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You all need to thank my boyfriend in the comments of this post because over the weekend as he and I watched the final three episodes of the BBC series The Night Manager with Tom Hiddleston (which was fantastic, by the way - when it airs on AMC in April you all need to watch!) it was him who caught that shot of Hiddles Jr. swinging into action seen above. That's some Fassbender-level showoffiness there. And once you start noticing...
... it's everywhere! Just one more (big) reason to watch the show, then. Anyway I told you guys on Friday that I was going to be seeing Tom in the flesh over the weekend when he came out for a Q&A for a screening of his Hank Williams bio-pic I Saw the Light, and see him in the flesh I did...
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I really couldn't get any better picture than that unfortunately but I'm sure if you're determined you can find such things in the world. As for the movie... eeesh it's bad. Bad bad bad. I don't blame Tom's performance for its badness - he sounds fantastic in the film, for one - but he was a producer and he should have set fire to the script, which bleaches all interest of this man's life from being. The most memorable thing about Hank Williams, according to this film (and you can thank my boyfriend for pointing this out as well), is his love of ketchup. He just loved ketchup! If ketchup is your thing, then have I got the movie for you... or better off, go eat some ketchup and forget the movie altogether.
In all seriousness, some interesting things did happen in Hank Williams' life, but this movie does not make the case, and indeed I spent half of it thinking of all the fascinating not white not male people that have lived lives but not gotten big fancy biopics about them while here we are with the 10,000th white male musician bio-pic hitting the same lonely road boozing notes. He alienates all the ladies, while all the ladies are if not one note shrews, like one point five note shrews. And each scene drags into the next with all the force of an soggy french fry sinking into ketchupy abyss....
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Sooooooo he's not naked in I Saw the Light? I knew it was trouble!
Well he does have his shirt off, but he's a lot less worked out in this movie than some of the more recent pics. He's still terrific in the movie, but alas to no avail. Sadly I agree totally with our host. Bad bad bad. And more than bad, so very boring. Who would have ever thought a movie about Hank Williams could be boring.
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