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3.49am
14 January 2013
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LongHairedLady said
I saw this movie, it was all right. I am really picky with movies when they don't get actors that look more like the real people. Paul just wasn't convincing enough for me. Why didn't they use Jim Sturgess from Across the Universe? He already looks a lot like him, allthough he probably looks to old to play a teenager I guess. Regardless, someone else could have looked a lot closer. Same with George. John's was pretty good, but of course the blue eyes.I read Paul McCartney's opinion of the movie, and he liked it other than the fact that he was shorter than John in the movie (which he wasn't in real life, weren't they only a half an inch apart?) and also the part where John punches him, he says did not happen. Also he says that Mimi wasn't as harsh as she came off in the movie.
I really enjoy Nowhere Boy. I know there are some difference, but its not that bad of a movie.
I watched the behind the scenes and the director said they were necessarily looking for people who look exactly like them, but more of people who could act like them.
7.46pm
18 March 2013
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For UK and Irish biblers Nowhere Boy is on tonight at 9pm on Film4
8.45pm
3 May 2012
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Will be watching this tonight. Never seen it before so I'm not exactly sure what to expect, the reviews I've seen have been fairly positive (for a film about The Beatles/member of, which usually go down like a led balloon).
Think I'll expect the worst, and hopefully be pleasantly surprised.
3.35pm
14 October 2012
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What did you think? I missed it on TV last night, but I've seen it before and I really like it 
"I don't think we were actually swimming, as it were, with shirts on, 'cos we always wear overcoats when we're swimming,"-
George Harrison, Australia, June 1964
5.54pm
3 May 2012
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bikelock28 said
I was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting it to be really crap but I enjoyed it a lot. There's only a few things I didn't like, Paul (I think this has been said on here before), how old is he supposed to be? 12!? They should have found an actor who looked a bit older. George didn't really look very similar either, not that he appeared at all. I think he was in all of 3 scenes in total, I didn't like that. There's a couple of other things as well but I won't drone on.
So yeah, I really enjoyed it. Some scenes were a bit awkward to watch with my mom but never mind…(the scene where John's in bed at his mom's and she's in the other room with her partner was completely unnecessary). Would definitely watch again though 
7.20pm
14 October 2012
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I know what you mean about Paul and George looking like kids, especially compared to John, but the actor who plays Paul (Thomas Sangster, I think) is brilliant. The accent, the thing where he scratches the corner of his mouth and the sort of tick he does when he says "y'know," are all very very like the real Paul. But he's a bit tame compared to what Paul was really like as a teenager. I guess they were trying to highlight Lennon's rebelliousness.
That aside, the Lennon/McCartney scenes are really lovely and moving. I know its fictionalised , but you can imagine the kind of repressed conversations about how they feel about their Mums might have really taken place.
"I don't think we were actually swimming, as it were, with shirts on, 'cos we always wear overcoats when we're swimming,"-
George Harrison, Australia, June 1964
9.03pm
3 May 2012
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Yeah, he is a very good actor. I've seen him in a few other films as well (the last one being Love Actually, he plays a Ringo-mad drummer to get a girl he likes to go out with him).
And yes, some scenes were very moving, I cried when Paul ran out to John after he got really upset. And I also thought that not only did the actor who played John sound like a liverpudlian, but at times he actually sounded like John.
The attention to detail (the shirt that he wore when he met Paul, finding a similar guitar to his first one…) was what made the film better than other ones I've seen snippets of, I think.
2.12am
5 June 2012
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I think Nowhere Boy is a pretty solid film-pretty much all of it rings true, and while I don't think Sangster was exactly a dead-ringer for Paul, as Bikelock said, he replicated his mannerisms really well. The scene in the porch when John asks about his mother, and he says that "she sort of died" in particular stood out to me as being very believably written and acted. Both Mimi and Julia were perfectly cast, I thought, and Aaron Johnson and the guy who played Pete Shotton bounced off each other fantastically, to the point where they were exactly how I imagined them being like when I first read about their antics in books and such.
If anything, I think it could have done with a longer run time, and show more of John's life at the art college as well as the formation of the group (more scenes with George and perhaps even an introduction to Pete and Stuart?), rather than skipping to him leaving for Hamburg without any clear reference to time having passed. I would also have added in a few more scenes showing John's bizarre and untamed creativity that influenced his life a great deal in his youth, in the same vein as the bit in the classroom when he's doodling and speaking gibberish to himself. I can't help but wonder if it could have done with a sequel to have a bit more breathing space and go over certain aspects in a bit more detail, such as John's childhood years and the beginnings of Hamburg, even though in my opinion it is excellently paced. Overall, an 8/10.
4.49pm
3 May 2012
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^ I agree with what you say about it being a bit too fast-paced. When John says that he's moving out, my mom turned to me and asked if this was true. I said no, and then I realised that it must be the later now and he's moved in with Stu.
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