Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (Scott Cooper, October 24, 2025) Movie • Page 4

Oh I’m seeing it for sure and don’t like most trailers anyway

 

This comes out on my dad's birthday weekend so that'll be a fun way to celebrate with him.

 

There are 6-7 absolute groaner lines of dialogue in A Complete Unknown and I think every single one of them is in the trailers lol. I’m not ready to assume this movie’s gonna be full of hamfisted dialogue just because of that silly speech in the trailer.

They’ve gotta sell this movie to a general audience, of course they’re gonna lead with the “Bruce Springsteen Very Important Artist” hokey shit and not the “Bruce Springsteen’s alone in a room recording a lo-fi album about murderers” stuff. As much as I’d love a 100% committed gritty little indie movie about Bruce making Nebraska that was just never gonna happen here.

Cautiously optimistic.

 

Well I maybe A24 or NEON will start doing biopics of indie artists with weirdo cult status because they have the most interesting stories

A Daniel Johnston biopic done well would be incredible for example

 

They could be made, but the motivation for these yearly biopics is an Oscar, and a Daniel Johnston movie doesn't work the same way as a Bruce Springsteen movie because what the Springsteen or Dylan or Queen movie wants to do is tap into multiple generations of memories of the artist. Even if the movie is bad, you get to hear a lot of music that is connected to your memories. If you are on chorus.fm there are plenty of people with fond memories about Elliot Smith or Daniel Johnston but if you stood outside of the post office how many people would even know who they were?

What is funny is how the plot formula that's been in use since Ray and Walk the Line very rarely fits, but they still jam it in somehow. The motorcycle accident was such a dramatic shift for Bob Dylan but they decided to make Newport the climax of their movie even though Dylan ended up feeling static. I don't really know much about Springsteen but does he have any of the awards moments? Does he go to rehab? Does his childhood friend die? Does the warden tell him not to sing that song and he does it anyway? I used to watch a lot of Behind the Music episodes back in the day, and as the show went on they found it harder and harder to pick interesting stories after they used all the juicy ones. I remember the biggest conflict in the Green Day episode was that Armstrong's singer lived far away and people didn't think they were punk enough. That's a far cry from Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers stories.

When they make the Cobain movie the real challenge is to have some sort of silver lining that doesn't leave the audience too depressed.