Badmotorfinger or Facelift against that album any day of the week..
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One of the best rock albums ever. Unfortunately they never did an album that even came close to approaching the quality of Ten. AIC was a great freak'n band. RIP Layne Staley...
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she was half his age and lived in a shed with him for two days. I'm pretty sure they can work this into the Milli Vanilli movie.
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I say make a movie that is 70 minutes of screenshots of two psychos IMing one another...then 15 minutes of meet-up and carnage. The director wouldn't leave Sundance alive.
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My buddy, Vic Hennigen and his partner used to do Mili Vanilli tribute shows. He's a great singer and never had to lip sync. Hell, he's what Mili Vanili should have been! Plus, he makes a good undercover cop in an exploitation movie.
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Call it Out of Synch. I smell box office!
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Why not just do a biopic of the Village People and how Morali had to troll the gay clubs looking for dancers because he didn't have a live band to tour?
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She's just "twitterpated" with that dude....and his blood. (definition from the Avatar talkback)
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Feb 15, 2007 12:13:39 PM CST
You know of course these songs will make a comeback
by allpowerfulwizardofoz
and that sucks. It sucks big fat donkey balls. The nasty stinky kind. They will have someone redo them with a 21st century spin but expect to hear those tunes blasting the airwaves when this movie hits.
Why not just make this is VH1 movie? Does it REALLY need to go to the big screen? Really? -
...per se, but the story of the two guys and the entire behind-the-scenes bait and switch is very compelling as a story, period. The VH1 Behind the Music episode was interesting, and yeah, I hate the guys like everyone else. Say, how many more years until MV are eligible for the Rock Hall? Buh-buh-buh-buh bay-bay! Don't fuhget mah num-bah! Shite.
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last year when he did a music parody sketch wherein he and some other SNL guy dressed in black S&M attire and pretended to be a Right Said Fred-style techno group called "Ariel and Effram?" It was freakin' hilarious. They danced around and sang a tune called "Please Don't Cut My Testicles."
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Then there's the spinoffs; "Arcadia" and "Camoflauge the Movie." Its a goldmine waiting to happen!
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My torture porn movie production company once made a film called "Union of the Snake." It was filmed in 1998, but we took the replign back in time to 1984 and made huge profs in VHS sales off aging 80s kids who thought it was a Duran biopic (we had to convert to VHS). Oops!
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What the hell is a Durand???? Dur and your an idiot...everybody know's it's Herbie Hancock. (Duran Duran...no commas)
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Simon LeBon and the boys may have been guilty of fostering a pretty boy image back in the day, but they wrote their own songs and played 'em pretty good, too. Milli Vanilla just looked pretty and did that little hot-step dance thing they did.
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milli vanilli. As Abom said, duran duran actually did stuff THEMSELVES, irregardless if you liked them or not.
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is also still together and probably well respected in their homeland...unlike the ridiculous excuse for men that were Milli unt Vanilli...by the by, anybody remember that old "In Living Color" sketch with Keenon and Damon playing those two? Wit actual mop-heads for wigs...fuckin brilliant..
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To make it 'happy' if test audiences are too saddened? Geez - can you imagine going to a sneak screening and seeing this travesty onscreen?!? "A Milli Vanilli movie?!?!?" They're such a pop culture joke that I think it dooms the production right from the start.This would work better if a fictional story of a journalist and using the M-V phenomenon/scandal as a commentary on facade in pop music. Social commentary = good reviews.
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It was Clive Davis/Arista. They knew about the Lipsynching, but chose to carry on the ruse due to the whole Mtv craze of Image over substance. Video not only killed the rockstar, but some cases it also killed talent/mucisianship. Btw, the surviving member of MV is not a bad singer. I heard some of his acoustic material.
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Gandalf needs to send them back to which they came from.
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"In all seriousness, the story of Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan is a very sad one and the drama and tragedy involved...."
We're supposed to take any of this seriously? Darfur is a tragedy. Iraq is a tragedy. Two Eurotrash bisexuals lip-synching through bad R&B is, at best, a Will Farrell comedy. Milli Vanilli can eat a dick. -
good - I'm not the only one who noticed that with Hiro. It bothered me a little, but I guess because Hiro is a comic book/fantasy character (and because it's been a few weeks/months since, and time helps me forget) I can forgive it more than with the drama/comedy of The Terminal and how serious Hanks was taking his character.
Besides, Hiro is one of the main reasons I keep watching from week to week. While it could be said that even Tom Hanks (who I don't mind as an actor) couldn't keep The Terminal interesting and/or entertaining for 2 hours. -
…is not a bad singer. I heard some of his acoustic material.”
the damage has been done. on principal alone no one will ever take him seriously
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are there really any fans out there thats will see this? Its not like they changed music or anything.
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Because they gotta stay true to the source material. Anyone sports flames, I'm walking.
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They should dub it out of sync like a kung fu movie. Then critics would think it was poignant and ironic.
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Where's the WHAM! biopic. Now that'd be amazing cinema.
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He really is. Honestly, how long do we have to wait for the Buckley biopic. James Franco looks like he shares the same dna. Sign it before he gets too old.
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Are you frickin' kidding me? With all the people who are out there busting their asses trying to get NEW material off the ground in Hollywood, trying to see a lifelong dream finally pay off due to their OWN creative hard work, you're telling me Hollywood would rather waste money and flush it down the drain producing an ode...to two guys who FAKED everything, LIED to everyone, DIDN'T create anything or DO their own materil, and who got rich by never underestimating how truly gullible people could be.Wait...hold on. Somehow Hollywood wanting to do an ode to THAT probably is approriate. Truth be told, Hollywood and the Recording Industry doesn't think what happened to the Vanilli pair is actually tragic or sad (one guy dying, the other guy broke). What probably upsets them, since so many of them "fake" their way through their own careers by taking credit for the hard work of others, is that they see the Milli Vanilli story as a tale of caution as to what could happen to any of them next. Which I'm sure keeps many a person in Hollywood or the Recording industry wide awake and trembling under their blankets at night...
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Alice in Chains weren't all that bad. Dirt along with REM's Automatic For The People was the Hallmarks of 1992 as far as Music was concerned...In fact, you can also add Neneh Cherry's Homebrew and make it the perfect Trifecta. They were released on the same day. Damn good week for music imho.
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