Movie #221........................."Pirate Radio"

Movie #221 "Pirate Radio" was a lot of fun to watch! Maybe it's my age, or maybe it's because I like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans (the underwear guy in "NottingHill," and Bill Nighy ("Love Actually") and it was fun watching them have so much fun in this film as radio pirates, or maybe because it was a fun script (penned by Richard Curtis from "Love Actually"), but I found this to be a lot of fun. It's a welcome to find a movie that is actually entertaining and witty (most of my netflix queue is full of documentaries and foreign films) and I embraced it for what it is: a chronicling of antics on a pirate radio ship in the 60's when rock was rock, and we probably had the best of the best of music coming out on a daily basis! These days I'm getting sooooooo tired of talk radio, and I was longing for the days when "just play music" was the chosen way to go. Many times viewing this film, I lamented the fact that I am now in 2010 stuck with so much talk radio! Less Talk, and more Music!!!! and more films like this, that is a delight to watch but also makes a poignant stand along the way! If you like music and are a supporter of freedom of speech, I think you'll enjoy this film!




Average rating: 3.551
I gave it 3.8 (rounded to 4 stars)
Pirate Radio
The Boat That Rocked
(2009) R
In 1966, hard-partying British DJs -- a crew that includes Quentin (Bill Nighy), the Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Gavin (Rhys Ifans) and Dave (Nick Frost) -- have the time of their lives running a radio station on a ship in the North Sea, broadcasting generation-defining (but banned) music to millions. But they face getting shut down by Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh). Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral) directs.