What is the level of expectation for biopics?

Submitted by Alarmed_Particular92 t3_1253cu7 in movies

To elaborate, in your opinion has it been raised,lowered, or keep the same based off recent biopics? with Elvis, Weird Al, the upcoming Napoleon, and Nolan's Oppenheimer has the overall standard and level of expectation been changed from past biopics for the future biopics. There have been countless bad, subpar, and underwhelming biopics that failed to meet the level of expectation the project garnered. And while the biopic is seen as oscar bait and cliche and generally inaccurate.

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Select_Action_6065 t1_je2gulf wrote

I’m not interested in any biopic of modern people we have a lot of footage of.

Too much imitation.

Elvis, Judy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Eyes of Tammy Faye… just watch the real thing.

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TheCosmicFailure t1_je28s7y wrote

I think too many biopics tried to cover too much of a persons life. I think it's better to just narrow down to a specific period in their life. Or focus on a specific event.

Music biopics should look to a film like Rocketman for inspiration. They not only narrowed down the story. But making it a musical really made u feel what they were feeling at specific moments in their lives.

Then of course have good writing, acting, cinematography, and directing.

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Kolob619 t1_je2cmsg wrote

For every Bird, Capote, or Malcolm X there are dozens of movies like The Blindside, Alexander, or Jobs.

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bravetailor t1_je2tflb wrote

They're usually conventional as hell and boring and it's what I usually expect out of them. Usually they're a vehicle to get someone an acting award. They're almost never nearly as creative or interesting as the subject they are portraying.

I think American Splendor is the best biopic because it was actually creatively done and thematically fitting to the comic book the name came from.

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widdumqueso717 t1_je37lis wrote

Imo biopics like Malcolm X, The Jacksons: An American Dream, and Straight Outta Compton are all superb

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AStandardTemperature t1_je3orqp wrote

A biopic doesn’t have to be cliche. You can tell a story about a real person that is structured in a unique, unexpected way. My expectation is that the movie do something unexpected.

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NbdyFuckswTheJesus t1_je3q0cw wrote

If at any point I feel like I’m watching Walk Hard minus the jokes, it’s a bad biopic.

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AlanMorlock t1_je29d61 wrote

Personally I don't find musicians lives to be particularly I threshing especially when filtered through the needs of arc based dramatic story telling.

Someone one lime Oppenheimer was a pretty odd and contradictory person, not popularly well known outside a few quotes. Nolan will likely have some interesting structuring devices, with the use of black and white possibly moving to that format for scenes after trh bomb test. Beyond finding the subject more interesting, Oppenheimer is more interesting to me than most biopics becausenirsnacruslky interested in being a film and seeing ehat you can donwithinnthst medium. A lot of biopics are are only slightly above the made for TV movies thst used to play on VH1 or whatever.

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Howdyini t1_je2c02z wrote

It has not changed, no. ELVIS is a bonkers Luhrmann film more than a traditional biopic, which is why it works imo. WEIRD is yet another parody of biopics which shouldn't be done unless they can do something that WALK HARD didn't do better. And OPPENHEIMER is not out yet lmao. It can still suck ass, but in any case it's not a biopic. It's only about Project Manhattan apparently.

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