TCTTS said:
I do admit that a couple lines in the trailer - that one especially - are a little too earnest/on-the-nose/eye-rolling inducing. That said, personally, I'm still a sucker for movies like this, and think it looks good overall.
They definitely seem over-dramatic, but much depends on how they wind up trying to frame it... Is it a "this guy is going to change the world kumbaya!" or are they taking the angle with it that he gave a lot of disillusioned men in that era hope for something more.
Say what you will for how his music has held up, but the guy basically invented working class rock -- which for a large population of American men in the 70s and 80s was a big part of what kept them going.
It was a different era where there weren't the massive amounts of opportunities that we have now -- and "It's a town full of losers, I'm pulling out of here to win" resonated with a lot of men hoping there was more to life. For anyone born post-Internet era where everyone is connected and you can easily see there's others out there "like you" -- it isn't going to resonate like it did for people in the 70's/80's.
I know lot of people don't listen to much Bruce aside from the radio hits (which many of which lack a lot of depth) -- but simply the trifecta of Thunder Road in '75.... we're getting out of this town and going to do something big with our lives.... to The Promise a few years later in which the beginnings of the realization that life didn't turn out how you planned it... to Racing In the Street in '78 which has the guy coming to grips with what his life is and will be. It's all very somber and sobering.
Then you had stuff like Independence Day where he dives into the strained relationship with his father and the realization that your parents had hopes and dreams that drifted away, and for better or for worse you are a large part of why they never caught those dreams. Man, nobody was writing stuff like that back then.
So I'll say what I always say when Springsteen stuff comes up -- disregard your radio-friendly Hungry Heart and Glory Days. They are catchy songs but there's not a lot of depth to them at all. Go listen to Darkness on the Edge of Town and Nebraska albums start to finish. There was a grittiness storytelling there that simply didn't exist yet in rock.
