{"id":10432,"date":"2019-04-30T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:42:11","slug":"minimal-louie-at-the-movies-band-aid-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"(minimal) LOUIE at the Movies \u2013 Band Aid (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1082\" height=\"517\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bandAid_LL-400x191.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1082px) 100vw, 1082px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, I share a &#8220;(minimal) LOUIE at the Movies&#8221; post.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is called &#8220;<strong>Band Aid<\/strong>,&#8221; and it&#8217;s an indie film that my friend <strong>Jason Roeber<\/strong> found on Netflix.    Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/band_aid_2017\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> wrote such a wonderful description of this production, and I am feeling lazy (as well as busy with all sorts of other stuff), I&#8217;m going to borrow their brief description of this film&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Band Aid, the refreshingly raw, real, and hilarious feature debut from <strong>Zoe Lister-Jones<\/strong>, is the story of a couple, Anna (Zoe Lister-Jones) and Ben (<strong>Adam Pally<\/strong>), who can&#8217;t stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to turn all their fights into song, and with the help of their neighbor Dave (<strong>Fred Armisen<\/strong>), they start a band. A story of love, loss, and rock and roll, Band Aid is a witty and perceptive view of modern love, with some seriously catchy pop hooks to boot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The LOUIE reference is definitely minimal, as there&#8217;s a moment when the lead characters are sampling the riff (which one could argue might have been swiped from &#8220;El Loco Cha Cha&#8221; or &#8220;Wild Thing&#8221;), and they come up with another song entirely.    <\/p>\n<p>This would be the type of song we&#8217;d categorize as a &#8220;LOUIE bastard,&#8221; with just enough elements for some of us to go &#8220;AHA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed this film, which was filmed with an all-female crew, and features some witty dialogue and fun songs with rather silly lyrics.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Hanks<\/strong>, the son of Tom, who directed that wonderful &#8220;<strong>All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records<\/strong>&#8221; documentary, has a brief appearance as a character called &#8220;Uber Douche.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hats off to <strong>Zoe Lister-Jones<\/strong> for creating this charming little production, which not only offered new fuel for drummer jokes, but also provided at least one moment that I imagine <strong>Joe Bob Briggs<\/strong> would likely assign special points if he were still keeping track of such things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tis a keeper!<\/p>\n<p>REFERENCE LINKS:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/band_aid_2017\">Rotten Tomatoes &#8211; Band Aid<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/band_aid_2017\">Wikipedia- Band Aid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I share a &#8220;(minimal) LOUIE at the Movies&#8221; post. The movie is called &#8220;Band Aid,&#8221; and it&#8217;s an indie film that my friend Jason Roeber found on Netflix. Because Rotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,56,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-humor","category-louie-bastard","category-motion-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10441,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}