Spyke
startrek.website

Bob Dylan - Hurricane (which actually became a movie starring Denzel Washington in 1999).

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different genre but related is "the mariner's revenge song"

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I always imagine All Along the Watchtower as a 1980's fantasy movie along the lines of Red Sonya or The Beastmaster.

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Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the monkey man

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Squigglezreply
leminal.space

Dude I don't think I've ever seen Watsky mentioned outside of his own comment sections. You a real one for that.

Love my guy, George.

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Love my guy George. Listening to Cardboard Castles got me through a really rough time in my life and I don't expect to ever be able to repay it. Least I can do is to spread the word.

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lemmy.world

Each verse could be a chapter in a anthology movie, written and directed by different people

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skulblakareply
sh.itjust.works

That's essentially how they wrote the song, so yeah! I can see it. I'd watch this.

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Yeah I know, I think they shot the music video for it in a similar way, and a movie with a bigger budget could expand on that

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sh.itjust.works

Dream Theater - Metropolis.
Alternatively, Metropolis pt II - Scenes from a Memory, if you find an ambitious producer.

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Honestly Scenes from a Memory would make a great movie, and now I have to go listen to it again

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lemmy.world

Tool-Lost keys/Rosetta stoned. Maybe the stoner really did see something out in the desert.

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0opsreply

Alrighty then... picture this if you will

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aussie.zone
  • Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra
  • Underneath the Radar - Underworld
  • Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics
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Bruncvikreply
lemmy.world

I'd love to see a movie based on Silent Running. But I'm afraid it's shaping out to be a documentary...

(The existing movie of the same name has nothing in common with the song, but it's worth watching anyway.)

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Yes, Wikipedia says:

Rutherford named the song after the film Silent Running "because I remembered that film so well, and our song had a spacey feel to it."

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0opsreply

Ooh that would be super interesting

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  • 38 years old - The Tragically Hip
  • Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys original or The Headstones cover of it)
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Rhapsody, the band all of their songs progressively tell an epic story that I would love to see in movie form.

Alternatively Nightfall in Middle-Earth from Blind Guardian, love the Silmarillion would love to see a movie about it.

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lemmy.ca

"Heart of a dancer" by the happy fits could make a fun tenacious d sort of movie

"Hell's comin' with me" by poor man's poison would be a classic revenge western

"Big town banky blaine's rockabilly barbeque" by bear ghost could be an interesting look at class war if you could pull it off

Oh and "A tale they won't believe" by captain tractor for man turning to cannibalism to survive

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lemmy.ca

Oh and “A tale they won’t believe” by captain tractor for man turning to cannibalism to survive

Holy shit. Never expected to find another person who has heard of Captain Tractor on Lemmy of all places. They have a long history with me and my college years (late nineties, early 2000s)

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I prefer the captain tractor version of the last saskatchewan pirate that's how I found the band but the other song came up on it's own through spotify recommendations

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Harry Chapin's "What Made America Famous?" got an unsuccessful musical, but never a film. In a modern update, the song's "hippies" are instead gutter punks squatting an abandoned building, and the fat plumber is the one non-MAGA in the town's volunteer fire department.

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Cologne by incubus would make a pretty wild b-movie

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Jacob’s dream: based on a true story of two kids who went missing.

The night the lights went out in Georgia: about a guy who gets lynched.

18 and life: kid finishes school and starts doing crime

Def leopard billys got a gun

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