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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 436959" data-attributes="member: 8">Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (2020)[ATTACH=full]58512[/ATTACH]I had heard of this film only once and later I couldn&#039;t remember if it was real or something I dreamt.Because this being about Eurovision I expect it to be very attention-grabbing, and apparently lots of people have&nbsp;&nbsp; enjoyed this film and its soundtrack, I simply wasn&#039;t aware of it.Of course it would be pointless to parody the contest as we know it today, and if you&#039;re looking for a laugh-out-loud comedy then this isn&#039;t the one.It&#039;s a feel-good film with a few funny moments here and there and my experience was the opposite of watching Mamma Mia!This time I bought into it, in fact so much that I was disproportionately moved by it.It&#039;s possible that the sheer simplicity and predictability of this film caught me off guard, or is my emotional connection with Eurovision still intact despite not having watched the last two or three contests?Possibly a bit of both, because this is definitely not&nbsp; the film that should make me cry, and that&#039;s what happened. I had taken a painkiller shortly before watching Eurovision - I don&#039;t even remember why - and since that always relaxes me it may be another element to factor in!The characters are enjoyable, especially the Icelandic community (half of it fathered by Pierce Brosnan&#039;s character) and it was fun to watch Bradley Cooper performing as the sleazy Russian contestant. Only to find out in the end credits that it was Dan &quot;Downton Abbey&quot; Stevens.Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are not all convincing as Europeans and I&#039;m sure that is the point of the comedy act, but Rachel&#039;s Sigrit&nbsp; often looks too generic for my taste. I would never have guessed that she played a Scandinavian if they hadn&#039;t told me.Ferrell&#039;s roast of the American characters is cringe, I guess you could say so-bad-it&#039;s-good. It works better when the American tourists &quot;confirm&quot; the reason to roast.Then the music. Wow, how did they manage to make it sound so good (by modern ESC standards)? Too bad it wasn&#039;t a real contest.But maybe that&#039;s it.&nbsp; Maybe Eurovision needs a more professionally-competitive American attitude to make it a true song contest again, instead of torturing European audiences with exhausting and social-messaging ballads or clownish acts that are trying too hard to be novel or avant-garde.All in all,&nbsp; a generic and somewhat funny feel-good movie that had a profound effect on me, for reasons I have yet to determine.[MEDIA=youtube]X5BMuxIDxcE, list: RDX5BMuxIDxcE[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 436959, member: 8"] Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga (2020) [ATTACH type="full" alt="1770754665162.png"]58512[/ATTACH] I had heard of this film only once and later I couldn't remember if it was real or something I dreamt. Because this being about Eurovision I expect it to be very attention-grabbing, and apparently lots of people [I]have[/I] enjoyed this film and its soundtrack, I simply wasn't aware of it. Of course it would be pointless to parody the contest as we know it today, and if you're looking for a laugh-out-loud comedy then this isn't the one. It's a feel-good film with a few funny moments here and there and my experience was the opposite of watching [I]Mamma Mia![/I] This time I bought into it, in fact so much that I was disproportionately moved by it. It's possible that the sheer simplicity and predictability of this film caught me off guard, or is my emotional connection with Eurovision still intact despite not having watched the last two or three contests? Possibly a bit of both, because this is definitely [I]not [/I] the film that should make me cry, and that's what happened. I had taken a painkiller shortly before watching Eurovision - I don't even remember why - and since that always relaxes me it [I]may [/I] be another element to factor in! The characters are enjoyable, especially the Icelandic community (half of it fathered by Pierce Brosnan's character) and it was fun to watch Bradley Cooper performing as the sleazy Russian contestant. Only to find out in the end credits that it was Dan "Downton Abbey" Stevens. Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are not all convincing as Europeans and I'm sure that is the point of the comedy act, but Rachel's [I]Sigrit[/I] often looks too generic for my taste. I would never have guessed that she played a Scandinavian if they hadn't told me. Ferrell's roast of the American characters is cringe, I guess you could say so-bad-it's-good. It works better when the American tourists "confirm" the reason to roast. Then the music. Wow, how did they manage to make it sound so good (by modern ESC standards)? Too bad it wasn't a real contest. But maybe that's it. Maybe Eurovision needs a more professionally-competitive American attitude to make it a true song contest again, instead of torturing European audiences with exhausting and social-messaging ballads or clownish acts that are trying too hard to be novel or avant-garde. All in all, a generic and somewhat funny feel-good movie that had a profound effect on me, for reasons I have yet to determine. [MEDIA=youtube]X5BMuxIDxcE, list: RDX5BMuxIDxcE[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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